project entropia miningI was looking for some hints about the best way to mine for raw materials in this game. Unfortunately, I didn't find very much.
The Project Entropia game was interesting, but it was very tedious to earn any kind of currency in the game. You could do this either by killing creatures, or by mining for things. Either one of these things would earn you a few raw materials of very low value.
To actually build anything from raw materials was very tedious: First you need to collect the raw material, then you had to process the raw material, then you had to have plans to produce something from the raw material, and the plans were very intricate, you would need individual plans for every component of some device you were trying to make.
To actually use the blueprints, you'd have to travel to certain fabrication centers, to process different kinds of raw materials according to certain plans, and of course there was no one place where all the fabrication centers existed.
The Project Entropia World has the feel of a ghost town, rarely would you encounter another human, even in the "big" cities. Around the initial entry point you'd find people to talk to, most of whom were mainly trying to figure out how to control their avatars. Another place that was popular was the fighting rings where people would fight each other to gain experience points. The fighters were to the death, and you'd continually see the loosing players reincarnating at the life terminals, and then running back to the ring for another fight.
Occassionally in other places you might find a few people who were serious about the game, but I never found anyone who admitted to more than a few days experience with the game. I put some money into the game so that I could buy basic weapons and armor, and I bought a really overpriced weapon that someone had supposedly bought it from another guy in the game who had built it from scratch, but even the new weapon didn't really help me kill the creatures any faster. It would take dozens, even hundreds, of rounds of ammo to kill some creatures, eventhough the same creature could kill you in just 3 or 4 contacts with my avatar.
If I was lucky, the raw materials I would earn for killing a creature might almost pay for enough bullets to kill another creature. Of course I would gain some experience with each fo the rounds that successfully hit the creature, but all of the shoot, now turn and run away, now turn back and shoot, now turn and run away again, was really tedious. Shoot one twoo many shots at the creature, and it would get close enough to do significant damage to you.
It was the same with mining: You had to keep using seismic charges along with an expensive detector to decide if there was anything in the area worth mining. I did find some things to mine, but again, the return on material was relatively meager. When I took the raw materials to a terminal to sell them, the amount of money I got was barely enough to buy refills of the seismic depth charges.