Empyrion - Galactic Survival

Scavenging everything to make everything!

Do you like things that are complicated? Was Bear and Breakfast too simple? If so then by golly this first person survival game for you. Just from the tutorial mission where you begin on a space ship to get your bearings on how food, medicine and anti radiation showers work which are then followed by short space walks to mine an asteroid followed by the ship blowing up so you have to claim ownership of the ship to use the teleporter which puts you on a remote planet where you can kill wildlife for food and disassemble pretty much everything, claim and build buildings and manufacture hover bikes for 5 stones while working towards creating another spaceship with warp capabilities... WTF? Information overload.

But on the flip side, you can do all that stuff. And you can do it cooperatively if you have a server to play on. Gameplay wise (excluding the crafting bit) it reminds me a lot of Project Entropia: beautiful environments and structures coupled with odd looking people and insects. Not one for me but I'm sure this would fill the building/survival itch for someone.

June 2020 Review: Back to It

Last month saw the end of isolation where I live and am now back to working in the office. Not much else to report so on to the task list...

   End 2020 with less weight (0 kg from last month, running total: +7 kg)
   Make 1 web comic page (that didn't happen)
   Make a board game (narp!)

BACKLOG
Just Cause 4 [free from Epic Games]
Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms [free on Steam]
Sid Meier's Civilization VI [free from Epic Games] (done)
Fallout Shelter [free from Steam] (had enough)
+Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel [free from Epic] (done)
+Sludge Life [free from Epic] (done)
+Overcooked [free from Epic]
+Ark: Survival Evolved [free from Epic] (file size unreasonable for download)
+Samurai Shodown: Neogeo Collection [free from Epic] (had enough)
+Pathway [free from Epic] (finished)
+Hitman: Absolution [free from GOG] (finished)
+Zombie Army Trilogy [gift]
+GTFO [gift]
+AER Memories of Old [free from Epic]
+Stranger Things 3 [free from Epic]
+Alien Swarm: Reactive Drop [free from Steam]
+Dishonored 2 [gift]
+Resident Evil 2 [gift]
+Metro Exodus [gift]
+Metal Gear Survive [gift]
+Assassin's Creed Odyssey: Season Pass [gift]

Board games:
Zombicide: Black Plague (10/11)
Mice and Mystics: Heart of Glorm (3/6)

BLOG STATS

One Year Ago

I was playing Kingdom Come Deliverance and was trying out writing about mechanics rather than my usual story narration.

Five Years Ago

I was trying out the MMO Entropia Universe. Didn't get very far since free players couldn't really do much once they ran out of resources.

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So much to do and so little time! Stay safe and be good!

Sojourn at Entropia: A Lesson in Space

[Part of my Sojourn at Entropia story.]

Despite being airborne this VTOL doesn't actually go too fast, which is good as it means I can take pictures! :P

First port of call was Twin Peaks.

Here I met Sarah Excel Silverlight of the EUSF.

(Entropia Universe Space Federation)

She was offering a free ride to the next planet.

WHAT? Since I wanted to know more about space I talked with her a bit, learned that space is fully open PvP, and learned about the six other planets. According to her, Calypso is only 10-15% of the game! To give an idea of distance, she said the planet she was heading to next: the jungle planet Arkadia, would take around an hour to get to in her space craft. She mentioned I could cut down the travel time to 1.5 minutes if I have a starship warp me around. The going price for such a trip is 45 PED.

She also gave me links to some of the larger spacecraft in the game.

Cost $11-14k USD.

Cost $20k USD.

Holy crap, some people sure have a lot of money for gaming. I imagine it's something like EVE Online up there. Anyway, I decide to stay planet side and bid Sarah farewell.

She is later captured and held hostage by space pirates.

Player pirates, who charge PED to release hostages.

I guess that's a thing.

Sojourn at Entropia: Body Parts and Shrapnel

[Part of my Sojourn at Entropia story.]

With few supplies my choices of missions had been narrowed down significantly, but then I had a thought. Fiddling with the teleporters and talking with the teleport technician at Port Atlantis opened some locations for me to visit. Hopefully one of them would have a quest that would supply me with some much needed ammo, or a new ride.

Fortunately, Half-moon Cove had an NPC who gave out ammo to hunt some level zero crab things. Yay! I got even more ammo for killing the brood mother crab.

This let me get another task nearby to fight some Maffoids.

The reward for that was some nifty red armor at Port Corinth. Woohoo!

With that I managed to do a few more quests in the Corinth vicinity.

Stop telling me you are evading, monster!

Sometime during this, one of the critters I kill also drops a new rifle for me. Yay! This is a big deal because a buying a newbie rifle costs 4 PED, and the critters don't really drop anything in the way of money. Just body parts and shrapnel.

Sojourn at Entropia

Decided to try out this little MMO called Planet Calypso, now better known as the Entropia Universe, an open world sci-fi experience and one of the few games whose currency ties directly to the US dollar (1 US = 10 PED). Yup, if you earn enough PED you can even cash it out. Wonder how well a F2P player would fare in such a place? So did I.

Chapters:
No Better Lure
The Locals
Taking a Walk
Port Atlantis
A Helping Hand
The Crashed Boat
Broken
Body Parts and Shrapnel
Plans for the Poor
The Swim
Caligula
A Lesson in Space
Exploring the Peaks
Strength Keep
Pushing the Limit
The Feffox Attack
The Moth 
The Flame
An Awesome Rescue
Sara by Sea
A Test of Piloting
No Sweat
Rifleman
The Outback
Accidental Disciple

This story has finished for now! Thank you for reading! :)