In Entropia, just like any other MMORPGs, you create a character, and you play him and you level him up. In a sense, he is YOU when you are in the world. Unlike other more traditional MMORPGs, you only get 1 chance to make a character. Once you click on “accept”, you are stuck with him until you quit the game for good. This is more in line with “social MMOs”, such as 2nd Life and There.
So, here’s a quick post showing you what I used to look like in 2004 and now.
Yup, that’s me in 2004. Notice the square jaws and high cheeks?
Yeah I couldn’t do much with those. It’s inherent in the character generator. The thing I liked about the old character generator was that you can pick virtually any feature you want – long hair, short hair, frizzy hair, beard, stubble etc.
In the new version, you can’t. You can only get a randomly generated head, and you need to get to an in-game body-sculptor and spend REAL money (by buying PEDs) or earning PEDs to pay for the “surgery”.
And this is me now, in 2007. Good thing the system generated a pretty decent head for me. If you doubt whether it’s the same character, look at the status bar. You’ll see “Fox” there. Yes it’s me, the same character under different game engines.
Yeah the armour is different though. Since I thought I had quit in 2004, I never bothered to keep my account alive, so the system wiped me out and liquidated all my items and put the PED value of my items into the PED cash card on my character.
So yeah, when I finally revived him yesterday, I stepped into Entropia totally NAKED, right smack in the middle of Hadeshiem, where I had left him back in 2004. A quick trip via teleporter took me back to Port Atlantis (noob city), where I bought armour and weapons again.
The wipe by Mindark on my account also included all my skills… so technically I’m now a noob all over again, zero skills in everything. The only difference between this and a real newbie is the free jumpsuit (I didn’t get it), and the amount of money I have. On this guy, I have about 250 PEDs (or US$2.50) so it’s more than enough to buy armour and weapons and a reasonable amount of ammo.
On my other new character, I have ZERO money but I do have the free jumpsuit.
