Wednesday, December 16, 2009

MOVING MY BLOG...

MOVING MY BLOG... Now I'm going to have only one blog instead of the many that I have had up til now... The new location is http://jeffthomann.wordpress.com/

Friday, September 11, 2009

http://www.era.com/property/index.jsp?property=ERA2774027

Great house for sale!
http://www.era.com/property/index.jsp?property=ERA2774027

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Investing

Maria has been looking in to making some serious investments in Entropia Universe, but is still looking for the big investment that will be worthwhile. So far, she's found 3 "investment funds," but each have pros and cons.

Entropia Investment Fund


http://www.eifund.net/

Advantages

- Been around longer than the other two options
- Currently owns 2 Land Areas and a Mall Shop
- Already has multiple investors

Disadvantages

- Originally, EIF Fond Manager (avatar in charge of the fund) was created by another player from the Via Delarosa society, so Fond Manager may be in violation of EULA with Mindarc, which means ALL inventory and storage that this avatar holds is liable to eventually be purged in to cashout for avatar owner or even worse, account may be deleted entirely and all peds and goods avatar owns may be gone forever!
- Originally Fond Manager would allow share buy ins, hold ped for 90 days and then buy back the shares with income in addition to original buy in price. However, since that time this buy back policy has been stopped since after Land Area (LA) purchases and Mall Shop Purposes, some of the inventory Avatar is now in charge of have a Zero Trade Terminal (TT) value. As a result shareholders are required to find new avatars to sell their shares too if they ever want out of the fund, which can be difficult if not impossible at times due to the large cost of buy in. In other words there's ZERO guarantee you'll get a return on investment!!!! All you'll get is what Fund Manager thinks is appropriate percentage of taxes to share with you. You have zero ways of finding out if the amount he gives you is appropriate amount based on your "share" of the fund... You could pay in 65.00 USD or whatever current buy in price is and only get 3.00 back or less on your investment since there's no guarantee or anything that LA and/or shop will ever be resold...

Buy in is relatively high since current rules require you to buy at least 5 shares on inital investment.

No set limit on max number of shares so anyone at any time could buy in and buy out 60% or more of shares and essentially do a buyout takeover of the fund's voting rights.


Entropia Holdings


http://entropiaholdings.com/

Advantages

Relatively New - so getting in now would be good since it's just starting.


Disadvantages

Relatively New - so is not well known, and on some forums is actively discredited by members of the EU community.
MMBig Show is the Avatar in charge - and he's known to be aggressive in some forum postings and is a real life martial artist, so may be aggressive in dealing with. However, he seems to have a good head on his shoulders and may do very well.

Business is based on real estate sales, which is not a proven business concept in EU since most real estate deals are usually done in person to person trading or via EU auction.

Initial buy in was originally $100.00 USD, which is more expensive than any other funds listed here! This may have changed by the time you read this.


Developing Worlds Investment Funds


http://bizconnects.com/emergingworlds/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=20&Itemid=29


Advantages

Interested in multiple worlds besides Entropia Universe.


Disadvantages

Originated in Second Life so Second Life account is needed to buy in. This one is new too so not much is known about it.

Conclusions


Buying in to an investment fund such as these is risky but could be profitable. Many forums warn that deals such as these are usually "too good to be true" and are usually run by scammers using the variations of the "friend scam."

My avatar, Maria Mastermesh Mesh, will likely not buy in to any of these any time soon since risks are too great. She will continue to buy items at TT values (or below tt) and sell them at reasonable prices above TT but below market values. Visit http://www.mariasgoods.blogspot.com for a fairly updated list of items Maria is selling. This way of selling at TT or lower is the original method the Entropia Investment Fund started out once it's investors put money in to the fund. It seems to be the safest way to make money in EU, the least risky way to make money on EU, and the best way to make money in EU besides sweating. Maria is interested in possibly creating a new investment fund based solely on this method of trading as it seems to be the way EIF was successful and safe before the Land Area, Hanger, and Shop purchases. Having this form of trade as the basis of a society may well turn in to a good idea in the long run. However, for now, Maria will stay in her current society, Entropia Asia. If you are interested in this idea, please contact Maria and if we get enough people interested, maybe we can buy a shop and work on future investments. An apartment shop with shopkeeper would be cheapest, but that's still currently over $500 - $600.00 USD, so is too costly at the moment.

Saturday, August 30, 2008

Maria Mesh has been out of Entropia for several months because a graphics card her real world user had could not hack the wide world of Calypso. However, now that problem has been remedied and Maria can be found wandering the planes of EU again. Most of time these days is spent at Neas Sweating, at the Auction in Neas buying things and in Port Atlantis Selling stuff. See http://mariasgoods.blogspot.com/ for a current list of items available for sale. Maria can usually be found in PA near the tp or boxes afternoons, nights, and early mornings, Central Standard Time.

You never know who you'll run in to in PA. Neverdie showed up there for a little while tonight. Who'd have thought someone that owns their own astroid would need to come down to good ol PA on occasion. My guess is he was doing some bank business since he owns a local bank.


Friday, June 27, 2008

Please pray for Jon.

My cousin Jon Thomann has been in the hospital the last week. He fell down a flight of concrete stairs and did some major damage to his head that required brain surgery. He has not fully become consious yet, but there are indications that he is becoming more active. This has been a trying time and has been hard on all of us.

Please pray for his recovery. If you would like to know more about his current situation, his girlfriend, parents and brother are keeping us all updated with this website/blog:

http://caringbridge.org/visit/jonthomann

If you would like to help out financially, there has been a new Support Fund recently set up. You may send checks to the

Jon Thomann and Family Support Fund
P.O. Box 1262
Columbia MO 65205-1262

For more information on the fund and its purpose, you may contact Cathi Harris at 573-220-6582.

Saturday, November 17, 2007

back to sweating...

My ongoing mob marching band usually gets me dead... so I think I'll start heading back to Port Atlantis Mall to sweat a while...





Combibo do give evade, just not as fast as some higher level mobs...?



Ok.. so maybe they do...




Fade got a hof. Congratulations dude!

Monday, November 12, 2007

Interesting Omegatron bug...

Noticed last night that I saw "the bug" again in Omegatron. I think this is a 3d rendering bug of some sort... or some sort of convex/concave 3d mesh issue.







For some reason, the walls on the shops on the basements of the buildings at Omegatron seem to dissappear when looking from the inside of the building at the shops. Part of it may be that my computer's slowness doesn't render all the massive number of objects in the shops or the walls or something, but this is a bug I've seen a number of times. Usually it looks like the shop just isn't there or just parts of the walls are and they are transparent. In the past, this has happened and was mainly a visual thing... but last night, for the first time ever, I noticed that my avatar could jump through the wall and land outside of the building.





In other words the wall object wasn't there at all from the inside of the building, but was from the outside. Looking in at the wall from outside you could see the wall textures and it was solid if avatar walked up to it. However, from inside avatar would see outside, like the wall wasn't there, and could just hop on through and land on the sidewalk outside of the building.

It's annoying, especially if you are trying to shop there since the walls in the shops won't show up and the objects for sale there don't show up either. Relogging in sometimes fixed the problem, but I did notice last night that relogging in twice, the same thing was happening... It was only on third relog after about 15-20 minutes of being away from the computer that the walls were normal and the shop was too, on both the inside and outside.

Something sort of interesting about all of this, if you see my previous post, is that there was a flanx running around right next to the tp... so this bug may be the cause of that, or some uber is?... either way, it's something interesting that's happening around omegatron. Use it to your advantage, if it does happen, and you can find some way to use it to advantage? Maybe you can manage to get a mob to stand outside of a building somehow and shoot it or sweat it from inside?

On a good note, after the shops started acting right again for me, I bought up several blueprints at tt+1 that had market values much higher than that. I am not sure if I'm going to try to auction these off or not. I wanted to buy the transparency bp but was about 1 ped short... it was priced at something like tt+10 but had market value of tt+15 or so.

When I did buy the bps that I did buy and put them in my equipment book, the icon in the inventory for the book got a lock and chain on it. I'm assuming this means the book is going up in value or something...??? Never had that happen before. Maybe it means the book has over 50% of the bps in it now or something?





I also did a lot of window shopping around there. I'd really love to be able to buy some stuff from that Salamander Armor Shop... but my name isn't Bill Gates... or Donald Trump... so I don't think I'll be buying that pricey stuff for a long while, if ever.

Met a Falxangius at Omegatron

I met a Falxangius at Omegatron's TP last night. Guess even the mobs need to go shopping now and then.

Sunday, November 11, 2007

My opalo lost it's quickkey icon...

Probably just some sort of bug. I took out the a101 and repaired both it and the opalo, and then the icon had this no icon logo on it. Take a look at the screen print.



Note: after relogging in, the icon is back...

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

EA Hunts

The Entropia Asia Society in Entropia Universe has started doing weekly hunts on Saturdays. Last week we went after a bunch of stuff North of Twin Peaks. Next week, I think the plan is to go Hogglo huntin. Unfortunately, Maria's out of peds since she's been wasting ammo on snables around Billy's lately, so she may not join these hunts for a while til she can get some peds built up. She currently has a Katsuichi Honor on the auction block for a good price to help alleviate this problem, so check out the auctions...

Saturday, November 3, 2007

Maria's getting to like this Pumpkin Head thing. I think the rotting Pumpkin smell in that thing is starting to get to her head and she's taking a liking to smell of Death. Here she is next to her new best bud in EU.


Her new found friend has told her that she needs to start increasing her skills in evade, alertness and courage, among others, so she has started a new hobby... running between Billy's and Camp Phoenix picking up every dang mob along the way, dubbing herself the "Pied Piper"... She lets her newfound friends all give her freebie skill gains as she has fun with the local yocels who tp in, showing them her marching band's new maneuvers...



If you see Maria coming, get ready to take evasive manuevers or get the hell out of the way. The pumpkin headed bitc4 is comin at ya.

Thursday, November 1, 2007

Pied-Piper

Playing around out in the Fields of Billy's... the Great Pumpkin lead her band... Anyone want a Snot filled Be(e)r.



Seriously, running around without any peds just skilling up sweating skills and evade and courage can be fun. Tonight, I also made a ped by letting some guy named Dave kill me in the ring at Billy's place.

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

"Nude"

A lot of folks in Entropia are calling this a "nude bug"... It makes avatars look "nude" when they aren't really... actually, I'd call it more of a "phong bug" since it really just makes them look like phong shaded characters in a 3d application with the shaders turned off... but hey, why get technical... Here's a few pics. This happens often with latest vu when I'm using ati all-in-wonder 9000 pro graphics card.












Requesting Wormhole...

Zen likes to play with his wormhole chip... The quote from him in this screen scrape is classic!!!

Happy Halloween.

Happy Halloween!



Tricked out Treats... Mindarc decided to hand out nice little goodies like this pumpkin mask this, the week of All Saints' Day in the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand and Seven.



Saturday, July 21, 2007

ITEMS

Entropia Dictionary has probably the best list of items online... very useful.
http://www.entropiadirectory.com/wiki/Items

Teleporters (TPs)

Original source of this list: http://80.194.67.44/cmps_index.php?page=tp

TP Coordinates are:

Teleporter Name Coordinates
Aegis Mound 14399,16187,30
Atlas Haven 12388,15845,45
Atlas Island North 12583,17213,23
Atlas Island South 10534,14935,28
Billy's Spaceship Afterworld 08127,10543,30
Camp Caravan 24015,23519,30
Camp Echidna 17949,19640,30
Camp Phoenix 09790,10583,29
Cape Corinth 03330,21019,27
Chimera Canyons 15594,16324,69
East Scylla Mountains 13812,09113,23
Fort Ares 14478,14398,42
Fort Argus 15205,23532,30
Fort Fury 11080,13229,35
Fort Ithaca 09127,22353,30
Fort Medusa 12633,13601,20
Fort Pandora 19649,15380,32
Fort Troy 13353,03961,15
Fort Zeus 22466,27704,30
Hadesheim C 07125,17092,44
Hadesheim East City 08079,17346,46
Hadesheim Outpost 07670,15969,50
Hadesheim South City 06909,16467,45
Jason Centre 14454,10864,27
Limnadian District 12106,12070,29
Minopolis 25488,17486,30
North Space Base 24492,28912,27
Nymphtown 24900,12416,15
Orthos West Mound 06379,12144,45
Port Atlantis 06054,08442,14
Port Atlantis Mall 05859,08374,40
Tethys Creek 10484,15933,31
Twin Peaks 17032,08096,21
Twin Peaks Mall 16814,08372,55
Zychion Citadel 10850,09675,20


Teleporters on the continent Amethera
Akmuul Island 10858,03037,050 VU 8.11
Billton Towers 14861,18928,019
Emerald Lakes 14225,24876,139
Emerald Lakes Mall 14220,25115,171
Genesis Amethera Headquarters 16941,19927,020
Memorial Island 07153,07553,047
Myrene Island 04538,03369,020
Nate Valley 19899,08598,144
Nea's Place 12984,10599,132
New Oxford 15603,19309,039
New Switzerland 12174,39563,023 VU 8.12
Omegaton West Habitat 10327,10682,039
Oshiri Hearts 07041,39002,122 VU 8.12
Oyster Isle 04025,09268,052
Palms corner 16825,11230,087
Rei's Defense 20303,04604,048
Sakura City 23226,05650,029
Segna Forest 02384,19011,067
Shinook Jungle 11504,26040,119
Solfais Crater 04931,29302,284
The Treasure Island castle. 20679,24846,033
Treasure Island City 18515,21859,030
Treasure Island Northern Shores 22973,26510,056
Wolverine Hope 21104,17122,156

Teleporters on the space station Crystal Palace
Actually its only one teleporter. But this teleporter is very special in two aspects. It is the only long distance teleporter ever to be built on (close to) Calypso and it can teleport you back to Port Atlantis on Calypso. The other special aspect is that due to the massive amount of energy used it costs 10 PED to use this teleporter. You can not teleport up to the space station as the teleporters on planet are not as long range and also are unable to track the position of the teleporter on Crystal Palace.

Teleporters on the asteroid settlement Club Neverdie
There are a lot of teleporters, but you will already have all of them in your map when you visit CND. 40 TPs are in the 20 biodomes as each dome has a north and south teleporter. Also both apartment complexes (Alpha and Beta), the disco, the shopping center, the spaceship decks and the control room have TPs.

The rumor has it that the new planets that will be discovered after the new servers open up in China will probably be mostly like CND, in that you can't teleport to them... but only the future will tell if that's really the case or not...