Virtual economics plays an incredibly crucial role in almost every online massively multiplayer game. However, most games don’t mix real world monetary systems with those of their online world, because if something were to break in an online world, real world money could be at stake. Despite these issues, the developers at Mindark PE decided to do just that, and their highly profitable game, Entropia Universe, has achieve nearly 800,000 registered users and looks to continue growing into the near future. Recently, Ten Ton Hammer’s Cody “Micajah” Bye sat down with John Bates, a member of the Mindark development team, to discuss the future of the game and what players should expect from this growing online world.
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Ten Ton Hammer: So how does that work? Does a player actually have to fly through space to get to these other planets?
John: Since we're getting new planets in the universe, it means that we're opening up space, which in a sense is like yet another planet. There will be people who will never set foot on land again. They'll take off in their spaceship and play their entire experience of Entropia Universe from their space ship. It's going to be expensive and potentially dangerous for those characters, and I think trade between the planets will be difficult. That said, it also has the potential to be fairly lucrative.
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Entropia Universe: An Exclusive ION Interview with John Bates
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