LINK ADDED: Titans-Of-Space.Com

At the right you will find a link to www.titans-of-space.com, which is the home page for John Black Knight's transport service and mothership. He is a former soc member that I've known for years now, and if you need a good person to deal with he's highly recommended.

I have no real motive for posting this other than he has been extremely helpful when dealing with potential customers, and anything of Quality in EU will get my endorsement. Even 100 QR blueprints LOL.

If you lose track of this post, the link to the site can be found on the right of the blog at the top of the toolbar next to my entropia abacus link.

My First Visit To Rocktropia!!! New Visitor Tips!

Rocktropia is awesome in my opinion! Seems like there is so much more to do, and the environment is more fun... Well, atmosphere is the word I think. I don't recommend it for anyone on dialup since even high speed wireless seems to be giving me enough lag as it is... Perhaps a good graphics card will make the difference on that.

But there are some things I didn't know that I just learned, and I wanted to post them here :-)

OK...

FIRST! I landed on the top patio for the club neverdie in the city of dreams. Now, yes, the bouncer kicked my butt and I died because I didn't have the pass. But I got to talk to Frankie Headstone up on the top somewhere outside the club. I can't really specify his exact location, but he's up there. If you talk to him, he will give you a free baseball bat worth 1 Ped TT. My friends who been there before didn't know that and didn't get theirs. So I wanted to let you all know.

SECOND: I didn't know I was going to rocktropia today... And I thought there was a CND pass on Calypso auction, I figured eh, I will bid a few peds, thinking it was a good deal. Heh... LOL... No. You get them free at the club on Rocktropia. But it took me forever to figure out how to get the pass.

You have to go to the bottom level, walk outside the club, and there are two people at the entrance, NPC's, and more NPC's making a line to get in. You have to talk to Trinity, and she will add you to the guest list and then Bulldog will give you a pass when you talk to him. This will prevent you from dying from being where you aren';t supposed to go.

I will continue to blog my tips and experiences here on the Rock until I leave maybe tomorrow back for Caly.

AND A REMINDER: DO NOT attempt the journey in a sleipneir with any cargo. I guarantee you the Sleipneir has a "Shoot Me, Loot Me" sign on the back of it!!! Dump all your ores and matters and resources into storage prior to travelling. And unless you have a warp capable ship, prepare to spend an hour or two in space.

UPDATE: What You Should Know About Interplanetary Travel

The Universe has grown a LOT in the last year with the advent of Arkadia, Rocktropia, and Next Island and it's associated areas that serve to add onto the Entropia Universe. However, some urgently important issues need to be stressed now that the travel has changed so much with the creation of interactive space.

The grass can certainly be greener on the otherside. I had planned to take my 500 ped mining run to F.O.M.A. (Which I still try to refer to as CND, just because I have tons more respect for Neverdie than I do for Foma, and to me it was always CND, and probably always will be, so forgive me if I use CND interchangeably with F.O.M.A.) which I decided not to and stayed on Calypso because there is no one way teleport from the asteroid to Calypso any more. Which means...

You either have to find a trader that will take the risk to buy your ores, and because they are risking getting looted by pirates in space, they will probably pay you smaller amounts than trader or auction on Calypso will.  Or, you trade terminal your ores if they are under a certain markup. Not very pleasant situation.

It is important to note that everyone going into space, everything on your materials tab and resources tab, generally speaking, can be looted if you are killed in space by pirates. Your best bet, is to try to book passage on a mothership. Your next best bet, is to find someone with a craft fast enough to outrun most pirates, but it will probably cost you.

I have heard especially after the last update, the pirate activity has picked up immensely in space. So best bet, A. Dont take anything valuable with you that can be looted. B. Go with someone extremely well armed, and worst case hopefully you can defeat the pirates.

I connect to EU on dialup. My lag isn't bad much at all normally. But in space, I can't run the risk. I would get killed before I could even try to defend myself. So make sure you have a fast connection if you attempt to fly yourself. If someone else flying you, don't worry about it, it in their hands.

If you must travel and try to haul your cargo, take the most indirect routes to your destination as possible. I can't be any more specific than this or I risk letting everyone know the strategy I use to stay safe. But even if you dont have anything to lose from being looted, you still will lose TT value on your vehicle from taking damage from another player in PVP.

Plan ahead, talk to people who frequently travel through space, get every possible bit of advice you can... And you should do fine. Good luck, and I wish everyone an ATH, becuase if I can't get one, you guys might as well!