This is by far the weirdest game I've ever played. It's quite a sight to see bunches of players, only equipped in their underwear, performing a chant like skill known as concentration and then attempting to sweat an animal with a move that looks like you're drawing in a green vortex with your hands. The lands are very large but incredibly generic. While sweating, you die a lot, but it is possible to divert the attention of a monster to another unfortunate player by running in circles around him. It's a good thing there is no death penalty. I've setup my credit card but first need to activate it by inputting an activation code that's coming on my next statement. While still playing with nothing, I've managed to accumulate 1.15 PED in money and 2.24 PED worth of sweat, all I need is to sell it off. That's a good 30 cents I've just made there in about 2 hours of play. I realize that that comes to about 15 cents an hour, far less then any self-respecting illegal immigrant would agree to work for. Maybe it's time to find a real job.
Yes, after a long time debating with myself I've finally decided to try out Entropia Universe. For those of you who don't know, Entropia Universe is a MMORPG where you can trade your in-game currency for real money, and vice-versa. It works like this, $1 = 10 PED or 1000 PEC. You're pretty much forced into spending some money to get started, but there are some ways to make money without anything. You can find fruit, harvest sweat, or mine for oil (oil is practically impossible so don't count it out). 1 unit of sweat or 1 unit of fruit roughly equals 1 PEC, and both are not too easy to obtain. I plan on eventually putting down $10 to get started with, and if I don't find anything in the game I like I won't feel like I've wasted too much.
Well I started out in the game, took a while to get acquainted with the controls, and quickly found myself in a group of new players just like me. We were lead around by a very helpful guy named Lollipop who brought us to various important teleports and showed us how to harvest and sell sweat and fruit. That's were I quit the game for the moment, after getting about 20 units of sweat and 50 units of fruit, but I plan on playing again real soon.
