TÂhis real cash economy MMORPG was originally known as Project Entropia, but when the pioneering project to establish a toehold colony in robotic enemy space was completed, the project evolved into a universe. Current universe locations consist of a planet (Calypso) with two continents (Eudoria and Amethera), a satellite space station (the Crystal Palace) and a privately-owned asteroid resort (Club Neverdie). Club Neverdie currently holds the world record for most valuable virtual property (Guiness Book of World Records).
The game is free to download and has no monthly fee. Players can deposit money ($1 = 10 Project Entropia Dollars) to buy gear and ammunition or they can attempt to bootstrap themselves into economic solvency by collecting raw materials such as fruit and "Vibrant Sweat" and working as traders. The primary professions are hunting, mining, and crafting. PvP is in designated areas only. The developer, MindArk, takes its income from the increase in entropy ("decay") of weapons and tools as they are used.
The other well-known real cash economy virtual world is Second Life. EU differs in being much more game-centric, with user-designed content playing a supporting, rather than principle, role.
VU (version updates) with new content are released on a regular, but erratic, basis. The major VU 9.0 was released on Oct 2007.
Notable future plans for EU include the transition to the CRYENGINE graphical and gaming engine in 2008 and the opening of new planets, including an agreed-upon collaborative, large-scale integration of China.
Many useful player operated resources are available online. In particular, the Entropia Forum and Entropedia wiki are useful.
Standalone Offline installers for Entropia Universe can be found here.
Application Details:
| Developer: | MindArk PE AB |
| URL: | http://www.project-entropia.co... |
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| Version | Description | Latest Rating | Latest Wine version tested | Test results | Comments |
| 10.x | The release of Version Update 10.0 in August, 2009 represents a major overhaul of EU, with a transition to CryEngine2 from the previously used Gamebryo game engine and a concurrent redesign of the entire game world. | Garbage | 1.2-rc2 | 4 | 0 |
| 11.x | During VU 11, systems removed during the update to CryEngine2 for VU10 were gradually re-introduced. The first additional partner planet, Rocktropia, went live as a rock/music-themed world. | Garbage | 1.3.11 | 7 | 0 |
| 12.x | version 12.x | Garbage | 1.4-rc3 | 2 | 0 |
| 14.x | Downloaded from http://www.entropiauniverse.com/. | Garbage | 1.6-rc4 | 3 | 0 |
| 15.15 | The latest patch to Entropia Universe for fall of 2017 continues with Loot 2.0 adjustments. | Silver | 2.18-staging | 2 | 0 |
| 15.x | The actual version in 2016. | Gold | 1.9.18 | 1 | 0 |
| 17.xx | - | Silver | 8.0-rc2-staging | 1 | 0 |
| 8.x | Released on 12-19-05 | Bronze | 0.9.42. | 7 | 0 |
| 9.x | The major VU 9.0 was released on Oct 2007 | Bronze | 1.1.20 | 11 | 0 |
