{"id":38,"date":"2006-05-17T16:09:09","date_gmt":"2006-05-17T16:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/2006\/05\/17\/a-virtual-universe\/"},"modified":"2010-11-11T13:01:56","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T13:01:56","slug":"a-virtual-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/2006\/05\/17\/a-virtual-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"A Virtual Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been playing a game called Entropia Universe<\/a> (previously Project Entropia) recently, and I’m finding it quite addictive. It’s much like other MMORPGs at a first glance, but it boasts a “Real Cash Economy”. This means that there’s a direct exchange rate (fixed to the US dollar) and you can\u00c2\u00a0exchange money to and from the game currency just like you can with any other currency in the real world.<\/p>\n

Within the game itself you learn skills, take on professions, and if you’re lucky you can even make a real profit. My experience so far, though, suggests that making real money is highly unlikely; but if you get good enough you might just about be able to fund yourself within the game – so no loss of real money either.<\/p>\n

It’s worth giving the game a go. It’s a free (but large – approx 1Gb) download<\/a> and it’s free to get an account. You can also get started in the game at no expense by “sweating” animals, although it gets tedious after a while.<\/p>\n

I’m still fairly new, so I’ve only deposited a bit of real money to help progress me along a bit. I’ve just bought my first gun, and I’m now running around killing the animals instead of just sweating them. I have a reasonable amount of confidence in my ability not to get carried away and soak too much money in to this game \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

There’s a wealth of information on the game website<\/a>, on wikipedia<\/a>, and on the forums<\/a>. There’s not much point in me repeating it all, so go take a look for yourselves. Maybe I’ll see you in the game? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been playing a game called Entropia Universe (previously Project Entropia) recently, and I’m finding it quite addictive. It’s much like other MMORPGs at a first glance, but it boasts a “Real Cash Economy”. This means that there’s a direct exchange rate (fixed to the US dollar) and you can\u00c2\u00a0exchange money to and from the game currency just like you …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t