Question Trade terminal on Arkadia

Hi i have a few questions about trade terminal on arkadia.

Will Arkadia trade terminal have Arkadia basic items in them and not like the rest of the planets have like the oplao and Calypso stuff.

Calypso has added puny and lower end items in trade terminal for new players from gateway.

Can Arkadia do the same and add their own new player basic items in trade terminal like a basic medi kit , gun , and etc:

if yes i can sell my refiner and mining stuff from calypso tt and buy the ones on arkadia trade terminal

 

Hmm good question.. Seeing different stuff in TT depending on what planet you are at would be nice, even if they had the same stats but totally different look it would be amazing gives some extra feeling to the planets...

Seeing that the trade terminals and stuff is different on RT vs Calypso, I hope PP will be allowed to change textures on the content as well =)

 

That would mean the introduction of UL SIB guns from Planet Partners (even though admittedly at the lower end of the scale) something that so far we haven't seen happening. I wonder if it's one of the constraints that MA has put on PP's, or if Dave will surprise us and tell us that we'll have Arkadia issue equipment on the TT - even if they act exactly the same, i know which ones i'd go for

 

What he said.
Personaly I think that a PP will have to fulfill certain requirenments before they are allowed to hand out new UL (SIB) items to the playerbase.
Well we'll see soon enough.

 

Either that (which is what i'm hoping for), or only MA items can be UL in the new scheme of things, and all Planet Partner equipment is going to be (L). Keep in mind that the recently Rookie Weapons/tools in Calypso are ALL (L) even though you can get them from the Trade Terminal. It kinda makes you wonder, if Calypso doesn't meet the qualifications for UL equipment, then who does?

It would make sense in the financial aspect of the game, protecting PP's interests and making sure that the vast majority of equipment used on the planet will be either local or MA sourced. But i still don't like it .
Dave? Could you shed some light?


p.s. If the above thought is valid, that doesn't mean that we won't see the occasional UL version of a local (L) gun/tool, but they'll probably be as rare as any UL Sib weapon.

 

<Shouting in Celeste Harbour...>

Selling Calypso TT UL Mining Tools, TT+10 each!!!

 

No answer here. I sense disturbance in the force.

 

Bump.

Come on David

 

Thanks for the quick reply, hope everything turns out as you (and we) want

 

They could use the same items as the Caly TT in terms of stats (icluding the rookie ones), just change the skin and rename them.

Maybe making some kind of opalo that is BLP instead of laser but identical in all its other stats. That would be cool.

 

^ This. I always thought it was rather stupid that as a new character you are pretty much STUCK with laser or melee weapons at the beginning. Wouldn't the cheap weapon just being handed out be the technologically inferior equipment? I'm pretty sure bullets are a lot older than pulse laser weaponry, even if they do use a Binary Liquid Propellant.

 

I found this on entropia forum today by kim at mindark :

: I think that answers my and our question
I would love to see arkadian things and designs in trade termninal to make it unique feel for arkadia
next island , rocktropia has calypso stuff.


it might be too late for arkadia to make changes to trade terminal very close to launch maybe this can be looked at at a later stage in arkadia

does that mean we can see arkadia basic blueprints in the technicion* npc and not calypso and rock , nextisland npc

 

Now that we know how A-Team goes doing things in detail, there is hope we will see something Arkadian-specific in those (TT and Technician),.
Looking forward to completing my basic BP's and equipment collection (always wise to save some early stage stuff )

.LeZ.

 

(discreet) Bump for the availability of (L) or preferably (UL) Arkadia weapons on the TT

 

yeah I'll add another one to that.

 

Count me in on a third for that

 

bump it up count me 4th

 

I guess we'll soon know first hand

 

Basic noobie equipment on the TT should be mandatory imo, so I fully expect them.