Hello,

Prelude

I thought I would provide the NEVERDIE Studios staff and THE MAN himself with
some valuable information that should help make this RT experience much better
for all of us and more profitable for ND and his Studios.
I send private MSGs all the time and get no reply. That's not very good, because I (and others) take a lot of time testing and evaluating this planet
and you, the staff, should listen to our suggestions. (As they may be of great value to you)

Section 1 - Land Design

First if all a grand THANK YOU for making some amazing landscaped and cool areas.
The Lemmy's Castle area, BAMF, Vampire Cathedral are very well done and graphically amazing. The CoD area is a nice habitat with improvement opportunities in building design.

My suggestions towards the development of the Land and 3D design are the following:

- Implement Shops, Appartments, Land Areas (in that order)
- Implement Missions (beacons) to bind visitors to RT
- Make a BUILDING DESIGN contest, like an ingame advertisement implied earlier
- Definately MORE AMAZING LOCATIONS. While the 3 main attractions keep visitors exploring, it just takes a few days for experienced players to visit and see all of them.
- Add at least ONE or more amazing location in EVERY UPDATE so that the people who
leave, would want to come back.
- Let US suggest to you what we would like to see in terms of NEW LOCATIONS. Make a suggestion thread and implement a POLL after - say - 1 month of suggestions.
- EVENT Box should be added to CoD area. It would be very helpful to be able to organize events with more transparency that way!

Section 2 - CND Live

While I personally enjoy the music playing on CND live, a friend of mine and I had a lengthy conversation about the repetitiveness of the radiostation, so improvement has to happen.

My suggestions towards the development of the CND Live Radio are the following:

- Actual LIVE DJs. Start filling the weekend up wit LIVE DJs and go on from there.
- More variety in music. Sure, it's ROCKtropia, but if you play a lot some of the songs get old. I guess this WOULD improve with live DJs with their own music collections.
- CND mutes itself at times and there is DEAD air. Stability has to be improved.
- EVENT live DJing should be implemented

Section 3 - Trading

Trading is slow at the moment and many say that they sell their gear to the TT, because no viable market exists. Let's change that!

My suggestions towards the development of Trading are the following:

- Don't be stubborn and ask for PED in exchange for your goods. Accept sweat as a form of payment as well. (This one is towards the people who sell goods)
- Make a friday flea market EVERY WEEK. I find myself selling goods to the TT, because there are just no people on, that would make selling those items in any other way profitable.
- DO NOT and I repeat DO NOT sell Blueprints of Rocktropia gear to NON-Rocktropians. Let them go out and spend some serious PEDs hunting to get their own. Same thing applies to the Rock and Roll gear items that you loot like Vampire Blood, Tails, Claws, etc. This way the prices will stay high for those items and Rocktropians will stay wealthy and well-respected.
- NEVER lower the price of sweat below 5peds/k. It's already hard to get 1K of sweat and it takes a good ammount of time. So don't do it.

Conclusion

There is a lot to be done.
I do understand that ROCKTROPIA is a direct business competition to FPCs and MindArk's planet(s). I would not be surprised, if they would hinder the development of ROCKTROPIA deliberately, so that they would be the ones profiting the most, without the need on their side to improve their planets. We can't do much about Mind Ark's mysterious ways and methods of including NDS content into the updates, but we CAN do everything we can to speed up the development and improvement of ROCKTROPIA by suggestions and POLLS of things we want.

Let's do it together, with constructive critical thinking.
Let's make ROCKTROPIA a planet to BE on AND to STAY on.

Best Regards,
Jay The Don Faystone

I do know that they (the ND staff) are and have been working on shops and apartments for a bit now, and we should probably expect to see those soon. For the most part, I think their design priorities are inline with most of your recommendations. I also know that MA likes to have control of development and they keep the ND staff from being able to speak much on the details of development.

I agree with your point on RT stuff going to the long time RTers who have spent so much time and money (at inevitable loss) on making RT successful. However, I think a lot of that is in our hands, since we're the ones here hunting all the time already and have storage full of RT BAMF gear manu matts.

I had seen the sign some time ago about a "Design your own building" contest and I would like to see that as well. In addition, it would also be neat to have a "design your own vehicle" or "design your own armor/weapons" for consideration by the team. The only question with all of those is MA's stance on the whole deal. I don't think the ND staff would have a problem with it, but chances are MA might find some reason not to allow it.

As the RT economy grows, the price of sweat will inevitably have to go down some. It's simple supply/demand. With such a high supply of sweat, and such a small supply of Nexus and small demand for ME here... the price of sweat is already being artificially held high to try to help new players. But I can tell you from experience that the practice of purchasing sweat at that price is a no-win game. If there is very little Nexus and hardly any ME market... all of us who are buying sweat at that price are losing... and most of us have huge stockpiles of the sweat in inventory because there simply is no Nexus on the market to mix it with (Marius has over 400k of it in his inv... yikes).

As the RT items start being produced, I really believe that those of us who have been here and mixed our money and labor with this planet will be better off for doing so. We've all just gotta hang in there. We're a slowly industrializing planet in competition with the prices on the most industrialized planet in the Entropia Universe. And thus-far, we're in competition with most of the same items that Caly already has. Once we get more of our own items (armor, weapons, vehicles (maybe)), we'll start to see a huge market swing in the favor of RT.

The only question will be if/when the ND staff does start giving/selling shops, special RT production bps, etc... if the first opportunities for such things will be granted to those of us who have worked so hard here, or if it is indiscriminately handed out to any and all, including the Calypso ubers who would likely come here to buy up our production.

However, I am pretty optimistic about it, because I have seen the good faith of the ND staff with previous things coming into the RT market, like when vehicles first came out and were given to dedicated RTers.

Cheers and keep up the good work devs! <--- RT FTW!!!!

I've been optimistic for five years or so now, so MA can cut the crap and release some content already......