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Hello, Ok, I get the point so this topic is now closed. TTYL :-) Merlin

Hello, Of course alot of "fine" details would be worked out first and I just want feed back on the idea as a whole. I would say that xp debt should problie not be part of this. Also, say the player either killed the bounty hunter or evaded it they would be part or all of the bounty money. Say 90% of it for killing the hunter and 25% for evadeing it. You could even set it up like the arena was in that you got no debate or damage when you were in there. I am sure if something like this was put in the game you would have players doing it for fun and that is really what this idea is about. Don't worry, I am sure some of the other Dev's will say "Merlin, this is just another one of your stupid ideas" and it will never get off the ground. TTYL :-) Merlin

Hello, Before talking to the rest of the team I came up with an idea that could or could not be fun, but wanted to see what the rest of you thought about it. My idea would be a way to put so called bountys on other players. It would be like going to a job termnal, but you would put out a bounty instead. It would cost a bit to do this say around 10 mil or so. What would happen is that when you put a bounty on someone it would spawn a mob say 5 to 10 lvl's above that player and would spend the next 24 hours tracking them down. Now the player who had the bounty placed on them could get the bounty off them 1 of 2 ways. 1, kill the bounty hunter mob or 2 play hide & seek with it for the next 24 hours (Playing) time on that toon. Now only one bounty could be placed on any one toon as to not have 50 of the things chasing say Riddick around the map! lol J/K'n Riddick. I think it would be fun, but before someone says it, "Yes I know that was not in live" but what the heck. Since pvp may never be in this might be a way to take it's place. Anyway, let me know what you think. TTYL :-) Merlin P.S. Remember, this is a fun idea and would be a way to liven up the game a bit.

Hello, Ok guys, please stop with the screen shots. I was really hopeing that players would feel lucky to find these and basiclly keep it to them selves. I really didn't want to say anymore about this except for that there were some surprises this month. I probile should not have said anything at all. TTYL :-) Merlin

Hello, Yes & I would ask that you keep the location to your self. I want players to look for themselves as I am sure you are aware those are hot spots in the different sectors. I will have more surprises to come in the coming months. TTYL :-) Merlin

Hello, Not to be nit picky, but you have Sponge Chloride listed as being able to get in IO and so far that is not in any sector yet. Could you please go back over the list and make sure there are no more type-o's. Thanks! TTYL :-) Merlin

Hello, Ok, the best addvice I can give you is to load up the orelist into wordpad and then select all and change the type size from 10 to 8. That drops the page count down to 17. I am going to try to on the next months orelist use PDF and see if I can get a menu type thing to work, although it will still be long and not solve your paper problem. TTYL :-) Merlin

Hello, I tried different ways to do it and that is the way it came out. I know it is long, but you could always set the print on you printer smaller. I will see if there is a way to make the orelist smaller, but with the sector count getting higher I don't really think there is a shorter way to do it. Will see what I can do though. TTYL :-) Merlin

Hello, Ok here is July's updated Orelist with the new sectors I have done. I had to redo the ore report due to the fact that the sector list was getting a bit long for the old style. Although longer, I think everyone will find it usefull in finding ores. It is best viewed with Wordpad. I will say when it comes to the ore fields there are a few suprises this month and for those of you that do "Explore" you will be rewarded. Please do not ask me what they are as I will not say other then it will pay to start exploring sectors better. As always if you find any problems please feel free to tell me ingame or here on the forms! Good luck & happy hunting! TTYL :-) ORELIST.rtf Merlin ORELIST.rtf

Hello, Thanks, Trade levels are a bit different depending on which class you are starting or playing. From tl 0 to 25 I do treat them all the same in that when I start a new toon I basiclly do nothing but low lvl comabt for the first 3 or 4 hours killing lvl 0's & 1's in my home sector. Do this for as long as you can stand it. Do not turn in any of the loot you get until you are all done. Also, only keep stackable loot and bypass everything else. You are shooting for full stacks of lvl 2 & 3 stuff. If you are solo make sure you do this for atleast 4 hours and when you turn in your loot you should get to tl 20 to 25. Now you can do this faster if you have someone killing the mobs so you can loot. Also, by the time you are done you will problie be at cl 10 to 15 depending on if you are solo or grouped. So basiclly the first day of a toons life you should be able to get to tl 25 to 30. Ok, from tl 25 to 50 is where the fun begains. Trade runs! I always do trade runs with a JE as I use the a wormhole for TR's. Now before you say, Merlin, if you WH you lose 50% of the value of the trade goods. This is true, "But", I can WH back and forth between Sommer & Fenris 6 round trips in the time it takes you to fly the round trip. Here is how the math works. Lets say you are getting 900 one way and 1000 back the other and you have 30 cargo spots: WH trade run = 900 x 30 / 50% = 13,500 1000 x 30 / 50% = 15,000 13,500 + 15,000 = 28,500 x 6 = 171,000 Norm trade run = 900 x 30 = 27,000 1000 x 30 = 30,000 27,000 + 30,000 = 57,000 So you see, by WH'n doing trade runs you get 171,000 xp points in the same amount of time it takes you to fly and get 57,000 Now if you are a JE, PS or TS you can do mining. Just make sure when you do mine you trade the raw ore to another player as you get double the trade you get by selling it to a vender. Now have the player trade back the raw ore and refine it so you get more trade xp, trade it back to the player once again and get more xp and then sell it. Now if you are a TT, PP & JS the best way I have found although borring is to make Comps! My TT gets 270 trade for each lvl 9 comp he makes which take 5 sec pre comp. A 300 stack of comps comes out to 81,000 trade xp. This amount will go higher or lower depending on the lvl you are making and your trade level. Of course if you have a JE I would use the WH trade run and wh my TT, TE, TS, PP or JS to do trade runs since those classes have Negotiate. Well I hope some of that helps you. Trade lvl's are the most grinding part of this game and that is why I always try to get them out of the way first. I normally do do any real combat until my EL & TL are both 50 so that combat will be fun and I can normally kill 10 to 15 lvl's above my own. TTYL :-) Merlin

Hello, I know what you meen! I also get borred doing TR's, but most of the stuff in EnB does tend to get repetitive after awhile. I have several ways to get the different lvl's and touring is just one of them. I think I will write a help file called "0 to 150 the Merlin Way!" one day. Catchy title hun? lol TTYL :-) Merlin

Hello, I have never been big on useing spill over to fill the other 2 bars. You could do it that way, but I have found that you should always do things that target the bar you are going after. Normally in my little guild we have guild events where we will pick a day to do this and several of us will spend the day helping each other. As I have stated before I almost alway start 2 toons together, so I we will have these events someone in the guild will be the leader, they will start a throw away tt and a 3rd person will either do the same or start 2 new toons as well. So most of the time there will be 4 or 5 new toons in the group and when you have that many and use the route i laid out it really doesn't take long to lvl up your EL. Infact I have seen it where you can get to el 10 in less then an hour, lvl 25 in about 3 hours and so on. The real trick to all of this is Team work! Team work is the key to EnB and if you do everything solo yes it will take months to years to get to 150, but heck, what ever turns you on and how ever you want to play is always your choice. TTYL :-) Merlin

Hello, Well if you got 2 computers & atleast 2 accounts it is easy. Here is what you do: You will need to do tours for about a day or 2 at the most. You start in Somerlad and make yourself a throw away TT. Make some lvl 2 gear( Mustang, both RR's, reactor & shield). When you log into the new TT tour your home sector which will give you 1 ding, raise engines to lvl 2. Now have your Old toon waiting at the high earth gate and grouped with the TT and bring the TT thru the get into NE. Now tour. Tour these sectors in this order: NE, Inverness, BBW, Muspelheim, VG, Fenris, VT, AP, Muspelheim, Odin's Belt, Oden Rex, Rag, Jot, Freya, Akerons Gate, Pluto, Uranus, Saturn, Glenn, Carp and then back to NE. Now delete TT and start over. "Make sure you remove the lvl 2 gear"!!!. Now if you have 2 other friends that can also make a TT then it will go much quicker. You really don't want your throw away TT to get past el 10 very far as your XP for EL will really start to go down. If you do this for just 2 days or about 16 hours you will get to EL 50. TTYL :-) Merlin

Hello, For all 9 Classes, MANY! lol But if done right you can get 1 or 2 toons to lvl 150 in 7 to 14 days. The trick is to always get your EL & TL up to 50 as quickly as possible before doing very much combat. TTYL :-) Merlin

Hello, Just for the record, 6 of those toons where 150 "Before" I was a Dev and the other 4 were done the normal way. I normally start 2 toons together and work them as a team which makes lvl'n easier. I have a basic plan I follow anytime I start a new toon & I can normally get the pair of toons to lvl 135 withinn a week and from 135 to 150 the following week. I almost always get my EL & TL to lvl 50 before I start doing any combat which makes combat very easy. TTYL :-) Merlin

Hello, I am very please to announce that by getting my JS & PS to lvl 150 today I now have 10 lvl 150 toons and have a lvl 150 in all 9 Races! I wanted to test out all the races and see mostly how the new races were. I thought it might be interesting to find out just how many lvl 150 toons you guys & gals had. Now in my opion, these are how I rate the Races depending on what I am doing: Combat: PW, PP, TE, JD Support: PP, TT, JS, JE Mining: JE, TS, PS Exploreing: TS, JE, PS Trade Runs: TT, JS, PP I guess if I had to only pick one race to play the game I would problie go with the PP as I have found it to be very usefull in many ways. Of this is my opion and I am sure everyone has they favorites! TTYL :-) Merlin

What!!!!! We don't get paid!!!! Wait a minute. They told me I get a cookie for every players I shoot with an Eyeball popper! What, no cookies now? Damm! Merlin

Hello, Look, it is Mommy-Daddy! lol I remember that day. Ya I like to have fun now and then. Although your idea sound sinteresting I dought that anything that complex will come to be. Let see if we can get get a couple of simple ideas gong 1st before we tackle the more complex ones! TTYL :-) Merlin

Hello, Bad eye site hun? I have been trying for awhile now to get some fun stuff added to the game, but I have had a hard time getting many of the team to agree. I think Players would love some fun stuff added to the game. Wheather it is the Dev's/GM shooting the players or the Players shooting us it doesn't matter as long as everyone can have some fun. Sometimes late at night when there is just a handfull of players on I will hijack a mob and just follow players around. They get a real kick out of it and it releaves some of the stress that they get. TTYL :-) Merlin

Hello, You guys are funny! You are all bickering about something I am doing away with! I am adding 3 to 4 times the amount of ores that are in each sector, splitting up the ores into 2 sub groups so that there should never be a reason to totally fill up your cargo holds while mining. The "Only" time you should ever 'Cherry pick" is if you need a sertin ore for a mission! I for one never have cherry picked a field as it is almost just as fast to pull all the ores as it is to wade thru them. I will say that once poppers start going into a field you will be in for some surprises if you pull out one ore and move on! That ore you just left behind might just become a rock monster and eat your ship! lol TTYL :-) Merlin

Hello, Yes they will, after hijacking them type /fireweapon Merlin

Hello, I have perfit thing to follow you aound. Spawn a 2115 and let him follow you around. Believe me no one will mess with you! TTYL :-) Merlin

Hello, Normally a GM should handle these types of things, but this was one of those times that I was the only one on that could kick these guys which is something I hate to do. If for some reason you see someone that is acting in a way that you know would not be allowed & no one is there to take care of the problem is to ask them nicely to please stop and take screen shots. Everyone on the server knows better then to act the way those 2 or 1 person was acting and the fact that they did not log right back in proves they knew what they were doing. The last thing any of us wants is for the players to start policing each other and that is what the GM's job is, but there are times when there is no GM's on and sometimes us Dev's will step in if we have to. But please everyone, don't make us step in and everyone play nice! TTYL :-) Merlin

Hello, I had to do something tonight that I really do not like to do. I had to kick off 2 players from the play server. 1 was for spamming the chat so bad I could not even get a message in and the other was for useing words that I know are not allowed in open chat. I want everyone to know that I do not like having to do this, but since I was the only one on that could I had to. The use of 4 letter words, the "N" word, calling other players names, useing bad words in your toon name will not be allowed by any of the staff here at the emu. Now as a Dev it is not my place to kick players, but these 2 players were about as "RUDE" as I have ever seen 2 players be. Players, please leave that kind of stuff at the door and make the game a happy & friendly place to be. Putting the word (sorry about this) "cunt" in your name not only affends me as I have 4 daughters, but will offend all our female players out there. For the 2 guys I kicked, I am sorry I had to do it, but both of you needs to grow up. I will not post their names as I am hopeing they grow up and the matter can be closed here. "But" I do know who you guys are and I will be watching & if I need to kick you again I will see to it it is more then just for the moment. I hope everyone who was on the server understands & knows I do not just kick players for the heck of it. So lets all play nice and have a nice day! TTYL :-) Merlin

You are so nice Cdel! I like to move them to the fish bowl for fun! lol <Evil Grin> just kidding Merlin