SynerGen Corp.

Amazon has a service called Mechanical Turk. There are two kinds of people who use this service. They are Requesters and Workers. The Requesters fund their accounts and offer HITS (human intelligence tasks). There are a variety of HITS available, so there should be something for everyone. In just a few days, doing very little work, I’ve accumulated more than $5.00. Which, if I have done my math correctly, is the equivalent of 10,000 sweat sold at 0.5 PEC.

Payments are done with Amazon gift cards, the amount you withdraw is posted into your Amazon gift card balance. Then there is an option to transfer the funds into your personal bank account. It is not currently known if they accept foreign bank accounts, hopefully an adventurous EU member would be willing to try this and post their results.

So, in a nutshell, Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service offers, I think, an excellent alternative to sweating for all EU players.

Link:  Amazon Mechanical Turk

Are you annoyed by the primative in-game messaging system that Entropia Universe has? Well I am too, especially the pathetically low number of “friends” you can have on you Friends List, but, unfortunately, we have no direct control over that limit (are you listening, MindArk? Higher limit, please?). However, we can do one thing to organize the messaging system we do have so it can work more efficiently for us. Organizing your Friends List is as easy as adding one character at a time.

How, you ask?

Well, just pre-pend symbols to the names of people in you Friends List to aid in keeping it sorted. Since the Friends List is fairly primitive, this is the only way to sort people into groups. Symbols have an “alphabetical order” the same way Latin characters A-Z do, so they can help us here. Personally I have chosen to use the symbols !, “, #, $, %, &, ‘, * and + to represent the hierarchy of SynerGen, as well as categorize some other contacts. But, it is easy to experiment with the different symbols on your keyboard and come up with your own categorization scheme. Use whatever suits you best!

Here’s a more in depth explanation of my setup:

• Symbol ! – Reserved for Marta, aka Addy, my love, always at the top of my list
• Symbol “ – Reserved for Synergy SyngerGen Genesis, our society’s leader
• Symbol # – Expedition Advisors
• Symbol $ – Senior Adventurers
• Symbol % – Adventurers
• Symbol & – Senior Travelers
• Symbol ‘ – Travelers
• Symbol * – Important contacts outside of SynerGen
• Symbol + – Traders, pilots and other service providers

Hopefully you’ve found this useful. If you have any suggestions for ways we can improve our experience of using the EU messaging system, please leave a comment. We will certainly thank you for your contribution!

Rufwon and Balberith have opened a shop at Omegaton West – Shop number A-1. This is the first shop owned by members of SynerGen.  We can all help  make this new venture a success by checking the shop when we need an item and helping to publicize the shop.  Rufwon and Balberith carry a nice selection of crafting materials and weapons at attractive prices.  Best wishes for uber-success.

First colonist to discover Elique Sign Blueprint (L)!

Today Ayden Addy Krystiansen had her first “first”! While crafting Tatami mats a blueprint for the Elique Sign dropped! This new blueprint requires 17 Zinc, 36 Melchi and 11 Simple I Plastic Springs. Congratulations to Addy!

SynerGen is listed as the Number One mining society on EntropiaTracker.com. A big thanks to Rhus and the other miners who have globaled or HOFed in the past 30 days.