Entropia Universe Free to Play Mmorpg with a unique Real Cash Economy !

Is is true we can play it for Free and make money ?!?

ENTROPIA UNIVERSE BEGINNERS GUIDE

Part 1 – Entropia Universe is Free to Play ? read below after the index

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1. Entropia Universe Beginners Guide – Part 1 Free to Play
2. Entropia Universe Beginners Guide – Part 2 Starting Planet
3. Entropia Universe Beginners Guide – Part 3 Mentorship
4. Entropia Universe Beginners Guide – Part 4 Hunting Smart
5. Entropia Universe Beginners Guide – Part 5 Daily Missions
6. Entropia Universe Beginners Guide – Part 6 Explosive BP
7. Entropia Universe Beginners Guide – Part 7 Space Travel
8. Entropia Universe Beginners Guide – Part 8 Auction House
9. Entropia Universe Beginners Guide – Part 9 Mindforce
10. Entropia Universe Beginners Guide – Part 10 Mayhem
11. Entropia Universe Beginners Guide – Part 11 Land Deeds
12. Entropia Universe Beginners Guide – Part 12 Withdrawal
13. Final Part – Should you Play to Entropia Universe ?

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For Your Information : This article was last updated on the 21st of November 2025.

First of all, other Mmorpgs aren't based on a Real Cash Economy…

The virtual economy inside Entropia Universe is worth something ! It's worth 1/10 of our Real Life economy, and the currency is called the PED. So if you deposit 10$, you'll get ~100 Peds. And what can you do with 100 peds ? Basically you can buy a small gun or a rifle, and with the rest buy 90 peds of Ammo.

With all of that, it depends of the loots you'll find on the creatures you'll kill, but if you're lucky with the rewards… You'll be able to hunt over and over until you run out of peds… This is the basic explanation 😏 Though don't expect too much from the luck factor… Entropia is a business based on a “Casino Mmorpg”, so just tell yourself that in the end the house will always win! And like that your expectations to earn a salary with this game will eventually fade away 😅

Example : the laser rifle below costs 4 Peds, and uses 166 ammo every time it fires 1 shot. And on the right picture, you can see that 10000 “ammo burn” costs 1 Ped. So if you buy 1 Ped of Ammo (representing 10000 ammo burn), with this laser rifle you'll be able to shot (10000/166) = 60 times before having to buy more ammo.

Also every time you use it… It decays ! That means at some point you'll have to buy another rifle 😉

You see It's not like you would be playing to World of Warcraft, where the virtual money is worth nothing… I mean in-game it would be worth something, but out of the game nobody would care about your massive virtual fortune, because it couldn't be exchanged with real dollars… (not in a legal way at least… see the comment at the bottom)

Because of course there are illegal ways to sell virtual assets like to go on the EpicNPC Marketplace

But In Entropia, you can make real money and it's perfectly legal ! The money you deposit in-game, the profits you can make overtime, all of these you'll be able to withdraw. So from that point we're going to refer to that game Entropia Universe as EU for the shortcut, and as RCE for the Real Cash Economy.

But wait ! Why should you play to EU when every other Mmorpgs out there are cheaper ?!?

Because of the little Carrot you can win at every corner of the game !😜

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EU is what we can call a Casino Mmorpg !

Every action you do… like Killing a creature, Mining for resources or Crafting new gear can bring you a Global and even one worth to be displayed on the Hall of Fame ! Basically a global is like when you play to the slot machine and you hit the Jackpot ! The slot machine is going to pour money in your hands, make some “Talatatatataaaaa” noise, and people around you are going to applause or say Gratz ! for Congratulations 😍

Here is below a HOF meaning a global worth of the daily Hall of Fame that i hit back in 2010 !

So what do you make of that ? It says i have killed a creature called Atrox Old and got 378 Peds out of it.

• Atrox is the name of the creature
• Old is its Maturity (in EU Maturity defines how tough the creature will be)
• 378 Peds is like winning 37.8 Real $$$ !

And why does it say that the record was added to the HOF ?

Because 378 peds is not common on an Atrox ! First of all, it all depends of the creature you're hunting… If you're going to kill the smallest creatures in the game, because you want to play for Free… Don't expect a “global” anytime soon… But the bigger the creature you kill, the more chances there will be a big global ! You can compare that as if you were in a casino, the bigger the bet, the bigger the winnings… But also bigger chances to lose money

Then you will probably not withdraw this money right on the spot…

First of all because you can't withdraw less than 1000 peds… (~100 real life bucks)

And second, because that's more peds to make your avatar evolve, like to buy stronger gear or more ammo to hunt even more ! That's also on what “MindArk” the company who designed EU is counting on… If everyone was withdrawing all of their virtual money at the same time, MindArk would go Bankrupt… Fortunately for them, the time you invest in playing EU makes you psychologically attached to your avatar, and you want to continue the adventure and re-invest!

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Warning : When i got sucked into EU between September 2021 and Mid 2023, i was thinking that it was better to see your deposits not only as “wasted money to play a video game” but as an investment ! An investment as if you were depositing money on a bank account, and then depending of your knowledge of the game, and the amount of money you were ready to invest, you could make this deposit grow overtime at a better percentage than any Real Life Bank !

But Jesus i was so wrong about that… I guess i was part of the delusional players at that time, who were believing in a better future for EU. You know, It could have been true in the past where EU was a place where people could make money, but it has changed for the worst in the recent years. It's even difficult to withdraw your money, as the support will try to push you to the fault, the 12nd part of this Entropia Universe Guide is speaking about it, you'll learn that later.

Just understand that EU should be reserved to players who like to “Gamble their money from time to time”. Investing in EU is no longer interesting, and if you think you can thrive better than the others… Sure give it a go! But seriously… If you don't like to gamble your money, if you don't like gambling, then EU is not a game for you.

There are absolutely no reasons to play Entropia Universe over another existing mmorpg, if not for the gambling addiction… All other mmorpgs out there will be better than EU in every way! So again… Investing in EU in order to make a money or a salary out of it is no longer a thing, only play to EU if you have a small to big gambling behavior.

I made investments in 2022/2023 in Real Life with my real bank… and i got around 1000 bucks (10000 peds if you are an EU player) of interests by the end of the year, when at the same time i would have made maybe 500 bucks (5000 peds if you are an EU player) if i had invested money in Entropia Universe. And i got these interests in Real Life while doing nothing, in contrary of EU where i would have had to sink my time as well to promote my lands !

Entropia Universe is a Ponzi Scheme

So normally it should have been closed no ? Yes as Ponzi Schemes are “illegal”… But EU is a niche game and it means nobody cares about what's happening on EU, there are no journalists going to do some work on it to expose the scam… It's more like if a few thousands people are dumb enough to play to EU, let them sink their money into it.

And as i said above, it's also a Sci-Fi role playing game, it's also a Mmorpg… And players won't be able to quit from one day to another, they will be sucked by the system, and some of them will drown into it. They will invest their economies thinking of a brighter future when EU will have none for them, they will develop social relationships issues, they will get frustrated for various reasons (living in a game with no future, not earning enough, always staying at point 0 in life…).

For those who don't understand why i am writing this… This is the Entropia Universe Beginner's Guide in several pages yes… But it's also a BIG WARNING ! Make sure you know the risks before taking one more step into EU !

1. Hunting monsters, try to find those who are seeked out for their loots.
2. Mining as in searching for ores or energy matters
3. Crafting things to sell them, and even opening your own shop !
4. Selling your services like “Space Travel” or “Taming Creatures“
5. Buying Deeds, meaning acquiring the ownership of EU lands
6. Offering other kinds of services like “Promoting” or “Renting Items“
7. It's a RCE, your imagination will find other ways i am sure !

But again… You'd be well advised to make money in real life, and then gamble it in the game!
And not the other way around…

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But once more i have to repeat…

To make big profits will mean to make BIG deposits ! EU is like Real Life, you're not going to make 1000$ out of 10$…

Well yes in real life there are people who managed to do that, but it takes a long time, or an amount of luck you rarely see… So let's be realistic and let's not talk about exceptions, let's say you're the average Joe… Then the average Joe will have to deposit BIG to earn BIG, it's as simple as that.

So if your goal was to make money out of EU, you better prepare yourself with an Entrepreneur mindset !

Because you might have heard stories of people who have managed to profit BIG from the game, but these people are those 1% of players who invested MUCH MORE than the others ! And the 99% left of players will never make their real life job in EU… Yeah among the 1% there are also those who have been so lucky, that they should have played to the Grand Lottery instead of playing EU ^_^ They would have earned far more !

Besides as EU became more and more a Ponzi Scheme…

• If you're part of the big wallets in this game, it might work out for you as you'll make money from the funds, invested by the new players trapped in this scam, while they will lose everything. See how i used the sentence “it might“, because i have seen a lot of veterans leaving the game in the late 2020s.
• If you're part of the new wave, it will be difficult for you to withdraw your funds. Remember i said EU was a Ponzi Scheme, and in a Ponzi Scheme there is not enough money for everyone to withdraw.

But even if you're part of the Whales (we call Whales, the big players investing a lot of money), this game will require you to literally spend your whole fucking life in front of your computer! We're not talking about an average 7 hours day job here. there are desperate people playing to EU who stay connected up to 20 hours per day, literally hoping to earn cents every day ! Yeah you read me well… CENTS !

Trust me you would be better off finding a real job in real life, and then spend your money into EU.

And don't trust too much the stories of people saying they won a lot of money on the official forum… Actually, don't trust them at all, most of them are dangerous people imagining stories, and lying to themselves…

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Sweat Gathering is the ONLY FREE activity in-game !

Gathering vibrant sweat from creatures… is the ONLY way to play FREE !
(Well you can also collect fruits… but in that case go beg in the street, it will bring you more money 🤨)

Vibrant sweat can be gathered from all mobs around Entropia Universe, but can't be sold to the Trade Terminal. You can only sell it to other players… And basically that means you'll try to get money from other players, who invested Real Money while you decided to stay a Leecher... This is the WAY used by FREE to Play Players…

There is also the Sweat Gatherer Hall of Fame to compare your skills to other players.

RULES of a GOOD SWEATING CIRCLE :

1. Stand your ground ! Don't move because you have been hit by the mob, don't be a coward.
2. Don't stand too close to the nearby turret ! Otherwise the mob will be killed, and we'll have to pull another one.
3. The best place to sweat is Club Royale where we sweat Ambulimax, not at Boreas where we only sweat Kerberos.
4. If we pull an Ambulimax Mature, we have to keep it away from the turret as the killing range of the turret will be higher on a higher maturity. An Ambulimax Young will be killed only if it gets too close, a Mature will be killed at a Medium range and an Old one will be killed even from a long range by the turret!

I am speaking about it because it doesn't seem to be obvious to everyone…

Back in time in 2006 when i registered and played to Entropia Universe for the very first time, gathering sweat was an activity practiced by A LOT of People ! Because at that time it hadn't been nerfed yet but we'll talk about that below… Still, we were not cowards! Everyone knew they had to stand their ground and even die if needed.

Contrary to the modern beliefs, sweating circles were not perfect back in 2006… But people knew how to behave! We were not corrupted like today where players don't give a shit about others. We all stood our grounds and died multiple times if we had too, ensuring the sweating circles were staying strong. When an Ambulimax was dry, we were then all running to the next one. It wasn't perfect, but at least people were respectful towards each other.

These days… You have *literally* assholes who only care about their little navels…

I'll speak mainly of the society : Premium Prospecting Tradings

Akis and Jovanna are Two well known sweat gatherers who are literally making the life of sweaters harder!

I have screenshots to prove it… They always get behind other players because these 2 cowards are too scared of dying, so you get their VSE device green fog in the face, but the ambulimax also becomes UNREACHABLE because they're trying to kill these 2 bastards. And i hope these Ambulimax succeed everytime i see these 2 fuckers…

They move like fleas as soon as they're hit by an Ambulimax, so it completely mess up with the sweat circle. And finally, whenever they have the chance, they stand FAR AWAY and so TOO CLOSE to the turret! Last time i told them “they were too close to the turret”, and the guy was too proud and said “No! I am not!” even if the guy was clearly the closest to the turret. And he was wondering by whom the ambulimax had been killed…

Well open your fucking eyes! It was by the Turret and see the problem is YOU!

Back to the price of Vibrant Sweat…

Throughout the years… Price of Vibrant Sweat drastically lowered ! And it's not like you can do something about it… because other players who deposit money decide if they want to buy your sweat or not.

~20 Years ago back in 2006 the price of 1000 units of sweat (1K) used to be like 8 or 9 peds ! And while gathering sweat, which was also faster at that time than today, you could acquire skills to defend yourself better against creatures. So, once upon a time it was possible to sweat for 1 hour, and then go shoot creatures for like 15 minutes!

That's no longer the case… The price of sweat dropped over the years to like 1.3 peds right now for 1K of sweat, the acquiring of skills while sweating has been drastically nerfed, and the amount of sweat you can get has been reduced by 5 ! So it's taking you 5 times longer to acquire sweat, which will be sold at a 8 times lower price than what it used to be, and in the process you'll win peanuts in terms of skills 😁

So if you're a Free to play player, life will be hard for you in EU ! And you'll have to accept it… or leave!

It depends where you are located in the Entropia Universe, because there are several planets with different economies… But we can say the average price of 1000 sweat is more like 1.3 Peds. Don't believe the people who will tell you that you shouldn't sell below 1.5 to 2 Peds for 1000 Vibrant Sweat. Some players have been brainwashed not to accept anything under 1.5p, and now you can feel all of the frustration in them.

Problem with that speech is you see players gathering sweat for WEEKS and MONTHS, not managing to sell their BIG Stock of sweat because they have been brainwashed by those people. Many from Big Industries events, because that's in their own interests to make the players believe they shouldn't sell below that price, so they continue to participate to their little events, where just a few players will see a small % of their sweat stock bought for this price.

And as a result you see these frustrated players owning like 100K of sweat, and even more than that, beginning to spam the #calytrade and #trade channels (or any other trade channels) because they're fucking tired of trying to find a Buyer to this delusional price of 1.5 to 2 peds per K of sweat.

And when people spam trades channel… Guess what happens next ? Other players just put them on ignore, so these frustrated players will be placed on ignore lists, because after all… they're not selling anything rare, that's just sweat that you can buy easily from any players, it's not a rarity and if you ignore 1 player, there will still be 100 others to buy the sweat from. So for these ignored players it will become nearly impossible to sell their sweat !

All of this because some dumb dudes told them to not sell below a certain price.

There is also another way to sell  your sweat, and i call it the “desperate way”

A few streamers on Twitch offer up to 6 peds for 1000 units of sweat, which is far above the average rate of 1.2 peds. What's the catch ? You have to watch their stream for hours in order to get points, and with these points these streamers will accept to buy your sweat for a higher price. So you have desperate players who literally let their internet browser opened 24/24 7/7 on these few twitch stream.

These people must live in the basement of their parent's houses… as the electricity cost is higher than the gains.

As for the average price of sweat, let's just do some Quick Maths…

• If you Gather Sweat during 1 hour, you might get 1K so 1000 Vibrant Sweat
• Let's say you're Lucky and you manage to sell them for 1.5 Peds… As you may know (or not) One real $ equals to 10 Peds, So if you sell your hard earned sweat for 1.5 Peds, it's like earning 0.15 cents…
• You just spent 1 fucking hour to earn 0.15 cents…

Quick question : Would you accept to work for 0.15 cents per hour in Real Life ?

People who have No Life will say yes!, and people who can walk out of the door to work at the nearest Bar / Pub as a waiter will say No ! But then as always there are few exceptions like disabled people, or people in very poor countries…

But if you live in a very poor country… I really fucking don't know what you're doing on EU ? I would be in a dire situation like many workers in a poor country, i would think survival before playing to EU !

As an element of comparison a Factory Slav… sorry i meant a Worker in Vietnam… earns 84 cents /hour. So when you use your Avatar to ONLY Sweat and stay in front of your screen doing nothing else (and trust me many players are doing that) you're earning 5 times LESS Money than a Slav… Again sorry… Worker exploited in Vietnam !

Your earnings won't even cover the electricity cost to power on your computer 🤨

And still you always have people in a sweat gathering circle who will blame the AFK players (Away from Keyboard), because the creature isn't pulled fast enough to the turret… When i see Free to Play players blaming others, when they don't have the courage to do something of their real life, I just put the Fucking LOOSER on ignore !

The AFK people HAVE a LIFE, You obviously DON'T ! So pull the damn creature to the Turret yourself or Die !

If you decide to gather sweat… ALWAYS DO something else at the same time… Something PRODUCTIVE !

Because obviousy gathering sweat is ONLY TIME WASTED in  your life…

Myself I do my workouts on Twitch at the same time. So, i can't chat, can't type on the keyboard but i don't care, at least i am improving my Real Life health and physical Performances, while my avatar is gathering sweat 😎

Actually i also sweat whenever i have my laundry to do, or take out the trash, things like that 😅

Gathering sweat should only be a secondary activity in the background of your windows!

Next part : Starting Planet