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Oops! This thread should be archived. We have posted a new, revised thread here: https://board.dualthegame.com/index.php?/topic/10296-revised-the-outfit-now-recruiting/ I'm going to send an email to request this one be closed for replies.

Thanks mmtheboss :-) Nice to be here!

I'll be doing a bit of RP, not too heavy though. Can get weird if it gets to methodical, IMO. But I do want my actions in the game to match those of the organization I have and the char I'm playing, so yeah, some decisions will be made based on RP, for sure.

Hi markswe, Welcome! And your English is fine, no worries

Some folks might want to call us pirates from time to time, depending on circumstances. But we're not going to be going around ganking people for the hell of it. We will do what needs to be done when it needs to be done though Thanks for the referral Xplosiv. He joined up! Happy to have you aboard Bastanold!

Thanks Xplosiv! He does seem like a perfect fit for our Org so I really appreciate the referral

Hi Everyone! We have a new member!! Please welcome Bastanold to the Outfit!

I love the game. I'm an addict already. I get lost in building a lot too. Luckily for me the guys on the server are taming the dinos faster than I can kill them so I can still have fun going on adventures too. If you're interested in playing just let me know and we'll get you into our server.

I send in my mighty war dogs to chase off the cats, their wards and their gods. I am now King of the Hill.

I'd prefer just a first name, if possible, so that's what I put in there. But I put in my second choice with a last name. I hope you don't have to have two names like that. Makes it so much harder for fellow players to remember.

Hey guys! We're getting tired of Empyrion so we've just put up an Ark server to play around on for a while. Anyone interested in joining us is welcome. Just PM me for the details.

Did I win?

Welcome Tren! Looking forward to learning more about the crafting in the game too. Love doing that kind of stuff.

I think they should do it like Second Life does it. You have a permission system built in and the creator can decided what can and cannot be done with that item after it is sold. It was a simple check box. That way I can build pieces of a construct to sell to other builders with full permissions to use it how they like. For instance I used to buy a lot of stuff like a "window pack" that I could use in the buildings I designed. I purchased more items like that in that game than anything else. But if I can't edit the windows I just bought and put them in my build and then resell my new build with them included, then I wouldn't buy them. I'd just spend the time to make them myself. So you cut a big part of the market out by not allowing builders to sell their items with full permissions like that.

None taken. See no reason to close the forums though.

Why not just let the Devs worry about their own advertising? I'm here to play a game, not build marketing creatives. Been there, done that, didn't even get a T-shirt.

Hehe, there aren't many drones left on Akua! Jeronimo went on a rampage and took most of them out. You must have run into one of the only ones left! Head towards the large "lake" that kind of resembles a rooster. It's on the equator and near one of the crashed MK ships (or similar). Our base is a much safer place to get started. If you decide to take a room in the base, then PM me a four digit numerical code and let me know which one you want and I'll set that up so you can have private storage and the like.

Better hurry Dilectos. We launched a new game with new - HARD - planets on it yesterday. Deep has been online since. You have some catching up to do. Come find the Outfit's Offical HQ for a bit of a head start. Its beside a medium sized lake at about the equator level. Stock up very well before you leave the planet. Akua and the trading station are the only PVE (relatively safe) areas in the solar system now. The rest of it is all PVP and set to deadly. No main faction this time around. Just login and do your thing. Everyone can stay solo or team up with their own factions as they see fit. Many of us are going to try to claim our own planets now that we have so many new ones. The new motto is... If you can hold it, you can own it! Hope to see you there this weekend!

You WANT to be the most outlandish. Gonna have to do better than this though. It's no surprise to anyone that there are changes and/or drama in orgs two years before launch. Sorry

Hehe, yeah, they never listen to us, do they? Hire someone who knows what they are doing - BECAUSE they know what they are doing - and then ignore all of their advice. Typical. That's how the government is with IT/Security as well. They don't want to spend the money on security since they can't actually SEE what the IT guys are doing. Then when they get hacked, it's too late. I've never taken a govt contract for social or web dev I did once for some educational games and software that is used in our public schools nationwide though. It was really great for a couple of years and it even got renewed for another grade level to do it all again. Until the day our govt shut down the government for two weeks. Lost the contract mid-project and almost went bankrupt over it since I didn't have any other clients booked. Nothing I could do about it. Never, ever will I take another government contract like that again. EVER!

No offense, Anonymous, but I get paid a pretty penny for social media management and consultation. It's not a labor of love so much as it is a valid and important part of any marketing plan. You simply MUST, in this day and age, attend to it with the same amount of effort as you would any other aspect your marketing endeavors. And that's what it really is. Social is more of a marketing tool than anything else. So I'm glad they are out there tending to what social they can. It will be critical to the success (or failure) of this game - and pretty much every other business these days too. As for the CS aspect of it, you also MUST tend to these channels for that as well. We live in unique times. Young folks don't remember a time without social. A lot of them think forums are outdated and old-school (and they are). So if you don't use social for such things you leave out many of the younger crowd. The older crowd is more reluctant to use social but is also very active in the gaming community, more so than the younger crowd, IMO. So, you must tend to both on-site and social equally to reach as wide of an audience as possible for both marketing and CS or you're leaving millions of people out of your demographic either way. I could go on and on since I love this topic, but you get the idea. I don't know, might be different working in government. Those folks are not really using social in the same way. But for business, if you ignore it or keep it on the back burner "until you get time", then you're dead in the water before you even get going. It's not cheap, it's not easy, but it simply must be done.

I am in support of this idea. I also think that the metals themselves should have overall properties. For instance, you won't want to make guns out of gold. Too soft. You "can" but it would be one that you put up for display. Using it should destroy it after a few uses. Or if you build your base out of concrete it's easier to destroy than steel is. Or your ships are lighter if you use aluminum or fiberglass instead of steel, so they go faster. All of the resources (metals, plants, and otherwise ) should have different properties like this. And its not really going to be THAT hard to set it up like that. Once you get the core code for adding properties to resources, then all you do is plug in different numerical values for each. Might be a bit too much data for each voxel to hold though. Might slow the servers down quite a bit if ALL voxels have this extra data on them.

Ooo, a contest!! I love contests!

Well, if you add the ones who want some warmongering (both options) it's about even. And that's considering the third option was added after 20 or so people already voted. I still think it will be a healthy mix of both types of players. THAT is what is going to make this game good. If all we have are builders, we have another Landmark on our hands with nothing to do but ooh and ahh at other folks builds. If all we have are warmongers, then we have another Eve. We need both to have an exciting universe with lots to do for different play-styles. So if some players are offering safety in their Orgs, you better keep that promise or those folks will leave the game. And if no one ever wants to fight anyone, then THOSE guys will leave the game. We need both.

Nah, if it were me, I'd wait a few weeks and then run it again with another option. We're getting pvp, without doubt, so it will end up being a mix of both, regardless. And I think folks know that. Probably why we have so many orgs set up this far ahead of Alpha. Up to you though, if you do post a third one, that would be my vote.