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To me, the Lego example looks more complicated than code. ;-)

The Scratch example looks quite interesting, only the garish colors hurt my eyes.
 
Perhaps  a system like this could even speed up things for experienced coders; they might use it to get the backbone of a script done and then switch to the code editor for details.

So i was thinking, in many science fiction books/games/films there are always many bio-technological implants or gadgets that after one injection or augmentation are then permanent part of your body, like Infra-red camera directly to your eye so then you can see in darkness or muscle strengthening to make you jump higher etc. I thought it would be great to have at least some possibilities to do things like that in DU 

You meant.... you "like" it right? I mean come on man, keep up with the theme here.

Hey, I just got  a couple of baby Likes too!  Must...go...use...them.  Burning a hole in my pocket.

It would be great to also have a Notifications System of some sort and Adding Friends Feature like we have here on the Forums for the Community Portal as well. It would make it much more convenient to know if there is a new reply, post, comment, and such. Especially when there is a new post, comment, and reply that's made on the main page of the organization you are a member of

Yep!
 
​Seriously though, I only liked that one to have fun in this thread, I don't typically like my own posts (although I agree with my posts 100%, 100% of the time and therefore do in fact like them).

A baby like just appeared in my bag!
 
edit: I gave out two likes just now and now I have none left. The like ration is harsh around these here parts!

Welcome!  We over at COPS have decided that you're a ninja spy.  Which is great because I've been itching to knock off one of your kind for a while now.

I love that the most active thread is the "please close this thread" thread 
 
So is this post off topic? or are all the others?  

Hey, what's up with the limit on likes?     I "Like" most of these posts today, just so you guys know.  Smack talk, Ninjas, SPIES?!  We're already getting ourselves into trouble.  Awesome!

Hey, what's up with the limit on likes?     I "Like" most of these posts today, just so you guys know.  Smack talk, Ninjas, SPIES?!  We're already getting ourselves into trouble.  Awesome!

Hey, what's up with the limit on likes?     I "Like" most of these posts today, just so you guys know.  Smack talk, Ninjas, SPIES?!  We're already getting ourselves into trouble.  Awesome!

I'll probably doing more building than anything else.  The tools I saw in the video they released yesterday got me really excited.  It's such a nice, clean interface and so far, the tools look quite user-friendly.    So I'll probably be using a lot of your widgets.
 
You might actually get along pretty well with my brother, FryCaptain.  He is a programmer IRL and jumped on LM's L&T and had a lot of fun with that.  He just joined COPS the other day and I think he's actually working on his signature banner as we speak.  He's planning to pop in and add to the discussion soon.   He's already talking about scripting an AI.  So he's pretty excited to get in too. 

Wow!  I can't believe we have so many members now!  Awesome!  Welcome everyone! 

I'm hoping it becomes possible to recreate the space-born lifestyle illustrated in Orson ScottCard's formic invasion trilogy - surviving entirely on supplies from space depots where you go to sell your ores and minerals.

I think asteroids was a separate question from exploring deep space?
 
I'm expecting asteroids within solar systems that can be mined to be relatively common. Seems like asteroids in deep space would be rare, yes.
 
Safe zones surrounding traveling spaceships seems unlikely.
My impression is that the devs want to allow us to set up new safe zones on worlds, but not on ships.
Great question for the devs!!

Sounds great! I haven't dealt too much with voxel building tools in a while, but I certainly plan to do a fair amount of "city building".... if my nefarious, scally wag ways don't take up too much of my time. 
 
I feel like we're going to need some classes from those of you who are more versed in these areas before and after launch!

This is about how I will be playing too.  I don't necessarily want to run amok in the universe griefing people.   I will probably be more of a merchant/peddler of sorts, doing honest business with those who do business honestly.   Might set up a couple of trading outposts on a few different planets as time goes by and try to eek out a living selling resources and the like.
 
But I won't rule out a bit of mischief from time to time either if I run across the right situation.  If you're stupid enough to be traveling in my sector carrying loads of valuables with NO protection or alliance with me or anything, then the opportunity might be too tasty to ignore.  But then again, I might be in a building frenzy that day and just watch you fly by.  Who knows?
 
It also depends on how I'm treated.  If someone tries to make me an enemy in game, I very well might oblige and choose to have some fun with it.   I"m pretty open to whatever right about now.  It's just difficult to be sure about anything this early on though.  Might end up being REALLY fun playing a troublemaker.   Just have to wait and see.

I'll probably doing more building than anything else.  The tools I saw in the video they released yesterday got me really excited.  It's such a nice, clean interface and so far, the tools look quite user-friendly.    So I'll probably be using a lot of your widgets.
 
You might actually get along pretty well with my brother, FryCaptain.  He is a programmer IRL and jumped on LM's L&T and had a lot of fun with that.  He just joined COPS the other day and I think he's actually working on his signature banner as we speak.  He's planning to pop in and add to the discussion soon.   He's already talking about scripting an AI.  So he's pretty excited to get in too. 

I'll probably doing more building than anything else.  The tools I saw in the video they released yesterday got me really excited.  It's such a nice, clean interface and so far, the tools look quite user-friendly.    So I'll probably be using a lot of your widgets.
 
You might actually get along pretty well with my brother, FryCaptain.  He is a programmer IRL and jumped on LM's L&T and had a lot of fun with that.  He just joined COPS the other day and I think he's actually working on his signature banner as we speak.  He's planning to pop in and add to the discussion soon.   He's already talking about scripting an AI.  So he's pretty excited to get in too. 

I was planning on providing some tools once the documentation is out. Something of a widget maker that has drag and drop components, add your own graphics, maybe add some LUA and it spits out the code required (most likely some form of XML) for use in game (widget). Basically a Design Your Own Interface application. Now I just need to be in game and get some documentation when the time comes.
 
Aside from that I'll mostly being scripting in this game and handing them out like candy to be reviewed, used, and improved upon. =)

Ohh you are totally going to participate! You come up in discussions more than anyone. It's not a matter of using your services, its a matter of when.

Ok, I'll just continue on with my own thing then.  Let me know if you decide to take me up on my offer for the site and/or to help with signature banners.  I would like to participate, if possible.

Things are moving faster than I anticipated. I think a private place will be good for us, but at the same time I think it is important for the rest of the world to see positive activity on the official Dual forums as this helps to educate new people to Dual especially because Dual is such a unique game. I have absolutely no issues with an offsite forum but I think we should be careful to that and not remove ourselves from this forum.
 
I think I would prefer that for now, if we need to talk as a guild that we get people into chat of some form. Give a weeks notice let say,  on x night at x time or something. Probably a Friday night or weekend or a time when most might not be working due to our many EU members. Most "official organization" chat is going to be dealing with internal stuff anyway.
 
That being said. As the days count down and we get closer to alpha, then beta, then launch and especially at launch I think a guild only site that is locked down to only members will be a good thing to do exactly what you described with style guides and coordinating some of the larger projects...but due to our nature this will not be forced on anyone and only a suggestion for those who want to work on larger projects.
 
I have had a number of offers today for web hosting and team speak hosting and I would like to have a  meeting with everyone at some point to ensure we are all on the same page before I commit to anything, we are in this together.
 
I am glad so many of you are taking up responsibilities to help get this ball rolling. As I have said to many, right now I am just waiting to see what happens but these offers and suggestions will be accepted and moved upon soon.
 
I'll tell ya what I really want right now, an online editor for people to make their own signatures in our format. I love working on these, but I am going to have to make them a bit more generic as the days go by due to how many I need to crank out. Outside of the fact I would like to see personal builds from inside dual on the signatures in the future. I think its the most honorable thing to do, to showcase the work the individual as done from inside Dual Universe.  I don't know if such an online editior is possible and I am sure it would be a boat load of work, so really its more of a dream than a desire.
 
Anyway, I am ranting now. I need to eat. Be back in a bit.

I was thinking about this sort of thing yesterday.  I would LOVE it if we could have a custom song playlist that we could broadcast on our ships.  Kinda of like an intercom system. Be great for ambient sfx in our settlements too.  I'd pay for that in a heartbeat.
 
We could do that in second life (at least years ago when I played we could).  We could also put webpages/videos into monitors/screens we made too.  So say if you walk into our organizations headquarters we could have a pc sitting on the counter with the website on it so our visitors could get more info, or even apply from in game.
 
Then of course, editable signs, banners, etc.  ANY of that kind of stuff that could be added would help make our worlds feel a lot more realistic and immersive and I would be inclined to purchase.