DarkTemplar

Yeah, definitly OP but if it were to happen its gonna cost you a lot of resources that you won't get back. It could be found out and sabotaged they could move what ever you were aiming at out of the way. High risk High reward and extremely destructive. Edit: And by the looks of it, we're going to be able to build megaships anyway.

I was thinking about this, although not turning a planet into a ship but if we can manipulate planets and their orbit (I assume/hope they'll have orbits). For instance you could stick a mectic butt ton of thursters onto a moon and fly it into the planet. That would be fun to see.

Welcome! As long as they're no traps go ahead!

Damn, only a couple of days ago we had the same amount of members, but you guys are doing the right thing and recruiting fast!

Invetories can be built back up. A loss of skill sounds like a good incentive to not die.

By Civilisation do you mean organisations or cities built with heaps of players inhabiting them? They're both fairly similar in outcomes, resources and time are lost in either case. An org could grow back a lot faster (Depending somewhat on the leadership) while the city would take a lot more to rebuild, if it wasn't scrapped by the victors/survivors. Now, Say COPS and HMMR go to war against each other, they're spending a crapton of resources and time fighting each other, this can give a smaller group like DUA the advantage it needs to build up there resources while the two larger orgs are at war. War could easily mean a complete powershift in organisations/civilisations. (Examples of orgs are just examples, not implying anything).

I can see further down the line in the life of DU, maybe a year or so, people having cracks at building Dyson's Spheres (Or more likely rings). I hope we get to this stage, huge organisations working to create this. Wether there is any actual benefit you get from building one or not I'd love to see on built.

While they're not asteroids something akin to the Warhammer 40k Space Hulks would be awesome to encounter while traveling around in deep space. A wealth of minerals and maybe some tech if you're lucky.

Politics will be heaps of fun, seeing how we interact with each other. And from reading these forums you can start to see some of these politics come into play already, alliances and coalitions being formed and people getting opinions of others.

I'm guessing how big you can span your empire depends on the people you have. If you have a large group with dedication and a good chain of command it could last a fairly long while but could easily collapse due to inactivity and members not playing their part.

For me it was the rest of HMMR but after having a look at DU I'm interested. One big factor is the scale of the game. Groups will be able to control sectors and fly around in huge capital ships and it really appeals to me.

Hey all! I'm Dark, I come from New Zealand and I was dragged into Dual by a group of friends. This looks to be a really fun and promising game, and I'm afraid I'll lose many hours to the universe. I come from Hammertime Gaming and we hope to be able to grow a bit more here and meet some like minded people. I hope to meet all of you ingame, wether it be in friendliness or hostality. https://hammertimegaming.com/ https://community.dualthegame.com/organization/hammertime-gaming