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Mordgier

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  1. I can't wait to watch him answer none of the hard questions just like during the live stream. Ask him if he's ever mined out a mega node or built a mega factory before deciding that it was too easy to do....good luck.
  2. If the suggestion that I gave you sounds appalling - that's hardly my fault, please understand that that is in fact what the game appears to expect you to do and how some orgs operate. Please be sure to maintain your mining quota to retain access rights in RDMS. Also there is a google docs with the known and claimed nodes. Please ensure you update it as you mine out the nodes.
  3. Don't worry! You have options. For example - You can join a mega org as a mining slave. They will give you a hauler with an L container and point you to a meganode to mine out and some will even pay you for the ore! Oh the fun you'll have...
  4. What is the DU end game? I keep hearing about 'end game' but I've yet to see DU have an end game...
  5. Game alts I don't care about - forum alts that you create for ban evasion are a whole different matter.
  6. I'd love to - but I won't know which random made up forum name you'll be posting under at that point.... But I promise I'll check in before the servers go down to quote some of my old posts to stroke my ego.
  7. Depends on how many more accounts you are willing to buy. Get enough and you can come here and say I AM the community and reply with your alt account to your other alt accounts....
  8. You know how many times I heard the above when I was losing my mind about the patch notes in Worlds Adrift? The reason I'm so doom and gloom is because this feels all too much like groundhog day.
  9. Indeed. At this rate, your statement will be the reality....
  10. Please avoid using such language. It's not that the players 'feel' as there isn't much left to do. It's the harsh reality. There isn't much to do. Schematics are not a terrible idea - I'm OK with them for certain things - when the game has plenty of other content and we can afford to give players the option to branch out into 'advanced industry' that requires BPs. That would be adding an option. Do regular newbie grade industry - or advanced stuff that you really need to invest in massively....gee which game did that before...oh right. Eve with T2....
  11. That's the biggest issue in DU. Here's a joke for you - know why the game is called Dual Universe? Cause there are two universes, one that NQ thinks the game is and then one that the game actually is. You can talk all day about planned features, planned player roles, and things that players could do in the game - but if you actually truly take an honest look at what the players really do in the game - it's a distinctly different game. If you talk about the mythical vision of building a society in space and all that - you get lost in the hopes and dreams. Do not make this mistake. Look at the game as it is today and how it works today, with the player options available today, and tell me that you still think that the patch tomorrow is the right patch at the right time.
  12. Nope. Never. Why would I do that? It's just bad business. I preferred ransoms over loot scraps. Kill mails are fun and all but they don't pay for eve subs... I have been on the other end of it as well and paid and got left alone.
  13. What?! You're telling me that THIS isn't PvP in DU?!!
  14. Coming from the guy who has a 'small factory' but thinks he's fit to give advice on the matter of what mega factory owners should do....
  15. Please provide a screenshot of your EZ-mode mega factory that you had built up to come to the conclusion that it's ez mode. Oh.. You don't have one - but here you are telling people who DO have mega factories that they were EZ-mode. NQ is hiring. You have a talent for failing to recognize the level of effort required to build in this game, you'll fit right in.
  16. There is one major difference. We don't 'have to be' the cog in the faceless merciless machine in DU. We have a choice. We can quit.
  17. Survivorship bias. I see the same thing on the official discord and reddit - the numbers are way down, a lot of the names I'm used to seeing are just gone. The two orgs I played with are dead, 60 players in one and 20 in another - and the discords are silent. But hey the people who are still playing are OK with it... Once again, my biggest issue with the changes is that they are putting up barriers and adding extreme levels of grind without adding any additional content. JC keeps saying that industry isn't for everyone without grasping that the only reason everyone is doing industry is that industry is all there is to do. Raising the barrier to entry into industry will indeed make fewer people do industry - but there is nothing else to do. So what are they going to do? Same thing I'm doing - playing a different game.
  18. I am waiting for the 10L containers of chromite. I will even meet you at the market of your choice. The act of mining may seem easy to you, but making yourself mine sure isn't.
  19. If you are willing to describe mining as easy, please get me 10L of chromite, we're running low. It is easy right? Ps, that L isn't liters. It's L containers.
  20. We didn't start out with the idea of building a megafactory in DU. We wanted to PvP - but it was awful - so we decided to play the game that we got even if it wasn't what we really wanted. We build up our industry. With all the hell that is - with the awful hundreds of transfer units, system errors, horrific lag when you whip out the link tool and it took weeks.....as in about 8 weeks total. Of those 8 weeks I spent basically all of them underground constantly mining to keep the factory producing the factory.... When wrecks got added - I figured I'll log back in and do something besides mining - flew around - found nothing all night. Logged out. Haven't logged in since.
  21. You're well on the path of going the way of Worlds Adrift. You want to nerf industry because everyone is building their own 'Iphone' - fine - what are they going to do instead? What else is there to do instead? You want to add element destruction? Great - I'm with you. It needs to happen. But maybe just maybe pairing it with the removal of the Alt-F4 mechanic, removal of Discord support and on top of that nerfing production isn't the best idea? You think mining is too easy? Grea.....wait what....what? WHAT?! Have you mined in DU? How much? Look, ask anyone who has filled a 10L hub every two nights, there is nothing 'easy' about mining. It's boring. It's tedious. It's concentrated drudgery and one of the primary reasons I don't play DU anymore - but what it is not is 'easy' and never even in my most drunken state (and I admit I sure didn't mine sober) did I think that "Hey maybe if I couldn't link to my 10L hub mining would be better!" . In fact, when linking was broken, I just didn't play the game. Just the fact that JC thinks that linking is the issue with mining - not literally everything else - makes me lose all faith in his judgment. Of all the things wrong with mining - linking isn't one of them. Nor is the lack of "mining hazards"... The community has over and over and over asked for constructs that can mine - empyrion style - give us drills we can put on hovers - give even bigger giant drills we can put on stationary constructs. Give us anything besides handmining because 'easy' it's not - it's at least 7th level of hell grade tedium - and 9th if you have to deal with phantom nodes and pending operations. Unless of course you take my approach, get drunk and watch netflix so that the next day you forget about how hellish mining for 6 hours straight was. Unfortunately I've remembered enough of those nights over time to stop logging in to DU...and the upcoming changes and theroycrafting about the future of mining have made it extremely clear that JC does not play DU either...he may goof around in his castle - but he sure hasn't built a mega factory nor has he mined the ore to get the resources to build his giant fortress if he thinks all those things are too easy... Seriously - JC just logs in - looks at all the stuff others built and his take away is that mining and mega factories are too easy? It took us weeks of drudgery......I can't even... Edit: Also - cores not repairable?! Masterstroke....
  22. That's been explicitly stated to not be a feature of DU. Thankfully. Nobody knows anything else. It won't be an FPS though - there is no way the engine will support it. It can't even support 2 people mining the same node.
  23. I would like to know for next Q&A how many meganodes JC found and mined out before coming to the conclusion that mining is too easy and linking to containers need to be nerfed.
  24. True - but by the same token, many would in fact hope the pirates just take the high value cargo and leave them with their not very valuable to the pirates but exceptionally valuable to the merchants lives.... This is why in EVE we would try to ransom ships once we had them in a bubble. We both knew that it was usually more profitable for me and you to just pay me off. DU does not have tackling mechanics so such finesse isn't an option. So yes - throwing shit overboard is fine - but there do need to be better mechanics.
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