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Once this forum explode with reports, I'm sure NQ will think of something

You can think of DU as combination of SE, EVE, Minecraft and Entropia Universe to some extend. All the hopes you have for this game are ours too. And the only reason we pledged is because we believe in it Some of us following this project from over a year and over that period of time nothing has changed our faith in this project. Personally I would add there is more unexpected stuff happened as a extra addition already. So if you really want to pledge.. Alpha in mind? Expensive but you will get your hands on some basic tools very soon. Beta? You will get more complete package ready to try out your ideas in practice... but not official launch. You will still participate in debugging process. Keep in mind this is not early access game. It's an old school Alpha/Beta when people actually testing features. Almost forgotten function these days. If you looking for all those things above, you are in right place.. By Pledging you buying DAC, witch is essentially time in game later on. So, this is not paying for access itself. So pick your addiction level and just DU it!

Great stuff! All I was expecting for now... building! This is a proper utilisation of voxel technology. Ships will look like ships (well, if you really want to )

It all sounds like more reasons for more cores

Well I wouldn't call starting with static construct and expecting it to fly a bug But will take your word for it, learning curve is expected for sure, and some orientation indicators are a must have. But unresponsive UI? ... hmm

Yes, by randomised choice we thinking to create AI system that will put in charge one of the legates into responsible position. Then every Legate has a right to accept or decline such position. Every legate on such position can be dismissed from position if majority of Legates will vote him out. In both cases AI will select new player. Not sure to what level AI will be totally random or take into account some extra conditions. For instance, if you already served under particular position and failed you should be excluded from a lottery.

30th of September is a Saturday so... it's a weekend, chill guys!

So the internet in DU still on the table? Good read! Did you have a chance to build/mine some stuff?

Here it is... finally had a chance to get my hands on professional orchestral sound library ( and some spare time )and remade the main theme piece with it. Sounds way better than synthesiser hope you enjoy it too. https://soundcloud.com/daniel-wasilewski-4/homeless-march-of-giants-1 Will leave old versions for a while but ultimately will replace entire album with new flavour

I've done my duty And the thread is about Polish people getting together for pre-alpha regardless of org membership.

Jak szukacie jakiejs wiekszej grupy 'naszych' to zapraszam do Homeless. Nie ma obligacji by do nas dolaczac, ale mozna pogadac na discordzie. Wiekszosc nas grala wspolnie w SE z team-speakiem wiec jest brygada sprawdzonych ludzi. https://discord.gg/FaRFgMr Niestety tylko garstka wylozyla kase na alfe ale na pewno bedziemy komunikowac sie z reszta by nie zostali w tyle. English Translation: If you looking for some bigger group of 'us' you are welcome to join Homeless. There is no obligation to join our org but we can always chat on discord. Most of us were playing SE together using team-speak, so it's a bunch of trusted people. https://discord.gg/FaRFgMr Unfortunately only handful of us thrown some money on Alpha, we will stay in touch with those behind.

Wherever resources are... either it's a human or ore

The thing is, regardless of the reasons the stuff that happened to be already implemented into game as we have seen on dev diary videos is way above my expectations. They have been polishing content already... wait what? Seriously, that was the least thing I was expecting to see in Alpha. Physics momentum and shock-wave damage - didn't expect that at this stage at all. Functional logical blocks - I was expecting to have a LUA API at this point. Those extras are nice to have but again non expected. Voxel building system improvements - it only shows me how much attention they paying to usability but again wasn't expecting that at Alpha! Custom UI and in game screens that supports html/css/svg - seriously? Who did expect that. It is crazy cool feature but in alpha? All functional blocks redesigned for new look - placeholders is the thing being used in Alphas SE took 2 years to replace them to call it Beta. The list goes on and on but about 9 months ago when was clear to me, the Alpha will be just a server stress test and voxel building exercise. It shows me that JC is a perfectionist and maybe we all worry a bit too much

No matter how simple it always lead to flame wars Gammers using PCs, like it or hate it this is how it is. Sometimes title using OpenGL and is available on other platforms including Linux. But when you dealing with mature quality engine options are there. DU using Unigine 2 and on paper they provide support for all 3 platforms as well as VR and DX12. It is for now they have chosen the most popular setup DX11 to cover majority. I believe in the future they will be able to switch to different pipelines if there is a demand. https://unigine.com/en/products/engine/versatile-platform

The wiki suppose to be about valuable information for the player. If pointing out where the biggest city lies or some trade hubs and who they belongs to is the valuable information... so be it. At this point non of this exist. So not sure exactly why we debating this. In other hand we have community portal here, developed by NQ and I am sure there will be lots of goodies coming from NQ and system will improve over a time and will be one place to go for all community business. As I understand ATMLVE desire to have some place to put some historical record or track on what is going on. Again nothing wrong to write under DUH umbrella, those who stumbled upon it even today can easily find it. The only problem is there is 0 posts last time I've checked

would be easier to ask who isn't

Very helpful thanks mate for initiative. I agree it should be made to some sticky or wiki as a general place to go for quick reference.

Engine they have chosen (Unigine 2) has support for VR and DX12. So I do hope it will not be some crazy job to support it. Right now the focus is on making it all work first. But I do advocate for VR and DX12 as absolute must have if this game is here to stay after release in 2018/2019 and for years to come.

I agree, they hit a sweat spot in aesthetic that appeals to many. Keep it up NQ! (give that designers some holiday bonus or something )

I didn't even thought of selling it for real money. You buy DAC today while they are cheap on market when exchanged for in game currency. More you buy now more you invest for the future when prices will go up. Kind of investment opportunity that in long term may change a lot.

Hello @ZipSnipe Welcome to community. Knowing you coming from Empyrion Galactic Survival and probably familiar with SE as a similar type of game you may have a certain expectations. But you also know about what's wrong with SE and Empyrion. Those games do not provide one thing everyone after a while will start looking for. A goal. You can gather with few friends, build your base, ships. But after a while you ending up wandering around aimlessly. No matter how much you like building stuff, the most exiting stuff in Empyrion and SE is first 2-3 days of game play. When you building your new cool project or idea coming along. I know that from experience, as I played both of those games a lot. What personally attracted me to DU was the fact they started with MMO in mind first. Sure there are sacrifices needs to be made in physics, battle system etc, but server technology behind DU is impressive. Having thousands of people on the same server is something that SE or Empyrion will never ever be able to achieve. And this is a first condition to add a sense to the game play. I have seen many attempts to build bigger servers, provide some scenarios, economy systems, build worlds and there was many nice ideas, even multi-instances to overcome limitations of those games came into play. But ultimately those games cannot handle more than 50k dynamic blocks/voxels at the same time to provide a smooth game play. No matter how hard they will try those games will never be a truly multiplayer games. More co-op category kind of thing. Even single player can build massive construct that will drop sim speed to unplayable levels. DU on top of promise of being proper MMO game will give you economy, politics and players itself will build a world and scenarios around themselves. As oppose to trying to convince you to 1 scenario or give you aimless game play. Only because long term game play in single server will be possible. How many wipe-outs did you survive on the other titles? As many to bring you back to the beginning, to the most interesting part of those games ;). But we all wished for a bit more. And this is why we ended up here. I see you jumping to conclusions early, in fact nobody here knows how well it all perform. But if you spent some time around the dev blogs you would recognise the spirit behind NQ developers and understood the vision behind the project. With this understanding you would recognise that comparing DU to Empyrion many here could take as an insult and react a bit to harsh. Think about DU as a combination of SE/Empyrion, Minecraft/ Eve Online/ Entropia Universe and you will see how much more is into it. Do not expect realistic physics simulation on grand scale, or welding blocks in stages (that I would argue about realism of it anyway ) there will be simplification in many areas crucial to run this smoothly. But one thing for sure, the goal will be to accommodate as many players at the same world with a assumption each may have some firepower and start a epic battle at some point. I don't think anybody gives up on this part here

I would say, common sense. If someone is crossing the line they should intervene and they will. Because no matter how much we love to detach ourselves from RL and live rest of our lives in imaginary world, reality is here on the ground and we must act accordingly to our social standards. All I'm counting on is NQ will not use a ban hammer blindly.

yeap, same technical limitations.

As a noble idea it sounds, it might also lead to something else. Some people will stockpile DAC's on a low prices and resell later when expected price will go up over a time . Because of that I say no. If you consider possibility of market manipulations. We don't wont this game to be pay to win right? But to some extend that would be one of the kitchen doors to influence by having more money.

The game hasn't even started yet! What am I reading here? Well if you too week to play politics in any MMO title play Overwatch or Rocket Ligue or something... it's clearly not a game or community fault. It's in any MMO game. Get your shit together, grow up and have a fun. This is not only to @ardour but everyone else who thinks he is building something the best in DU. Nobody is forcing you to become supreme leader of the best org ever created and making the best ships that ... well, how do you know if they will even sell . Member of your own org told you so? It's the market (that is far away from functional in game) that will tell you if you are good at something or not. Same is the people who will decide to be with or without org you creating. There is no need for drama especially not at this stage. Because at this stage 'playing' game is simply speculating, hoping and promising to others you don't even know you are able to deliver. Yes, its politicking, telling people pure lies How do you know what is your position in game will be? Will you even have enough resources to build your own shelter but you trying to get hundreds into your org? They will run like headless chickens, and I expect this drama here is just a begging of what's coming when people realise how useless those promises are And please, this is not a hate speech from me, I am far away from those big boys club, not even getting involved at this point. It is just a reality check you, and we all should be doing. Alpha will not answer all our questions to all that either.