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This is exactly why I quit also. I loved this game. Spent months building a race track and eventually earned great quanta from the location once it was finished. But I absolutely hated being lied to and treated like a commodity, rather than a customer, by the developers. 

We would have given them a million chances to get it right if they were just honest.

23: Use cool ship physics to build a huge hover race track for players to have fun on
24: make friends and trade to get whatever you need in the new industry economy
25: make gliding simulator game with points system that can be played with friends
26: finish beautiful structure....no....it's never quite finished
27: have a brief session mining out a mega node to finance the next 2 weeks of game play...a bit boring but you got to earn somehow
28: open main race stadium to public on VR machines
29: visit friend's mercenary bar on the north pole to see how it is coming along
30: make a deal to have 200,000L of crater soil from Madis delivered to your race track on Alioth to make the 'Madis Hairpin'
31: visit friends parking platform near the market to see how they are getting along
32: spend two hours trying to help a random new guy move his whole base form Sanctuary to Alioth.
33: Come to forums. Shake head. Leave forums.
 
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23: Use cool ship physics to build a huge hover race track for players to have fun on
24: make friends and trade to get whatever you need in the new industry economy
25: make gliding simulator game with points system that can be played with friends
26: finish beautiful structure....no....it's never quite finished
27: have a brief session mining out a mega node to finance the next 2 weeks of game play...a bit boring but you got to earn somehow
28: open main race stadium to public on VR machines
29: visit friend's mercenary bar on the north pole to see how it is coming along
30: make a deal to have 200,000L of crater soil from Madis delivered to your race track on Alioth to make the 'Madis Hairpin'
31: visit friends parking platform near the market to see how they are getting along
32: spend two hours trying to help a random new guy move his whole base form Sanctuary to Alioth.
33: Come to forums. Shake head. Leave forums.
 
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This is exactly why I quit also. I loved this game. Spent months building a race track and eventually earned great quanta from the location once it was finished. But I absolutely hated being lied to and treated like a commodity, rather than a customer, by the developers. 

We would have given them a million chances to get it right if they were just honest.

Classic psychological manipulation. Make you eat shit until you are almost dead then offer a brief reprieve in a grand act of charity and understanding. Soon you'll be eating shit again and will have forgotten how the cycle controls you and keeps relieving you of your money. 

This is exactly why I quit also. I loved this game. Spent months building a race track and eventually earned great quanta from the location once it was finished. But I absolutely hated being lied to and treated like a commodity, rather than a customer, by the developers. 

We would have given them a million chances to get it right if they were just honest.

This is exactly why I quit also. I loved this game. Spent months building a race track and eventually earned great quanta from the location once it was finished. But I absolutely hated being lied to and treated like a commodity, rather than a customer, by the developers. 

We would have given them a million chances to get it right if they were just honest.

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Fair point indeed. My curse is the convoluted mind space I live in daily. 

Why so complicated? Just make it so that 100% overlap means 100% obstruction and suddenly all stacked ships become completely useless without affecting legal half voxel 'stack' ships.

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Only Dual Spears can save this game..

I still pop on daily to claim my welfare cheque, lay down a few voxels and pootle around in my ships.
But I don't stay on because Madis is deserted... I even flew to Freetown on Alioth expecting to see a bustling city and was shocked that I didn't even see another yellow marker on minimap in an hour of wandering around. That reminded me of the last few months of Blade Runner City in Second Life, before they deleted it: Beautiful desolation.

I went to Utopia and saw about half a dozen avatars... So I logged off.
Really not much fun playing alone.

 But to be honest, if I knew there was NOT going to be a wipe before hard release I would play, but I've already been through (I think) four wipes in total and I can't be arsed to put any effort in if it will all be for nought in six months' time.

Having multitool glow can be used in video ads.
Different color engines gives the reason to say "We added new engines"
Market look post tutorial - doesn't matter, you already paid for 3 months.

I left when it became obvious that there was major internal conflict within nq. They way they chose to handle it was embarrassing to watch and any such notions about being able to accomplish the significant challenge of whipping their game into something that was actually fun and playable went straight out the window.
 
 

Absolutely please. Voxelmancy is like when coming home, throwing my keys in the letter box, climbing up to the roof, enter through the chimney down into the cellar. then go up to my flat, realize I left my keys in the letterbox, kick down the front door, rip out the letterbox, get my keys and then realize I m in the wrong house.

I understand this. That is why when I stopped playing I donated all my money, materials, real estate and constructs to someone who intended to keep playing.

When you quit, do your bit for for the future of the game and don't horde binary wealth in a black hole that you will never open again.

I understand this. That is why when I stopped playing I donated all my money, materials, real estate and constructs to someone who intended to keep playing.

When you quit, do your bit for for the future of the game and don't horde binary wealth in a black hole that you will never open again.

I understand this. That is why when I stopped playing I donated all my money, materials, real estate and constructs to someone who intended to keep playing.

When you quit, do your bit for for the future of the game and don't horde binary wealth in a black hole that you will never open again.

I would open up and tell all the remaining followers exactly what we were thinking, what our truthful current condition was, a realistic and honest roadmap of the game's future and a spanking great big apology for being so clandestine for so long.

you say it's pay to win like this, but what do they win? Being rich at a game where  there is literally nothing worth spending it on other than building materials to build things that almost nobody will ever see or care about?

DU is an impressive and beautiful game in it's best moments. But there is absolutely nothing to win no matter what you pay.

If people exploiting loopholes and oversights to get rich is the issue here, fear not, people have been doing that since forever and those that wanted to get stupid level of rich have already done so and secured that wealth for eternity.

In DU? Oh man, you are not just whistling dixie lol.

you say it's pay to win like this, but what do they win? Being rich at a game where  there is literally nothing worth spending it on other than building materials to build things that almost nobody will ever see or care about?

DU is an impressive and beautiful game in it's best moments. But there is absolutely nothing to win no matter what you pay.

If people exploiting loopholes and oversights to get rich is the issue here, fear not, people have been doing that since forever and those that wanted to get stupid level of rich have already done so and secured that wealth for eternity.

Actually your own advise is good OP.

But misdirected.

Take a step back from your addictive nature of collecting resources and building that cool thing, or amassing useless amounts of virtual money. Stop playing for a few months and see the situation with clear eyes. Nothing is happening. No new content. No developer communication. No CEO who's vision was the driving force of the project. The only thing that continues is allowing people to pay a monthly fee. Oh, and the insultingly hollow and 'diplomatic' responses that occasionally filter back through the forums. We are being managed like cattle. Absolute refusal to give us any real information or answer any real concerns truthfully. While at the same time being as careful as possible so as not to scare away the remaining cash cows who donate money every month.

I agree with you that if we don't want to play we should leave and not post negative comments. That's is why I hardly visit here anymore.

But trust me, I was seeing things exactly like you are now. It's foolish, a fantasy. What is worse is that I argued this exact same point against decent people in the community for a couple of months. Those same people were probably equally seeing things like you do at one point. 

NQ's biggest crime in all of this is having people who will defend them and back them up all day only to let those same people down and crush their enthusiasm one by one until we all end up in this same cynical position. I get it now. It took me a while.

Yes, most of us went through some sort of own romantic period with DU. It happened in multiple waves (do not forget -- its 6th year now from KS campaign).
 
Then you realise its all like in "The Emperor's New Clothes" by Andersen.