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You can't steal a ship if there is an easy self destruct ... everyone will have it which would make stealing a ship impossible.  This is Grand Theft Spaceship/Space Station/ Planet Base/Hovercraft/Territory since JC has talked about taking over cores both in space and on planets. He has actually said that capturing a ship mechanic will probably be in game before ship v ship combat.
 
You are assuming game mechanics like EMP weapons in your post that don't exist yet or even have been discussed by JC/NQ  If you can EMP electronic systems that itself would be OP. He has discussed hacking but to hack you can't have a self destruct. You said so in your post it won't be easy to hack/take a ship over so why even add a mechanic like this.  You want to scuttle your ship so the enemy doesn't get it ...  then do it the old fashion way ... shoot it to bits.
 
If you have a game mechanic like this that in effect doesn't become a choice and a counter that then in effect doesn't become a choice then the mechanic becomes tedious.   If the end result always comes out the same .... BOOM .... then people won't even attempt to take over a ship.  There is nothing emergent about that.
 
You are assuming I would want to capture to reverse engineer.  I do want to have the choice to steal ships from those who are aggressive towards others.  I have in mind a trophy hanger and has nothing to do with building capabilities. If I captured it then why in the hell would I want to make a fleet of them since I already beat it with what I had.
 
I am talking in more general terms because we do not know the details of these things yet.  They have not been created or even decided.  You talk about very specific details which may end up just being only in your imagination at the end of the day. 

Just make sure to leave off the year ;D
 
Then, you will NEVER be disappointed. 

What I'm saying is, rather than spending a bunch of time making an overly complex self destruct system... why not spend some time developing actual components that can create actual constructs that act as mines and other traps?
 
I do not disagree though, I think everyone would like to see a big ship overload... and I'm sure we will!
 
I'm also of the personal opinion that there shouldn't be a timer... if you hit the big red button, it should blow up at that instant.  Incurring death on yourself, and whatever penalties that are involved in death.

If they want to put the work into it, by all means...  Doesn't seem worth it IMHO, lots of work for not much payoff gameplay wise.  Besides, if you self destruct... it's pretty hard to bounce back from being spaced
 
I imagine we will end up purely with a system that uses the size of the power core to determine destruction levels.
 
However, I vehemently defend the fact that self destruct should destroy any blueprints you have saved related to that ship ^^
 
As this is where the discussion is heading, what's to stop someone from just building a bunch of power cores and using them as "mines".  Shouldn't there be a specific weapon set to work as mines?  Why should we have to use derelict ships and unfinished ships for this emergent gameplay?
 
All of this development you guys are asking for should be directed towards an actual subset of weapons, mines and other sneaky traps.

TBH I applaud you.  I would guess that the majority of us are somewhat Star Wars fans at least and you have continuously changed and adapted but determined to follow what you want.  Can't copy, which crumbled what you were trying to build .... but you didn't quit and adapted and continued.
 
Even though I am totally against any authoritative type of organization and goes completely opposite of my value of individual freedom and choice, I wish your empire luck.
 
Well, until the balance needs to be restored.

Aw thank you so much. Yeah this was my first 3D model in blender that I have ever created. I have been learning and following tutorials as I went along and I want to say this model is taken about a month and a half and she's still not finished. I am going to go over her again and put in some details. I also plan on making more 3D models of designs that I have come up with

Novaquark, could you please do following things?
 
1) add community portal and devblog button to top bar on forum (so we can get there more easily)
2) add option so we can receive news from devblog to our emails
3) post "Weekly Update" on devblog (and send to email) where you can tell us what are you working on, what troubles are you facing, what you are planning,... communicate with us:) I'm sure you are planning such thing, but now it's about week after KS campaign with no news. We can't wait to hear and see more stuff so we can post about it on forums, chat on discord, etc.
 
Thank you,
Danger + another 3000+ forum users :-)

I see this being very fun and entertaining however Im not much of a writer myself. I do encourage those who are to get involved with this and I'm interested to see where you all can take this.

Haha we can always count on you to provide us with useful statistics, thanks.

I do reckon some more activity on the forums would be great - as it stands, there really isn't that much activity on the forums. While plenty of topics are made, only a few get a substantial number of responses. Hopefully as time goes on the membership will build up

Forum title isn't a big deal for me. Thanks for the answer. You too Villspor

Forum title isn't a big deal for me. Thanks for the answer. You too Villspor

" 
The Aether wishes everyone on the Forums a splendid day. 
 
We have been writing backstories that have been focused solely on the Aether and in a few parts, the Aether's allies will begin to bask in the lime light. However, we feel that keeping the lore to ourselves is in stark contrast to our values and principles of sharing with others. 
 
As such, we have come to a general decision that the Aether backstories be modified to reflect all organisations and activities within Dual Universe (from a role play perspective, of course.) 
 
It has been delayed but, war with the Mad men has been long in coming and it will be arriving soon. The "Mad men" are coined from the power hungry maniacs that seized the area surrounding the Ark ship in Dual Universe's original lore; the first of which you can find here. 
 
It would be nice to see how the Aether handles some war in the lore, and it will be a thousand times better to work with as many organisations as there are to create a story that is made by the Dual Universe community, for the Dual Universe community and with the Dual Universe community. 
 
This is an open invite and we greatly value your response; it's irrelevant if they are positive or negative. Should you want your organisation to be a part of this, believe that we could use your skill and ideas, or if you just want to help us a out a bit, please make your opinion and decision known below. We will get in touch with all of you. 
 
Till then, we wish you all a wonderful day.
 
"

I dont know if it been discussed already, 
i log on to kickstarter with my facebook account and it has 
a different email adres than ive used on this forum.
 
Is there going to be a problem to my kickstarter goodies to my forum name ?
 
(already send mail to DU about it a couple of days ago, no reply yet)
 
Thx in forward.

As far as I understood, you need to wait for Novaquark to send you a questioning on kickstarter to confirm your email-address and postal address etc. in case you have a physical reward.
 
Cheers

I think they will try to apply the forum title to the email address associated with the Kickstarter campaign.
So, if your e-mail is different than the Kickstarter e-mail and you want the forum title, you need to let them know.
 
If they send game codes for alpha access, you could just grab those from the e-mail associated with your Kickstarter pledge. Sure.

Sounds about right to me. Remember there isn't even a playable game yet so a lot of people probably don't feel like getting involved. If you build it they will come.

I completely disagree....  Just because I'm hard headed....  

I believe, and I may be wrong, but it was a single player Hover bike blueprint that only backers had access to. 

But I can't find the source for that - just trying to find it, will edit if I do.


Edit**:
Thread that was posted about it:
https://board.dualthegame.com/index.php?/topic/10234-8000-backer-reward-its-pretty-awesome/

"555k and 8000 backers ! This is really awesome! 
Thanks everyone for your amazing support !!! 
As planned, we can now reveal the 8,000k backers reward: 
Each Kickstarter backer will receive the blueprint of a single-player hovercraft with a design unique and specific to the Kickstarter! (players will still have to gather the materials to build it) 
We will give more info very soon.
Thanks again for your support!
The Novaquark Team"

Four days ago in the comments, wasn't an 'official' update, was just in the comments 

**It's still official, but you get what I mean.
 

The next person who gets an interview with JC out there .... please clarify this for us all ... mmmmkay?  Thnx
 
I thought copies can not be made from copies but only from masters .... and both are in game items. Maybe master and snapshot are the same. I was thinking they were separate things. Maybe I am taking the BPO and BPC concept from Eve a bit, but I thought JC said they were different things.

Workaround: click on the pretty image in my signature. It gets you to the community site

When I saw the title I thought you were already trying to set a date for a DU convention. Lol

Welcome SHIZNIT to Yin Yang ... got some gin and juice ready for ya

Because nothing kills creativity more than a bunch of people attacking the original creator for "stealing" the design that was stolen from them seen it happen have had it happen to me .
 
I wouldnt want to put something out for the public if all it means is that someone will steal credit and I will be left defending myself from claims of theft.

I can make a case that the OP is trolling
 
The status of the game is everywhere if someone took 5 minutes to look.