Slaxx

they said they want to make DU realistic so gravity should be a factor to be considered.

do different planets have different gravity? because humans can only survive on planets with 0.8 - 1.2 G. or do the suits that players wear even it out artificially?

maybe its the countdown until they release the first ingame screenshots.

Why not using an open "engine" like opengl for your game? That way you have way better and broader options creating the game how you want without being limited to the constrains of a pre-existing engine? Also your website doesnt work on mobile. U cant reach other directories.

So i thought i would open a thread opening the gates for new members. as of right now we are 2 people. we have not yet decided on a name but plan to once we have more members. we will craft a flag based on the name once we have it. we would vote for it with our new members. if you are interested in joining our soon-to-be empire, shoot me a message. we aim to colonize a planet and build fortresses and other installations on it. we aim to become the biggest or one of the biggest empires in the game. hop on board if you want to participate in our quest to colonizing and conquering the stars. all names of the empire's locations are up for discussion and will be voted on. but our homeworld will be called Titania I am part of the first wave alpha teamers so i will get a bit of experience and a head-start from others. shoot me a message if you want to meet up with me ingame. We are looking for builders/miners, crafters and military personal eg. soldiers/marines for spaceships. TS will be available soon.

How do you intend to go about the colonization process in DU? how can there be enaugh players to increase your empire in size and have all the worlds inhabitated by players? if an empire has 100 players, it can merely fill out the capitol of the empire on the homeworld. all other "cities" would be ghost towns. are you planning to include NPCs? also how will the server structure work? will all servers be located in europe? if so that would be a lag issue for american players. and also: unrelated but still important; if you can program machines via LUA, can you create self-replicating machines and build-bots?

nevermind i posted this in the wrong directory

but silvligh, I made them think about that. D: check my second post in this topic.

@Nyzaltar firstup in the backstory tab there is a part that says "swallow an entire planet system" it would be if correct "an entire planetary system" right after that you should put "United Nations" with an s. then you should remove the dash off "waking-up" and also write "hammered itself INTO the ground" So there will be only ?First Person? view available in Dual Universe? you should put "thus it is absolutely neccessary to have" Will you develop Apps for the game? Will you allow players to make their own Apps? you should write "but we will keep the accessibility regarding potential apps in mind." Who are you? you wrote "developping" and still says you are 20 people, too. (you are 16 now right? or is it the other way round?) What about those who like to produce and trade, but have no interest in PvP? you have to write "it will quickly become obvious" and not "it will become quickly obvious" There are also people who want to build things, beautiful buildings and ships, without being interrupted by sudden PvP action? you should remove the first questionmark. it doesnt sound good. There are also people who want to build things, beautiful buildings and ships, without being interrupted by sudden PvP action? Will they have a safe place too? We are perfectly aware that players designing new ships and/or a new buildings don?t want to beshot by another player in the middle of their work. remove the s from buildings and "be shot" should have a space. Okay. Then where will be this secure area? should be "where will this secure area be?" But shall we be able to build, design and produce outside this secure area? should be "but WILL we be able" What about players having a bad behavior? would sound better if you wrote "what about rogue players?" and also "non-Sandbox games.To preserve" is missing a space and sandbox should be small because you cant write big letters if you connect it with a dash. Will you punish scams? "as much as space pirate's existence," "(so only in game currency)" would be better as "which means only in-game currency" "In other words, this will be up to the player" would be better as "IT will be up to the player" "(we are also going to build an in-game reputation system)." replace the "an" with "a" "Another way to dramatically reduce the chance of scamming:" would sound better as "Another way to dramatically reduce the chance of scamming would be to only trust friends you know in real life!" What do you plan to do about "Trash talk"? "here's our position: a real sandbox, by his very nature" should be "by ITS very nature" "(or less young) adults.However," is missing a space "We want to give more freedom," would be better as "we would like to provide freedom without it resulting in legitimate real life bad behavior" Okay, but there are also players wanting to help the game without having the money to support it. What about them? "we can't promise that at the moment." would sound better as "we can't promise that at this moment." Moving on to the dev blog LUA Script and Distributed Processing Units "most critical and distinguishing feature of Dual:" add an s to "feature" "interested in the topic will find it entertaining." replace entertaining with "useful" "remember an important point:" remember THIS important point" "depends on your playing style," depends on your PLAY style "won?t be disappointed by the deepness" replace deepness with complexity or "amount of detail" there is a word that has the precise meaning you intended to tell here but i cant remember that now. "constitutes a construct, which is a whole that can be moved" should be "which is a single entity" "but this is another story we will discuss" but THAT is another story "monster robot or whatnot." AND whatnot "The schema below illustrate this:" it's "illustrates" "Events handlers are conceptually quite simple:" event handlers "The schema below illustrate this point:" add an s again "in which you can plug Elements." Elements INTO "You almost always want to plug the System DPU," it should be "You almost allways want to have the System DPU plugged in," "You know enough now to script a simple spaceship controller." you now know enaugh to "You need to put a least one Control Unit in the ship," you'll need to have at least one Control Unit in the ship "You need also to plug a gyro" you also need to "This above custom made Control Unit DPU" should be "The Control Unit DPU we've just created" "You can move this black box in what we call a Component DPU," add to what we "Stabilizer" can plug it in their own" can plug it INTO their "and then connect these Elements in the Component slots," Elements TO the Component this is as far as i can go. it's quite a bit much to read thru all of the blog posts. i have some questions; will you have the option to design own items with a designer tool? and can you design own vehicles too with a designer tool? and another one, how do you plan to get enaugh players to have enaugh to colonize worlds? i mean if you are only 4 guys you only need 4 buildings on the planet you own. and i dont think there will be enaugh players that each empire has more than 1000 players, giving colonization actually a point. also how will your servers handle all these players? and where will the servers be located at? if they are in europe, players from the US will have high latencies. my friend has a question too. will we be able to create self-constructing and self replicating machines?

the beginning was the same like yours, i googled space MMO and found a compilation which included this one. then i checked this website out and found it to be appealing due to the fact that it has a voxel based build engine and beautiful graphics both at once. then i read they aim for maximum player freedom, and i thought this must be the game i waited for. then i read it will be oculus compatible and that sealed the deal for me. i am a former player of SoH so thats why i like the aspects of this game.

sh... looks awesome! however i want to add that alien worlds have alien fauna aswell. maybe novaquark should add whole new fauna to their procedually-generator to make it a bit more realistic of you get my drift haha

i've found some errors on the website. as example there are some typing errors in the FAQ and dev blog, but what is more important is that at every tab on the site, you can scroll down and you will see the same text multiple times. PS; where is the pro-gen forest that astrophil mentioned in his "video?" thread? i was unable to find it on twitter. PPS; the music maxime ferrieu makes is really beautiful! keep it up! edit: the repeating descriptions bug seems to be fixed now.

Indeed. Sounds really good. I will wait untill the game is done and see. The prospect of having to interact with other players sounds good. I think you will make a good game, novaquark. Good luck for the game developement. I will see later what it looks like. Untill then.

I dont know why everyone immediately attacks me when i appear somewhere. Maybe its my name? my idea of the game was that each EMPIRE gets its own planet. Not each new player. Maybe i should delete my forum account again and forget about the game seeing as the people here seem very mean to me. Goodbye i guess.

I read the devblogs and they say that there will be 2 kinds of travel between stars. Warp gates and FTL travel. Just that ftl travel will be tricky. I dont know what made you believe the opposite?

You have no idea how the game is going to be like. Stop arguing. Maybe novaquark should extrapolate on how they imagine this to be In reality there are billions of empty planets in the galaxy my friend. I thought the storyline of the game was that many arkships were send to many different planets.

Why? In shores of hazeron that system works. Each new player has the option to either join an existing empire or make an own empire. In the later case you would spawn at a empty world. And each world is 10000-20000 meters large.

So do i get this right that new players wont get a new arkship on a new planet? How do you expect people to start out? Will they all start at the same planet and then go out into the open space and then find a new planet and make an empire there? In that case i have no problem at all with a single arkship at the starting area. I just thought that each new empire gets a new planet with a new arkship as per what i have read in your posted information. I am trying to understand how you plan to go about this game.

So i am kinda on the fence about the arkship protection area I have though to myself: if the arkship protection area never shuts down, you can never defeat an empire. I have also read the post about the noob protection idea in mind. My idea would be to shut the shield down after a certain amount of time (because its energy reserves are depleted or something) So you are able to fully defeat an empire in a war situation. It would be a really stupid thing having to have your ships blockade the last remaining planet of an enemy empire all the time. The defeated player has two options at this point: he could accept the subjugation of his enemy or take a ship, find a new planet and make a new empire there (without the arkship protection of course)

Didnt you guys say you wanted to post a new blog post this week?

Hi, i am TheSlaxx. I am a huge fan of space strategy games and MMORPGs. I come from the game shores of hazeron in hopes dual universe will fulfill my dreams and offer everything i am looking for in a space game. I like to build empires and huge structures in space. I have brought with me a group of 5 people whom i invited to play dual universe with me and create my empire. I found DU around the time the new forum opened. I also brought some questions with me which i will post in the appropriate sections.