Megabosslord

I've long suspected that if a new DU player can't get airborne in the first few hours of gameplay, we're losing players. The initial DU loop of building your first space-ready ship is fun for some, but it's niche. The starting speeder is 'meh'. Every other space game just gives you a starting ship that you can pretty easily fly into space right out of the 'dock'.
 
But there's a problem, right?
 
If you give every new player a basic space-ready ship it frigs up the economy. A glut of ships, parts, and destroys ship-builder income.
 
But there's a simple solution:
 
1) Make the UEF store (much) bigger.. Or have 10 of them around the starting locations.
2) Allow players to take their ship token (which already locks it out) to a terminal at the store and pay a fee equal to X% of the price they set for the ship, to submit the token. (This terminal is most of the new code.)
3) The ship spawns in the UEF store on the existing style of 'for sale' display.
4) New players - or any players at all - can walk up to the display, and choose 'test flight' 
5) The ship spawns on a nearby pad with pilot rights only, restricted to the test pilot who chose 'test flight'.
6) The 'test flight' player can test fly the ship for a period of time (or until they die) after which it de-spawns and the player is returned to the store.
7) The player can then chose to buy the ship from the store. The tokenised original is ported to the pad, and the seller receives their moula.
 
Ship builders make money. Creates no ship/parts glut. New players can go flying in their first 5 minutes after FTUE, even before they have any money, and get a taste of what's to come. 
 
Thoughts/comments: go. 

Thanks. Yeah, that's what I thought. It's kind of annoying they're expending dev effort on stuff like fiddling with bezier curves when there's some easy wins to make the franchise more profitable.

There needs to be a "virtual test world" where the player can test the ships they are interested in free of interference in a virtual environment.
This has been suggested before, but doesn't seem likely.
 
Likely NQ are not really open to any more suggestions in reality. It seems they still haven't even finished the list of requests from the Kickstarter, let alone listening to us lot tell them what we think is best.

Dispensers?! O.m.g. now you're getting my hopes up. I'll begin reworking our SVEA shop system using the new item API soon, it should make things a bit smoother.
 
Here's an idea - let us trigger a LUA script and/or a programming board any time an item is removed/added to a container (via industry/player interaction/dispenser usage). This would enable a lot of interesting possibilities. I'm specifically thinking we could get up-to-date stock info out to our screens, without having to resort to hundreds of pressure plates all over the shop. The same functionality could also be added to the dispenser. The trigger via industry units would ofc have to be server-side, but the others could run client-side which makes them easier to implement I assume.
 
Also - reverse dispensers, i.e. let us buy things, would be an awesome thing.
 
And while we're at it:
* The forgotten Dispenser API and other ideas proposed in that thread.
* Can we please make Dispensers MKII a lot smaller than the current version?
* Allow multiple dispensers to link to the same container or container hub.
 
Cheers!
 
/ Yoarii

+1 for the selling machine

At the moment, no. This is the plan for the future.

The only real thing of substance here is the BP preview, that is SO HUGE! I really hop it'll work well.
 
The rest I might like or I might not (in certain situations), but imho it doesn't change game play...
 
@CptLoResA very persistent algae that showed up after one of the patches our AI implemented... But I suspect it's a mutated foot fungus that one of our fellow settlers introduced...

I like the BP visualization. If it's good enough, I might be able to recover my bases after a wipe.
 
The rest of it? Don't care.

How about a decision about that possible wipe?. Does not make much sense to play, or post updates while we are in the dark

Love to see my big red ship in the warp test 😁.
 
But it's only half finished, and if you wipe the game it'll take me a year to get back to the point where i can continue working on it.

And LUA control of rights (check player id) w/ reverse dispenser! (receive item, pay money!)

And LUA control of rights (check player id) w/ reverse dispenser! (receive item, pay money!)

And LUA control of rights (check player id) w/ reverse dispenser! (receive item, pay money!)

And LUA control of rights (check player id) w/ reverse dispenser! (receive item, pay money!)

And LUA control of rights (check player id) w/ reverse dispenser! (receive item, pay money!)

Especially an event "transaction made". This alone can push the potential of dispensern.

We need Lua for Dispensers!
 
set contents, set price, and events transaction made, or transaction failed. 
 
Was really hoping this time when the post said new Lua functions 😩

NQ, said you want to give a "balance environment" to late comer, how about us? Supporting NQ for years, someone from Alpha, someone from beginning of Beta.  And said, what is a balance?  Experienced players / loyal supporters for such years, where was your promise and at least some appreciation to us, long supporters. 
 
Said about balance to late comer, how about players spent years in your GAME ? they lose everything, builds, hard-work-done.  I still remember I spent 10 hours mining in the old days a day, just for those hard-earning $ in game.  Yeah now, it's easy to earn money for still not fair for us such old-player saved a lot $ from old days ...  wipe us all is your only GOOD solution?  You just simply ruin your company reputation for treating old supporter like ... "dump" (in a polite wording).  Or maybe you can simply delete all your players' records, transaction history, including our Beta/ Alpha privilege just like starting a new company? Or maybe u just say your database just hacked and ~~SORRY~~ we just forget everything especially old players. 
 
Wiping players data in an MMO/ Meta-verse like gaming is not just a BAD idea, but an insane move and treating old supporters like fertilizer. 

reposting @NQ-Deckard @NQ-Nicodemus@NQ-Nyzaltar

Seems like we are back to the same underlying topic of "How can I keep other people from becoming too RICH" I have an idea how about just work as hard as they do....I am not talking about hacks, or exploits but any Legit Game Mechanic shall be used to the fullest without the approval from other players who might not like the way I play the Legit Game Mechanic. Capping other players growth only makes sense until you yourself are the one at the top than theses taxes, limitation and progress punishment tactics your thinking of will not be so appealing. 
 

Your daily reminder that multiple NQ staff in multiple channels, verbally and in writing, said we would get 'magic blueprints' if they ever needed to do a wipe:
 

 
(1:30) the reason for a wipe would be "(there is) something that we need to fix and there is no other but to wipe to fix it. I don't see anything like that coming... it's something that would happen if we really had no choice..."
(4:45) "we're going to do everything we can so that we don't have to go through a wipe again"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOp9nDzkxpc
(58:26) "It would be a very bad thing to say 'sorry guys, restart from scratch.'" 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai3Kk37ntgg
(15:53) "Everything you build is forever"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD00-V_LKog
(31:58) "Whatever you do after beta starts is going to stay in one way or another... You will get what we call for the moment 'magic blueprints'... blueprints with everything included in it so you will be able to respawn the things as soon as we restart the server. So we don't like to call it 'wipe'... The key thing is the beta is really the start... You can start to invest yourself in the game. We guarantee that you're not going to be losing everything at some point... the universe is blank again, and you have to start from scratch."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syku-NmSg4s&t=1918s

(1:30) the reason for a wipe would be "(there is) something that we need to fix and there is no other but to wipe to fix it. I don't see anything like that coming... it's something that would happen if we really had no choice..."
(4:45) "we're going to do everything we can so that we don't have to go through a wipe again"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOp9nDzkxpc
(58:26) "there would be a gold rush to get back to whatever you wanted. That's actually not a good idea. We decided that we would rather not do that. There has already been a lot of investment made by a lot of people to terraform very very substantial parts of the planets... It would be a very bad thing to say 'sorry guys, restart from scratch.'" And that was just on a terrain wipe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai3Kk37ntgg
(15:53) "Everything you build is forever"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD00-V_LKog
(31:58) "Whatever you do after beta starts is going to stay in one way or another... You will get what we call for the moment 'magic blueprints'... blueprints with everything included in it so you will be able to respawn the things as soon as we restart the server. So we don't like to call it 'wipe'... The key thing is the beta is really the start... You can start to invest yourself in the game. We guarantee that you're not going to be losing everything at some point... the universe is blank again, and you have to start from scratch."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syku-NmSg4s&t=1918s

Your daily reminder that multiple NQ staff in multiple channels, verbally and in writing, said we would get 'magic blueprints' if they ever needed to do a wipe:
 

 
(1:30) the reason for a wipe would be "(there is) something that we need to fix and there is no other but to wipe to fix it. I don't see anything like that coming... it's something that would happen if we really had no choice..."
(4:45) "we're going to do everything we can so that we don't have to go through a wipe again"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOp9nDzkxpc
(58:26) "It would be a very bad thing to say 'sorry guys, restart from scratch.'" 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai3Kk37ntgg
(15:53) "Everything you build is forever"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD00-V_LKog
(31:58) "Whatever you do after beta starts is going to stay in one way or another... You will get what we call for the moment 'magic blueprints'... blueprints with everything included in it so you will be able to respawn the things as soon as we restart the server. So we don't like to call it 'wipe'... The key thing is the beta is really the start... You can start to invest yourself in the game. We guarantee that you're not going to be losing everything at some point... the universe is blank again, and you have to start from scratch."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syku-NmSg4s&t=1918s

Your daily reminder that multiple NQ staff in multiple channels, verbally and in writing, said we would get 'magic blueprints' if they ever needed to do a wipe:
 

 
(1:30) the reason for a wipe would be "(there is) something that we need to fix and there is no other but to wipe to fix it. I don't see anything like that coming... it's something that would happen if we really had no choice..."
(4:45) "we're going to do everything we can so that we don't have to go through a wipe again"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOp9nDzkxpc
(58:26) "It would be a very bad thing to say 'sorry guys, restart from scratch.'" 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai3Kk37ntgg
(15:53) "Everything you build is forever"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD00-V_LKog
(31:58) "Whatever you do after beta starts is going to stay in one way or another... You will get what we call for the moment 'magic blueprints'... blueprints with everything included in it so you will be able to respawn the things as soon as we restart the server. So we don't like to call it 'wipe'... The key thing is the beta is really the start... You can start to invest yourself in the game. We guarantee that you're not going to be losing everything at some point... the universe is blank again, and you have to start from scratch."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syku-NmSg4s&t=1918s

Exactly. Wipes never bring more players (aside from short term tourist bump, offset by existing players leaving.) New content brings more players. And every day they drag this out is another new player who will lose the progress they've made. It's wrong to even be pumping ads for the game right now on YT without warning players if their gameplay will be wiped.