Evil_Porcupine

Bastille
 
This short story (around 5000 words) is set on Earth before the technology required for the Arkships (and more) were entirely completed. This story does not include any DU organisations nor does it reference any arbitrarily named gaming organisations outside of DU.
 
Enjoy.
 
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I am a broken man. At least that is what the shrinks say. They say I’m too broken to continue in the Centauri Special Forces. But if one of the powerful nation states pays for your training, they own you. So that’s how I became stuck as a Tester, a guinea pig, for Centauri scientists. On the bright side, they gave me a place to stay, even if it is a single room apartment that you couldn’t swing a proverbial cat in. Centauri also provides a seemingly unlimited cereal molded into multicolored letters of the alphabet. Today, the cereal spells out “freedom” which quickly sinks away and then spells “dominated”. I stare at the word knowing if I blink it will instantly rearrange itself into the usual random jumble of letters. For taunting me, I teach it a lesson by biting into another mouthful. It might look colourful, but it tastes like week old sweaty socks.
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Novawrimo 2017 - Bastille by Kurock.pdf
Novawrimo2017 - Bastille by Kurock.docx

@ShadowLordAlpha


If the ships have only a single player in them, then they should despawn. But on multicrew ships, the owner's ragequit should not suddenly leavy 5 other guys floating in space. And you should clarify on constructs as ships and buildings. I'm talking ships vanishing, if there's only one player in them. If buildings were to vanish that would be some hilarious shit right there.


And SE is not the most prime example of MMO. Try to fly a ship in MMO SE and the server blade starts shrieking like Golum in the Fellowship of the Ring's torture scene by the orcs.


And as far as "two parter ship" idea goes. That would be quite impossible to pull off in the game engine without crunching the server. If you were talking of a core ship, surrounded in layers of lesser quality armor as a buffer, then I would say... sure, why not. Bu you are talking of a bullshit idea that is wanky at best. Think of going into warp/jumpspace. You arrive on the next star system. You are one armor thinner. You want the armor to follow? You have to make the ship a single entity. 

I did read your reply. I disagree with your conclusion.
 
Essentially, your argument seems to be that you should only fly small craft if you cant find people to sit aboard doing nothing while you fly a bigger one, in the offchance that they need to may your turrets for you.
 
I do not see what that adds to the game, hence why I am pro AI defenses. As covered in my first post, I am completely on board with the idea that these should be limited, to ensure that you cant run big combat ships with loads of turrets and only one pilot.
 
However, i do not see how allowing a few automated anti-fighter defensive measures detracts frim the game, in fact, I think this would improve the play experience for all. Taking the frieghter example I put forward in my second post, having the turrets on AI would let my 3 friends do other (more fun) things than sit aboard waiting, and would give the attacking pirates a better experience as well, as shooting at a target that can fight back a bit is a lot more satisfying than shooting at somethung defenseless.
 
I would be interested to hear your opinion on what disallowing AI defenses on ships adds to the game?
 
 

Skills - what we know so far is that there are skills related to certain activities. You train those over time. 5 hours to train X. 10 hours to train Y. And so forth. You are not locked to a specific class, you can train into different activities when ever you want. The training over time continues even when you are offline. It only needs an active subscription. 
 
Ships - Yes, there will be construct vs construct combat. We don't have much info beyond that. But the core idea is that for every move there is a counter move. This is of course subject to change. 
 
Characters - no fps combat. It's a lock and fire system as a trade of for the other features of the game. Guns will be part of the game. 
 
Tutorials - no comment. 
 
Organizations - there is the Arkship Pub for that and the community portal. 

Minor correction, star citizens server structure does not even compare to DU. It splits the world in instances, with a maximum of 40 players per instance. I'm not sure if this is currently in the game or still on their to do list. This might improve over time but they can't do what DU will do or what EVE does. 
 
 
 

BOO has reached 300 Boobians !
Happy 300 members day \o/
 

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Welcome to Dual Universe, sception.  
 
Here are two other links you might find informative:
 
Player created and updated FAQs:
 
The official news portal:
 
https://www.dualthegame.com/en/news/
 
Cheers.
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Day 521: I have searched the entire planet. It seems the other opponents have simply logged out

Just because you payed money, doesn't mean the first thing you post could be any different to someone who hasn't payed if both are disallowed.

Logic

Just found the video release with the packs:
 
 

Just found the video release with the packs:
 
 

https://www.dualthegame.com/en/pledge

So, the new supporter packs are out. What are your thoughts on them? How did they compare to what you guessed would be in them? Personally i though't there would be more DACs, but i love what they have done in relation to different points of access into alpha.

Just found the video release with the packs:
 
 

https://www.dualthegame.com/en/pledge

So, the new supporter packs are out. What are your thoughts on them? How did they compare to what you guessed would be in them? Personally i though't there would be more DACs, but i love what they have done in relation to different points of access into alpha.

You can dig a hole. You can place a cargo container, or maybe just an item if that's possible. you can then fill the hole and use the planned terrain voxel smoothing tool, so yes, you can dig a hole and put stuff in.

Personally, I don't think solo play is practical. Yes, its *viable*, and you can play by yourself and probably do decently well. But were people are really going to shine, is playing with other people. Even if its just one other person, it could (and most definitely will) make the game easier, safer and faster for you.

Love is in the air as Dual Universe seemingly calms down with drama and continues to mature. Also, supporter packs are coming back. Here's your February briefing from Ark Central.
 
 

You will only be able to play during announced tests. 
 
There is no offline mode currently in the game or currently planned for future development. 

Death Triathlon sounds fun to compete in, especially stage 3

We won't kill ppl in the beginning , we'll just kidnap them and force them to watch memes all day \o/

The winning entry by judge decision is:
Flipmaze by Ben Fargo
 
The submission are in and it's time to vote on the first DICE Den for an in-game arena game
 
Voting closes after the 10 March 2018, so be sure to cast your vote before then.
 
Still unsure who to vote for? Go have a look through their entries: 
 
Edit : Due to the 3-way tie, the final decision now rests in the hands of our capable panel of judges.
 
Edit: The winning entry is Flipmaze by Ben Fargo

Death Triathlon:

1. 24 Players starts in the middle of a maze, only 12 can reach the next stage
2. 12 Players have to complete a challenge (every event another) / examples: Jump & Run, Quiz, LinkIt! ( They have to link elements in the right way to open the door)
3. Gladiators!  good old Last man standing. (Only the first 6 of stage 2 can reach stage 3)

I heard that clouds will be handled in the cloud.  Pretty sure that means the Amazon, so expect rain.

What deva said.
 
I want the servers to be stable and running smoothly without lag, then they can and should improve grafics