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During a trivia conversation with a bartender in the Crooked Vector bar, news spread that Telemai planet has been blockaded by some Greenpeace activists threatening Rum delivery and that supplies may soon run out. As Crooked Vector Alliance operation would be in danger of a complete standstill should Rum deliveries be halted, it was decided to dispatch a Tractor Pobeda(translation: Victory Tractor) class battleship named ANH Monstruoso to investigate. After numerous failures to start the ship, mechanic Vasili Petrov figured out to pull the reserve potatoes out of the exhaust pipes and applied 3kl of duct tape around the steam engine allowing the tractor to start up. Unexpected arrival of a pair of slippers thrown from the captain compartment accidentally hit the warp drive toggle and the battleship entered warp. On arrival, crew used last Rum reserves to dehibernate and manned the battle stations. Captain Ivanov was still busy watching his favorite exhaust-pipehub videos featuring a young lady yelling FRACK while looking at him from the screen. Unexpected and hard warp exit led to 3.5mm jack of Ivanov's headphones to be ejected from his PC and windows 95 switching sound output. The loud FRACK was broadcast on all ANH Monstruoso internal speakers. Crew, being less proficient with English, interpreted the word as a command to ATTACK and unleashed a vicious barrage with 42 lasers on everything in the vicinity. Once Captain Ivanov finally arrived to the bridge, investigation of the blockade could not be continued due to everyone shooting everything as well as presence of another large military force engaging the alleged Greenpeace activists. Ivanov decided that his mission is a success and he can try squeezing the last drops of the X2 kergon from the fuel tanks as Rum will probably be scarce anyway. Last information received includes broadcasts of uintepretable messages from the crew involving references to flying space skulls eating Greenpeace activists and lasers missing at point-blank range. Stay tuned. P.S: Props to ATOM for creating content. We need more folks like you.

Anything that brings risk vs reward is welcome. Its sandbox not theme park.

Now u sell to players at player set prices like it is supposed to be. My buy orders are at sanctuary 1

Maybe once we get the capacit... err, energy thingy we can have this too.

This is all what is required without breaking economy. 2/3 = 60% of parts 1/3 = 30% of parts You still need schematics to rebuild. Yea and limit container sizes to core sizes. Wtf xs ships can carry megas but can't use guns.

If there would be servers I wouldn't play at all.

I do not defend NQ at any point. They don't play their own game and have no clue. Add lots of players that don't have clue about PVP because they think it's "dead" and their only PVP is being shot at while not having a radar to see where they are being shot from. They are still the most vocal ones on the forum and are advising on how to balance PVP... This is what we get. Now people ask to make an MMO game be like the ones with "To battle" button. So everything you have is meaningless and everything is cheap because they can't afford it.

The problem is that the game not only doesn't provide motivation to fight anyone that can shoot back it ACTIVELY kicks you in the butt for doing it. (Doesn't matter who wins, both ships are screwed) On the other hand, killing that defenseless freighter is juicy. Pirate ? OK, I am a pirate who cares. Remove safezones all over outer planets or move the warp point out of the safe zone and here you go. Now you have a motivation to use force to occupy the orbit of the planet, blockade it and extort protection money. Fight others that want to do the same(and they bring guns too) etc. This creates drama, this creates content.

I came here after seeing an ad saying it's a PVP game. I didn't come to create puzzles. Telemai camp ? The one that you go out of safezone, ruin your/enemy ship for no reason and the losing side just goes back to the safezone ? No thanks. Props to guys for trying to create content. They will probably get you killed if you try to escape in hauler.

A space ship game with guns where you have no reason to shoot other spaceships a.k.a BORING.

The former is cheap tactic that should be fixed by disabling container access and build mode while in combat and the later is perfectly fine tactic to sabotage enemy ships with my spies.

Regarding the joystick: don't know, game has this settings but don't know if it works. Ship: You can surf https://du-creators.org/ and see the ships, prices etc. You have discord contact there to contact a person to purchase one or you can take ideas and build one yourself. If you are building one yourself, don't go for "that huge ship I always wanted" you will build it wrong first time around. Build something relatively small (S core). Try flying it etc, figure out the cons/pros, rebuild it or build new one etc. For the elements, the ones that you can craft in your nanopack you can craft yourself. Rest, it's much cheaper to buy from market than buying a schematics unless you have business plan to make that schematic work 24/7.

And you think that your should continue flying back and forth completely unopposed and having the ability to delete your cargo to make hunting you potentially fruitless. Did I get you right ?

You are welcome. Cat-3 is abundant at any factory. If it's nerfed there are always other "creative" ways if people start doing crap.

You delete cargo, no problem. I logoff 5 alts at your new ship with inventory full of catalyst 3 until you give me the same back(I will decide what it was). Deal ? You deny me spoils of war I deny your mobility(30kt of weight). Who gonna cry to NQ you think ?

Exactly. The atmo PVP is not ready but why there is atmo 2.5su away from the planets? It's like 10% planet 90% atmo of it. Making the PVP safe up until you leave the atmosphere makes sense. That will make outer space really outer space not some kindergarten with bears drawing circles. You can still mine safely when you are there. You will need to either be smart when you want to leave the planet with your ore OR maybe, just maybe cooperate with other players for it in an MMO game ? We were sold a PVP game(I got to the game because of some ad telling me that in DU you can PVP better than in any other game). We pay for sub now, why we get nothing of what we are promised and what we have ALREADY paid for? The kickstater part was promising only sanctuary moon as safe zone, that what people pleaded for. We now have ALL the system one big boring as crap safezone.

You can say "thank you" to the folks that cried about XS cores balance. You now need L to have a chance. That what happens when devs adopt PVP to players that have no clue about it. Best design went from cube to sausage, repair unit still disabled so no fancy stuff in ships that see combat(no I will not copy/paste after every fight). The beauty princesses with guns you see for sale are just beauty princesses nothing more. Me and my friend yesterday engaged another ship, each of us was in one-sitter (remote control + sitting in gunner seat). Don't know about the other guy, he didn't die. Ran to safe. Perfectly fine in hardcore MMO. (No, a game where flying from point A to point B takes 20 minutes and can take up to 3-4 hours cannot be considered casual). The only problem is that atm it is "Nothing" or "Almost nothing". You either lose your ship or you get it very screwed up + get another ship that is totally screwed up. If target has guns it is economically not profitable to engage and kill it in 95% of the cases due to losing repair count on your own ship elements. Exactly opposite of what people wanted. Any meaningful PVPer will avoid combat and only prey on transports as it's just not worth it to enter real combat whatever the outcome.

where is the "no, it's OK" option ?

Now people say that it's cost prohibitive to enter PVP ? Really ? May be it's because you were crying to nerf XS cores so everyone now flies Ls?

I have about 5kt of them. Probably like everything. What's your discord ?

I disapprove. You will be extirpated.

So PVP is the worst part if the game and you nerf it even more ??? Let the elements die everywhere or nowhere. Why you always try to f.up pvp folks ? There is like 1 kill per week that happens in pvp. That's your element sink ???

Here comes the guy that wants NQ to balance ships with guns versus ones that don't bring guns. Did you try to "spend your time finding others that want to fight" ? How many hours it took you to get bored and give up ? btw what makes you think that ecm tools are to avoid pvp rather than force it ? Like web that lowers your speed or bubble that stops your warp

I agree, the safe triangle of thadis/maids/alioth is a reasonable compromise. Current situation is that wolves had their teeth forcibly removed and thrown into the cages with the sheep. Moving warp points out of safe zone OR removing the safezone up until atmosphere can be implemented now. No development is required. You just change the number from 2.5su to 0.2 su and that's it.

There is that (not)new concept called Sandbox MMO. There are about a dozen successful MMO games using it. You are probably playing one that has a chance to become "successful sandbox MMO" too...