XKentX

I got my beacon for like 8mil so that's ok, no one else needs to have em. Don't remove schematics.

What are you waiting guys? I'm already looking at an asteroid. 

Hi there)
Our favorite game recently got a competitor, and I think need to take some steps to attract an audience.
I think it would be a great idea to give everyone free access to PTS. On the one hand, it would be a great marketing move. On the other hand, you will get test participants, of which there are not so many yet.
I understand that this will create additional load on the server without making any money. Therefore, you can come up with a limitation. Let's say 4 hours of gameplay per day per account, or something like that.
What do you think?

Market 6 shop idea: Call a ship ItsATrap. Have players walk in, door shut behind them, and they have to buy something out of dispensers for door to open, else if they log off, it's an exploit. Guaranteed sales.

Not playing, just waiting for the gravestone to pop up so I can put "Justice for scoopy served" on top of it for lulz.
 
Why I dumped it ?
Because the ones that build it have no idea what they are doing. Even if they pull their heads out of sand now, it is probably too late.
 
P.S:
Lol at that DekkarTV dude trying to say game is not dead. Even the discord chat is dead with just 3-4 people occasionally chatting.
Probably butthurt if he tries to get a streamer career but the title he chose has like 10 viewers at peak.

I hereby declare all constructs owned by me (XKentX IGN) or any organization I am a legate of to be off limits to anyone without written permission.
 
Under the new exploit classification and this formal declaration available to wide audience anyone entering the sphere of influence (and therefore boarding) any of before-mentioned constructs without my written permission can be classified as a bug abuser and will have disciplinary actions taken against him as mentioned by NQ.
 
P.S:
When I land my L-Core on Market 6 it's your problem, not mine.

Not playing, just waiting for the gravestone to pop up so I can put "Justice for scoopy served" on top of it for lulz.
 
Why I dumped it ?
Because the ones that build it have no idea what they are doing. Even if they pull their heads out of sand now, it is probably too late.
 
P.S:
Lol at that DekkarTV dude trying to say game is not dead. Even the discord chat is dead with just 3-4 people occasionally chatting.
Probably butthurt if he tries to get a streamer career but the title he chose has like 10 viewers at peak.

As a software engineer, imagine a 6-7 year old codebase where senior devs had no idea what they were building because the design was never crystalized. 
 
Then imagine your boss has never worked in the industry before -- literally has no concept of how games are made, but has very firm ideas about what DU is. Every meeting turns into a rant about the metaverse and Ready Player One. 
 
Someone asks about how all this will scale. Crickets. Someone wants to know exactly how PvP will work. More crickets. Someone wonders about the 6-7 year timeline to not even get to a beta stage...they probably leave the company. LinkedIn shows that they don't have many (maybe 1 or 2?) devs that have lasted the entire 7+ years DU has been in development. 
 
My point is that the slow velocity isn't just a question of manpower, it's a logical result of the way in which this game was developed: by an amateur with no industry experience and not enough humility to delegate the things he didn't understand. 
 
They could hire 100 devs tomorrow and it probably would't make a difference -- there's no simple way to unravel 6+ years of complete mess beyond re-writing the whole damn thing, which is just not feasible. 
 
I think everyone that's worked in software can see how there's issues here, but IMO it doesn't really matter if NQ has 1, 10, or 100 developers because the codebase is such a cluster it wouldn't matter.
 
Also, good luck finding 100 skilled Unigen2 devs. I doubt there's 100 skilled Unigen2 devs on the planet...no one has released a large game like this using this game engine, so any dev you hire has to start out learning the engine...so they have a bunch of engineering overhead as if it were a custom engine without any of the benefits. 

AC was bunch of orgs
Let me try.
 
<story starts at beta release>
AC was a bunch of orgs, mostly carebears, limited amount of PVPers under alliance named Ascendancy or something.
ATOM joined them and did some white knight PVP under name of "AC ATOM". Did some fun events for PVP and generated content.
Here come the asteroids and ATOM decided that protecting other AC carebears is no fun especially if they don't pay and left AC.
Some AC orgs that do at least some PVP followed ATOM and they formed legion.
AC remained with mostly carebears and will most likely be irrelevant now.
 
All this "majoir political event" and MMO drama involve no more than 2 dozen people at this point.
No one outside of AC/legion really cares about this.
 
On the first day of legion being formed, "AC ATOM" ship got cored in PVP space. ATOM leaders denied it is one of theirs saying it's fake. It turned out to be a lame try to cover a carebear loss of ATOM member.

I hereby declare all constructs owned by me (XKentX IGN) or any organization I am a legate of to be off limits to anyone without written permission.
 
Under the new exploit classification and this formal declaration available to wide audience anyone entering the sphere of influence (and therefore boarding) any of before-mentioned constructs without my written permission can be classified as a bug abuser and will have disciplinary actions taken against him as mentioned by NQ.
 
P.S:
When I land my L-Core on Market 6 it's your problem, not mine.

Not playing, just waiting for the gravestone to pop up so I can put "Justice for scoopy served" on top of it for lulz.
 
Why I dumped it ?
Because the ones that build it have no idea what they are doing. Even if they pull their heads out of sand now, it is probably too late.
 
P.S:
Lol at that DekkarTV dude trying to say game is not dead. Even the discord chat is dead with just 3-4 people occasionally chatting.
Probably butthurt if he tries to get a streamer career but the title he chose has like 10 viewers at peak.

Having multitool glow can be used in video ads.
Different color engines gives the reason to say "We added new engines"
Market look post tutorial - doesn't matter, you already paid for 3 months.

NQ intention:
Asteroids that will be risk vs reward as you fight for the control of the tier 5 asteroids !
 
Reality:
T1 trashcan ship with 100 alts crashes on the tier5 asteroid. Alts start troll mining T5 into their backpacks jetpacking away and logging off when full. 3 battleships that came to pvp watching helplessly unable to do anything to them.
When the dust settles down alt extraction (another trashcan this time with a warp drive) arrives to take them back home.
 
NQ: "We will investigate..." (and may or may not do anything about it in 6 month)
 
There is that profession. Game Design.

NQ intention:
Asteroids that will be risk vs reward as you fight for the control of the tier 5 asteroids !
 
Reality:
T1 trashcan ship with 100 alts crashes on the tier5 asteroid. Alts start troll mining T5 into their backpacks jetpacking away and logging off when full. 3 battleships that came to pvp watching helplessly unable to do anything to them.
When the dust settles down alt extraction (another trashcan this time with a warp drive) arrives to take them back home.
 
NQ: "We will investigate..." (and may or may not do anything about it in 6 month)
 
There is that profession. Game Design.

yup.
The game loops that got just introduced in the last update assume you will be staring at the screen for 6 hours while your ship is flying...
This has to attract millions of people, especially the younger population right ?
 
The best part is that you actually hope it will be just flying in completely empty space for hours without encountering anything...

Why you want them to scare people away in ads ?

Why you want them to scare people away in ads ?

Scientist had an idea.
Scientist made a PoC.
We tested the PoC and paid for experiment analyzes.
PoC didn't work and turned out to be  a failure.
It seems like scientist got fired.
 
Time to go crowfund next scientist idea because obviously gamers are much better in deciding which projects should be founded and which are not than professional investors.
 
P.S:
PoC name was "server tech for millions of players".
Real result was "shit hits the fan with less than 100".
 

Why you want them to scare people away in ads ?

Scientist had an idea.
Scientist made a PoC.
We tested the PoC and paid for experiment analyzes.
PoC didn't work and turned out to be  a failure.
It seems like scientist got fired.
 
Time to go crowfund next scientist idea because obviously gamers are much better in deciding which projects should be founded and which are not than professional investors.
 
P.S:
PoC name was "server tech for millions of players".
Real result was "shit hits the fan with less than 100".
 

PVP in this game is not about "ship building" etc.
If you know "the meta" you are almost invincible. If you don't, you are a loot pinata and no amount of quanta will help you.
It goes like this in many sandbox games. Those who do PVP since the start learn the meta in "easy mode" as the rest are learning with them.
If you join later, you have to learn while the rest are already very knowledgable and you usually get pwned.
Having 0 balance and counters in DU just makes it even worse.
 
Join an org, see how it's done, leave, do it on your own if it's something you like.

So the employer put a box on his base where that whatever should be delivered.
 
What if I create a juicy mission to deliver me some crap with juicy collateral and put the box 10km underground on my sanct tile ?

You mean like the creator of the mission should ensure the mission taker is able to glitch free access the delivery box in Dual Universe beta or the mission creator gets disciplinary actions against his account ? Yea that definitely works.
 
Yea and regarding that rating system, I have hmmmm 12 alts if I remember correctly, 2 of my friends have about 20 each. I think the other guys mentioned logging in to get the daily takes about 20min from all of the alts too so I think my rating will be high enough. No worries.
 
BTW, the title that can be edited by the "mission creator" is nice as well.
Can't wait to see "WTS StarDestroyer,  DM AnotherNonCreativeVoxelmancer#1234 on discord" missions for 1 quanta in reward and 1bil collateral.
 

I'm kinda feel sorry for the devs as it's most likely not their fault but management fault.
 
I mean, you don't want to put DU in your resume but what you put in that year...

At some point in a relationship you sometimes have to recognize when it is becoming toxic due to the inactivity or inability to communicate from one or both parties.  Once you are sure that a relationship has passed a certain point then usually there is only one outcome that is logical, and a lot of people here have already passed that threshold weeks ago.  More are getting to that point.  Daily it seems. 
 
It hurts the most when you know the relationship could be salvaged or at least extended just a bit with better communication or a tiny bit of effort.  Then your heart breaks when you never hear a word or see any of that effort put in and you may never know the whole story of why.