Revelcro

OK, so let me actually explain what happened, coherently... rather than gibbering on like a loon. ?
 
Originally, the NO PVP Zone was intended to be limited to Sanctuary moon only, with PVP eventually arriving everywhere else.
All planets were to have ground PVP and the safe zone was originally limited to the region surrounding Sanctuary... Hence the name.. Sanctuary.
 
But at some point, the PVP-Free zone or Safe Zone as it became known was expanded to include Alioth, Madis and Thades and their associated moons. It has also been stated that this is likely a permanent "feature" which means that the original purpose of Sanctuary was lost.
 
Sanctuary is a relic from a time gone by.
 
Hope that explains what is going on...

 

Back when we had players, and fun.  I can't help but feel that a very few squeaky wheels got the rest of us covered in unwelcome and unhelpful grease.

I'm not blaming the current CMs for anything, I am blaming NQ for having abysmal community engagement and interaction.
 
Problem here is that the CM team is just doing what they are told to do and sticking with company policy. It is their choice to live with it and accept he job as-is, sure.
 
This is not about "I want blue stars". This is about members of the community spending time and effort (sometimes a lot of it) to bring suggestions and ideas to the table that would provide solutions and options to enhance and/or improve the game. And NQ then just ignoring these efforts entirely and proving it by running around and doing what the general consensus here tells them would not be a good plan.
 

A start would be regular, transparent communication. One could take a cue from the competition, which has been doing this since the announcement of the game.
In terms of content? Nothing at all. You won't be able to do anything in a month. NQ should keep its head down and work like Hello Games did with NMS. Either it's going to be something, or it's not. Otherwise there are other products if they can' t get it right.

I am sure we have like 20-30 ppl playin

I would guess a decent amount of us poking around with amusement at the forums here have actually stopped playing daily.  Including you and me.  As it is right now i'm not sure "diggy diggy hole in space" would have us screaming back into the game en mass.  Digging and mining was not the greatest fun loop on the ground, in space it would also get old pretty fast.  Especially since the mechanic to do so would not likely change much.
 
They could eliminate the digging portion and just have us find higher tier ore in zones (that you could camp or patrol) as fully ready to be mined ore-roids and miners could risk going into those zones if the reward was high enough to risk whatever ship they made for the job.  But i'm afraid we might be looking at what will essentially be hexes floating in space, possibly even able to be scanned so you can see what is in it.  Amusing at first but long term we would not be able to tell the difference between the "roid" in space and just another hex on a planet.  I guess we will find out.

Oh, that is certain. What would be interesting to hear is what challenges NQ sees in this regard an how they view some of the solutions that have been brought up here. 
 
For me an impound system would be good. It keeps the markets with an "in use" vibe while removing the clutter that just lays around. I'm not a fan of the "squeeky clean"  way SC does it for instance where your ship get yanked of the pad in a few minutes.
 
The suggestion of impounding constructs after say 48 hours, which are then retrievable from for instance the ARK ship (for a fee) as a one time spawn in blueprint seems like a sensible approach that I would not expect has a very high dev cost or development time as it uses existing mechanics.

If they don't stick to their original promise here then many many players will be out.
 
Thats why there are safezones. That's why you shouldn't be in the ffa Zone if you arent prepared to lose stuff. Dont really see how this doesn't work. With the right mechanics and a good and well prepared devteam.....oh, I see the problem now 

Back when we were playing 8-16 hours a day we toyed with the idea of putting up MTI billboards on all the Sanctuary spaceports that told new players (Get in, Plop Down  your free TU, Get out!, You're welcome -MTI).  You are better off deleting your free TU and using that time to mine surface ore or unclaimed tile ore on Alioth until you have the money/resources gathered to get away from there even.
 
Sanctuary is a trap.  Long ago my bud and I wasted our whole first week there till we got evacced to Madis (Thank you Thunderblaze) and never looked back.

What the fruity, lemon scented f--- are you going on about?

Less about the company, more about the process.  It's good to know how these things work and then see what a game like DU does with its own product.  The video is just a heads up to the warning signs of what could happen.  So pay less attention to what is said in public forums by PR people and pay close attention to what the company actually does with both it's workforce and pricing model.
 

We still have a community?

Each of us has a different reason for playing video games.
I can tell you why I played with it: to vent my creative vein, my need to build and see my aesthetic sense and inventiveness realized, my hobbyist design skills and amazed by the artistic solutions found by others.
Yes, I am from that part of the players who played DU for his creative ability. PVP and commerce have never attracted me.
I liked to build.
And I still do, in other games and even out of games.
I don't know what "all adults" are doing to play a video game. Everyone has their own reason.
There is no more valid or less valid reason. There is only how you perceive it, for yourself.
 
As for the rest, I am sorry to be "brutal" but no one who is going to close a game will ever tell you "in 6 months we are planning to close everything, in the meantime we will squeeze you as much as we can".
It's commercial madness.
You won't know.
If they tell you that everything will be fine, that they won't whipe, and that everything will go smoothly, it could be true, or a huge bullshit. It is up to you to decide whether to continue or not.
But what you are asking is ... naive.
Extremely naive.

Yeah sure. Wipe the whole game again. That’ll fix it. 

Third time’s a charm and all that. 
 
lol. 
 
after taking a break, I turn around and look back on the hundreds of hours I put in and can’t help but wonder “what is a grown man doing playing video games?”
 
kinda made me put my whole, recent life into perspective. 
 
I actually think I’m likely done with games. 

It's gone beyond us now.
 
You're not going to hear anything until the end.
 
Same as with Studio 38. Same as with Flagship.

They also promised high tier ore in pvp zone, and only Sanc moon was safe. Whats your point thats not what the current game is. Thats the problem everyone is living on some "potential" of what DU can be.  But the reality is, in its current form its dogshit.
 

You get 10 reacts in any 24 hour period. On busy days I run out... it's a thing.

Since there's only building and lua for now, all players left are REALLY into building. Hasnt changed for years so they're dedicated. 
 
Pvpers left because its beyond boring and bad
 
Industrialists can't really do anything with their products because markets are dead 
 
Yup. Most ppl left and may return. Or not. 

We still have a community?

I took the liberty of posting a group picture from the closed alpha.
 

english

french
 
there is your official signing that JC is gone

We still have a community?

More like they made scrooge mcduck the pilot mid-air so they could sell it before it crashes into the ground. Mr McDuck owns a large part of that plane and needs to get his money back.

 

More like replacing the guy who has never flown a plane with a guy who can crash-land it with broken off landing gear, scraped off belly and mangled propellers somwhere reasonably close to the recycling center.
 
 

Is this like ducktales where they let the guy who regularly crashes the planes fly so that he can crash the broken plane since he has the most experience crashing planes?