Revelcro

For a long while i was thinking that yes, NQ can bring this back.
 
For me, 0.24 was a turning point where that last bit of hope faded. It shows that no, they can't fix the game's fundamental problems.
 
The tech is an absolute mess -- even if the game's design was fleshed-out, the tech is a nightmare:
It's riddled with bugs that never get fixed (or get fixed then regress in a future version) Performance is shoddy at best and hasn't been proven to scale even with modest crowds. A million players? Please, they can't handle 10% of that without massive lag and pending ops.  Devs have proven over the last 7 months that they can't make changes -- since closed beta started, what's changed? Schematics to nerf industry, jetpack tweaks, purchased 3rd-party texture packs? Barely making a dent in the laundry list of long-standing bugs? Even if they did drop the mission system in 0.24, this simply isn't enough to justify all that dev time.  They've already been developing for 6 years...and are still far away from being feature-complete. 6-7 years is a long time to stay in alpha.  
This is hardly "early stage" of beta, it's longer than most games spend in development...to not even have a feature-complete beta. With how many bugs they've collected in the last 6 years? Even if they can get to "beta" state, it'll be another 6-7 months of bug fixes and polish before it is actually release-ready. 

It all adds up to one thing to me: they physically can't develop the game in a pace that makes any sort of commercial sense. 
 
Dev never gets faster as the project gets older and bigger...so it isn't like pace is going to magically improve. 
 
Then...you take a step back and look at factors other than raw technical development:
the fact that their leadership has zero experience in game dev  the fact that they make short-sighted design choices (probably because of the above point) the fact that they never had a complete design to begin with and are still "winging it" with core pillars of the game the high staff turnover and low player population the poor/no communication with players -- building zero goodwill with beta testers -- and even having this reputation among their own employees (that they don't listen) nothing about DU today adds up to "this game is going to turn around"
 
Yes, the premise still has potential, but not the game.
 
There's simply too much broken to me and no sign that NQ is capable of fixing it or humble enough to recognize their faults and make changes accordingly. 

MMO in this case stands for Marginally Multiplayer Online.

I do hope this game can somehow claw itself back from the edge, but I have my doubts.

Notice I said the word "magic"?  Reports of some of the vanguard members quitting publicly in the last few months was a real eye opener for those paying attention.  It sends a powerful message to the devs, but I'm not sure they are even there to receive it.  We appreciate your work regardless.

How is SLI doing as of April 1st?

I hear this from every corner by now. Some miracle is supposed to fix something. How is that supposed to work?
Please keep in mind, in 4 months it will be August and technically 1 year beta aka softlaunch. You can now draw your own conclusions.

Still pretty united actually.   Just not entirely united in DU ?
.....starbase is looking promising btw.
 
We keep checking in and hoping that some magic patch will fix things in DU and every few days that hope wanes a bit more.
 
 

Even better:
 
- "Boss, it's 3.6"
- "Not great. Not terrible."

Absolutely not true. We just sold a building for 100,000,000h. 
 
 

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I WILL 

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I am saying you being too generous. With the fiasco that was .23, because the gameplay loop infrastructure wasn't in place for it, a gutted .24 straight up flirts with disaster. 

Honestly for any crowd funded/beta MMO that you want to join you need to ask yourself...did you get your moneys worth out of this game.  Maybe you spent 100's of dollars, maybe less, but did you get your moneys worth before we got to this point.  I know I did for what it's worth (those of you who know me will get the joke), maybe you did too and are willing to risk it again.  
 
There are a lot of beta games that I still play (most have not been released), I have gotten my money's worth out of almost all of them, or I am striving to get that money out of it every update.

Thanks for the time and effort you've put into the DU community.
Will be shitty to see you go too, But at this point all we can really do is watch as everyone evacuates.
 
 
 

Imagine this scenario:
You are a member of my org
I have a grudge against you. 
I kick you of the org
Then i open a ticket asking NQ to delete your base from my org's hex. 
I tell them i am unable to contact you and need that zone. Yet, i am perfectly able to contact you but i choose not to because i want you to lose your construct. 
 
What should NQ do? 
Ignore my delete request? 
Delete your base without any confirmation of my story? 
Become my personal secretary and mediate the dialog with you? 

I one 1/2/3 months form now I think we will have mostly forgotten about all of this.  So don't let it get to you and just look beyond this idea. 
 
The only important thing from DU is the connections you have made while you were here.  Fortify them and move beyond the game itself.  Because while the connections are real to the people you met, the game doesnt exist, never has and very likely never will.  It was always just a collection of ones and zeros imprinted in magnetism, and before you know it....it won't even be that.
 
It is almost time to let go,  you will be ok.  There's always another beta. 
 
         -Always.

I one 1/2/3 months form now I think we will have mostly forgotten about all of this.  So don't let it get to you and just look beyond this idea. 
 
The only important thing from DU is the connections you have made while you were here.  Fortify them and move beyond the game itself.  Because while the connections are real to the people you met, the game doesnt exist, never has and very likely never will.  It was always just a collection of ones and zeros imprinted in magnetism, and before you know it....it won't even be that.
 
It is almost time to let go,  you will be ok.  There's always another beta. 
 
         -Always.

Probably a lil of column A under a looming column B.

Well judging by the cricket noises we are hearing lately, it is not a good sign.
 
A player base and a game company are in a simple relationship.  Like any relationship, communication is the most important factor to keeping that relationship stable and long lasting.  For the last few weeks, communication has been one way only.    This is usually the point where at least one of the partners starts looking around for other relationships.....

the idea is bad and you should feel bad, necroing threads to post it there as well doesn’t make it better.

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Been playing the game daily again since around valentine’s day.
 
only about 5 of us out of the 50 or so registered in the org still play. 0.23 was brutal on the player numbers. 
 
But our lot are working with an org called MTI to build up the area around Madis District 3.