TonyTones

The short answer is that the amount of players has declined since all of the ships and buildings were built, and since most of those videos were recorded. I will add that there are some bigger space stations with some people on them but we're talking small numbers out there.

I don't expect a dev to cater to us but this situation is a bit different. Unlike EVE for example, they require us to support them through this dev period to make it to release. Plus this game takes a large amount of hours to get anywhere as you probably know. The point is I'm not going to sink hours grinding to get to a position when it's looking like this game won't last long enough for me to finish another project.

With the new head of NQ being an investor. Maybe we can try to look at the company in a way he is likely to be looking at the company. He has hinted at gaming being the future in entertainment so there's some hope there but NQ has lost quite a bit of money. The financials paint a bleak picture and its either go deeper in hopes of saving it or get as much back as you can. Every day that goes by with no announcement tells me they have no respect for the time and energy we have invested. They may be trying to avoid a panic but that ship has sailed. If you throw in .23, .24 (no missions) and the last 3 months of almost no coms despite promises stating otherwise. I'm starting to think It's unwise to be invested in this project (as a player). Purpose of this post? More noise for NQ to see we would like answers. If no response comes of all of these posts by various people, its GG DU

Ya, I haven't seen a single person get punitive action besides the market 15 guys. Possible it happened in alpha since I only caught the tail end of alpha. Maybe some players had some duped items removed early beta if I remember correctly. I don't think there's manpower available to hunt people down. Add to that the fine line on most of this stuff. It would only be fair to have a list of exploits available before they start taking action and we don't even get complete patch notes that list all changes.

Sanctuary has small ore deposits and you can only mine on a claimed tile on sanc. Would recommend moving Alioth sooner than later

You can do the tutorials at the institutes for talent points to speed things up. If I were starting fresh and trying to speedrun to 10m, I would do all working tutorials then use that money to buy/build a tiny mining ship. Spend talent points on linked range, mining, piloting, core placement and a couple others. Then fill the mining ship, sell ore and upgrade the ship, then repeat to 10m. probably missing something but that's the gist

big sad

ty man! And although my post comes off grumpy, I am excited for missions

We really don't need a repeat of .23 but with the communication being so sparse, It's concerning. Servers just went down so taking bets on what's broken and to what degree it's broken when they come back up. reminder that .23 let people BP any construct they owned regardless of drm among other issues. That took a week to fix so rip ship sales back then

Nearais was in discord answering questions, chatting and fielding the criticism very gracefully. I thought it might be a short lived interaction with all of the hate that was being vented but we all had a good discussion. Hopefully we can get back to stuff like that if it's not too much strain on resources/time. I too have been critical of the lack of communication since .23 but I would like to take a moment and thank you for interacting with us and maybe restoring some hope.

RIP DU RIP Naunet. she tried..

I'm not trying to be a troll or overly negative but the interaction has fallen off of a cliff. Before .23 there were interviews pretty often, staff would communicate, Questions were answered. Perhaps we were spoiled and this new level of communication is just standard. I'm new to developing games but I actually wonder what's going on.

They're great for ammo production and for building out of since you can put plenty of items and never need to switch containers. The main reason I wanted them is for deploying huge BPs that 10 L container's simply can't do

Also need to make sure nothing is claimed and nothing has dynamic properties (like a named engine or seat with a config on it)

It doesn't make a whole lot of sense why it works like this but that's how it is for some reason. If you have any handling skills, it all gets reset either when making the bp or deploying it.

I don't visit the markets much and when I do get out to market 6 or 7 on Alioth its somewhat laggy but tolerable. I park a short walk away and all is fine. That's my experience with my system and internet. I see people are having troubles and even leaving the game because they are crashing or just have unplayable frames on the big markets. I don't have an answer and I'm trying to leave my opinion out of this. I want people to vote and be heard by NQ if this is a major issue for some players.

Good points. Sad to see them throwing this away with all the bad decisions. Its like JC sees people having fun and thinks: enough of that! NERF. Hopefully when they fail they sell the game to someone who knows what they are doing and don't just let du fizzle.

Truth.

I just hope they are actually pivoting those people to tickets and not just going through layoffs and cost cutting because the game isn't doing that well. If tickets get answered faster that's awesome and there are some great community members dedicating alot of time to helping people which is super cool.

This is the most fun I've had playing a game. This game checks all of the boxes for me and I hate that fact. .23 Wasn't so bad after the adjustment to prices but the way factories were spoken about using words like "kill" and not being able to "revive" them... felt like an attack but a few of us pushed on The stealth nerfs with not even the mention of a change is getting old. Mega nodes cut down lastyear and talent nerfs... The game is too easy according to someone but It's already a full time grind to get anywhere. Turning it into a job isn't the way to attract players. NQ pulling out of the discord support channel to me is not a good sign. I don't know if NQ needs new players. The decisions that are make say no, they don't need players and are willing to lose us. There hasn't been an interview in a while when before .23 they were almost weekly. The list of new content (that adds to the fun of the game) since beta launch is RGB and some glass. I worry that that's another bad sign. Without speculating tooo much, I don't know If this will hit release and wonder if I'm just wasting time. I know others feel the same way but I wonder how many. I see many discords dwindling and playing other games, content creators leaving, and find myself hoping to find something to fill the DU void. All that said I still play and I still hope for a good outcome but man, It's concerning.

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The bot reset was a side effect of having to reset the bots to correct the mistake with the price change they tried to slip in this morning. Its a big screw up, we'll see what they say if anything at all.

I was repairing that ship. I'm not with them or anything but I can tell you that no missiles were destroyed all the way to red state. There were some down to 30% at times but there were 3 of us repairing constantly.