Dargoth

personally i have stopped playing already due to i cant sell my ore for any value worth it. and i dont like missions. and unless i can get somthing to play for or hope for the game is dead to me. not being able to aquire anything except t-1 ore and then not being able to sell it to even pay for tile rent and blueprints ? seems like the developers want to have a small server.   very small....

Personaly i like to play solo and have almost got my tri scanning ship built. Now i realise its a waste of time as the large orgs have already gobbled up everything. seems like my goal of finding a small t-2 or t-3 tile is gone. and i also read that asteroids are gone with 30 people on them within minutes. if this doesent change i will also be gone in a short time. plenty of other games that cater to soloers. 
i already tried the game before and quit when things went south. seems like i wont last even as long as last time. make a change or see us leave

I see that  the goals i set for myself to make this game fun are not possible. i dont like pvp so mining, building ect are goals that will keep me around. but when the ability to even find some t-2 or t-3 ore on this huge planet Alioth is already gone when i havent even finished my tri scanning ship.? i will try and find a way to enjoy game play but without changes to mining so we all have a chance to find a good mining spot i will lose interest.  The decision to only place a few large ore flowers of rare ore. is going to lead to only a few subscriptions for NQ. cant you see people need a goal? but if you force people to only play one way its not a sandbox. i played EVE since beta and even though they put rare ore behind pvp they still made it possible for the rest of us (the majority) to be able to have access with other methods, random spauns ect.

You fell into the trap we all fell into in beta.  This is a corporation game.  They don't sell it like that because corporations need mining drones.  You either join and org and be their drone or you drone for all the orgs.  It is by design.  YOU are playing wrong, not the corporations.  What happens next is an exodus of players. 

These auction games work in a large healthy economy but in the case of DU where there is extremely limited resources and only a tiny handful of sizable orgs, the richer players win. Ie. the players sitting on the tiles of T2 and the richest players (orgs) could eventually force all the other players off their own T2. 
 
im not a game designer, I have no idea how NQ can fix the conundrum they’ve found themselves in. 
 
 

a system like this will inevitably support further killing off the player base of this game
 

We need another wipe and terrain reset. Some of those cretins that made ships and wrote Lua are still around. And they are sucking up all the ore. If there isn’t going to be any ore left for newbs to mine we need to keep releveling the playing field until there isn’t any advantage left.

The apparent amount of T2+ ores on planets/moons seems seriously and extremely low and literally kill unit miners.
 
Basically all T2-T3 on Madis and Thades seems claimed, moons too; zero way for new players to grab a tile.
 
What do you think?

Mining flowers with limited quantities people mass scan to sell and ore grief and can easily be grieffed

mining flowers people can claim the center of and pay 500k every 3 weeks to hold onto to further minimize access of flowers to other orgs. 

pvp players/pirate types can will/have done things like this. and people as they build up will build into abusing such a system

we need a new mining system, at bare minimum they need to get rid of the flower system raise the average ore rate and lower rarity of ores

Pretty much all the T2 has already been claimed. 
 
many newbies will only get dregs and the asteroid system is obviously not working. You know you have a problem when there are less asteroids than major orgs. 
 
It is clear that NQ have created a game that will create a first tier of unmovable, impenetrable incumbents and leave nothing for the second tier.  Kinda like their ore. 
 
now if they brought in a planet where the ores shifted gradually over time that would be far more viable long term than the current system but totally unrealistic…
 
As it is, all the planets are basically pwned less than a month after the game went life. 

knowing that they can never find anything other than T1 again means many miner type players have left. 
 
Imagine creating an MMO where nearly all the key central assets are permanently locked down within 30 days without a chance to ever challenge them. 
 
thades is dotted with hexes that have a single TU and a single mining node. 
 
zero development, zero building, zero “sivileyezashun”. 
 
“but more planets” I hear some say…  sure another couple of week’s “gameplay” and those planets too will be devoid of anything but T1. 
 
to end my rant, or as the younguns like to say, TLDR:
 
The game is a paradox. It feels simultaneously deserted yet at the same time, the logistics of this game is only suited to  support triple digit player numbers maximum and is flawed at such a fundamental level that NQ will need to pull something spectacular out of their collective… hats … in order for this game to last past the year in any meaningful way. 

Several months in now but this patch has me looking for something else. Day before patch the game crashed on me while flying a load of iron to market. 3k from ground logged back in a instant crash again.  Total of 4 crashes before I got a relog to hold.  By then. Ship crashed.   This is my first crash induced by game crashing.  No errors.  Just instant poof. Windows screen. So I repaired the ship and core.
 
login today after patch. And learn.  No more repairs to core.... I think ok. Build extra.......36million for BP..    I have 45million total.   Doesn’t compute. I don’t mind repairing my ship for crashes that are my fault.  But it’s to much to ask me to try and do those repairs now with all the barriers.
so either make flying safer some how or easily repaired. When it’s not our fault.
 
I don’t mind the BP requirement now. But give us at least the tier 1 items. Things like ore scanners cores ect.  Then make better version of them for purchase.
my reasons for playing this game are about exploring so I am waiting to see a galaxy... not one solar system and I want to be able to fly to a distant planet and still manufacture items I need.
I will continue skills for a while. But will be playing another game
some pve  Would be nice. Like empyrion 
but I am not willing to fly one of my nice ships with the current game setup 

So far I am loving the game. No losses and no real problems. Looking forward to multiple solar systems!!the only downside is the gaggle of greifers always trying to cheat. Have to wonder how some have lost all integrity and humanity . But game is great so far?

Discovering or knowing an issue, bug, or exploit and benefiting from it instead of reporting it to Novaquark is forbidden.
  seems to fall under this rule... Ban? wondering if maybe there are some from other games trying to purposely cause problems here

Discovering or knowing an issue, bug, or exploit and benefiting from it instead of reporting it to Novaquark is forbidden.
  seems to fall under this rule... Ban? wondering if maybe there are some from other games trying to purposely cause problems here

What is authorized or forbidden
Modifying the game files is forbidden, (except for the "Game/data/lua" folder (this is the only location where you can add or modify files). Modifying the game cache is forbidden (by default it is located in the directory C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\NQ\DualUniverse\) ; Reading or modifying the game memory is forbidden. Disabling, modifying, or attempting to evade the anti-cheat in any way is forbidden. Playing at the same time with two or more accounts is forbidden (having several accounts is fine as long as you only play with only one at a time).
  multi boxing is still FORBIDDEN for those who can’t scroll up to the official rules.   Game never intended for solo players to run gunships.  And someone complained about others being antisocial ?. Instead of breaking the rules get a buddy on your gun.

What is authorized or forbidden
Modifying the game files is forbidden, (except for the "Game/data/lua" folder (this is the only location where you can add or modify files). Modifying the game cache is forbidden (by default it is located in the directory C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\NQ\DualUniverse\) ; Reading or modifying the game memory is forbidden. Disabling, modifying, or attempting to evade the anti-cheat in any way is forbidden. Playing at the same time with two or more accounts is forbidden (having several accounts is fine as long as you only play with only one at a time).
  multi boxing is still FORBIDDEN for those who can’t scroll up to the official rules.   Game never intended for solo players to run gunships.  And someone complained about others being antisocial ?. Instead of breaking the rules get a buddy on your gun.

Obviously these players who used the exploit will do so in the future if they can so I say good riddance. Bad behavior should never be rewarded at least take their stuff that was not gained by proper game mechanics. It overly obvious to most players that this was an exploit