Atmosph3rik

Ahhh so that's why you lost. You were conned into wearing no pants?  
 
 

I think its the most stupid thing ever: a wipe. You mean to tell me that all the time we said: no kids/wife/friends, dad/buddy is playing a game right now is for nothing. My friends/kids/wife have waited for me for absolutely nothing?
Not even hours but days and even weeks spend here and all that time is wasted? You have paid money to waste your own time and after that pay to do the same thing again? You gain nothing of a wipe. Its not like SE or another game that you still have your ships and you can just load them in the new game.
 
Why are so many people asking for a wipe?
Are those people who have too much time on their hands?
Are those people who are spoiled and dont have jobs? (too tired to play after your job so when you do log in its precious time)
 
I dont get it, why would you ask to throw everything away you have build?
I think its because some are too greedy. With a wipe they can have an even better start and get even more precious ore than before because now they have a plan!
A wipe is for greedy & jealous people, thats for sure!! Everyone who asks for a wipe will be here on the first day after the wipe. None of them will wait a month or 2 and then join the game again, Im certain of that!
I dont care that my neighbours car is bigger than mine, I dont care that he just got it because of his purple skin colour. I have my own life that Ive got to build.
 
Greedy people, go build something instead of just wanting and hogging everything and do nothing with your 200 containers full of stuff. And if you want a wipe (start over) so bad, just get a new account and start the game fresh, or give away all your stuff and start out fresh. If anything has to be wiped, it is yourself. Dont force it upon others.
 
 
and breathe.....
 

Did your source want you to share this info publicly, when they shared it with you? 
 
Do you believe that this is info that the community needs to know, and that NQ has made the wrong decision in not making it public themselves?
 
Does your source plan on giving you more info in the future, like the specific date of the wipe, or details on what exactly will be wiped?  if so, do you plan on sharing that, or keeping the info to yourself?
 
It's ok, I don't actually believe you.  But i am interested in knowing whether you think it's ok for an NQ employee to share "insider info" like this?
 
Assuming you made the whole thing up, you're still basically accusing a (fictional) NQ employee, of doing something that could get them fired.
 
Just wonder what the goal is. 
 
 
 
 

Hahaha your credible source needs to keep me in the loop. I've heard nothing about a wipe! ?‍♀️

Dual Universe Magazine is back! (formerly Dual Universe Today). Here's the first issue. ENJOY! 

wow, nice ship! Hello everyone! ?

Dear NQ, 
 
Please for the love Quanta, please increase the copy/paste size limits. 
 
It is the single most annoying aspect of build large ships. 
 
Love, 
Wadiss. xoxo

Just to make sure we are all on the same planet here. 
 
You all are talking about a detection zone, on a ship, parked at a market, being able to log the names of any players that walk past it?
 
That's all right? 
 
If we're roleplaying that we're angry at the ORG doing it, because they're invading our imaginary in game privacy, then i'm down with that lol
 
But do people actually think there is something wrong with the ability to do this?  It was added so you can track players passing through the finish line of a race.  
 
 
 
 

Just to make sure we are all on the same planet here. 
 
You all are talking about a detection zone, on a ship, parked at a market, being able to log the names of any players that walk past it?
 
That's all right? 
 
If we're roleplaying that we're angry at the ORG doing it, because they're invading our imaginary in game privacy, then i'm down with that lol
 
But do people actually think there is something wrong with the ability to do this?  It was added so you can track players passing through the finish line of a race.  
 
 
 
 

You don't want to restart from zero, you want everyone else to start from zero. Everyone else says no. Stick to your backyard sandbox

NQ is destroying the economy, not the players intentionally.
They took advantage of NQ's mistake.
 
The blame is still NQ, not the players who bought those.

I've canceled auto sub renew, so i'm quite not pleased with NQ's Status Quo choice, even though i'm not an industrialist, i find their attitude shocking.
I hope, that they made this choice because they know that in the end, there will indeed be a wipe.
A wipe they cannot talk about, because they want the players to play the game at its full potentionnal in order to make it better.
Or,
The amount of players that took advantage of this is so small that they have assumed it won't impact the economy that much.
Or,
They simply have no tools to take action about this

Either way, it would be interesting to let the player base know how much players took advantage of this situation in order for each and everyone of those player to judge by themselves the impact it could have in the long term.
Either way, this is hard decision.. and once again, sadly, they chose the wrong one in my opinion.
(first being to drop the Schematics prices, so you can see on what side i'm on, if any sides at all)

Well i spent 10 hours yesterday building.
 
NQ's mistake cost me nothing.  A rollback would cost me 10 hours of work.
 
So there is a reason not to rollback.
 
Without knowing the extent of the damage caused by NQ's mistake.  It's hard for me to say whether they made the right decision.  But i think everyone in here should keep in mind that NQ DOES know the extent of the damage.  And none of us do.
 
So here we are /shrug

Well that's a bit of a mistake, lol. The people who have profited don't hurt my game at all however. There is no PvP or territory warfare to worry about people gaining advantage. I don't really see the problem. Although rolling back the last 24 hours of server history would be annoying right now, I've done a lot of good work.

If there is one thing that makes a game boring then it is having too much of everything and nothing to do. I hope some of the people who got rich off this still find a way to enjoy the game.

If the intended purpose of AGG is only to allow you to hover at a specific altitude,  why not just make it so that's all they do?
 
Turn it on and you stay at whatever altitude you are at.  Wouldn't even need the 1k height limit.  If you want to go up, you need thrust.
 
Am i missing something here?
 
If they create lift, of course people are going to use them to lift stuff.

Something similar has been suggested, but if I remember right, and this is the part that fits perfectly for lore, the source of the control facilities is the Arkship which is controlled by the AI that first woke us, Aphelia.
 

If the intended purpose of AGG is only to allow you to hover at a specific altitude,  why not just make it so that's all they do?
 
Turn it on and you stay at whatever altitude you are at.  Wouldn't even need the 1k height limit.  If you want to go up, you need thrust.
 
Am i missing something here?
 
If they create lift, of course people are going to use them to lift stuff.

I know, I've been going on and on about making a race track for a while now. Well, the two tracks are all laid down now and ready for racing, time trials, illegal gambling and so forth. I can't even begin to describe the hours or explain why I would willingly do this to myself, but I think this is the kind of community that understands insane building projects so I don't fear too much judgement. Think I might quit DU now for a while. To the handful of people who kindly donated a bit of material here and there your names have been cemented into the foundations of the course at various points. 
 
-2 separate and complete race tracks covering 10 hexes on Alioth
 
-The scale of the tracks allows for high speed racing. I'm really excited for to see what kind of racers people dream up. 
 
-A restricted class cup and an unlimited builders cup could be something for the future. 
 
-Head to Head racing for quanta
 
-There are pit garages for sale on site for race teams.
 
-Land plots available for opening shops and markets for those with a plan, contact me.
 
 
As for the racing and physics, I think what is possible with a bit of practice is really pretty cool. Like a 2021 version of that old classic nintendo game F-Zero if anyone is as old as me.
 
A  lap preview of the two courses can be seen as raw footage here:
 
 
 
Here is the super cheesy awesome bit I slapped together.
 
 
 
 
The total materials if anyone is interested are approximated here:
 
Aluminium: Countless millions of litres
Concrete: quite a lot
Luminescent glass: a really serious quantity 
Alioth sand and rock : >2mil L
Madis soil: 200,000 L
Symeon soil: 190,000 L
L and M cores: more than 135
Time for construction: 3 months more or less
Quanta spent: all of it
 
 
VR Station is open : Melanuma Super Speedway race track - come visit and set a waypoint, then come race and build.

I think the theory is that if there is a high demand, and no supply, the value of ore will increase to the point that the potential profit is enough of an incentive for people to go out and mine.
 
So the "somebody" who has to go out and mine, is whoever wants a piece of the action.
 
Eventually there will be enough ore, and the prices will drop, and then maybe almost no one will mine for a while.  Until the next boom.  Maybe some devious people will still mine, and sit on the ore until demand goes up again.
 
The missing puzzle piece right now is Demand, not supply.  People need more things to do with ore, and more things to do with Quanta.
 
NQ knows this.

Why would any of that require or benefit from a wipe?  you haven't explained that at all.
 
What your suggesting is basically what NQ did already.  Except A full wipe, followed by a huge influx of quanta and ore, to jumpstart the game.  And now they are tightening the purse strings and trying to find a balance.
 
I'm not so sure it was the best plan in the first place, and they definitely made some mistakes along the way.  But it's what they did.
 
All your suggesting is that they do it all again, but this time just for you.  How does that improve the game?

I think the theory is that if there is a high demand, and no supply, the value of ore will increase to the point that the potential profit is enough of an incentive for people to go out and mine.
 
So the "somebody" who has to go out and mine, is whoever wants a piece of the action.
 
Eventually there will be enough ore, and the prices will drop, and then maybe almost no one will mine for a while.  Until the next boom.  Maybe some devious people will still mine, and sit on the ore until demand goes up again.
 
The missing puzzle piece right now is Demand, not supply.  People need more things to do with ore, and more things to do with Quanta.
 
NQ knows this.

I think NQ needs to embrace the fact that when you make "risk vs reward" deadly serious, in a game, that makes every little bug deadly serious too.
 
There's only really three options i can think of to fix this right now.
 
1. Fix all the bugs.
 
2. Remove "risk vs reward" mechanics until all the bugs are fixed.
 
3.  Hire enough support staff so that they can handle the number of tickets that are coming in.
 
One is impossible, two sucks, and three is expensive.
 
But they need to pick one.

I think NQ needs to embrace the fact that when you make "risk vs reward" deadly serious, in a game, that makes every little bug deadly serious too.
 
There's only really three options i can think of to fix this right now.
 
1. Fix all the bugs.
 
2. Remove "risk vs reward" mechanics until all the bugs are fixed.
 
3.  Hire enough support staff so that they can handle the number of tickets that are coming in.
 
One is impossible, two sucks, and three is expensive.
 
But they need to pick one.

I think NQ needs to embrace the fact that when you make "risk vs reward" deadly serious, in a game, that makes every little bug deadly serious too.
 
There's only really three options i can think of to fix this right now.
 
1. Fix all the bugs.
 
2. Remove "risk vs reward" mechanics until all the bugs are fixed.
 
3.  Hire enough support staff so that they can handle the number of tickets that are coming in.
 
One is impossible, two sucks, and three is expensive.
 
But they need to pick one.

Please be patient. They are trying RP and it's their first time.

As you can clearly see in the Helios star chart Talemai clearly falls in the inner planets so you have 0 justification.