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Emptiness

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  1. That's not the reason for t1 ore prices going crazy. The topic below covers the real reason.
  2. You (general you) know what you must do, then. Time to burn it all. Kill all the markets, all the districts, tear down this sand castle and scatter it to the winds. Perhaps something better can reform from the ashes. Mods, when you see this, remember that you have been protecting a corrupt institution. If you help, you will be lauded as heroes one day.
  3. I heard a rumor about how people can set any construct to public. Basically, either have a laggy connection or be really fast, approach a random construct, and before the client loads the rights, r-click the construct and share it with all. Any truth to this?
  4. The cognitive dissonance from certain people in this thread is astounding. Do ya'all hear what you're saying or do you just crap all over the forums and then dance away?
  5. Territory scanners are barely working, either. Just spent 25 minutes waiting for a trio to complete when they normally take 15min exactly. When I got tired of waiting and checked the others I'd dropped, half of them said the scan was aborted due to movement when there is no possible way they could have moved. Starting to wonder if the dev team has given up on the game and we're seeing the last gasps before they kill the servers forever.
  6. No bugs were exploited. RDMS was messed up, and stuff happened. And NQ said that exploits of improperly set up RDMS were not punishable by NQ. Seems NQ lied.
  7. If a gate is left open and the goats get into the vegetable garden, do you blame the goats or the negligence which led to the gate being left open?
  8. Any of you database people know how often backups would be run on a database like the market orders? I mean .. NQ did do regular backups, right? Everything I've seen seems to indicate NQ does no backups at all. I heard about some industry batching error that caused millions of ore to be deleted and NQ did no rollbacks at all...
  9. Conspiracy time. Did player action result in the market data getting wiped, or is this a False Flag operation from NQ to make an excuse to ban the people who disassembled their market? Watch for Market 15's orders to mysteriously reappear soon, as they were never really deleted or lost.
  10. Because the devs are children, lashing out in the only way they ever learned? Agreed.
  11. Players lose bases? NQ is like .. eh, who cares, not our problem right now. NQ's Aphelia loses a market? PANIC! PERMABAN EVERYONE!
  12. I'd like your post for this, but it seems I have no more that I can give, for now.
  13. Quite a few people have attempted to compare this marketplace destruction to real life examples, but none have seemed very relevant. Allow me to provide one of my own. Redundancy as a form of Disaster Mitigation. Imagine that you work for a well known bank situated near the bank of a river that is known for 100 year floods. Everything goes as normal until one day, a rainstorm of unprecedented size causes the river to swell considerably beyond its normal size, flooding the nearby town and destroying all of the computers in the bank. But surely, you think, the bank was not where all the banking data was stored? Surely there were remote servers and multiple offsite redundant backups? Alas, the situation is far more grave. The bank's directors in their naivety thought that such a disaster could never occur, and they had no backups at all. All transaction and account histories were lost. Rollbacks of a server imply that backups are kept. I'm not sure NQ does. See the example described in this post.
  14. You know that was intended to be silly, right? Regardless. The dev response was completely disproportionate.
  15. That IRL scenario you mention has zero relevance for what happened in the game.
  16. It was only so 'important' because of dev incompetence. Nothing more. In a sanely designed game, destroying a market would've had no effect on the market orders, and replacing it and getting it functional again would take maybe 5 to 10 minutes at most. Instead, the devs decided to tie the market orders to the existence of certain elements in the market, and we have this snafu.
  17. Never said NQ was a player. However, Aphelia definitely is one.
  18. @NQ-Naerais, you realize this makes you look like hypocrites, correct? https://support.dualthegame.com/hc/en-us/articles/360016890940-Clarification-Regarding-Bug-Exploits-and-Griefing Aphelia owns the markets. Aphelia is a player, as evidenced by the fact I can add them as a contact and add them to RDMS policies and they're listed as a player there. Come on.
  19. The game was ruined because of dev incompetence, not the market defacement. The market data should NEVER have had its existence tied to the market terminals or any ingame element.
  20. Except that it wasn't NQ stuff. The markets are owned by Aphelia. Where is it stated that Aphelia is NQ? Aphelia should not be NQ. This market heist should have had an ingame response, not a Hand of Zod response.
  21. Yeah. I'm about to head back to Gregtech New Horizons. Far more compelling than this.
  22. Why should that affect anything? Why should it ever have affected the market orders? Fixing it should be as simple as deploy new market, adjust line of code in market control script to access that part of the database again. Done.
  23. Excuse me? Are you saying no blueprints were made of those markets? 'Fixing' it should be as simple as deleting the old construct and replacing it. A task that would take a couple minutes, maximum, with the blueprints. This is a reaction I would expect from children in a sandbox, not mature adults. edit: Apparently the 'quick fix' is a reference to the market orders. To which I have exactly one reply: What? Market orders should be stored in the database and no removal of market constructs should EVER affect those.
  24. This could be our first glimpse of how player markets could work. Can a market terminal have its properties edited or interface with lua somehow to set what market it is tied to? Wonder if I could buy an, ahem, liberated terminal from the deconstructors.
  25. Seems there was a heist of the century. Screenshots from the reddit post And someone on the discord went there and took this screenshot: So. That happened.
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