Doombad

I could agree more.

Right or wrong is measurable, as is everything. DU is bleeding players. Worse, they are bleeding long-time, dedicated, and influential players. NQ clearly has no plan and have gone silent. There is no excuse.

DU is on a bad path right now. Demeter is a flop and the silence from NQ is deafening.

NQ is losing players (and money) because they have managed to make the gameplay experience worse over time and demonstrated little more than contempt toward players. NQ build the foundation of a game for which a great number of people want to play.

Sorry to see you go. NQ managed to make a boring and tedious activity like mining become more boring and tedious with less reward. That almost takes skill.

The beauty of DU is that there are no classes and so no real balance. There is no RNG. It is just math. The closes anyone gets to RNG is the path one might take when scanning tiles and that is just individual luck and effort (how many tiles do you scan).

Exactly

Completely disagree for a number of reasons, primarily based on the fact people are paying a monthly fee. Second reason being it makes no sense to reverse tile abandonment for solo-owned tiles. Why keep those around if there is an impending wipe. Your rationalization of getting to play through again is just mental gymnastics. DU is a sandbox MMO. People play these games at their own pace in their own way. There is no playing through experience. It is building up and establishing your foothold in your own way.

You missed the point. It’s about trust. It is not about the lack of current roadmap. It is about NQ saying and doing something, then changing their minds with no notification. Mega is right that current actions border on deceit or stupidity. Take your pick, both are damning. Losing players like Mega is a telling loss and I hope NQ pays attention. Their communication is shit. Their wishy washy stance on everything is shit. I love DU and want it to succeed. I think NQ treats loyal players like shit and this is what kills games.

This is the real disappointment.

NQ has human’s working for them, therefor they are imperfect and don’t think of everything. It’s simple.

I think the lesson we are learning (maybe some of us are late catching on) is that NQ simply lacks the integrity to just communicate their intentions. Everything is vague. Everything is qualified.

NQ needs to find their sack and just say what they plan to do. No more of this wishy washy crap. Have some integrity, make a decision, communicate their intent, then deal with the consequences.

What Org balance? What Org(s) is/are running the show, impacting others? The answer is none. In what way do new players not stand a chance? Stand a chance at what? Winning DU? How do large orgs hinder new players? From what I see, they ENABLE new and existing players. I also think taxes will cause a soft wipe where a lot of inactive tiles will free up and structures torn down. At this point, how would wiping improve the state of UD or make it better for launch? I mean people with means actually offset the shitty noob experience.

You missed tedious. I am personally enjoying working on my space station. I have the resource I need so I am content. I do a couple asteroids on the weekend when they all magically appear weekly. I partially enjoy this because I like flying my Roider around. I also enjoyed mining so I find it relaxing in moderation. I did some scanning but don’t enjoy that much. I will resume when I get the next couple stages done on my station. That said, I don’t enjoy the MU tedium. It is the kind of daily in-game chores I really dislike. I hope NQ revisits this mini-game shit. The more things players must micro-manage the worse off.

Let them experience it all. LOL!

They don’t have to give their game bad press. They can play the noob experience for first hand experience. They can then go behind closed doors and complain like everyone else. I think this is critical because the noob experience is everyone’s first impression, which can make or brake games.

I agree with this. I think taxes introduced an ongoing cost regardless of income. In a way, it is an extremely regressive flat tax. Mining also more tedious and something for which everyone must do to either earn quanta or build. For example: A pure builder previously could go mine some bauxite or whatever material they needed, when they needed, as much as they needed and get back to building the next day. Now mining is an infrastructure effort where miners must mine enough to cover taxes plus materials. It also takes longer to get what you need. Net: getting resources is something for which requires planning, quanta, and time from people who typically enjoy spending their time elsewhere. We are also coming down from an extremely high inflationary point where people made massive amounts of quanta to a place of low margin yield for most people. Some are still hitting it rich, but not the masses. I like the idea of auto miners but I am not a fan from the tedium required.

Childish response to a good suggestion.

This is a great idea.

My point is you can get the base rate doing nothing and for those motivated to do the drudgery of calibration can earn greater profits. There needs to be some sort of compromise. The current system feels more tedious that mega mining. Taxes are not going away. Neither are MUs. So, how can NQ improve the gameplay as opposed to just hanging the structure of the gameplay. What levers can be pulled and pushed to refine what’s in place. edit: re-read what you posted and I think we are in agreement.

If you play much you will see the community is pretty great. There will always be outliers. So, don’t judge the many from a few assholes.

That’s a great idea. A base rate with no calibration. Calibration is for bonuses.

I like the introduction of MU’s. The problem is that the maintenance process introduced is tedious, repetitive, and uninteresting (not fun). It also requires daily logins. I saw a week suggested. Maybe that is too long. I would like to see a review for how this process could be improved. The easy one is extending the calibration time. Maybe other people have better ideas.

I truly hope they don’t wipe. If NQ does decide to do so, I will continue to play until the announcement and then move on. I know I am just one player, but I suspect there are many like me who joined the Beta with the impression what we built would carry forward.