tomasco

I understand Mega's logic. It is understandable.
 
The game is in beta for 15+ months. And NQ is still learning how to do and communicate changes.
Example 1 - old tile scans. They said in videoblog - we don't know. And put update text - old scans will be kept. After few days - new info, they are going to be deleted.
Example 2 - HQ tiles. 1st info - Player need to flag tile as HQ. And later in release notes - we automatically assigned them for un-active players
Example 3 - taxes schedule. 1st info - it will be like this. 2nd info - NQ confirms 1st info and prepare nice picture with dates. 3rd info - release notes - we changed schedule.
 
This is chaos. Annoying. No predictability.
 
I don't agree with Physics's argument about listening to the players. It is good that they want to listen, but they need to do it properly. State what are you thinking about, ask players, make decision, stick to the decision. If you want to change it, do it with next release and properly communicate what is going to be changed and why.
 
 
 

- Make public VR pods on markets.
- Make public rentable container space on market.  / Allow player to put things into market container and mark them as bought stuff.
- Hide all constructs after 1 day parking on market tile. Hide all constructs on tile, don't forget the ones parked on AGG.

Yes, randomly stopped/jammed industry is a big issue. If you have bigger factory, it is crazy. And it is happening after every bigger update.
Also, please,  Unify the color indicators for state of industry. And make them work properly.

Warlander is angry because two of the basic dogmas of game are being changed.

Dogma 1 - once you install TU, territory is yours forever. This was never promised. The battle over territories was promised. But nobody was expecting economic battle …   

Dogma 2 – planetary/meganode mining is the most effective income method for solo players/builders. They are not much into mission running with 50 alts. This method is being lost and nobody explained them how they will work in the future. Most of them is mining because they need quanta to do their projects, not because they love mining.

He doesn’t know how to operate after change, schedule of the change, NQ communication is NQ communication.  I understand his angry reactions. I see that he is trying to find some solution. I don’t agree with his solutions but I like that he is trying to.

Let It Fade
 
       NQ (Novaquark) ignored correcting stacked builds and allowed a precedence of stacking when announcing there will be no punishment for stacking.  NQ is now saying that they will delete (without warning or compensation) Stacked ships when detected or turned in by fellow players.  Is this fair to the players of DU and is it a waste of NQ man hours in tracking down and deleting of these existing stacked builds on DU players?
     Removal of being able to stack in DU is good.  problems will be resolved by doing so.  PvP exploits will be eliminated and building will return as it was originally planned to be, just to mention a couple.
     However, perhaps the added deletion of stacked builds may be a bit to much.  Lets think of the ship collector that bought a ship because it looked great.  He may never fly the thing but spent millions of quanta to purchase this ship and put it in his/her show room, but now NQ will just delete it?  Or, perhaps the builder that used stacking of elements to create interesting new shapes, art or unique elements combo's.  Are all of the thousand of hours of work that these DU builders spent to be deleted?  Personally, I like the Idea of not having a big ass end on a ship.
     What is the purpose of even spending the man hours to find stacked builds or even to delete these builds.  Is this what NQ spends it time doing when the stacking issue will resolve itself, instead of addressing more pressing issues with in DU?   NQ made it so you can no longer make stacked builds nor replace the broken parts on stacked builds.  It seems it would be fair to just let stacked builds that are already in existence to just fade away.  Eventually these builds will have to replace parts from pvp conflict or crashes and since builds can not re-stack or replace stacked elements the ship is useless and there is one less stacked ship in the game.  Over time, stacked builds will become rarer and rarer (with pvp builds being the first to go) until they no longer exist. By just letting the problem fade away, the DU community will be happier, NQ man hours will be saved to work on other issues within DU, and everyone wins.  

To be honest, the current piracy meta was hunting in fish aquarium. If alt tagging was done properly, the victim hauler had no chance to know he was tagged and was practically dead. Yes, there were exceptions e.g. Eye of Apathy. But generally speaking, the mechanics was totally unbalanced.
On the another hand, we have warp drives, we have AGGs. Our space radars have WWII range and I don't want to comment atmo radars. This doesn't any sense. The resolution could be extending range by antenna, could be extending range for higher tier radars, maybe allowing space radars to do some sort of directional active scanning with extended range.  Or if the ship has active shield, the player docking will not be performed.

Did NQ do the cleanup? I can't really tell at D6. Maybe a bit more organized and higher quality clutter, but still.

There is 10 beginners starting locations. You are probably on one, he is on another.
Use Shuttle back to Alioth. On District use teleporter to selected district, e.g. District 1.
If both of you do that, you will end on the same place.

You are playing the game for fun or for earning quanta ?
How many mining game is popular compared to logistics based games ?  And flying simulators ...

So, lets summarize it.
NQ did the mistake and several players use this mistake. NQ didn't have balls to repair it.
Now Zeddrick is asking to punish thousands of innocent players who put their time and do the mining to accomplish something in the game.
 

So, lets summarize it.
NQ did the mistake and several players use this mistake. NQ didn't have balls to repair it.
Now Zeddrick is asking to punish thousands of innocent players who put their time and do the mining to accomplish something in the game.
 

i love the discussion about how devs would "never" code without backups or use built-in editors. 
 
uh, have you met coders? we do sloppy, shoddy work in the dumbest way possible all the time  

It's the old story: droid meets droid, droid becomes chameleon, droid loses chameleon, chameleon turns into blob, droid gets blob back again, blob meets blob, blob goes off with blob and droid loses blob, chameleon and droid. How many times have we heard that story?