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I think from a strategic stand point having a dynamic construct that is capable of fitting a Warp Beacon to it and allowing org members to warp to that vessel would really bring about some hugely interesting strategical developments in terms of how the fleet fights take place. 
 
Any such dynamic construct would need to have the following constraints imposed upon on it:
 
Expensive, these should not be throw away commodities, but instead treasured assets that organisations bring to the field when the reward for doing so outweighs the risk associated with using one. Heavily penalized in terms of maneuverability and ability to escape. I think this is important in terms of making sure the strategic decision to use one, even if it is expensive, it is so easy to escape in this game currently that they would still be overused if they are able to easily escape  
Where my head goes to in terms of an example use case is organisations bringing such ships to an exotic asteroid, placing their stake in the ground while they harvest the resources. Knowing full well they can bring in reinforcements. That stake is double edged however, as if they have not done their homework or underestimate the potential risk (think several alliances and organisations secretly banding together to attack Legion while we mine asteroids) then it could lead to some truly epic confrontations. 

I think from a strategic stand point having a dynamic construct that is capable of fitting a Warp Beacon to it and allowing org members to warp to that vessel would really bring about some hugely interesting strategical developments in terms of how the fleet fights take place. 
 
Any such dynamic construct would need to have the following constraints imposed upon on it:
 
Expensive, these should not be throw away commodities, but instead treasured assets that organisations bring to the field when the reward for doing so outweighs the risk associated with using one. Heavily penalized in terms of maneuverability and ability to escape. I think this is important in terms of making sure the strategic decision to use one, even if it is expensive, it is so easy to escape in this game currently that they would still be overused if they are able to easily escape  
Where my head goes to in terms of an example use case is organisations bringing such ships to an exotic asteroid, placing their stake in the ground while they harvest the resources. Knowing full well they can bring in reinforcements. That stake is double edged however, as if they have not done their homework or underestimate the potential risk (think several alliances and organisations secretly banding together to attack Legion while we mine asteroids) then it could lead to some truly epic confrontations. 

No, no and no.
 
If you don't want PvP don't go to the PvP zone.

There is a gigantic safe zone which was expressly created for this.
If people go out into the unarmed PvP zone it is THEIR problem, not this of the game.
 
The ore that we harvest in PvP zone costs us extremely more expensive than that which can be harvested in PvE zone. We are spending tens / hundreds of millions in quanta / playing time to have PvP ships to defend against pirates. We cannot let people freely mine without making this effort, it is unfair competition.
Someone so unlovable and condescending that you will have to understand this.
 
DUAL UNIVERSE is an initially PvP game. Yes, PvE has to see its place. But it's not YOUR game.
You have the right to play the role of victim but stop cry like a child.

I love all the salt in this post, Kergon x1 thank you
 

Hello all, I thought I would take the time to write up a summary of the events that led to the creation of Legion. For those unaware, Legion is a new pvp alliance formed from a group of former Ascendancy member orgs and as far as i know, Legion is the largest alliance in DU at the moment in terms of character count and fleet size.

The buildup to this mass exodus from AC was a long time coming. The first issue being an issue of many orgs in DU, afk leadership. AC was plagued with afk leaders and in a few cases entire organizations that had moved on to other games but did not step down from leadership or giving up their voting powers. These people would continue to vote on important issues and control the actions of the people who actually play the game. For example a vote was started in the AC to ban the shooting of ships in pvp space unless they shot first, effectively banning any control over space resources. This was voted on and decided by people who primarily didn’t play the game.

After months of only a small subset of AC players actually helping and contributing to the growth of the Alliance the catalyst for the departure was the announcement of asteroids. ATOM attempted to pass a vote requiring all AC orgs to participate in the defense of space assets. This vote ended up failing with the majority of the votes cast by players who no longer played the game or who never participated in the alliance in general.

Du has evolved from the beginning, while at first the only thing that mattered was the amount of people in your du community org, to building as a group because of a lack of a market, to single players being able to buy and build everything possible in the game. The game has changed from being a solo minecraft type game to a game where cooperation matters and more, specifically pvp Space matters. Having easy access to missions, the best way to make money in the game. To asteroids in space having the most valuable resources in the coming patch. Knowing who has your back, who will be there to help you without thinking, and who is in it only for themselves has become extremely important.

Legion was founded on these ideas. Getting access to the best income and resources in the game through pvp. Creating the largest fleet to ensure the safety of this income. Generating content to keep people engaged and playing. And generally improving our skill and members standing in the universe.

Signed,
Mulligan
Super legate of ATOM
Executive of Legion

The road-map looks like it is priotising the items that are in dire need of attention and looks to be achievable for the velocity that NQ has demonstrated so seems like something you can actually imaging them delivering. It feels realistic, and even if they promised twice as much on there, I would only ever have expected them to deliver half - so why just not bs us and just be open and if they over-deliver? Great.
 
A good move on behalf of NQ as well would be to overlay the roadmap with the player surverys they recently undertook, and demonstrate if the results of that feedback align to their priotisiation to demonstrate they are listening to the playerbase. 
 
 
 

You're playing a game where we build virtual space ships out of virtual rocks mate, we are way past cringe.

May the skies of Feli burn and smolder with the voxel and carcasses of our victims. 

The AC has grave concerns over intel received this last week of missions being introduced into the universe. There are several groups of shady organizations delivering contraband out of Feli to several surrounding planets.
 
These shady organizations in question have been disguising dangerous shipments as mundane and routine ore and mineral shipments, such as scandium and chromium. Core Samples from these intercepted shipments are rumored to have been transported to the AC's home world where their best and brightest scientists will conduct further analysis. These materials can ABSOLUTELY not reach the hands of citizens for it could be devastating to the population!
 
The AC has formed the largest fleet the universe has ever seen to combat this threat and stomp out illegal and dangerous activities. Effective immediately all vessels seen attempting to leave Feli must stop and submit to cargo inspection or be immediately disabled.
 
All civilian traffic is warned that a convoy of AC haulers transporting valuable space fuel for these operations will be transported to the planet of feli at 3pm EST. This convey is being guarded by the AC fleet and unidentified vessels will not be allowed to approach.

Its time to purge Feli skies 

Yarrr!
 
Well, my press presence was little bit chaotic and last moment one (special thanks for guys who helped me to get into action -- @IvanGrozniy, @personality_matrix, @SpiceRub). Visuals/action itself covered much better by my more technicaly sophisticated collegues, streamers (special cheers to @Shamsie, great content). But I still want to share some impressions and thoughts about what happened. 
 
Subjective mode, obviously.
 
Results
 
My take -- its proverbial "tactical victory" for BOO (& Auxilaries) with more kills and control over field. They still probably (and so far) most numerious, organized, well equiped and experienced fighting force of DU. Yet, its surely its not time to relax, because this position now obviously contested. In this regard last battle not a defeat for ATOM & Co. Not at all. Despite more losses, they gained valuable experience, made a statement. And often in history "statement made" much more important, then per se singular victory, because it start long, but very conseqentual chain of events.
 
Political implications
 
I think its fair to welcome ATOM into "great powers" club, because fielding and more or less successfuly operating such battle group was not a small feat. Looks like @Mulligan humbly, but very methodicly grown his forces to very respectable level. If we assume, that other factions of AC awake and bring something to table too, balance of powers can change against BOO in favor of AC, if critical numerical superiority will be achieved. Still, options for diplomacy open for both sides and BOO obviously can go more long-term treaties to counter. With space-russians? Who knows.
 
State of game/PvP balancing
 
1) Game feels little bit drained on players, because even such big and active org as BOO, by my perception, stuggled to field more crews.
2) I personaly don't like current system favoring exessive voxel armouring, especialy with gold. Its bad both on combat and strategical levels.
3) Game still dangerously bugged, because some participants reported nasty desyncs and crazy things with always missing weapons. I hope NQ are working on this.
 
So?

We need more of such good fighting. Good for game.
 
 
 

During a trivia conversation with a bartender in the Crooked Vector bar, news spread that Telemai planet has been blockaded by some Greenpeace activists threatening Rum delivery and that supplies may soon run out. As Crooked Vector Alliance operation would be in danger of a complete standstill should Rum deliveries be halted, it was decided to dispatch a Tractor Pobeda(translation: Victory Tractor) class battleship named ANH Monstruoso to investigate.

After numerous failures to start the ship, mechanic Vasili Petrov figured out to pull the reserve potatoes out of the exhaust pipes and applied 3kl of duct tape around the steam engine allowing the tractor to start up. Unexpected arrival of a pair of slippers thrown from the captain compartment accidentally hit the warp drive toggle and the battleship entered warp.
On arrival, crew used last Rum reserves to dehibernate and manned the battle stations.

Captain Ivanov was still busy watching his favorite exhaust-pipehub videos featuring a young lady yelling FRACK while looking at him from the screen.
Unexpected and hard warp exit led to 3.5mm jack of Ivanov's headphones to be ejected from his PC and windows 95 switching sound output. The loud FRACK was broadcast on all ANH Monstruoso internal speakers.
Crew, being less proficient with English, interpreted the word as a command to ATTACK and unleashed a vicious barrage with 42 lasers on everything in the vicinity.
Once Captain Ivanov finally arrived to the bridge, investigation of the blockade could not be continued due to everyone shooting everything as well as presence of another large military force engaging the alleged Greenpeace activists.

Ivanov decided that his mission is a success and he can try squeezing the last drops of the X2 kergon from the fuel tanks as Rum will probably be scarce anyway.
Last information received includes broadcasts of uintepretable messages from the crew involving references to flying space skulls eating Greenpeace activists and lasers missing at point-blank range.

Stay tuned.

P.S:
Props to ATOM for creating content. We need more folks like you.

NQ, look at all the content we could of had with this if you didn't have a warp's exiting inside a planets safe zone, you didn't need asteroids, you just need sensible mechanics :(

NQ, look at all the content we could of had with this if you didn't have a warp's exiting inside a planets safe zone, you didn't need asteroids, you just need sensible mechanics :(

NQ, look at all the content we could of had with this if you didn't have a warp's exiting inside a planets safe zone, you didn't need asteroids, you just need sensible mechanics :(