Vhaeyne

I can agree that there should be a cost to having HUNDREDS of tiles. Hell, I can agree to a cost to TENS of Tiles. Five tiles just seems a little small. There is a way they can do this without it being so punishing. I prefer not to be in debt every time I come back to the game from a few month break.

You can lose your shit if you have more than 5 tiles. That is the issue. Not being able to produce on a tile with unpaid taxes seems like a fair enough game mechanic. Losing shit does not seem fair. I don't know how many "free" tiles is too many, but 5 is too little. Especially if you built stuff before all of this was decided. The issue is being a SLAVE to the game at a minimum of every 13 weeks. I don't know about you, but being in debt and potentially losing some of my shit every time I take a brake is just not going to make me want to come back to the game.

Right, you should not have to break ToS/EULA of a game so that you can keep your progress and your commitment to your country.

You catch more flys with honey... I can understand not getting any ore for the pay periods you don't pay taxes. I just can't understand punishing players so harshly for taking breaks.

If it came down to it. I am dumb enough to get scammed into paying a yearly sub for the piece of mind that my shit will be there when I log into the game. I have been deployed, and I feel some your pain. I know how shitty it is to lose access to all of your steam games because you can't connect your computer to the internet for 8 months. I don't know if that is still the way it works, but I have had to deal with that shit policy. Not being able to play the games is bad enough, but in your case, you are losing shit in the game on top of everything else involved in deployment. I can only imagine if I was in your shoes, having to ask my friends to log into a game to pay my game taxes for me every 13 weeks.

Thank you for clearing that up. It gives me something to think about. It does not have to be in the game to the extent that they are proposing. Like I said at the start of this thread. Silence is consent. I have been content to lurk these forums for years now without saying anything. Nothing has been that big of a deal to me. This is a big deal to me. Adapt, die or leave.... I don't know what I will do. I know I can't be trusted to log in every 13 weeks. Even if I pre-paid the sub a whole year. There are times when I am just too deep into something else.

As far as I understand it, I would have to start 5 orgs to get these HQ tiles? Why should I have to abuse the org system to get tiles? What if I wanted to just be in some other people orgs? Like the way the game was intended to be played... I could pay a year in advanced every year. I am fine with that. I know it's a bridge to far for many, but I would personally be willing to do that. What I will not do is log in weekley to any game ever. Not weekly, not monthly. I have games tattooed on my body that I don't play even yearly. It's not that I don't like DU, it's that I don't like compulsory commitment. I claimed a small circle of seven tiles long ago. I have been working the area on and off since the game went persistent. I prefer not to be beholden to that project because the DEVs decided to tax us at an insane rate. To put salt in the wound, they put a 13 week prepay cap on taxes? What if I wanted to grind out a years worth of peace of mind? I can't even do that. The upkeep and restrictions are just too much for me. I can see some tax on a ton of land, but a lot of tax on a little land kills me.

I don't ever post on here, but I feel that silence is consent and I don't consent. 500k per hex initially. 1mill per week per hex in taxes? Monthly... maybe? I still don't like that. Here is the issue. I love DU. I backed it in the Kickstarter. What I don't love is feeling forced to play a game just to keep my progress. It is why WOW is failing and FFXIV is winning right now. FFXIV encourages its players to take breaks. "Go play other games for a month or two. Come back fresh and enjoy your time in this game."-basically Yoshi-p WOW basically does the opposite, and people are fed up with it. Which is why it is dying. Logging in every few days to play a mining mini-game is a lot like WOW asking me to daily quests every day just to have access to the same type of content I can get in FFXIV at any point in the patch cycle. Other players are realizing that you don't have to bust your ass all the time to enjoy an online game. I have a full steam library of voxel games. I assure you, if I wanted to build a big spaceship or space station by myself. I could load up StarMade in a heartbeat and have a good time. In some ways, StarMade is a better voxel game than DU. I know many of you will agree with that. If not maybe you like Space Engineers, StarBase, Emyprion, Stationeers, Starship EVO, or something else more? As players, we have options for building ships and stations. The service DU provides is that we are all on a single persistent world. That is the one good stand out thing this game does. I built a god-damn Gundam that waked in Starship Evo back when it was called "Skywanderers"... The voxel tech here is cool, but it's not that impressive. I am actually limiting my build potential by playing DU in some ways. I put up with DU's jank and quirks because of the idea that I don't lose progress when I take breaks. I am good to play a voxel game for two months tops before I need to take a brake for like two to three months. I get burnt out. Same with any other game type. If I lose progress or have to bust my ass to pre-pay my taxes. I just won't. RECONSIDER THE DAMN TAX RATE. MAYBE MONTLY. CONSIDER ALLOWING MORE THAN ONE FREE HQ TILE. I refuse to be in a situation where I am a slave to this game. I still have the old build on Skywanders on a HDD somewhere where you could build mechs. It would be a lot cooler if I had a reason not to just go do that instead.

When your five-head plan is to dig a bunch of holes as a result of the devs showing you they can fill all the holes instantly... Taxes aside, I have no problem with the update so long as they excavate all the cores I put in tickets for. Things did seem to run smoother on the PTS.