its pretty bad that as a thank you for being a contributor and long term supporter of the game they gate contributor backers behind a pay wall. In fact, its not possible for a contributor backer to get the exotic pack as its not possible to buy 13 months game time...
Why NQ thought this was a good idea is beyond me. Contributor backers will always be 6m TP behind as a result. Some people say it doesnt matter, but in the early game, the first couple of years, it does, especially as a builder that sells ships with boosts.
The whole wipe fiasco was bad enough.... only NQ have the unique skill set required to make that even worse...
Total wipe. All BetaKey Users get nothing. Even Talentpoints get resetet to 0.
That's the end of Dual Universe for me. Was a great an nice time,but one should go when it was most beautiful.
When they say that people with X amount of months of subscription get X rewards, do people with unpaid subscriptions (beta keys) get these rewards, or no?
After calming down for a while and reading the quick turn of the boat I think I cold give my 2 cents:
1) First of all it really doesn't matter what the artificial limit is, there are going to be power user groups that will (need to) work around them.
I really feel for the people and groups who took the NQ dream of DU being player built cities and infrastructure into their hearts and are going to be paying for that. Which brings next couple of pointers.
2) We need tooling to determine which constructs which owner entity has and it's core limits, preferably yesterday so we can start preparing to the change what ever it's last form will be.
3) NQ pretty please consider Monument program for significant constructs that makes DU great. I mean projects such as "Hedronic Library" some of the facilities displaying all different honeycombs in shapes and forms etc. Point is we need a way to nominate great things that do make the game and the communities better to be preserved. On successful selection these "Monuments" should have their core slots sponsored by Aphelia and in case of the owner dismantling (org) or ending their subscription (player) these monuments should be inspected to be in the shape expected and frozen for everyone to still access. These Monument cores should also be protected from that "random" abandonment if their owning org runs low on core slots.
4) Lets be honest. Landscaping is crazy wasteful in the core usage and same time one of the biggest projects any base takes over. Think about paved runways, roadworks etc. Please give us tools to do accurate terraforming (I mean one does not make anything pretty with current terraforming tools that are accuracy of bucket wheel excavator) to get our parking lots and environment groomed and not spamming 100s of cores doing so. Like in real life once yo lay pavement down or pour concrete, you can't go month later to pick it up and use it somewhere else. Let us place honeycombs as part of terraforming directly on the ground, without core involved, but with the cost that the honeycomb becomes part of the environment and will be lost if replaced or modified.
I really think that the points 3 & 4 would be immense favor for the game, community and lessen the cores we all need to deal with.
