Sarrah
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1 minute ago, Wyndle said:
They said there will be a timer, they didn't say the timer would remain the same. How much ore can an org nom from a rock in 20 minutes? If they're not watching the timer they'll still be sitting and waiting for you to get your pew on. Everyone is full on T1, but that isn't what we'd be going into your turf to get now is it? Instead of jumping the instant it goes to rumored you'll have to be ready to jump to catch them before they leave. But you wouldn't want a whole bunch of ore would you?
Personally. Coming from a pvp / mining org leader myself. This is a good change and will add more depth to pvp hunting and mining all together. It's a good compromise. The only people who will not like this change are the Legion and BOO guys who pray on new players who mine and don't know the strategies to avoid a pvp encounter.
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3 minutes ago, Idris Kael said:
Agreed, however maybe they bought the assets from Frontier?
That would cost more than making their own, if they did this... That's even more lazy and a waste of our sub money. Bad business..
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I like the changes... Seems well thought out and player oriented.
The tactical map though.. Is there any worries of intellectual theft? That is pretty much a 1 to 1 rip from Elite... -
It's no secret NQ isn't that popular among most of the core player base. There's a few stragglers who will back NQ no matter how hard they kill the player base and how many bad changes are made but the lack and loss of players since beta and release is notable and a problem NQ needs to recognise.
With that being said, I'm not here to criticize NQ on what they've done wrong. If they're not already aware of this they should be so I wont pound this in here.
Now I want to make this clear. I love this game and its potential. It is 100% possible to Love DU and dislike NQ. The DU idea is where the love sits. The lack of NQ's understanding the game and their lack of understanding of the players is where the problem is in my eyes.
Lets take a look at a game thats gone through a similar dev structure and situation as DU:
FacePunch Studios was a indy dev team ( literally a modder who went pro) that had its roots from Garry who designed "Garry's Mod" and later on "RUST". When Rust first started out it was just a tech demo within Garry's Mod. It progressed to what is now known as "Legacy Rust" which was a rough copy of what RUST is today and was built on a limited Game engine. The game was extremly popular and actually eventually out played its Engines capabilities. Garry having built his success off Garry's Mod had a very solid understanding on how his community and there for player base was extremely important in his success. He realized very early on they were the reason he was where he was. Without getting too indepth on how RUST was developed it always had one major rule structure and it went something like this:
**Players First** ---> Money Second ---> Outside Investment Last.
With this rule in mind, Garry and FacePunch knew that Legacy Rust couldn't be upgraded to fulfill what the players wanted. But they saw the opportunity and potential the game had.. The extremly hard decision was made to scrap Legacy Rust and design a new Rust from the ground up, Engine and all. This was HARD WORK, a HUGE RISK, but... it was what was best for what the players wanted and the games vision.
Now with that history lesson complete. I'm not saying DU needs a new game engine or a redesign. What I'm getting at here is DU sits in a very similar situation business wise and in game development. Where NQ has failed and FacePunch thrived can be narrowed down to the way the two dev teams listen to their players as well as the fact that FacePunch devs were required to play Rust a certain number of hours per day to ensure they understood the game mechanics they were designing.
With over 4000+ hours in Beta and nearly a 1000+ hours in release, having stuck around through the disastrous 0.23 update and the later mining and territory updates that all saw a mass loss of players.. Its very clear to me after having been through FacePunches success from that Tech Demo in Garry's mod all the way to where RUST sits today. NQ could learn a lot about community and how to properly make big changes to DU through RUST and FacePunch's success.
Please, NQ if you're reading this. Take a quick look at https://www.rustafied.com/ and scroll through the games past few years of development and the early days. EVERY game change and update has been very accurately documented via Rustifieds awesome update news posts.
Take note on the changes, how they came about and how often the player base was consulted and accommodated. I understand these two games play very differently. But the core idea stands that they both require a somewhat accommodated and happy player base to succeed.
With all due respect. You have failed on this part NQ. The current player base and market situation speaks for itself. First things first. Require your devs to play the game. Set a required hour per week and pay them to use it. Second, from now on. Consider what changes you make and the effect they'll have on your games "FUN" game loops.
~Sarrah ~ (8900 hours in Rust, 5300 hours in DU)- Aaron Cain, Zireaa, Yoarii and 3 others
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The devs need to pay attention and learn from other more experienced Dev teams when it comes to Community and player communication. ( A open letter to NQ)
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Yeah, 18 hour Friday, Saturday's and Sundays.... since release day one. ( 9+ hour in game week days as well as a full time job 10+ hour days in tech)
LeeRoy, Kernel and SC0tty took 3 days off work on release and didnt sleep... ( Que no life comments)
HUGE station was the largest construct in game, Starlantis is currently holding that title.
We had some drama after the BETA wipe announcement where a Legate we played with for 2+ years stole all of our engine parts 1500+ of each basic engine part.. He rage quit hard enough to where he didn't want the station to fall into release ---> via BP's,
Admittedly some of us didn't either. I myself stopped playing.. But because of the theft we locked the station's RDMS and never looked back. out of the 5 of us 4 came back after release and rebuilt the station in hopes it would help the game build its player base.
For legal reasons we cant name the individual who screwed HUGE. Long simple story short, it was a former disgruntled NQ dev.. LeeRoy is not to blame here but he did rage quit after this person screwed us all ( once he was also aware of the wipe) . We had a rule to never look into other owners cores and storage. So when we lost our internal stash we never thought other owners also lost theirs. But apparently they did,
Its come to our knowledge that some did. If you're one of those people please send LeeRoy a message on discord. He will make it right.
This is "Starlantis" the largest construct in game atm.
Built by three players who all work full time jobs. Without exploits. Just a ton of time and a decent amount of effective planning.
Over 300+ cores, M, S and L.
We are here to try and make this game what it can be through proper feedback and experience.