[Khatt Mining Co. (CSYN Official Mining Division)]

I look forward to seeing how this organisation develops.

 

May the Lady smile on you.

[Exploration Galaxy map]

NQ has stated that there will eventually be some sort of galaxy map, but how exactly it will work is still not entirely known.

 

I do hope that exploration data will be able to be sold to interested parties. This would make deep space exploration a bit more interesting.

[NEW!!! Dr. Porco Quote of the Day]

Any relation to Porco Rosso?

 

Looking forward to todays quote.

[Ships and the crew required]

I think it will depend on what you want to do.

 

I am pretty sure you *could* pilot a massive ship alone. And it might be viable in friendly space.  But if something goes wrong having multiple crew will definitely make getting out of a pickle a bit easier.  For example manned weapons will perform better with actual players manning them rather than an automated system. Repairing damaged systems might also required at least some others.

 

If there is additional complexity from large ships, I don't think it has been announced yet.

 

Edit: Also boarding parties.  Watch out for those.

[Last Post Wins]

Who won?

[Thank you NovaQuark]

Don't worry Yama, DU will be here when you get back

 

 

And then, we'll be back to make 2017 a special year for the future of MMOs. That's our goal, you know it. 

 

 

^ goosebumps

[Aeonian Federation [Now Recruiting]]

Planning for everyone's tomorrow.

 

(Special thanks to Code24, again.)

[DICE (DU Gaming Commission)]

Please, welcome Osaci (aka Terawa) as a new DICE Official.

 

Osaci has some ideas for more DICE games and will be helping to drive DICE to greater heights.

[Inspirational Music]

I suggest updating the first post with music links as they become available. It saves a newcomer from having to search through all the posts to find the hidden gems

 

Also, more please.

[Prefabs]

the carry over sounds a little unfair :/

 

There are some organisations that will make at very least a basic set of blueprints available for general use.  Libraries got to be useful for something right?

[Introduction]

Welcome. Welcome. 

 

I will take one potato, please.

[Sharing]

 

May I have some more?

[[Novawrimo] First Contact]

Indubitably, one of my favorites.

[Last Post Wins]

Anyone won yet? I think Atherios won the best drama award

[Last Post Wins]

Holy hand grenades, Batman!

 

I am an angel with a shotgun and I will fight until this war's won.

 

And I am tired of this fraking mob in my fraking restaurant.

[Prefabs]

Yup. You can create a master blueprint and make copies of that blueprint that can be used a set number of times as you choose. That is the plan anyway.

 

And blueprints created during alpha and beta will carry over to release.

[Last Post Wins]

I want to live not just survive.

[DICE (DU Gaming Commission)]

All hypothetically of course. Not saying such a person exists. Just in the off chance they did.

It would be nice if such a person where to join DICE. If such a person does exist, of course.

[Notorious Monsters / Global Bosses /]

Giant alien critters would look amazing. Although I am not entirely for them being bosses.

Regardless, I expect an org or two will pop up to save the critters from the evil hunters

[[Novawrimo] Experiment Alpha]

It's the name of the Man in the Moon

 

I demand the first moonbase be named Aiken. And that moonbases first drinking establishment be called the Drum

[DICE (DU Gaming Commission)]

Good stuff, hope it works out to do all that

 

Longer answer: Depends on LUA scripting limitations for the later items, but hovercraft races and arena battles should work no matter what systems are in place.

 

Short answer: I hope so too.

[DICE (DU Gaming Commission)]

Our community page description currently holds the base rules for hovercraft racing and our plans for the future of hovercraft racing in DU. Expect these rules to be slightly altered to give each hovercraft racing event its own unique flavor.

 

If you have any questions/concerns/comments, feel free to throw them down here.

[Base defense / digging around bases]

There is nothing that prevents this.  Except it is really really slow.  Try this in Space Engineers against a live turret.  You have to start quite far off and digging a tunnel takes a long long time.  Most don't have the patience for this.

 

I am unsure of the current thoughts on how shields are to be implemented, but I would guess they are spherical shields.

[[Novawrimo] Experiment Alpha]

Nice references (even if you claim there are none).

Just a reminder: the arkship has no FTL drive.

References are all in your head or purely coincidental

 

And good catch there. That was supposed to be the light speed engine. Not FTL. I blame my editor

[[Novawrimo] Experiment Alpha]

Experiment Alpha.  

 

Before waking up the thousands of the Alpha team, surely one would need to check that the system is working as intended with a single test subject. A few times.

 

No characters in the story are in any way related or based on characters outside the story, real or imaginary.

 

This is a short story of around 5200 words  At this time the placeholders for UMF are still in. These were never removed.

 

Enjoy.

 

----First Paragraph Snippet----

 

Space. 

Contrary to popular belief back on Earth, stars do not move as you travel through space. Well they do, but the changes are imperceptible to the naked eye. And they don’t twinkle. Everyone I cared about I left back on Earth. Now Earth is destroyed, by some nova star and them along with it. Staring out into the void echos the void inside me. It is the loneliest I have ever felt. And then a space whale drifts by.

 

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Edit: No doc changes, just here to say UMF remains in the story and won't be changed

Edit: File was 0kb for some reason.  Re-uploaded for everyones enjoyment.

 

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