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Darn. There goes the space whales, space kraken and asteroid crabs.

The hardest part is the waiting.... To while away the time Alpha Academy is holding a small competition. Join the Alpha Academy discord to take part. Competition details: Task: Create Asteroid base. You ask base of what kind? Use your fantasy! Limits: Core of your asteroid must be sphere with diameter of at least 64 blocks (you can make it bigger, but keep in mind that 128 is limit of the tool). You are free to modify it or it's surrounding space any way you want. Ships, stargate, debris, smaller asteroids, whatever you want. Delivery: You can post your creations in #competition, one picture allowed per participant (you can keep updating it). Date: You can post until November 15th, I will allow pretty much all creations made before I wake up the day after. Allowed Tools: MagicaVoxel and/or MagicaVoxel Renderer Allowed Formats: Any picture you can post on Discord, but I recommend you to make it PNG or if you want it more fancy, try to amaze us with GIF sequence Rewards: Good feeling for every participant. Even better feeling for winner and those really close behind. And we will be sure to share your efforts with DU developers :-) Extra notes: - you can edit your post and if you need help with deletion, just send me message - you can also reserve your post and let us know that you are going to participate by posting "RESERVED" in the channel and later you can replace it for real image - you can discuss the posts in #competition-chat - if you accidentally post to wrong channel, no worries, we can handle that:-)

Great feedback. I am looking forward to the new forums, newsletter and competition. Aside: NQ 1: Anonymous 0

The game is built for both. Neither is more valid than the other. The warmongers will need ships and weapons to war with. The ships they have will need repairs or replacing. The arms race will ensure that the best ships will be in demand. Sure, warmongers can have their own ship yards but they won't be quite as good as those provided by organisations concentrating solely on ship building. Civilization will allow for more civilized and constructive outlets for raising hell, such as the glory of arena battles, hovercraft races or treasure hunts. I am sure there will be those that wish to watch the world burn, and for those there is a military answer.

Player run banks are built on trust. If players find out a bank has taken their goods and fled, that banker will be hunted down and definitely won't function in a banking capacity again. Same goes for loans a bank gives to another player. What prevents that player from just taking the money and running? Because not only will there be a bounty happening, but that player will not get another loan from anyone. And those are the mild consequences.

I was hoping for more frequent updates (a line or two every 2 weeks would be fine), but NQ did say that they would be giving monthly updates.

I can see player run treasure hunts working quite well DU. Now I am thinking of setting up a few myself. Anyone else interested in creating unique riddles, tasks and clues for a few treasure hunts of varying scope, drop me a PM. Build it and they will come.

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Honestly, I don't think your questions or skepticism can be answered here. Any reply will just lead to more questions and "but what if"s. The media released by NQ gives a good indication of what they have now. How it works beyond that is unknown. Are there concessions? Yes. Constructs will not be able to break in half: the two halves will just float together. There are more covered in various locations.

Hello and welcome. Things are a little slow after the Kickstarter ended, but hopefully it will pick up again later.

I see the Order of Meru is a religious organization. (I'd like my Order of Meru to have a side of Cthulhu please). That is easy to understand. DU Explorers says it's a fan based organization. That makes it a bit more difficult to define exactly. So you are saying that this organization won't exist as an in game organization when DU is released? It does contain prominent members of many other organizations (even Twerk is there). So what exactly does DU Explorers do?

As with highlander and so with alpha: there can be only one. AFAIK no one will be given earlier access when the alpha actually goes live.

Could you explain what you mean by 'final version early start'?

Excellent. This was all before I found the forums so please bear with my questions. There is a recruitment channel on the discord server where any organization can advertise their organization. So I take it that this discord server does not favor any one organization over another?

Previous discord server mention can be found here Who all was responsible for creating the discord server or was this all yamamushi's idea?

All good points. Same points can be used for ramming: small ships do minimal damage while larger ones are more substantial but hurt themselves too, so a ramming ship could be usable but only once, because it's front fell off on the first impact. Sacrifices in the reality department will be (and has already) be made to make the game function as a MMO. Small starships bouncing off massive space stations, I am not entirely happy with, but I can live with it. Overloads would be nice, but if they hurt no one else but it's own ship, I can live with that too.

Some good discussions here (between the trolling). I like the idea of self destructing ships and ways to prevent it as already outlined. Though it has been indicated that the reason JC does not want ramming in the game is not only because of voxel deformation but to prevent "missile ships". I don't see self destructing ships affecting anything else for the same reason. Sure they can be made expensive but for a large corporation how expensive can a small ship really be, without making small ships out of reach for the average player?

Pirates do not need ship designs. They steal others. But Star Wars designs may not be stolen. But designs inspired by Star Wars designs are ok, right?

So here is the rub: You will have access to other organisations stuff anyway through the RDMS, without having membership in another organisation. As stated previously, this will not stop players from interacting with those orgs as if they were members. As long as they have the rights of members, actually being a member doesn't matter. So preventing anyone from joining other orgs is pretty meaningless. If membership isn't legalized, it will be done secretly or unofficially. Then again, nothing stops a spy from doing it secretly anyway. So what is the end result? Forcing members to not be able to join other orgs will only bring a false sense of security. YMMV

Welcome Haunty, You joined the right org to not join any org. Because Alpha Academy is not an org. It is a fine establishment of learning. Learning and having fun in the alpha and beta. And if someone is so inclined, a place to keep player guides when DU is finally released.

Agreed. Even if the weekly or bi-weekly update is just a screenshot or an artists rendition of a hooziwatzit. I would really want to see more hooziwatzits.

An org in DU is not just a corporation, it could be a political entity, a nation, a school, a hovercraft racing league, a single ships crew, an entire gang of ships, a bank, a mafia etc. Anything that could be seen as a group of people getting together. While I do not mind such a feature being present in the game, I do question any organisation using it as it will limit the members ability to enjoy the excitement of also being in, for example, the number one hovercraft racing team in the galaxy. Limiting org membership also does not hinder spies in any way. I prefer freedom, as such everyone has the freedom to choose to limit their own freedom. To each their own.

People only imitate games that have been proven as successful.

A link to a YouTube or similar clip would seemingly be most feasible, but each player would first have to activate the link to watch it. If there is the capability to watch it in game, that would be great, however, NQ have stated that dual universe is separate from our universe so I don't think such links will be added in the game unless a large portion of the community asks for them. The opt in approach is important, otherwise, as stated earlier, you could lag out someone's connection by starting multiple clips at the same time. I will call this type of attack: "The Minmei Effect".

I believe another reason for not having orbiting planets (besides all that add complexity) is that planets could effectively crash into ships/stations parked in space. Imagine a space station or large ship "accidentally" nudged into the path of a planet.