Kurock

To be honest, I totally agree with this statement. If the Player Contracting System is done perfect, there's really no reason to have also a Bounty Hunting system. I'm sure NQ is looking to making this happen... ~(°-°)~
 
But yeah,  Full fledged contracting system should cover that too...
 
 
 
 
Knowing TutsieRoll he'd be the 1st one to put a bounty on my head and have Swifty collect it :/ 
 
 
Cheers,
Comrademoco

What founders generously received when the supporter packs were announced are mostly cosmetic in-game items and not entire "packs". What those cosmetics are, are listed in the post where that image comes from:
 
https://www.dualthegame.com/en/news/2018/03/07/supporter-rewards-for-founder-backers/
 
Besides cosmetic in-game goodies:
Silver Founders now get access to Alpha 2 (not beta like the would have previously)
Gold Founders gets a name reservation
(Sapphire Founders and up get a few more cosmetics.)
 
NQ have stated that they are looking into allowing upgrading from Founder packs to Supporter packs as there are quite a few people asking for this.
 
Are NQ really treating Founders worse by handing out free stuff?

More memes for the meme machine...
 

What founders generously received when the supporter packs were announced are mostly cosmetic in-game items and not entire "packs". What those cosmetics are, are listed in the post where that image comes from:
 
https://www.dualthegame.com/en/news/2018/03/07/supporter-rewards-for-founder-backers/
 
Besides cosmetic in-game goodies:
Silver Founders now get access to Alpha 2 (not beta like the would have previously)
Gold Founders gets a name reservation
(Sapphire Founders and up get a few more cosmetics.)
 
NQ have stated that they are looking into allowing upgrading from Founder packs to Supporter packs as there are quite a few people asking for this.
 
Are NQ really treating Founders worse by handing out free stuff?

What founders generously received when the supporter packs were announced are mostly cosmetic in-game items and not entire "packs". What those cosmetics are, are listed in the post where that image comes from:
 
https://www.dualthegame.com/en/news/2018/03/07/supporter-rewards-for-founder-backers/
 
Besides cosmetic in-game goodies:
Silver Founders now get access to Alpha 2 (not beta like the would have previously)
Gold Founders gets a name reservation
(Sapphire Founders and up get a few more cosmetics.)
 
NQ have stated that they are looking into allowing upgrading from Founder packs to Supporter packs as there are quite a few people asking for this.
 
Are NQ really treating Founders worse by handing out free stuff?

What founders generously received when the supporter packs were announced are mostly cosmetic in-game items and not entire "packs". What those cosmetics are, are listed in the post where that image comes from:
 
https://www.dualthegame.com/en/news/2018/03/07/supporter-rewards-for-founder-backers/
 
Besides cosmetic in-game goodies:
Silver Founders now get access to Alpha 2 (not beta like the would have previously)
Gold Founders gets a name reservation
(Sapphire Founders and up get a few more cosmetics.)
 
NQ have stated that they are looking into allowing upgrading from Founder packs to Supporter packs as there are quite a few people asking for this.
 
Are NQ really treating Founders worse by handing out free stuff?

So, it is done! The first DU-Fanart made by me  Hope you like it!
 

Thanks to all that took the time to read through the marvelous creations. I know I enjoyed my fellow writers stories as much as I enjoyed writing my own.

The Epic Return of Q-Cast will take place this Saturday at 1 pm EST (10 am Pacific Time, 6 pm UK Time, 7 pm CEST)! We Hope to see you all for the stupidity that will follow. If you have never seen Q-Cast before, you can enlighten yourself with our YouTube Playlist.

Founders cannot upgrade/change to supporter packs with the same account.
 
This may change in the future, but for now, it is not possible.
 
There are a few founders that want to upgrade, so you are not alone.
 
Edit: ninja'd by the sky xD

Founders cannot upgrade/change to supporter packs with the same account.
 
This may change in the future, but for now, it is not possible.
 
There are a few founders that want to upgrade, so you are not alone.
 
Edit: ninja'd by the sky xD

I definitely prefer sandbox too. But I think that the community around the game is another important point, I would prefer play a game with low quality but a friendly community rather than a "perfect" game with a grinding community.
 
There is a key expression for me in this vidéo: this guy said that a sandbox is a long term investment and a Themepark game a short term investment. I think it does not only reflect the evolution of the video game industry, but the evolution of the world through globalisation. In this way, the short term profit and the financial power, based on a ruthless competition has crushed any other way to manage the world.
 
Recently, I've realized how much the new MMORPGs, like Revelation Online for instance, look like to a day at work, competing harshly to be the first in the top list, to be the first to get the new stuff, to be the first to get everything and finally maybe paying a lot of monney and/or time to consume the content without even the pleasure to do it. It's more and more like an addiction, like social networks are sometimes.
Games like this are not "RPG" anymore, they are MMOthemepark, MMOArena or MMOcasino, and it brings more monney...
 
Finally, other players could be bot or AI at this point... What a paradox for a MMO!
 
Watch this vidéo.
Or read this about Tristan HARRIS and the Silicon Valley.
 
Maybe a MMO-RPG is just a nonsens.
 
Why? Because RPG is basically something about our human experience: me inside a story (like in a novel) or me interacting with other people (basic roleplay or board game) and that is what makes the experience valuable and interesting. And it's not possible to interact with everybody at the same time!
 
For me, that makes a MMO really worthy is the human experience, and this experience is strongly linked to the expression of our creativity and identity, finding a role or place in a bigger group. We find in it an alternative to the every day life, an "Oasis", just like in Ready Player One. Other people can find an oasis in their family, hobbies, friends or spirituality... Maybe after all, the sandbox MMO is the only MMO or MMORPG which makes sense?
 
So if I bring back something social, some knowledge or some wisdom from a game it's a good game. If I only play automatically or to get another level or another piece of stuff or only to don't feel alone, it's a bad or not so good game.
 
Thanks for reading!

 
 
 

The following clip got me thinking: What do you think are the pros and cons of sandbox and themepark MMOs?
 
 
Do you agree?
 
 

I refer to my earlier comment, Kurock got within 1% of the final result, but at least I did better than Haavisto
 
Also congrats 
 
Now we just have to wait for the staff review.

Bastille
 
This short story (around 5000 words) is set on Earth before the technology required for the Arkships (and more) were entirely completed. This story does not include any DU organisations nor does it reference any arbitrarily named gaming organisations outside of DU.
 
Enjoy.
 
---------First paragraph snippet---------
I am a broken man. At least that is what the shrinks say. They say I’m too broken to continue in the Centauri Special Forces. But if one of the powerful nation states pays for your training, they own you. So that’s how I became stuck as a Tester, a guinea pig, for Centauri scientists. On the bright side, they gave me a place to stay, even if it is a single room apartment that you couldn’t swing a proverbial cat in. Centauri also provides a seemingly unlimited cereal molded into multicolored letters of the alphabet. Today, the cereal spells out “freedom” which quickly sinks away and then spells “dominated”. I stare at the word knowing if I blink it will instantly rearrange itself into the usual random jumble of letters. For taunting me, I teach it a lesson by biting into another mouthful. It might look colourful, but it tastes like week old sweaty socks.
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Novawrimo 2017 - Bastille by Kurock.pdf
Novawrimo2017 - Bastille by Kurock.docx

Hello there guys!
I figured it may be better to post later in the week as opposed to April 1st (you know, just so I don't ruin peoples day).

Anyway, it has been a very, very long time since I had updated the charts and I thought I better update them to see what has really changed. 
I can see now that a lot has changed, groups have either collapsed or split up, changed names or gained popularity through other means.

All top ten organizations now sit above one hundred members and Terran Republic is closing in on the thousand member mark, good work guys.
It is good to see the staple names still hovering in the top ten though.

Anyway, just an addition, the new groups, I have started at '0' members as of last update as they had no previous numbers.

Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy the update guys!

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Oct. 8th, 2017 -- April 4th, 2018 Charts
Organization Top Ten Chart


Top Ten Growth Rate


Total/Unique Member Count 

Well, it seems that Kurock won the community vote. Congrats!  

Congratulations @Kurock ;).
 
~ Merwyn

Congratulations to Kurock and thanks to everyone who entered. 

Good reads and congratulations o7

Congratulations @Kurock
 
It was a fantastic read, and good writing on your part. 
 
- Mercutio

There are several qualities I think a bounty system should have.  Obviously,  it should be profitable for the bounty hunter, but not allow the hunted and hunter to work together to exploit it.  I also think it must make the bounty hunter feel they are enforcing the law, not acting as an assassin.  This means it should not allow someone to just put a bounty on any player they choose.  I am not saying there should be no assassins in DU, but that should be something different than bounty hunting.
 
I would tie bounty hunting into the RDMS system.  We usually the rights portion of this, but there are also duties.  Warranties can be associated with duties, which establish penalties the player must pay if they fail to perform the duty.  I suggest that the penalty would not be taken from the player automatically, but they would be notified they owed it.  If they do not pay it, a bounty is placed on them.  The amount of the bounty would be part of the RDMS system, so the player would know what it was when they accepted the duty.
 
A bounty hunter would be able to see a list of outstanding bounties and choose one by paying a deposit.  The hunter would be able to see who was hunted and how much the bounty was,  so they decide if it would be worth the risk of accepting it. 
 
The bounty hunter would need to ensure that the hunted paid the penalty, which would now be increased to include both the original warranty and the bounty.  If the hunted dies,  amount would be taken from their account.  It would not matter how the hunted dies, so they could not escape the hunter by forcing a respawn.  If the hunted was not able to pay the whole penalty when they died, the penalty would be reduced by whatever they could pay and the hunter would get the corresponding portion of the bounty.  The goal is to collect the penalty, not kill the player, so the hunter could also use intimidation or persuasion to get them to pay.
 
If the hunter fails to collect the bounty in a set time, they lose their deposit and the bounty returns to the list of those that are available, so another hunter can choose it.
 
Since the hunted pays the bounty, it should be difficult to exploit it and since they effectively accept the bounty by accepting the duty it is attached to, it seems to be very fair.
 
  

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Very close but I would pick sandbox over theme park games any day and if you have a great community in a sandbox  game  they could always build a theme park atmosphere for those that like that style of game play :  Organization's like DICE !  Theme park games your usually guided down one path or story line and you cant deviate from that path or story line !