Underhand Aerial

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.
 
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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
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Building in Dual Universe could do with a simple basis font that is small so that it can create any letter, and the larger the font is the more different it can become. for the limited options of small sized fonts a simple name for that font would be useful; Which I propose as Ennea Font. (Ennea is greek for 9; the amount of voxels this type of font takes up per letter.
There is also a Hexa Font. Alas, some letters are hard to read at this level.
W and M require a minimum of 4 voxels wide, and I doesn't need any width. S is actually more legible as 2 voxels wide. 
I hope having names for these fonts and the font being available to be copied for in game will speed up some design processes.
 
~Loughlin

Hi Guowenn,
 
Saarland, eh?
 
I'm sure DU will become an interesting, great game.
 
Speaking of German-speaking organizations, Hyperion (Corp) is likely one if not the biggest around, so if you don't mind larger groups you should perhaps take a look at them. (No, I'm not a member before anyone gets funny thoughts here :P)
 
But of course, there might also be others that fit your bill. It's just that not many other German-speaking organizations come to my mind right now other than Fenrir Development and 1-2 others.
 
And if you don't mind going international, there's even more choice.
 

 
But, why go to organizations? Let them come to you!
It could be a tedious process (possibly, not always), as soon as you intend to check more than a hand full of groups. So to bring use to another topic, why don't you utilize this thread?
 
 
In this thread (thanks to the mods / NQ again for picking up the idea upon request cough or coming up with it themselves!), you can post and specify what you want to look for in organizations. You can bet the thread would be monitored by most organizations, or in other words, that your post would then be checked by most organizations. The advantage I see by posting in there is that you can, to great detail, elaborate what you want to see in organizations and not see in organizations, or you can describe what you can bring to the table and cannot bring to the table.
 
This would in theory mean that depending on how you "filter" and describe things, you'd only get fitting organization offers.
 
Why try to swim through the lake looking for fish when you can let the right fish come to you? Try it, lean back and see who replies, then look at those offers and pick the subjectively best.
 
Now, you may not need to do this if you're already set and given that there's likely just a hand full of German speaking groups, you could check those yourself. But for anyone else, especially those with a bigger "target pool", I can only recommend you utilize this thread
 
Anyway, have fun. Viel Spaß.
 

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Hello, Talon Jade. 
 
Organisations and Permissions were some of concepts Novaquark introduced and talked about last year. While we can assume that they are still under development and refinement, you can be sure that they will be somewhat mature for the Alpha. 
 
For further reading, please consult the links below:  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
https://devblog.dualthegame.com/2015/03/20/organizations-build-your-corporation-faction-nation-or-empire/#more-437 
 
 
https://devblog.dualthegame.com/ 
 
 
Cheers.
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The game now is in Pre-Alpha stage, yes you buy that package you can get access to the game right now but currently server not open for 24/7 , you can see on the main page (dualthegame.com ) there is schedule open the server which day for 24 hour.

Also if you want to get the game for fun time ? I suggest you dont buy it. If not, you want to donate, help NQ and DU ? Yeah you should.

Also this package is now supporter pack, not kickstart anymore.

Thanks! :3 glad to see ya here!

Welcome back Stoat <3

https://community.dualthegame.com/organization/hyperion-corporation-german-deutsch#3170
 
Hyperion Corporation is now officially a member of the "ALIOTH AEROSPACE EXPO".
 
<3

Hi everyone!
 
Friendly reminder: 
No Organization promoting or referring to real life politics, ideology or religion will be accepted as mentioned in the forum rules (section III):
 
This specific rule will be enforced both on the forum and in-game.
Note: You can create Politics, ideology or religion that are not existing in real life. This must remain a fiction.
Thank you for your understanding.
 
Best Regards,
Nyzaltar.
 

Eine überaus freundliche und hilfsbereite Truppe, die rasant wächst und bereits nachhaltige Pläne für die Landung der Arche schmiedet.
 
Großartiges Engagement und tolle Übersetzungsarbeit, vielen Dank dafür.
 
Viele Grüße,
Cebo

https://community.dualthegame.com/organization/hyperion-corporation-german-deutsch#3170
 
Hyperion Corporation is now officially a member of the "ALIOTH AEROSPACE EXPO".
 
<3

https://community.dualthegame.com/organization/hyperion-corporation-german-deutsch#3170
 
Hyperion Corporation is now officially a member of the "ALIOTH AEROSPACE EXPO".
 
<3

Greetings and welcome.
 
I chuckled a bit at "getting nerdy breeding dinos" part. I played ARK a bit, but never really got into it. Ironically due to Dinos, I think. In loose comparison, I had more fun playing Conan Exiles. The games might not be comparable much in greater detail, but survival sandbox stuff is survial sandbox stuff, eh?
 
As you already assume(d), I think there will be lots of opportunities to "get nerdy" in DU, maybe not solely regarding ships.
 
And if you look for an organization, look no further* ....
 
 
 
 
... than this thread and section:
 
 
 
And of course the forum section we are all currently in (as you read this, anyway), where players, and dare I say more importantly, organizations promote themselves.
https://board.dualthegame.com/index.php?/forum/7-the-arkship-pub/
 
You can also look for organizations on the organization portal or community hub at: https://community.dualthegame.com/
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
*Did you expect an ad now? Hah!
 

 

Well i have search the the forum but didnt find my thought (idea or just curious ), if it have appear somewhere so please tell me thank you.

When i found out that we have skill tree and unlock will take real time ( not in game time) like EvE so everyone is fair in playing the game. But about the way how the research and unlock thing i didnt see yet so well i want to say my little idea.
 
*Unlock element which made from some material:

To unlock something or i can say say to unlock skill to unlock the element so you can create it, i suggest we should have a skill tree called "Material Knowledge" to do it. In this skill tree just like other skill tree, it need real time to train but the different is, it require you have a sample (or some amount ) of the material to train. When the train is finish it will tell you what name of the material and what type* is it. Then after the material is unlock, it will unlock the skill (or research ability ? ) to unlock the element which need this material to create it. IT mean if an element require 2 different material to create, you have to research both of it before you can unlock the element and so on.

This only an optional and i didnt know if it can unbalance the game: And so on the other hand with this skill tree, you can make a data chip ( this should limit) and can sell it, this data chip will contain the data about the material but it dont give you the skill immediately but only reduce the time you need to train skill research about the material.

And with different material it will take different time to research.

*Type:
And about the material type, i suggest the dev dont show the information about the material or the ore. Just using a common name like yellow ore, red ore or just ? ore. And dont set it is rare or common or uncommon, let player do it.
The information about the material should appear once the player have do the research ( train skill). This idea is to prevent the player to go on a "Gather material hunt", just go and do some boring mining. This make the ability that you everytime go mining and encounter a strange material and you thought it is useless but turn out it be some very rare ore and you regret that why you dont mine it more.

Also it give the game about the feeling: KNOWLEDGE IS POWER.
I can say there will be some guide about mining and ore type but i doubt anyone will want to share an extremely rare material information(what can it do, what you can make with it)  than what it color. 

Wouldn't this kill the purpose of a world reset?
But nothing prevents you (or a team) to save blueprints of the city and rebuild them after launch ;).
 
Also, as Lethys pointed out, NQ usually don't want to take part in player gameplay.
I add that copy pasting buildings from different players and different location will probably look ugly as they were not supposed to fit which one another.
 
~ Merwyn

It's called "you can DU it"

But I agree with Lethys, feel free to organize it =)

Its not an expo until I can see the Spaceballs Winnebago in it
 
 
I'll be there though
 
 

I won't get into all of it right now, as I have dealt with the situation as delicately as possible to try and undo the damage, but it appears that not only was the community discord a target of spammers (people sending private messages to everyone in the user list to try and recruit for their org) but that several other communities were targeted as well. That all culminated in discussions about the game being banned in various places, someone trying to dox me, and a slew of other issues I've tried to fix today. Someone went so far as to accuse me of being JC himself even. 
 
I'm not going to drop names here now, you know who you are, but if I find out you are continuing the spamming and harassing other communities about Dual Universe, I will definitely report it and let NovaQuark deal with the situation. I've heard reports of everything from sending mass private messages to people, to joining other discords and spamming links to the game over and over, to someone joining voice chats to spam the game and harass people.
 
One person even had the audacity to go into discords and tell everyone they were the creator of Dual Universe and proceed to spam the game over and over. 
 
You are doing anyone any favors by spamming the game, and you are doing harm to DU's name by doing it. It's not helping any of us, and it certainly isn't helping your own reputation for doing it. 
 
99.999% of org's out there aren't doing it, but one or two org's in specific are, and they are going to ruin it for the rest of us if they keep it up. Nobody should be encouraging that type of behavior. 
 
I'm posting this here in the hopes that it will keep others from attempting to do the same thing, and so that the parties responsible know what their actions did. 
 

Hi Primate and welcome on the official Dual Universe forum.
 
- The need of approval for your first post by a Moderator or a Community Manager has nothing to do with NDA.
You need to be approved once. After that, you won't need anymore validation.
Why resorting to such measure? Captcha systems gave mixed efficiency results to prevent spam accounts to spawn on the forum.
As we had Korean and Chinese, as well as English spam accounts on the forum in the past, this is the most efficient way to block them before they start polluting the forum (you would be surprised to see how many we have removed so far that never became visible to the Community
 
- You might think that current Supporter Packs are underwhelming. That's totally your right.
Sure, there are a lot less attractive than our previous Kickstarter Founder Packs, but they remain worth it in terms of value: their price alone is approximatively the total value of the number of DACs (tokens for months of playtime) included in it. That means that everything else if given for free (while cosmetics items - pets, outfits, skins and decorative Elements - have also a significant value too). The value of Pre-Alpha access is not even taken into account as we consider it a "bonus perk" for those who want to support the game beyond just buying it to play. As mentioned in the disclaimer of the Patron Pack, Pre-Alpha is not meant for those who want an immediate fun experience, as the game is not yet at this stage. Pre-Alpha is meant for those who really want to help us tracking bugs and give feedback on every aspect of the game in its current state. In any case, just wanting to play the game and have fun is perfectly understandable, it's just it's not the right time for that yet, and that's why we won't encourage players to aim for a patron pack if they're not interested in this early phase.
 
- Live gameplay is limited for the time being indeed. 
That's pretty common in this early stage, especially for a MMORPG.
Again, if you prefer to play when the server will be up permanently, Pre-Alpha may not be the phase you want to join, and that's totally understandable.
 
- Subscription model is necessary. Server architecture to host the whole community in the same universe (no instances) and Quality Support cost a lot.
As this kind of cost can be, in a certain measure, proportional to the amount of players, it would make no sense to go Free-to-Play and even Buy-to-Play could be a risky move.
Hence, Subscription model is the most logical choice.
 
Best Regards,
Nyzaltar.
 

Hi all, just made a new video for you guys all about Dual Universe Lore, feel free to check it out if you'd like xD
https://youtu.be/82ZM33EyY3I
 

As many have probably realized, we have changed significantly the Dual Universe Newsletter Template.
Feel free to give your feedback about it in this dedicated thread!
 
Best Regards,
Nyzaltar.

Why everyone is asking for the resolution? It's PRE-alpha! I want a good game not a high res xD

When comes the VR-support?

It can be easy, it can be hard. IT can be common, it can be rare. IT can be fast, it can be long. We still dont know how the economic will work and how will resource gather will be so the right answer for you not exits. 

But a rough answer already here. Like UnderhandAerial example, that is how DAC will get in DU.

The price of DAC will not so high but also will not so low, the cost for it will determine by the player if they see it fit.

Also how you get DAC one part is in you. Get more connection, be someone friendly and he will buy your resource all time with his DAC. Or with speech skill to barter and get right price. Or scam (i highly not recommended this) to get DAC. All is up to you too.

Why everyone is asking for the resolution? It's PRE-alpha! I want a good game not a high res xD

When comes the VR-support?

Death Triathlon sounds fun to compete in, especially stage 3