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Yes dealing with desubs will have to be dealt with, but all they needed to do at this point in the “Balpha” as I like to call it, is lock players’ accounts. 
 
mid be mighty pissed off if I found someone was playing for free even though they unsubscribed after the first month and I had a paid for a year’s sub. 
 
parity is often more important to customers than absolute cost. 

Bingo.
 
Majority of critics here (even most "apocalyptic") not directly about current state of game -- everyone in sane mind understand indy difficulties and that DU is especialy hard case of ambition. Its about lack of communication and, what is even more important, transperant communication. Why its so impossible for NQ, per expample, to make some short text digest of what they worked on/done during week? What they planning or thinking about, testing, having difficulties with? Why all this secrecy, considering game not anymore in NDA?
 
Exactly this kinda stimulates worst in peoples expectations, because every MMO vet I think perfectly knows, that in most cases communication silence is worst possible sign for MMO -- its hiding of some shit.
 
Generaly we reached point, when every update feels like "nasty suprise" -- 0.24 likely be another milestone.

If you truly love your account, set it free.  If it comes back to you, then it''s yours forever.  If it doesn't, then it was never yours to begin with.  ?

I think you little bit overcomplicate things and want to see "cancel culture" where is none. I'm not american or even european in sense to be too much bothered by this virtual sniveling.
 
Reason I structured my message this way -- to show, that "establishment" (anti-wipe/anti-anything in changes that can cost them) having much more "big names" and ears access of NQ (complicated, but in primitive terms), relativly methodical agenda. They can act as quite coherent lobby force, if critical need arise to defend their interests (as likely happened during dodgly canceled Alioth regen).
 
"Resistance", to keep it in funny terms, that for most part I feel to be part of too, are relativly disorganized, less numerous and overall much more marginal (in wider sense, I hope you not again see it as "canceling"), agendas are different. Sure we can throw some righteus dirt in this forums (largly abandoned), kick some most intolerable simps on official Discords, but thats it. Little of effect. Obvisously, there is a lot smart people who do hard critics, no denial of that. Anyway, I was felt like their/our current position deserves some kind irony.
 
And I not see how this "labels" are insulting (again, with healthy bit of self-irony). Exept may be freaks, but its just reality -- that all this wipe talks attact brain-unstable people to do their best like, if you remember, 1st week Discord circus. Overall I can call myself all this names, was angry noob, now grumpy vet (not vettest vet, but still), sometimes vigilante, sometimes revolutionary, even sometimes freak. Its ok!
 
 

So tell me please, why people can play for free after the subscription has expired?
That's unfair towards honest people like me that actually renewed.
 
 

my last paid account ran out this weekend. Stil logging and collecting 150K each day from all expired accounts
 

If you sent the email adress in a personal message I can probably sent one

As you 5 min ago posted in nearby topic: "Stop whining. Git gud".

Double standards, mate, so double.

On surface you right -- forum (Discord to some extent) now filled with quite unpleasant reading (and -- obviously -- irrelevant in wider picture). Even more, I think, most of reasonably self-critical "usual suspects" will agree. I myself want to see more reasons to have positive discussions.
 
Yet, your logic is deeply flawed. 
 
Exact reason why people still wasting their energy here is because they care about game (granted -- now in quite bad way). Speaking of "to put off" -- no, most of this people in question in some point were (or still) seriously involved with game, invited a lot of friends (some even bought them copies) etc, made organizations, content. So they contibuted to survival of game. Its not some band of whiney degenerates who hates game and scares away newbies. No, mostly its ok productive people in bad mood, totaly targed audience playerbase.
 
Root cause of this, that 99% start from quite reasonable critics, ideas (not doom and gloom), but NQ quite miserably fails to manage this, channel such energies if not on something useful, then at least harmless. With growth of frustration, overall negativity grows too, eventualy to ugly forms we observe daily.  
 
In this light I constantly deeply questioning overall CMing strategy of this project.

Called freedom of speach/expression. 
 
Why you still here too? You can make another topic about racing or something, if not enjoying this elite club of delopment analytics. 

That would result in players accepting NPC missions only and JC wondering once more why they don't use the system as expected.

On surface you right -- forum (Discord to some extent) now filled with quite unpleasant reading (and -- obviously -- irrelevant in wider picture). Even more, I think, most of reasonably self-critical "usual suspects" will agree. I myself want to see more reasons to have positive discussions.
 
Yet, your logic is deeply flawed. 
 
Exact reason why people still wasting their energy here is because they care about game (granted -- now in quite bad way). Speaking of "to put off" -- no, most of this people in question in some point were (or still) seriously involved with game, invited a lot of friends (some even bought them copies) etc, made organizations, content. So they contibuted to survival of game. Its not some band of whiney degenerates who hates game and scares away newbies. No, mostly its ok productive people in bad mood, totaly targed audience playerbase.
 
Root cause of this, that 99% start from quite reasonable critics, ideas (not doom and gloom), but NQ quite miserably fails to manage this, channel such energies if not on something useful, then at least harmless. With growth of frustration, overall negativity grows too, eventualy to ugly forms we observe daily.  
 
In this light I constantly deeply questioning overall CMing strategy of this project.

As you 5 min ago posted in nearby topic: "Stop whining. Git gud".

Double standards, mate, so double.

On surface you right -- forum (Discord to some extent) now filled with quite unpleasant reading (and -- obviously -- irrelevant in wider picture). Even more, I think, most of reasonably self-critical "usual suspects" will agree. I myself want to see more reasons to have positive discussions.
 
Yet, your logic is deeply flawed. 
 
Exact reason why people still wasting their energy here is because they care about game (granted -- now in quite bad way). Speaking of "to put off" -- no, most of this people in question in some point were (or still) seriously involved with game, invited a lot of friends (some even bought them copies) etc, made organizations, content. So they contibuted to survival of game. Its not some band of whiney degenerates who hates game and scares away newbies. No, mostly its ok productive people in bad mood, totaly targed audience playerbase.
 
Root cause of this, that 99% start from quite reasonable critics, ideas (not doom and gloom), but NQ quite miserably fails to manage this, channel such energies if not on something useful, then at least harmless. With growth of frustration, overall negativity grows too, eventualy to ugly forms we observe daily.  
 
In this light I constantly deeply questioning overall CMing strategy of this project.

As you 5 min ago posted in nearby topic: "Stop whining. Git gud".

Double standards, mate, so double.

As you 5 min ago posted in nearby topic: "Stop whining. Git gud".

Double standards, mate, so double.

I was better just to close it. For years this section existed as exercise in futility, because NQ obviously have no capacity to meaningfully process stuff people posting (let alone -- implement something).

Dual Universe Magazine is back! (formerly Dual Universe Today). Here's the first issue. ENJOY! 

I sometimes feel bad that we so negative (to level, that CMs probably avoid this topics as RL police not patrol some more... difficult neighborhoods), sure rank and file devs too not having fun reading this (if they do).
 
It will be to see NQ reversing this somehow, because ball mostly on their side. May be public test server helps to establish better connection.
 

I sometimes feel bad that we so negative (to level, that CMs probably avoid this topics as RL police not patrol some more... difficult neighborhoods), sure rank and file devs too not having fun reading this (if they do).
 
It will be to see NQ reversing this somehow, because ball mostly on their side. May be public test server helps to establish better connection.
 

There are a number of reasons I believe having unique damage shapes for different weapons would be useful. For one, it would be another tool to ensure the meta for combat is not so restricted, allowing for an increased variation in viable tactics, and this is the initial thought process which spawned the idea. The attached picture is by no means even my preferred end goal of having shaped voxel damage, merely to introduce the concept of what is possible. Better then the simple graphic example, we would even have adjusted shapes based on ammo type, though generally aligned with a general shape. As per usual I will likely have to come back and explain further so I will be lazy and not attempt to pre-explain some wild tangents some responses will go down.

This also (probably) explains why they mostly gone silent and CMs left attempts to control situation here, on front-lines. They likely were "called-off" to not waste time on things that... will be irrelevant.
 
If this true, NQ now can drop any remaining updates as dirty and unbalanced as they want before release. Then use our tormented feedback to fix it (to extent). Wipe. Then release, betting on attracting more new players for better, cleaner game.
 
In this dark scenario, we generaly are used, burned and discarded for greater good.

Question of how NQ sturctured, operating and staffed is extreamly untransperent.
 
Here is like transperent indy studio info looks like:
https://anvilgamestudios.com/presskit/#credits
 
You find nothing like this with NQ beyond their initial KS skeleton team listing 5 years ago, that likely seriously changed. It may be 100 empoyes, maybe 50, who knows, may be 10 of them making game and others mining bitcoins on your PCs : ) Also NQ have sub-divisions (France and Canada) likely not only for access to people, but also some creative bookkeeping/legal magic (as some of more investegative noveans suspect).
 
https://www.dnb.com/business-directory/company-profiles.novaquark.e74c2b8664be9a2c7fc6e1ed616e276f.html
https://www.dnb.com/business-directory/company-profiles.novaquark_inc.981afa95a964419e3a26467bf4a292c7.html
 
So, in short, its impossible to figure anything out at this front without serious inside, only wild guesses.
 
 

Question of how NQ sturctured, operating and staffed is extreamly untransperent.
 
Here is like transperent indy studio info looks like:
https://anvilgamestudios.com/presskit/#credits
 
You find nothing like this with NQ beyond their initial KS skeleton team listing 5 years ago, that likely seriously changed. It may be 100 empoyes, maybe 50, who knows, may be 10 of them making game and others mining bitcoins on your PCs : ) Also NQ have sub-divisions (France and Canada) likely not only for access to people, but also some creative bookkeeping/legal magic (as some of more investegative noveans suspect).
 
https://www.dnb.com/business-directory/company-profiles.novaquark.e74c2b8664be9a2c7fc6e1ed616e276f.html
https://www.dnb.com/business-directory/company-profiles.novaquark_inc.981afa95a964419e3a26467bf4a292c7.html
 
So, in short, its impossible to figure anything out at this front without serious inside, only wild guesses.
 
 

Question of how NQ sturctured, operating and staffed is extreamly untransperent.
 
Here is like transperent indy studio info looks like:
https://anvilgamestudios.com/presskit/#credits
 
You find nothing like this with NQ beyond their initial KS skeleton team listing 5 years ago, that likely seriously changed. It may be 100 empoyes, maybe 50, who knows, may be 10 of them making game and others mining bitcoins on your PCs : ) Also NQ have sub-divisions (France and Canada) likely not only for access to people, but also some creative bookkeeping/legal magic (as some of more investegative noveans suspect).
 
https://www.dnb.com/business-directory/company-profiles.novaquark.e74c2b8664be9a2c7fc6e1ed616e276f.html
https://www.dnb.com/business-directory/company-profiles.novaquark_inc.981afa95a964419e3a26467bf4a292c7.html
 
So, in short, its impossible to figure anything out at this front without serious inside, only wild guesses.