Alsan Teamaro

12th of October, 2016.

Well, the numbers are still growing after the success of the kickstarter. 
The top ten has regaining its vitality and is growing consistently over days now. Hopefully the moment stays the same, in an upwards fashion!

I have some extra stats for you today!

Forum Stats:
August [incomplete sample]:
Average daily member sign up: 19
Average daily posts: 157

September [Complete sample]:
Average daily member sign up: 31
Average daily posts: 250

So, since the kickstarter, we've had more posts and more signups popping up!
Even though the sample was unfinished for August, the growth wasn't all that great that month. 

Anyway,
charts below! 
 

 

 

 

 
Fixed:
- A colouring issue
- Top ten orgs that were dropped are now being known as 'ex-top ten' in the daily contribution graph (still to fix the numbers).

You make some good points. I think a key factor as well is the time it would take to build the various weapons systems and the ships that are capable of transporting them. Even if construct vs construct combat was included at launch, that process could easily take a month or two, if we go by what the developers have said. We will see.
 
Regardless of the reason, I agree that the initial period of peace (or at least limited hostilities) will help people get settled and the game world get on it's feet. There will still be avatar vs avatar combat and that will keep things interesting.

Hello and welcome, AkiranBlade, yeah, it feels therapeutic because, perhaps, is resonating with some thigs that we all wanna live (or we are living), in the deeps of the mind-soul.

As planned, we can now reveal the 8,000k backers reward:
Each Kickstarter backer will receive the blueprint of a single-player hovercraft with a design unique and specific to the Kickstarter! (players will still have to gather the materials to build it)
We will give more info very soon.
Thanks again for your support!
The Novaquark Team
 
 
How friggin cool is that!
Just wanted to post it here because not everyone looks at the KS page 24/7.

Stranger in a strange land - we are the aliens...

At the moment, there is 26 hours left to the kickstarter and we have great chances to reach 8000 backers. Also, we might reach 550k euros, that would be cool and I think we'll have a surprise if we do . So I hope that there will be a boost in backers and funding, it would be really great for the game and the pledgers. Anyway, don't stop encouraging the KS and we will soon see the outcome of this great funding campaign .

Thanks Falstaf and It seems so friendly is too op..
 
Hello there Alsan_teamaro and thanks will enjoy the adventure somehow!

Indeed, they might be. But, it has already been stated by a lead developer that planet-destroying weapons will not be present in the game. While no doubt super awesome, such a weapon would be just too powerful, and would have too great a chance to ruin the game for other people. Imagine players pouring countless hours of time and effort into the creation of a planet covered in a few large cities, only to see the entire world obliterated by the Interstellar Legion of Trolls. It would be a huge deterrent to builders if their work could be rendered non-existent and irrecoverable in a single moment. Thus, the maximum power of weapons will be intentionally limited within the game, to ensure everyone stays equally happy.

Just reminded me this song!!
 
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Considering I am not even done with school, I feel very flattered by your assumption that I might have studied law And yes, I think we can settle on an agreement. In fact, you gave me an idea...

One thing all these organizations are going to have to agree on is a method for identifying members of organizations, such as personal or vehicular transponders.  We'll also need to create a forum for negotiating multilateral agreements to govern commerce and warfare, and to create a framework for dealing effectively with pirates.  Basically, an non-aligned militarized space patrol who will stay out of registered conflicts between organizations and will focus on violent crimes in unclaimed territories and deep space, funded by a fixed percentage of organizational income.

Many things are contradictory :V
 
Like... if their pirates, pirate a pirate not in their pirate coalition, does that make COPS cops or does that make them pirates that pirate pirates? And, if so, if a pirate pirates another pirate, does that require a union representative to settle the matter, or is there a pirate judge to act as an arbiter on the legal illegelity of the illegal action? So many questions.

Just reminded me this song!!
 
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NOTE: At the moment,the following things are WIP:
-A flag/logo
-A simplyfied version of the government, designed to be more transparent
-A version of the government designed to work with fewer people
-finally, a constitution
 
One of the biggest challenges any society faces is to create an environment were anyone is treated as an equal, where there is no difference regardless of a person's background. So this Society is based on fairness and aversion of conflict in order to create an environment where all players can feel as free as possible while living in a stable culture. High ambitions, but I'm optimistic.
 
 
1. POLITICAL SYSTEM
 
The political power is split between judiciary, legislative and executive.
 
The LEGISLATIVE is elected by the public in a representative vote. Not person, but only parties can participate. This is to avoid any form of populism. There are 20 seats in parliament (a number that will grow with society). Every party gets the amount of seats that they have votes.
So if for example a party gets 20% of all votes, they will get 20% of all seats (in this case that are 4 seats).
The minimum requirement for a party to get a seat in parliament is to have 5% of all votes. This is to avoid giving extremists parties large political impact.
The job of the legislative is to create and pass the laws by which the society works by. Any desicion requires a 70% vote to be accepted. If a vote gets 60-69% of all votes, it can be repeated, and if it still gets 65-69%, it can be taken in front of the high court.
Parties are allowed to form a union in parliament, however, this only applies if the created Union holds less than 50% of all seats.
Parliamentarians are not required to vote accordingly to their party's policies if they believe that these policies do not reflect the publics interest.
Furthermore, the parliament will elect the head of executive.
 
 
The EXECUTIVE is formed by the head of executive, who is elected by the parliamentarians. After election, he/she will form a executive, meaning he/she will select the ministers. Those ministers will be set in charge of their respective ministries.
Likely to be formed:
-Ministry of internal affairs
-Ministry of foreign affairs
-Ministry of economics
-Ministry of education and science
-Ministry of social affairs
-Ministry of police
-Ministry of military
-Ministry of development and environment
-Ministry of trade
-Ministry of exploration
-Ministry of logistics
-Ministry of tax
-Treasury
 
Each ministry will follow its tasks and report to the parliament and the other ministers regularly. The head of executive is to be understood as both a representative figure and the manager of ministries.
Only a former minister can become the head of executive.
 
 
The JUDICIARY is formed of a number of judges on different levels.
These levels might be:
-Private affairs
-Financial and social affairs
-Common crimes
-High crimes
 
-High Judges
 
The 7 high judges are separate from the rest as their job will be to watch over all other governmental organs. If they can agree (by internal vote) that somebody behaved against the constitution, they can veto that desicion. A high judge must have had at least two other positions inside the judiciary.
 
There is also a people's judge. If he believes a certain political figure is to dangerous, he can propose a public vote to the high judges if that person should be put out of office. If the judges agree, a vote will be held. The people's judge will publicly make a case against the figure, then the figure will be allowed to defend himself. The audience then votes.
 
 
2. ECONOMICAL SYSTEM
 
A free market should be put in place, however, governmental policies need to assure producers, employees and customers rights. Furthermore, some branches should be controlled by government. These might include:
-All armed forces
-Public transportation
 
In other parts, the government should participate, such as:
-Exploration
-Sciences
-Technology
-Arts
 
To avoid monopolies, any company that controls more than 70% of its respective market will need to create artificial shortage in order to maintain competition. Exceptions can be made of oases by a judge and renewed regularly.
 
 
3. IMPORTANT RULES
 
The aim is to provide a fair and stable society. In order to assure this, several rules are put into place:
 
I. GOVERNMENTAL MONOPOLY ON VIOLENCE
 
No private person or organisation is allowed to possess, produce or sell weapons outside of governmental work. The government itself will be the only one to posses weapons and weapon manufacturing facilities. This is to assure safety inside of social structures such as cities.
 
Governmental employees being allowed to use weapons might include employees of the
-Ministry of military
-Ministry of police
-Ministry of exploration
 
However, the employees will not be allowed to own a private weapon outside of their employment. Anything that is not exclusively designed as a weapon is allowed, however, violence towards other players outside of self defence and defence of others is prohibited. Self defence or defence of others should only be done using appropriate force.
 
 
II. UNCONDITIONAL BASIC INCOME
 
Every citizen will be provided with unconditional basic income. That income might include
-Money
-Basic Resources
-Basic Goods
And will be handed out regularly.
 
To assure a safe supply of the unconditional basic income, there will be a rise of taxation for higher incomes both for privates persons and companies. Further, a large part of the international trading of basic recourses will be done or at least overlooked by the government.
 
The unconditional basic income will assure an equal starting point for every player, where nobody has to start from scratch in a world he doesn't fully understand yet.
 
 
III. ABSOLUTE FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND INFORMATION
 
No opinion or speech can be prohibited. The can be no censorship. No person or organisation can be persecuted solely because of the opinions, goals, plans, ideas or ideals that they represent.
Furthermore, the government is required to release all documents to the public.
 
 
IV. FREE TRANSPORTATION
 
In the long run, it needs to be the goal to create free means of travel for every citizen. This means that the government needs to find ways to erect and establish both safe and free to use paths as well as safe and free to use public transportation vehicles.
 
 
V. CREATION OF AN INTERNATIONAL UNION
 
This is to avoid military, political or economical conflicts with other countries as well as to strengthen each member militarily and economically. While in the beginning, alliances will be made, the longterm goal is the creation of am international Union to assure peace, prosperity to its members and freedom and safety to its citizens.
That Union might be anything from an alliance to a federation.
Military conflicts with other nations are to be avoided at all cost. The borders of other nations as well as their sovereignty are to be respected.
 
And most importantly of all, rule 0:
 
RULE 0:
 
Every players life, liberty, pride, health, safety and happiness is to be pursuit and protected by the government.
 
 
 
Editors note: This is my basic idea. However, I'm very new to this genre (never played massive online before... I never was intruiged until now), so any feedback and/or advice would be welcome
 
Also any Ideas for a Better Name or a cool logo?
What can work, what not?
To what extend is organisation in your experience needed?
Etc...
 
Sry for my noobiness

Just reminded me this song!!
 
:lol:

You guys are all awesome, I guess i am glad to see people interested. 
 I just don't want to be a dictator, I want the committee to be a democracy. 

Definitely, Hovercraft Racing has a very good perspective to become a unique and thrilling part of DU's culture.
Simply keep the vision and be patient, oportunities to realise this idea will grow with the very comunity's growing and game's developing.

Definitely, Hovercraft Racing has a very good perspective to become a unique and thrilling part of DU's culture.
Simply keep the vision and be patient, oportunities to realise this idea will grow with the very comunity's growing and game's developing.

**Update : The IHRC is looking for representatives from organizations who would like to be a part of the racing. Individuals who want a say can also join. The representatives will have a say in what the rules and regulations are. Each rep. will be able to cast a vote on each individual rule and reg, once the ballots have been created. I would like to have at least 10 members before creating a ballot. We have 4 members right now.  Remember this organization is more of a hobby for you in the universe, you can still be part of your regular organization. So if you are a legate of a org and want to be a part of this please send a rep to us. I don't want to be a dictator who controls every part of this. **
 
**Also looking for players who will be in the alpha to help with testing, to see what is possible.**
 
 
About The Interstellar Hovercraft Racing Committee
This Organization consists of dedicated members. These members are tasked with creating the rules and regulations, for the hovercraft racing league. Voting by these members will determine the rules. 

 This is not the organization for the racers. Remember we are still creating the "game" we are not looking for the "players" right now. 
We will advertise when we are ready for racer requests.
 
Hovercraft Racing will be a series of races governed by a set of rules. Open to anyone able to meet the standards. 
Proposed Rules for the races are as follows and open to discussion
--Size of craft to be limited. Limited by a minimum and maximum size.  This may include a voxel count and  a physical size. 
--Qualifying Rounds leading to a final ( depending on track size and racer participation)
--No weapons allowed
--No outside help
-- 1 person in control of 1 craft. 
--Tracks will be large , with obstacles in the way, with natural segments(if flat enough). 
--Referees will be tasked with player management. 
--Going out of bounds will result in immediate disqualification. (this will be changed, as opposition is growing against this suggestion)
--Like the Olympics, the event to take place in multiple locations. Locations approved by the Committee. 
--If possible the entire track will be constructed in safe zones.  (Not sure how safe zones work. Can others come in and just not damage anything or access certain things. Or does a safe zone not allow somebody to enter all together. Or is this changeable?)
- Pilots, technicians and sponsors will form teams
- Leagues will build circuits (or choose from independent owners), enrol teams, organize racing seasons, schedule races, keep ranking, advertise, etc.
- On the long run, with civilization expanding, there will be multiple leagues (maybe 1 planetary per planet, 1 stellar per system and 1 interstellar)
- Qualifying to a larger league would be achieved by competing in smaller ones
Leagues should have the same rules, and stating this rules shouldn't be the responsibility of one of them.
That's where the committee steps in, as an unique structure.
The objectives are then clearly given: committee decides the rules, leagues do competitions following these rules.
To have the required authority and stay connected with "reality", I think the committee should have a body of voters made of leagues representatives.
 
Community page
https://community.dualthegame.com/organization/interstellar-hovercraft-racing-committee#tab-description

I'm not speaking in any official role here as I'm not even formally part of anything yet (but with good ties), thus Kurok can precisely reply to your questions.
 
To give my input, however:
 
 
 
As for the question whether it could be the "true capital": I would consider this possibility as emergent gameplay is the holy cow. To roughly quote the Necromongers: "You keep what you kill".
 
And in that sense it would be "You keep what you earn". In many online environments players cannot fully or at least widely dictate the setting. Here it's very much likely and intended.
 
They are among the largest organizations or alliances so far and are so far spearheading the largest city project - at least I don't know of any others yet in that area. Others may come up and perhaps challenge them or offer alternatives, but they are in a lucrative and advantageous starting position. In addition comes the manpower.
 
To summarize for me it boils down to: If they can pull it off, they deserve it. If we assume other competition arises over time and they don't disband and change plans, they'll at least be able to create a notable city on Alioth that will attract people and perhaps exert influence on other areas to join up with that.

The plans for the neutral city of Emberstone are being drawn up. This will be a large project involving multiple organisations.  You don't have to be a CSYN member organisation to help build a city that will be a home for many and a first stop for those new to DU.  Drop me a PM if you are interested.
 
Also we are looking for people to join CSYN directly.  We believe in fulfilling dreams. We all have them in DU.  Let us help you make your dream a reality.
 
Kurock
CSYN Chief of Development

Successfully funded with 3 days to spare! 
 
so congratulations to everyone at NQ you can all breath a bit easier today
 
so let us rejoice! please leave some positive messages for the NQ team*
 
* please don't start bickering, in fact lets not talk to each other at all and just leave some congratulatory messages for NQ to enjoy over the weekend
 
 

NovaQuark, CONGRATULATIONS from RoboTechCorp and personally from me, and be honest FROM ALL COMMUNITY!!!
Hope you will reach great success with your project! We all looking forward to seeing this project LIVE!
 

 
There are a lot of hard work in future, and many of us already want to join to help you! Just keep going forward! We believe in you!
 
Thanks,
Archonious

Congratulations NQ. You deserve it. It was a close call, too. From around 12K Euros a day up until we had only 4 days remaining, we shot from 460K Euros to 500K Euros in a single day!  Hurraaaayyy sprinkles confetti whoop whooop!!!!

The Kickstarter is looking like it's in the bag.
 
Yay
 
KICKSTARTER SUCEEDS. HELL YEAH.
 
CONGRATS NQ!