Daphne Jones

Get rid of mining for wood and let us cut trees for wood. Fishing - this is really easy fauna interaction since they don't have to actually implement living fish (that's why it's a mainstay of MMOs). Of course, fishing only makes sense if they add an eating survival mechanic, and, yes, I'll include that as an idea. Plus other survival mechanics - air supply, water, sleep, bathroom. We don't need detailed play on this stuff - just make it a nerf if you don't lie down on a bed for a few seconds every eight hours. Other NPC and fauna interactions. Alas, this would be huge since they really have no way to implement NPCs when everything happens in the client. Includes mission givers and hunting. Weather - again, hard to do when everything is in the client, but not as hard as NPCs since we don't have to see the same raindrops.

That's a really good idea. That would definitely make controlled PVP events possible.

I report those to NQ and they take care of them.

I agree. While they do break rules, that would not be an example of it. However, they are always bad people.

They would stab you in the back... cause that's their nature.

You know the griefer orgs are just going to show up with meta ships and trash everyone, right?

There's are reason why meta is considered cheating in RP. This was intended as an RP combat event. Griefer orgs... whatcha gonna do?

Rotors are a lot more efficient than a jet engine pointed downward. Rotors are designed to be efficient at zero (vertical) speed. Jets are more efficient the faster they are moving along their axis of thrust - and horribly inefficient at zero speed. One could argue that DU atmo engines aren't really jets (but then what are they?), but you can't argue that they only have more than half thrust when placed vertically (and I believe, full fuel consumption). A rotor would essentially be a reskin of an atmo engine with some modified stats - so it burn maybe twice what a hover does for the same lift and can fly higher. Doesn't need to be able to get over 50% atmo to give us decent rotary wing vehicles. (Although Ingenuity on Mars flies at 1% atmo assuming it works - I don't think they've flown it yet as of this writing).

Glad somebody gets it. There is hope for DU's player base. lol

Why don both? lol

We don't have anything in game that can do what a helicopter does efficiently.

In 2021, NASA landed a helicopter on Mars... 10000 years later we don't have helicopters on Alioth. Why?

Oh schematics to Alioth. Yeah. That works pretty well and I've done some of that. Usually on a contract to pick up a schematic for someone to use, I'll buy extras and sell on the market. (If someone is contracting for it, it will probably sell. I don't do enough industry to actually know what schematics are in demand otherwise.) I guess it may be time to look at market trading again. I'd rather be doing that than mining.

I checked voxel building, but it's just as much flying airplanes and spaceships in a fairly realistic flight model. The poll doesn't really cover that. Also social stuff - the poll doesn't cover that either. The building is better than KSP, although KSP is better on space flight. They're about the same on airplanes. (Social in KSP sucks of course). Fight is better than in SC (where building is non-existent). Building isn't quite as good as SL, but the space flight model in SL really sucks and SL can be very expensive to secure flyable airspace.

That mostly stopped working after the first month of beta. Stuff is equally expensive to make no matter where you are, so prices settle toward the same point everywhere. The only exception is ore, which you mostly can't buy on the planet of origin because anyone mining it is hauling it back to Alioth to sell or wherever their factory is to use. BTW, schematics and blueprints are very different things. A schematic allows an industry machine to craft a specific thing. A blueprint allows you to duplicate something that you (or someone else) has built. Crafting is not the same as building in DU. (I don't craft if I can avoid it, but building is a major part of my game-play.) Many players - maybe half the player base - quit when schematics came in. If I cared about crafting, I would have quit. You're not alone in thinking the grind needs to be toned down a bit.

Do you really want players who have access to god mode and detailed inside info playing for your in-game enemies? I already feel like my in-game enemies have unwarranted access to information from and influence on NQ.

I gave up on the ticket system a long time ago. The answer is always "try rebooting". Despite claims to the contrary, it's obviously that tickets get auto responses from bots and no one ever looks at them.

Because waiting 48 hours before anyone is even there to read your request is such an improvement? They'll have to improve on the 3 month mean response time too.

I definitely don't need any reason to go into PVP space until I can defend myself and the rewards are great enough to replace my ship when it's destroyed. Pretty sure I will never be able to defend myself solo, so I'm pretty much locked out of anything in PVP space.

Definitely agree about the XS tank. The cluster of planets with atmo is silly, but the other ideas are good. 2.5g gas giants will definitely require specialty ships... and probably heat shields for re-entry - maybe for exit too.

Did they remove salvage? I wouldn't know how to find a salvageable ship since I can't have atmo and space radar on the same seat.

Scripts probably don't get loaded if the PB/control unit isn't running. There's nothing to render so no need to load it. And it only needs to load in the client that's running it. If several players are nearby, the game can't predict which one will trigger the script. Elements, yes, have to render. That said, an actual light (lights the surroundings, casts shadows) is more expensive than a light that's turned off.

Oh, they're killing the in-game presence too. The black hole level decision making continues lol.

They are taking support requests through the in-game support channel. That's a much better option since all active players have access to that. What did they say about dropping discord support? I haven't seen that.

I think you need to do 2.16+40% first because installation happens first and is independent of pilot talents = 3.024. And then 3.024+28% for the pilot talents, but that comes out higher than 3.85. The build helper may be taking some fractional obstruction into account.