Daphne Jones
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60km? That's really tiny for a planet. I think planets will get mined out pretty quickly. We'll have to abandon Alioth and move on. Just like real humans... Wipe out the environment and move to a new place. Good simulation.
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I have the right game. It just has some aspects I don't like. Yes, I'm probably overthinking it. I usually do. But generally, as i get answers things look worse than I expected. I will undoubtedly become more pessimistic before I become less pessimistic. lol OK. I don't think there's anything else to be learned in this thread so I'm out.
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Not scared. Just averse to boring and non-fun game play. Especially when the "combat" is leveled tab-target BS. That's really just bullying anyway you look at it.
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Building and flying spaceships. If there's other fun stuff that's fine. Whether the ganking will be intolerable depends on how much we lose on death, which no one seems to know the answer to. If you make a point about something good and use EVE as an example, I will not be able to hear you. That's definitely true.
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The universe is going to be pretty tiny until we get FTL.
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Yep. That's exactly my concern. You couldn't pay me enough to get me into EVE.
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I hope you're right, but I'm not optimistic.
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I would say that's the ugliness of DU. Very limited play unless you take unwarranted risks with no real chance of reward.
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Looks like a threat to me. Yeah yeah, I know... you'll pretend it wasn't. Bullies always do that.
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You made a threat. I responded. No negativity. I do think this game will be pretty much impossible to play outside of safe zones, but whatever. I'll stay in a safe zone and build. That should be fun. I don't see any point in playing gank fest though.
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Is that your griefing org? You'll be busy dealing with the other orgs trying to wipe you out.
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I guess my res node will stay at the ark ship until I can put one on a sanctuary moon. I'll be laughing at the rest of you spawning naked while the guys who killed you in the first place stand next to your res node and wrack up free kills. (This is common practice in WoW Ashran - a PvP setting I used to play a lot.)
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Does a player made resurrection node have a safe zone around it? If not it would be really dumb to use one.
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Don't you think other players will just come along and salvage your construct while you're offline? Is there something to stop people from doing that? If your building is unlikely to survive till you log in again, there wouldn't be any need for decay.
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Being able to plant a tree or to fill a pool
Daphne Jones replied to Castanietzsche's topic in Builder Forum
The wood veneers might be textured polymer rather than wood. Those must be elements. I guess you could tell what the material is by looking at the crafting recipe. -
What happens when you die?
Daphne Jones replied to Daphne Jones's topic in The Gameplay Mechanics Assembly
Yeah, I know. I'm concerned primarily about NQ's design plans to the extent they've shared it with us. I didn't think the constructs would disappear - that would create a death spiral that would kill the game - but you might lose control of them. This could be that no one has control permanently, i.e. they can only be salvaged, or could be the first person to reach the construct can claim it. The latter would make violence the only meaningful activity in the game. As for inventory, I'm pretty sure I remember NQ saying you can't lose your blueprints, but I don't remember hearing about anything else. -
Yes, I know you reincarnate (naked per lore) at your linked reincarnation point. I take it naked means in your space suit since that seems to be as naked as we get. Do you lose the contents of your nanopack? Do you lose any land you have claimed? Do you lose any constructs you have spawned in the world? Do you lose your money? Do you lose "skills"?
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I thought there was a device you could put down that created a safe zone. Maybe I'm thinking of the land claim device. Without a sz device the game will be unplayable... or not fun anyway. I'll just stay on a safe moon and build spaceships. Sounds like the rest of the game will just be a gank fest. yuck. And I guess there's leveling? So it will just be high level bullies abusing low levels.
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I think any sensible org is going to put down a SZ marker on any hex where they have considerable assets.
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Same issue. No response from support yet. Maybe Monday.
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That's true. Single shard wasn't in the original SC design, so they're playing catch up. I actually wouldn't be surprised if they buy a license for the tech from Novaquark. (Also won't be surprised if they do it all on their own.)
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A single persistent universe implemented with a server mesh. What other game does that? Oh... that's right... DU.
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Like they say, that's why it's called game development and not game construction. Sure, it's not as easy to build as DU, but they keep solving these problems. I don't see any logic in thinking the next problem will stump them when the last 1000 problems haven't.
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Would you really play a game where everything you build 1) has to be built from expensive resources and 2) is persistent but there's no safe zone to put it in? I wouldn't. You can't build civilization if you can't make your cities safe... that would be called building barbarism.
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Chris Roberts has a pretty long history of doing things in PC games that "weren't possible" at the time. *shrug* I suspect bullet calculations happen client side. How they'll do that is they'll have 1000 clients working on it when there are 1000 ships shooting.
