Daphne Jones

We have a speed limiter - c... which is set to 30000 kph in DU. Have you played this game OP? (c is the speed of light for the science-illiterate).

Noobs sometimes have great ideas. Don't listen to the OP. Yeah, we long ago thought of and discarded 99% of what a noob can come up with, but that 1% may have eluded us (and NQ).

NQ did mention at one point that we would get 3 characters on our account, but it's been years since I last heard anything about that. Still, it might happen. (I think we have to assume nothing JC promised is guaranteed any longer unless it was a stretch goal.)

Just re-reading this blog and noticed this: The proposed changes will definitely solve the "problem" of screens being popular with the players.

Doesn't work on org constructs. Even for the superlegate. It should be named a different F word.

Does /unstuck work for anyone? It either crashes or hangs the game for me. (Bug report filed).

No, lol. The scripts you see at the markets are players tracking who goes to that market - and probably more importantly, how many people are using that market. The scripts don't do much more than record your presence and stop. Some of them aren't coded very well and don't stop themselves - that's likely to lead to errors since it can hang the PB. But they can't mess with your computer. (And I doubt you could ever actually mine bitcoin in lua - it's not a language for computationally complex code). But mining - in game mining - probably is contributing to the lag. Most of the planet is drawn procedurally from a starting seed and the actual pollys are calculated client side. Every time someone digs a hole, that reshaping of the planet surface because data that has to be transferred to your client before the client can draw the scene... so, if there's been a lot of mining nearby, it will slow the process down.

Does this bullshit change affect the system screen too? If not I'll just stop using screens, but if so, I'm gone. I don't think the new system can draw my ship UI without needing to move a huge amount of html (i.e. one drawRect per pixel.)

I think you're thinking too small... the net tech is the main NQ product and its value is not limited to games. Sure, there may be no game dev buyer, that that's not the target customer. It's general purpose server meshing tech. It has a lot of possible applications.

That's the whole point of having backers with no equity position - don't have to pay them back. I knew that's what I was signing up for and I'm OK with it. But if they're going to kill it, I wish they would stop wasting my time.

Wow. You copied my interactions with NQ lol.

Weird. I can't press the reaction button any more today. Never seen that. So I'll just say I agree with @FuriousPuppy 's thought above. Kill it or fix it and let us know which is the plan.

Engine cut switching back to travel mode is normal. What else could the system do? It's most likely that the engines where in between throttle notches in cruise and leaving the engines running might mess up your throttle positions. Easier to set to zero. From a piloting perspective, this just means you need to set the throttle to the desired value as soon as you switch. If you were unable to set the throttle, you probably didn't hit tab again to get out of locked mode. As Tony says, safer to use alt-R to toggle cruise control.

Private Equity? I'm not sure that's actually different from VC, except that VC is a business rather than someone hoping to ride the company's coat tails to wealth.

Where did you give a source? I missed that. I did se the source CptLoRes gave (which was really sparse and I don't know how to validate it.)

There's a difference between what someone is allowed to do and what it's polite to do.

I guess we need to recruit one of the devs on their super secret unknown to NQ account. I expect that's how smaller orgs (you're all smaller than us) with less scruples than us get things done.

Just to clarify something, I stay out of blazemonger's threads and it would be polite if he would stay out of mine.

Pretty sure we're about to get booted too lol.

Is that true? Official announcement somewhere? I assume this is the beginning of shutting the game down so the corporate overlords can take their server tech and run.

Then you just clear it and find the next one.

lol. Congrats. And welcome to the game.

You don't find mines - you dig them lol. The scanner takes practice, but those of us who have that practice can find a node of the specific ore we want in just a couple of minutes.

I doubt there's any T5 left in areas that are permanently safe. The tiny bit on permanent safe zone moons has no doubt been stripped away by now.

I got into the tutorial and went through it, but the exit teleporter was covered with a force field so I couldn't leave when it was done.