[Explosives]

On 3/19/2018 at 8:03 AM, Omfgreenhair said:

something about not wanting weapons of mass destruction. Although, knowing gamers, we'll find a way. You hear me, NQ? WE'LL FIND A WAY! *mad laughter*

^ this is why we can't have nice things.

[Explosives]

I haven't seen much on this and haven't heard if it's planned, so here it is:

I think combat should include explosive elements like mines, bombs, and grenades. Blast radius weapons that aren't just point and shoot. The potential overpoweredness of it could be tamed with appropriate defenses such as shields, radar, fancy footwork, and active protection systems (point defense, countermeasures, laser missile defense, etc.). I think it would add a lot of richness and tactical diversity to the combat dynamic.

 

Thoughts? ? ? ?

[Climat and Eco-Systems on Planets]

Eh, maybe. I'm not a game dev either. It's a good idea.

[Climat and Eco-Systems on Planets]

As cool as player actions affecting planetary ecology would be, it's well beyond the scope of DU's proposed gameplay mechanics. I imagine it would greatly increase server load, as well. But, it would be cool to have something like that in the distant future for sure.

 

[So.. How did it go this weekend]

I heard from an unnamed ATV member, on an unnamed forum, that...

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I don't think any of us are going to regret backing this game

 

[What will you do in the early days after launch ?]

I'll probably take a long walk on the beach...

... and then I'll mine my butt off like everyone else.  I'd like to contract with an organization's R&D department and get some experience designing/building useful doodads. Maybe I could do that on my own with designs I make in alpha, but if not, I'm thinking it'll be easier with some corporate funding first.

[*ignore]

Yeah, it was a "compromised account." I feel stupid.

Time to go through the ebay resolution process...

 

[*ignore]

It's got to be some kind of mistake... who sells this much RAM for so little?

[*ignore]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Corsair-Vengeance-LPX-16GB-2x8GB-DDR4-DRAM-3000MHz-C15-Desktop-Memory-Kit/272837680710

I'm really hoping it's not some kind of scam... but it looks legit. 80% off 2*8GB DDR4 3000MHz RAM. If you can't use it, you could resell it.

I thought I should share it with my fellow... what are we calling ourselves now?

[Likelihood of running pre-alpha on my Macbook Pro?]

1 hour ago, Hades said:

Going to build a PC and boot windows and OSX on it right?  Would be the best value 

 

I don't think the non (k) processors can be overclocked.  I could be wrong, it's been a long time since I've owned a locked processor.

 

Yeah, I'm in the market for the unlocked processor. It'll probably be $200.

 

1 hour ago, Hades said:

Processors are rarely the bottleneck in gaming, but from what it sounds like DU may be an abnormality in that regard 

I think that used to be true, but looking at the latest AAA games... some don't even start with less than 4 cores.

[Likelihood of running pre-alpha on my Macbook Pro?]

13 hours ago, yamisniper said:

i dont think it will but like the guy below your post whatd ual core you might be able to upgrade it to a quad or 6 core

I looked into upgrading, but my laptop's size doesn't support an upgrade.

I've gone over my finances and it looks like over the next month I can pull together a nice hackintosh (I prefer Macs, so I'll just dual-boot Windows for DU). I'll probably miss the grand-pre-alpha opening by a couple weeks and it'll be a painful blow to my wallet, but with the motherboard I'm looking at and an i5-7600 with OC potential, it should last me several years.

And I'll FINALLY have an actual gaming rig. I can't wait to put this thing together. 

(I think my profile picture needs an update...)

[Likelihood of running pre-alpha on my Macbook Pro?]

New question: what's the likelihood of being able to play on a dual core?

[Likelihood of running pre-alpha on my Macbook Pro?]

Well, I'm crushed. Turns out even with the a new GPU my CPU will be too much of a bottleneck... 

This is seriously depressing.

 

Option 1: buy a new computer.
Option 2: don't play DU.

(option 1 would require selling some of my investments... )

[How did you find Dual Universe?]

I think I was just perusing games on Kickstarter and when I stumbled upon DU was like:       < in that order.

So I threw my money at it!

[Are you going to Lua in DU?]

On 9/4/2017 at 2:16 PM, Shynras said:

Keep in mind that it's possible we'll need to train skills to unlock functions, so there may be another limitation that will force you to choose between lua and other careers.

 

 

Ew. That'd be disappointing.

[Are you going to Lua in DU?]

42 minutes ago, Ben Fargo said:

I was a professional programmer for forty years, just retired.  I love programming, so I think using Lua will be a lot of fun.

 

If the first question had an option between the first and second choices, I would have picked that.  I expect to do things more advanced than just the basics, but I do not claim I will be a master.

With 40 years of professional experience, I'd say you can use the title "master." 

[Are you going to Lua in DU?]

1 hour ago, ATMLVE said:

I have to point out it is Lua, a name, not LUA an acronym. 

Ah, that's right. Thanks. *edited* 

[How long is pre-alpha?]

13 minutes ago, yamisniper said:

yama said weekends only most likely

So like, 4 weekends maybe?

[Are you going to Lua in DU?]

How much do you plan to script in-game and what experience do you have?

[How long is pre-alpha?]

Anyone know how long pre-alpha's going to last? 1 week? 1 month?

[Likelihood of running pre-alpha on my Macbook Pro?]

4 minutes ago, Mazillus said:

The rate that they release new pin connectors as well makes them not very future proof. 

 

 

Mmm. Didn't know that.

I REALLY want to participate in alpha... I don't know yet.

[Likelihood of running pre-alpha on my Macbook Pro?]

@Mazillus Thanks for the link. I was just reading through all that.

Well, I'm looking at a 20% performance drop with this setup - which should be negligible with a good enough GPU.
Still, that'll put me out ~ $700. I wish the crypto miners would stop buying up all the GPUs and inflating the price. =P

[Likelihood of running pre-alpha on my Macbook Pro?]

39 minutes ago, Haunty said:

You really need dedicated graphics, Intel HD won't cut it

Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. It looks like I might be able to run an eGPU through thunderbolt though... Even though I'm on thunderbolt 1, as long as I had a thunderbolt-3-compatible enclosure it'd be future proof and I could just use an adapter. I'm not sure how effective it would be bottlenecking through 10gb/s thunderbolt though (also used for my external display).

[Likelihood of running pre-alpha on my Macbook Pro?]

I don't think I'll be able to get a decent gaming machine until the beta, so any ideas on what would be adequate to participate in pre-alpha? I know it's impossible to really predict how the game's going to perform at this point, but I'm inexperienced and hoping someone can at least give me an idea of my laptop's potential with Boot Camp.

Macbook Pro Specs:
2.9 GHz Intel Core i7
8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536 MB

[Anyone else taking time off work for Pre-Alpha?]

"Take time off?" Heck, I'm tempted to sell my investments to get a decent computer for this... still undecided on that.
 

(1 hr later) thought about and that would be stupid. I'll just wait until beta. =(