DarkHorizon
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4 hours ago, Toecutter said:
GAH this is making me mad, you guys have literally no idea how business works, if NQ releases crews like you guys seem to want, the game will be dead within the year, no new players will come to it, it will die, this isnt an assumption, this is fact, anyone with any experience in marketing will know that marketing yourself to an incredibly niche market, for example people willing to spend all day every day trying to work with people just to do one thing, while dismembering your ability to market towards the average consumer, especially when said consumer wants your product and especially when you need these people around for content in the first place is a terrible idea, its corporate suicide
4 hours ago, Toecutter said:Exactly: Directing
You arent going to be carting ammo around, you arent going to be waiting on someone to shoot you to press R, you expect to be directing, for that to happen, someone has to *Want* to cart ammo around, they have to want, to do what you say, does anyone here have any business sense at all?
I want this game to last longer than a month3Lets take both of these into consideration here and look at the societies and economies of today...
Who wants to flip burgers? Who wants to dry cars after they're washed? Who wants to do a quality control check on this car frame that just came off the line? Who wants to take this person's order? Who wants to do customer service? Who wants to check a boarding pass? Who wants to make beds? Who wants to sauter a point on a circuit board? Who wants to pick up mail? Who wants to repair those pipes? Who wants to shingle that roof? Who wants to check this computer code? Who wants to like something on social media? Who wants to operate this elevator/lift? Who wants to manually unsubscribe someone from a mailing list? Who wants to label this mail? Who wants to walk around to make sure the place isn't on fire? Oh god, who wants to watch the fax machine? Who wants to sort these papers? Who wants to staple these papers? Who wants to be a night watchman? "Cleanup on aisle four". Who wants to spin a revolving door? Who wants to carry in peoples luggage? Who wants to lick envelopes? Who wants to hold a sign in 90-degree heat? Who wants to collect tolls? Who wants to make boxes?
Sir, I don't know who you are and odds are we'll never see each other in our lifetimes. I live in a small town of fifty-some thousand people and while that seems like a lot from just one single point of view, compare it to metros like Chicago and LA that can house upwards of two-million people. Sure my town has a fortieth of the population 1/40 is still a pretty small fraction.
The list of jobs I have just given were all the things I could rattle off the top of my head that I knew existed in my town. I betcha if I lived in a metro, this list would be much more expensive... These are all jobs that need to be done so that many of the great things in society can have a chance at existing. What might seem trivial to you would mean a meager wage and food on the table for some war vet still hoping for the future.
I get it. No one wants to mop up shit. To anyone who finds joy in cleaning up human excrement, I salute you and wish you all the best because you have a really, really shitty job.
If no one cleaned up that crap, Walmart wouldn't be in business. If no one flipped those burgers, McDonald's would go bankrupt. If no one at FedEx sorted that mail, your mailbox would be forever empty. If no one repaired the pipes, skyscrapers and water towers (believe it or not those things play a part in providing you with tap water) wouldn't fill with water so that means no toilets and you're 90 stories up. If no one flagged in construction sites, you wouldn't get to work on time and traffic would be backed up forever. If the AmericanAirlines girl didn't check your boarding pass, good luck Chuck, you're stuck. If no one at Ford or GM, or Chrysler checked the car frames for defects, they would have needed a bailout a heck of a long time ago. And if NQ didn't check it's code, we wouldn't have DU, but worst of all if no one at Microsoft checked the code for their OS, we'd all be on Linux.
I get it. No one wants to do some trivial and repetitive task. I implore you though to look around you, mundane tasks are everywhere. If people didn't do these tasks, society would come to a screeching halt faster than you can sneeze in a dusty room. How are CEOs supposed to exist at the top without mobs of people filing paperwork at the bottom? Without those people, there would be no CEO, there would be no business, there would be no jobs, there would be no money. If there is no money, there is no economy. If there is no economy then nothing has value. If nothing has no value then the barter system doesn't exist. If there is no bartering then we're back to throwing rocks at each other. If we're back to throwing rocks at each other then that means we're back to biblical times. Let's not do that because I failed religion class!
Okay, the majority of that last paragraph was just senseless rambling and me sowing random things together. Do you get where I'm coming from though? If you don't have a strong base to work on top of, then everything will fall apart and the top of the pyramid will not exist. We have CEO's, and we have document sorters. We have organization leaders, and we have organization followers.
Yeah, there's a lot of boring stuff to do out there, but if you want to succeed in this game and let alone in life, sometimes you gotta do the boring stuff.
The truth is a bitter pill to swallow. Looking back at it, that one line summarizes my entire post. Do you want to know another truth? It's pretty much a fact.
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On 11/19/2016 at 5:49 PM, Lord_Void said:
Didn't "Sausage Party" teach us anything? The only way to be pure is to never eat anything at all ever again!
Falling hope.
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10 hours ago, Falstaf said:
Now what would help to endorse our preferred subreddit is some NQ interaction on the subreddit.
An AMA would drive a lot of Google searches to it. I think. Then again NQ most likely has better things to do. ?
I don't know what an AMA is, but I think if DU could come out and endorse the proper Reddit as a social media or community platform and maybe have a few official folks actually engage there, I think that could put this whole issue to rest. Like others have said though, they already have a lot of things on their plate leading up to the start of
the new college semesteralpha.I too don't fully understand this whole issue with Reddit, but I'd have to agree with Pang on this issue. If folks are really looking for the community then they'd click on NQs website or check out their youtube channel. Then you got their kickstarter, a wikipedia entry, and their facebook page to go through before the subredit comes up. With a little bit of clicking, all three are great platforms to make the jump over here to the forums which are as official as they come.
It seems like a complete non-issue since reddit just seems like an extension of the forums where the only perk is non-NQ staff. If it's as mission critical as you say it is though Yama, by all means, go after it if you feel the calling. I just don't see why we need two (in this case three) forums dividing the community when we have everything we need right here. It's not like we're dealing with big bad NQ where we need to go off and make our own forums and such.
Oh well, this isn't exactly my area to be in anyways, I wish you all the best of luck in ironing this out.
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4 hours ago, Croomar said:
No, they don't... I'm afraid you didn't get the joke
Well now that you mention that I think I do know what you're talking about.
Not going to go there.
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Well then call me inspired, the crowd (like five people) wants it so I guess I'll be up to no good every now and then. At least I'll have something to pass the time I guess.
Remember, yall are the ones that make the content, I just put it in a blender and make it look delicious.
Do those sword eaters put stuff on their swords before ramming it down their gullet? Huh, I'll have to go look it up.
Better also ask if I'd be better off leaving this stuff here in OTD or move it to the fan art section... I saw that the fan art section was really official looking stuff and mostly done by @yamamushi but that's beside the point but I do want this stuff in the right area if I'm going to be doing it every now and then. Also not sure if I should keep it all to one thread or make a separate one each time. Open to input.
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Aww shucks you guys... I was totally expecting more rage but this is being received so much better than I thought!
14 hours ago, ShinyMagnemite said:well...
It is a rather large possibility that this could occur... am I in the 3rd green boat called "not SI" then?Ehh it's more of a not-so-sneaky gag I threw in at the last minute before I posted. I've never heard anything about Silverlight in a positive or negative fashion so I assume that they as a whole just do their own thing and take pleasure in being completely free of politics as opposed to the other four orgs, or at least they're quiet for now in pre-alpha. We'll see how that changes once they start wheeling and dealing with the other orgs.
Also, no one seems to have noticed yet. BOO sitting on top of the ark ship all Nixon style, those are middle fingers being held up. Felt like this small addition was needed because arms-up just didn't properly serve a pirate and/or anti-gov orientated org.
If the community is truly interested, I might consider doing these every once in a while. Sadly it will be content driven based on what happens in the community and me keeping my ears open to all that is going on. That will, of course, change when I return to college in the fall and go back to work again (took the summer off, god I miss em...).
I don't have a truely artistic side (I do write fanfics but that's something else entirely) so MS paint and maybe copy/paste icons should be all that you guys expect out of me.
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12 minutes ago, Inasyah said:
LOL who are the missed 10%
(Except the ones that he just forgot to add to the exisitng ones like Spain to the EU)
South and Central America. You could also say Antartica, but we know what exists down there... and no it isn't just ice and penguins, something way more sinister... >_>
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12 minutes ago, Kurock said:
The artist should sign in the bottom corner of this masterpiece.
Its awful ms paint trash lol. If you insist.
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An artistic rendition of the five current largest orgs (TU, BOO, SI, CS, UL respectively) and how Alioth will look 24 hours after alpha launches. The small purple thing is the arkship.
The discussion around destructive mining practices got me thinking this. I don't speak on behalf of any org represented, this is simply an impression of these orgs that I had made based on what I've heard in discord in the past month and through recent videos posted on youtube.
This is a humorous take on things and meant to be in good taste. c:
Oh, apologies to Silverlight, I can't draw a spaceship so I did the next best thing. Enjoy.
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On 5/29/2017 at 11:51 AM, Kuritho said:
Grappling Hooks in ANY game is fun.
Just imagine shooting one at an enemy ship and taking a free-ride.
On 6/2/2017 at 11:18 PM, 0something0 said:I personally think RP is stupid in games as it largely relies on the honor system(which isn't very reliable in video games). Even more so in this situation since you are disadvantaging yourself on purpose.
Making jetpacks require resources makes people go out and get said resources, which is good for the DU community. It also means you can't just fly to the next planet over with the jetpacks. Also, i think the jetpack should be in-game for more then building. I think they should be used in all aspects of life from combat to exploration to transit.
On 6/3/2017 at 0:31 PM, Shynras said:Since Du is not a modeling software but a game, the building aspect should be immersive as much as any other gameplay aspect in DU.
-It kills diversity even for other gameplay aspects. To create a deathstar you'd just fly freely where you want with your jetpack vs huge effort by an org to set up scaffolding, that creates jobs and contracts (emergent gameplay), new gameplay possibilities and immersion
1Basically, I'm going to build a fragile wood and metal construct around a device capable of annihilating planets? Seems kind of silly, especially when the aforementioned ship would be built in space as a previous poster said.
On 6/3/2017 at 2:17 PM, Shynras said:Actually if you're a builder, it's in your best interest to have this kind of system, because it let's you specialize and get an advantage over people that never built, since it's likely they'd not train a jetpack skill if their only job is to mine or fight. With your suggestion, anyone will be able to build freely as a veteran builder, removing the progression experience.
1Sorry, but any of us who haven't played other such games with various 3D builders, are at a quick disadvantage out of the gate compared to those that already have experience in such. Building is going to be so much more than swoosh, wish, wooooosh. There's gathering, planning, mapping etc. Also, builders progression experience, while I can see a place for that in some games, I can't exactly see that in this game.
What year is DU going to be set in? Come on now folks, it's the future. What's complex today is frivolous tomorrow. Having to build scaffolding in the 25 century is frivolous.
On 6/5/2017 at 1:57 AM, Kurosawa said:You should not have to fight your tools to make them work.
That's about it, I actually have nothing more to say now... well, actually I do...
This entire debate, unlimited jetpack in a limited space vs manual scaffolding, will become entirely moot very quickly, for one very simple reason.
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Seems like the actively viewing section at the bottom of the thread is gone. Oh, and where did the recent threads on the front page go?
I like this update, even with my night time color filter on, I can read quotes much easier now!
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Whats wrong with a classic vanilla soft cone?
It's not trendy / pop culture enough, that was the 60s anyways...
Mind you this isn't my opinion but that of which my culture seems to provide.
I like cookiedough, I also like peanutbutter... Speaking of which, yall should see my birthday cake.
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As for the "unusual" questions for the highest Tier - Packs:
- Can I start a family with a member of the Novaquark team?
Nope, you can't start a family with one or several members of the Novaquark team. That's not part of the deal.
Just your favorite neighborhood development team!
Sig worthy, and that's not something I say lightly.
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No to the first question, yes for the second. I'm sure that what I've said has been said already but I'll say it anyways.
No, I wouldn't let a neutral party in to observe and record my doings, especially if they are meant to be private. If I wanted to tell everyone about something, I'd obviously get my higher-ups permission if it is appropriate.
Trust, especially in a neutral party is very difficult to maintain these days. Anyone that's followed american politics this past cycle knows that the media simply can not be trusted these days. Regardless of how objective and honest the media tries to be, we all take sides, we all have our subtle biases. If the historical society wants footage then they can ask organizations to provide it for them though it's quite likely that this will occur naturally, especially in bigger and more affluent organizations that have members with various skill sets in regards to video production and self-promoting news articles.
As for the second question, I'd love to help once I'm well established, but given what I said above I highly doubt my involvement will be needed.
: "Some of the worst things imaginable have been done with the best intentions." - Allan Grant, Jurassic Park 3I like what you are proposing, but this isn't the best way to go about it.
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Hmm, the other forum I run amock on that uses IP board only allows the post button to be clicked once. Duplicates aren't a problem unless the title and body are copy/pasted intentionally. We must be using a different version here.
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Mega Fluffy Bunnies should be the forum title for anyone under 100 posts, embarrass them into posting more.
Hue... If anything, the titles should be removed. Things like post counts, reputations, etc... All those are things I've watched people fight over in terms of who is more superior than who, but then again that could make this forum bland and tasteless...
Hmm, bland and tasteless forum, or people who fight over something that has nothing to do with the game?
That said, I really should post more.
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Twerk, you are truly the single most significant threat to our way of life. There is no more hope!
We must destroy him... ._.
... and cybrex's alts.
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I believe I heard somewhere that stars are physical objects, but you can't go on it due it basically disintegrating your ship with heat, radiation, and gravity.
I don't think they implied physically landing on the star itself but within the stars planetary system.
Unless of course little green men showed up on your doorstep and gave you some advanced technology, I think we'd all be interested in that.
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I can already see forum issues spilling over into the game with people putting bounties on others simply because they won a forum argument.
Based on this discussion I can already see myself hating the bounty hunter system and that's honestly a tragic thing imo.
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We have a religion. It's called Raptor Squad. I'd know, I'm it's High Raptor-Priest and Yamamushi is the Raptor-Pope.
Clever girl?
I don't think there will be, but as many have said before me, role play elements will eventually bring this into being.
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Instead of a lengthy holding period between stages, one would think that the developers would continuously optimize the game with live feedback from the alpha as opposed to waiting till the end of alpha, then going through all the feedback at once.
Then again, maybe I'm too eager to start playing.
The Aether History: Lazarus Arc
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Consider it a past history to paint a clearer picture of what the org aspires to do for the future, or at least I do. I only read the first few before getting caught up in other things.
That, or someone just wants to express themselves. Us story writers can be a weird handful. c: