ShinyMagnemite

I like star wars tho...

sorry, I had to

I love this so much that I saved my thousandth post just to say this is AMAZINGLY HILARIOUS 
 
Don't stop! 

Hi everyone.
 
Until now, we couldn’t manually manage (remove/promote) Legates in an organization easily on the administration side.
Since Yesterday, we are able to use a feature simplifying considerably the process. 
 
As we already mentioned many times in the past, we (Novaquark) don’t want to involve ourselves in the management of organizations created by players. However, we are also aware that the current (and temporary) state of the management system contains obvious flaws. You know it. We know it. As this is still “work in progress”, we hoped that organizations creators will be reasonable enough to avoid abusing the well-known flaws of the system and would wait that all the rules are implemented before trying to sabotage other organizations. 
 
So we are going to state the obvious here:
It’s ok to “play a bad guy” and use dirty tricks once all the rules are implemented. However, it’s absolutely not ok to start exploiting the flaws of a work in progress system: this is not “playing a bad guy”, this is just toxic behavior and trying to gain an advantage while not playing by the rules.
 
That’s why - despite our will of non-involvement - we will make exceptions until the full implementation of the RDMS (Rights & Duties Management System) for the Organizations.
 
Why did we decide to intervene? 
Two reasons:
1) In the current state, a Legate has much more power than in the final system, due to the minimalistic mechanisms temporarily in place. If in the current system, any Legate has the right to promote a member to Legate status by himself alone, in the final system the default rights will be completely different: promoting a legate will be done only with a vote by majority rule, or the right to promote someone will be given to specific persons and not every Legate.
2) In the current state, a Legate cannot be demoted by any mean (even by the creator of an organization). In the final system, default configurations will allow to demote a Legate with a vote by majority rule. A Legate could also be demoted by specific persons who have been given the right (most probably by the Organization founder) to do so.
 
How is this going to work?
Each organization is going to have one "wild card": if there is a problem with the Legates in an Organization, you can contact the support team at support@novaquark. However, keep in mind we (Novaquark) reserve the right to intervene (or not) on a case by case basis. 
 
Example of a case where we will intervene:
Some Legate using the flaw of the current temporary system to vandalize (or generate troubles in) an organization.
 
Example of a case where we won’t intervene:
Two organizations have merged in one, and now both creators of previous organizations want to mutually exclude each other from the organization. In this kind of case, we won’t remove anyone. We won’t favorize one creator above another. However, we will do our best to help finding a satisfying solution for both parties.
 
As a global reminder:
If someone finds a loophole in the rules in place (that may happen), and this loophole is used to generate trouble and spread a toxic behavior, we won’t stay idle watching the situation deteriorating. 
 
Best Regards,
Nyzaltar.

Heyo!
Finally got around to being able to show ya something decent.  Just a simple forum sig for MasteredRed, more to come for other DUA members (and myself).  I'm also working on helping out TSE and AI with their own forum sigs (different styles and stuff to suite their needs).

Sooo... yea.  Soon I should start to post some 3D stuff as well!

-Shiny

 

Haha I tried.

I suppose I need to dedicate myself more tho to creating MORE.  I had some ideas in mind for wallpapers/ gifs...  

But overall I would have to say that the art section was created just for you since you've posted the most fan art, inspiring stuff!

We have two sprinklers watering a lawn:
There's one that's clearly superior. It can spread water further and faster and isn't going to break any time soon. It doesn't leak and is very reliable.
The inferior sprinkler is just terrible: short range, leaky nozzle, grinds gears, taints the water, and looks in bad shape.
 
But there's a problem: the inferior sprinkler is further up the line than the superior one. The inferior sprinkler is using pretty much all the water and the superior sprinkler is getting barely anything. With no pressure for the better sprinkler, it's unable to shoot much more than a dribble.
 
As a result, part of lawn is being poisoned and will die. The other part gets no water, and will die. The obvious solution is to get rid of the inferior sprinkler, unfortunately, the line appears to be set in concrete a few inches below the ground.
 
That's the issue we all face here.

The seemingly "cheap" art is usually the best art. Where artistic skills can't distract from the content itself, the meaning of the work becomes clear all the better.

And you can do a lot with MS Paint, believe it or not. I like to refer to Florkofcows who is one of the more popular and best rated artists in the current scene and does all his work with very simple drawings of sock puppets and text in Paint.

lol i think everyone noticed BOO and accepted that

btw, who cares about the overall skills you have? I enjoyed the hell out of this and i think since you used MS paint it came out even better??

I would absolutely love to see more of these from you!

The last time I brought this up, the person in question was quick to show up here to try and defend themselves for leaving the subreddit in such a poor shape, but as of now that person has been suspended from Reddit and the subreddit has once again become neglected (could have predicted that...)
 
So, again, I am posting this to point people towards the better subreddit -> https://www.reddit.com/r/dualthegame/  (I'm not a mod there)
 
The other one was seemingly completely abandoned, with a 10-day old Reddit account currently "in charge" of it and a bot account put in to keep people from trying to request it from /r/redditrequest. 
 
 
 
Why am I bringing this up, again?
 
Because the success of Dual Universe depends entirely on the community and the way that it is reflected in various forms around the gaming world. It's hard to argue that Reddit doesn't have an impact on games, and there are plenty of vibrant Reddit Gaming communities out there that interact back and forth with devs and give the impression that their games are healthy (full of players) and still active.
 
If a random user were to come across /r/dualuniverse, they'd see months old posts sitting around, a completely unresponsive mod team, and a sidebar that to this day is full of incorrect information (the old mod refused to remove No Man's Sky as a related subreddit, for example). 
 
That's a disappointment because of the work that the /r/dualthegame mods put into making their subreddit active and accurate, yet because one person buried their head in the sand and refused to lift a finger for their subreddit, /r/dualuniverse is going to continue to get more traffic and subscribers regardless of how bad it is. 
 
 
So why post this? 
 
Because if we want DU to survive into the future, and to continue growing and be seen as an active community, we should do our part to continue directing people to what is the best reflection on it (and /r/dualuniverse is not it).
 
So if you're on Reddit, or you know Redditors who are into Dual Universe, point them towards /r/dualthegame. 
 
 
 
And to the person responsible for the mess that is /r/dualuniverse, you should feel ashamed of yourself for leaving this stain on the community. Plenty of people reached out to you asking you to fix the subreddit, instead you wanted to feel this imaginary power over the community, refused to do anything about the mess you left, spread a bunch of misinformation about me on the subreddit and discord, and then got yourself suspended from Reddit leaving the subreddit in the condition that it's in now. 
 
 
 
 

Hi everyone! 
 
This is an interesting topic and we have to discuss it in the team.
At the moment, it is not planned to change the DAC from the monthly token version to a more fragmented version.
We will keep you informed as soon as we will have discussed about it (and of course all the community feedback will be taken into account)
 
Best Regards,
Nyzaltar

I think this new system is just another way to milk players. They want to get more money - that's all
 
To me a DAC system like the old Plex system is fine
 
- Your DACs are safe when you buy them with RL money
- You sell them in a safezone and the buyer can use that DAC with 0% Chance of losing it
- If you want to make huge profits with DAC (shipping them to the next safe zone), you take the risk of losing them
 
Easy, simple, good

Aww shucks you guys... I was totally expecting more rage but this is being received so much better than I thought! 
 
 
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.  

UPDATE

Just trying to update this, show you guys how cool they are.... yuuuuuuuup.

NO SPOILERS!

I'm about half way with book one....

Reminds me of using the furnace in Minecraft, you can use leaves and stupid items to essentially "recycle" them into a useable thing but they ultimately suck when compared to logs, coal, or even a bucket of lava.

The game mechanics of what NQ is trying to do with DU should easily handle this sort of thing.

Your idea takes it a step further, which is awesome!  Usage of certain materials should provide better results to noise-suppression, illumination, potential energy, etc.  It will also allow different fuel sources to be found throughout Alioth (or to a larger extent the entire universe of DU).

Do you mind sharing that cup?

Perhaps a low yield chemical rocket for the early stages of low and high orbit launches. Progressively becoming more difficult to refine as you move up the fuel tier.   In eve they use ice mining for POS fuel.  So perhaps ice could be mined from comets, asteroids, ice caps on planets etc (the ice would need to be consisting of something other than straight h2o, as to make it more feasible to mine off planet) then the tier three ftl could use the hydrogen from gas giants, nebulae etc     
 
At any rate, more than one way to acquire fuel and more than one type.   I feel if we have multiple options,  it'll have a better emergent game play experience.   Just like real life and our known universe, we should be able to produce and manufacture fuel and energy in an array of ways.   
 
In voyager they had a delithium refinement lab they added to their ship, one such simple idea 

That is actually a really good question, I don't know if we have heard where exactly we're supposed to get fuel from.
 
I think it's just assumed that it will require a bit of a refining process, but as to what we're pulling out of the ground to actually turn into fuel, I don't recall hearing anything about that.
 
My initial thought is that it might have something to do with "Trithorium" based on this glimpse of the crafting screen we saw in the Dev Diary from April:
 

(as an aside, I would like to know what "wadding" is going to be used for...)
 
Based on that, if I had to wager a bet, "fuel" is something we have to dig out of the ground as some type of raw material to be refined later. 
 
It's worth pointing out that (afaik), in the Dev Diaries, they are always running on empty (or their fuel meters aren't ever changing), although they have talked about how engines will need to be attached to some type of fuel container to work.
 

Well done, I like it

Its awful ms paint trash lol. If you insist.

To further that your idea, I think if one was to be something of a professional explorer in DU then it would help to really focus the skills/abilities to that.

Basic level: send a probe and it tells you whats what.
Mid level: probes can differentiate planet types and stars, provide number of moons, etc
high level: planet readouts with pretty accurate locations of minerals and such
pro level: idk, locate wormholes? will gas mining be a thing? accurate details of everything.

It'd be cool if you had a limited amount of copies of your findings so it would be up to the buyer to pass along or retain the knowledge of the stars...  It would be interesting to see players needing to fill in the gaps of a galaxy wide map as opposed to it being set up for everyone.

*sweats nervously*

Yeaaa... haha.. who--what now? I gotta go, my mom's yelli----the ol' wife i mean! haa...

Nice!

It sounds like you're gonna have a great time within DU.

UPDATE

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you really sure that you should talk about responsibility and how mature someone is? I am younger than you are, but age does not matter at all. The only thing that counts is how well you can interact with other people and how well you can get along.
 
also, people are trolling. as always. That doesn't mean that they are irresponsible.