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Press b to pay respect. Also why aren't people bored of this yet? Not one person has had their mind changed, nor one person has changed their position from their first comment. I dont think there's a golden thought, on either side, that will shift people's opinions. Waste of time. NQ can't/won't change their mind and don't care if you're cheerleading for them either.

NQ probably makes the trains run on time.

I'd like practical ways to avoid this, rather than dev interference and punishment.

The only moments of mining excitement come from: Surface nodes Mega nodes Two different nodes close to each other and Finding big holes to explore.

Translation: "We're about to over react massively to this."

NQ only communicates through the media of third party interviews and banhammer. Wish t'weren't so... Put me in the "punish them yes, this punishment no" gang. Also put me in the "nobody is going to do or try anything tricksy or ingenious for fear of banning" gang.

How aam I supposed to look for puzzles when making small engines is a full time job?

Would actually be awesome... Otoh, add a language to the game that isn't based on a real one, and make it the only language in the game for total eeeeeeemersion that the more you know, the better the game is. Like, erm, lua.

Lag is not always bad, but around markets it's always bad. Like, crash your ship bad or disconnect you bad. Same thing, to a slightly lesser extent, around large bases. The 'stress test' was always worthless since you needed to test not only a large population but the effect of a large population.

I'd be ok with a wipe if they let us keep blueprints and skills.

The same people using the "NQ called it an exploit - deal with it" are struggling to deal with NQ not punishing people. Odd that.

"This house we started building 15 minutes ago has no roof!"

Yiu have no idea what most people want.

Safe from pvp or ava, not from all negative interaction.

It shouldn't have been made a cheat.

Ruined because one application of a valid mechanic caused a lot of whining. And as a future, unseen, consequence it will now label any emergent, cunning or clever gameplay that is criminal (and you can't have civilisation without crime) in a sterile "safe zone" as an 'exploit' that will be stopped in its tracks and the simulation of the civilisation will be strangled.

I believe t5 ore is.

They just banned in game theft. Even in pvp zones.

Oopsy

There's no evidence that this will lose players, particularly if NQ are honest about the game. It isn't a civilisation building game by the way it's a civilisation-s building game. Some like Singapore where littering gets you a hefty fine and some will be like a war torn, barely functioning Mid African state and all the points in between. Using the "over-gods" of NQ to solve not-actually-exploits but rather mechanics used "amorally" wont do the game any favours either.

Empty vessels make the most noise. Plus, the majority of people on the forum or discord != most players. As for your clumsily placed trap, no I have never done it, nor suffered from it because I took extra time to park securely.

The manoeuvre "exploit" is as close to not being an exploit as its possible to get. It doesn't use a bug, it isn't no or low effort (you had to hunt out a badly parked ship of smaller cores than yours, you had to pay to place a tcu and you had to risk pvp space to benefit). It used a permitted mechanic against a nebulous game "spirit". Only the cries of the offended and the careless got it labelled as an exploit.

I never said all bugs and exploits. I specifically mentioned one "exploit' of manoeuvring ships.

Seems a shame people would rather "run to teacher" rather than take responsibility for their own safety. I'm talking about maneuvering other ships, which was act of clever roguery at worst, punishing those who did not take enough care to fly to safe ground. DU is about making a civilisation, not making a sterile, ideal, civilisation with no crime, theft or "immoral behaviour".

You need to go to discord (I know, right?) for actual, practical help.