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Yes they would be great

I believe the question we should be asking to NovaQuark is; Are we going to be dealing with an entire periodic table of elements for our materials or will you use a simplified or Original version of material sets? If we're dealing with the former, than the ideas you have can potentially be created. Judging by the path DU is going with its narrative, I can see that they'll opt for more simplistic approach, "civilization is destroyed, The ark ships travel and end up in Alioth system etc etc" Seems they will simply have prefabbed Power cores or something like that with a tech tree we have to farm to progress. Not allowing us to create our own nuclear reactors but I wish there was a game that existed like that.

Nope, U238 is the naturally occurring isotope of uranium found in the earths crust, It's also what you call "depleted uranium" Uranium 235 is also naturally occurring in nature but makes up less than 1% of the naturally occurring more abundant Uranium 238. Enrichment is the process of mining tons of Normal Uranium and Isotopically separating the small percentage of Uranium 235, the fissionable isotope of uranium from the Fertile isotope of uranium (U238) This is done in several stages in Centrifugals, Repeated again until the level of enrichment is established. For nuclear reactors, Enrichment is around 2-5% Uranium 235 to Uranium 238 ratio, For more military oriented tasks, they enrich fuel up to 90%+ so they can reach critical mass in nuclear warheads. To get Plutonium, Uranium 238 is bombarded with neutrons which transmutes the Uranium eventually into Plutonium 239, Which can achieve a lower critical mass than Uranium 235 and is thus; More suited for weaponry. Depleted uranium is a thing for Military reactors, Which run at about 25% enrichment as the military have more tricks up their sleeves, Once the U235 is used up the depleted uranium 238 can be used for armor and alloys as you said.

You have a far higher chance mining U238 in the crust's of planets than in outer space o.O

You have to keep multiplayer performance in mind, If you allow each little voxel to be destructible aka Space engineers, Then the server must keep simulating each and every tiny voxel in that ship, I believe the game should have an "integrity" system, Where once a collection of voxels are constructed to officially form a ship then the voxels suddenly glue together as a backbone of whatever system they were intended for. 1. Structure, These voxels then form a rigid body and thus the server only has to worry about rigid body mechanics 2. Shape, the skin of the ships, the server only has to worry about hitpoints of the surface of the ship, and can assign whatever damage model the devs choose for this system 3. Subsystems, Modules and voxels within the ship that can suffer secondary and Splash damage within. For things like boarding enemy vessels, A pretty straightforward mechanic for this should suffice, rather than just blow a hole in the enemy ship.. Have boarding pods that a "torpedo" tube can launch and another system where ships can dock - Automatic docking on ships that provide consent to docking, or a forced manual docking mode where a specific module can allow a peircing motion that opens a path into a ship. This can lower server overhead and smoothen the process. As well as making the whole thing more bad ass and immersive. You could even resort to explosives on specific Detonation points throughout ships like windows etc. You can program your ship computer to make an emergency decompression scenario, Where bulkheads and airlock doors close around the problem section of the ship to prevent atmospheric evacuation.

What? I don't see OP confusing anything with his railgun statement.. Please elaborate.

Games that are all 2D maps about fantasy and RPG, Perhaps a niche such as a FPSRPG4X Empire builder as DU would not benefit from the payment models of those fantasy games where you can buy cloths from cash shops. DU in my opinion is trying to be above this entire concept. Players make all the content in an emergent way, All that the NovaQuark team does is provide the back drop (a Seamless Procedural Science fiction galaxy) and the tools (crafting, Loot, Constructions, AI, Resources etc) But all the creative work is done by the players and the backdrop depends on the empires or groups that play in the game.

Please list us some "Good MMO"s" that are either free to play or buy once play forever... Enlighten us.

What's the point? Sounds like it will be incredibly laggy trying to simulate a very complex mechanic such as fluid simulation. The question I would ask is, Would hundreds of playing all viewing this data simultaneously in the same area whilst such a cataclysmic event took place, would that be possible to simulate server wise? I'm already just skeptical on the fluid 100's of players in ships already. Time will tell.

None of that sort @nora, Only to put a smile on some dials

Lets Hope their engine and networking can handle their claims.

My favourite part; Single Shard Server Cluster.

If they put in the effort to make biomes, planets, they will put in the effort to make planets go around stars and moons go around planets.

Looks basically identical. Looks like the dev indeed did import that design somehow.

Welcome elite bro

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Stargates would be sick, no other MMO actually has them as depicted like in the films and shows.

If any game comes to the point where waterworlds are involved, I'm more interested in encountering giant underwater animals like whales if not bigger, Now that would make a cool scene whilst inside your underwater refitted space craft!

I am Intrigued and Curious how Novaquark will tackle Galaxy shaping in a way that can host a multiplayer environment without loading screens at least between star systems. We know Space Engine is capable of simulating space with a 64 bit engine from universal scales all the way down to a few meters on a planet without losing floating point precision, BUT, Can this be done on a multiplayer server full of player created assets? Only time will tell.

No i like having alts to put spies in other player empires

Same here, from Australia and from elite, TheSlaxx brought me here

Bahahaha

Cool, add me on steam and we can get a flag going.