Roninmizu

Been forming conspiracies. Nothing new.
 
Wait, shit.

"You keep on using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
 
I can't be the only one who thought this. ????

Gravitational waves still propogate at c, a ship coming towards you can't be detected.
 
FTL sensors will need to be a completely scifi explanation as in science it seems like there isn't anything to detect them.

The more you provoke twerkmotor, the more powerful he becomes.
 
He's kinda the master troll here.

Most radars would work still. Probably better than they do in an atmosphere since there will be little to no refraction.
 
IR and ES sensors would work the best. Only problem with FTL speeds is both are slower than light.
 
Using those kinds of sensors would open the possibility for a ship or fleet to get into weapons range before you knew they were there.
 
The books Deep Space Star Carrier cover this problem in detail.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/US_Navy_110918-N-BC134-014_The_Arleigh_Burke-class_guided-missile_destroyer_USS_Halsey_%28DDG_97%29_transits_the_Pacific_Ocean.jpg/1920px-US_Navy_110918-N-BC134-014_The_Arleigh_Burke-class_guided-missile_destroyer_USS_Halsey_%28DDG_97%29_transits_the_Pacific_Ocean.jpg 
There's a good picture of the USS HALSEY. It shows how big the Spy-1D is.
 
Hopefully they have figured out how to make them smaller in the future. If not these will only fit on big ships.

I haven't read that one.
 
It looks more like sensor sweet. The antenna resemble the HF/VHF antenna we currently use. The black circles would be the optics. Visible and IR. The four sections with the dots look like phased array radars.
 
I'm not sure if that's how that will have it work in game but all of that tech is being used now. Looks like they just took what ships use now, mashed it together, and made it look like it goes in space instead of the ocean.

Welcome! I haven't heard of Wurm in years. That brings back lots of skill grinding memories. Lol

It is illegal anywhere in fact. :| 
 
But yeah, the Devs should make it clear what cussing is allowed (game is not geared towards children in any case). 
 
If callinga a person dickhead holds the same weight on getting banned with threatening someone's life, then the devs will have to filter for too much info via chat-log scanning for cusses.
 
But yeah, PK ? NQ won't do anything about it. They said "You better know what you're doing if you leave the safe zone" on the KS video. 
 
But verbal harrassment should be a very very good reason for a ban, or at least, a temporary ban with the "three strikes out" rule.
 
 
 

Hi everyone,
 
The Kickstarter Update we released last Friday (21st of October) should have answered a few questions already.
(the update is available here)
 
So in a nutshell:
1) Community portal and Devblog are reachable by a "mouse over" action on the "Community" section on the website. But if it was said for making these more visible, we are currently looking into it.
2) Regarding an option to receive news from devblog to your e-mails, you can already "follow" the devblog to be kept informed when a new post is released. Maybe making it more visible where you can follow the devblog?
3) As said in the Kickstarter update, we are more for the "we release an update when we have something new worth to show". But we can try to make a short recap in each newsletter (which is meant to be monthly now )
 
Let us know what you think about all this!
 
Best regards,
Nyzaltar.

Hi Everyone,
 
I realize that this was posted before, but for the life of me, I can't seem to find the original thread. If this one could be merged with that one if it is ever found I would appreciate it :-)
 
I wanted to give up an update about the Community Discord that we've been hosting :-)
 
It is a non-official community discord that several of us from this forum set up several months ago, but we've done our best to uphold the spirit of Dual Universe within it and to bring as many people as possible together under one place where we can chat openly about the game.
 
We're now at 317 Members in Discord from all sorts of alliances and groups. Kickstarter was certainly an exciting, if not stressful, time for all of us in Discord. I also find it amazing that we still manage to find something to talk about every day surrounding Dual Universe.
 
There have been squabbles and rants back and forth, but I think it's refreshing to see people settle out their differences in real-time, and ultimately realize that we're all in the same boat heading towards Alpha/Beta/Release.
 
I look forward to continuing this trend of open discussions and keeping everyone enthusiastic through this long wait ahead :-)
 
 
 
For those that aren't currently aware of the Discord that I'm referring to:
 
http://discord.me/dualuniverse
 
 
 
 

Coming at this question from my perspective as a DevOps Engineer (I'm a Senior DevOps Engineer for a fairly well-known software company that creates tools for developers, there's a chance NQ might even be using our software.)...
 
Server Hosting and Code Delivery Infrastructure should absolutely be the highest priority. This list needs to be addressed (which I'm sure it has, but who knows to what extent) before any executables are ever delivered to the Alpha Testing group. I firmly believe that the state of these things will determine the quality of the end-user experience, and these aren't things that should be an afterthought (which is why I don't doubt many of these have already been addressed, or are in the process of being addressed).
 
That includes (in no particular order because I'm too sleepy to think or debate about which one of these is the most important):
Deployment and Cluster Management Automation - (This one is most likely already taken care of for the game server architecture, and I have to believe the other servers that NQ is hosting aren't getting code deployed to them manually all the time) Monitoring - (And an on-call escalation path, if a server endpoint goes down in the middle of the night, who is going to get the notification, how are they going to get it, and what kind of SLA's will NQ need to meet?) Continuous Integration - (Another one that is very likely being addressed already, because nobody in their right mind ships software in 2016 without CI) Continuous Delivery - (Continuous Delivery is the ability to get changes of all types—including new features, configuration changes, bug fixes and experiments—into production, or into the hands of users, safely and quickly in a sustainable way. Many of the items on this list fall under CD) Continuous/Automated Testing - (Before code goes into production, there should be some health checks) Server Hardening - (anything public facing at the very least, but this one kind of goes without saying...) PagerDuty - (or a similar platform that provides those kinds of notifications) Failover Planning - (or just a mechanism for failovers period, like replicated database slave nodes, etc) Backup and Recovery Planning (there should probably be a plan in place for handling server compromises ahead of time) Internal Documentation for every system that goes into production - (When the engineers get a call at 4am that the servers are offline, documentation can either be one of the most helpful things available, or one of the least helpful if done poorly) Dev - Staging - Production environments - (I imagine this would be the test server, and ideally there should be a dev environment that mirrors production just to validate that everything works properly before being delivered upstream)  
I am cognizant of the fact that this thread is about gameplay features, however, so my personal preference list would be...
 
Client Stability Skill Mechanics Sound Effects Materials and their Textures UI customization LUA Functions Documentation Engineering Mechanics (Wiring, Power Sources, etc.) Multi-Crew Ship Features First-Person Combat Weaponry CvC

Yeah. That's my sentiment on this as well. I aim on doing some planet-hunting for them sweet sweet rare minerals, and I want to have to look for threats around me. They did say on Kickstarter some alien animals will be present, so I guess will have to do with that until the mighty spider-wolves are introduced. Make them attack only at night and we got ourselves nightmare fuel, which not surprisingly, is the worst kind of fuel.

Hello everyone!
 
Can't believe I missed the Kickstarter.
 
Well I've been waiting for a game like this for a very long time. From back in 2007 when I first got wind of Infinity:TQFE. I have since lost all hope in that game when they scaled back to just doing the Battlescape.  I can get that from many other space sims that are more fleshed out so to speak.
 
So now I'm here with my hopes up again as I greatly enjoy Minecraft and Space Engineers. 
 
See you around!
 
-Roninmizu

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Welcome Roninmizu!
Like others said dont worry about the kickstarter!
 
I myself could only afford the smallest kickstarter package so it feels like i "missed" it myself. So you me both can get what we need as soon as the new crowdfunding site opens up!

Hello everyone!
 
Can't believe I missed the Kickstarter.
 
Well I've been waiting for a game like this for a very long time. From back in 2007 when I first got wind of Infinity:TQFE. I have since lost all hope in that game when they scaled back to just doing the Battlescape.  I can get that from many other space sims that are more fleshed out so to speak.
 
So now I'm here with my hopes up again as I greatly enjoy Minecraft and Space Engineers. 
 
See you around!
 
-Roninmizu

Welcomes. Oh wow, I remember Infinity's combat prototype, which had some very cool ideas. I kinda forgot about that game because it never seemed to gain any momentum in development.

Greetings Roninmizu!
Dont worry just jump on the hype train with the rest of us passengers!
I'm am sure you will find a home in one of the organization here, they are quite diverse!

Welcome! You'll be happy to know that devs are very transparent about Dual Universe and openly discuss what is and is not a current scope for the game. It's looking to be one of those indie games that really works out, especially considering the kickstarter's success. Again, welcome to forums!

Welcome to the community.

Hello everyone!
 
Can't believe I missed the Kickstarter.
 
Well I've been waiting for a game like this for a very long time. From back in 2007 when I first got wind of Infinity:TQFE. I have since lost all hope in that game when they scaled back to just doing the Battlescape.  I can get that from many other space sims that are more fleshed out so to speak.
 
So now I'm here with my hopes up again as I greatly enjoy Minecraft and Space Engineers. 
 
See you around!
 
-Roninmizu

Welcome.
And no worries about KS miss. There would be the second campaign, so you will have chance to get what you want =)
 
Thanks,
Archonious

Welcome!
 
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Welcome to the Dual Universe Forums, Roninmizu. 
 
The Aether wishes you all the best and we look forward to seeing and hearing more from you. 
 
Till then, have wonderful time.
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