Maxim Kammerer

You may believe it or not, but there is a world outside DU. Many players don't want to waste their time following news about the 'game' in the forums or social media. They just login every few weeks to see if there is any progress that would make it worth playing. When they realize that DU is not just developing backwards but that they also lose their assets to the changes, most of them will never log in again (and not even think about renewing their subscriptions).

The first time I saw this video I assumed it to be a community made satire.

Without any mechanics for player created safe zones? That would be the final nail in the coffin.

It's more likely that they are listening to the numbers. They need to reduce production costs but also to keep subscriptions. As they can't maximize both at once, it's a balance act somewhere in the middle. When they risk to loose to many players with the last attempt to save costs, than they step back.

Yes, you should be able to do that but not as efficient as somebody who is specialized in a single profession. That includes that somebody who spends the same total talent points only into PvP and buys the exotic weapons would have an advantage over you in PvP. This is how it is intended in DU, but I do see two problems: 1. It is quite easy to get decent talents and than spending additional talent points don't make much of a difference anymore. The talents should scale more linear and have more levels. 2. Talent points grow passive only. That makes it too easy to bypass the system with alts. There should at least be a mixture of passive increase and upskill by actual playing in the particular profession.

You can't. That fits well into the general behaviour of NQ to force players into orgs. I always wondered if the ship would be protected underground, but I never tried. Is the obstruction considerd in some way or just ignored?

and not beeing able or willing to learn - neither from the players no from the few hired experts (who left the company quite soon).

That means whoever made this design decision didn't consider DUs buisiness model or expect it to change.

Or to use an alt for mining.

You can go to Alioth and pick them up on free tiles. It's a pain compared to the good old mining, but better than S MUs. I did that to reful my ship while waiting for the territory scanner.

No, neither planets nor moons. Only if you find 10 million rocks. They don't respawn anymore. I'm afraid there is no way around mining units.

Impressive! It would be awesome to have these changes implemented. I have an addition to Mining Units: Remove the delays from the minigame (at least optional). Most part of calibration is just waiting for nonsensical animations.

They are waiting for a game.

I don't think that they try to curb multi-account players. Many changes actually promote them - most probably because they behave similar to orgs and NQ is still following their civilisation building agenda. Casual and solo players don't fit into their vision. Yes, I do. Currently it is the best option for them not to wipe because they are focused on the established player population. But release will turn the tide. If NQ wants to survive with DU than they will need so many new players that the beta veterans will become a minority.

Yes, release will stop it. It is very likely that there will be some kind of wipe (partial or full) before release that will make the claimed tiles obsolete. However, the main purpose of a beta is testing and balancing. The conditions should be as closed to the final product as possible. Yes, I know that the "bata" is in fact the alpha and the "finished product" will be the real beta, but that dosn't make it much better. NQ will need to find a balance between newcomers and established players as well as between casual and hardcore players (not to speak of exploiters). I don't think they will get that under control after release if they don't care now. I'm afraid some weeks after a wipe we will have the same mess as before (once again).

But we know that's not the NQ spirit.

There are beta accounts that are way cheaper. But they are not available anymore.

They are random, but only on large scale. Nearby tiles have similar values. These are my results for random unclaimed tiles in steps of around 10 km on Demeter-Day: Coal Hematite Quartz Bauxite Malachite 47 98 72 323 0 39 89 71 350 0 35 103 65 345 0 30 94 65 366 0 27 109 60 357 0 158 58 165 123 0 260 35 217 25 0 108 103 228 72 0 96 73 21 365 5 177 89 239 19 0 31 41 147 326 0 74 107 44 311 0 51 180 17 291 0 172 361 4 25 0 206 358 2 1 0 411 116 22 25 0 88 210 82 128 0 145 206 35 126 0 13 178 35 323 0 27 179 122 186 0 214 54 66 182 0 195 99 194 18 0 306 163 48 24 0 29 497 43 37 0 28 495 70 13 0 60 466 60 8 0 The problem is not the general distribution of T1 ore but the distribution of T2 ore between claimed and free tiles. If my scans are half-way representative than most tiles with significant amounts of T2 were claimed from the beginning and will remain claimed (not only on Alioth but also on Madis). That means that the algorithm is not completely random but either dependend on the original ore distribution or (even worse) on the ownership of tiles. This is another bad news for new players. They will need to buy T2+ ores from established players until they can compete with them in PvP space (that means most probably never).

With 60 alts they are for free and I guess there is a significant intersection between the billionairs and the guys with that many alts.

Or to block as many good tiles as possible to sell them later for profit.

Only if they know that they need to do that. I'm not aware of any official information for those who don't follow the forums.

Stop reading your opinion into other people's statements. I didn't say that I do not want it. I just don't expect it anytime soon. NQ didn't say that element stacked ships will not work anymore with Demeter. They just announced negative impacts that have not been specified. Wake up and face the reality.

... says somebody who speaks about "us all" when he actually means himself. Not everybody is like you and plays the game like you - especially not a new player. Get used to it.

Sorry, but that doesn't mean everybody wants or even needs to do that: "Make your mark in this new universe by playing whatever role you wish."

Above you claimed "Element stacked ships should no longer be able to fly". That's something completely different than "constructs will be negatively impacted if they contain stacked elements". Now that you already went back to this point just make the last step and ask yourself how you are going to see if a ship is negatively impacted or not - especially without any "specifics".