Maxim Kammerer
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4 hours ago, Jake Arver said:
You can say that he way NQ is implementing this is not great sure, but still.. you do not pay upkeep in whatever way it is implemented, you lose your stuff.
The implementation turns it into a problem. Losing your stuff if you don't pay upkeep would be OK if implemented or at least clearly communicated from the beginning of 'beta'. But it wasn't and NQ even encouraged building entire cities that don't generate any income. Now, after using these eye candies for marketing, NQ decides to turn them into money sinks and I guess many owners don't even know it. All those monuments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
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1 hour ago, CptLoRes said:
So NQ is basically holding your content hostage and saying you better play the game, or else there might be some "accident" you know.. nudge, nudge, wink, wink.
The obvious reaction is moving all assets to Sanctuary and build temporary mining outposts on other planets and moons only. Than NQ will be once more surprised that we don't play the game as intended and come up with the next crazy idea.
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And you are still free to go your own way solo. It just gets harder and harder.
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7 hours ago, CptLoRes said:
A flat time based tax will only hurt the small orgs and specialized solo players, and at the same time allow big orgs to cheaply acquire large amounts of tiles
DU was always advertised as a civilization building game and it seems NQ still has this agenda. They don't want solo players or small orgs. Large orgs get favoured and those who doesn't join them get punished.
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57 minutes ago, sHuRuLuNi said:
Nah, they could have the very small ones for the very small hovercrafts etc.
And than stuck with XS ships? Either it is to long ago for you to remember how to start this game and to work your way up to the first AGG ship or you just want to defend your endgame position from newcomers. You should keep in mind that there will be no endgame without a game and that there will be no game without new players.
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On 11/6/2021 at 9:45 PM, sHuRuLuNi said:
Ditch Atmo brakes. Make an AGG Brake Generator.
You mean no entry level ships anymore? That sounds like the most effective way to discriminate agains new players.
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1 hour ago, Atmosph3rik said:
Elements already take damage. and we already spend ore, in the form of scrap, to repair them. What would be the point in requiring us to actually remove an element and replace it with a new one?
You can repair T5 elements with T1 scrap. Replacing elements requires the corresponding recources and if you make them yourself the corresponding industries, schematics and skills. That's a difference light day and night.
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16 hours ago, Jake Arver said:
Personally, I'd agree that wear and tear would add to the game, having repair actions build up wear over time and eventually no longer being possible and requiring replacement woudl also be a good thing IMO.
We actually have something like that for element recovery. But after some rage in the forum it has been limited to PvP damage. It is very unlikely that NQ brings it back to PvE damage or even implement additional penalties.
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2 hours ago, Zeddrick said:
But even the pre-0.23 game would also have ended up with an overstocked market priced so you need all-5 talents to make a small profit.
But it was at least possible to build and run large factories just for fun - to optimize it for maximum efficiency, speed or flexibility and than to see everything running as planned. NQ killed that kind of gameplay because it doesn't fit to a vision of their game that will never become reality.
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5 hours ago, Zarcata said:
You need a subscription at any time, if you don't have one, you lose your territory/constructs after 4 weeks. Done. No taxes necessary.
Territory and constructs on Sanctuary should remain in order to encourage players to return. Otherwise they will leave forever. In order to save resources these tiles might load clean (without terraforming or constructs) as long as the subscription is suspended.
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Considering the market 15 disaster it would be a good idea to do that with disposable accounts.
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10 minutes ago, Jake Arver said:
NQ is still firmly convinced we as a community simply "do not understand" what they are trying to achieve.
Do they understand it?
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I am going to move all my stuff to Sanctuary and abandon all other tiles. Thus, no money sink from my side.
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There have been similar responses prior 0.23, telling NQ in detail what will happen if they do that. And they did it. And it happened. I don't see a fundamental change in their behaviour. I expect them to do it again. When I read the list of proposed changes it even looks like they are destroying the game on purpose.
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18 minutes ago, Moosegun said:
I would be surprised if the potential audience, that have actually tried and quit the game is a lot less than 10%.
Hope dies last.
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3 hours ago, Moosegun said:
Also confused how a game can be dying when probably 80% of the potential audience havent tried it yet.
Just look at it from the other side: They already lost 20% of the potential audience long before the game is finished.
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32 minutes ago, LeeRoyINC said:
With the games current state being a load more stable and detailed than at launch. It might be a good time for NQ to start another advertising push. Showcase the current games improvements since launch.
In order to prevent a new wave of disappointment such an advertising push would need to be honest. That includes that the game must be advertised as what it currently is - an alpha version. But that will not happen.
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On 9/11/2021 at 9:10 AM, realMod said:
DIe Frage ist für mich: was will DU sein?
EVE mit Voxeln.
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20 hours ago, RugesV said:
You get rid of all the tunnels that are on every planet.
It's not as easy as it sounds like. There are static constructs placed undergound, surface flattened for runways and so on. Imagine the rage if all that gets lost in the dirt.
20 hours ago, RugesV said:I would not be surprised if we are no longer allowed to dig on planets in the future.
Terraforming is one of the basic features that make DU what it is. Removing it would be a very bad idea.
A possible compromise could be a limitation of terraforming to the building grid of static constructs, together with sufficient communuication in advance in order to give players a chance to stabalize existing terraforming by placing cores (as long as they didn't reached their core limit).
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1 hour ago, Feriniya said:
cose industry not erase
It stopped working. That's pretty much the same.
1 hour ago, Feriniya said:only what need, just buy schematic and put them inside and run again
Given the prices of schematics that's even worse than erasing all industries and buying it again.
1 hour ago, Feriniya said:Also if they have huge fabric they must be have quanta for it
The quanta required to run the industries is not anywhere near enough to buy the schematics. It was sufficient to make a small fraction of the industries running and that's it. It was not possible to use them to make money for the rest because the markets collapsed due to schematics. Everybody just sold ores to bots and nobody was buying. For the same reason it was not even possible to get quanta by selling most of the factories because everybody tried to do that and the markets have been flooded with industries.
1 hour ago, Feriniya said:All who i know industry guys after 1 week already push them industry work the same with before 0.23.. only 1 week.
The industry guys who didn't horde enough money to do that left the game. Which ever way you look at it - "wanted a freebie and everything at once" is an insult. They just didn't want to lose everthing at once.
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2 hours ago, Feriniya said:
Those who left just wanted a freebie and everything at once
That's a very unfair comment. For industry players schematics was the equivalent of a full wipe.
Abandoned Constructs/Territories
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But it gets harder and harder to guess what this "certain way" is. For a long time it looked like building pretty constructs is part of it. Now the builders get punished with a tax or expropriation. If everything that players do might finally be turned against them than they will stop playing at all.