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blazemonger

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  1. 1 hour ago, blundertwink said:

    The updates "promised" there have no timelines attached...

     

    And on top of that most of what was "promised" as coming was supposed to be in and ready before release and several points in that list were "assured to be in" before the end of 2021 in the "a look ahead" video posted in December 2020.

     

    NQ is effectively just repeating the same message over and over and over .. with nothing really showing anything is going to happen anytime soon. Which in a way makes sense as all of this is irrelevant if the release borks and NQ goes under a few months later.

     

  2. 11 hours ago, Captain Hills said:

    So to say, a new player can catch up to a vet within a year by only missing the last 5% of whatever. It shouldn't be the deal-breaker IMO.

     

    A new character will catch up to about 80% of the trained talents level for a 2 year old character in a good bit under 6 months and continue to "gain", as far as that is a relevant thing at that point.

    I have explained this a few times here as it's very simple/basic math based on how the talent system works. And it is why IMO a passive training system like this is preferable to one which award progress based on "doing stuff" as the latter doe sin fact keep newer players behind, unable to catch up until existing players run out of "things to train".

     

  3. 13 minutes ago, Knight-Sevy said:

    I don't see why in case of wipe you should keep your talent points.

     

    Your character accrues talent points because you paid a subscription fee on your account. once you stop paying, the talent points stop coming. They are directly linked to the account having an active subscription and so represent the time you paid for in game.

     

    When the wipe happens, those talent points are, in fact, what you paid for and so an expectation of these points being returned to you is fair.

     

  4. It's interesting that some seem to now start and try to negotiate terms of a wipe with NQ..

     

    This is NQ's cal lto make, they are wel lwithin their rights and you have agreed to that by entering the game as you can only do so through agreement.

     

    I get that for some a wipe will be a disapointment, I can also understand how some may see it as a reason to no longer play, which is unfortunate but your choice to make.

     

    To be frank, this game has bigger problems than a yes/no on a wipe and if NQ does not address these, none of this matters.

     

    For me, I expect and hope that a wipe happens as I believe it wil lbe in the best interest of the game in the long run. I also hope that NQ does take advantage of thsi wipe to correct some fo the reasons why it is now needed and on that I have my doubts.

    If they do not wipe then I think that would be a mistake but so be it.. I believe that coming into a release with a gameworld full of junk and with a good few massively OP playergroups, And that is a point you can only raise (and resolve) at release and not after.

     

    We'll see

  5. 9 minutes ago, Megabosslord said:

    Hmm. Persistent BPs is a good start. We can get on with fearless construction. But, not quite what we were sold: 

     

    All the quotes around wipe are relating to a full/global wipe like was deon before alpha, which is not what is being discussed and never was.

     

    It's also where the Creative Director post is missing the point (as usual for NQ). a wipe with "just" blueprints returned IS a global wipe as blueprints are a hard commitment by NQ to be persistent across wipes anyway. So saying that you will at least get core blueprints really means exactly nothing.

    This is why I keep saying that NQ has only two options, not wipe or wipe with BPs and talent points back to the pool.

     

    The mention of magic blueprints was there, yes, but with several instances where players used (and were allowed to keep the results of) exploits would nullify that option. Just spawning back all the stuff you should never havve had would be bad. And seeing how NQ never really acted on any exploits (unless they made them look bad) for me is another signal that the partial wipe was always the plan.

  6. 14 minutes ago, merihim said:

    Where is the source of the core blueprint commitment? What is different to the statements at the beginning of beta "we want to avoid wipes, its the last blablabla option"? 

    In just about any discussion on the wipe two things have been clear:

    No more full/global wipes like before beta start, unless absolutely needed. This wipe is not that so it does not apply here.

    Whatever we do, you will not loose your constructs in that you will retain blueprints. This does apply

     

    The blueprint commitment goes back as far as early pre-alpha

  7. 24 minutes ago, Cergorach said:

    What happens a month after launch? How will new players then feel? After a year or two? With your reasoning, the game will never pick up new players beyond launch.

    This wipe is and never has been about anyone catching up. The whole catching up argument is nonsense as I have shown in detail a good many times here.

     

    It's on NQ to bring that into the conversation in their post from April and one of the reason swhy that post was so horribly bad. NQ doe snot know how to control a narrative, in fact they have really shown to only know how to fan the flames even more and probably withouteven realising it.

     

     

      

    47 minutes ago, Cergorach said:

    if I lose what I paid for,

     

    You paid for access to the server, for game time. Nothing more and nothing less.

     

    If you say that you feel it would be good for NQ to do right by their subscribers and retain talent points, as they represent the mentioned gametime then I can understand that argument and agree with it. But you have no claim to make about anything you may or may not "own" in game.

  8. NQ needs every cent they can get, they will not "refund" time spent with DAC if they wipe.

     

    There is really only two sensible options.

    • No Wipe
    • Wipe with talen points and core BPs retained

     

    While each has their pros and cons sure, if you apply some logic (I know this is hard to do with NQ), you can only find one possible outcome.

    1. It just would not make any sense for NQ to need 6+ months to make up their mind about a wipe being done or not. In fact, I am pretty sure it was ALWAYS the inent to wipe at launch/release. Their discussion wil lbe about how and when, not about if.
    2. If NQ had made the choice to not wipe, there is absolutely no reason I can think of they would not have announced this already, hence I must exclude that option and so I end up with the wipe again.
    3. As NQ has no way to compensate customers who subscribed over the last two years, they really only have the option to refund talent points to the pool as these reasonably represent the value these subscriptions have.
    4. Core blueprints have always been a commitment to be retained and they should 

     

    And so, the only logical and IMO entirely reasonable assumption/expectation here is that NQ will do a wipe with core blueprints retained and talent points retruned to the pool

     

  9. 1 hour ago, Hazaatan said:

    Are you being serious? 

    Yes

     

    1 hour ago, Hazaatan said:

    Go run your fuel car, with no fuel.  Fuel turns the alternator and charges the battery.  The fuel does the work.  Your car, runs on fuel.  Fuel = running car. 

    Good luck starting your car without a battery. I mean you could if you really wanted to, but in any case you will require energy to start it, in whatever form that energy comes.

    A combustion engine does not magically start running

     

     

      

    15 hours ago, CptLoRes said:

    "Polishing a turd" was the expression that came to mind while reading..

    The post is pretty much just a rehash of what we already know yes. There was really nothing of substance  and as such it was just another filler post biding time for NQ to get to the point where they can make actual announcmeent  (wich I expect is not that far out).

     

  10. The thing is that if NQ only lets core BPs persist across a wipe, it effectively IS a full/global wipe and that is omething they have actually said they woudl not want to do again unleess absolutely required (which it is not). SO I'm still expecting a wipe with core BPS and talent points returned to the pool. And I also can't believe that NQ has not yet decided on that, that is something which simply does not make any sense, even for NQ.

    NQ is not in a position to do a full wipe when they have charged subscriptions for two years, they must let what effectively represents that time (the talent points) persist across a wipe.

  11. 3 hours ago, BiGEdge said:

     gone, and NQ promissed no further wipes if not neccessarry.

     

    Ehh.. no, they never did that.
     

    They said they would prefer to not do another FULL wipe like the one pre beta and woudl not consider it unless there was an urgent and/or unavoidable reaosn to do it. At the same time, they have very clearly had a partial one on the table all the time.

     

    NQ will wipe, you will get to keep your core blueprints and your talent points will be returned to the pool to respec. And it will happen in 2-3 months at most, A few weeks before release.

  12. 1 hour ago, Hazaatan said:

    Fuel or power, but not both. 

     

    I'd say your average combustion engine car would beg to differ, they will require both fuel and a battery to start at least and your car radio still does not run on fuel.. it requires electricity. Now, it's obviously possible, if not likely that the engine will in fact generate the electricity required as it runs, and charge said batteries, but you still need both.

  13. Powermanagement (and capcitor) will allow NQ to manage what players can add to their constructs. It will also open up a slew of gameplay option in industry/research to create more effective/efficient elements.. But I somehow expect NQ will do the bare minimum and callit done to tick the box.. pretty much like they have done for years now.

    Doing proper power/energy would mean you massively disrupt your game and that is something NQ really can't afford post release.

  14. Please NQ, go with "Fleet", not "Flotilla"

    Pretty please ..

     

     

    Also, this letter in general really just reads as a combination of the last few monthly update mails.. Nothing new here.. AvA and player run markets still MIA. Rehashing all the "we are going to do this, most of which wasd supposed to be in at release to begin with, and then repeating the same spin on the wipe, now called a reset, is really getting old. And it is getting very tough to believe that you really need well past 6 months now to make a decision on a yes/no with regards to wipe pre release. Details, sure.. that can be a matter of factors and change over time, but whether you will or will not do a wipe shoudl really be set in stone by now (as I really expect it is).

     

    I would be interested to understand how NQ plans to pay for all this.. I mean, is NQ really expecting to gain and maintain player subscriptions well north of 6 figures on what is going to release in what I expect is single digit weeks by now?

    It would be great to get something like "NQ has secured an additional 10 million of funding from our investors, allowing us to continue development past release and ensuring the stability of the company for the forseeable future". None of what was written really has much meaning if you can't show NQ will be around to make it happen.

     

  15. 7 hours ago, Rokkur said:

    My question is what is the benefit of having them online while we wait for news?

     

    If you feel that it makes no sense for you to play until an announcement is made regard YES/NO on wipe then that is your choice.

    In the end it really will not matter what you do as even with a full/global wipe. the advantage backers and beta key holders have is massive. 

     

    Personally I am in "Maintenance mode". I planned to stop playing all together but instead just do two calibrations a week and fly around my MU locations to collect an dthe sell ore once a week. Just in case NQ does not wipe.

     

    NQ has an obligation to keep server online as long as there are active subscriptions.

  16. 5 hours ago, Nayropux said:

    The PvE-content-with-risk is meant to be high tier asteroids in the PvP zone.

     

    PVP zone asteroids are not worth it anyway as it is way to easy to know when to go and shoot someone's shop off of the asteroid.. there is no level of reward that will justify a guaranteed loss.. Asteroids in PVP sone are just another pewpew magnet.

  17. NQ lacks the drive, dedication and skills the Hello games team has.

     

    NQ also has very different motivations and objectives than delivering a quality game with DU. The game is not their priority nor their aim. It may be for some of the NQ staff on the floor but management have a very different set of ideas and future plans in which the success of DU does not really play a role.

     

    All IMO of course.. I would not want to speak for NQ here..

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