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Today I visited Kosmos Kosco  and went almost on a shopping spree. Lots to buy, lots to find, I like this shopping feeling, even if it is in a game 😂 Too bad you will not find the more exotic and rare things there. There are a lot of ships parked outside, but I think I was the only one there being shopping 🤷‍♂️. Ah well, it was fun. 

I'm refitting my spacship with other engines. Still scratching my head how to do it with the space engines. While shopping on the market in district 6 of Alioth, it is alway interesting to watch the ships there. If you want to get some inspiration, this it the place where you can sit and watch all these ships. 

It seems that Haven 5 has some more visitors in the weekend. 

btw, the market is a strange place. If you want to buy an Uncommon safe atmospheric engine L, it cost around 600.000. But a part to make that thing is an Uncommon combustion chamber. Why would you ask 1 million for it? Makes no sense. 

Cya guys

Watching the ships of other players, always interesting. Some have really interesting details and shapes, I love to watch them. Hopefully I grow also to that level.  But it's a lot more different  then playing with blocks like the old Starmade or Space Engineers. 

Another thing is that there's often more focus on functionality than interior. Often you can say, what a lot of space in this space-ship 😆

My cargo ship is also more engine than interior. Of course it has to be if you need to lift off a lot of cargo. 

Cya guys

Visited today Alioth marktet 16. Bought there a container L. Nice building there btw, smells like money. Can you get a tour there? Playing a big corporation, 😂

I see a lot of high-sky buildings. The big goal seems to seek the limits of building here on Dual Universe. Sometimes they are so detailed and big that It even lags my computer. 🤷‍♂️

Btw, it seems I hit the limit on how much I can gather and sell. Also, very nice; I can gather so much ore until my large container is full, and my ship still flies around if it is nothing.  I found out at last a nice formula (F=m.a) on how to figure out how much my ship can handle. At last, for the next time, I know how to build my next ship without over-engineering it.  

But talking about the limit. My gathering stones talents are maxed out. That means I can't work faster than it is. I can gather in one hour around 80.000 basic tier 1 ores, worth around 0.8 million quantas. But there isn't any growth potential anymore. I guess maybe the asteroids, but I don't like risky jobs.  So, that's it 🤷‍♂️. If I want to give Dual Universe a scale of 1-10, I will give it a 5 closer to 4.  Everything is limited and slowed down to the point I can call it painful. The limiting potential is especially the time that is needed to get the resources.  Most of your hours are spent gathering resources. (and waiting until your stupid factory is done).  And remember, they expect you to pay real money for a mind-numbing work simulator; this is crazy!!! 😠  Even a Trucker simulator is more fun because you're actively busy driving through the streets.  In space? Wow, nice nebula and stars? While twiddling your thumbs while flying almost 50.000 km/h?

Ah well, the building is great, but the gathering, ugh. Thumbs down for that, especially if you're a paying player; my condolences to them...  

Cya guys

Every time when I use the shuttle station and just go and take the shuttle, I look never up. But then I noticed something. It says Alioth and moons. What moons? They go only to Haven, Alioth and Sanctuary. But then I noticed the elevators on the floor and yep, here I am, on the next level.  The doors you see open automatically, but there's nothing to see 🤷‍♂️

Well, it seems the developers planned something, but never put it in the game. What could it be? Money, lazyness, or they didn't want us to make it 'easy'? Whatever, this gives me a bad vibe... I hope they will put it still later in the game...  hopefully. 

I'm almost done with my ship. It can even carry a small hovercraft or ship on his back. It's not my best work but It is some progress.  I managed somewhat to give my cargo ship some shape. But I don't really like this whole design system, it's difficult. The fact that there is no mirror build system surprises me. You can build faster but also more precise with a mirror building option. Now it is just a pain... even with the copy-paste option.

I also visited a museum of ships that were being showed. But I can't help but feel that there is something off with these designed ships...  Maybe the less details feeling? 

I also found out how the transport system between planets work. There was no glitch, I was just lost in the wrong district that mirrors the other stations on other planets. Somehow they managed to make district traveling more confusing for newbies with the many between teleports. 

I'm not ready to explore space, or to fly to another planet without backup. Haven has not even a moon to explore, so there are not many options here. 

Interestingly it seems that important 'basic' stuff are a luxury. And I'm talking about screens and a simple landing gear. It seems that a rocket engine and a sliding-door is more basic  than a landing-gear, image that... I'm missing even a simple ramp. But really, you can't even make a usefull basic message screen with all these leds and chips? Instead we got a stupid message button, seriously... It would be nice to have a nice LCD screen by the door for my name... but well... we can still dream.

Bought some wings on Haven 4. I don't really like flying in the dark, but seeing the sun coming up on the horizon is a welcoming feeling. There is also a giant skyscraper in the neighboorhood of Haven 4 airport. Need to watch out not to get a collision with it. But impressive nonetheless...

The cargoship needs a lot amount of engines and wings to be usefull, and it flies probably like a boeing 747 🤣 The max speed is around 700 km/h. It can also carry some passengers.

Chirp... Chirp... that's the crickets that I hear here around. It's a twilight zone, nobody around here, as if time doesn't exist. This does me think about a mini serie about The Langoliers (1995), a story of Stephen King. Can I also expect aliens that will eat everthing away?

Seeing how big this place is, many hopes were put in here. But as you can see, not even a chicken in this 'school' and cafetaria. 

How to smuggle your 'car' to another place... Well, that was the question with something that can't fly through space. I have a nice place just 4 km away from the nearest airport on Alioth. You can even do it on foot. But it can still faster.  I want my car there. If you want to pendel via airports, you still need have something to travel with. The other base is still 34 km away from the nearest airport.  Solution, create a blueprint of your smallest thing, and disassemble it.  I had to recreate some of the elements, there was something wrong with it, like the pilot chair and a metal plate? No problem. The only strange thing I encountered, you can't use the original blueprint, and you guessed it, you need to create a copy of it, and you still need to pay for it again! Not too much, but still... whatever. But here I recreated my 'car' again, no problem at all. 😁

Hunting stones in the dark goes well. I grinded for stones in a desert, but here on Alioth is another story in a forest.  In daylight you see less but when it is dark, and you turn off your own light, it is easy picking. They light up like uranium 😏

Another great thing, picking up stones on free land on Alioth is not restricted like Haven. 👍

Cya guys

Nice, I got shielding. This is a 'small' S version. I had also bought an M version, but that was a lot bigger than I thought. Maybe for another build-project.  

Now I have another problem. It seems that the ship give me a warning above 20 ton. It flies still without problems but still. That was while I was carrying the big M shield 😅

While it is nice, they made even shielding an headache. It has settings for defence against different weapons. As if I can know with what they will shoot at me... They had it probably easy with Star Trek.... We get this 🤷‍♂️

The only problem are the engines now. If I add the space engines the weight will only increase. And I need probably replace the basic atmosphere engines with better ones too.

Cya guys

Parked my ship (yeah I know, it's an ugly thing/ship/whatever) on Haven 5 and went to Elioth and sold some Kergon in a market in district 6. It seems that it is the most active place in the whole game. I can only produce enough kergon for around 100.000 worth of money each day. Well, it's something. I wanted to expand my territory to get more basic ore so that I can produce more fuel, but I seem to hit some problems, since I was denied to get the tile even when I got the 'green' light to plant that thing. I think I need to create my own org. or something. What a pain. 

I also visited Exchange. It was so busy there.... well not exactly, even there it was a ghost town... It seems that dreams are not always been fulfilled. 

The Eagle has landed... on Alioth. Testing the waters after 7 years. But this time I'm not stranded on a strange planet without any Kergon. Only this 'bike', I can't really recommend it. It doesn't use much fuel but is terrible slow.  And because the strange placement of the space engine you can't fly straightwards in space, you need to use the space engine as a focus, otherwise you will miss the target. But the distance between Haven and Alioth is somewhat a problem. The districts are behind the planet, faced from Haven. That will add on the travel time. I was almost an hour traveling. Talk about boring.... Still need to get some land here on Alioth. 

Very funny, just add some wings on a hovercraft and it flies... after changing the settings of that thing. 

My cargo ship taking slowly some shape, not enough to show you, but slowly... very slowly. These guys of DU know how to restrain and torture the itch of a creative person... In another words, it is very difficult to experiment on different shapes. Another reason not to really like Dual Universe. 

Interesting fact, they want PvP in Dual Universe, but weapons are all higher tier building elements.  As a beginner you can't really defend against it, because higher tier is in fact out of reach for starters. 

By the way, the only way to play it 'safe' and mine in space is to fly a giant fortres with a lot of members that are mining, keeping watch with their turrets and fly a squad attack ships. Than the 'pirate' would at last experience a 'death-trap' him/her self.  Very hard to do as solo-player.... 

Yesterday the space maiden voyage to Alioth went okay with my cargo ship. Sadly, the second trip to Sanctuary went bad after a crash landing because I was fiddling with the cruise setting. Next time I land it just like a space shuttle, like before. It really flies like a Boeing 747 and a Space shuttle. It's slow when it has a lot of cargo. Sadly after the bad landing, half of my engines were done for, and that included the big ones! What a way to end your day. I repared it today.

At last I found out what these things were in my inventory, and I'm now a proud owner of two tiles on Sanctuary. Seems I missed the memo or something.  Now I have 3 free tiles and one payed on Alioth, and yet I have the feeling I'm still nowhere with my progression, 😆

Cya guys

Yo guys, I'm very slowly building my factory and have a small hangar and landing platform on it. I'm quite good with handling my little spaceship now, so a small landing platform isn't an issue for me. 

Most of the time I'm just twiddling my thumbs. Seriously, wasting your time is the greatest problem with DU. Sometimes it is faster with my own personal nano system, than a factory, because for even to produce a little light it still needs a schematic to run. (Why!?)  I don't think there will be a run on the market for lights here on Haven, so, still no use to mass produce these little things. 

I guess, it's better to put the game on the background and do something usefull than waiting, or just log out and come back after a few hours. Then the schematics are ready to pick up or the factory has done his job.

My new ship project is going slow but good. It's a small carrier ship with many tools, warp, gravity, and more. 

It has two stairwells just for fun (I know elevators are quick and easy), and I'm working on the corridors and chambers now. The hull is also less blocky. Still thinking about how to add more variation to the hull.  Together it has 7 floors, but because of all the additions, there is surprisingly less space for rooms etc. 

Cya guys

My ship project is almost done. The hull is practically completed, and I'm happy with it. I don't know what you guys think of it, but for me, it gives an old retro vibe, but I like it. It's something new for me, who always worked with less-rounded ships 😁

Nonetheless, this project gave me a lot of trouble. Many disfigured blocks were and are a pain for me, and I often needed to copy-paste to correct the shape, especially a straight wall against the round hull. 

I'm still working on the interior and need to recolour parts of the hull. But as I said, it's almost done. I called a carrier ship, but it's too small for it. Just call it my flying home base 🤷‍♂️ It has everything you need, from repair options to search for an asteroid (but I never will take this ship for that job!) 

This is a new milestone in building for me, but man, it's tough. It's not my cup of tea if you would ask me. Too many problems with the voxels! Incredibly complex forms like round things! I needed to use prefab forms from a third party for this; I can't create these things by myself 🤷‍♂️

Hopefully, it will prove his usefulness in the coming jobs, 

Cya guys

Very funny, how to park your ship in a busy airport...  I suspect this wasn't intentional 🤣

What I don't like about flying to market 6 are all these high buildings.  Sometimes they just jump in your view, and if you don't fly high enough, well, I don't like to hit these things. I still need to fly my ship like an airplane you know. 

Created my first large building static core, it took some while, but I managed it. You can really build a large construction with it. I leave it in my container for now, 😅

Exlored a seafloor, there was really nothing to see or to find, it was more like the Dead Sea. But I found something interestingly, somebody dug a deep hole in the sea floor. Why, no idea 🤷‍♂️ You don't expect to find something like this... how much luck do I have to stumble on  this...

The seas are empty and void, but at some places you find some interesting effects with plants and water. It looks better this way...

Cya guys.

Misleading facts about Alioth. If you check the map of Alioth, you read some "usefull" information about this planet. It seems that it has Bauxite, Hematite, Coal, Quartz, Limestone and Acanthite. These facts put me on a missleading  path to buy some useless mining units, like the uncommon mining unit L and the advanced mining unit L. I must notice that about these mining units,  there's no information about ore Tier 1 to 3 use. Good luck with trying it out yourself... 

So I hoped at least to get some Limestone with the uncommon mining unit... well, that was a bummer.  It seems that you can only get it via the stones on the surface, and that are the four basic ores and the two tier 2 Limestone and Malachite. Btw,  Acanthite is silver! I suspect this is just lazy forgotten info that isn't corrrected! 

I hoped that the advanced mining unit L just just gave more production. That is a bummer too and just a miner for higher  tier ore.  So, this too, is misleading and none of this information you can find in the game, not even in the codex 😠 so far I know. 

Really not very usefull, the codex 🤷‍♂️

Cya guys

Navigating through a busy building jungle. It's not a joke, but there are actualy really a lot of cores just hanging in the sky. Sometimes they are just what they are, just cores 😅 I found a small solution, with CTRL-V I added the buildings in my tile-view mode. And voila, automatic building detetection that you can't normally see. Very handy, especially in the dark. 

Some places on Alioth have so many ores that I don't know where to start. Nice, today I earned  more then 2 million 👍 If you don't know where to look you will find nothing but I have a good nose.  I found also out that the server is sometimes slow. First you see nothing and when you wander back to your ship, yep, there they are 😆

Cya guys

I slowly start to love my 'ugly' cargo ship. It's probably a case of over-enginering but it seems that it can handle a cargo  of 200t or more just fine. Top speed should have been around 1000 km/h but 900 km/h  is the highest that I can get out of it.  It has shield installed but I don't think I will take it to dangerous places. 

I got my hands on complete gravity system, a 'small' generator and six repulsors. The shop that sell spaceships has also one with a gravity system but the price of 44 million, that's too much 😅. I don't plan to gather money for around 14 or more days to buy that ship. I just got the whole gravity system for 6 million. And I had to 'work' hours for it. 

My next build project will be interesting. 

Cya guys

Visited today the top of the northpole of Alioth. I hoped to find a lot because there can maybe some strange effects in calculation etc. But there was nothing to find. Nothing, zero, nada. 🤷‍♂️

But some lower on the Northpole circle I had more luck.

But as you can expect, it's rough terrain, high cliffs deep valleys etc... Luckily, you can  still climb it. 

Interesting fact, just like on Earth, this place doesn't know the night. Always daylight 😏 (unless I'm wrong, but I checked the shadows over the day) Maybe for the guys who hate the night perhaps? Unless they put also the summer winter period on the sun simulation. I suspect that the southpole is always dark, still need to check it out. 

Cya guys.

Crashed and burned, that's how the state was of a ship I encountered in the middle of nowhere in a rocky desert.  The pilot has probably died, too, seeing the state of that thing. I can only guess what happened: overloaded or just bad engineering? 😂

Interestingly enough, you can repair it but not claim it or whatsoever in this case.  A nice option to give a stranger or friend a helping hand.

Yesterday there was a nice event here at DU, but it was almost 12'o clock midnight, a little too late for me. I had to leave...

Cya guys