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31st of December, 2016.   - - - - - - - - - - - - - -   Happy New Year from Australia!   Hope you are all having a wonderful day/night of celebrating or doing whatever you do this day!   Todays has been a small spike in the member growth, with six members joining the top ten in total compared to the relative ones and twos over the past few days.
With this being said, I presume that this is because of people having time to go through and accept new members!    The past few months have shown some interesting growth. Luckily, there hasn't been a huge amount of loss! The community has been growing quite significantly since the start of the kickstarter till now. Good to see within a few months, there are over a thousand organisations and the forums have hit over thirty thousand posts and four thousand users! 
I only see this grand game and its community growing into the next year and I can't wait to see what happens with this data and how the alpha release will dictate it!   Anyways, I hope that your first day of 2017 isn't too groggy! I can't wait to see whats in store and I hope you guys keep reading through the data and giving feedback.  It's what keeps me doing this! 
Thanks.
Charts are below!        

31st of December, 2016.   - - - - - - - - - - - - - -   Happy New Year from Australia!   Hope you are all having a wonderful day/night of celebrating or doing whatever you do this day!   Todays has been a small spike in the member growth, with six members joining the top ten in total compared to the relative ones and twos over the past few days.
With this being said, I presume that this is because of people having time to go through and accept new members!    The past few months have shown some interesting growth. Luckily, there hasn't been a huge amount of loss! The community has been growing quite significantly since the start of the kickstarter till now. Good to see within a few months, there are over a thousand organisations and the forums have hit over thirty thousand posts and four thousand users! 
I only see this grand game and its community growing into the next year and I can't wait to see what happens with this data and how the alpha release will dictate it!   Anyways, I hope that your first day of 2017 isn't too groggy! I can't wait to see whats in store and I hope you guys keep reading through the data and giving feedback.  It's what keeps me doing this! 
Thanks.
Charts are below!        

I agree, it would be nice to be able to place it wherever you want. I just hope it doesn't need to be centered in the territory, regardless of whether it is above or below the surface.
 
If you can place it on a border, some creative defense strategies could occur.
 
For example, other than the odd pentagonal tiles, all territories will be hexagons. This means that at each corner, your tile is "sharing" a corner with two other tiles.
If you work together with your neighbors that share a corner, you could all place your TUs on corners that touch. Why? You would only need to defend roughly 1/3 the area you otherwise would have! This means, if you put the same amount of resources into the defensive structure, it will be 3 times stronger than it would have been.
 
Not saying that it is a great idea, but it's not a bad one.
Of course, like anything, it has downsides, but you have to take the bad with the good.

Presumably, this mechanic would just affect the territory it's placed in regardless of its location within this territory. 

The whole idea of the territory unit is to stake your claim to the land you live on, either way, whether it is underground or locked in a rather large fortress of death (lasers included), it's going to be a hard asset to go after. 

There have been no actual details on this and it's all stipulation, but I'm hoping that they allow you to build it wherever you choose so you can build a larger bunker network to defend it with, allowing people time and planning space to defend it. 
I understand though, it may end up being a grind if it's that way! 

Hopefully there is some balance to it, we'll really have to wait for an actual development release though surrounding just the territory unit.
 

It's an upgrade, so i think you will get the amount of DAC's that offered on the new level.
In your case, if you upgrade to Shappire you will get 50 DAC's.
 
And as Lights said, you only need to pay the price difference, not the original Shapphire cost because it's an upgrade

Hope thatmakes sense im a little tired :/

Hi everyone! 

Considering todays post about BOO and the numbers of players in the top ten Orgs, 
I have decided to post my charts on here as well as Twitter. 

I forgot to place my name on them and now have, but figured seeing as it is fit, I would post them directly here as well, it's just been a little supervising side project of mine to see how the orgs and forums handled in posts, members, etc when the kickstarter came around as well as me just having a general interest in the numbers. 

So, I update the charts daily - with member orgs who have fallen off the top ten staying on there for up to seven days just in case they come back to the top.

Anyway, without rambling on too much longer. 
Have my charts. 
But stop asking for access, please, you won't get it, I'm just trying to provide consolidated data in a point for my own and others interest. 
 

 
The iframe isn't working currently, though I will post updates daily with images till I work it out, it may just be incompatible, I'm unsure.

Live chart can be found here
 
Edit**: Fixed some colouring issues.

Fringe Exoplanet Cartel [FEC]
 
    Motto - "Where few venture, we prosper" An organization focused on pushing all limits and boundaries...for gain. Challenge yourself, and the universe around you.
 
 
 
If it hasn't been charted, chart it.  
If it hasn't been done, do it.   Here, there is only one place for living life - on the edge. Do you explore the depth of the universe? Learn its secrets? Take what you find? Develop things pushing the boundries of what's possible? Do you want to gain and prosper from it all?
Then join FEC, and lets FEC the system
 
 

 
- Explorers(Scaling rewards per resource/discoveries found, partners & engineers will be directed to resources)
 
- Scientists
 (Scaling rewards per innovation/new invention, 15% of all future sales said innovation brings, remainder goes to securing platform and your intellectual property)
 
- Engineers
(Per construct contract, efficiently building ship and base bodies ready for equipment, elements, and combat)
 
- Mercenaries
 (By contract, or by hour jobs to provide security to FEC and partner bases, including "The Spot")
 
 
 
  We will have little requirements. You can join loosely as a casual FECer or a hard core FECer, its up to you. Though higher and more critical positions/ranks will logically require more activity, work, and/or contribution. You will be expected to protect organization property and interests when needed. We will also have plans to utilize some form of voicechat (likely Discord) unless such a system is implemented ingame.
 
 

 
  We will have casual RP (not mandatory). We will operate and work to maintain a organized but fun ANTI or REBEL- system/authority. We will attack/raid/defend and FEC things up of course, but that doesn't mean will tolerate a self destructive toxic environment, cheating/ooc hacking.
 
 
Expected numbers and size?-
 
Many may have questions about expected goal size of the org, and how large we plan to get. Right now, we're looking to fill 100 slots and no more, however this is dependent on if we implement activity policies, and if we plan to have ships with requiring a larger amount of crew members. It is far too early to say for certain how these systems will effect a desired atmosphere of final desired member count as the game is still in development. However, we can say for certain, we will aim for quality over quantity, a close-nit community, but one with enough to still get the job done.
 
Join our Discord -   https://discord.gg/c5q6qAR
 
Want to become a FECer ? Come and lets FEC the system
 
http://image.ibb.co/iMKFqQ/FEC_banner.png
 
-CLICK TO BECOME A FECer-

In the interest of providing some hard data to debate, I have looked through the "Last Post Wins" and "King of the Hill" threads (the only two threads I saw that looked like they might be considered spammy). I ignored people who had only posted once, and came up with a list of 23 people who "actively" participate in "spam" threads. This is not to call anyone out, just to provide some info to the discussion. Data was collected shortly before I posted this. Percentage is the percentage of the user's total posts that have been made in spam threads. (Total Posts / Posts in Spam Thread = %)
 
% of posts in Spam Threads                   Name                       Posts in Spam thread                    Total Posts
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81.6%                                            UnderhandedAerial                        40                                            49
66.6%                                            Mawbotch                                       6                                              9
30.7%                                            Hades                                             20                                            65
25.0%                                            Xeno                                               2                                              8
15.4%                                            CommanderLouiz                            4                                             26
15.3%                                            Lord_Void                                       42                                           273
14.2%                                            Trendane                                        2                                             14
12.5%                                            maximpact                                       2                                             16
12.1%                                            mrjacobean                                     14                                           116
10.0%                                            HUB Universal                                 2                                              20
  6.3%                                            MrStarWars                                     9                                              141
  5.9%                                            Lethys                                             36                                            604
  5.8%                                            Kuritho                                            11                                            188
  4.2%                                            Lights                                              9                                              213
  3.5%                                            Kurock                                            8                                              229
  3.1%                                            Anonymous                                     7                                              222
  3.0%                                            Aetherios                                         22                                            724
  2.0%                                            DaSchiz                                           8                                              393
  1.3%                                            Atmosph3rik                                     2                                              149
  1.2%                                            Cybrex                                             10                                            782
  1.1%                                            Astrophil                                           5                                              436
    .8%                                            Leonis                                              4                                              458
    .6%                                            CaptainTwerkMotor                          19                                            2802
 
 
Average: 14%                Median: 5.9%
 
Total Spam Posts By 23 Users: 284
Average post per User: 12.3
Total Posts in Spam Threads: 306
23 Users represent 92.8% of Spam Posts
Total Posts in Community: 33447
Spam Posts make up 0.9% of Total Posts
 
I hope people find this data useful.
 
EDIT: Looks like the formatting got messed up a bit, but it's still readable so I'm not going to bother fixing it.

Hiho Dontclickme,
 
If i remember correctly, you already asked the exact same question before.
Hmm i think its only my feeling ...
 
Edit : i found it !
You question was answered here : https://board.dualthegame.com/index.php?/topic/10608-questions-about-this-game
 
Have a nice day

Welcome to the forums :-)

I'll try to answer your questions as briefly as possible, but bear in mind that they are only cursory answers as the topics could be covered more in depth and people could likely talk about them for hours just based on what we know so far.  
 
1.) No NPC's in the way you're used to. If there are, it's likely they will only be market NPC's (and my assumption is that they will be more like bots on the market rather than physical NPCs you interact with). Everything will be player operated, no NPC empires. If you see it, it was built by a player somewhere along the line.
 
2) No automatic offline protection unless you build it and provide upkeep for it. You can build in places where there is no PVP allowed but they will be few and far between. Think of them like "safe zones" that have to be discovered. Otherwise, mostly, you'll have to build defenses for your bases. Your characters will be safe as they will disappear when you log off. 
 
3) Online only. One single server. No instancing. One shared universe for all players.
 
4) Subscription yes, something like ~$15 a month, give or take (I'm sure this is likely to change so don't quote me on this). But if you buy a pledge you get several months (or years depending on the level of your pledge) of subscription time with it. You won't be backing at the gold level and expected to pay for a subscription on day one if that's a concern of yours because the subscription items (DAC's as they're referred to) come with the pledges. Another thing to note on this topic is that DAC's can be purchased from other players in-game, and they can be sold for in-game money as well. So you could, in theory, pay for your subscription using the money you make in-game without ever having to actually pay real money for one (outside of your pledge or whatever). Very similar to the way Eve Online works with PLEX, although there are some differences in the mechanics of DAC's that aren't worth bringing up here, suffice to say it led to a lot of debates this summer. 
 
5) More like space engineers. Check out these videos for an idea (although they don't cover the research/skills/materials/etc necessary, they do show an example of actually "building" a ship): 






6) Yes, you will need engines in specific places to control your ships adequately. Those systems aren't implemented fully in the videos above, but we've been told that where you place your engines will have an impact on how your ship actually flies. Also considering fuel weight, etc. This dev blog covers a lot of the topic, but it may be a lot to take in: https://devblog.dualthegame.com/2015/09/18/lua-script-and-distributed-processing-units/

Gosh, haven't seen you in a little while Porco, good to see you're back.

16th of December, 2016.
 
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Hi guys! Hope you are having a swell day and I hope you're all going to see Rogue One, well, those of you who enjoy Star Wars. 

I have some charts here which show some interesting movement, with Dual secure jumping out of nowhere. 
 
I have also noticed how flawed my tracking system is and I plan on fixing this. This may mean that I'll have to reset the charts for next year, which I don't want to do, but I feel that it may be a necessary evil. 
 
As for growth, over the past three days, it has been great! 
The top ten organizations have had a large average of members joining them.

As you may see the data changes sporadically for the Unique Members, that's because it's been hard to track it on my off days.

Anyway, I'll let the data speak for itself. 
 

 

 

 

Good luck with this venture, mate. 
Good to see another group forming! 

Why not ?
I think by sharing the Alpha gameplay via live stream or another method to another players that don't have access to it is a good thing 
More like, you help the game by sharing it.
 
Sharing is caring 

Hey all,
 
Some of you may recognise me from the ongoing Novawrimo contest, but if not then let me introduce myself.
 
"I'm a guy who likes to write! Hiii!" 
 
But anyway, weirdness aside, I've just set up an Org called 'Writer's Guild' and would like to invite anyone who is interested in continuing to write some fan-fiction for Dual, or fiction in any form, to take a look.
 
I'm not an amazing writer, but I've been doing it for a while, so I would like to offer my help towards any that want it, and encourage others to do the same. What I hope for is a close-knit group of people sharing and writing and reading each others work, providing good feedback, and growing as writers and individuals.
 
Anyway, we'll see how it goes.
 
Thanks for your time,
 
DT

Before Dual Universe I spent countless hours scouring the internet looking for -that- game. I think many other people know exactly what I'm talking about. -The- game that would tie you down and keep you immersed for hours, where you could live in a virtual world and be part of something bigger, where you could build your dreams and be part of a whole other universe. 
 
I was feeling rather down, depressed or sad take your pick, in the months before I learned about DU from E3. I was feeling kind of burnt out about things happening in projects I was involved in (I was a dev on Bitcoin Classic) and just generally was very mopey. I wasn't sure what else was going to come along that would suck me in and make me feel like I could contribute in any meaningful way. 
 
When I discovered DU I was ecstatic, and I don't think there was a grain of pessimism inside of me. As soon as I saw the trailer, as I'm sure others can attest to, I knew exactly what it meant for gaming as a whole (especially sandbox gaming) and I just knew what it was NovaQuark was attempting to create. 
 
I don't think I've been as happy in a long time, being part of DU Explorers, flying out to PAX to meet JC at the NQ booth, getting to be involved in various happenings here and there, everything Dual Universe has been a very positive experience in my life this year. 
 
 
 
Lately, I've been feeling down again. I don't know if it's because of the lack of interest in getting people to be on DU Explorers for another episode (we haven't had one in 3 weeks...) or if it's seasonal or something else entirely. I couldn't even bring myself to write anything for NovaWrimo with all the back and forth banter and arguments between different organizations. I'm just exhausted. 
 
I'm sure things will turn around here after the new year. Although, unless I can get another episode of DU Explorers together soon, I think I'm going to be taking a break from DU for a few weeks. 
 
 
 
Regardless of all of that, which are purely my own problems, I think the main purpose of this was for me to say thank you to NovaQuark and Happy Holidays to everyone there for everything that you're doing for us.
 
Even in these early stages of development, what you're doing has had a special impact on hundreds if not thousands of people. I don't think anyone here will disagree that you're doing something that has changed our lives forever.
 
Between all the new friends we've all made, and all of the excitement we've been able to be a part of (Kickstarter was a nerve-wracking blast), we've certainly come a long way and it feels like we're not that far away from actually being able to interact with each other in-game. 
 
 
 
Thank you NovaQuark. 

Idk of you do this(didnt read every single pist here) but when you post the charts, you should also state any event or news that could have helped in the charts progress. If this is already being done ignore this post <3

9th of December, 2016.
 
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I am not currently, why's that? 
 
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Hey'a folks! Hope you are having a swell Friday/Saturday morning and/or day! 
 
Todays two sets of charts follow suit with recent numbers. While the unique members keeps growing and/or fluctuating slightly. I'm not sure what's going on there, though. 

Anyways, as there isn't much going on, there isn't much to say! 
Charts are below! 
 

 

 

 

7th of December, 2016.

 

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A stormy Wednesday! Hope you are all having a good day. 

 

Todays growth was about the same as yesterdays, slightly better I believe, but it is good that there is still growth. 

 

Anyway, as per yesterday, nothing very significant to report, 

charts are below! 

 



 



 



 

7th of December, 2016.

 

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A stormy Wednesday! Hope you are all having a good day. 

 

Todays growth was about the same as yesterdays, slightly better I believe, but it is good that there is still growth. 

 

Anyway, as per yesterday, nothing very significant to report, 

charts are below! 

 



 



 



 

6th of December, 2016.
 
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Hey there,
Hope everyone is having a swell day!
 
Today shows what I said yesterday may be true, where the numbers start dipping again due to a void in the direct communications from NQ, however, early next year hopefully this will pick up again! 
 
Anyway, there really isn't much to say today,
so,
charts below as usual! 
 

 

 

 

5th of December, 2016.
 
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Thanks, it means a heap that people do read and like seeing this data, I plan to keep it up for quite a while!
 
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I hope you are all having a swell and/or dandy Monday! 
 
Todays charts show a rend in the daily growth, five new members have joined the organizations in the top ten for now three days in a row. 
Most of these said members are join Terran Union - they seem to have grabbed on average two to three of these five per day. 
 
This being said, we are once again going into a slower development period over Christmas time/New Years time where a lot of this will be slowing down, I would not be surprised at all if the trends went back to being extremely low growth rate or even no growth rate. 
 
Anyway, before I ramble on, enjoy your day/night!
And as per usual, charts are below! 
 

 

 

 

4th of December, 2016.
 
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Hi there ladies and gentlemen, sorry for the spam of posts here, but as you may know I had a little catch up to do. 
If I'm not posting, I am saving the data, ready to be posted! However, as you may notice, my new 'Unique Member' chart line has had some teething issues. 
This is because the data I can't exactly save with having my sheets with me, the other data, I can! I'm trying to decide a way around this, but unfortunately it has just been a rather busy and weird time for me! I am trying my hardest to keep this up to data and I am hoping to keep posting daily again, even through Christmas and new years!
 
As drunk of a posting that may be. 
 
In the terms of actual data though, we've seen a great spike in the now named 'Galactic Commonwealth', formerly 'Alliance Of Free Worlds'. This is good, showing that a simple name buff and member acceptance can really change things. 
As for other groups, the growth has been rather steady, making for an easy flowing time.
There is only one day where there was no growth and a negative amount for a total, which is good, meaning growth has been taken from a rather neutral amount to a good healthy amount once again. 
 
As for some extra stats! 
This past month (November), there were 161 new members to organizations (These are not unique! These include people crossing into multiple organizations).

On average, there was 5.3 members joining organizations per day. 
The highest average growth goes to Terran Union, with 1.8 members per day. 
Most other organizations growth averaged 0.5 members per day to 1.2 members per day. 
 
The forums hit 4,000+ Members on the 3rd, making the community the largest it has been so far.
 
The forums had an average user join count in November of 17 per day. 
The average post count in November was 69 per day!
The total post count for November was 2058.
The total community growth for November was 505 members (On the forums alone).
 
I am hoping to keep the data completely up to date as from now!
So I hope you guys keep reading and stay as interested in it as I am, this post has over 4,000 views and I really appreciate the people who have said nice things to me, encouraged me, etc! 
 
Anyway, 
as promised, todays charts are below!
 

 

 

 

Hi everyone,
 
This kind of thread has only one effect: to stir up drama in the community (even with a humorous tone).
Reminder: if you think there is a problem with a community member or a group, please contact one of the Community Managers in private (NQ-Nomad or myself) and we will handle the situation. It's not right for a member of the community to seek justice by starting a public thread.
 
@OutlandishRep:
This is not the first topic you started to blame publicly a person or a group of person for some reasons.
While there might be sometimes legitimate reasons, it's not your role here to "bring justice".
To avoid fueling any further conflict or feeding the troll, this topic is going to be locked.
 
@All
Regarding the spam problem, contact us and give us details about it.
Thanks in advance.
 
Best regards,
Nyzaltar.