yamamushi

*Official Dual Universe Discord ? Of course, the Discord Staff has been aware of this handover, we just couldn't tell anyone. The reasons for the requirement of authing on it should be more clear now, it wasn't an arbitrary decision ?

The bot is ready for testing now, it is already running on several Discord servers, but could use additional testing: Installation and usage instructions are available here: https://github.com/yamamushi/du-authbot/blob/master/README.md

I will work on this bot then, seeing as how many people have told me they'd find a use for it. Obviously, it's going to be open source, but the database it connects to will remain private for (also) obvious reasons. I'll update here or make a new thread when it's ready, and I'll reach out to people who I've spoken to about testing it in their own discords. I'm not a company, so GDPR doesn't apply here. The authorization process will still start within the DU Community Discord, so members will still need to auth that way, but it will then sync out to individual discords so that permissions are maintained wherever the bot is used. Of course, individual discords can override the auth on their own servers, but this is merely going to be a way for automating the process so that backer roles are in sync wherever users go. At the moment I would argue that this is the most trusted verification system for pre-alpha members on Discord, but that will speak for itself over the coming weeks.

While I would like a two-way money system, because it would be awesome to be paid to play the game effectively, 99% of the players here are going to argue against it. Plus Novaquark will never get behind it. So I'll give you a thumbs up here, but most everyone else who replies is going to go on about how it's a horrible idea.

Congrats again!

I think the option will be to mute the in-game music and play your own music through another application. Speaking of music, if you want it, it's all available here: https://soundcloud.com/dualuniverse I can't see them adding the ability to stream music natively in the game though, there would be some licensing issues I'm sure. I wish there was though, being able to have music playing for others in the game would be awesome, although some would find it annoying.

So many of you know that I wrote the Authorization system for the Dual Universe Community Discord Bot, which allows for you to link your forum account to Discord so that you can have access to the NDA channels in the DU Community Discord. There are several hundred people using it at the moment, and although it's a bit of a process to use it, it seems to have gone over fairly well. Here are some stats about the current linked backer accounts on Discord: I was thinking about possibly exporting the account information in the bot database into another database, and creating a separate public Auth bot for discord that would allow for any discord to verify whether or not their members have NDA access. This would let other groups have their own NDA channels, so they could discuss NDA topics in a safer way. However, I'm aware that this would have privacy implications for people using the auth bot on the DU Community Discord. So I am wondering, would anyone be opposed to me doing this, or would you guys rather me not do it and just let other discords figure out their own way of verifying people? It's not going to hurt my feelings if you guys don't want me to create it, I just thought that perhaps it might be useful for the various communities out there.

Tagging this library here, as something like this would be necessary for this idea to work: https://github.com/FluidSynth/fluidsynth A small embedded C synthesizer module that can do wavetable synthesis for MIDI, provided that you have a soundfont available for it. We could, in theory, also use this for playing raw midi files (who remembers those days?). But this idea is specifically about using LUA for interfacing with it to create music and sound fx on-the-fly.

I'm hoping for something along those lines with this suggestion:

No, they will not be, sadly. I was planning on going even, I canceled my hotel room though when I found out they weren't.

It absolutely would be good. The learning curve is quite high considering all of the things they plan on doing. I have been discussing with other pre-alpha players the possibility of doing something like this for new people during the pre-alpha, in a non-org-based way. Which is to say that I don't think that a player should have to join any specific org to get an introduction into the game, that kind of stuff should come without strings attached. By the way, I see you're kind of new here, welcome! You should join us all on Discord ?http://dualuniverse.chat , there's plenty of people there happy to help and happy to talk about the game!

Of course, it should be a client option to disable music and other generated sound effects.

I am a little crazy lol, but it was soooo worth it

Go to https://community.dualthegame.com/ , log in, click on "Dual ID", and scroll to the bottom HOWEVER - It seems that you only got the Sponsor pack, so your download is not available yet. You need a Patron pack or higher to download the game.

I know that "predefined sounds" is on the "Considered" list on Trello: https://trello.com/c/HVdTjEsH/51-functional-scriptable-speakers-able-to-play-predefined-sounds While I think that would be cool, I think it would be cooler if we had access to a synth sound module through LUA to build and sequence our own custom sounds. Writing sound synthesis by hand isn't unheard of in LUA, for example: And even more, here are some tracks composed entirely with LUA: https://soundcloud.com/luehi/systemf https://soundcloud.com/luehi/luacid1 https://soundcloud.com/luehi/early https://soundcloud.com/luehi/selfkitchen https://soundcloud.com/luehi/luaessay5 https://soundcloud.com/luehi/movk I think that giving us the flexibility to define our own sounds with such an approach would be incredibly more valuable than choosing from a list of predefined sounds. In case anyone is wondering, yes I am suggesting this because I want a night club in DU.

I like the sound of this place, and it's only 7 minutes from my hotel. I'm actually flying in from Austin, TX. It's a fun 18-hour trip to get there

Either of those ideas would work I am staying at "dorint hotel am heumarkt köln", which is only a 10-minute walk away from the museum.

Literally anywhere that serves beer -please-

Hermite Data https://upvoid.com/devblog/2013/05/terrain-engine-part-1-dual-contouring/

I'll be arriving Tuesday evening, so there's a good chance I'll have all Thursday afternoon free to meet up somewhere.

IIRC you will be able to blueprint the alterations and sell those separately, but you wouldn't be able to snapshot the whole ship and sell it as your own simply because you made one change.

Reminds me of this video I made a few years ago

RDMS seems like something they will be continuously improving on after Alpha 2, as it seems necessary for the socialization features they are planning for Alpha 3. I also can't imagine we could possibly have player nations in Beta without it.

I figured since an upcoming AMA was mentioned in the video that was released yesterday, I thought it would be useful to start a thread to collect questions people have for JC about Alpha, the roadmap, etc. I suppose I'll start by listing a few questions I have... The roadmap doesn't make any mention of server uptime. When can we expect the servers to be up for extended periods of time? (24/7 even) Is this something that we can expect during a specific phase of Alpha? Is the NDA firm for all of Alpha, or is there a possibility that the NDA may be lifted before Beta starts? Can we expect server uptime during the winter holiday season this year? Is there a clue of sorts hidden in one of the videos that were recently published? Where can we get one of those sweet Dual Universe jackets?