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You can always review the rewards here on Kickstarter, https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1949863330/dual-universe-civilization-building-sci-fi-mmorpg But don't worry, Gold Founders are getting more things than the current Patron packs give. If you got a Digital Gold founder pack you are getting 23 DAC's, and as a regular Gold Founder, you'll get 20 of them.

Jetpacks can't be used like this, they only provide short bursts of thrust and aren't meant as something to allow you to drop slowly onto a planet. It makes more sense to have something to allow for a controlled fall at a steady rate than it does to have jetpacks being used to fly all over the sky.

I'm surprised I've only seen the word "parachute" mentioned in two other threads, but since it hasn't been brought up before as its own specific feature request... It would be really nice to have some sort of parachute item that we could use either when bailing out of a ship at high altitudes or perhaps something we'd use when skydiving into a territory during a covert ops mission or something. Preferably it would be something that we'd have control over ourselves, and not something that auto-deployed (because a parachute would be pretty visible, and you might want to deploy as close to the ground as possible to avoid being seen). Another possibility would be a wingsuit of some sort...

I will be handing these out primarily at conferences I attend to other backers from the forums and discord that I meet in person (not just every random person I meet, haha). I'll also send some out once they arrive, but I won't be selling them. They're just little collectibles I made for people who go that extra mile to see some DU.

Unfortunately for now it was only the Kickstarter backers :-/ But no doubt they will have different pets for other people in the future (And I will get plushies made for those too haha)

No 128 is not a hard limit, they plan on adding bigger cores later :-)

Not entirely correct, there is no "barrier" you cross to enter a construct, rather the construct you are attached to is determined by raycasting from your character downwards. The first object that the ray hits determines what construct you are attached to. That's a simplistic way of looking at it, but you can see it illustrated in the video I posted above. With that, the engine can determine what frame of reference your character should have relative to the construct that it is attached to. Technically everything in the game is a type of construct, from planets to asteroids to ships, they just operate differently (i.e. you can't move an asteroid by pushing it through space).

Yes, you can. While a ship is in motion people can move around freely inside of it and build and do various other ship related tasks. Here's an example of this (albeit a small example):

I had these custom gold and silver challenge coins made using the design of a DAC from the pledging website:

Actually it was a joke about the time that Terran Union's military defected

Anti-TU device... You mean like, their military?

I will ask the seller if they are okay with me sharing their details here. It took about two weeks to produce, so I wouldn't want to be the cause of them being overwhelmed with orders. I will update if I get an approval from them

So I saw a comment on this tweet from Dual Universe where someone wanted a plushie made of the robot pet: And then I had one made

Unless required otherwise by law, I don't think NQ should be in the business of playing content police. If players don't want something ugly, they should be the ones to go out there and change it. Once NQ starts removing every little thing that people are reporting as offensive, there really is no end to the rabbit hole that would open up.

From this interview at approximately 35:00 in:

You were approved

Not about warp drives, but JC has been posting about gravity generators and their math on Twitter

They've said that if you choose to, you could go the slow route and manually fly to another star system without having to use probes, but that it would take days or weeks to get there so it's not something most people would attempt (considering fuel consumption among other things). Most people, on the other hand, will opt for using probes and stargates. It was one of the main reasons I got into DU.

I won't get into all of it right now, as I have dealt with the situation as delicately as possible to try and undo the damage, but it appears that not only was the community discord a target of spammers (people sending private messages to everyone in the user list to try and recruit for their org) but that several other communities were targeted as well. That all culminated in discussions about the game being banned in various places, someone trying to dox me, and a slew of other issues I've tried to fix today. Someone went so far as to accuse me of being JC himself even. I'm not going to drop names here now, you know who you are, but if I find out you are continuing the spamming and harassing other communities about Dual Universe, I will definitely report it and let NovaQuark deal with the situation. I've heard reports of everything from sending mass private messages to people, to joining other discords and spamming links to the game over and over, to someone joining voice chats to spam the game and harass people. One person even had the audacity to go into discords and tell everyone they were the creator of Dual Universe and proceed to spam the game over and over. You are doing anyone any favors by spamming the game, and you are doing harm to DU's name by doing it. It's not helping any of us, and it certainly isn't helping your own reputation for doing it. 99.999% of org's out there aren't doing it, but one or two org's in specific are, and they are going to ruin it for the rest of us if they keep it up. Nobody should be encouraging that type of behavior. I'm posting this here in the hopes that it will keep others from attempting to do the same thing, and so that the parties responsible know what their actions did.

One single shared and persistent universe, it wouldn't make sense to create region-based servers. On the topic of China, Eve Online couldn't even get away with sharing access to their primary server there. In fact, they had to release a whole different version of the game for the Chinese market. With NQ's size, it just simply is not feasible to dedicate resources to doing that right now. Maybe sometime in the future if DU takes off and becomes popular enough to warrant building out a whole new cluster there with a team dedicated to supporting their player base. However, right now the juice isn't worth the squeeze.

"Stephen Hawking, the brightest star in the firmament of science, whose insights shaped modern cosmology and inspired global audiences in the millions, has died aged 76. His family released a statement in the early hours of Wednesday morning confirming his death at his home in Cambridge." https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/mar/14/stephen-hawking-professor-dies-aged-76

Weather is on the Trello board as a feature that should make it into the game by release: https://trello.com/b/Y6WNMd2S/dual-universe-community-suggestions "Examples of climate: snow storms, sand storms, regular storm, etc..." However the suggestion is under "Different global climates on planets", so it's unclear whether that means 24/7 nonstop global storms on planets, or if just different planets have different types of storms that happen on and off.

It sure has been active this week, happy to see all the new faces around and getting to know the new patrons