TheSpartanCast

Bye AFED

@Geo Aeonian Federation's new logo could use a bit of your magic once you're freed up. ?

Hi guys, 
 
The idea of making a podcast has been circling in our heads for some time. We wanted to reach out to our community in a new and captivating way, and today you can discover the end result.
 
We're very excited to bring you some behind the scenes material and invite you to join us while we discuss what's new in DU. If the community's response is positive, we may make a series out of it.
 
You can listen to this first episode below on YouTube:
 
 
It's also available on SoundCloud:
 

 
Happy listening! We'd love to hear your feedback!
 
Cheers,
Nomad

The SpartanCast
The SpartanCast is a podcast hosted by several DU community members where we discuss everything from game mechanics to organization interviews. The episodes can be found on our YouTube and Twitch channels, as well as our Spotify playlists. We stream every other Fridays, starting at 9pm CST over on Twitch.
 
We have been privileged to have guests from organizations like Terran Union, Objective Driveyards, The Opean Federation, Chromion Industries, DUA, The Eldritch Nation, and more. We have covered a wide variety of topics, from Combat to Economics, with vast amounts of personal theories, hopes, and opinions relating to them.
 
Link Overview
 
YouTube: https://goo.gl/YDS9Tu Anchor: anchor.fm/tsco Discord: https://discord.gg/kD7mmw4

The SpartanCast
The SpartanCast is a podcast hosted by several DU community members where we discuss everything from game mechanics to organization interviews. The episodes can be found on our YouTube and Twitch channels, as well as our Spotify playlists. We stream every other Fridays, starting at 9pm CST over on Twitch.
 
We have been privileged to have guests from organizations like Terran Union, Objective Driveyards, The Opean Federation, Chromion Industries, DUA, The Eldritch Nation, and more. We have covered a wide variety of topics, from Combat to Economics, with vast amounts of personal theories, hopes, and opinions relating to them.
 
Link Overview
 
YouTube: https://goo.gl/YDS9Tu Anchor: anchor.fm/tsco Discord: https://discord.gg/kD7mmw4

Dear Community Members,
 
As some of the Novaquark recent moderation and sanction actions haven’t been clearly understood by some, here are some explanations and clarifications. We are aware that members from “Dark Star Imperium” (DSI) and “New Genesis” think that the decisions taken by Novaquark have been unfair and/or feel like a punishment. It’s not a punishment and we limited the inconvenience to the minimum possible by just resetting the member list of the Organization. This has been done to remove all ghost accounts and make the involved Organizations restart on a healthier basis.
 
We also made sure that at least one person in each of the involved Organizations can re-invite real members in the Organization:
- CN_Firestorm for “Dark Star Imperium”
- Chipfromearth/SpaceKitty for “New Genesis” (until the end of TMA’s ban)
 
You are more than welcome to contact them to join theses Orgs again if you wish to do so.
Keeping in mind that besides the cleaning of ghost accounts, nothing else has been removed. All community work/content related to these Organizations have been left untouched. We are also going to send an email to all ex-members to inform about the member list reset and offer them to join their former organization again.
 
Regarding the ban of the leaders of these Organizations:

We understand that seeing your leader banned might be frustrating. However, we want to make it clear that being at the head of a big Org does not give a free pass on toxic behavior and/or bad practices that could damage the Community as a whole. Being passionate, being young, creating quality content is no free pass for such things either. That’s why all the permanent bans decided recently are final. We are not giving such heavy sanctions with a light heart or on a whim. In more than four years, the number of community members who have been banned permanently from the community can still be counted on the fingers of one hand. We think it speaks volume... Some recent rumors say that the bans may be reversed or canceled. There is no ground to such rumor. It’s just disinformation. The fact that a banned member will “not tolerate that” has no weight either. It’s the Novaquark team’s call and the Novaquark team alone.
 
Now, we want to give a fair warning to anyone wanting to challenge Novaquark’s decisions openly, directly or indirectly. If a community member has been permanently banned from the Community, he’s excluded from the game, which means he shouldn’t be in any Organization anymore. Reinviting or keeping a community member banned permanently could have serious consequences (such as Organization disbanding but not limited to that, as this could trigger other sanctions for those actively supporting banned members).

Now to address some specific questions/rumors:

We exceptionally give some details to the Community to show that we are not banning randomly or without a serious reason. We do it only because some banned members try to take advantage of the confidentiality policy to enforce their own narrative and play the victim, and attempt to misinform other players. Don’t expect the Novaquark team to give anymore information on this case or the possible future ones.
 
“Banning Sakej99 was a mistake. He’s a different person from FullSend/Lime”.
The Novaquark team is aware that Sakej99 and FullSend/Lime are different persons. However, that doesn’t change the fact that the permanent ban affects FullSend/Lime will also affect accounts he may have access to (by account sharing, which is forbidden in our EULA). This is one of the main reasons why we are so serious about forbidding account sharing. If someone sanctioned got access to your account, the sanction can be extended to the said account even if you haven’t done anything wrong.
 
“FullSend/Lime has been unfairly banned, with no prior warning.”
First, for the infraction this community member has committed, there will never be a warning as it was obviously utterly wrong: if a false report is sent to the Customer Support in an attempt to make another community member banned, the one getting the ban is the one who sent the false report. And in this case, indeed, there is no prior warning.

Second, FullSend/Lime is probably the person in the community who would deserve multiple permanent bans (if it was possible), due to previous infractions in addition to the most recent one. Playing the card “no prior warning” is just complete dishonesty and denial of assuming the consequences of his actions during the past couple of years. Here is a short list of the infractions he has done in the past:
- Asking members of one of his former organization to give login and password of their accounts to him.
- Using accounts of other players.
- Creating ghost accounts.
- Using a loophole in the organization management system on the Community Portal in an attempt to sabotage/destroy an organization by using the account of another player.
- Participating in a doxxing attempt.
- Always denying the facts or trying to minimize them, to the point of reaching self-absolving, to avoid dealing with the consequences (a practice reiterated with his last infraction).
Due to the history of this community member, there was no reason for “prior warning” with his last infraction. He has been warned too many times already. Mistakes are not erased just because it happened “long ago”.
 
By default, Organisations where FullSend was the founder have their ownership transmitted to the oldest member with the ability to create an organization, which gave the following results:
- CN_Firestorm becomes the new owner of “Dual Insider”.
- Gravetender becomes the new owner of “Project Azimuth”.
If you are a member of one of these organisations and you want to discuss these changes, please contact the new owner of the Organization.
 
(About DSI) “There has been a total wipe of the parties to kill the conflict”     
Wrong. If that was the case, we would have dismantled “DSI” directly and ban both DSI leaders, which would have included CN_Firestorm. You can assume that if it’s not the case, this is precisely because there is a difference between CN_Firestorm and Primarch. This sanction wasn’t against DSI. The sanction was against Primarch.
 
Some of the banned members may say “They will be back”.
It’s up to them. However, if we catch them, they will be banned without further notice.
 
Best regards,
The Novaquark team.
 

While your passion is admirable, the video is an advertisement for Meridian Jumpworks. It's not trying to pass those ships off as being from DU, it's just an exciting video that aims to increase recruitment for the organization. You'll be hard-pressed to find many organization adverts or promos that actually use DU ships; mainly because the NDA stops us from "showing off" cool-looking ships (that NQ hasn't publicly shown that is). Unless you're trolling of course, in which case ya got me.

Since the beginning of the year, we have witnessed unhealthy behavior from several members in the Community.
As many are relatively new and some older members seem to lose focus of Novaquark's vision for Dual Universe, here is a strong reminder.
 
Dual Universe is a game where there will be wars, power struggles, conflicts, plots, spying, information warfare and betrayals. It's all fine... as long as it stays within the framework of the game.
 
We are aware that a fair amount of people have a hard time to differentiate in-game behavior and real life behavior. While someone can be infamous, merciless and twisted in-game, that doesn't give him/her the right to forget elementary good manners outside of the game. Following the concept "the end justifies the means" will never be a valid reason here.
 
Novaquark expects from each community member to:
1) respect the EULA and forum/Official Discord code of conduct
2) be respectful toward any other member or at least neutral toward the members you don't like outside of the game, whether they are newcomers or veterans.
(neutral means: no free provocation, no real life insults or real life threats, as already mentioned in forum and Discord chart)
3) avoid using any real-life conflict, unhealthy real-life behavior or drama (made on purpose or not) as part of the game (because it's not) as this can escalate in very toxic and unnecessary situations.
4) avoid using any underhanded real life "tricks" to gain an advantage in-game. This includes:
- real life threats or real life harassment with anonymous accounts outside of the game (on Discord or any other online means).
- doxxing, doxxing attempts, or any behavior like gathering real-life information that could lead to doxxing.
- leaking publicly private discussions about real-life topics (especially when showing only carefully selected pieces with the deliberate intention of biasing the facts) without the agreement of all people involved. This also includes Novaquark’s investigations that haven’t been publicly announced and about which you may have been informed through a private channel/room or a private discussion.
- making false accusations, creating NDA leaks or false NDA leaks to accuse someone else with the goal of making them punished or banned from the game.
 
As a company, we want to provide a fun and welcoming experience to our fans and can’t tolerate inappropriate real life behaviors that potentially ruin the gaming experience or worse, lead to real life consequences.
 
If the Novaquark staff gets enough evidence on any of those behaviors, the team may give any sanctions deemed appropriate without further notice.
If you see some community members having inappropriate behavior, please point them toward this forum thread.

Best Regards,
The Novaquark Team.

But we're not technically an alliance, we're a federation-based org; so I'm not quite sure why we keep getting tagged as an "alliance group." We have a core member base of AFED-only members, along with our member orgs. Maybe the "new" AFED still has yet to get rid of the old image of AFED, as we were an alliance group then.
 
@Maky1871 if you want to get a better understanding of what the Aeonian Federation is and does, I'd recommend swinging by our Discord: https://discord.gg/5mHbNR9

But we're not technically an alliance, we're a federation-based org; so I'm not quite sure why we keep getting tagged as an "alliance group." We have a core member base of AFED-only members, along with our member orgs. Maybe the "new" AFED still has yet to get rid of the old image of AFED, as we were an alliance group then.
 
@Maky1871 if you want to get a better understanding of what the Aeonian Federation is and does, I'd recommend swinging by our Discord: https://discord.gg/5mHbNR9

@Comrademoco I just completed the 1st rendering of The Freelancers Logo. I have some backstory for the effects selected which I'll share in a DM. Overall, it's a challenging (but really fun) project.
 

 
Here's the HTML code to embed it into an in-game screen:
 
<div align="center"><br /><br /><img src="https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/501571239710818335/534573557884387338/The_Freelancers.gif" width="90%"/>
    <br /><p style="font-size: 300%;">Signs by Geo</p></div>
 
Cheers,
Geo

I've been making some animated & neon signs for the Orgs I'm part of and for friend's ships. Because they are GIFs, they can be displayed on ingame screens/signs. I figured I'd share some and see if anyone want's a free animated neon GIF for their org or ship. Either message me or post your existing logo or graphics here and I'll see what I can do. It helps me pass the time when I'm not playing taxi driver for my kids or being yelled at by my wife.  
 
Cheers,
Geo
 
#SignsByGeo










 

Here is a DSI version without text for @CN_FireStorm
 

 
Cheers,
Geo
 
p.s. Thx for the shoutout on Dual Insider

For some reason, I can't recall doing one of these, so why not get it out of the way?
 
My name is Tyler, but I am more commonly known as MasterChiefMKI (or MCMKI now). In the real world, I work for a company called [REDACTED] that provides multimedia services for businesses that can't afford to hire a full-time editor/artist. In the digital world, I've always stuck to FPS's and survival games, so Dual Universe is somewhat new territory for me.
 
I joined the DU community mid-2017 and by (almost) 2019, I've played and continue to play a lot of different roles. Most notably, and my favorite, is my role as owner and host of the SpartanCast; a podcast covering a wide variety of different topics. I also founded and currently run the Dual Universe Yellow Pages, the Didact Development Group, and the MultiMedia Freelancers. My last role so far is my position within the Aeonian Federation as Director of Foreign Affairs.
 
I find that giving back to the community to be my favorite part of the experiences I've had so far, and so I will continue to do so. It is my hope that my contributions can make at least one person have a better / more fun experience in-game and in this community in general.
 
Have a good day! ?

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And in this context, the usage of "ulterior" is more to enforce the idea that the agreement allows for collaboration outside of what was explicitly listed in the agreement.

Aeonian Federation SAFA001 - Friendship Agreement Application.
 
Authorised by Science Of Acquisition Senior Management.
May this encourage future endevours together, and prosperous business.
 
 
DUE TO THE COLLAPSE OF THE AEONIAN FEDERATION THIS AGREEMENT IS VOID

From the negative feedback I've seen in the various Discords I'm in, the crux of the issue is the perceived bias in the reporting and coverage of various stories as well as the owner's interesting history in DU. Personally, I think Dual Insider balances out Ark Central in a way that allows you to get the full extent of the story, and I will continue to watch both outlets.