Wyndle
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9 hours ago, Jinxed said:
Imagine being forced to play what you make. It would be like Homeland Security Officers in the US being forced to endure water boarding themselves rather than just inflicting it on brown people.
Hey, that's not right. They pick old people with medical and walking assistance devices 25% of the time regardless of skin color.
Edit: Or was that just the TSA?
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39 minutes ago, Jinxed said:
Not very meta
Mayhaps not, or mayhaps very much in tune with Meta (r) and Zuck's idea of what that means.
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38 minutes ago, Jinxed said:
Sure, if O stands for overpriced.
I thought it was Overbearing. Overly-boring? Omni-fallible?
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It is worth repeating; NQ already lost my trust and has a limited time to show that they can improve the game without further breaking/killing it. This issue of borrowing assets is at best lazy, but on its own not worth ranting over any more than I already have. Once the feature is live I will give it the same scrutiny I would give any "Release" game, including any bugs that may coincide.
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2 hours ago, Jinxed said:
Two = 2.
‘to’ is the spelling you’re looking for.
I usually ignore stuff of that nature. I'm already falling into so many "that guy" categories that I can skip the low hanging fruit.
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Anyone seeing this type of error should open a ticket if basic troubleshooting doesn't clear the error.
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17 minutes ago, CptLoRes said:
Once VR is the same as taking on a pair of sunglasses,
1) NReal Air AR glasses is sooooooooo close.
2) Apple should be setting the market very soon.
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15 minutes ago, Maxim Kammerer said:
At least nobody seems to be interested in Zuckerberg's metaverse or events like the virtual party for the launch the EU's 'Global Gateway' strategy (with just 5 visitors!). Currently it is not even a hype.
Because it is plain for everyone to see they're doing it so that they can be the tax collector on it.
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Just now, CptLoRes said:
I agree with most that is said here. But to be fair. The core idea behind a metaverse is sound. But despite what Zuckerberg and friends are saying, the tech is nowhere near being ready for that in a way that will be acceptable outside of tech nerds and niche groups.
I disagree. 99% of the tech is already there but it is not optimized for a walled garden and trying to shoehorn it into one breaks much of the needed features. Once the right combination of features comes together the metaverse will organically grow.
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1 hour ago, blundertwink said:
these are the topics
Frankly, I find the listed topics chilling and utterly dystopic.
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Don't count your chickens before they hatch on the asteroid changes, those may not work as intended. I'm reserving judgement until I see it in game. I had a spark of copium when I read that until others pointed out that the image NQ used for the next segment was a poorly photoshopped rip from a website talking about Elite: Dangerous.
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7 hours ago, Del said:
Since launch I feel like im still in BETA....except
...it ran better in Beta.
They had an extremely similar bug at launch that got fixed after a while. It came back much worse with 1.1.
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9 hours ago, blundertwink said:
DU is a persistent multiplayer game, but at this point I don't agree that it is an "MMORPG".
It requires an overly loose and generous definition for the R and the P to consider DU a Game at this point.
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35 minutes ago, Sarrah said:
The tactical map though.. Is there any worries of intellectual theft? That is pretty much a 1 to 1 rip from Elite...
If it functions the way they shopped the image it should be generic enough to avoid IP concerns.
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42 minutes ago, Anitalex said:
Who takes 4-6 hours to find a rock. Maybe 20 mins at worst. What are you doing out there?
Some people count travel time from their home planet. So 2-4 hours travel and then 20 minutes search time is a reasonable estimate for direct travel. Avoiding the pipes in getting to the rock may add up to double the travel time.
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2 hours ago, Cobqlt said:
Asteroids change are really oriented around carebears... Why people still need more no risk in PVP? Do you even listen NQ what we need and how people are full of ressources
They said there will be a timer, they didn't say the timer would remain the same. How much ore can an org nom from a rock in 20 minutes? If they're not watching the timer they'll still be sitting and waiting for you to get your pew on. Everyone is full on T1, but that isn't what we'd be going into your turf to get now is it? Instead of jumping the instant it goes to rumored you'll have to be ready to jump to catch them before they leave. But you wouldn't want a whole bunch of ore would you?
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I was just looking at my Steam community list of games that I've played and there is a clear pattern. My #1 played game at 445 hours is Robocraft. I bring this up because I see DU's economy as breaking the PvP incentives for most. What is the incentive for the new solo player to take the risk? What is the incentive for the casual gamers in a loose knit org to seek out PvP gameplay? The economy is getting in the way of the play part of the word gameplay. I want to build ships that can challenge other builders to adapt. I want to dabble in messing with metas, but I'm stuck doing chores to keep the millstone rolling. What little equipment I have is far too precious to take unneeded risk with, much less to seek out combat intentionally.
Perhaps it would help to put this in someone else's perspective:
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At this point NQ seems to have no choice in the matter. Running an MMO is one of the most expensive game formats possible. Deleting stuff keeps some people away but that isn't the only thing turning people off.
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2 hours ago, Mordgier said:
Tracking millions of autominers is just a bunch of rows in a table - it's not a significant cost really.
Compare the number of bytes in a timestamp to the number of bytes in a 0 or 1 (unitCalibrated), multiply that difference by the number of MU being used in game. It my be a tiny difference but when you're shaving every coin already it seems counterproductive.
1 hour ago, blundertwink said:I was under the impression that it's really rare for Amazon to give special pricing,
Even Amazon owned properties are paying near full rate for AWS, though that is in part to protect their prices charged to external customers. Amazon discounts are typically a [filtered]-for-tat; so what value would NQ/DU bring to the table to warrant a price break?
Edit: over simplistic auto-filter? The original text is a legit, non-offensive term.
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2 hours ago, blundertwink said:
I'm not seeing that these are "bad" or incompetent people, I have no clue about their competence nor does it really matter...the point is that NQ's decision to make these people leaders is puzzling.
Nor would I say it of any individual, but the team/company as a whole? Struggling to reach a D-.
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19 minutes ago, Jinxed said:
They’ve said themselves that there’s too much money too much progress too quickly and the servers can’t handle it.
Building is one of the key components of the game yet the servers can't handle the amount we're building already? What happens when (though not likely at this point) the game becomes popular and triples in population from peak? If it can't handle it now then it never could and looking less likely by the day that it will be able to.
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1) They are tracking how many thousands of individual MU timers?
2) They are doing so to reduce server and DB load?
It isn't just us, the players, that are being hurt by the design choices. Poor design isn't the only issue here. The above questions clearly illustrate that NQ's apparent/stated goals do not match the actual results and MU nerfs are not alone in this.
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7 hours ago, Leniver said:
required by law
Ah. EU law is a tad more strict. Looks like it is just a matter of asking the right questions to find where corner cutting and relying on the services of other companies puts NQ into a bind.
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Prismic is a cloud hosting solution, meaning NQ is paying for the services of Prismic to host content. Depending on the reviews, they may be overpaying compared to similar middleware services.
Edit: Anyone who tells you that your data is safe on the internet either doesn't understand the tech or is untrustworthy. I cannot speak for Prismic's track record for hacks and data exposure but rest assured that if someone actually wants that data there's not much that you or I could do about it. Once it's on the internet your data is only one to two steps away from being pubic knowledge.
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Then you likely have not become uncomfortably familiar with the concept of government sponsored black (as in shadow/secret) projects. Congrats on making it this far in life without that knowledge or first-hand experience. Seriously, why does the US DoD have a cyber defense team that just happened to start at the same time online hate and spam ramped up ten fold? Gotta be a coincidence because the US Military wouldn't inflict psychological warfare on citizens or the world in general... right?
1) The CEO is literally at a state sponsored metaverse event discussing topics that, IMO, are extremely dystopic.
2) The design was flawed from the start. We can speculate on what parts of the design were at fault but without a comprehensive list of VC investments it would be nigh impossible to get an accurate picture of motivation behind the first (or subsequent) round(s) of funding.
Because those things are expected of a game in development and at release. It would raise too many questions or alert too many would-be "customers" if those things were completely absent. In other words, it is a cost of doing business in this field no matter what the motivation of the funders may be.
Ever hear of Stuxnet? It was developed and spread for many years before it found the target computers in Iran.
This is extremely difficult to answer for several reasons; chief among them being if this is a state sponsored psy-op then a correct guess could literally mean a death sentence.
TL;DR - Your guess is as good as mine but I've been around the rodeo for a while.