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Well there has already been a lot of discussion about whether allowing videos to be played on screen is a good idea. That is still up for debate. It has already been shown that static images can be displayed on screens, so propaganda and advertisements will definitely be a thing, and people will pay others to advertise for them. As for journalists, there are already awesome people that are documenting DU history; some of them call themselves the Dual Universe Historical Society. As for cameras, broadcasting people live onto screens, well that is probably more likely to happen than uploaded videos. I could see cameras being added one day, and giving screens the ability to display the camera view on them. Nothing is confirmed at this point of course, but its a neat idea!
Oh, how I wish I would get things (resources, money) out of thin air in life...
But sadly, it won't happen
Everything has to come from somewhere and sticking to that as far as possible is one of the reasons people will be attracted to Dual Universe ?
Whatever you will receive, money or material, will have some history. It was obtained from someone. Maybe mined or stolen. You get the picture.
Let's not water this down with rewards out of thin air, I'd say. Besides as prior posters said, who defines good and bad, something highly subjective to begin with?
Topic has been moved to a more appropriate section.
Thanks, @Lethys!
The answer is: no, it doesn't work exactly like that. While the idea could be seducing, introducing such mechanics would imply many complicated things in terms of development. We try to allocate our production resources as best as possible and we have many other aspects of the game in the pipeline, as I'm sure you know.
Here's how it works for now: if your avatar is on a ship that doesn't move and is near a planet, your avatar will be submitted to the planet's gravity. If your avatar is on the same ship but in movement, it will be submitted to the ship's gravity. If your avatar is on a ship and this ship is in a bigger ship itself and not moving, planet's gravity will attract everything. If the big ship is moving, your avatar will be attracted by the small ship and if you move far enough from the small ship, it will then be attracted by the big ship. A big ship will have a wider attraction range than a small one but for now, as long as you're entering a planet atmosphere, planet's gravity has the "priority" on everything else (when it doesn't move). It can appear a bit counterintuitive said like that but in lots of situations and use cases, it makes practical sense.
Like I said, it would be a technical nightmare to handle everything like you describe client and server-side otherwise and for a gameplay benefit that remains hypothetical. We already have plans to add more to that system, though and will introduce that at a later stage.
