Aaron Cain

Nope its the unedited work of a 12 year old attempt on DU lore.

And anotherone bites the dust, Schematics, +1 players -1 How long must this madness continue? NQ, we are losing people here!

Lot of text but lets write the conclusion short: Kill schematics, they add nothing and cost players.

Better? The Aphelia Paradox DreamState I always saw space as a dark place but coming from Earth at the brink of destruction gave it a spark of light. For a brief moment i see the stars fly by as i am able to look through the bay window. Probably i should get a coffee before Aphelia throws us into another round of manipulation. What am i thinking, i always forget that these moments between renditions are also manipulations of the mind and even the stars i think i see are fake. Physical and psychic testing, and a lot of them, just to determine if we could be manipulated for thousands of years in this system, even knowing it is all fake is one huge frustration that not all of us could cope with. Where are we going anyway, and even better who was I, time erased memories, knowledge and for me even my name, it must be on my suit but as we are in continues cryosleep we are not able to see it. Countdown has started again, texts are flowing before my eyes, patch notes, updates, renditions of planets, and a sweet message from Aphelia that we have arrived on our location, again. “Error, system malfunction, rendition invalid, total reset to unknown parameters, supernova imminent” Well this is new, I cannot remember we ever had this scenario, at least i guess this is a scenario and not actually happening. “Cryo Tubes activation in 10 minutes, Landing on unknown in T minus 2” Ok, this is slightly worrying, slowly i feel to be ripped out of my dream state while i see the moist enter the Cryo tube. For a moment i doubt reality but then the tube opens and i see faces i have not seen for a long time. “Hey, how are you doing” someone is asking me and i respond that i am doing fine, truth said I do feel like shit and stiff all over. “Come give me a hand, I will help you out” I take the hand and with some trouble i get out of the Tube and thank the man that helped me. In the distance i can see a blue planet, it looks just like earth, smaller but is has a sea and land and for now that is close enough. Two moons i can see, definitely not earth and we are closing in much to fast for this Arc, with this speed we will crash into the planet and die before we even started saving humanity. “Brace for impact, this is not a drill, repeat, this is not a drill” We are fracked and according to the yelling and shouting around me most people agree but we still have about 1 hour before the shit hits the fan. Time for a coffee.

Try Bladesin Mercenary corporation, they have some really good designers

C.A.T.S. Tranquility is not only recruiting members but also active organizations who want to work together to make the civilization thrive. More information just poke me here or on discord

@Wolfram hope this link works here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13jPM_tSFjc3bOt_satLTUdzJFMI_Z6YGrozdwyqgVok/edit?usp=sharing just basic information worked together.

Indeed @NQ-Admin STU When? And to be clear, I already have mine but these missing STU and other missing "gifts" are just symptomic and really hurt part of the community. This has to be fixed and there is no excuse to have to wait over 2 weeks. the main reason the value is already lower for these STU is because they are not yet placed, the STU i was able to place provided me with enough materials to be able to craft my first Static L core yesterday, bit slow i know but i am helping out my friends who are less lucky. Just make this a priority instead of a slap in the face of contributors.

Yep, promisses made are broken again and already i have i think 50 to 100 bp from past builds all right for the scrapper

nope, not fix schematics, kill schematics. first try in fixing them resulted in this mess I really do not want to know how many development hours were put in this but their time is precious and should go to more needed things like ava or whatever. schematics have had a chance, two times the testers told NQ the proposed system sucked, two times nobody listened, lets not do this again, just delete the whole idea, give a bonus to whoever does that and...Move on. probably server costs will be lower without schematics so make your investors proud!!! kill schematics

No problem, most scripting i need a good friend does but its so good i dont even understand how it works Feel free to join Tranquility and maybe i can help you gain momentum

@ColonkinYT i have to agree with you, Glamour is the real endgame and most probably the whole monthly payments could be lower to maybe even free with a decent glamour shop.

They are not mine but i do understand you!! Player bought ships you should expect to contain the full scripting to make it actually work.

Solutions offered, probably few hundred by now, listened to them: nope Ever asked to explain a solution or something: Nope Best thing ever: added a solution and an honest opinion and NQ stated : your a conspiracy theorist......Good way to end discussions someone must have thought, o wait thats a conspiracy theory aswell. There is one thing NQ does with our suggestions and that is add purple voxels!!!!!! And any limitation ANYONE ever suggests. Did you know the large core is not the largest core ever seen in DU? Once industry and organizations flourished? There was an actual Cold war on the community pages, wel even 3? There were 3 news organizations making vids? There was an organization about a dyson sphere and actually the possibility of making it were not limited yet? Ships would be able to be 2km? there are actual underground caves in the planets, or there were? a handfull of people drilled to the cores of the planet, I am one of them so i know the secret Nobody hears you cream in space? Tranquility was based on the possibilities of pre-alpha and at that point a dynamic city in space with a good mass to equall Battle star galactica or babylon 5 was a possibility? And we have not given up on that idea just need to get more creative! But just do one thing for me and yourself: Dont trust on NQ making stuff better, never sent in proposals for limitations And be a good member of the community and any ides you have, just sent them in these forums adressed to fellow community members, we stopped adressing NQ as they dont seem to listen unless there is an opertunity to generate more cash, then its sayd like: We listened to the community and canceled planetary mining........

Sorry to comment on this, The main contributions of development last year was limitation of features, and alot. Like adding tax, limit number of orgs, kill mining. what they did add i have no clue how that should help gameplay, like alien cores.......we never get npc so what the f is an alien core...good lore breach

To be honest, with the npc marked and the ship marked next door with good working NQ buyable ships what is the use of emergent gameplay? no-one will buy my designed ship as the costs and effort i invested will never outweigh the cheap ships NQ offers. In short, once we were told no npc in DU but at the momens the whole game is dominated by them, market, missions, shipselling, all elements of the game that players should fill but were needed to mask that it just does not work if you need to rely on players in the setup DU has chosen. This also includes the killing of the community page, that page was used to sell stuff, show stuff, promote news and organizations, frankly the killing of that page did alot of damage to the community and to the active backbone of DU but that has been ignored since the moment they killed it.

No problem with you doing this but i do have an issue with the concept in DU Here we have a sandbox game that should not have the prime income from NPC missions for most players. How did the development team ever think this would help get a player driven emergent universe where we build civilization together as most people do their best to gain income from npc missions. If anything should be gained it should have been items that you get semi random so you need to chose whether to keep or sell them at a market.

I can understand that but bottom line when you maker a game worse by removing a feature and one of the reasons is cost/serverload just remember Thats the reason, the added text is just to keep people happy. I work at a billion dolar firm and almost 90% of the changes and projects have to do with cost reduction or added value, the other 10% is safety. NQ is no different, no cashflow no business. The most simple solution would be a simple thing space engeneers did, make DU moddable But add the mods to the game itself, in short: If you truly want the game to be player driven, why not add a possibility for players to actually design components, features, and everything to the game? Development cost would be mostly on the player side and developers would have slightly more time for other stuff, the same with Game masters, Find some trustworthy people who you can make Game masters and free upsome staff.

Very good point @Haunty

@Maxim Kammerer Amen to that

yep and with this line you just acknowledge the server load and cost issue, there is no other reason. All decisions on PVE/mining/industry in and after beta can be brought back to server load.

Amen to OP Yep it was a lot of blabla why to scap it but in the end its a plain simple cost reduction, and if you play a little longer you will see many more. Features that are scrapped with a lot of poohaa and talk but are seriously only to reduce costs. Or not implemented, just think about the server load for surface warfare, think about that and the latest scraps in features and the only conclusion can be we will not see this in the (near) future

@Jinxed Amen to that. And when players actually try to drive the game, more limitations are added.

Indeed, and the newly refreshed schematic system is even worse than the old. -Time sink added -Quanta sink added -minigame put new schematic in the machine added -copy reproduce poof schematics from thin air minigame added Did i miss anything?

Ok, so ill try to be a critic constructive here This reaction is one i would expect from a developer and not someone from the community. It is good to defend NQ but please let them do that themselves. 1. lets just explore this ourselves. 2. hate those towers but i hate limitations even more, so please stop limitations period! 3. Too little too late, investigation of dac that could cost NQ self cash was somewhat more empowered. If they wanted to tackle the issue All STU deployement was halted on day one. I am missing STU too although i do have them on my main account. All these days of investigation might give the idea something is wrong with the database that saves gifted out stuff. Else why could this not be fixed in the same time as the dac's 4 lag city, nuff said 5. Too little Too late. Dont promote a feature and then cancel it for some time. Its equal to telling your kids they will get an icecream and then when they ask for it after waiting for 5 minutes you just tell them, well probably next year. And about actually trying to help the game, where is trello? Where is the community page? What was ever done with the ideas on the ideas channel? How do limitations and decisions based on server load help emerging gameplay?