PetdCat

Came across this:
 
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/1414/feature/10930/Dual-Universe-How-the-Games-Single-Shard-Server-Works.html

Came across this:
 
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/1414/feature/10930/Dual-Universe-How-the-Games-Single-Shard-Server-Works.html

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The workaround I see to that is if the blueprint is not tradeable, I would still be able to go over to your property and build using it.  It would be a similar situation as to builders in Second Life or other virtual worlds where people hire builders to actually build on their property.  Where making it untradeable would keep them off  the market, you could still pay the builder to just come over an build it on your property using the blueprint.

<Waves at Dygz>

I'm all in for Converse Hightops with jump jets on the bottom.

Will grovelling be involved?   LOL
 
I'm an old married man, so I am already use to it!  <grin>

<grin>  You realize that by creating an Alliance you will almost automatically generate an outcast/pirate group that lives on the fringes and feeds off of it  
 
This could be way too much fun.

I'm all in for Converse Hightops with jump jets on the bottom.

<grin>    How about a quick rendering of basic PvP.   They can call the YouTube video.....wait for it.......Dual, the Duel.

Our Art team has grown significantly since the beginning of the year, both in seniority and by the number of dedicated artists. This has impacted the development on two aspects:
 
1) Harmonizing the Art Direction
 
Recent artworks and 3D models (still work in progress) published share a common style:
- Heavy weapon turret 3D model
- Cockpit Concept Art for solo spaceships
- Decorative Props for city streets
- The new reactor 3D Model displayed in Marmoset later today
 
 

 
 
You can see in these visual assets the art style (work in progress) we plan to use to represent the "United Nations" and human technology at its peak before embarking in the Arkships (keep in mind  it might evolve quite a bit between today and the official release or even the Alpha phase).
 
2) Including their knowledge and their skills in the first screenshots
 
We had planned to post some screenshots sooner, but we felt it would be a missed opportunity if we didn't include some of the massive improvements, relatively quick to implement, coming from the new guys. No doubt this will have a significant impact on how the game will look & feel. These first screens won't contain the final quality of the playable Alpha, but it will give some ideas of where we are heading.  So brace yourselves for the first in-game screenshots in the second half of May!
 
Best Regards,
Nyzaltar.

Sounds like a waste of perfectly good Mountain Dew to me  

Waves at Kiklix

I think that what we are seeing is an evolution of Guilds as society has changed.   There was a time when Guilds were basically there for people to get together and complete group content (like Raids) without having to deal with a PUG (Pick Up Group).  You would always be working with the same group of people, you could be assured of the correct group make-up--when the Trinity was everything--and there were rules for the distribution of goodies.
 
I think MMO communities have become more social, so the Guildspace has fragmented into Raid Guilds, Social Guilds, RP Guilds, Crafting Guilds, PvP Guilds, Enjoys YouTube Cat Guilds, and they all pretty much only deal with other like minded guilds.  A good part of this fragmentation I believe is due to the movement away from the Trinity (Tank, DPS, Healer) in many MMOs.  One anyone can tank, do dps, or heal a group, the specialization kind of went by the wayside in many games.
 
Where I think there should be a robust single player game (there are many, many, casual gamers out there) there should also be content for groups.  Things that are only going to be accomplished by a large group just from the sheer size.  Titans in EVE Online come to mind when they first came out, you needed material, you needed skills, you needed someone to pilot, it was a massive undertaking.  I think that guild content needs to expand beyond the 24 people to go spank <insert legendary monster of doom here>.  I also believe that the entire guild concept has been rather one-dimensional in the past and should gather some depth to really make people excited about it.  In DU, I would see the really large guilds as almost being governmental groups over an area, as they are in EVE.   Even that however is rather one-dimensional, however, in a sandbox environment people will take whatever is given to them and make what they want.
 
The secret is going to be to provide enough guild tools so people will be able to mesh together what they think will work best for them.  If it breaks, they grow from that and try something else.   I see it as DU putting the chess board down on the park bench with a box that contains chess pieces, checkers, marbles, Statego pieces, Lego blocks, and some wind up cars, and just says "Okay--have at it".   

Per a request, I am moving this idea over to the "Idea Box", which makes a great deal of sense and probably why I didn't think of it!
 
I believe it would be an excellent idea to have a prop, or a setting, for someone that "owns" an area to be able to connect to an outside URL for music streams.  It could also work for video, but in a voxel world I am thinking that would create a lagfest, but I do not know for certain.  An audio or video stream is going to be limited by the streams quality--64 kbps or 128 kbps--anyway, but I have not worked with the video side very much.
 
What this would allow is for Clubs, Bars, Cantinas, Dives, Social Areas, to pipe in whatever music they wish.  For those who know DJs with their own streams--those DJs can have live shows during the week.  It also opens up things like theme parties, and the like.  For those unfamiliar with the possibilities, you can go to www.radiofreegaia.com.  That is a radio station for people in The Secret World with multiple DJs and themes.  The only thing TSW doesn't have is the in game ability since there is no "building" there and only common areas--so the streams are accessed outside the game itself.   It is just not the same experience as "in game" music.  There is nothing quite like walking into a place in a virtual world and having it have its own flavor of sound.  Music is a common denominator for many and can be a focal point for many people's interaction in a game.
 
 

Hello All,
 
I see a couple of familiar virtual faces here  
 
I am Pet d'Cat, been around a very long time and will not bore you with a games list.   I play a couple of MMOs, but I am mainly a builder and a DJ (in those worlds that support that).  Looking forward to Dual Universe, it has a great deal of possibilities.  I would love to open an nice little club, built into the side of an asteroid, that I can DJ from and provide a resting place for those wayward souls wandering the spaceways.
 
 

I would love to have the ability for someone who "owned" an area to drop a prop to bring in some URL stream.  Either for background music, or DJ's (yes, this is a self interest post  LOL).   Such a thing is pretty much essential if you want to open a club, bar, cantina, etc....