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Greenfox

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  1. Pleaes ... don't qoute big walls of text without redacting things xD. It's just forum netettiquite.
  2. Given that transportation isn't cheap. And that you wouldn't need to fill an mountain, just have the outerlayer and the inner rooms covered. I doubt people would want to pay for dirt, atleast enough to warrant transporting it. But i guess, there's a demand for anything.
  3. KS backer bonuses are gone ^^. The only thing you might be able to do, have someone gift you a KS package and ask the support if you could up that pledge. But i would write the support before that, unclear if that is aloweed or supported ^^. I know games that do allow people to trade, sell or do whatever they want with their KS rewards. But some too, that made it a felony. I personally would only get a KS for the extra unique skin. DAC or Lifetime sub aren't really that great. Done right you wont need to pay and then again, 15 Bucks are not the end of the world. I pay more for the gym, a pizza + beer or a cinema ticket ...and get less fun from it. Patron is still a good grab. Just not as many DAC in there then KS rewards for the same tier. ---PS: I have often see "after KS" stuff going on. Most times, as with here too. These packs contain less and less, the further the devolpment goes on. The supporter packs as they are now will stick with us till realese, as far as i know.
  4. Sadly i missed the KS times. Didn't even know that this game existed till around may, when someone i knew told me about this. After spamming the chat how much i loved "From The Deepths" and how much fun i and my kid brother have at that xD. General logic dictates that any previous cosmetic will be avaible for someone backing an higher supporter pack .... but pets are written out and the cosmetics aren't. So i am quite uncertain ^^.
  5. I'm not talking about that :3. I'm talking about buying patron and getting lower tier cosmetics too ^^ (non-founders). But thanks.
  6. Hello, i finally noticed something. Which made me ask a question over and over ... "Will we get the previous rewards of Supporter levels, if we buy into an higher pack?" I specially mean the Cosmetic Aspects. Will an Patron Backer get the : -Bronze Arkship Passenger Outfit -Silver Arkship Passenger Outfit -Silver Earth Legacy Outfit And a Silver Backer the Bronze? I searched for the info and sadly didn't find it xD. The pets stack ... so do the Cosmetic Outfits too?
  7. Math doesn't work like that if you got some fixed costs (i like your optimistic view :3, i really hope we get 100k players too) . But it's a good theoretical example. I will just add one thing, i know for sure. Costs for Devs: -Engine License -SFX License -Ohter License -Servers -Energy -Personal -HQ -Equipment -Others For a similar Dev group of an indie game. I know that they churn trough 300~400k a month in development cost (and have been doing so for 3 years ;3), aka having two to three servers running + the fixed cost of the whole other stuff. Given that i know little to nothing about cloud servers and how much they cost, i can't really say what we will end up with. But lets say, we will need 10 server shards and the overall cost would end us at around 500k/month, probably. That means to be selfsustaining they would need arond 33k User, who pay 15 dollars a month. Which isn't even that much. Hopefully i'm ways off about what an single server shard costs and how these providers calculate heir cost. But i would say we need around 20k User for sure, to cover ongoing development. Based on how costly all of the other things, except servers are. The only people that know for sure are the Devs and maybe the investors, that will get an update about cost/etc but need to keep that under a sort of NDA. The only thing we can do, spread the word if we really love the game that once will be there for us all to play. ^^
  8. I like your video :3. The PR guy looks professional. And he could probably sell me an house made out of waffels ... and i would want one made out sirup next to it.
  9. As far as i understood. Posting it in Idea Box, will get it into Trello (or atleast into consideration to be added or answered). We could ask an mod altough @Mod-Meldrik @Mod-Merwyn if that is true xD.
  10. Haha. Nice bus :3. But it doesn't hover!
  11. Yeah. Probably around Beta time, alot of Youtubers and streamers will account for the largest amount of influx in players. Hopefully NQ will hand out keys to people like that. I myself only gotten here, through a recommendation :3. I still hate that guy, this game will be to addictive for me.
  12. Well, as far as this whole thread goes. We can sum it up in four blocks: - Can't afford sub - Can afford sub, but doesn't want to. He rather wants to be able to buy cool hats, skins or give himself a boost over someone else - Can afford the sub and even churns out DAC so he can skip the tedious things. He has enough money somehow. - Can afford, but he just wants to play. Without ever paying anything. 1. Could do stuff so he can buy himself an DAC ingame. 2. Skins and Cosmetics probably will be ingame, if they're extremly sucessfull we might get that sub fee gone (not necessarily good ... but it can work). 3. Could make a contract with someone, that he will "work" ingame for him for a certain time for a DAC. 4. Could just leave out one pizza + drink per month or any of the thread starters suggestions (simple math, sub isn't alot), We will certainly lose alot of people, at the start, without them ever haveing tested the game. IF they never add a 7 day or 14 day trial time. The best way to go or rahter the two best ways to go: - Free Beta Keys. Game is nearly finished and people can take a look, if it's something they would pay for. We got these to handout to friends and other random people. + NQ will probably hand them out via PR actions too. - Trial time. People can play, but everything will be gone if they don't decide to invest a DAC into it or a sub. To prevent abuse ... trade might need to be restricted. We don't want "gold sellers" getting into the game as easy as possible. (But that's another topic .... these guys just use "stolen creditcards" and buythemself in anyways. Getting an refund on that anytime, they get cought ...) I think, DAC will be easyer to achieve then alot of people think. If anything, duo to the large amount of DAC at the start. A single DAC will be alot less worth, then lets say after 2 years. For that starting time, people that can't or just don't want to pay will be able to acquire them easily. -- I will certainly not say what i think of free to play games. A neat free to play app game is circling around atm that is scamming people (again). But people will need to look at free to play at one point in time and think. Think hard. Most of these are made, so that you're hassled and bothered. If you don't pay for that exp boost or that time dilution for your crafting ... or you have only 1 craft slot and VIP have 5. They're made so that ultimately they funnel alot of people into buying. And i am not even going to the broken P2W ones, these just hunt for whales. And count on the other "free" users to be living bait. I love Extra Credit :
  13. Oh, interesting idea! We would really need some rights for no fly zones. Atleast as long as they don't want to trigger an "PvP" action or a fine. :3
  14. And this for relaxation : Cute, Electro Music~ And for the fighting:
  15. https://dualuniverse.gamepedia.com/Archive:Kickstarter_Comments Might be somewhere in the AMA from the Kickstarter times. But be advised, that stuff is old. PS: In the Update News from April. You can get alot of information from these kind of news posts. " Planet landscape reset We don’t plan to reset planet landscape for the release of the new Build coming in a few weeks. However, it will happen before Alpha Launch (expect at least one wipe before we reach this milestone). The same goes for constructs currently in-game: no wipe with the release of the new Build, but there will be at least one before Alpha launch. " https://www.dualthegame.com/en/news/2018/04/06/new-build-preview/
  16. ^^ PS: Guys this topic is over. There's literally nothing to discuss here, till the cost of the sub is officialy out there ^^.
  17. ^^ exactly. The space whale would have auto firing AI cannons and maybe SPACE Suckerfish, which will try to eat away fuel from our ships. But in all common sense .. we don't need that. It just would be a resource spawned by an algorhytm that we could harvest. Space Whale bone... he got big ones. So we can build bone thrones or dungeons with bone doors.
  18. This should just be posted here. People don't like reading too much xD. If you have any of these packs, you get the corresponding acess of the new packs. If you want another supporter pack, you will need to buy that. No upgradeing possible.
  19. You get it. If you pay 1 month it will probably cost 10~15 per month. 6 month payment abo, will reduce the cost by 10~20%. 12 month payment abo, will reduce the cost by 20~40%. DAC will be 20~40% costlyer then the monthly sub, when you go for the yearly abo. That's what most companys go for on a pay to play basis. -- PS: 15 Euro pay to play is just fine. YOu can get alot of people that way + more likely to get people that don't troll all day. Alot of the problems with "zero" cost free to play always is the swamping of bots, doublicate accounts and alot of other things that make the server seem bloated with people ... while people are just getting angry at the people that don't feel any attachment to their accounts. Ban? Well i can just get a new one, this one is just 1 hour old and my main acc is safe and sound. What would you rather play? An free to play game, where you need to spent 300 bucks a year to be competive with other payers. But not even with whales. Or an game where you need to pay 120 bucks a year, where the ingame shop only sells you emotes and cosmetic skins and stuff like that. People with money reall like to spent that on games (even people without it spend it ... hard). The whole free to play gameing community is a cancer to development of new games, that actually need to inovate and be fun. There's rarely any game that can support itself just from cosmetics in a shop. And even these, often have communitys that are really immature ingame (toxic, trolls, griefers etc).
  20. You should visit a pyschic doc. Talking with yourself is never a good symptom. :3 Jokes aside. There's a few other things out there too, try to check the Search Function, Activity and Browse function :3.
  21. :3 So true. Well, we might get some basic pve. But these will be probably just some animals to farm or kill for food related drops (or some space whales, that shoot lasers at us and are hard to kill. But drop alot of space whale meat xD). We don't need any AI shooting back at us, Players do that better with nearly zero development cost. Then any AI with stupid pathfinding could ever do :3.
  22. Thanks for the update. Even if it breaks our hearths.

    We will break your server for you, comming next test :3.

     

    (hopefully not ... as i want to mess around with stuff, but breaking stuff is our task ingame xD ... and generating some data)

    1. Mod-Merwyn

      Mod-Merwyn

      No problem.

      I'm not from Novaquark though, only a player trying to help ;).

      (see https://board.dualthegame.com/index.php?/topic/12776-moderator-news-guidelines/ for more details).

       

      ~ Merwyn

    2. Greenfox

      Greenfox

      Doesn't matter. A helping hand is always good :3.

       

      You can pass the "we break your stuff and have fun while doing so" along to the gods~

       

       

      (Hopefully they hire you ;3 wink wink., well maybe ^^)

  23. Sadly as Lethys said. Air mechanics and water leaks won't work in a multiplayer game of this size. But we might get a workaround :3.
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