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TCUs over mega nodes and auctioning the right to mine come pretty close.

I honestly don’t see the point in posting suggestions any more. Can anyone point to a suggestion that was ever implemented? not even XS space tanks. NQ have made it abundantly clear that they are the masters of their game and their UI experience is apparently flawless… They clearly need nobody to tell them what to do. These last few months, every time I think “what if” I just stop myself right there. Absolutely no point, torturing myself, I realize… I might as well just enjoy the game for what it is. wishing for stuff just leads me to years of disappointment. Same with every game I’ve played (except Cities Skylines and Sim City 4 which never disappoint). I will still criticise NQ for their nonsensical seeming, self-sabotage, though. Still, I suppose, as a spot of catharsis, this kind of post is still useful. and do you know what? Since I stopped worrying, I came back to the game and am really enjoying it again. Weird.

programming? Yeah it’s Lua but the concepts are fine. math? The game does use vectors and has a momentum matrix but it’s not essential or arguably even that useful. biology? Non existent or just decoration. Not even food or water mechanics. physics and chemistry? Bwahahhaha. I would say that the facts that you mine coal to make wood, fluorine is solid, concrete is more expensive than aluminum, limestone does not contain carbon, marble is an effective armour material and the stars all move in time with the sun means this is not a serious scientific game. ?

Have you tried the “force respawn” option in the start up screen, next to the clear cache option? You will lose your Nanopack contents, though.

So the question is... is this intended behavior or is this a bug that NQ will label as an exploit? I vaguely remember NQ saying they removed skills from bloops. personally, I think it should be a check box. Keep or remove handling skills when creating the blueprint from the core bloop and the creator the option of creating vanilla ships or “premium” ships.

“Can’t connect with error message” Have you tried talking to it? I find that a little gentle conversation can be a good way to connect with others. Sorry. I’ll get me coat!

Pretty much spot on. Knowing the upcoming exploits before they happen by being in or having a good mate in ATV and being around to make sure you use them is a surefire way to getting ahead in this game even more than business entrepreneurship, which is arguably the most useful IRL skill to bring to bear in game. (also, the fact that NQ aren’t actually punishing players who use bugs unless they rub NQ’s nose in the poo is also good to know. ) IMO Being an entrepreneur is much more powerful in game than having any real life technical knowledge like electronics or engineering... or, Hell, even aerospace or space engineering!

If you get into the LUA, then sure, I think it’s ok. I have a few of my students who use LOVE try to get their creations working in DU: with limited success though. DU has a pretty damn specific and non transferable framework heavily hampered by the image servers requiring sometimes several days or even a week to verify uploads and make the links active. But general framework programming concepts can be taught, I guess. As someone who runs a culture school in Tokyo, I would say there are far more effective, though less fun, ways to teach math and science than crowbarring the teacher’s playtime into students’ lessons. judging by the fairly serious disregard for actual science visible in this game, like mining coal to make wood, I would say that the only skills I’m you need for this game are design and creativity and programming skills. Coming from an engineering background, I’d say very little of my schooling as actually relevant in game since it’s mostly handwaving.

I think a month is fine; it’s a game, not a job. I have gone over a week without playing this game many times. Sometimes life drags you away for whatever reason: sometimes mid session. I think a month is more than short enough to control clutter.

I honestly want to know, what percentage of NQ staff are actually developing? It’s seems like only Alice and Bob are actually doing anything. The pace of development is glacial. so many QoL fixes that could have been done before some of the more esoteric functions get worked on. Sooooo many excellent solutions to these simple problems have been repeatedly discussed here. But nothing ever happens. nothing happens at all. the needle returns to the start of the song and we all play along like before. and we’ll all be lagging today and lagging tomorrow.

I was under the impression that blueprints didn’t save the skills of the creator... but then all the blueprints I put down at the beginning of the Balpha which I brought over from the NDA Alpha had level 5 applied to everything as per the creator. other people’s blueprints were skill zero vanilla. @Leniver when you say “if the person has handling they will be reset” do you mean on a skill-by-skill basis or will all skills be reset?

Hi there.. i gave it a try but i still can see the regular screen based tank widgets... I have set hide widgets to true, but to no avail...

Good Lord!!! Look at the ratings: 24k votes and 98% positive!!! As a "creative" type I'm going to have to give that a try!

One of our team members crashed into a base before warp finished between Alioth and Madis. he continued to warp for another 30 seconds or so but then blew up on exit from warp. Warping does seem to take place in "real space" so there is that.... In that case, how about Warp interdictor technology that can sit, powered up in wait along well travelled routes and attempt to catch warping ships in some kind of mini game... The ships are pulled out of warp by the interdictor and have a cool down time before they can warp again. Personally, I think Elite Dangerous supercruise is the best implementation of warp so far... it has an excellent interdiction mini game that would lend itself to DU's select target approach.

I still think piloting/tech skills should have been tiered. But now im going off topic. Sorry... T1 Hover tech / Propellers, Ailerons, Wings, Atmo Brakes / Atmo fuel tech T2 Atmo tech / Jet engines, Adjusters T3 Rockets / Rocket Engines, Boosters, Retro Rockets / Rocket fuel tech T4 Space / Vertical Thrusters, Space Adjusters, Space Brakes / Space fuel tech T5 Gravity / Warp Drives , Anti Grav Drives, Inertial Damping (?) / Gravitic fuel tech

YESSSS!!!! Damn... I think this is the BEST solution I've heard so far. Instant fun! Make the players the centre of the game as promised... And make warp gate activation/destination codes tangible assets in game that have a limited number of uses that orgs can sell to their customers or raiders can steal...

All they need are tasty asteroids out in the wilderness of PVP space and bob's your uncle: Miners will mine, guards will guard and marauders... will... errr... maraud. This is the sort of thing that has been missing so far... If any asteroids are present in the safe zones, they should contain T1 only...

By most people's standards, they're not, though... this game can barely support 1v1 currently.

The thing is, there is basically in lore reason that and event like this could take place. They went out of their way to preserve Human culture before departing Earth, so it stands to reason that some of the major characters (fictional or otherwise) like Icarus, Romeo and Juliet, Zeus, Princess Kaguya, Caesar, Scarlett O'Hara, Joseph Smith, Adam and Eve, Mohammed, Phileas Fogg, John Lennon, Arthur Dent, Punch and Judy, Bart Simpson, Gandalf, DEATH, Rick Astley, Mickey Mouse, Jesus Christ, Darth Vader, Raistlin Majere, Cleopatra, Pandora and so on have all survived from popular fiction, foktales and superstitions over the centuries... Some in this list are already over 2000 years old... So it stands to reason that those visages would survive along with the associated social aspects such as roleplaying, praying, creating art and music, etc.

Says a presumably grown adult male playing an imaginary spaceship computer game... ? ? Couldn’t make this shit up.

There you go. So sad that people like her love other people’s discomfort.

Absolute proof that scum like other’s pain more than the game itself. ?

Strawman is straw... Like has been mentioned before, it's not against the "rules" of Earth to start playing soccer during a basketball game. However, it's not done because people respect others' wishes and are able to control themselves. Think about it. those starwars ships are themed and thus not optimal from any DU point of view... That's the RP experience. They are playing a game within a game... Then BOO turn up in their generic DU optimised PvP ships and will basically wipe the floor given equal numbers and skill... This IS PvP but it's not respectful of other people's playstyles. Still we live in a world where people just say: "It's not against the rules so yeah... I can do what I want. Fuck you! Fuck your playstyle, Fuck your wishes... My fun is more important than yours... Basically." Aaaaand we're back to playing soccer in the middle of basketball match. In the real world, we don't have to cater to ever eventuality on all occasions (no need for heavily armed guards for every community event in most "civilised" countries) because there are social contracts that protect us... And consequences for actions in some cases. And when these break down, we end up with riots, Capitol storming and anarchy. The old adages "Locks are there to keep people honest, not to keep people out." and "Fences make good neighbours" are both true... In this game there are no locks and no fences... But there need to be.

In all fairness, this is more of an RP event that PvP per se, and even in real life you have to plan an RP event. Not quite sure the point you’re making is entirely relevant here.

Alternative headline: Boo are so bored they crashed a Star Wars RP event with their meta builds. This game’s search for civilization is plumbing new depths of fail.