Distinct Mint
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9 hours ago, BiGEdge said:
You backed for the game allready... that means you are still able to play until the servers go down on 9/22
Then you have 2 weeks for free to get back into DU after release on 9/27.
Good post though slightly (accidentally) misleading on this point. As OP is a backer with 3 DAC, they won't get the free 2 weeks as this is only for people with a paid beta subscription (not free beta key) and who's subscription has in fact expired. The 2 weeks is to encourage these lapsed subscribers to give the game another chance.
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Core blueprints let you make copies of the construct indefinitely. Why would anyone who is returning to the game give or sell them to you? Your best option is to repurchase your constructs from sellers after the reset.
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5 hours ago, Sabretooth said:
Ive returned to SE and Im happy with it. (I am a builder type, no pvp person)
Decided to check back here and find this announcement and I think it is pretty positive.
So if I read the post correctly,
I have played during BETA, so I get 2 weeks of free game time for free when the game launches?
Is a subscription needed to keep your builds? So do they follow these present rules?
Edit.I also must say that the forum is filled with things from NQ and not from the community
To clarify on others' responses:
You get the 2 weeks of free game time if you purchased ($) game time on your account via beta subscriptions, and then stopped playing (i.e. your subscription expired) for at least 1 month. In this case, NQ will give you the 2 weeks to encourage you to try the game again and see if you like it now. If you had a free beta key, or an alpha account, then you don't get these 2 weeks.
Core blueprints (not ordinary blueprints) will persist on your character into launch, but you will need an active subscription to access them.
- Msoul and Sabretooth
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32 minutes ago, Messaline said:
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Hello,
What do you think about NQ being able to resell the packs to Beta players who missed the period when they were available?
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Bonjour,
Que pensez-vous du fait que NQ puisse revendre les packs aux joueurs de la Bêta qui ont loupé la période ou ils étaient disponibles ?
--Hi - There were never any packs available to beta players. Packs were only available before this to alpha (and before) players. Beta players either played for free if they were given an alpha players free beta key, or they paid a subscription. Everything now is moving to subscription, and there are no more packs (apart from the pioneer packs that award bonus talent points after launch).
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Many of the digital items in the Backer packages are not designed nor in game yet. There is little character design in game yet, for example, which is why a Character Redesign token has not yet been created. We expect that some of these items will be delivered at launch, and others over the first year (hopefully).
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50 minutes ago, huschhusch said:
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Hello @Distinct Mint
I' m just saying that Gold Backers and above have paid for the ALPHA and BETA.
Die Waldfee
Sure I understand. But alternatively, the alpha packs have paid for the DACs that they contain, and you got the alpha/beta time for free. So you can dice up the initial backer $ contribution up any way that you like. But 3 years of free playtime is probably worth more than a few $ difference between current subscription fees and the alpha pack you bought.
Also don't forget that DAC are worth more (in real $) than the equivalent monthly subscription as they will be tradable in game.
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4 minutes ago, huschhusch said:
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Hi NQ,why is it fair to backers higher silver when new players with only one month gametime from Markee-Dragon ($9.99) and a subscript of 12 months gametime ($83.88) (total $93.87), get the same pioneer pack?
The cheapest Gold cost 112$ (Gold Founder Pack (Early Bird)) and more from there.
Also, it would be good if you can buy from Markee-Dragon in € (exchange rate) (so far pricing at NQ).
Die Waldfee
Those players with backer packs have received many other items as part of their packs. Not the least being 2 years of free beta access.
The Pioneer Packs are simply to encourage people to take out reasonably substantial subscriptions at the start of the game, rather than buy 1 month and then leave. This applies to all players, not only backers.
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40 minutes ago, huschhusch said:
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Hello NQ,
My recruited friends from the "Recruid a Friend Programme" are asking if the objects and skill points they have received will be back at RELEASE, or only new players who are recruited will receive them?
This is also true for the double-authentication. Will the skill points only be active for new players?
Also, what about the playing time I got as a recruiter? As a backer, this expired for me even though I didn't need any gametime (especially as a livetime backer). Are these times compensated as DAC?
Die Waldfee
I recall there being mention that the 2FA rewards would be reapplied after launch. I'm not sure about the others.
For the recruit-a-friend setup, I'll be taking care not to set my accounts up until after the servers go down before launch, so that the first time I play (and get the rewards) will be at launch itself.
But these are good questions for Ask Aphelia, as I am sure we would all like them to be confirmed.
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2 hours ago, ElGesem said:
another question - what is counted as subscription-time for beta participants bonus - all bought time or only used one? If I buy 12 months subscription now - will I get 12 month tier bonus? If I had 3 months sub two years ago - if I buy 3 more months now, will I get 3-12 tier bonus?
All purchased time, whether or not it has been used. So if you bought and used 3 months previously, then, just before launch, bought 12 months, then you'd have 15 months total and qualify for the exotic pack.
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36 minutes ago, ElGesem said:
As player who did not login since undergrounds mining was still a thing - what is the status of resource scans on release? I understand data will be wiped, but will resource locations be randomized? I dunno how scan works after mining changes - but if it is what I think it is - just revealing static info on hexes, it would be very unfair for new players to compete with veterans that already know best hexes and can just save them offline, rushing for best ones on start, while new players would have to scan from scratch.
Ore distributions will be randomised again.
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These are all great suggestions, and have been proposed by the community previously. Asteroids are currently very annoying and staid, and there will be complaints from the New Player Influx if we go with the current system. Adopting even some of the suggestions above would go a long way to making them more fun and accessible.
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It was mentioned in the Launch Stream that, in principle, players could connect buildings on tiles between two sufficiently close planetoids.
Given that we are now (well, at launch, presumably) restricted to buildings under 1km from the surface (or 1km above sea level? or 1km above average planet elevation? or what?), it seems that we only have 2km to play with in order to achieve this. None of the planetoids in the images appear to be 2km or less apart.
Are their no building height restrictions on the planetoids?
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The only mention of AvA we have had in the past few years was a recent (2022) blog post that glancingly said (paraphrasing) "NQ hope to present more information to us soon about often raised topics such as AvA, will there be a wipe, etc ...". Unfortunately the possible wipe topic then exploded, and we never returned to knowing what may or may not be the case about AvA. So the short version is, nothing is happening that we have any information about. I'm sure that plenty of people on these forums have an option about any potential timeframe (finite or otherwise).
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51 minutes ago, Celestis said:
MUs are not free on Sanctuary, they cost time and effort in the horrible calibration you have to keep doing.
Yes, there is the calibration cost. So the calculation is whether the 500k quanta you save on tile tax is greater that what you would gain from the income of a similar tile (same number of MUs and calibrations) as part of a flower on a planet/moon, but for which you pay the tile tax. It should be a straightforward calculation (that I didn't do ;-p).
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50 minutes ago, Wyndle said:
What is the cutoff requirement on this? Clearly the individual accounts who purchased founder/supporter packs get this but what about key accounts and subscribing beta accounts? Or is it limited only to those who actually placed a STU prior to wipe?
The STUs are part of various Backer packs. If you have a pack, you will know whether or not you have an STU as part of it. Beta accounts (free or paid) won't have this.
So my Patron pack main account will get a STU. But my (free) beta-key account deriving from the alpha account, won't get it (probably).
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Am I understanding this correctly:
Everyone starts on Haven, and so gets a tax-free tile to run autominers on there.
Backers (those with a free Sanctuary Territory Unit) can also claim a tax-free tile on Sanctuary, and run autominers for free there too?
So Backers can save 500q/week on automining (tile tax) fees for T1 ore?
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Seemingly several people here disagree with me - which is fine, as I invited you all to do so 🙂
I played daily since beta, used the discord daily (I ignored the forums as the cess-pool that they generally are - present company excepted ofc!), and only heard about it when it was over. My 60+ member Org had no clue either. Most players I spoke to were non the wiser either. Of course this is circumstantial and easy to counter with "all my friends knew about it".
But most people did not, and all "evidence" to the contrary won't change that.
Anyway, this discussion is just going in circles, so please enjoy your deleted thoramine, and I hope you give it a fond farewell while you can
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59 minutes ago, kulkija said:
Every player had a change to know. Just by following NQ dev blogs and interacting with other players. Those who did exploring did find some of those artifacts but were not able to understand those coded writings there and ignored them, so they missed the opportunity.
Only most dedicated and skilled players were able to connect the dots right way.
Also only the most skilled players were able to resolve the puzzle.What is the point of hidden treasure or "boss challenge" if everyone is able to solve it.
At the risk of repeating myself, most people didn't know there was an event until it was over. So what value your "dedicated and skilled players"? Accessibility is the key to good event design, not exclusion.
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43 minutes ago, Cergorach said:
What puzzle?
And if there was, good job on solving it and finding whatever treasure there was at the end of the rainbow! I really love it when devs add such stuff to their MMOs, I might often not partake in those activities, but it's cool they are there. And it's a shame that everything that you folks have ingame of that achievement is going POOF! Maybe add a trophy in game for such events or if that's to much to ask, a specific achievement for that event...
Problem is is that it wasn't accessible to the large majority of the playerbase. Most people didn't know it existed until it was over, so most people didn't get the chance to play. Now this is fine in itself, but most MMOs have figured out by now that you need to have all events/special things accessible by almost everyone. Later events by NQ did do this (the Gold Star event and similar), but they seemed to regress again on the PvP 🙂
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2 hours ago, Jinxed said:
What was Thoramine?
An exclusive T5 ore that very few people managed to get hold of in events that weren't really accessible to the majority of the playerbase. Retaining it in game serves no purpose except for mis-guided bragging rights, and its good for the game as a whole that its deleted.
Or change my mind 🙂
- Novean-131804, Wolfram and GraXXoR
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10 hours ago, Rawblin said:
Saw a news article about this game today randomly, got interested.
Got home and created and account, downloaded the installer, prepared to purchase a subscription, and headed to the forums,
Read through the first and last pages of this forum thread and decided not to buy a sub. Mostly based on the dates and lack of activity, but also the content is worrying. And with a wipe coming up someday that may or may not destroy this apparently small community of a niche game with a shaky development future... I'll pass.
And that is a sad thing. Seemed like it would actually be a fun little slice of gaming.
Good luck to all of you. And if I'm wrong on my conclusions please let me know.We are pretty sure that we will get a launch date announcement on tuesday during this livestream event:
There was/is huge inactivity in the game because we didn't know about the launch wipe (which would delete all of our creations), which we finally now know will happen. So the game is expected to launch shortly (date incoming) and after this point we expect that there will be huge influx of new players when the game launches proper.
As a new player you can either dip your toes in now to get used to the systems before everything is wiped and we start again at launch, or simply wait for launch and start then fresh with everyone else.
(Also, if you're creating a new account, then you can use on of the referral codes to get some minor in-game bonuses at the start. Referee also benefits. Let me know if you need a code.)
[Edit: here is a code if you want one, but you'll need to create a new account by clicking on the link (your existing account won't work): https://www.dualuniverse.game/signup?recruiter=30720 )
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While NQ are resetting Alioth, they might consider spacing out the districts/markets a little bit, rather than having them in a nonsensical circle which just increases congestion and lag. I mean, why would you have 10 of them in close proximity? Time to resolve the situation!
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RESET: HOW TO PREPARE - discussion thread
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Taking this line out of context is confusing. However in it's full context, it's quite clear that it is referring to queuing talents after launch:
Finally, if you've subscribed to the game, ensure that you have at least six months of talent training queued up. The talent point accelerator event, which is open to all players, will boost your talent point acquisition in the first six months of launch by: