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Little bit of news about us too.
 
1) We steadly working on interviews with several new people/orgs (they on very different stages, because mostly real-world time constrains, schedules, things we must balance around) -- with some we just discussed possibility, with others preparing questions or finalizing other techical things. 
 
2) We still "playing" with website, trying to imporve looks and comfort of reading for visitors. Feel free to give us feedback, if you particulary don't like anything. We have no illusions about our design skills.
 
3) Kurock now helping us with proofreading (seriously patiently, fighting with our attempts to de-proofread everything again). Thanks! Several other people also stated their wish to help, so we definitly can use it too! Thank you guys/gals.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

New Merovia Chronicle (NMC) -- independent media outlet covering events and personalities of Dual Universe. Our main focus -- extended interviews with players, secondary -- quick, entertaining (not that serious) news and featuring of interesting in-game projects. We see our mission in creation of diverse, conflicted, yet honest collective portrait of DU community, delivering it without prejudice and equal share of light.
 
While our production is of humble kind (not everyone a native english speaker), we are always striving to improve and uphold the highest standards of journalist integrity. It means getting in trouble from time to time!
 
Our website:
https://dupress.wixsite.com/newmeroviachronicle
 
Our Twitter:
https://twitter.com/nmchro
 
NM Chronicle team,
In hope to bring you some enjoyment.

Join us on April 30th @ 2pm EST / 6pm UTC for our first official Twitch Stream! 
 
 

Weekly Update - April 6th - 2020
 
Seven rescues were performed during this test, that's 36 rescues for Alpha 3, and 92 overall.
 
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With some of the more formal details laid out, initial progress for the new base was sporadic, but lets get through some of those rescues first!
 
Ardes started after @Rabbyte who was flying towards Teoma and in need of some space fuel. With a bit of work, they tried to make things happen at 6,000 km/h but things proved too difficult so they ended up stopping to make the transfer for rescue 86. Perhaps taking a friend will help next time?
 
I had put in a little work for rescues 88 and 89 transporting @emoticomp and @facemywrath to their wrecked ships, the former of which went splat on Moon 1 on their first journey out into space. The latter meanwhile burned up while trying to leave the atmosphere. Friction burns are no fun, so remember to keep a reasonable speed until you get into space.
 
Spiridon meanwhile flew 80 SU from Lacobus to help a Novean with another empty space tank to cap rescue 91.
 
Finally, a big welcome to our newest members!
@WolfPilot - Dispatch, Rescuer, Dedicated Pilot
@LosNopales - Rescuer
 
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As previously mentioned, the initial ground work for our Alpha 3 base has just wrapped up with the conclusion of this test. Most needed industrial units have been created and the cores are all in place, you could say that we've done groundbreaking and emptied that first shovel of dirt.
 
Since most of my activities were spent between industry, core alignment, and even a few rescues, my activity is again fairly thin in detail.
 
With the new base ready to take shape, I've started thinking about Eyes & Ears next meeting. The main topic of discussion will be in regards to the current 911 communication system we have set up and have been working with since the organizations founding.
 
As I'm sure many testers know about it, but for everyone that walks away from the marketplaces, I'm sure you've seen a few organizations advertisement boards. Some of them are complex and give you lots of information, but ours is just a simple screen telling people how /join 911 works if you ever need help, and how to join our Discord server.
 
Since we're not always paying attention to global chat or even discord, the 911 chat gives players a focused space to go if they ever need crash or run out of fuel (or any litany of problems that don't need a game mod) and need direct support from players willing to help.
 
With the way things are currently set up, however, our attention isn't always focused on that channel. Our members are members of other organizations, we're doing other things, so we might not always know when a problem comes up. This is unacceptable.
 
When the appropriate time comes, I'll create a thread for community discussion and have a meeting with the rest of the team on this topic. Depending on what NovaQuark does in the future, this may not even be needed, but for now it seems like a good stopgap measure. More details on that later.
 
That's all for now, until next time, fly safe everyone!
 
- DarkHorizon

(Update: November 12th, 2019: detailing the content that will be released before the end of the year)

Dear Community, 
 
We heard your feedback regarding our communication that wasn't as regular during the past months than it was before, in addition of a few miscommunication incidents. That's why we decided to plan several events to catch up and address that topic before the end of the year:
 
For those who have questions (or concerns) about Dual Universe or Novaquark, we've just opened a dedicated thread here (as many questions may be related to subjects under NDA, and we can't check beforehand, we had to put the forum thread in a section under NDA. If you're not a backer and you have questions on topics that aren't under NDA, feel free to contact NQ-Nomad and/or NQ-Nyzaltar by private message on the forum, and they wil transmit them to the team). No question is taboo. Although we can't promise to give a clear and detailed answer for each question, we will try our best to reply as much as we can.
  Here is the content related to communication we plan to release before the end of the year:
- a video presenting the updated roadmap.
- a Dev Diary video showing the recent progress on the game development
- a PodCast where we will try to answer the most pressing matters (based on the questions posted in the dedicated thread).
- an AMA event where we will try to answer to the remaining questions.
- a Kickstarter update.
  We can't give specific dates for all of this content yet, but all will be released before the end of the year.
 
Best Regards,
The Novaquark Team.

Hi guys, 
 
Following up the release of the third Alpha 2 DevBlog about Lua, we wanted to develop things further for the most curious, dedicated and skilled among you. The API has changed so you guys will have to redo a certain amount of stuff. This being said, you'll find below some documentation that will allow you to do pretty neat stuff so knock yourselves out!
 
Thanks to NQ-Arlequin for his help and for writing this! 
 
How does it work
 
All ControlUnits (Cockpits, HovercraftSeats and ProgramingBoards) can display information on the screen when activated by the current player. CockpitUnits and PilotingSeats have predefined behavior that should suit most players. However advanced players can edit the ControlUnit LUA script to adapt the display to their needs.
There are different levels of customization possible:
 
 
Intermediate Difficulty: Show/hide the default widget of an element linked to the Control Unit. Advanced Difficulty: Mixing those widgets in custom panels. (New in Alpha 2) Expert Difficulty: Create custom widgets from your own data or existing elements data. (New in Alpha 2) Expert Difficulty: Create your own HTML code to display custom content on your screen. (Modified in Alpha 2)  
 
Default behavior
 
Cockpit view

 
Hovercraft Seat

 
Programing Board

 
Hovercraft Seat and Programming Board widgets do stack:

 
 
Adding/removing element widgets in Lua
 
API:
slot.show() slot.hide()  
Default Cockpit LUA Script

 
 
We can instead only show the Core Unit widget, and hide the Control Unit widget (shown by default):
core.show() unit.hide()
 

 
 
NEW - Reorganizing Element widgets within panels in Lua
 
API:
system.createWidgetPanel(title) → panelId system.destroyWidgetPanel(panelId) system.createWidget(panelId, type) → widgetId system.destroyWidget(widgetId) system.addDataToWidget(dataId, widgetId) system.removeDataFromWidget(dataId, widgetId) slot.getDataId() → dataId slot.getWidgetType() → type  
Instead of having all the fuel container widgets in different panels, I can create my own panel and add all fuel widgets to this panel:
fuelPanel = system.createWidgetPanel("Fuel Tanks") for i=1,container_size do widget = system.createWidget(fuelPanel, container[i].getWidgetType()) system.addDataToWidget(container[i].getDataId(), widget) end
 

 
 
NEW - Creating custom widgets in Lua
 
API:
system.createData(json) → dataId system.destroyData(dataId) system.updateData(dataId, json) slot.getData() → json  
You can finally write your own custom data, and display them using predefined custom widget types. 4 exist for now: text, title, value, and gauge.
 panel = system.createWidgetPanel("Panel")     -- Display “Hello World” widgetText = system.createWidget(panel, "text") dataText = system.createData('{"text": "Hello World"}') system.addDataToWidget(dataText, widgetText) -- Display a title “Title” widgetTitle = system.createWidget(panel, "title") dataTitle = system.createData('{"text": "Title"}') system.addDataToWidget(dataTitle, widgetTitle) -- Display a gauge filled at 60% widgetGauge = system.createWidget(panel, "gauge") dataGauge = system.createData('{"percentage": 60}') system.addDataToWidget(dataGauge, widgetGauge) -- Display “Weight  80 kg” widgetValue = system.createWidget(panel, "value") dataValue = system.createData('{"label": "Weight", "value": "80", "unit": "kg"}') system.addDataToWidget(dataValue, widgetValue)
 

 
You can now combine all those methods to create your own customized panels.
 
 
CHANGED- Customize screen using html code.
 
API:
system.setScreen(htmlContent) system.showScreen(1/0) You can write your own html code to change the appearance of the control unit screen. It will be displayed below the widgets, so if you want full control: you can hide all widgets.
 
html = '<div class="monitor_left window">' html = html .. '<div class="center window">monitor_left</div>' html = html .. '</div>' html = html .. '<div class="monitor_right" style="background-color: red;">' html = html .. '<div class="center window">monitor_right</div>' html = html .. '</div>' system.setScreen(html) system.showScreen(1)
 

 
Predefined style classes
 

 
class=”monitor_left”         defines the area of the left monitor.
class=”monitor_right”        defines the area of the right monitor.
 

 
class=”grid”         stacks all its child elements on an invisible wrapping vertical grid.
class=”center”        positions an element centered to its parent. Can be the viewport.
 

 
class=”window”        applies the Dual Universe background and border.
 
Well, that's it for this time! We hope you'll enjoy the info here to surprise us
 
Cheers,
Nomad

Dear Alpha Testers,
 
We are glad to announce a new Contest coming next week, starting Thursday, May 30th!
 
This time the theme will be about  “puzzle games”, made with Interactive Elements. LUA scripting will be authorized, but it won’t give an edge on the winner selection: the main criteria to win the Contest will be creativity, originality, and aesthetics. Full Contest Rules will be posted next week, just before the Test Session.
 
We can’t wait to see all the puzzles, contraptions and escape rooms you’ll design!
 
Also, we said last week there will be a time extension for the test session this week.
With the Contest coming, we thought it would be more relevant to do it next week, as this will give you more time for the Puzzle Game Contest! 
 
If you’re not familiar yet with Interactive Elements, here is the video presenting the main ones:
 
 

 
 
(Disclaimer: The video is a bit old so graphics are not representative of the current graphics in the game anymore, but the gameplay related to Interactive Elements presented in this video still globally applies in-game).
 
The Novaquark Team.
 

Dear community members,
 
It has come to our attention that abusive recruitment practices, as well as practices to artificially inflate organization sizes, have been recently used more and more in some organizations.

After having conducted an investigation regarding New Genesis, and discovered the following infractions:
- Recruitment attempts that are harassment by private message through automated bots on Discord.
- Ghost Accounts to inflate the size of the organization artificially.
 
It has been decided to reset the member list of the organization to its sole leader, TheMasterArchitect.
Furthermore, as New Genesis has been already twice at the center of troubles regarding recruitment ethics in the past, involving at least once (if not more) its leader, a temporary ban has been applied to him.
 
Best regards,
The Novaquark Team.
 

Dear community members,
 
A few weeks ago, we took a stance regarding “out of the game”/IRL-related practices to discredit, threaten or shame publicly another Community Member (even if the involved person is guilty of several infractions) that could be an opponent in-game.
 
As the DSI (Dark Star Imperium) / TSU (Trinary Star Union)  / UEE (United Earth Empire) case blew out of proportion during January, we investigated.
 
We are really serious about differentiating real life from the game itself. Unfortunately some didn’t take our stance seriously. We gave them a chance to come clean in a private discussion and restart on an healthier basis. They didn’t take the opportunity for what it was: a last chance.
As they preferred “playing dumb” with Novaquark staff, we can’t have any trust that they won’t continue. Therefore we have decided to ban permanently those Community Members for various reasons (all not being banned for the same reason(s)):
Not being honest towards Novaquark staff. Making and encouraging ghost accounts. Abusive recruitment practices. Practising real life harassment and/or threatening another player. Making false report to Novaquark’s Customer Support in an attempt to make ban someone they dislike. Spreading real life information without the involved person’s consent, aka Doxxing.  
(strong reminder: even if a person gives you real life information about him/her, it’s not okay to share these information with ANYONE else without his/her consent. You can’t predict how the other person(s) will use this information and if he/she/they won’t share it again. If some trouble occurs following this sharing, you can be held legally responsible).
 
This might seem an extreme sanction but this shows how serious we are when we say we are not going to let toxic attitude and practices spread in the Community. Our goal to build a healthy and friendly community isn’t just a figure of speech. Anyone caught to spread or encourage any toxic behavior will be removed from the Community as it will be considered as damaging the Community and negating Novaquark staff efforts (without saying that it’s time consuming and a waste of our resources).
 
Saying it’s a long time grudge coming from before the arrival in the Dual Universe community is absolutely not a valid excuse. If someone has a personal grudge with another community member, he/she should either:
Leave it at the doorstep and/or settle it in private and peacefully with no one else involved. Contact directly (and only) Novaquark staff if the issue persists.
The moment someone uses the Dual Universe community as a tool for IRL revenge, he/she is not welcome anymore. We’re all here to have fun. It should always stay that way.
 
Therefore, the following Community Members have been permanently banned from the Community:
Lime / Fullsend / mmtheboss / Sakej99 [DSI] Primarch Zelevas / TharisUEE Melkor_Morgoth
  In addition the DSI Organization member list has been reset, and the Novaquark Team has appointed CN_Firestorm as the new owner of the Organization, should he accept to take a fresh start on a healthy basis.
 
We also give a warning to all those who were indirectly involved (with the evidence we found) but not actively participating in the recent community troubles. Next time, there won’t be any new warning. If you become involved against your will in some shady real life activities, you have only two healthy options:
Leaving the group doing such activity immediately. Report it to Novaquark staff.  
If you stay in such group without leaving or reporting it and the group is caught, you take the risk to get the same sanction as those actively involved.
This investigation has taken (or more precisely wasted) a lot of time from Novaquark staff. We really don’t like to intervene in players affairs. However, if there is a chance that such affairs damage the Community by toxic behavior, you can expect Novaquark staff to step in. We hope we won’t have to take the same measures again.
 
Best regards,
The Novaquark Team.
 

Honestly, I think i wanted a game like DU since i was young. When i stumbled across it during an E3 vid i got excited and started to read every shred of info i could, then i joined the forums and the rest seems to be history lo

Hi @Elias Villd and welcome.
 
I hope you will like the game as much as us and your English is not bad at all ?.
 
~ Merwyn