Dominar

And to everyone, thank you for joining. The rate of growth is quite alarming and is forcing me to expand when I thought I had a little bit more time to sit back. I was quite wrong and I'm being forced to write my plans, government and everything much quicker than originally planned. In one way, this spike of interest is not only expanding the DUA player base, but also expanding how the DUA is being formed. Thanks for the interest again.

getting in early and staying for the long haul

Well, last time I checked. Steven went to see if the sun was achievable, didn't hear from him for over 4 months. Can someone check on him?

As far as it could seem cool to build such a huge creation, you'll probably get bored (or die) before it's completed. Regarding the actual size of planets, I think that's perfect like it is now, for the following reason:
 
-Less dispersion of player, more pvp.
-You can easily find Bases/Social HUBs
-Resources on a planet will deplete faster, so colonizing make more sense. If you live in a huge ass planet that has so many resources you'll never be able to use, colonizing doesn't play a role.
-Colonizing means exploration.
- and more

An underground city buried deep inside a planet sounds more like a plan than a suggestion, as I'm sure such a thing will be possible!
 
As for a Starkiller base, I'm not so sure. The Starkiller base was roughly 10 times larger than the first Deathstar. The first Deathstar was roughly 150klm in diameter. The second one being almost three times the size. (To put that in perspective, the first Deathstar was bigger than the biggest size available for a default Space Engineers planet (which is 120klm in diameter)
 
So now back to the Starkiller base, that's about 1200klm in diameter. While such a planet size probably will not exist in DU, (if it does, I will eat my keyboard) creating a weapon capable of destroying entire star systems in a game full of star systems is incredibly overpowered and unpracticable for the server. As such a server would already be using a lot of processing power, a Starkiller base would probably not work.
 
Sorry to disappoint

Anyway, welcome to the forums!

We have synthesized a bit all the things that were taken into account, but you have here all the main reasons why we are aiming toward a Pay to Play model. In a nutshell, here’s what we have planned:
Free Trial period: between 2 and 4 weeks. Monthly subscription (optional with a PLEX-like system) Possible (cosmetic only) Cash Shop. If deployed, we will make it in order that every month, players who have paid a subscription will be able to get some cash shop items for free. ​stolen from the devblog. this is the current plan set in motion by NQ and i think it will work. 2 to 4 weeks is alot of time in my opinion to test a game out. id like to see the 4 weeks over the 2 weeks, unless the 2 weeks is like a fixed time of play. though 2 weeks of game play unless they consider a day of game play 8hrs is alot of time.
 
however id hate to only pay for game time played for only because im a weird gamer. there are times where i may play a game for 15+ hrs in one sitting or day. to me paying for time only may come out to me paying more money than the 10 to 15 dollars a month. if this game only needs cash floor to run a server with minimal updates the price point should be around 5 dollars a month depending on the estimated player base. if they plan to basically release the game in a late stage beta and go back regularly and tweak it and add stuff they didnt add before the release because of meeting a deadline. id be happy to pay more than 5 to 10. if they plan to add massive updates then ill be happy to pay upwards of 15 (i dont know of any game that is over 15 a month). the money we pay for this game regardless of the source is paying for server maintenance and customer support first and foremost, past that it goes towards i hope improvements to the game
 
 
 
ps. i know im in these sub threads alot, and i hope that i offer new information and point of view each time with out sounding like a broken record. i just feel strongly that if a game is to survive it needs to be p2p atleast at first much like a elder scrolls model

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welcome to the cul.....i mean uhh alliance

*Raises hand* "Alright, sign me up."
 
Would be nice to be part of something from the very beginning. Hopefully I can get to know you better, MasteredRed. I look forward to working together

Hello Dominar, welcome to the forum and yes i agree with Space Engineers and ambitious projects, after around 10% of the work is done, the fps drops under 10 and after that its more like snails engineers, which is no fun. At least that is whats normally happen to me.

Name: Rasputin
 
Role: Voxelmancer!
 
Side Jobs: Fixer, and Chaos bringer, Recreator of Ancient Myth
 
 
I am so designing everything to look like monster legends of old.

With a game this big, I'm half expecting the Devs to make it possible. Just think about it. In a universe with millions of players, there's going to be that one guy who, despite the risks and chances of imminent death, will attempt a mission to the core. "To hell with going up, we want to go down!"
 
If it was made possible, it could serve as a late game supply of renewable energy, very expensive and rare materials, and the means to create powerful items, weapons and gear. I can think of a few ways it could be made possible. You don't have to let players go down, why not be able to create a machine that can withstand the pressure and heat. Set it down at a point where players themselves can go no deeper. Perhaps this machine sucks up molten ore and rock near the core. Turn said molten rock and ore into equipment!