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Cause we all know JC is up to nefarious stuff up in there, secretly doing things against his game. ? Should we tell the OP he's the CEO and Creative Director of the game or nah??

Was that his castle site? Then it's practically Lore.

Was covered here:
 
 
the 45min area to the 55 min area.  
 
Essentially safe zones will remain completely unchanged until territory control is implemented.   After which point "at best" all of Alioth remains safe "at worst" only district areas remain safe, the devs being unsure what the final mechanics will be.   Though they're excited about the prospect of safezone boarder PvP.   (EDIT:  Estimated 6 months)
 
Really seems kind of disappointing, the only real hook the game has is letting players see the scale the game actually operates at with the first flight and landing on another planet.  Telling new and returning players to hang out on this blighted space called sanctuary until you find a "sponsor" to be able to play elsewhere seems pretty anti-pattern to me.

Gonna need you to calm down. But you do realize EVE has been out for 10 years and was indev before that? 
 
DU just got out of Alpha and has at least reached some stability in what has been a rough beta. We still only have like a quarter of the features we're supposed to have. Theres no need to come here wifh that energy when the game isnt close to done yet. I promise that there is a shit ton of interorg politics happening at every level right now. The game is very much alive for a lot of people.

1) You can lock to any planetary body. 
2) You can use them on any size ship.
3) Mass(Tons)*Distance(SU)*0.00023

Why can't the people leaving have radar of their own, lock and see the pirates as the pirates sees them? Why dont they add guns to their ship even if not used as a decoy? Why don't they hire escorts to fight off would be attackers. Everything seems fine to me. You just want EZ mode. Or they can even you know, WARP and have 0% of being pvp'd.  Seems those people leaving safe zone have plenty of options. If they fail to use them and just burn blindly into the pvp zone then it's just a case of..
 
 

Hahahahahahaha.  You're an alpha backer, and you didn't hear JC name drop eve on MULTIPLE interviews even as far back as 2+ years ago. He point blank said "EvE was a big inspiration". Why do you think we have DAC? Open market? Time based skills identical to eve? Dude, YOU backed the wrong game. Take the L gracefully.  EvE esque games might be a waste to you, but not to those who love them, including NQ who is making DU, a game with a player run universe with emergant gameplay. 

EVE also has tons of ways to mitigate and control risk.  The fact that something like Signal Cartel exists and thrives in EVE is proof enough of that (Wormhole/0.0 Corp that exists where players are not allowed to attack first, that also maintains some utterly beautiful tools for publicly mapping wormhole connections, and performs rescue ops as well).
 
it’s pivotal that an MMO provides a chill space that is also interesting to play in.  Whenever I return to EVE it’s usually returning to Signal Cartel for a month or two, and then during that time developing contacts/contacting people for where I want to go from there (have done everything from SOV F1 monkey, SOV logi, and enjoying the wild ride of joining a new WH Corp 3 times because they’re quite fun whether they succeed or fail).  That’s only possible in a PvP MMO that has interesting green spaces, since if I needed to be “sponsored" by an EVE Corp from day one of rejoining (to do interesting content) I would not have bothered even download the client.
 
The fact that there are supposedly EVE players here, and that there are EVE developers in NQ... should mean that this conversation is pointless, since it’s obvious interesting green zones should exist and be interesting.   And the cramped, laggy, and buggy Sanctuary moons are so “bad" that the community almost universally tells players to not be there.

Might just want to step out now then. JC has been very open about his desire to see pirates flourish. NQ contains several former EVE devs. The game is full of hundreds of current and former EVE players. 
 
I think its also worth pointing out that the majority of the top 10 orgs exist for pvp. BOOs driving goal is to fight and to take people's stuff. The AC wants to do the same thing. At the end of the day you should be hoping for systems that give pvp more depth. Even if it doesn't encourage more people to pvp, maybe itll make people feel slightly less cheated when they get ganked.

There are two solutions that could fix most of the current meta.
 
1) Restrict weapon size by core. This is kind of arbitrary and doesn't make for fun gameplay. 
 
2) Actually implement power as a requirement. This means requiring weapons, engines, radars and future shields to have power. The power draw of large elements has to be high enough that it would be nearly impossible to have an XS core do everything without giving up something. 
 
 

I nust be doing something weird because, barring having to change my password (which, I assume you've also done?) occasional crashes near markets and a bit of stuttering in the shuttle ride, I've had a better time with beta than I did with alpha.

This thread is a top tier shit show that I nearly had a stroke reading, but Ill throw my hat in because I have nothing better to do on a sunday.
 
Lets say I drop N amount of dollars on a DAC. Lets assume I bought this DAC for the sole purpose of putting it on the open market. We will also assume I was smart and bought it on an account that had an avatar directly next to a public market terminal. I will sell this DAC for some amount of quanta that has been determined by the market. Now I can buy materials or components or whatever suits me. 
 
All I have done is buy some components. Yes I skipped the couple hours of mining to do this, but I all I have is components. I still have to build the ship, fly the ship, and get the ship out of a safe zone and into friendly territory all without losing it. I haven't gained that much advantage really. And at least I will have contributed something to the community. If all you do is market trade for 6 hours a day to gain quanta, you will have actually contributed less to the community than someone selling a DAC.
 
I now you're going to ignore all of that and say I'm a blind sheep, but I tried. Also please stop posting from two accounts. Its a cancer and might not look great to mods. 

The DU Memeserver is looking for more salt and memes. 
 
Want to talk about PvP? Beacons? Talk smack to your rivals? Cry salty tears over your friend who betrayed you? Look no further!

If you are 18+ and looking for a group of people to talk shit with and get mired in eyeballs-deep org political shittalking, this is the place!
 
We are 100% unaffiliated with NQ or DU official, just a discord server dedicated to Dual Universe org politics. 
 
You do not need to have the game to join, but you will definitely get more out of this server if you have it. 
 
https://community.dualthegame.com/organization/du-memes/
https://discord.gg/QsrNSDE
 

Check out this cool video one of our members put together. 
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoEFdkOEy-c