Anaximander
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You should name your mining organisation Ni Hao. If you catch my drift.
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@vylqun
Have you noticed how many people shifted to sandbox space fantasy games as of late? Why do you think Star Citizen is the most crowdfunded game so far? And WoW lost its demographic by a lot, because people got tired of the fantasy genre. People are tired of the "Theme Park" MMO (like WoW) and want Sandbox games (Minecraft, Space Engineers to an extend and now Dual Universe). Plus, let's be real here, EVE Online players will definitely jump over if the gameplay here surrounding the economics is good. Especially if we can create our own marketplaces/auction hosues/stock exchange. There's more demand out there for a space sandbox MMO than you think. -
@Dominar
I suggested a grade system, ranging from 5 USD a month for a plain package to a 15 USD with extras thrown in, like cosmetic items or super rare unicorn color patterns or something. Thing is , 10 USD sub is cool for maintaining a server for such a game a DU is projected to be. But 15 USD would be dandy for maintaining the server and provide more resources for server tuning. And let's be honest, it took private servers in WoW over 10 years to finally make a server that works fine. Can you imagine some poor bastard trying to set up a D.U. private server? Holy shit, that would be a savage nightmare of codeing to pull off. So, as I see it, the devs can't be extorted by private servers.
And a sidenote, WoW is 15 USD per month, but if you buy an annual package you save like... 2 months I think, perhaps more. Bottomline is, you buy sub in quantity, you save more money. -
I suggest, ney, I demand an Australian RPer to open an amazing pub in-game called "The Lazy Dingo". Or even better, A flying pub in space, called "The Chillo" (Get it, because people will chill in it ? )
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@Wardion2000
I was trying to be poetic. My bad.
To put it bluntly, I am in favor of Pay-2-Play. 'Kay now ?
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@Ripper
First of all, I like your name. Very Jackey.
Second. Yes, I was making a parallel to the relativistic effects in a way. I remembered the interview Baillie had with the XPGamer on youtube and how he explained the dividing of sub-servers when a place got crowded. What I was asking was if I could see on the seurface of a planet from orbit.
In Planetside 2 for example, it can render for up to 2000 metres away, you can literally shoot at a jet 2 kliks away with a ray-gun and hitt it square in the face. (For people who know of Planetside 2, all hail Papa Vanu the Space Squid God
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I was wondering if the same could be happening in the game, perhaps requiring for dome-shield emitters to be placed to protect from space dicks shooting down at a city.. -
See, in WoW, you could Log off wherever you pleased, BUT, if you did log out in a certain area with beds (an inn for example) you could get rest bonuses, which amped your XP gain. Now, the rest bonus could possibly be a speed boost when running on the ground, ora drop chance increase, something to give an insentive to log out on a place with beds.
And logging out would require a ten second period of out of combat activity. No Alt+Q+Q when losing a battle.- Aaron Cain and Peptos
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Someone should make a show on youtube when the game comes out, called "Dual the Universe, Quadruple the Drama". I can see us having four factions. The PvP, the PvE (Forced to PvP), The Artsy Builders (Who will probably build a frigging tower defense around their planets) and the rich industrialists who will sip their wine and watch as the three factions fight for our amusement.
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Who knows, perhaps they might add it in the game. But I don't think collision damage won't be present. It's physics based in the game, mass, inertia etc. Perhaps they meant collision damge as of a ship's model shape and stuff. Who knows, we'll have to wait for a dev confirmation on this. Let's cross our fingers for a youtuber to talk shit and the devs slam dunking video proof as they did so far
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@Wardion2000
Unless it's a discussion on the merit of PK, I never troll.
And the devil in our case, is not the P2P model, but F2P. -
@Dominar
People played WoW because it was revolutionary for its time. You could press space... and you jumped. That's why people are willing to pay for a game. If it's good, its worth its subscription. If it doesn't, then people will not put up with it. I wasn't going to play WoW back when I was your age, but then I saw my friend playing his Hunter in Vanilla wow and pvping. You don't know the meaning of "Pro MLG, 360 halo jump no scope" until you realise how Hunters pvp'd in WoW those days. My point being, the product sells itself, marketing simply puts it out there. And with the attitude the devs have on shutting critics mouths with video evidence, I think that people will pour in to see the game and stick around after some cray ass Star Wars fanboy build a Derp Star. (Hopefully no exhaustion port).
And adjusting for inflation, in comparison to when it came out, them 15 USD WoW charges is far less in today's standards. Just sayin'. -
@Gingerdeadman6
I was high, thinking your quote was your post. Nevermind kind ser ~_~ #dazedandconfused -
Aw... I see, like experiencing lag due to light travelling in space, like how the moon is actually one second back in time when you look at it, since light takes one second to bounce back at you from its surface. Neat idea, although it would demand a very tricky ambient occlusion mechanism and from what I saw, NovaQuark made its own shaders for the game, so yey, perhaps they have this shit locked down.
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@gingerdeadman6
F2P is asking for level 1 trolls to log in loaded with cheats. I stopped playing Planetside 2 due to that, as well as other F2P shit on the market. This game is going to be MASSIVE. F2P means SHIT these days. You get F2P , you get Endless upon ENDLESS farm so the item shop will seem nice to you, with whatever prices are in there. I would prefer a P2P game, knowing that I support the game as much as everyone, rather than play a F2P game, where the guy who paid will always win. The problem here is, that most people, especially teenagers these days, have been raised up in the age of youtube and torrents. Well, guess what, you got to pay for things you like in life. I totally support Novaquark on a subscription model and I believe they should not budge on the subject, cause I personally, as well as many others, are tired of playing F2P games where they eventually head over down the Pay-2-Win route. -
I appreciate the thought put into the example... but it also leans way too much towards a cash shop example. Cash shop is absolutely not the way I hope this game goes.
Cash shop for COSMETIC items only? I mean, if a guy wants to paint his ship to the colors of the rainbow, he should be able to buy such a fashion. The unicorn colors won't make him magically better at pvp. It's a win win idea.
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I'm in favor of the subscription model myself, but I definitely wouldn't mind a decrease from the normal $15. If it was more along the lines of $5 or even $10, I think you would see less complaints about it. While that may sound like it shouldn't be such a big deal, it honestly can be for those who struggle to have a steady income or have a very tight budget. I definitely do not want to see this game as F2P though, as most F2P game communities are a lot more... caustic.
PErhaps a gradual system of subscription, with different bonuses for each.
5$ : Gives you access to the game and some cosmetic dyes.
10$ : Access to a library of cosmetics for your character.
15$ : Final tier of cosmetics. Gold chains and shit. >_>
It's a rough example, I know, but still quite possible.
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Prety shure they are not talking about bitcoins and alike rl currencies. They way I understood this would be for ingame "things" purely.
Well, my instinctual response to cryptocurrency is bitcoin. In any case, cryptocurrency sounds bad. Sounds like people can hoard it and win by default.
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Given the LUA scripts of the game, I expect a combat system that will be similar to the Lost Fleet book series. Essentially jousting in space.
You charge at your oppoment, and try to throw off their aim by slowing down or juking their shots. The turrets could be set to fire on a tag-command and have broasider combat as two ships pass on one another.
Dogfighting should be left to jets, not freaking battleships or battlecruisers. Battleships are literally knigts and battlecruisers are chain-mail wearing guys on horseback. What are jet-fighters in such a scale? Footsoldiers.
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I don't think using a currency meant for hitmen and ordering goat-blood from the deep web should have its place in a video game. It's a neat idea, but it ain't worth on NovaQuark's side of business to meddle in a currency BANNED in many countries around the world. That could mean them having no access to a certain market, perhaps many more markets.
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So, will there be a two tier rendering, a long one for macro-objects like planets and one for shorter one for spacecraft etc? Just wondering. I mean, if orbital bombardments to occur, we will nedd a certainly long rendering distance.
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Well, given the LUA scripts that are going to be in the game, I can see ourselves building dandy weapons that shoot unicorn beams. I call DIBS on unicorn beams.
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Who is "we" ? Am I not the only mad person in this forum >_> ?
In all seriousness. I want to be the Littlefinger of your empire. >_> -
Lineage 2, Guild Wars, Guild Wars 2, Aion, Tera. Though the player base for Lineage 2 and Aion are almost entirely in Asia now.
Forgot ESO.
Bruh, you know that Lineage 2 has a bajillion private servers that are Pay-2-Win right? I know so, I ran a server in europe and guys donated money to get free gear.
Guild Wars 2 ? Yeah, it's Buy2Play bruh. Guild Wars 2 is NOT free. Aion is shit. Tera is a joke nowadays.
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I'm gonna keep it real.
I played Landmark, hoping for Everquest Next to be the next big MMO. Turns out, SOE went to shit. I am a fan of building games, especially voxels. The dev team so far has IMPRESSED me with how much swag they throw about.
Bluedrake42 talks shit? BOOM Video response showcasing voxels.
XPGamer has concerns of how heavy the game could be ? BOOM, Baillie shows up, playing the game on his laptop. ON HIS GOD DAMN LAPTOP.
That's what sold me on the game. Plus, Jean-Christopher Baillie has a background in robotics, like my father has and knowing my father's pool of knowledge, I would say Baillie can delvier on his promises on the game.
Preferred logout mechanics?
in The Gameplay Mechanics Assembly
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Well, all the suggestions I read make me think of one thing : Grand Theft Spaceboat.