Grimmstone

Dear Noveans,
 
We would like to address the recent speculations that have arisen in our community, and openly disclose some changes that are happening at Novaquark.
 
First and foremost, Novaquark continues to be supported by its long term investors to allow it to launch Dual Universe in line with its original vision. It also puts us in a position to attract experienced talent to complement the team that’s already in place so that we can continue to improve the game.
 
Next week, we will share with you what we think our priorities should be for Dual Universe and how we hope to approach the development of the game with improved processes going forward.
 
An important change to note is that Jean-Christophe, the founder of Novaquark, has transitioned from the day-to-day management of the team to better focus on his position as a board member. Over the years since the creation of Novaquark, JC designed and set the standards for the structural and conceptual foundation of the game, and he feels now that a solid base is there for him to move forward as a strategic advisor. The recent changes in the administrative presidency of the company only reflect the transition of JC to his new role. We’re excited to have the team he has built deliver on his vision for the game.
 
Rest assured that Novaquark’s future is in good hands, and there is a strong partnership between our long-term investors and our team. We believe that the future is bright for the game and for the company, and we cannot wait to tell you where we want to take Dual Universe.
 
With our warmest regards,
The Novaquark team

The Library is now Providing DRM FREE BP's  available for all players to take ONE (as in one lifetime freebie per dispenser) via a publicly accessible Dispenser associated with each exhibit

Hello, I am Grimmstone - Head Librarian

The Hedronic Library  - IS ALWAYS OPEN. The Library's Main Branch will be located in the Twin Lakes Region on Teoma -   ::pos{0,8,1.5059,133.7962,99.1187}
FYI: The Hedronic Library is a collection of shape sets, voxel-mancy tools , ship hull blanks and even ships, For which all have the DRM FREE BP's available for all players to take ONE (as in one lifetime freebie per dispenser) via a publicly accessible Dispenser associated with each exhibit, Every piece in The Hedronic Library was donated by some of the best builders and voxel-mancers in the game!

We will also be adding additional branches as time goes on on the other populated planets. 

Would like to add a lil info for those looking.
 
Going Forward I intend for the Library doing what it has always done , making what is to some, one of the more difficult aspects of DU (voxelmancy) more accessible to all. I also want to develop the library into a learning institution with "guest lectures" and "how to's" hosted by the same voxelmancers that have made such wonderful and generous donations to the Library, without their hard work and artistry the Library would be a big empty building with no purpose , I feel truly grateful that we have such excellent community members . I would like to call them out : Brimor and Bubsy of BiA - Brothers in Arms - Stan from NRD (and all those that worked on those amazing new boards) , The members of Singularity, Destrin , GOI,  The members Of BoO - Teoma Trade Co. and its members for donations of materials ( Itorius you mad miner) and for being great neighbors.

I hope that The Library will always be a wanted resource, and I will gladly and gratefully keep bringing it to you !   We want to provide a Player Based, Publicly Accessible resource base for any of the more difficult aspects of the game be it voxel-mancy for building to LUA - once LUA protections are improved I plan to add a "Lua Library"  as well - of  scripts for players to use and to be able to learn from. Also will be doing a ship builders / engineering  showcase for the same purposes.  

Hello, I am Grimmstone - Head Librarian

The Hedronic Library  - IS ALWAYS OPEN. The Library's Main Branch will be located in the Twin Lakes Region on Teoma -   ::pos{0,8,1.5059,133.7962,99.1187}
FYI: The Hedronic Library is a collection of shape sets, voxel-mancy tools , ship hull blanks and even ships, For which all have the DRM FREE BP's available for all players to take ONE (as in one lifetime freebie per dispenser) via a publicly accessible Dispenser associated with each exhibit, Every piece in The Hedronic Library was donated by some of the best builders and voxel-mancers in the game!

We will also be adding additional branches as time goes on on the other populated planets. 

Would like to add a lil info for those looking.
 
Going Forward I intend for the Library doing what it has always done , making what is to some, one of the more difficult aspects of DU (voxelmancy) more accessible to all. I also want to develop the library into a learning institution with "guest lectures" and "how to's" hosted by the same voxelmancers that have made such wonderful and generous donations to the Library, without their hard work and artistry the Library would be a big empty building with no purpose , I feel truly grateful that we have such excellent community members . I would like to call them out : Brimor and Bubsy of BiA - Brothers in Arms - Stan from NRD (and all those that worked on those amazing new boards) , The members of Singularity, Destrin , GOI,  The members Of BoO - Teoma Trade Co. and its members for donations of materials ( Itorius you mad miner) and for being great neighbors.

I hope that The Library will always be a wanted resource, and I will gladly and gratefully keep bringing it to you !   We want to provide a Player Based, Publicly Accessible resource base for any of the more difficult aspects of the game be it voxel-mancy for building to LUA - once LUA protections are improved I plan to add a "Lua Library"  as well - of  scripts for players to use and to be able to learn from. Also will be doing a ship builders / engineering  showcase for the same purposes.  

Hello, I am Grimmstone - Head Librarian

The Hedronic Library  - IS ALWAYS OPEN. The Library's Main Branch will be located in the Twin Lakes Region on Teoma -   ::pos{0,8,1.5059,133.7962,99.1187}
FYI: The Hedronic Library is a collection of shape sets, voxel-mancy tools , ship hull blanks and even ships, For which all have the DRM FREE BP's available for all players to take ONE (as in one lifetime freebie per dispenser) via a publicly accessible Dispenser associated with each exhibit, Every piece in The Hedronic Library was donated by some of the best builders and voxel-mancers in the game!

We will also be adding additional branches as time goes on on the other populated planets. 

Would like to add a lil info for those looking.
 
Going Forward I intend for the Library doing what it has always done , making what is to some, one of the more difficult aspects of DU (voxelmancy) more accessible to all. I also want to develop the library into a learning institution with "guest lectures" and "how to's" hosted by the same voxelmancers that have made such wonderful and generous donations to the Library, without their hard work and artistry the Library would be a big empty building with no purpose , I feel truly grateful that we have such excellent community members . I would like to call them out : Brimor and Bubsy of BiA - Brothers in Arms - Stan from NRD (and all those that worked on those amazing new boards) , The members of Singularity, Destrin , GOI,  The members Of BoO - Teoma Trade Co. and its members for donations of materials ( Itorius you mad miner) and for being great neighbors.

I hope that The Library will always be a wanted resource, and I will gladly and gratefully keep bringing it to you !   We want to provide a Player Based, Publicly Accessible resource base for any of the more difficult aspects of the game be it voxel-mancy for building to LUA - once LUA protections are improved I plan to add a "Lua Library"  as well - of  scripts for players to use and to be able to learn from. Also will be doing a ship builders / engineering  showcase for the same purposes.  

Hello, I am Grimmstone - Head Librarian

The Hedronic Library  - IS ALWAYS OPEN. The Library's Main Branch will be located in the Twin Lakes Region on Teoma -   ::pos{0,8,1.5059,133.7962,99.1187}
FYI: The Hedronic Library is a collection of shape sets, voxel-mancy tools , ship hull blanks and even ships, For which all have the DRM FREE BP's available for all players to take ONE (as in one lifetime freebie per dispenser) via a publicly accessible Dispenser associated with each exhibit, Every piece in The Hedronic Library was donated by some of the best builders and voxel-mancers in the game!

We will also be adding additional branches as time goes on on the other populated planets. 

Would like to add a lil info for those looking.
 
Going Forward I intend for the Library doing what it has always done , making what is to some, one of the more difficult aspects of DU (voxelmancy) more accessible to all. I also want to develop the library into a learning institution with "guest lectures" and "how to's" hosted by the same voxelmancers that have made such wonderful and generous donations to the Library, without their hard work and artistry the Library would be a big empty building with no purpose , I feel truly grateful that we have such excellent community members . I would like to call them out : Brimor and Bubsy of BiA - Brothers in Arms - Stan from NRD (and all those that worked on those amazing new boards) , The members of Singularity, Destrin , GOI,  The members Of BoO - Teoma Trade Co. and its members for donations of materials ( Itorius you mad miner) and for being great neighbors.

I hope that The Library will always be a wanted resource, and I will gladly and gratefully keep bringing it to you !   We want to provide a Player Based, Publicly Accessible resource base for any of the more difficult aspects of the game be it voxel-mancy for building to LUA - once LUA protections are improved I plan to add a "Lua Library"  as well - of  scripts for players to use and to be able to learn from. Also will be doing a ship builders / engineering  showcase for the same purposes.  

Dear Community Members,
 
We have some very exciting news to share. Many of you who have been here for a long time probably already know Yamamushi. As one of the co-founders of the official community Discord and an early Kickstarter backer, Yamamushi has been around as a very active and well known community member for almost 4 years now. 
 
We are excited to have him joining the team. With him coming on board, a few important things are going to change and we wanted to be transparent about this with you all.  We have always valued neutrality for our employees and we try to avoid any conflict of interests. Like all other employees he is bound to some important communication restrictions. Yamamushi must discontinue being a community figure while he is employed with Novaquark. This means stepping down as a moderator on Discord and our public forums, while retaining some limited administrative rights (precisely to maintain the DU Bot). He is also bound by an internal NDA contract and won’t be able to share everything as a Novaquark employee. For those who are friends with him, we ask you to avoid attempting to get behind-the-scene information from him, regarding the game or the company. 
 
He won’t be able to communicate or play anymore as Yamamushi, but his love for the community is strong and he will continue to follow the community from the Dev side. He will also not be permitted to be a part of a player-run organization. We know this can be hard to face for such an integral part of our community and this has been a hard decision that may feel frustrating (at least it is for us and for him) but a necessary step to avoid any suspicion of favorizing any group of players in the community.
 
We would also like to take this opportunity to explain what are our internal rules when a member of our community becomes a Novaquark employee:
 
His/her personal accounts are suspended for the time he/she is a Novaquark employee.
  He/she is given an anonymous player account so he/she could still continue to play the game, however, some specific rules apply to such an account:
  a. The Novaquark employee behind should not reveal his/her real identity and/or he’s part of the company. 
  b. He/she shouldn’t join a player-run organization with this account either, for neutrality reasons.
  He/she is given a NQ account, mostly to test things, and occasionally to communicate with the community in-game (if such opportunity arises). Nothing done on this account (coming usually with more powers/rights than a player account) will be transferred on any personal account.
  Thank you for taking the time to read this, please join us in welcoming Yamamushi to the team here!
 
Best Regards,
The Novaquark Team.

Good to see more LM builders coming in  - 
 I was Grimmstone there too
Welcome

Dear Community members,
 
A few changes are happening in the Community Team at the moment and it's necessary to make some clarifications about it:

- For those who remember NQ-Nunc, if it wasn't clear, he has left the team for quite some time now.
- NQ-Nomad is still there, but is investing a significant amount of time in many internal tasks related to live operations and project management.
- I'm still there, obviously, but I have to divide my time between reporting the community feedback, working on some internal tasks, as well as working on some projects for the future that should lead to some QoL on tools at the disposal of the Community (more info on that later ).
- NQ-Naerais has joined the team this week! If you want to say "Hi", you can do it in this forum thread.  
 
We know a fair number among you wanted more interaction with the Community Management team, and some changes are planned in the (very) near future on that topic!  
 
Best Regards,
Nyzaltar. 

Hi everyone!
 
With the Alpha 3 deployment around the corner and the RDMS implementation, we had to make significant changes in the background by connecting organizations data available on the Community Portal to the organizations data that will be available in-game. As it is a "Work in Progress", the Community Portal will switch in "Read Only" mode for the time being, to limit the probability of technical issues.
 
During this transitional period, All management actions for the organizations will be done in-game.
You will also note that the number of legates per organizations isn't displayed anymore.
We are aware the situation isn't ideal, but it's a temporary and necessary step.
 
Update: Wednesday, January 22th, 16:15 UTC
 
What's the current situation?
To be clear:
- Posting/Editing News have been deactivated on the Community Portal.
- It will still be possible to post/edit News on the Community Portal through the in-game User Interface (assuming you have the proper rights to do such thing).
- Posting/Editing News will remain in a minimal state for the time being (only simple text. HTML code for formating options and image insertion will came back later).
- Posting/Editing News directly through the Community Portal should come back at a later stage.
- The "Join Organization / Accept application" feature remains active.
- The applications pending before the maintenance today should still be there after.
- Features such promoting or demoting a member will now exclusively in-game (as the process may now involve other game mechanics).
- Displaying the number of legates on the Organization Ranking page has been deactivated (as an intermediary step of the coming changes in the future).
 
What's coming in the future?
(please keep in mind that the features described below are work in progress and might change before their release)
 
Organization Ranking by the number of Active Members.
As the Community Portal will evolve, we plan to display the number "Active Members" and the number "Honorary Members" for each organization in the future.
The Organization Ranking will be done by the number of Active Members in decreasing order.
 
What will be "Active Members" and "Honorary Members"?
"Honorary Members" accounts will be accounts that have joined an organization on the Community Portal but haven't access to the game.
"Active Members" accounts will be accounts that have joined an organization on the Community Portal and have access to the game.
Accounts joining an organization directly in-game will be automatically validated as "Active Members" in an organization.
Only "Active Members" will be eligible to legate status, as most organization management actions will be only possible in-game.
 
Why planning this?
This is planned for two reasons:
1) To give a better visibility for newcomers regarding the activity potential of each organization (which can impact the decision of joining one organization or another).
2) To discourage unfair practices such as creating ghost accounts and making them join an org to inflate artificially its size (and get undeserved visibility).
 
Best Regards,
The Novaquark Team.
 

Just for General Priciples : I stopped reading after the first line - misinformation is not good - there has been no indication of any real delay with A3 - just because the way they are bringing in PVP differs from peoples expectations does not mean its a delay. I would prefer  people stop putting out their opinion as if it is NQ  info. glad you said "I think" at least most dont.
 
Thank You 

Good to see more LM builders coming in  - 
 I was Grimmstone there too
Welcome

tyty Geo for all the great work !!
 

Just for General Priciples : I stopped reading after the first line - misinformation is not good - there has been no indication of any real delay with A3 - just because the way they are bringing in PVP differs from peoples expectations does not mean its a delay. I would prefer  people stop putting out their opinion as if it is NQ  info. glad you said "I think" at least most dont.
 
Thank You 

Here's a project I just did for @Grimmstone's and crew named: "GrimmStar Terraforming and Mining Corp"
 
Here's the original art:

 
Here's a screenshot from the animation:

 
Here's the animated GIF:

 
with audio ?:
 
A pure "neon" sign for the pub is next on the list
 
Fun project
 
Sincerely,
-Geo
 
https://www.studio-g.live
 

I will plus 1 this most def

This is a petition for JC to change his profile pic to
 
  

I know that creating another Database isn't ever a good thing so i thought we could get our shiny fix by having Gemstones randomly generate  with the deposits of ore and minerals, having different types of gemstones corresponding with certain mineral and ore types, like in nature. Would be useful too if incorporated into the crafting recipes maybe added for high end and rare parts/constructs. Just an idea from someone who misses shiny hunting!!

I know that creating another Database isn't ever a good thing so i thought we could get our shiny fix by having Gemstones randomly generate  with the deposits of ore and minerals, having different types of gemstones corresponding with certain mineral and ore types, like in nature. Would be useful too if incorporated into the crafting recipes maybe added for high end and rare parts/constructs. Just an idea from someone who misses shiny hunting!!