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For answers to Frequently Asked Questions, please visit: Pleione's Dual Universe FAQ Please note this is a work in progress. Please reply with other questions not outlined in the document.

This is a "General Knowledge" thread to help provide newcomers with a list of hot topics, answers, FAQs, videos, and other miscellaneous information that pertains to Dual Universe. This thread will not contain everything about DU, but merely help to point you in the right direction. I have done my best over the years to keep this thread up to date for newcomers, so if there is something you think is missing and should be added, just private message me with the information and sourcing. You are also encouraged to join the Official Community Discord for Dual Universe if you have questions, or just want to be involved in the community. PSA: Use the SEARCH FUNCTION in the forums before making a thread if you are new. Chances are, it has already been discussed and beaten to death. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ -> Release Roadmap & Alpha Announcement <- Official Links: • FAQ from the Main Website • Trello Community Suggestions • DU Gamepedia (wiki) • Developer Blog • Kickstarter Page • Youtube Page • DU Community Discord • Official Discord FAQ (Forum Link) • Soundcloud/Soundtracks • DU Reddit Forum Links: • "Ask Us Anything" Thread by NQ-Nyzaltar • Forum Rules thread by NQ-Nyzaltar • Pre-Alpha FAQ and Rules by NQ-Nyzaltar • DU DevDiary Video Guide by Shockeray Other (Non-Official) Media: • Dual Universe Explorers (Podcast) • Ark Central (Community News) • Dual Insider (Community News) • Dual Universe Sleepers (Fansite/Blog) • Outpost Zebra (Blog) • Community Org/Player Map (Community Tool) Common Topics: (NOTE: All information below is subject to change at any time. Official responses from the developers, and sources, have been linked to each subject.) • Price Model will be Pay To Play • "Virtual Simulator" for builders to build in peace • "The Economy" • "Scripting" Dual Universe will utilize LUA Scripting and Distributed Processing Units • "FTL Travel" answered by NQ-Nyzaltar in the Ask Us Anything thread • "Unigine 2" Dual Universe will be running off of the Unigine 2 Game Engine • "Single Shard Server" In Dual Universe, all players will be playing in the same server • (Video) Server Technology review by JC Baillie • "Active Lock On Targeting" In Dual Universe, combat will not be twitched base • "Character Progression" There will be no character levels in Dual Universe • "Survival Gameplay" Currently NovaQuark are still considering adding survival elements • "Territory Control" In Dual Universe, you will be able to own pieces of land • "Rights And Duties Management System" Sophisticated system for managed roles in your organization • "Stealth Technology" Stealth tech is currently being considered by NovaQuark

Just wondering before I decide on which pack I buy, will the Sanctuary Territory Unit (STU) be a sponsor pack only item? And if it is not, how difficult is it planned to be in order to gain one. It really does seem to be a big advantage to own one, especially if they are exclusive to the sponsor packs. Any information on how STUs function would be appreciated, thanks.

My question is as follows; How in the Dual Universe world, will Quanta(Currency) be continuously inserted in order to simulate a real working economy? It's been mentioned by the developers that they hope to remove all NPC trade (Which I think is great) but I don't understand how it's possible to do that when an economy needs a regulated injection of cash currency in order to regulate inflation. The basics of economics dictate that as more money enters a economy, the less value the currency retains (The very basic definition). In modern day, banks usually regulate currency injection on behalf of government treasuries, so who will do it in Dual Universe? The reason I ask is because without currency injection at a regulated pace, there can only be a certain amount of total money after the NPC's are removed. For example if they remove the NPC's and it's been six months, and all the players in the world have traded 20 billion Quanta worth of goods, then there can only ever be 20 billion Quanta in the world. Obviously this is a problem because it will make prices rise ridiculously high, especially if they money is spread thin between players.

Hi everyone, The email with the link to download the client will be sent as soon as possible. We will keep you informed on this topic. We know you are all eager to test the game. We apologize for the delay. If you are worried about whether or not your account is set for the Pre-Alpha, here are the three possible situations: If your gold backer status (or above) isn't displayed on your profile page on the community portal: This means you are a Kickstarter backer and you might have forgot to fill the Kickstarter survey form or something went wrong with the information you gave in the survey. If you are in this case, please contact the support and state your email address linked to your Dual Universe account and that your backer status isn't displayed on your profile page on the Community Portal. You can join the support here: https://support.dualthegame.com/hc/en-us If your gold backer status (or above) is displayed on your profile page on the community portal, but not on the forum: Your account is already set to download the client. However, you don't have access to the Pre-Alpha forum section yet. This means you have to log at least once on the forum, or sign off / sign in again. After that, you will have to wait the next update transferring eligible accounts from the group "Member" to the group "Pre-Alpha tester". We will run several updates today to leave nobody behind, but you will probably have to wait a bit. If your gold backer status (or above) is displayed on your profile page on the community portal and on the forum: Your account is all set. You should be able to download the client, as well as having access to the Pre-Alpha forum section (if you have logged on the forum before this topic has been posted.) Reminder: this is a Pre-Alpha. See it as a preliminary test for massively multiplayer interaction (first time with potentially more than 2,500 players) and not as a representative final game experience yet. There is a high chance that no progress will be saved and Blueprint mechanics are deactivated for the time being as they are being reworked. Thank you for your understanding. Best Regards, The Novaquark team.

I thought I would stat working on compiling all the official answers in one post, will organize later etc... if your interested in helping just reply with some info, please keep the format the same with a link to the official answer. New o e got started and stuck to the top, so no need for this one anymore.... board.dualthegame.com/index.php?/topic/1122-dual-universe-faqsources/#entry13140 Q: If everything is editable at a resolution of 1 meter. Then a 100km planet would represent roughly 100000*100000 * 4 * 3.14 =~ 100 billion square meters of surface. If you edit this on a 100meter shell then it represents 10 trilion voxels. If you can store a voxel on 100 octet (and it might be a lot more), then it represents 1000To of data. How will you handle that much? A: The trick is we don't store each voxel on the servers. Each planet is generated procedurally in real time by an algorythm when needed (when a player is approaching or on the planet). So a planet doesn't weight anything in terms of storage. This is exactly how it works in a game like No Man's Sky, the "magic" enabling devs to generate millions of planets without storing anything. Now, as we have editable planets, we go one step further: when a player edit something, we store just the modification(s) applied on the procedurally generated planet. That way, we optimize the space to store all the modifications made by players. https://board.dualthegame.com/index.php?/topic/544-announcement-dual-universe-at-e3-pc-gaming-show/page-4#entry6843 Q: Will there be a version of this for Steam? A: Releasing Dual Universe on Steam is being considered (but no promise at the moment). https://board.dualthegame.com/index.php?/topic/820-if-i-may-ask/#entry6825 Q: What is the difference between Crowd Funding and Early Access? A: From our point of view: - Early Access should be equal to selling a game, not completely finished but already fun to play and fairly stable. In other words, at least a game that has reached Beta. Those who buy a game in Early Access are consumers who buy a product to play a bit in advance prior to the official release. - Crowdfunding is meant for people who want to help the project and support, people to have suggestions to make to improve the game, etc. They can access the game right from early stages, in order to provide feedbacks that could be taken into account into the dev roadmap. But there are here more as supporters willing to help improving the game than consumers in the first place (but they deserve, of course, the same respect as other consumers!): they understand they are going to enter a game that isn't a nearly finished product or that the fun is not completely there yet. https://board.dualthegame.com/index.php?/topic/820-if-i-may-ask/#entry6825 Q: When will the Crowd Funding Start? A: Crowdfunding campaign: it will be launched before end of 2016. https://board.dualthegame.com/index.php?/topic/812-crowd-funding-soon/#entry6818 Q: When will Alpha launch? A: Alpha Launch: early 2017. https://board.dualthegame.com/index.php?/topic/812-crowd-funding-soon/#entry6818 Q: Will this be a first person shooter or target lock style game? A: We totally understand that First Person Shooter gameplay would be more immersive. However, we have to take everything in account. And when we do, then we have to make some compromise. We want combat, but combat is not the main feature of the game. Only one of the main features, equally important with building, real massively multiplayer system in a single-shard universe, exploration, trading, etc. Once this was sorted out, it was logic that we wouldn't sacrifice things like the massively multiplayer aspect just to have the best First Person Shooter possible. In that case, even if it's not the best combat mechanics (we totally agree on that), target locking combat gameplay is the answer for the best compromise. So it's not a decision led by personal taste, but really the most relevant decision on the technical aspect in our case. https://board.dualthegame.com/index.php?/topic/779-suggestion-please-do-not-use-a-eve-lock-on-weapon-system/page-2#entry6816 Q: Are there safe zones, and are you going to force PvP on players? A: There will be safe zones for those who don't wan't to have PvP activities. We won't force PvP on players, we want to avoid that at all costs. https://board.dualthegame.com/index.php?/topic/725-is-it-just-me-that-kinda-fears-it-will-become-a-sci-fi-ark/page-2#entry6239 Q: Can I build a planet killing weapon? A: The clear answer is no, there won't be weapons powerful enough to destroy planets. https://board.dualthegame.com/index.php?/topic/534-whats-about-fully-destructible-planetsstars/#entry3577 Q: Will Dual Universe will have the ability to cloak. And if so, I pray they have a mechanic that will not allow a player to abuse cloaking by sitting in a system for days on end, even weeks in some cases. It is nothing short of being a griefer and ruins game play for the vast majority of players. A: We plan stealth technology in Dual Universe (even if it's not planned soon). Afk cloaking is indeed a problem in EVE. Psychological warfare is interesting, as long as it involves activity from the player wanting to do it. From what we have analyzed, afk cloaking has been possible because of a few things: - the fact that all players in the solar system are displayed on the local chat. If you see someone you don't know, it migh be a spy, or someone planning an ambush. - the fact that a player can leave from a safe area (space stations) from a unique point (easy to ambush). - the fact that a player wanting to leave the solar system generally needs to use a stargate (also an easy place to ambush). As Dual Universe won't work "solar system by solar system" and there won't be only one point of entry/exit for a safe area, this kind of abuse should have a lot less impact in Dual Universe. And if it still does... well, we keep your suggestions in our papers as possible ways to handle it https://board.dualthegame.com/index.php?/topic/490-beware-of-the-afk-cloaker/#entry3428 Q: I suck at building, will there be generic blueprints? A: We are perfectly aware that not every player that will be interested in Dual Universe will be a naturally talented voxel-based spaceship designer. or even interested to be one. That's why, right from the beginning, we plan to have generic blueprints available, to avoid that - even it's a very improbable scenario - some organizations recruit all the builders to build only for them. https://board.dualthegame.com/index.php?/topic/521-programming-gameplay-and-continuity/page-2#entry3424 Q: I suck at coding, will there be Generic LUA scripts for me to use? A: We are planning to do the exact same thing for the LUA scripts: having some decent generic ones available to all players right from the beginning, to avoid any monopolistic situation, because not every player is a natural born developer. https://board.dualthegame.com/index.php?/topic/521-programming-gameplay-and-continuity/page-2#entry3424 Q: Will there be resource respawning? A: At the moment, it is not planned to have resource respawning. If for some reason, there are a real necessity to add some resources on a planet, meteorite rains could be an interesting alternative. Unless we encounter some unsolvable scenario where it could stuck players, we will avoid the "artificial resource respawn" at all cost. https://board.dualthegame.com/index.php?/topic/481-resource-respawning/#entry3420 Q: Can I desigin my own personal weapons? A: There's currently no plan to create a voxel editor to develop character weapons. At the moment, character weapons are planned to be mesh-based, and defined by developers. The Dev team has already a lot on her plate with our current goals. Maybe far in the future, but we can't promise anything for now. https://board.dualthegame.com/index.php?/topic/473-personal-weapons/#entry3183 Q: Will DU add in a feature that would allow us to turn on various axes of symmetry while designing ships, either in virtual space or in the living game world? A: This is something that some devs are already discussing: Having the ability to "mirror" a pattern (a saved voxel shape) is something that is definitely worth considering. https://board.dualthegame.com/index.php?/topic/508-axes-of-symmetry/#entry3177