I say this with a heavy heart

[qKelta]

one, you know theres a flatten tool right. Also ofcourse there not gonna give you tutorials on how to do everything in the game. It's a sandbox that wants the community to pretty much run the game. When you dont know how to do something you hire someone else to. Boom, an economy. And imagine comparing du to second life or two games that have the ablity to ahve a complex building system rather thena  game that has to give some things up due to the fact theres only one server with alot of shit on it.

[Leogradance]

On 9/2/2020 at 6:10 AM, ankido said:

Hi,

 

I've had dual universe website saved as a tab on my browser for the longest time.  I had high hopes for this game until now.  Not because the game just came out of Alpha and has many bugs and issues.  Simply because I don't feel that this is any different then Entropia or Second Life.  Yet the building aspect of Second Life is far better than DU.  The past days since I started I've been lead to a dark time in my life with constant headaches trying to find answers which the mediocre tutorial did not help much.  There's potential out there for DU to be a good "Virtual Universe".  Unfortunately, anytime you use the word Potential it signifies that the current game is not good and potential may never be there.  

The building is bad.  The tools are not what I expected.  I get the whole sphere when terraforming.  If you want accurate terraforming with precision, you need square tools not just sphere.  This allows for better shaping of the lands.  I have not once seen a flat land in my journey.  Trying to make the land flat comes with patience, time and a bottle of Tylenol mixed with alcohol to ease the pain.  I know there's a long way to go.  My suggestion is to revamp the building aspect of this game/Virtual Universe.  I come from Second Life and I was a builder.  The vision I have for a city above ground and an underground city has gone out the window.  It saddens me because I expected DU to be that one virtual universe that Second Life wasn't.  The tile you get is 10 times larger than Second Life sims but lacks the tools to build unique structures, towns and cities.  I say this because of the Core station.  Should be a way to see the grids without going into build mode. (As the owner of the land)   

 

Side Note: Don't compare Star Citizen to Dual Universe.  Two completely different games.  That's what I like about it.  An opportunity to play two space games with different style and features.  If I had to choose, those two titles would be it.  Unfortunately, there are some features in DU I'm not happy about nor are the masses that continue to complain in chat.  Nonetheless, good job and good luck.  I hope a year from now I'm immersed in DU building the city of my dreams for all to see.  I will revisit a year from now and hope that things have changed.  Of course, keep a keen eye on youtube for tutorials to learn better.  

 

Until then, Safe Journey,
Ankido

The main problem is a question of expectations and type of platform.

SL is great as regards the building and honestly even superior to DU as regards the detail that can be included.
But SL is not an MMO in the strict sense. It is much more of a metaverse.
In SL you can build as much as you want and how you want (within the technical limits of the SIM) without being tied to any economic system. DU is not like that: everything you do is contextualized and inserted into the socio-economic ecosystem.
In SL the terraforming tools are always available to everyone. In DU everything is regulated by talents that must be progressively unlocked over time.
In SL you are whoever you want and at any time you can be something else. As long as you have a sim, you are practically God. In DU ... well ... no. And you can't be because otherwise everyone should be and ... well ... it wouldn't be DU anymore. It would be SL.

But you can join the big orgs and tell them that you are a builder, that you will only do that and be honest with what you want. I know at least a couple of very strong orgs that let their members do what they really want, and they have some great builders.
If you want to be a lone player and do it all by yourself well ... I am and it's tough. I can't do everything I want. I fit. But there are other better organized loners who do great things.

I think you simply have an erroneous expectation about DU, it is not DU that is incomplete (not just at least ...)