r/duneawakening

Greetings everyone!

After yesterday's announcement about the upcoming server migrations, we noticed that you still have many questions about the process scattered across multiple threads. We thought it would be helpful to open a unified thread where you can post your questions, and we will do our best to answer them.

As a reminder, here is our announcement, which covered some of the most pressing questions about the timeline of events and how to prepare. Please take a look at it first!
https://duneawakening.com/news/server-migrations/

Before you drop your question below, make sure it hasn't been answered already in the post or in the thread. We will be checking the thread along the next few days and tackling as many of your questions as we can.

Thank you for your interest!

Wanted to share a sentiment because this game deserves it.

I have played this game back when it came out for 200 hours straight. Would have loved to continue but I found the Deep Desert too weird for me (had no problems with PvP either). My world Aiglon was a pretty chill one. After a long hiatus I have now come back to no base, no vehicles, not a thing except for my backpack and, of course, the Come Back rewards. Luckily, before I left I have prepared myself to an extent and saved Solido Replicators with my 1st big base I made and have decided to rebuild everything and get to the grind again. Today I see they have announced that they will be shutting down my world, and my sietch will be gone forever. I have a very deep connection with the desert here in Dune Awakening, I have made pilgrimages across the sands and flewn across whole of Hagga Basin many many times. The next world I move on to will be also Hagga Basin, but for me it will never be the same. on to the end, I have a guild here that is basically just me left and to whichever world I move on to, the 1st Yara Elite Division will stand and live on in the memory of my sietch Yaracuwan.

Farewell.

TL;DR Server shutting down, sad yappa yappa

Since the 10th month, the great houses have reported fewer than 10,000 humans upon any of Dunes cycles. We however expect a temporary surge of returning offworlders with the coming patch.

So what do the terraformers at Funcom deliver? Another dungeon, another chore location for the Landsraad, and more recycled sand.

A new build set of half-value, strong enough to hold its shape but useless in the deep desert.

A few new guns, swords and armour with different effects, which won't change the meta.

My point;

This is repetition disguised as renewal. It will not hold the returning players beyond a week of gameplay, I for one wouldn't have bought the dlc if I knew what was going to be delivered. Games like OSRS have had 20 years of development, a mmo, not survival craft, but it retains over 100k players. We need more to do, not more of the same.

We need a defibrillator, hopefully it comes in the form of rapid renewal over the next 6 months before a large campaign drive for console and 3 way crossplay.

They should never have sold DLC but monetized the store much like fallout 76, which has a larger player-base and is almost 10 years old.. with free updates, I wouldn't read this far on your post, so I'll end it here, we need to show discontent and this is what this post is about.

So - this was an absolute ball ache, but it works.

No Hyper-V, no Windows Pro requirement, no Kubernetes, no Alpine - just the server running on a plain Debian / Ubuntu / whatever Linux distro without too much extra mess. We still recommend that you use AMPs own containerisation for this because it'll save a few minor headaches.

You can read a little more about what the requirements are here: https://discourse.cubecoders.com/t/dune-awakening-server-guide/40200

Getting this into something simple and turnkey on normal Linux systems was absolutely absurd. But very worth it.

Finding endgame bases abandoned and not raidable sucks.

A few weeks and everything will be gone as everyone buries their fief at the bottom of their base, The tax system was great, It just needed to be automatic or payable at the fief.

Burnout happens. I left Dune about 5 months into release. But I'll tell you what game I didn't leave until the end. City of Heroes. The game was great for the time. It was MAKING money until the day they shut it down. We never got it back until the private servers that were running on stolen code got leaked to the public. For YEARS we didn't have CoH/CoV and we missed every minute of it.

New World is also shuttering this coming year because of the greedy company behind it after FINALLY gaining traction and fixing so many of the things that the game needed. But fixing takes time. Even for a game with AMAZON and it's billions and billions of income behind it.

I've played worse games. Far worse games. Games with setback after set back after delay after delay. It happens. It happens to much larger more popular games than Dune. (Looking at you, Ark. And my 12k hours across 2 games.)

Ark is riddled with bugs. Dupes, under meshing, pvp was far from fair, especially with the friends of the devs that had access to servers to lag out other players or ban them directly.

I understand not all people realize there's reasons for delays in DLC's or game updates. I understand not all people realize there's more than one team that works on different aspects of games. Cosmetics aren't bug fixers or map designers. Some of ya'll are insufferable in your negativity.

I know some of ya'll won't stop dogging on Dune, because it seems to be in some peoples DNA. No, pvp wasn't fun or fair in Dune. And the only pvp'ers that hate the Deep Desert split are the ones that would only fight when they had the numbers, or griefers.

You can have fun in Dune.

If you enjoy it, GREAT! I'm happy for you. I've enjoyed it since coming back this past month! Grinding out items and farming mats is fun for me again. Find your fun. If you can't, that's fine too.

You're allowed to enjoy Dune. Maybe do so before you no longer can.

Edit: The downvotes and negativity from the pvp'ers is very telling.

I appreciate all the positive remarks though! Keep up the good fight!

I wouldn't eb able to build a base here. too scary

Higher than an Associate, but not quite someone you want to have building perms, so not Co-Owner.

PUBLIC works well for the people who make community buildings or safe havens, and for psychopaths that allow every vagrant into their base because they crave human connection.

GUILD is cool for guild bases, but most people don't trust EVERYONE in their guild. I don't even know everyone in my guild. So it's useless for most of us in big guilds.

ASSOCIATE(s) are people who can visit, you're friendly with, you might trade with, but you wouldn't trust to have free range through your chests.

Then it jumps to straight up having build perms!? PLEASE give us at least one more. Another form of Associate. Best Friends? Partners? Side Pieces? I'd love to have two more, but I'd settle for one more. This is more needed than content, ice caps, server merges-speaking of, does anyone know the best NA server to merge to? What about a list of all closing and surviving servers? Joking lol. But I digress, does anyone know someone at Funcom!? WE. NEED. THIS. ASAP. It's so important. Let's get this to their eyes!