Game Discussions Star Citizen Discussion Thread v12

VR Golgot · Feb 11, 2023

I hope they've considered house insurance!

(Wouldn't want anything to happen to all those persistent exploration trophies

)

[VR] Merkir · Feb 11, 2023

I want a house with an elevator, please. Oh, and ramps, lots of ramps.

cigwatch · Feb 11, 2023

[VR] Merkir said:
I want a house with an elevator, please. Oh, and ramps, lots of ramps.

Even stairs can be deadly. No way home.

PiLhEaD · Feb 11, 2023

Mole HD said:
.....Not sunk cost fallacy on our part either, but wanting to support what we think is still a worthwhile project despite the idiot Roberts

Sadly I think that any project with Roberts in charge is doomed and so not worthwhile. I knew his track record and so, despite liking the sound of what was proposed, opted for a wait and see approach.

I have gone in with other early access games, with varying outcomes, and still hope SC/SQ404 get finished enough to be worth a punt. It's just that I don't see this happening, not now, too much water has gone over the dam.

The best thing for the game would be for Roberts to sell it on. Maybe some cunning Canadians could yet save the ~~day~~ ~~year~~ decade.

ZeeWolf · Feb 11, 2023

Agony_Aunt said:
From SA

Step 3 should be profit surely?

CIG developer: "re-le-a-se???"

cigwatch · Feb 11, 2023

BTW, given that the infrastructure behind SC consists of the game client but also a bunch of easily separable services (Graph Mushing, game servers, something something message queues or distributed logs), they can develop those independently as long as they have some reasonably sane practices of defining and evolving APIs between them, so that their implementations can progress at their own pace.

CI certainly do not "merge everything with everything" as this insane branching presentation would let commandos to believe, because GhAYMEdeVV is not black magic. It is software development. It will surely have some irreducible complexity, but it will also have software engineering tools and practices to manage it. Most of the GyaHmeDev issues they are facing seem to be self-inflicted wounds.

ZeeWolf · Feb 11, 2023

The fact that they are now showing branching strategy as "behind the scenes" video content strikes me as the result of a previous conversation that ended with the words "lol, not unless we are in a situation where we have absolutely sod all else to show"

ECity · Feb 11, 2023

Montoya starts his own currency. Because of course.

thistle · Feb 11, 2023

I forgot he existed.

* sigh *

Rubbernuke · Feb 11, 2023

Montoya is still going?

GreySix · Feb 11, 2023

RedBaroon said:
11 years and half a billion dollars later, elevators still not working properly. I'm buying more idrises

Agony_Aunt said:
From SA

A lot of backers are naively convinced Jared made the decision to do that whiteboard thing on his own, as though he chose to somehow take a risk. That thing was clearly rehearsed and planned by higher-ups, blessed off by CR.

Viajero · Feb 11, 2023

That board display was just a lot of words and markers´ ink wasted for "we suck at developing, our code is broken and you won´t have much new content coming any time soon, sorry".

But we have a super duper revamp of Arena Commander almost ready for you!

Many a backer will hold on to that rationalisation for dear life though, so well done CIG.

metatheurgist · Feb 12, 2023

Rubbernuke said:
Montoya is still going?

The Kardashians made it an open field for anyone to try. God Bless Free Market Ideology.

StuartGT · Feb 12, 2023

VR Golgot said:
Ok, if 2023 is as barren as 2022 and they still set funding records, there are definitely shenanigans going on

cigwatch said:
I think you undersestimate the population of space granddads with large disposable income, increased normalisation of spending of thousands of dollars on a portfolio of JPGs and CI's growing aptitude at discovering the shape of and climbing up the demand curve.

Gotta Catch 'Em All

CIG know their target market and how to get them to spend cash into CIG's coffers.

I mean, even our fellow Mole here spent £thousands, got a refund, then spent £hundreds again. Chris is naturally very thankful for that.

Asp Explorer · Feb 12, 2023

cigwatch said:
Most of the GyaHmeDev issues they are facing seem to be self-inflicted wounds.

I still have horrific memories of package details and login credentials being sent in plaintext, megabytes of XML, and completely endless socket stuffing to the point my firewall declared the SC client rogue and properly throttled it.