In SC, you spend long time flying in atmos while you mine with a ROC or Prospector. I often follow the 'sun' while mining and cover half the planet during a mining session.
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Flying is rather fast way to move. Especially on 1/10th scale planets. But consider driving around, even 1/10th scale Earth it would be 5000 km trip. Something like SRV can go about 100 kph, if terrain allows, typically it does not...
Sorry, I've not really understood the point here. I was talking about the interest of having seamless planet terrain in SC. When you do ROC or Prospector mining, seamless ground terrain generation is an important component of the experience (also day/night cycle).
Yup, i've done it in a SRV. Took me days of driving.
Was mainly fun for the start where we all set off together and occasional meetups. There were some challenging moments, and of course, driving the SRV at high speeds for extended periods takes patience and skill, but as to how enjoyable it was overall.... well, mainly tedious i would say.
Just a reminder, Jan in 2017, in an interview with Gamestar, Chris said:
What I meant, was that when you are on foot or even in some kind of terrain vehicle you do not need whole planet sized maps. Unless you really want to do some pretty marginal stuff. Flying is somewhat different, though that depends on speed of your vehicle....
The problem I've always had with that qoute was, why do they plan their scope on a monthly basis? The scope is supposed to be decided at the start of a project. Doing it monthly means they have no money to make Star Citizen. Having money to make SQ42, a spin off game means nothing when the main project was Star Citizen. They're operating as if Star Citizen, the thing people funded, is a side project. Then they'll have the excuse of SQ42 sales to fall back to when they still idn't have enough money to make Star Citizen.
Same opinion here. Some marginalized event are pretty cool and intense in SC like the Daymar Rally.
On foot you don't need seamless planet maps at all. And if you still wanted to, you can make a really lax streaming routine because you basically have all the time of the world until the footman arrives at the border, lol.
You have solved the riddle of Roberts. They have 600 million intake but every month their projects had no budgets. And every month they have new projects, because Robbers saw something shiny.
I don't necessarily agree with that, it could simply be that providing atmospheric flight or ground vehicles would quickly annoy people because they would be bumping into the tile edge very quickly and it would destroy immersion to much for it to be viable, specially if we are looking at anywhere near the atmospheric speeds in SC or ED. The fact is they have jet packs that can be used to fly around outside so it's not a fact they are unable to do so with the engine, just that doing so would be....silly in the context of tiles of only 25 square km, you would no sooner get off the ground, or get moving decent speed in a ground vehicle and you would run out of place to go.
We think the same. By saying they are still in 32 bits, I implied that maps couldn't be big enough for a ship to fly without bumping on the limit of the map in less than 5 min.
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I think the problem here is him, not the projects. I've worked in IT for 30 years, and if any of our people had a 90% history of delivering late, they wouldn't be working there any longer. You do the estimates taking into account the risks and uncertainties, and then sometimes you'll deliver quicker, and sometimes slower, but on average, you'll deliver on time. If you are constantly underestimating, you need to change how you estimate, not repeat the same mistakes for 20 years.
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LOL, it got Sataballed!
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Just wondering if CIG will reset expectations for the 2023 deliverables. I feel like we haven't had much in the way of comms since persistence and I suspect that persistence will be the primary...
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I think the problem here is him, not the projects. I've worked in IT for 30 years, and if any of our people had a 90% history of delivering late, they wouldn't be working there any longer. You do the estimates taking into account the risks and uncertainties, and then sometimes you'll deliver quicker, and sometimes slower, but on average, you'll deliver on time. If you are constantly underestimating, you need to change how you estimate, not repeat the same mistakes for 20 years.
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le In recent times... I am beginning to replace the forbidden question "when?" for "where?"
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LOL, it got Sataballed!
CIG mod Sunny requests:
Meanwhile, ChatJ3PT is insulting the OP and getting away with it while others are getting their comments deleted.
It can work if you ensure you can add stuff to the game with the money given and not adding it won't matter to the delivery of the base game.
When you still don't have anything close to a releasable product 5 years after the kickstarter, then all funds should be going to ensuring the base game is delivered, and then only add stuff to the scope with additional funds once you have that.
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2023 Reset of Expectations? - Star Citizen Spectrum
Just wondering if CIG will reset expectations for the 2023 deliverables. I feel like we haven't had much in the way of comms since persistence and I suspect that persistence will be the primary...
I think the problem here is him, not the projects. I've worked in IT for 30 years, and if any of our people had a 90% history of delivering late, they wouldn't be working there any longer. You do the estimates taking into account the risks and uncertainties, and then sometimes you'll deliver quicker, and sometimes slower, but on average, you'll deliver on time. If you are constantly underestimating, you need to change how you estimate, not repeat the same mistakes for 20 years.
Where is Sataball? a "playable" sport presented by CIG 8 years ago - Star Citizen Spectrum
le In recent times... I am beginning to replace the forbidden question "when?" for "where?"
LOL, it got Sataballed!
CIG mod Sunny requests:
Meanwhile, ChatJ3PT is insulting the OP and getting away with it while others are getting their comments deleted.
Sure, it's marketing budget. The only steady and planned budget this trainwreck has. Where is Vulkan, btw. Can't be that hard to get it done. Did it get stuck in a doorway?
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Which is one of the reasons it’s been a while I no longer believe CIG constant underestimates are only just incompetence, but also likely largely part of a deliberate strategy of misrepresentation, as imminency brings in hype and hype brings sales.
Good question. I'm sure i remember a certain faithful around here saying Vulkan was coming by end of last year or something.
Well, if its the devs doing the underestimating and management are going off that, then its one thing. Then you have incompetent (or cow manure talking) devs, and you need to solve that. If its the management setting false expectations, then there is the problem, and quite probably, intentionally scummy behaviour, especially after 10 years.
But nothing to do about that, after all, Chris absolved himself for being bad with estimates.
I wonder if the devs also get to absolve themselves.
