It's fairly easy to pick something that isn't true from your statements. The rest is done by simply using the search function.
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Funny thing is, he's not entirely wrong. The exact next question is where are the the other 108 systems CIG sold to backers ~10 years ago. 2 systems in 12 years isn't exactly setting a riveting pace.
rootsrat
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Oh yeah, I realise it was partially CGI, but some of it must have been recorded in game, no?
Or is all all fake? In which case...
Oh yeah, fully aware of that and it's a 100% valid question. Which I did ask to one of the most passionate SC players from our little Hussars community and the reply was - after Pyro is released, they will be done really quickly, as they will have all the tools and technical foundations needed.
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Nah. It is an in-lore ad by Drake, showing off how easily Roberts Ships blow up.
Because this has been 101 in their playbook, and has been since very early on.
'Focus on X' causing perfectly understandable delays with 'Y', then shift the focus of spewing chaff to be all about 'Y', to an outpouring of delight amongst the faithful, to then 'focus on Y', causing perfectly understandable delays to 'any day now'.
Unfortunately last minute technical and quality issues have caused us to delay being at war with Eastasia.
Buy an Idris!
It's 108, not 98 other systems.
Increasing the number of systems to 110 was one of many 'successful'
So, at the beat rate of 1 incomplete and 1 'very soon now' systems, we have (very generously) 108 more systems to go. Which, at 10 years per (still not complete or delivered) system, leaves us: 108 * 10 = ....... (more years to go).
This is, imho, the view of a realist.
PS I wonder how much of a shout-out Cobblers & Co will give to SomeFlipping game with 100 fully populated and playable systems... I also wonder how many 'faithful' are now playing SomeFlipping other game.
Understandable for nollocks marketing within one brand. But when you have a couple customers who dont give a fork about option B that's not working out.
Didn't you point out that people have been saying this for close to a decade already?
Apropos this, the faithful will point to games like Starfield and point how long it took for Bethesda to make it and how much less it has than SC (at least in concept), like its a point in defense of SC/CIG. What they fail to do is follow through on their logic. If it takes a well-established company with lots of experience X years to make a game like Starfield, then throwing all the usual apologetics excuses used by backers, like "they had to build a company first", how long would be realistic for CIG to actually make SC as advertised?
Whatever the answer is, its longer than the lifetime of backers, of Chris, and like longer than the lifetime of the platform and OS its being built for!
Viajero
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Floodgates (tm) will open soon. In 2 years.
I heard some bloke largely less ambitious and perfectionist than Chris put a whole universe in 6 days, so...
Oh look, another excuse for Roberts to play movie director since he can't seem to figure out game development.
The "ships flying from the surface into a space battle" section in particular is like a remake of the CoD:IW trailer, from 2016, except more derivative and without any real gameplay (because CIG).
The blindly faithful will be blind and faithful, and there's nowt much to do there.
This 'build a company first' nonsense always irritates. If they are hiring/assigning the right quality industry professionals with the necessary experience (and attitude and abilities) it really does not take long to instatiate a fully funtional project/programme/business 'entity'.
I know first hand how quickly such an operational entity can be created, complete with all roles populated and working, as that's what the company that I work for does. It also delivers product and then, once complete, tears down that delivery unit and moves on, leaving a support and maintenance unit behind.
And if some chose to play the 'company XXX has been working/planning on game ABC for NN years', well, we can play the same game. When did Cobblers create the first Wing Commander? 1990. So, SC and SQ404 has been in gestation for 33 years... ...no?
Expect some mention of "but, you know, without any loading screens," accompanied by frenzied whooping and cheering from the assembled simps, and a smug smirk from a man who hasn't delivered a game in over 2 decades.
Australian Politicians handle that a different way, when campaigning for election they make many promises, little Johnny Howard who served as Prime Minister for 11 years led the charge by making many promises in his various campaigns, and after elected and criticised for breaking his promises broke them down into "core" promises and "non-core" promises. Of course you would never know which was which beforehand, so he could quite happily just break promises and then claim they were non-core promises, so when he broke a promise it automatically became a non-core promise, I guess it works the same way with ToW, Sataball and etc, these were non-core promises and so don't count as broken promises because they never really intended to deliver in the first place.
Kinda like the sandworm?
He used some really shoddy shortcuts though. Gameplay is messed up. Other players are jerks. No real sense of progress unless you get really lucky. Graphics are good though.
Ah, nearly fell out of my chair, there's this EVE Online video about a big space battle, one of the comments;
Lol, the tech, the amazing tech, what's the max player number per server in SC again?
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0-hicHRqSE
Lol, the tech, the amazing tech, what's the max player number per server in SC again?
As usual, they talk in present tense about things that don't exist in SC yet and maybe never will. SC servers are still independent from each other. They also can't get their facts straight since PES and the replication layer are not server meshing, which is what they are talking about. Furthermore, what they are effectively talking about id Dynamic Server Meshing, when CIG aren't even talking about that being added soon. They are still trying to figure out Static Server Meshing.
rootsrat
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And, more importantly, what happens to the server performance (and subsequently things like enemy AI) when just half of that limit is hit?
