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Oh damn, just as they climbed up to 2.7 stars...
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Unorganised Company
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CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
The office looks lovely as it's designed to be elements in game
Cons
clueless bunch of people there, no sense of direction, bleeding money and bring people in and out of the company like a conveyer belt. They freeze bonuses, they have a spending freeze and expect you to work overtime 90% of the time. They had a mandatory 19 day work straight (weekends included) before backlash from the employees where they offered a day off.
Advice to Management
Slow down, stop growing so fast, get your stuff together and future plan instead of slapping in temporary solutions and making a million and one changes on the fly over night
And he can always hold an extra ship sale and buy another mansion
It's a 24h commute for £700 per round-trip (not accounting for frequent flyer discounts).
The 6h time zone difference must be how Chris does all his work.
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That speculation about the LA office that could be eventually closed... I think it is highly unlikely but... @VR Golgot during your LinkedIn excursions did you get any idea what is the LA office employees proportion over total CIG emplyees, at least for those declared in LinkedIn?
This seems to show around 50 out of 800 declared in Linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cloud-imperium-games/people/
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Jotted a few totals down from that page yeah:
California:
05/02/24:76
29/02/24: 71
Today: 50
These are cheaply made wooden, plywood, plaster, gypsum buildings which they call houses in Los Angeles (and many other places in the USA). These houses are built with inferior, very flammable materials including timber frames. Most developed countries use bricks, mortar, stone and / or reinforced concrete for thick walls which can resist earthquakes and newer houses may have steel frames. You cannot punch a hole in a brick wall. The interior and wooden roof would burn, but the brick / concrete walls usually keep standing. This reduces the chance and speed that wildfire spreads across a big area. For example this image of burned houses in the village Wennington, east London (2022). The walls are still standing and it can be repaired. Comparatively the USA's wooden houses burn down to ash except a brick fireplace and concrete foundation.
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If they're adamant to build houses from trees, maybe they should build them with pineapples?
Maybe CIG should pull a pineapple-based fiber cable to their rack? Or use pineapple density value for their ships physics instead of balsa tree's? Maybe they should write their design doc with a Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen, instead of not writing it at all.
Maybe CIG should pull a pineapple-based fiber cable to their rack? Or use pineapple density value for their ships physics instead of balsa tree's? Maybe they should write their design doc with a Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen, instead of not writing it at all.
I get what you're saying about construction methods, but those houses in Wennington wouldn't have been saved.
They were eventually torn down, but these fire damaged homes could've been renovated.
By comparison, USA's infamous matchstick houses are made of plywood, wood frames, simple insulation, drywall, cheaply built in Los Angeles. That's why they burned down so quickly to ashes. There's almost nothing to salvage or restore.
Durable houses made of bricks, mortar, stone, steel frames and / or reinforced concrete last for generations, are safer, less maintenance and better for the environment.
The few houses that remain standing after the Palisades Fire (2025) are built with stone, reinforced concrete and/or bricks. More houses would be standing if there were better regulations that ban timber frames and other flammable materials. Let that be a lesson for Californians.
Update: this reinforced concrete $9 million Malibu mansion of former Waste Management Inc. (WM) CEO David Steiner survived the devastating Palisades fire. The building exterior damage is minor. It was not a miracle, because it was built with good fireproof / resistant materials.
On Zillow: this 4200 square foot single family home has 4 bedrooms and 4.0 bathrooms. It's located at 18860 Pacific Coast Hwy, Malibu, CA 90265.
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A pretty balanced view, from my perspective. I tend to agree that it didn't start as a scam but has evolved into making perpetual crowd-funding a business model, and one where finishing the project is actually undesirable, as well as, in this case, seemingly beyond their abilities.
Nice to see the 2016 quote from Cobblers siting 110 systems, with a 'good chunk' being done for release, and here we are, NINE years later, with........
Also Interesting to hear that Ortwin has retired. It could be suggested that putting distance between yourself and any eventual 'end game' might be a savvy move, esp if your nest is already well lined.
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SC early access is not crowdfunding though. They are just content with us thinking it is.
I agree about the construction methods, but when buildings like those houses are only left with dangerous brick shells they will always be knocked down. It would be more expensive to try and pick through damaged brick and concrete lintels trying to decide if they could be reused than just knock it down and start again. It's only ever going to be done when it's a building of special significance, listed for example. The house insurance companies wont pay the higher cost to rebuild from a damaged shell.
The homeowners were probably paid by the insurers, and then they auctioned the whole site. Might never be new houses built there.
It depends on the owner, insurer, budget, house style, whether it's a historical property etc. There's videos on YouTube that show renovations of burned houses.
Having some very limited experience as a firefighter during the fireman's strike of 1977 and '78 here in the UK...the mortar between the bricks explodes with the high temperatures during a serious house fire, trust me...it's a pucker factor of 9.5 heading into a burning building with only a hose for protection.
Part of the process after a devastating fire is pulling down of the walls of a brick building that's been gutted simply because the mortar holding them together has either exploded or disintegrated in the heat...not to mention the destruction or damage to all the internal timber bracing structures like floors, rafters, roofs and framing that do a fair bit of holding the walls up in the first place
Part of the process after a devastating fire is pulling down of the walls of a brick building that's been gutted simply because the mortar holding them together has either exploded or disintegrated in the heat...not to mention the destruction or damage to all the internal timber bracing structures like floors, rafters, roofs and framing that do a fair bit of holding the walls up in the first place
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