The Star Citizen Thread v 3.0

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Thanks. That is the link I have been using for ages.

Weird.
I need to have an account now to see the Elite Dangerous thread.
I am not required to have an account for other threads.

EDIT: I created an account.
Still nothing.
I get an error: "Something has gone wrong!"


EDIT: yes, seems like they locked it for registered users only.
Try refreshing the page with CTRL+F5, or with another browser.
 
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EDIT: yes, seems like they locked it for registered users only.
Try refreshing the page with CTRL+F5, or with another browser.

I get the message "This page cannot be displayed", no matter what browser I use.
And I have created an account now.

For me on the community forums front page there is no link to other games at all anymore.

Aah, I found something:

We're changing the criteria which allow you to contribute to our forums. From this point on, to post in the majority of forums sections will require you to have "BACKER" or "READY" (means you bought a game package) status on your account. This means an active game package on your account will be necessary to post on the forums. Those without Backer or Ready status on their accounts may still access and read the majority of the forums.

It appears I need to buy something to be able to post and read most of the threads.
I don't mind, although this sure does not makes me want to buy anything. It leaves a bit of a bad taste in my mouth to be honest.

I hope that I can read the Elite thread again when they have sorted the changes out.
 
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It appears I need to buy something to be able to post and read most of the threads.
I don't mind, although this sure does not makes me want to buy anything. It leaves a bit of a bad taste in my mouth to be honest.

I hope that I can read the Elite thread again when they have sorted the changes out.

Yeah I concur, I only view their ED Katamari thread out of interest and occasionally contribute. I'm certainly not going to be extorted into buying anything from CIG in order to gain access to it though. I can live without it if needs be.
 
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Aah, I found something:



It appears I need to buy something to be able to post and read most of the threads.
I don't mind, although this sure does not makes me want to buy anything. It leaves a bit of a bad taste in my mouth to be honest.

I hope that I can read the Elite thread again when they have sorted the changes out.

That is quite a weird decision to put it mildly. Here's their reasoning if anyones curious:

WHY ARE WE DOING THIS:

As the project progresses we're attracting more and more spam and harassment-only accounts, and this action will considerably curb that phenomenon, as well as alleviate much of the resource strain on our volunteer moderators and staff, and ultimately allow us to better serve the members of our community. Most projects don't have a fully functional community during the development phase, and we feel this is an important aspect of Star Citizen's continued development, and as such should continue to grow as an place for those who contribute to that development.

link

Edit: Ironically, right after I made this post, I noticed that the "recruiting station" and "new recruits" subforums had been spammed by some chinese bot, so who knows.
 
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I thought that video was very good and educational. Thanks for the link! :)

link

Edit: Ironically, right after I made this post, I noticed that the "recruiting station" and "new recruits" subforums had been spammed by some chinese bot, so who knows.
The change referred to here is not only to protect against spammers but to reduce the hate posts from outsiders who don't have any interest in Star Citizen, such as <snipi>*. So this is a great descision IMO. Just two years overdue. :)


* https://forums.robertsspaceindustries.com/discussion/comment//#Comment_
 
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So not being able to view "Other Games" is a temporary thing? I can understand the lockdown for posting but not for reading - that's a terrible idea.
I like to read over the other games section more than anything else but I should only have to log in if I want to post something.
 
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RSI - just lost me as a potential customer with their website decision. Not impressed at all. Never had a warning or probation and dumped like that - nice.
 
Unfortunately this video just shows more of what I'm talking about. First, the Eagle flew in behind the Anaconda before the engagement even began. Second, he's spamming chaff. Third, he's spamming shield cell banks. Why? Look at the 3D display of that eagle, almost every time the Anaconda is shooting it hits the Eagle (and this was back in Jan, before the AI got it's current teeth). Then for a good few minutes the AI isn't even attempting to fire at him, it's gone docile. He's not using his thrusters or any kind of flight tactics to avoid fire, because that's not what you can do in Elite. In fact, even in his Eagle he's having one hell of a time staying in the Anaconda's blind spot.



Um, his chaff stays on 1/29 throughout the fight. And he never uses a shield cell either from what I can tell, they are certainly not spamming them! Ultimately I think you've made up your mind and are trying to fit the evidence to meet your expectations. It's the only explanation for how you can be so wrong.
 
Not a fan of CIGs new website policy. Restricting posting to backers is fair enough, but restricting non backer from even reading stuff? Seriously bad idea.

By hiding the off-topic and other games sections they've hidden all the comments that compare their game to others. People will notice. CIG's enemies will certainly notice. They'll be accused of trying to shut down debate and he who shall not be named will have a field day.
 
lol. Star Citizen is the best game ever, by far. and people complain about forum access? what?? if you didnt buy you have no right to use.
 
lol. Star Citizen is the best game ever, by far. and people complain about forum access? what?? if you didnt buy you have no right to use.

Been playing it much have you? In the PU yet? Not quite finished yet is it?

I have forum access - was even a subscriber for a while.

Just think that not allowing new interested people to post is a PR mistake.

Even if they just had a guest forum for questions it would be better than nothing.
 
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lol. Star Citizen is the best game ever, by far.

Sure...
Especially the flying part: https://youtu.be/vdrUjgHKg5I?t=15s
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Allow me to quote a guy from RSI forums who described Star Citizen better than I could:

Anyway, that's fine if you want to be patient, but you need to understand asking people to be patient, two years, 50 million dollars later, is dismissive. You are dismissing their concerns without offering solutions or acknowledgment. Personally, I think two years and a 40 thousand comment Katamari is enough time.

But here's the single biggest flaw in the "be patient" argument. It's not the lack of solutions or the irony in using the same refrain 2 years later, but the lack of realization that this is actually a big problem.

You're building a multi million dollar science fiction space universe, except the most important basic game components of that space ship game, flying, shooting, manipulating the space ship, are broken.

This is like spending 100 million dollars on a shooter where the shooting and moving is awful.

Who cares that you've constructed the most detailed simulated world in the history of video games, if your moving and shoot suck?

When Elite was built, the first thing Frontier did was test the flying and shooting. The very first iteration of the game was just your ship soaring around an asteroid field, and it was freaking awesome, because Frontier knew the fundamental basics needed to be perfect for the game to be good.

In StarCitizen we have a passenger liner bar tending mini games, but fundamental problems with flying space ships and pew pewing each other.


Source: https://forums.robertsspaceindustries.com/discussion/comment/5586371/#Comment_5586371


Enough said.
 
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Not defending the flight model but posting a year old video with outdated gameplay of what is suposed to be the fastest and nimblest ship of the universe is not only a bad example but its dishonest. Dont compromise your integrity to get your point across, you lose credibility for future arguments.

My take, wait for the multicrew ships to see how things work out in the bigger picture. Everything is subject to change.
 
Well that's the first footage I've looked at for a while.

The hud seems a little less cluttered and I can make the target ship out a bit better.

But the turning/yawing/pivoting movement of the piloted ship seems far too fast - it looks a bit silly to me TBH.
 
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Not defending the flight model but posting a year old video with outdated gameplay of what is suposed to be the fastest and nimblest ship of the universe is not only a bad example but its dishonest. Dont compromise your integrity to get your point across, you lose credibility for future arguments.

My take, wait for the multicrew ships to see how things work out in the bigger picture. Everything is subject to change.

9 months. No need to be dishonest about things and compromise your integrity. :)

But just to be clear, I need to find a more recent video of a small ship gaining superiority over a larger ship using thrusters but also managing to dodge lasers not just out manoeuvring and it has to be against a real person not an NPC and it's got to be fight from the very start you can't seek positional advantage before the shooting starts and doesn't use chaff or cell banks...?

That's quite a lot of 'elaboration'.

Anyway here's a video that satisfies some of those criteria. But I'm sure it wont count for some reason. :D

Eagle defeats human Cobra while getting attacked by three security craft. It's impressive and doesn't uses cell banks and no chaff (I think, chaff is on low power for most of it)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vMw1TNpThM
 
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