Before we get our hopes up.... Do players have inventory at the moment?
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Viajero
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The highlighted part is also a very common misconception. The community didnt decide anything. CIG is 100% accountable for the direction and management of the development.
What CIG did was simply to put up a poll in their forums. Which is not a contractual bind nor a legal commitment by any party of any kind. Especially when forum goers in any game community are just but a tiny fraction of the total population, let alone a decision capable majority of any kind. CIG did that poll just so to maintain some public relations semblant of legitimacy but the fact is the only party here that is 100% responsible for the decision to add more scope and prolong development is only CIG.
A "poll" was neither required nor sufficient to justify any decision on enlarging scope and delay release. First simply CIG decided to increase scope and delay release, and then it updated the ToS to suit that plan.
CIG could have very well delivered all the promised content at the time in 2014 and then gradually build upon it more scope from there on. But it didnt. It was all 100% on CIG.
The highlighted part is also a very common misconception. The community didnt decide anything. CIG is 100% accountable for the direction and management of the development.
What CIG did was simply to put up a poll in their forums. Which is not a contractual bind nor a legal commitment by any party of any kind. Especially when forum goers in any game community are just but a tiny fraction of the total population, let alone a decision capable majority of any kind. CIG did that poll just so to maintain some public relations semblant of legitimacy but the fact is the only party here that is 100% responsible for the decision to add more scope and prolong development is only CIG.
A "poll" was neither required nor sufficient to justify any decision on enlarging scope and delay release. First simply CIG decided to increase scope and delay release, and then it updated the ToS to suit that plan.
CIG could have very well delivered all the promised content at the time in 2014 and then gradually build upon it more scope from there on. But it didnt. It was all 100% on CIG.
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That would be one of the best scenarios for Star Citizen. But I can't see it and I'm not sure, whether I'm just missing your sarcasm. From horribly broken Alpha status, containing just a fraction in terms of mechanics of the game's overambitious scope (where that cocktail mixing civil flight line minigame again?), to full release in about 5 months? Not to mention the elusive SQ42 campaign, which was a no-show at E3, where a trailer would've been expected for the end-of-year blockbuster mega-release. Suddenly done at the end of the year?
Sounds legit.
You don't get it, it's just their subjective opinion and therefore can't be taken seriously.
Maybe some mechanism to prevent your ship being ram destroyed on the pad? Perhaps some more interactive or immersive form of Air Traffic Control? I think "the other game" has that sort of thing already, so it would be a way to bring SC up towards the level of current released titles?
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I would hope for a fix to ships sitting at odd angles and randomly sliding about.
CIG's MVP version? Some improvements aimed at preventing the ship from spawning upside down, rotating on their pads, randomly exploding.
If it's something more involved, I would bet on a)voiced space traffic control (just because ED have it) b)some kind of docking assist, perhaps a landing path on the HUD.
Pads seem fine to you? There is loads of room for improvement...it could mean almost anything in this case..:because so much of it can be improved.
Like the entire game, it's all WIP remember?
And because "- Reduced occurrence of ships bunny hopping across landing pads" sounds so pedestrian, they call it:
Landing pads 2.0
...or some such.
Love their naming architecture...I presume it's to give CR the impression they are making leaps and bounds while he is away spending all this time on reshoots....which ar rivalling the original shooting schedule or so it seems.
Reshoots are usually a tiny fraction of what was originally shot. I deal with them in post production all the time..:I'm also aware of why they are needed. (The script on paper not translating well to a cinematic vision, or major plot points or performance issues).
Actually as a professional editor I haven't seen anything that CR has directed that's even been remotely considered AAA quality. In that way I think he is a lot like Lucas, big idea man but lacking the prestige to direct actors and dramatic story.
My opinion, will happily change it when. See Sq42 cutscenes but that speech performance, blocking, editing was boring, uninspired drivel. Writing didn't help...I'm only coming down hard on it because I feel perhaps a better director could have been used (especially mo cap) and CR could focus on the core building of his game. Directing is in itself a massive full time job...never mind all the other stuff he's responsible for.
Sorry /rantish there. Just my opinion again and happy to reevaluate when it drops.
Reshoots are usually a tiny fraction of what was originally shot. I deal with them in post production all the time..:I'm also aware of why they are needed. (The script on paper not translating well to a cinematic vision, or major plot points or performance issues).
Actually as a professional editor I haven't seen anything that CR has directed that's even been remotely considered AAA quality. In that way I think he is a lot like Lucas, big idea man but lacking the prestige to direct actors and dramatic story.
My opinion, will happily change it when. See Sq42 cutscenes but that speech performance, blocking, editing was boring, uninspired drivel. Writing didn't help...I'm only coming down hard on it because I feel perhaps a better director could have been used (especially mo cap) and CR could focus on the core building of his game. Directing is in itself a massive full time job...never mind all the other stuff he's responsible for.
Sorry /rantish there. Just my opinion again and happy to reevaluate when it drops.
If they are moving towards persistence, anything where you don't simply walk into Mordor... umm I mean press a button and your ship appears through the magic of hand wavium will make the pads better.
Or, maybe we don't realize it is a movie.
Yeah, the UI for landing is completely unintuitive to me. I usually forgo the landing, park in open space and EVA. Honestly, I'd hoped they would mostly scrap landing pads anyway. Would much prefer to pull up to a docking port on Port Olisar where you need to make fine adjustments to engage the docking collar. The sudden gravity out in open space just really feels unsettling, to me.
Direct quote from Lando:
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/4th2e4/official_25_feature_list/?sort=confidence
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https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...d-v5/page405?p=4247006&viewfull=1#post4247006
I do have to say, Elite does the landing/take-off much better than Star Citizen.
That doesn't seem very exciting :/ I was hoping they were going to implement more star systems, able to land on planets with few cities. So far it's....meh.
Engine is borked, network code is borked. Until they sort these out there wont be any meaningful progress that can be seen. To paraphrase my Dev friend (who works for Activision) when I asked him about network code in games (July 2015). He read this Letter from the Chairman and said,
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