The Star Citizen Thread v5
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Each episode is less than an hour, fee if any episodes share the same "star date", and only interesting things are used as the backdrop for an episode. Every star between here and 400ly from here is... well, a whole BUNCH of stars, right? If your game is run from a mission board where you select your next exciting adventure and then load into it, then you have a point. If your game is supposed to be a persistent universe then you have to have the dry bits in between where you're traveling. That's what some people don't like about Elite, "oh it's so boring having to fly through all these places where nothing is happening" but if you take that out, you're left with a game with a mission selector and a loading screen. Galaxy on Fire Manticore for example. Fun, but not a $140,000,000 development epic saga.
Maybe my point is lost in that. My point is "playing Star Trek" isn't fun with a dozen worlds because Star Trek is about exploring and encountering, not selecting the type of missions n you want today, and you can't explore and encounter at solar system scale. Go big or go home. SC promised to go big, even if not as big as Elite, and so far they haven't delivered. Well I'm the patient type and I'll wait to see what they deliver but it's an example of what I said before: they'll deliver a game in the end, I'm certain. But when they do, what will be he scale? that's the sort of territory where cuts start happening when development flounders.
Pressure is part of physics; Chris doesn't do physics. So it's only natural.
ME4 will have a couple of hundred solar systems. SC will be, if it all works out, more like ME1: a fair number of systems, some handcrafted hubs and a bunch of space stations. As for epic Star Trek-like exploration: will never happen. As in never-ever. You either have Elite or NMS, and both need a fair amount of additional work to make it happen (mostly aliens, spacelegs and atmo planets for ED, and proper space for NMS).
This from the IGN article
Oh really, so how do I do that then? I'm a backer, I cannot find the PTU download - anyone? (This is a genuine request, I want to try out the new flight model)
Oh really, so how do I do that then? I'm a backer, I cannot find the PTU download - anyone? (This is a genuine request, I want to try out the new flight model)
So what about all the episodes where they don't mention the system name, or it can't be mapped to an actual star?
Do those episodes and the stories within simply cease to exist?
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I have a great idea for a game. You are a gunfighter in the old wild west. You don't get a gun mind, you have to earn enough in game money to buy one. Other people may have used real life money to buy one, but don't worry about them. They would never use there gun to shoot you while your still trying to earn enough to upgrade your knife. It's not pay to win.
You keep claiming to speak for the majority of backers. It seems to me that most of the people in this thread are backers. Haven't seen one that agrees with you yet.
(In the interests of full disclosure, I am not a backer).
This one line sums up the stupidity at work here.
Haaa I love it! Seriously, I had a few chats with devoted SC backers and the way they are willing to bend the true to fit their own agenda is fascinating - never seen that in any gaming community yet.
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So here I am, sat with about a dozen other sad looking folks in a cold, draughty church hall.
The only person smiling, says to me, OK, do you want to go first?
I nod, I stand up and I say "I backed Star Citizen, and it's been 634 days since I last bought a ship."
There are some murmurs and a very quiet bit of applause.
Get the picture? This is how I feel about it all at the moment.
The only person smiling, says to me, OK, do you want to go first?
I nod, I stand up and I say "I backed Star Citizen, and it's been 634 days since I last bought a ship."
There are some murmurs and a very quiet bit of applause.
Get the picture? This is how I feel about it all at the moment.
When I say playing Star Trek in game that is not a singular reason like where the crew traveled, its also the life aboard a star ship that was most compelling to me, the different personalities and jobs occupied by those individuals. Thats something no other game offers. I get a taste of that in the PU now playing with org mates 10 deep in a Starfarer. we have captain, pilot, security officer, stuff like that. More is needed in game of course, but having the ships and highly detailed environment ranging from the character models and ships is needed for that experience. Thats why everything in star Citizen is experience in first person. Well thats the dream we were pitched anyway.
Huh? Isnt the release date 'in three days'? Thats what they said three days ago, when they missed their previous date...
You dont really forget a date, or miss it completely, three days of coming up with the seven-times-revised--date, surely?Huh? Isnt the release date 'in three days'? Thats what they said three days ago, when they missed their previous date...
He just didn't want it on record on a place like IGN. IGN would remember, the fans do not. CIG has taken advantage of this for over five years.
Because discussion are only fun when everyone agrees with you? LOL wheres the fun in that?
I never claimed to speak for the community only that the actions by the majority of current backers are the opposition to the majority of views shown in this thread.
Also- the fact that we discussing all those lulz topics and not the game itself is heh, interesting - I for one would love to discuss actual SC gameplay and mechanics but unfortunately since I backed the thing like a year ago, nothing significant has changed (well we can buy clothes and guns now...).
Seriously - at least release the new flight model to test already.
Seriously - at least release the new flight model to test already.
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No, but it does show that the compelling part of the episodes are the experiences of the crew and not just the location of the ship.
I think a great exploration game was Eve online. not to many systems but you always got the feeling of " I wonder what I will see today"
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Life aboard a starship in the SC verse.
Check y fronts. Feed lobsters. Water plant. Flip helmet. Press USE. Get shot. Respawn. Grow tentacles.
Check y fronts. Feed lobsters. Water plant. Flip helmet. Press USE. Get shot. Respawn. Grow tentacles.
I shouldn't worry too much about this pay to win thing. You've got to have a game to do that.
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