If you have less money then IQ, it’s time to take a good look at what you’re doing in life. I dunno, just saying
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I have an IQ that barely makes it into double digits.
I don't have two pennies to rub together.
Should I buy an Idris?
I don't have two pennies to rub together.
Should I buy an Idris?
They probably aren't very far along with it since it's all pretty much nonsense. It's Chris having read a marketing burb in an in-flight magazine and then repeating all the bits he didn't understand (i.e. all of them) to his marketing team in turn.
There may be tens of thousand of server instances available, but they're not available to CI¬G — they're available to Amazon's entire customer base. CI¬G can't “add as many of these as [they] want” because 1) they're already in use by other customers, 2) Amazon has availability and QoS clauses to fulfil towards those customers and must ensure that they, too, can spin up extra instances if need be, and 3) it costs a fortune and CI¬G can't afford it. Spinning them up “in a matter of minutes” also isn't sufficient to meet the ever-shifting demands of a realtime free-roaming sandbox, especially not when the player count per instance is so pathetically low — this also causes problems with the notion that “each planet and space station, in every star system, […] have their own server.” Each one of those will needs dozens of instances.
Meshing will not solve this, especially not over regional boundaries. It will only mean that they need additional servers to deal with the ever-larger overhead, and that latency skyrockets as more and more data has to be synced over more and more instances and longer and longer distances. CI¬G's plan would work fine if they weren't limited by such annoying things as bandwidth, the speed of light, and the general O(n²):ness of updating all clients present of the world around them. It would work perfectly if what they were building was completely parallelisable so it could be chunked up into discrete computational tasks and each task be assigned to its own instance. Real-time multiplayer games, of course, are notoriously almost completely devoid of any and all such characteristics.
“The Cloud” is just one more of those things that CRobber is wholly uncomprehending of, along with momentum, refactoring, holograms and… oh, everything else he's ever mentioned.
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I'm a farmer...my cows are smarter than me... but I have more money than them
Cloud means you should not be using SQL or a RDBMS to start with. There are better suited options for that kind of usage, plus a videogame does not need any kind of relational maths. There are quite a few distributed object stores that offer extremely high throughput that scale elegantly with load and allow millions of concurrent accesses without going O(e^n). If i were to architect such a MMOG i'd start with that kind of backend (*). I highly doubt CiG considered any of this or have any kind of insight in that domain.
(*) for the technically minded: i'd probably start with Redis or something similar for the direct storage, and have a 2nd layer (slower, i/o constrained) behind it for long term persistence and such (stats, cases where high latency is not an issue,...). Redis + Cassandra is a popular option, though any other object store works (like Mongo). The key is low latency for client interaction, that scales properly. Subsecond response time doesnt cut it. We are talking about a few milliseconds response time... ACID systems cannot do that so one has to settle with eventual consistency.
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But your cows eat souls.I'm a farmer...my cows are smarter than me... but I have more money than them
And he has his minions doing his chores. He calls them "sons" but I figure thats code speech what with everything we know about him already ^^
Well, we might have a clue as to why Sandi has been absent
That might be ok as a plot, but i think it needs a little tweaking.
Chris is overweight. His clothes are tight and uncomfortable, his job making a computer game is a joke and for the icing on the cake, his wife--who is really too good looking for such a specimen is sleeping with an investor called Clive. Today is the day the Chris is going to get his revenge. Except today is also the day his nine year old daughter has told him his game sucks. And it made him realize that today might not be the best day to remove his wife from the game's script.
That might be ok as a plot, but i think it needs a little tweaking.
Chris is overweight. His clothes are tight and uncomfortable, his job making a computer game is a joke and for the icing on the cake, his wife--who is really too good looking for such a specimen is sleeping with an investor called Clive. Today is the day the Chris is going to get his revenge. Except today is also the day his nine year old daughter has told him his game sucks. And it made him realize that today might not be the best day to remove his wife from the game's script.
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I like your version. It has a spicy touch. Well, done.Well, we might have a clue as to why Sandi has been absent
That might be ok as a plot, but i think it needs a little tweaking.
Chris is overweight. His clothes are tight and uncomfortable, his job making a computer game is a joke and for the icing on the cake, his wife--who is really too good looking for such a specimen is sleeping with an investor called Clive. Today is the day the Chris is going to get his revenge. Except today is also the day his nine year old daughter has told him his game sucks. And it made him realize that today might not be the best day to remove his wife from the game's script.
Even the Roberts clan movies are full of nepotism, casting the daughter in the top supporting role...who'd have thought?
Even the Roberts clan movies are full of nepotism, casting the daughter in the top supporting role...who'd have thought?
Hey, when you are on a budget you can't just go throwing money at big name actors. You only get to do that when its other people's money.
As one of the producers...where do you think she got the money to put up?
I have significantly less money/possessions than my IQ if measured in nominal BTC value....
I managed to get back in by resetting my account. I wanted to try an FPS mission. I found one where I had to go into a base and destroy some narcotics.
I went in to find that enemy AI isn't much better than the NPCs standing on chairs in the station. I only saw one of them move and only one of them shot at me. For some reason I was worried it might be too hard solo. I shouldn't have worried...
When I'd killed everyone I had to destroy the narcotics, which involved shooting 343 boxes. Maybe that's why you need a team for these missions, to help you shoot boxes
The worst part was that boxes I'd already destroyed kept respawning as an indestructable version so It took ages to find the last ones that were still destructible
I went in to find that enemy AI isn't much better than the NPCs standing on chairs in the station. I only saw one of them move and only one of them shot at me. For some reason I was worried it might be too hard solo. I shouldn't have worried...
When I'd killed everyone I had to destroy the narcotics, which involved shooting 343 boxes. Maybe that's why you need a team for these missions, to help you shoot boxes
The worst part was that boxes I'd already destroyed kept respawning as an indestructable version so It took ages to find the last ones that were still destructible
With what the progressive economic sim and gameworld being persistent so much you should have grabbed the boxes and earned yourself good persistent (long-term) in-game cash.I managed to get back in by resetting my account. I wanted to try an FPS mission. I found one where I had to go into a base and destroy some narcotics.
I went in to find that enemy AI isn't much better than the NPCs standing on chairs in the station. I only saw one of them move and only one of them shot at me. For some reason I was worried it might be too hard solo. I shouldn't have worried...
When I'd killed everyone I had to destroy the narcotics, which involved shooting 343 boxes. Maybe that's why you need a team for these missions, to help you shoot boxes
The worst part was that boxes I'd already destroyed kept respawning as an indestructable version so It took ages to find the last ones that were still destructible
In a good quality RPG that might been a viable option, it's quite a cool idea. But the economy in Star Citizen is so progressive that you can't even sell stuff yet.
Also My Aurora doesn't have room for 343 infinitely respawning boxes
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WOW! Seriously WOW! I'm surprised CR wasn't producing it.Well, we might have a clue as to why Sandi has been absent
Then again if someone else is producing it then it's money coming into the family.
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Well, we might have a clue as to why Sandi has been absent
That might be ok as a plot, but i think it needs a little tweaking.
Chris is overweight. His clothes are tight and uncomfortable, his job making a computer game is a joke and for the icing on the cake, his wife--who is really too good looking for such a specimen is sleeping with an investor called Clive. Today is the day the Chris is going to get his revenge. Except today is also the day his nine year old daughter has told him his game sucks. And it made him realize that today might not be the best day to remove his wife from the game's script.
To be fair, it says runtime is 7 minutes and estimated budget was $15k. That's not even half a Legatus Pack.
I love this false equivalency in the second post. It's not players who demand the video - it's CI who promised it. Players are just asking what happened with the promise.
Well, we might have a clue as to why Sandi has been absent
I wonder how it compares to her previous role as "not interested in PC games" vice president of marketing for a crowd funded PC game project?
She put so much non effort into the role of not really playing PC games or seeming to understand anyone remotely connected with them, a lesser actor might have spent as much as five minutes accidently doing research or reading up on the subject.