I'd say 200+ in marketing: narrative (pun intended) writers, monetization specialists, damage controllers, grey market agents...
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You're not agile enough. And your sprint speed isn't prime standard neither, I bet.Aren't they even slightly aware of what might be broken in the bit of code they're 'synching' back in? That's like me putting gearbox oil that's done 10,000 hours back into a rebuilt gearbox then feeling somewhat surprised that my tractor stops working when the gears fall out the bottom of it
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I am not convinced that the comparison is 100% valid. Microsoft flight Simulator (MFS) is using data from Bing maps which already exist.
The comparison does seem to be valid when looking at the MFS reviews. Even though it is in single player the FPS is at SC MMO levels IE low.
One quote is.
("But while the visual quality is certainly scalable, performance doesn't scale proportionally. That means landing at JFK is still a stuttery affair using any preset, including low" )
I do intend to buy MFS when the price comes down.
In the last few pages we seem to be discussing ED Odyssey , SC and MFS. Some of the folk discussing and comparing them have not played any of them, That is "hilarious"
Someone telling us that we can not or should speculate on this thread! That is "hilarious". this thread is all about folk getting excited about speculation.
IE. That SC is a money laundering operation, ask them to provide evidence and it is clear that it is just speculation.
Who said that?
By the general looks of things, it seems like a plausible distribution is:
• 600 “working” on the project
• 150 of those are external contractors
• 90 of those are programmers
Apart from Odyssey...at least the Elite version and not the Ubisoft hack and slash extravaganza...I've played them all
Unistalled MSFS 2020 after I saw the patchwork quilt rendition of my islands that Microsoft deemed acceptable. It seems if you're not in the US, Bing maps simply replaces your entire location with 'Here be Dragons'. I'll wait for the next great thing in flight sims...when it uses Google maps instead of some badly drawn boy version of our planet.
After the flight sim decided to reinstall the entire 91Gb from scratch out of nowhere and for no good reason, I gave up and binned it. Glad it didn't cost me anything
Oh Elite manages that all the time, tooIf anyone doubts the spaghetti code...how can adding 'new' content break something as basic as hangar doors? They weren't broken before, there have been no issues with them being reported as broken previous to 3.10 PTU... so how can not touching or farting about with the simple bit of code governing them break their operation?...Unless that same bit of code somehow also governs the buying of Pico plushies in some way
Just look what the Arx store all crippled
This actually does have a connection to the gaming world, as Steve Bannon made millions with IGE (basically WoW gold farming and shady RMT) which was a total mess of corruption, slave labor and money laundering.
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Aren't they even slightly aware of what might be broken in the bit of code they're 'synching' back in? That's like me putting gearbox oil that's done 10,000 hours back into a rebuilt gearbox then feeling somewhat surprised that my tractor stops working when the gears fall out the bottom of it
To be honest, you'd be surprised at what mistakes can happen even in professional companies (ie: not CIG) with builds and code merges. I've seen perfectly working builds become a total mess because one person didn't follow the correct proceedure and merged old code from their personal branch. Usually such things get caught before they go to the production server, but the bigger the project, the easier it is to miss such things, so the bigger the project, the more essential it is you have solid processes in place, because your automated tests might not always catch these things (or more likely, the test did, but when you are getting multiple build results each days, sometimes you can miss a warning/error. And when you do, sometimes you get an angry phone call from a client at midnight screaming at you that their system doesn't work.
Now, compound that with tired employees who are working in crunch mode for months or years at a time, and mistakes like this can easily be compounded and happen again and again, and the gaming industry is well known for relying on crunch. I don't know how much crunch CIG does, how persistent it is, but i'd hazard a guess its frequent enough that mistakes like this happen on a regular basis.
re: crunch. Its been endless for some people, completely absent for others. One of the people who used to work there crunched for almost a full year of 55 to 60 hour work weeks with no end in sight. Other people sit around and twiddle their thumbs for the same time span.
Pure insanity.
Pure insanity.
By the general looks of things, it seems like a plausible distribution is:
• 600 “working” on the project
• 150 of those are external contractors
• 90 of those are programmers
5 gold skins,
4 calling all devs,
3 French devs,
2 Turtle aliens,
And a Roberts in a money tree
Lots of people leaving Cloud Imperium at the end of this week, I'm sure this is totally normal for a game entering beta in the next six months to a year.
Any idea why? Is there a reason for the date?
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"lots"
Considering that "road" image, I don't see any roads there. In fact it reminds me of certain canyons on Elite's planets when you have good luck and find traversably terrain out from canyons bottom. And those places certainly aren't roads.
Well, four or five actual goodbye tweets, including the Lead Level Designer, a concept artist that's been with the company since 2014, and a Live Designer who is in charge of all the questline content in the PU.
They are all leaving the same day -- luckily Splash Damage is picking a few of them up, and the others seemed to have found better jobs as well.
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I'm not sure if that violates some privacy here, since it would include real names. You can find them all posted in the SA thread over the last week.