Game Discussions Star Citizen Discussion Thread v12

[Agony_Aunt]

Shamelessly stolen from SA:


Sarsapariller, stuffing bodies into his spaceship: "No officer, you don't understand! This is an alpha!"

Sunswipe: Start selling NPC dead bodies that people can put in their ships... Make them look like the developers, let Chris Roberts be your copilot! Have a Ben Lesnick in your cargo bay!

Star Citizen really does allow all sort of gameplay never even envisioned by any other game developer!

It brings a tear to my eye when i go home at night and think about all the wonderful mechanics CIG are making.

CR is truly a genius of the highest order.

 

[Factabulous]

Finally all the effort they were putting into Body Dragging is paying off

 

[Navigare Necesse Est]

For 1 or 100 hundred, the average number of players by system will be at least 50 (far more wanted by CIG). In Stanton with only 50 players, when you hack a Comm Array there's a good chance that someone will come to kill you.

The average can't be 50 when 50 is the maximum.

 

[LittleAnt]

On what are you basing that? CIG's statements of 1000s of players on a single (set of) servers?

Just extrapoling if CIG completly fail dynamic server meshing and stay on static servers tech with max 50 players by system (the current alpha tech)
I will not use larger numbers here, everyone think CIG is unable to get better.

 

[LittleAnt]

The average can't be 50 when 50 is the maximum.

Correct. Change 'average' by 'maximum' in my sentence.

 

[Firkrayt]

The average can't be 50 when 50 is the maximum.

In Star Citizen, number of players per server reach 30000!

 

[Dooguk]

Erin Roberts February 2017...

So with the next big release a lot of the underlying game is there and then we can look at transferring people between servers so we can have hundreds of thousands of people maybe in one instance, but that doesn’t come online until later.

Almost 4 years ago

 

[Firkrayt]

Erin Roberts February 2017...



Almost 4 years ago

Hey, Star Citizen't put Rockstar to shame almost five years ago!

But enough of that reminiscing, let's get back to 2020!

Oops.

 

[Asp Explorer]

It might be fun to go back and do the elementary mathematics of stack, noding, overhead, bandwidth,and latency requirements for 1000's of simultaneous players in one instance - for those new to the show or who simply may have forgotten with the ravages of time

Spoiler

CI-G can't do it

 

[Navigare Necesse Est]

Correct. Change 'average' by 'maximum' in my sentence.

The rest of your insinuation goes down the drain too with that. the reason you see players meeting at the hacking point is because it's an artificial bottleneck, not many players meeting randomly.

 

[Navigare Necesse Est]

BTW Mount&Blade Warband had over 100 players in one servers. I used to play in the line battles and was meeting players unrandomly all the time. True, the maps were smaller, but there was always THAT one guy trying to hide in a bush and snipe. One day our seargent moved our line neatly into enfilade position for the enemy cannon. We called it out but he wouldn't listen. I've never seen so many instant GGs coming up like then.

 

[Zyll Goliat]

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In Star Citizen, number of players per server reaches 30K!

You maybe get confused a bit 30k per server is totally normal.....he talking about players per instance....players that you can actually see when you play SC........and yeah number 50 is still just a dream FPS drastically drops in game when you have dozen of players in proximity as you could see this recently in that "flying-whales"video...

Frames per seconds are horrible not because a weak machine/PC(imagine a whale who invest few k$ in SC but have potato rig right...you can't)they are horrible because horrendous networking.....but hey 5 years back even this was not possible so who knows let's give CIG just couple of decades more and maybe they will solve this minor problem....

 

[Dooguk]

You maybe get confused a bit 30k per server is totally normal.....he talking about players per instance....players that you can actually see when you play SC........and yeah number 50 is still just a dream FPS drastically drops in game when you have dozen of players in proximity as you could see this recently in that "flying-whales"video...

Frames per seconds are horrible not because a weak machine(imagine a whale who invest few k$ in SC but have potato rig right...you can't)they are horrible because horrendous networking.....but hey few years back even this was not possible so who knows let's give CIG couple of decades more and maybe they will solve this minor problem....

You know the fps is bad when you can count it yourself.

 

[Zyll Goliat]

You know the fps is bad when you can count it yourself.

Yep...correct ...tho' this particular planet also not helping maybe they could stretch 1-2 frames more if they shoot this very same flying-whales scene in outer space.....

 

[LittleAnt]

The rest of your insinuation goes down the drain too with that. the reason you see players meeting at the hacking point is because it's an artificial bottleneck, not many players meeting randomly.

I don't remember having said players where meeting randomly in general.
Players meet at POI or because the game make them artificially meet with creation of opposing/concurrent missions. For instance when you are hacking, the game create a security mission to stop your hacking. Everyone with good reputation get this mission on screen, you just have to click ok to have a marker pointing to the hacker on the map.
Stanton is huge for 50 players, hard to meet someone at a totally random point.

 

[WhiteHaulerMan]

ED - land on planet, exit in SRV, ship gets blown up. Can't go home.

Same deal.

I'm sure there are other games where you can have a similar experience.

Except we know thats not the case.

You can engage in that most Elite Dangerous of gameplay mechanics and log out, perform a 'mode hol' and log back into vanilla ED and you'll appear above the planet in your ship unharmed.

 

[varonica]

Except we know thats not the case.

You can engage in that most Elite Dangerous of gameplay mechanics and log out, perform a 'mode hol' and log back into vanilla ED and you'll appear above the planet in your ship unharmed.

No, that doesn't work if your ship is blown up, and you do that you get the rebuy screen! That only works if you are stuck on some scenery or down a hole where your ship can't land and your ship is still in one piece. It would be useful, before commenting on game mechanics, if you actually knew what they were.

 

[Agony_Aunt]

Except we know thats not the case.

You can engage in that most Elite Dangerous of gameplay mechanics and log out, perform a 'mode hol' and log back into vanilla ED and you'll appear above the planet in your ship unharmed.

You're thinking of what you can do if your SRV gets stuck in a hole.

 

[varonica]

You're thinking of what you can do if your SRV gets stuck in a hole.

Like one as big as SC?

 

[Asp Explorer]

Like one as big as SC?

Despite nearly a decade of development, absolutely oodles of cash, and the logical and physical impossibility of this state - Star Citizen somehow manages to only be half a hole.