Bit late on that front. CIG roadmapped planetary animals back in 2017
CIG have always had whales in their sights
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CIG have always had whales in their sights
Yeah sure. The reason they can't publish a roadmap with dates for stuff like SQ42 releasing, or the progress on its components (story, mission design, mission implementation, props modelling), features such as interstellar travel or a new station being made available is all down to the risk of Frontier stealing the idea...
That said, it's funny to imagine. Because if you're correct, the idea that CIG themselves are convinced that Frontier would implement the SC roadmap faster than them is absolutely hilarious.
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Also, in many ways, the scope creep and completely unnecessary added complexity newly proposed for the roadmap is a very accurate reflection of what has happened to the development of the game and its scope growth. Imo CIG has managed to dodge the bullet of accountability many times by virtue of adding scope/fidelity/ambition and using that as a way to justify delays. Exactly the same, but at its own scale, seems to be happening with this "roadmap".
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Thatās why we are 12 threads in here, right?just an imaginary one between SC and everyone else
No, we have 12 threads in here because it's HILARIOUS.
And as Stephen King put it:
āThere are always worse things waiting. You think you have seen the most terrible thing, the one that coalesces all your nightmares into a freakish horror that actually exists, and the only consolation is that there can be nothing worse. Even if there is, your mind will snap at the sight of it, and you will know no more. But there is worse, your mind does not snap, and somehow you carry on."
Here's to another 12 threads of carrying on!
And as Stephen King put it:
āThere are always worse things waiting. You think you have seen the most terrible thing, the one that coalesces all your nightmares into a freakish horror that actually exists, and the only consolation is that there can be nothing worse. Even if there is, your mind will snap at the sight of it, and you will know no more. But there is worse, your mind does not snap, and somehow you carry on."
Here's to another 12 threads of carrying on!
The funny thing is, all those are actually positives ā they're the very reason why you have a roadmap to begin with. So no wonder CIĀ¬G don't want to deliver it: open and clear communication is wholly antithetical to their way of doing business.
Not really. Their āaccountsā either come in the form of what they hand over to the tax man, or in the report they've occasionally published for the backers. The former is a standard dry list of cash positions, which is not itemised in a way that lets you see where they money has gone ā just that it has gone. And even then, so much is just shuffling around between the dozen shell companies they've erected that there's no telling if the money has actually gone at all (but then, that's the whole purpose of shell companies). The latter is all about not explaining where the money has gone, but rather to show how much they've accumulated and brag about it.
Only if you do it poorly and if you have problems actually delivering what you say, in which case it's not really competitors taking advantage so much as you failing to keep up with the general march of time. If that happens, it is only right that you get slapped around by the competition. It's kind of how this whole open market thing is supposed to workā¦
There are 12 threads because the project has been such an abject failure and such a comedy of errors for such a ridiculously long time that the bog-standard discussion that happens around all games has run up against DB scheme boundaries in three different forum versions. Of course, you know this already, but it must really upset you something fierce since you must so compulsively bring it up at every opportunity and try to make it seem like it's a problem with the posters rather than the failed project.
So hilarious that only in ED forums you find 12 threads about it
So hilarious that only in ED forums you find 12 threads about it
Oh you should check out SomethingAwfulās many thread incarnations. The endless refunds subreddit. Derek Smartās forums of course
This tier of dedicated FUDdery is niche though naturally. But if you want more casual derision about SC, just check the comments under most any gaming article or mainstream YT vid
Most places have far more, but there's a decently working policy in place here where you don't create multiple threads on the same topic.So hilarious that only in ED forums you find 12 threads about it
But yeah, it's hilarious that this project has been going on for long enough to accumulate that many threads. Or sad. Or both.
Ho I know them. But 120 000 posts just from the community of one game is an ED's exclusivity. The NMS, X4, Astroneer, etc communities are way less worried about CIG and SC.
Itās even funnier once you realize most of the posts are only from a hand full of guys
So hilarious that only in ED forums you find 12 threads about it
it is also hilarious that most of the posts in this 12 threads are triggered by SC white knight like you.
hey! in only five months you made almost the same post as I did in 7 years and all in the same subforum.
Too bad it's not actually true.
After all, SC has been in development since 1997 too, and still hasn't been released, so it has ED beat by a good half-decade.
So they're negative-worried, then? How on earth does that work?
But yeah, if you want to see people being worried about CIĀ¬G and SC, there's no beating r/sc and Spectrum.
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I always imagine this happening when the residents of this thread see someone post something that suggests they like or enjoy SC.
Too bad it's not actually true.
After all, SC has been in development since 1997 too, and still hasn't been released, so it has ED beat by a good half-decade.
To be fair, I remember on the old Frontier Developments website there was a page for Elite 4 from about 1998-ish.
This is bizarre and delusional.
I started playing Vendetta Online to get my Elite fix, waiting for Elite 4 while following everything I could find about it. That was early 2000āsToo bad it's not actually true.
To be fair, I'm still waiting for Elite 4. World of Braben is not what I had in mind.