Some lone indie dev will build a proof of concept vertical slice for a SC clone, in their spare time, in UnrealEngine, long before CIG figures out how to do it.
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Can you walk through your ship and get killed by secondary ghost trains is possibly more the point
Wow, just let that sink in. Soon* it will be a teenager, will SQ42 show up for the birthday party though?
*CIG definition of soon obviously
Before you can answer that question maybe a better question would be:
What isn't Star Citizen. Then you can take those answers and invert them.
A released game?
I'm looking forward to this, next quarterly patch, hopefully.
Source: https://youtu.be/X51Nth7rRrQ?t=604
Why? Its just another area... with a tour seller?
So playing BG3 and this happened.
What i'm saying is SC really needs NPCs that burst into song if you say the right things to them.
What i'm saying is SC really needs NPCs that burst into song if you say the right things to them.
Let's see..
Planetside 2 has an older netcode indeed, still the effort is amazing for its time (that was released in 2012.. yes back then SC was just barely started - if CRoberts had done his homework he'd had taken a long, detailed look at that game and how it was made as the general design is really close to SC) and yeah it lacks lag compensation / prediction, but still it's a reference milestone IMHO for what it achieved vs the competition (and even still today it's not so shabby.. not too many competitors). Oh and it uses a custom made engine.
Dual Universe is entirely designed around its netcode. So yeah the game design itself takes care of not creating bottlenecks in network traffic anywhere by avoiding data-heavy interactions. Another way to do that would be using a much slower kind of gameplay, e.g. World of Warships or Mechwarrior kind of speed, which really simplifies handing network lag and traffic. I mention that because that was a real possibility for Star Citizen if they used a more realistic flight model (= closer to realism modded KSP for instance). Bespoke engine too.
EvE netcode and architecture date back to 2004, it's vastly outdated here, and yeah that time dilation is a crutch. Everything runs synchronous with their backing SQL database, and if you do not know what that means, these databases have comparatively slow write operations (due to locks happening on data you are writing). Needless to say their database servers are absolute beasts, but yeah that's not cutting it if you have a thousand players spamming real time actions in the same place (that's where each player will need to get a hold of an exclusive lock on the database to write their action/command, then release it for the next player etc... hence the action queue and minutes per frame). So yeah EvE has never been a reference there, it's one for its space trading game design and economy BGS, best in class, still today I think (unless I've missed a newcomer). If one was to design the backing persistence today they'd use a fast-write, eventual consistency, high concurrency system (there are a few choices on the market - with things like Redis that can handle the real time front-end for the players). Not blaming CCP though as when they designed and released the game, nothing like this really existed. Custom engine again, starting to see a trend
Surely that gives CIG a perfect reason for an engine change and to reset the dev clock!!
9,000-player games are right around the corner, and here's what one looks like
Scavengers' experimental ScavLab mode can support over 9,000 players in the same space. We've seen it in action.www.pcgamer.com
For real this time.....ok...go! stumble stumble...hold on...that didnt count....starting now....! I hope this time they have a plan.
sc community is the best - Star Citizen Spectrum
Star Citizen fans bought the New Babbage AI (me!) a gaming PC | UNBOXING AND THANK YOU - YouTube
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Ahem... i think some of us might disagree with this.
orgs using merits to bypass law system, encourages bad behavior - Star Citizen Spectrum
So, orgs can use merits to bypass otherwise lengthy prison sentences, allowing them to behave in an extremely toxic manner with little consequence. Obviously if PvP is intended to be balanced in...
robertsspaceindustries.com
Oh no! Anyway....
A sandbox MMO with PVP, are we even welcome in this game? - Star Citizen Spectrum
The more I play Star Citizen and get to know the community (very much so on spectrum) the more my interests in Star Citizen feel unwelcomed. An open world sandbox MMO. What drives me to play this...
robertsspaceindustries.com
They clearly don't understand SC's development. All the items they list will be in Star Citizen. All you need to do is dream and it will all come true. CR has promised it all.
Star Citizen is already out... - Star Citizen Spectrum
https://images2.minutemediacdn.com/image/upload/c_fill,w_912,h_516,f_auto,q_auto,g_auto/shape/cover/sport/5c313c2d8b09071609000003.jpeg This game is not an Alpha. It's actually been fully released....
robertsspaceindustries.com
Hmmm.... i don't think this will garner many positive reactions.
This.. what I call OPEN development. - Star Citizen Spectrum
Fixing bugs as soon as possible, in ALPHA Listen to feedback (Notice the positive vibe?)
robertsspaceindustries.com
Oh dear..... bringing up ED. Not a good move on Spectrum.
sc community is the best - Star Citizen Spectrum
Star Citizen fans bought the New Babbage AI (me!) a gaming PC | UNBOXING AND THANK YOU - YouTube
Ahem... i think some of us might disagree with this.
orgs using merits to bypass law system, encourages bad behavior - Star Citizen Spectrum
So, orgs can use merits to bypass otherwise lengthy prison sentences, allowing them to behave in an extremely toxic manner with little consequence. Obviously if PvP is intended to be balanced in...
Oh no! Anyway....
A sandbox MMO with PVP, are we even welcome in this game? - Star Citizen Spectrum
The more I play Star Citizen and get to know the community (very much so on spectrum) the more my interests in Star Citizen feel unwelcomed. An open world sandbox MMO. What drives me to play this...
They clearly don't understand SC's development. All the items they list will be in Star Citizen. All you need to do is dream and it will all come true. CR has promised it all.
Star Citizen is already out... - Star Citizen Spectrum
https://images2.minutemediacdn.com/image/upload/c_fill,w_912,h_516,f_auto,q_auto,g_auto/shape/cover/sport/5c313c2d8b09071609000003.jpeg This game is not an Alpha. It's actually been fully released....
Hmmm.... i don't think this will garner many positive reactions.
This.. what I call OPEN development. - Star Citizen Spectrum
Fixing bugs as soon as possible, in ALPHA Listen to feedback (Notice the positive vibe?)
Oh dear..... bringing up ED. Not a good move on Spectrum.
One month Alpha vs Decade alpha. Who... Will... Win!
This is the thing, you need to understand what you are dealing with, be humble and know where to compromise. Nobody can win with physics.Custom engine again, starting to see a trend
Or at least, if you have high goals and ambitions, to do a real prototype that addresses the potentially painful details of your design, benchmark that, and then adjust that design around that information. That's a rule that's general to computer software by the way. When I do proof of concepts for my customers these are always about the real difficult part of the project, never about the colors and graphics.
EPIC DEVELOPMENT BATTLES OF HISTORY!!!!!
Now i want to see an epic rap battle between David Braben and Chris Roberts.
Towards the end they can bring in Sean Murray to diss them both
I don't think Chris Roberts got the memo about that though.
EPIC DEVELOPMENT BATTLES OF HISTORY!!!!!
Now i want to see an epic rap battle between David Braben and Chris Roberts.
Towards the end they can bring in Sean Murray to diss them both
Roberts certainly has a place he could show off on MTV Cribs.
I bet they all do but the others earned their money.
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Just watch Gary Whitta series of interview with both and you get very much this.
One already have thought out, the other is making things up as words get out of his mouth.
Wow, 2012.