Game Discussions Star Citizen Discussion Thread v12
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Depends what we mean by exploration. But in a limited, non-instanced space exploration will be limited and rather precarious. You travel to an "interest point", where a piece of lore or loot is. Ten other players are already there, "discovering" it.
So, that sounds like CIG’s aiming for somewhere between Space Engineers and Empyrion: Galactic Survival then, or what that other space game’s been doing for ages… just with a relative handful of hand crafted systems, rather than procedural generation. Which means all the “secrets” will be plastered across be plastered across the internet within hours after its released.
That’s why I prefer proc-gen based exploration. When done right, you actually have to explore to find even hand crafted secrets.
While digging around on a few Freelancer sites I found this statement on one of the Forums:
"I actually have a SC account, with a ship and Squadron42. But at the moment there isn't much to do tbh. I have good hopes, but even it'll eventually turn out to be vaporware I won't regret it; my buying of the game was also intended as a salute to Chris Roberts." 5/11/2017
My emphasis on the final part.
"I actually have a SC account, with a ship and Squadron42. But at the moment there isn't much to do tbh. I have good hopes, but even it'll eventually turn out to be vaporware I won't regret it; my buying of the game was also intended as a salute to Chris Roberts." 5/11/2017
My emphasis on the final part.
Just a question, buy did you really make a Frontier Developments forum account solely to talk about Star Citizen?
Some will be permanents but the vast majority will be limited in time POI.
And to go to them, you need their coordinates (you have to find them by yourself with long distance probing or buy them from another player).
The only question is which one of LittleAnt and Cigwatch is the evil twin!
It's all go in Server Meshing land. From 5 teams (13 engineers, 2 designers) around April...
To 8 teams (25 engineers, 1 designer) now...
25 engineers.
25.
This is gonna be cooked in no time
EDIT: The 'Game Services Team' ramping up suggests that could be the Turbulent networking team perhaps.
EDIT2: Job adverts like these suggest it is indeed.
- Engineering (1 engineer)
- Game Services Team (1 designer, 1 engineer)
- Mission Feature Team (1 designer, 1 engineer)
- Network Team (6 engineers)
- Persistent Teach Team (4 engineers)
To 8 teams (25 engineers, 1 designer) now...
- Actor Feature Team (1 engineer) [NEW]
- Engineering (1 engineer)
- Game Services Team (0 designers [-1], 6 engineers [+5])
- Mission Feature Team (1 designer, 1 engineer)
- Network Team (6 engineers)
- Persistent Teach Team (4 engineers)
- Systemic Services and Tools Team (2 engineers) [NEW]
- US PU Gameplay Feature Team (4 engineers) [NEW]
25 engineers.
25.
This is gonna be cooked in no time
EDIT: The 'Game Services Team' ramping up suggests that could be the Turbulent networking team perhaps.
EDIT2: Job adverts like these suggest it is indeed.
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Is this before or after the 100 systems?
After icache, server meshing, quantum system and long range probing.
SC Leaks.
Its runs as far as the end of the roadmap, March > April 2022 and beyond, that's 10 months at least, could be 10 years.
This should have been in high gear at least 2 years ago.
It's all go in Server Meshing land. From 5 teams (13 engineers, 2 designers) around April...
To 8 teams (25 engineers, 1 designer) now...
- Actor Feature Team (1 engineer) [NEW]
- Engineering (1 engineer)
- Game Services Team (0 designers [-1], 6 engineers [+5])
- Mission Feature Team (1 designer, 1 engineer)
- Network Team (6 engineers)
- Persistent Teach Team (4 engineers)
- Systemic Services and Tools Team (2 engineers) [NEW]
- US PU Gameplay Feature Team (4 engineers) [NEW]
25 engineers.
25.
This is gonna be cooked in no time
EDIT: The 'Game Services Team' ramping up suggests that could be the Turbulent networking team perhaps.
Its runs as far as the end of the roadmap, March > April 2022 and beyond, that's 10 months at least, could be 10 years.
This should have been in high gear at least 2 years ago.
Isn't that the problem though? These things never see the light of day. The claims from the developers are wildly inaccurate.
It was supposed to drop end of 2018, so presumably they have been beavering away on it.
Doubling the engineering support like that is such a bad look though. It looks like desperation. (It's in no way my field, but my understanding is that you just get more confusion that way, not more output.)
When would you say it has ever been done right?
How dare you sir! Things persist, there was a (non-dynamic) Dynamic Event, and one of the ships has a map room. These things are practically at Tier 0 already.
Yes they are not in game, all are needed for exploration and we have no release date for them.
Icache and server meshing are needed to add more POI to the game.
Quantum system will manage all spawn of entities/missions/POI in the game.
And long range probing will be the gameplay tied to finding POI.