I've read analogies about Star Citizen and pyramids before, but not in this way.I haven't bought it yetHaving said, if star citizen is indeed shaping up, i like to look at it like the pyramids, a few millennia later we're looking at it in wonder, not ever knowing about the corpses of the mud pit backers who came and gone, giving up on misleading promises, but leaving their money so that people from another age can appreciate what it is.
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Well, think about how many kittens / backers star citizen has killed in the last 9 years, sure while certainly acknowledging the state of the game today, and there is a community today. When you look at the giza pyramids, im sure we can't imagine what went on to build those too.
SC is the modern pyramids now? ... First it would change PC gaming, now it's the 8th wonder of the world?I mean, the Egyptians kept pretty good records, and an undertaking like any given pyramid requires resources and logistics - not just for construction materials, but to provide food and (weak) beer to the workers. Considering the scope of the project and the number of people involved, it was probably one of the earliest truly open-development projects. Additionally, the ancient Egyptians were pretty focused on death - both in recording it and the preparation of bodies (having piles of fallen workers lying about invites scavengers and disease - so they were accounted for). And they also kept records about how they were designed and built (oddly, Giorgio Tsoukalos and his ilk have been wrong all along - who would've guessed?). We also know that the Pyramid of Khufu (the Great Pyramid) took roughly 20 years, so by comparison, Star Citizen is half-way there!
There is one similarity though - the development and recordkeeping involved in the construction of the pyramids were performed by top officials, who were - in one way or another - related to the Pharaohs.
Death of a Tombman.
Many ancient Egyptian tombs were raided for their precious goods by the very people who made them, leaving those who paid for the building with nothing but an empty ransacked room. So maybe a little like SC after all
That's what they want you to think! There was simply a server wipe* that affected whales in the Lower Nile that they were never able to resolve.Many ancient Egyptian tombs were raided for their precious goods by the very people who made them, leaving those who paid for the building with nothing but an empty ransacked room. So maybe a little like SC after all
*Ref. Howard Carter and the Inevitable Consequences of Piracy (Barktona, B. 20XX)
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Not if you built for Pharao - then you'd be buried alongside.Many ancient Egyptian tombs were raided for their precious goods by the very people who made them, leaving those who paid for the building with nothing but an empty ransacked room. So maybe a little like SC after all
"Running off and using your money to build a completely unrelated game publisher?" Is that about Braben? Well, just imagine if he actually released Elite Dangerous back in 2014 instead.
But wait. He did!!
It's funny how SC backers are projecting their own issues.
I take it you are here not to play the game, but to join the unknown "mud pit backers"? That's okay. Problem is, that's not what CRobber had promised ten years ago and is promising now.I haven't bought it yet
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Chapter 5 of Squadron 42 is apparently playable now, so there is hope.I haven't bought it yet
2/100 Star systems done in 2022 after ten years? That means complete minimum viable product available in 3012 missing the originally predicted year of release 2942 by a mere 60 years.
Another freefly...didn't we just have one?
All this nostalgia for free. Amazing, never got better gameplay out of a full refund.
Actually, I don't remember the latter two (that I bolded) - what was the story with those?
LOL, CIG copying FD again, this time with bland paintjobs for silly prices. Good to see they haven't run out of stock!
Now just waiting for CIG to invent their own virtual currency like ARX.
Now just waiting for CIG to invent their own virtual currency like ARX.
With a real blockchain.
And NFT spaceships!
Given that all of them were playable in 2016, according to CI-G spokeperson, we can extrapolate. Now, what does it give us... hmm... oh right! SQ404 is going BETA in this year plus one!
With completely fungibilized tokens! Never been done before!
By the way, I just called Chris as I wanted to persuade him on idea of changing the title, while it's still early days, from Star Citizen to Delusions of Grandeur.
Unfortunately he didn't Answer The Call.
The Egyptians didn't know the concept of zero - that might impede the Tier 0 development. Or we jump straight to Tier 1. I mean they got rid of Robblers, so the biggest Klotz on their legs is probably gone, even if he still collects his salary.
The closest thing the ancient Egyptians had to zero was the same hieroglyph used to represent beauty, so maybe they had more in common with CIG than I thought.
It was the baseline from which all structures (read: pipelines) were built.
Zero/naught/nil - I'm a damned Yankee, so American English is still a big impediment for me.