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Agony_Aunt

Agony_Aunt
VR Golgot said:
To everyone’s great surprise, Citcon will feature Pyro

https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/pzah1s
Source: https://old.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/pzah1s/jared_leaked_citizencons_keynote_teams_chat/


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The Wheel of Time turns, and citizen cons come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Pyro Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a con rose out of Cloud Imperium Games. The con was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.
 

Dementropy

Dementropy
Agony_Aunt said:
The Wheel of Time turns, and citizen cons come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Pyro Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a con rose out of Cloud Imperium Games. The con was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.
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This is fitting, because I feel the same way about this project as I do about the Wheel of Time series.
 

Darkfyre99

Darkfyre99
A Skeptic's Return to Star Citizen
Part Five
The Relocation Quest, Part Two

(part four)

Sorry this is so late, but it's been a crazy week IRL. Nothing particularly bad, but several inconveniences decided they all needed attention at once. The events in this post happened last Friday, when I actually had some free time...

First on my agenda was still relocating to Port Tressler. Since I only had access to four ships, and I'd already looked at two, I chose the smaller of the two remaining to take me to my new home.


I'm sure the SC regulars are already facepalming. ;) As it turned out, the Argo Cargo ship isn't a proper ship at all, but more of the kind of thing that would make much more sense as a prop, to hint at “behind the scenes” activities that would be too boring to portray in game. So naturally, that’s what CIG is planning to do. :rolleyes: I now get why this thing winning the contest is a joke, though, because this darn thing doesn't have a quantum drive, and I'm pretty sure I got passed by a snail on my way out of the atmosphere before discovering this little fact.

After briefly contemplating whether it would be faster just to suicide back to bed and take the train to the starport, I docked the ship and made my way to the elevators to return to the lobby and get a different ship. And that's when SC's gloriously buggy elevators made a cameo...


Eventually, I retrieved the Mercury Star Runner. I was tempted to take the remaining large cargo ship, but I wanted to relocate before the inevitable crash. Thankfully, I managed to make it to the station without incident.


Since I still had some time before I had to log out, I decided to poke around Port Tressler. What I found shocked me: it was the newbie area I had expected New Babbage to be: (mostly) new player friendly, with basic equipment that was easy to find. Only Star Citizen would force you out of your starting area to get properly equipped.🤦‍♀️ Which was why the first thing I did was, after removing my palm from my face, was to get myself properly outfitted.


The second thing I did was buy some clothing to wear when not in any immediate danger.


That little spending spree pretty much cost me most of my starting money, though very little time, so I decided to poke around more of the station.


I'm being serious here. I'd much rather see this, than what I saw in New Babbage. This says "reserved for future game features." Much of what I saw in New Babbage said, "I like to waste money on useless stuff, or stuff I'll have to redo later."


Again... I'm being serious here. I'm actually surprised that Chris Roberts didn't insist that these actually work, because fidelity. Of course, not everything was appropriate for the alpha this game is still pretending to be.




Seriously... this shop is almost identical to the one in the shopping center, hidden within a section of the station that served no in-game function, and demonstrated one of my main issues with this game's development: wasting money on art assets that will need to be redone once actual game mechanics are added to the game. Yes, finding it was a pleasant surprise, but the only reason why I poked my nose as far as I did into that area was because I didn't have access to the game mechanics I wanted to try out.

Sadly, real life decided it wanted some attention, so I never got a chance to look at the biggest ship I had temporary access to. I guess I get to look forward to the next free fly event, where I actually play the game!!!
 

EUS

EUS
Dementropy said:
HAHA!

Once I found myself having to write down where tertiary characters were and what they were doing for long stretches between books, I decided I was done with it. Like keeping track of the roadmap or archiving things related to this project.
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I was done after the 4th book, I couldn't take it.
 

Agony_Aunt

Agony_Aunt
Dementropy said:
HAHA!

Once I found myself having to write down where tertiary characters were and what they were doing for long stretches between books, I decided I was done with it. Like keeping track of the roadmap or archiving things related to this project.
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Whatever you do then, don't read any of Brandon Sanderson's series of books, especially the Stormlight Archive. You'll send yourself crazy. There is a whole wiki dedicated to keeping record of who is who and which characters go by different names in different series (because the worlds are connected and some people (worldhoppers) can travel between them). Not to mention the WoB (Words of Brandon) where people ask him questions at conferences and stuff and try and figure out additional stuff.

Oh yeah, it was him who finished Wheel of Time after Jordan died.

Actually, you can get away with reading Sanderson's smaller series without breaking your brain too much. The novellas and single book stories. But if you start with that, it won't be long before you're reading Mistborn, then Secret History, which will blow your mind, then you'll end up on Stormlight anyway.

The next thing you know, you'll be reading the 17th Shard wiki desperately looking for answers that don't exist.

The final nail in the coffin is when you understand its going to be decades before he finishes the books (assuming he doesn't croak before then) and all your questions won't be answered until the final books.
 

Agony_Aunt

Agony_Aunt
EUS said:
I was done after the 4th book, I couldn't take it.
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I'm a sucker for book series. I read the whole Mission Earth decology because a friend got me to read the first book. It was terrible. I'm also approaching the end of the Thomas Covenant books right now, which a friend first recommended to me like 35 years ago and finally got around to starting this year. Dear gods, Donaldson really rambles on and on and his chararcters really really annoy me. The Gap series was better, although pretty messed up.

Perhaps not as bad as a friend of mine who actually collected and read the Gor series by John Norman, which is trash of the highest order. Its been a long time since i saw him (decades) but the series was in the 20s by then and just checking i see they kept going and now up to 36 books!

EDIT: OMG, there were actually 2 Gor films. Starring Jack Palance and Oliver Reed.

Still, you know a film is worth watching if there is Oliver Reed playing the role of drunk Oliver Reed... which is basically all his films.
 
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Asp Explorer

Asp Explorer
Agony_Aunt said:
Still, you know a film is worth watching if there is Oliver Reed playing the role of drunk Oliver Reed... which is basically all his films.
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Method acting at it's finest.

If only he were here with us today - he'd make a magnificent Ernst Bishop.

"For two hundred years we have battled the Vanduul. We have called these attacks "raids" or "skirmishes" or "incursions." But I am here to tell you that we are at war! Tiber, Orion, Caliban, Virgil—once human systems—all but abandoned in the face of the enemy. The Vanduul are at our gates, weapons speared, while we... we hide and cower; retreating as they ..........."

OR ROARS: what utter mince... I cannot work with THIS!

<smashes glass on floor, retrieves bearskin jacket and exits stage left - stumbling wildy>

CR: Urm, erm <waves hands> somebody call Oldman, erm, yeah <waves hands>
 
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