Yet in Elite you cant get together more than 30 people without significant performance reduction and disconnects...
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After the release of SQ42, they will earn money they could spend as they want.
Another point against the OA video, not one mention of Starfield. How many employees on the project and since how many years ?
I'm not sure what the final numbers were, but when it works, it works:
Pretty smooth to me, and this was ages ago.
Completely irrelevant to the topic of the video. He's comparing the sizes of the companies/teams working on the projects. All the games are different scales anyway and can't be directly compared.
Please stop it with the special pleading for CIG/SC, its just silly.
This is Chris Roberts we are talking about. He very well might be. Or maybe you're right, he's going chasing other projects without delivering on the projects he's already taken money for. That would be quite like Chris Roberts.
But SQ42 is not released and has no release date, but they are planning that office right now. They are planning the expansion of staff right now, the money they have right now is money given for SC/SQ42. The money they are investing in the Frankfurt office is money give for the development of SQ42/SC.
If they are planning all this and the expansion for a different IP, they are doing it right now using funds given for SQ42/SC.
Perhaps you could make these arguments if CIG had released a product and sold it. They haven't.
You can, but there can't be NPCs around.
Suppose its a question of what you are wanting more though. The ability to see any of 1000s of players at any time, just in limited numbers, or the possibility you might see up to 50 players at once (and maybe the servers won't melt) but the reset of the 'verse will be empty since nobody else will be in the same version of the game, and until you log off, you're stuck with the same 50 players.
And you know what is funny... long time ago I was told "CIG will never allow a small group of players to blockade or area denial a system..."
But yeah, if they do not substantially increase player cap then it will be IMPERIUM vs PAPI at 1DQ1-A but with less than 100 players...
CIG don't have a clue if they can do it, but got to keep hopes alive!
Ok so that post, is from an uber-fan who became a CM...
Source: https://www.twitter.com/jakeacappella/status/1341895610698522624
Prior CM experience: Working on the Relay fan site.
Which is all fine. But I think I'll stick with the networking dev's cautious prognosis on all this. (Over his LittleAnt-style faith in Vulkan
)Especially given he's got form for saying stuff like this:
I have always loved their twitch-based capital ship battles...
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Ay, but the points in favour of their P2P system are:
- They settled on it very early, building the rest of the game around it. Development aspects haven't been blocked waiting for it to coalesce. (They've just worked within its known limitations from the off, and done what they can to improve it).
- It mainly handles twitch gameplay in a reliable fashion. (Useful when that's a core part of your game).
- It works well enough for instancing the large world map. (Annoying disconnects and port-forwarding-faff aside...)
- It's cheap for them. They can truck on through the lean times. (Which is possibly useful right now . And generally useful for any niche title aiming to last a decade+)
It's not an exceptional system by any means. But in terms of getting content out over the last 9 years+, it's probably been the right choice.
5 years expansion plan.
I see no problem here, that CIG's way of dealing with obstacles:
- Hard times putting things together? Let's add a ton more
- New tech not good for the job? Invent another one more difficult
- Can't get to release 1 game? Add another project to the debt
That's what happen when the priority is focused on fideliciousity of microdetails on 3D assets.
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Early days!
Viajero
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Shiny! This is definitely progress.
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Oo I was just going to say. I was surprised you hadn't pimped the new clouds
They are pretty damn lovely. And I do like the dew-y descent through them as well.
You'll forgive me for enjoying this vid the most of all though:
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/qs21w7/the_clouds_are_amazing_but_the_damp_atmosphere/
I just like the way it displays the new bling, while also revealing the sorrier state of some former bling. (The sparser tree count.)
I'm sure these clouds will never suffer the same indignity though
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well, i haven't been able to load star citizen since they added easy anti-cheat it seems. So until wine/linux support gets back to working, it's elite and NMS only for me.
Lol
Looks like CR decided to up his game and go full Monty AAA style. Like the way C* did back with GTAO. If I didn't know better, I'd swear this is CI's endgame. By not producing a game because it went bankrupt from toxic cost overruns....
Because what -- I don't even.....
Source: https://youtu.be/MRW24OxDGFU
Then again perhaps I'm being too cynical. Because he's almost convinced me he's showing good faith in trying to release a game.
Almost....
edit: increasingly impossible to believe Mom & Pop Hello Games barely succeeded in crawling out of Oblivion. Bloodied and battered. And yet went on to make one of the best, most feature prolific space games in the industry. With a core crew of TWENTY SIX people...
Looks like CR decided to up his game and go full Monty AAA style. Like the way C* did back with GTAO. If I didn't know better, I'd swear this is CI's endgame. By not producing a game because it went bankrupt from toxic cost overruns....
Because what -- I don't even.....
Then again perhaps I'm being too cynical. Because he's almost convinced me he's showing good faith in trying to release a game.
Almost....
edit: increasingly impossible to believe Mom & Pop Hello Games barely succeeded in crawling out of Oblivion. Bloodied and battered. And yet went on to make one of the best, most feature prolific space games in the industry. With a core crew of TWENTY SIX people...
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Viajero
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Cheater!
That's quite glorious and if I had to choose one thing from SC FDEV should REALLY put in EDO it's this!