Classy. Very classy.
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Classy. Very classy.
Hah, that almost sounds like that "How it Works" thing done by goons 5 years ago.
"SC players do this by pledging for ships"
"Little Timmy wants to fly a spaceship, which spaceship should he buy?"
"The nice Mr. Roberts runs a JPG factory."
Found the thread!
The Something Awful Forums
Maybe someone has a link to the imgur album of it?
Sandra! I'm with Vanessa now! Can you hear me Sandra???!
I am happy for haters to fund SC - I don't want Chris to run out of funds and have that excuse, I want him to have to carry on trying to deliver. Fair enough warning the genuinely naive ppl who come across the game, but that guy really deserves to fund our fun
I'm glad we agree
Ah ok, so you genuinely don't know what you're talking about. Good to have it confirmed
You have paid extra money (approx $84 total) to get access to the alpha, plus a superior ship.
The base package starter ships (the Aurora & Mustang variants) have various long-term bugs and issues. (If you selected the Mustang, don't expect its "cargo carrier" to actually work, for example.)
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The narrative that it would arrive in 2017? And 2021?
Source: https://imgur.com/a/UE3dc
Oh wait, have you upped your sock wager?
We'll keep it at Squadron announcement sometime this yearOh wait, have you upped your sock wager?
. But I am quite confident that they can deliver Server Meshing this year.We'll keep it at Squadron announcement sometime this year
Well strictly speaking this should call for a pair of socks
(And possibly a bobble hat for your Pyro & Nyx for 2022 prediction too?)
By 'deliver Server Meshing' you of course mean Tier 0 'Static Server Meshing' right? (Also known as bog standard Destiny style networking
)Your highly spurious claim demands actual details.
Elite has actual, functioning gameplay and has been officially released. Dangerous launched YEARS ago, yet SC is STILL in a messy pre-alpha state after a decade and half a billion in funding. If I buy a Legatus package, are all the ships in the "game"?
*opposed
Huh, maybe a bit more than that. Wont get into that little silly game as it seems it's pointless since you select what you read.
Maybe the more butt hurt of us are the actual backers who lost quite a bit of money on a still undelivered promise.
? What the actual heck ? Can Overwatch provide me with a full VR experience of exploring new stars and planets, or going through the jets of a pulsar ? Or also in full VR, cracking open asteroids or destroying pirates in space combat with 20-30 ships fighting around ? Are you on drugs ?
Again with the on-drugs comparison ? What would that mean at all ? Do you think it means "better graphics" ? Because even that is debatable.
OK so you never played ED and you're criticizing it based on what you dont know. Did you ever play Space Engineers, KSP, No Man's Sky ? Just to name a few.
As for your statements about ED's trade gameplay loop: ED trade may be basic for sure, it WORKS, flawlessly, everytime. You can trade across systems (which you can't in SC, because obviously there's just the one system), you can smuggle illegal goods (which you can't in SC, due to having zero smuggling mechanics, and magic law enforcement that pops out of nowhere at random), you can see all sell prices at a given station (which you can't in SC, for no obvious good reason, just CiG being themselves i guess), you can also do cargo haul missions (which you can't in SC, since there are no such missions in there, again CiG missed a quick win here), also in ED there's no 30K, and no falling through a lift and surface of a planet and lose everything due to a completely random bug that will kill you. Oh and you can do all of that in VR with an amazing experience, and constant 90+fps, which you can't in SC since there's no VR despite being promised for a 2014 delivery (yes, i backed the project because of that), and the frame rate is abysmal even on a top-end watercooled battlestation.
Look, I wish SC was at least as good as Jumpgate when talking about trade, but it's not, it's not even there for the basic features like "buy/sell from a terminal" as these can be buggered at times (usually when servers are a bit tired...). No your cargo load doesnt affect your ship in any way other than having the crates graphically there. And no the economy is nowhere near the already very simple model of ED (admittedly, it's still got very limited features (*), compared to say, EvE) or the very enjoyable model of Jumpgate.
(*) edit: i'll have to add, that long range smuggling runs were one of the most exciting things i've done in ED, high stakes high risk, really one point where ED did shine. Still waiting for any kind of smuggling mechanics to show up in SC.
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No, not really. SC has been more stable than ED for me. Mauve Adders galore
In that context, trade, ED does have the standard 'launch game' stability of conserving your state though, so you can carry on with your trade route etc afterwards. Despite improvements there, and some temporary technical debt fixes, that's far from guaranteed in SC. It's notably an issue with simple log ins and log outs too. (These unlucky fellas ended up 'in the sun', for example).
(Lord knows what 2022's networking replacement is going to do on those fronts. But the odds are that it won't be pretty for a while
)Not entirely true. NPC bounty hunters will follow you between instances for sure. (I've had the same NPC chase me from supercruise to stations many a time).
EDIT: Oh whoops, just saw the update Heather. Righto.
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If you're asking a question like that you're not right for Star Citizen.
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Trading is not broken in SC.
And environmental effects do matter in SC because you have to worry about your ship blowing away.
Here's a quote from CIG (Sandi) that i've never heard before. So no idea if its right, but it was quoted by one of the faithful on Spectrum.
So, Sandi, the wife of the CEO, the head of marketing, and holder of 10% of shares in CIG, didn't know Chris had sold 10% of the company to fund the game and provide funds for marketing? She had no idea that the company was running on fumes, despite having a seat on the board of directors?
That has to be one of the more worrying statements i've seen come out of CIG.
So, Sandi, the wife of the CEO, the head of marketing, and holder of 10% of shares in CIG, didn't know Chris had sold 10% of the company to fund the game and provide funds for marketing? She had no idea that the company was running on fumes, despite having a seat on the board of directors?
That has to be one of the more worrying statements i've seen come out of CIG.
Trading is not broken in SC.
And environmental effects do matter in SC because you have to worry about your ship blowing away.
Oh, its fixed now? People kept saying it was broken for months.
Yes, environmental effects matter from travel, landing, etc. They are not part of the trade mechanics. Like in ED, you're not always going to a planet to make a trade, you can trade between starports (i guess? Port O to some other space station? Erm... grim hex?) Environmental effects can affect trade in ED as well, if going to a planet with high G.
It was never really broken. Well, except for scrap. Scrap is broken in that you can buy it but never sell it.
Trade is broken similar to trading is broken in ED because if I go to Lave in my 700t cargo capacity Cutter, I can only buy 5 (or whatever the number is) Lavian Brandy and I cant fill my cutter up with them.
You cant make the millions of credits per hour like you could in 3.8 and people say it is broken. I made most of my money trading in 3.15 after the wipe, probably made 10 million credits at around 200k - 225k an hour.
Although I do appreciate people saying trade is broken so more people don't even try it.
On the down side though, 3.16 has broken the side door at new babbage, so i'm not trading anymore.
But it does reset your postion in a System to near the main star if you get booted in supercruise, atleast in my experience.
Did Jumptown last week in a friend's redeemer, had to log back in and out in the beds because the terrain was a little bit slow to load on my end.
Ended up being back in the same bed and with the same crew on the same planet!