Game Discussions Star Citizen Discussion Thread v12

Agony_Aunt

Agony_Aunt
Straha Yeagar said:
Such a freakin' awesome game! Or Alpha in this case I suppose...

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Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/srs16i/just_started_playing_again_had_some_basic_stuff/
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That's the neat part. You don't!
Yes, it's immersive. Cig said we should be careful about not losing things. Sorry that doesn't help.
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Yeah, got to be careful about not losing things when the game crashes on you. Its clearly the OPs fault that the game crashed anyway. Probably didn't install it on a SSD or something and set their page file to 60Gb on a different SSD.

Still, shouldn't complain. Might disturb the developers.
 

metatheurgist

metatheurgist
Xink said:
Where we're going.. we don't need roadmaps.
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I memed that 2 years ago...2...years...ago! It's 3 years and stale now!
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Agony_Aunt

Agony_Aunt
Oh no, someone disturbing the developers. Hope this doesn't result in something else being removed!

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Some questions about things that seems to have been abandoned - Star Citizen Spectrum

I know When question are not allowed, but since roadmap is now limited to one quarter and the progress tracker does not give any information about when features will be introduce, I would like an...
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Is this parody or real?

All of those things have been discussed. They aren't valid concerns.

You clearly are not smart enough to understand game development so I don't want them wasting developers time trying to explain it to you.

And it's not even that-You dont want to understand. You just want to come and act like you know better then CIG.
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Oh, apparently just a new really toxic person who is going around telling everyone who is critical they are stupid. Wonder if the mods will do anything about them.

Oh dear... a real life example of a spite pledge.

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I was going to stop my subscription and not buy the Hover Quad. All this whining has made me buy and resub. Treat humans better people and stop dehumanizing the developers. Negativity just brings misery to your life. - Star Citizen Spectrum

This drama is the most entertaining thing people make mistakes and intent misconstrued. CIG making record profits the last two years. expanding by a thousand developers and new studio, CIG making...
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Its not just a meme, its real.

Oops telling people there are other games out there that are good... that's not going to go down well with the faithful

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Games These Days - You Do Realize They’re Awesome, Right? - Star Citizen Spectrum

Hi everyone, Every day I read on these forums about how the game industry only releases garbage, gaming is dead, the 90s were the golden era, many people don’t play anything except SC, Cyberpunk,...
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And...

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Does CIG still have a backup plan? - Star Citizen Spectrum

With all the salt over the roadmap, does CIG have a backup plan if funding dries up. CR has said in the past that they had enough money to finish the game. Then when the financials were released we...
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I think the backup plan involves a country that does not have extradition treaties, a nice beach, and hot weather.
 

Agony_Aunt

Agony_Aunt
You are ignoring/unaware of some facts:

The majority of revenue comes from new purchases of game packages, not existing backers - so some salty group won't make much difference. The perma-negative have been pushing the 'Defund CIG' narrative for years. It has never worked before. The hilarious part is that some of them pushing that narrative are the ones addicted to buying more ships.

The money raised was used to build a company. That company has assets, and an IP. Those assets have value which can be leveraged to raise capital either via investors or through loans.

The private investors bought non-voting rights minority shares with an option to take up a further tranche at a later date. They did indeed take up the option to take up those further shares, I'm absolutely sure they wouldn't have done that if they believed the backers 'feelings' could have significantly impacted future revenue. CIG has made investments of their own. For example they have part shares in other companies that have undertaken work for CIG.

CIG have created an Engine and tools which they could, if they wished license out to other game development companies - they call it StarEngine.

They haven't even started with any serious marketing yet. There are franchising deals to be made too. Firesprite is owned by Sony Interactive Entertainment, the game modules Arena Commander, Star Marine and Theatres of War could (and probably will) be readied for release on the Playstation, bringing in revenue and giving Star Citizen wider gaming recognition. The main Star Citizen games will not release on consoles. None of the core tech required for the PC version MMO or single player campaign would be needed for console ports of modules.

$500 million over 9 years might seem like a lot to some gamers, it's less than 2 months takings for PUBG mobile. The annual average budget CIG runs on - around $55 Million - is less than Sony spends on corporate hospitality per year.

Chris Roberts has name recognition in the industry, he is also independently wealthy with properties of his own. He also has many wealthy friends. Even if in some twisted CIG-hater reality he couldn't raise business loans he sure as hell could get friends to jump on board, some already did at the projects inception. CIG could easily trim the staff budget down to just that needed to get Squadron 42 released if they absolutely have too.

Squadron 42 is basically finished, you can see evidence of this on the Progress Tracker if you're not blinded by any white hot Chris Roberts hatred. It has 'polishing' and an internal Beta test period remaining.

There is an assumption that Pyro and Nyx - currently being worked on but substantially ready, they are in a more finished state than Stanton arrived in - cannot be released into the game without Server Meshing, this isn't true, CIG choose not to put them in the game until Server Meshing allows a seamless traversal -but they could just as easily put them in the game and have you choose which system to fly in from the main menu. You DO choose Stanton at the main menu, even though it is the only choice currently.

The tone of your question suggests you are paying too much attention to a very small, very loud negative group, they have always been with us, they have always been predicting doom and gloom - here's one graphic they really really hate to see, but tell me - if you were a company that offered business loans, or had capital to invest and you knew a company had built a saleable product currently playable with all monies received previously, would you pay more attention to this graphic than any salty backers?
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Oh my...

Chris Roberts has name recognition in the industry
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Indeed he does. But not in the way that person thinks.
 

Agony_Aunt

Agony_Aunt
VR Golgot said:
I didn’t actually realise this…



There is always less 😁
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I see ship to ship refuelling on the roadmap again. Anyone taking bets that will fall off the roadmap again?

Be funny to see CIG/faithful spin things if they start dropping things from the next patch.

Also... selling items to shops. LOL. Like one of the most basic mmo features in existence, yet its taken them 10 years to get there.
 

Agony_Aunt

Agony_Aunt
Viajero said:
Not to worry, the "advanced" version pads it with extra useless detail to make it look as long as before!

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That makes it look much worse. 17 weeks for facial animation of the coffee vendor???? 19 weeks of mocap? AI content team 48 weeks?

Its a bleedin coffee vendor!

If it takes this long for a coffee vendor nothing is ever going to finish.
 

Agony_Aunt

Agony_Aunt
VR Golgot said:
At the risk of inducing cacophony, have this song found on Spectrum ;)

Source: https://youtu.be/b_HpAb1GHQo

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This is too funny to pass on! AHAHAHAHAHA - Star Citizen Spectrum

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Oh my, the comments.

That sparked a flame.

ED fans have certainly got stones to pretend ED is anywhere near SC's level.
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Number of games: ED: 1 - SC: 0.

Someone brings up planets sizes and then this...

1/10 scale for distances and 1/6 scale for planet/moon (so they look bigger and more "cinematic")
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CIG make planets and distances smaller to make them look bigger :D (also they get things wrong about planet/moon sizes)

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