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The road map was good at stirring a new version of dreams.txt. Even with the disappointments of the culls there was always several quarters into the future of new versions of dreams to fantasise over. The problem now is there is little to dream over, so there is nothing to make you believe three or six months down the line might be better. I wonder how many were using that to encourage themselves to hang in there a bit longer. The other problem is once a new punter has dipped his toes in and asks what is planned it looks like a game that is in maintenance mode rather than active development.

I wonder if we will look back at this moment and regard it as a key moment in the project.
 

"its not us that's holding it [server meshing] back"

Pretty much how i envision working in CIG. Make sure whatever the problem is that it is some other team's fault for non-delivery. Got to absolve yourself.
 
The road map was good at stirring a new version of dreams.txt. Even with the disappointments of the culls there was always several quarters into the future of new versions of dreams to fantasise over. The problem now is there is little to dream over, so there is nothing to make you believe three or six months down the line might be better. I wonder how many were using that to encourage themselves to hang in there a bit longer. The other problem is once a new punter has dipped his toes in and asks what is planned it looks like a game that is in maintenance mode rather than active development.

I wonder if we will look back at this moment and regard it as a key moment in the project.

Yup. For years a lot of funding would have been generated by people looking at what they thought was coming and getting hyped for it. Now that's gone, at least from the release view.

There is still the other view, which can be used to extrapolate future content from, but as we are reminded by both CIG and the faithful, just because something is there doesn't mean its being worked on at that time, or that its finished when the task is done, or basically anything at all, its pretty much meaningless.
 
I hear you. But the grey market in SC is already not too different in essence from what NFT´s in other games like Star Atlas are doing. The principles behind them are quite similar: Selling the market game assets that players can then trade among themselves based on their perceived value at any given time.
Trading game asset stuff....you're talking about those game related trading pics of cards you can get, right? Baseball and hockey cards are NFT's, then? So that's been around for 100 years or so, or I have no idea what NFT's really are.

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This is the most worrying part of Star Citizen. It's all good and well to laugh at them from the sidelines. But I'm a wee bit scared that other games companies look at the success of Star Citizen's finances and ask themselves "Why aren't we selling 213 Euro spaceships?"

I sort of blame CIg/SC for any game in early development that takes the money and runs. Not sure why, exactly, but I think CR and company have inspired some, in that way.

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Trading game asset stuff....you're talking about those game related trading pics of cards you can get, right? Baseball and hockey cards are NFT's, then? So that's been around for 100 years or so, or I have no idea what NFT's really are.

Basically the same thing. But card collections or physical card based games in general have relatively simple rules and are much more easily balanced. In the case of video games, if a game is designed around that kind of trading, and it is designed to incentivize the purchase and trading of "cards", the cost to that is usually the actual game quality. Balance in the game and actual features and content in the game are subject to that, take a secondary role or they are simply crap, like in Star Citizen. Or pretty much non existent like in Star Atlas.
 
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Trading game asset stuff....you're talking about those game related trading pics of cards you can get, right? Baseball and hockey cards are NFT's, then? So that's been around for 100 years or so, or I have no idea what NFT's really are.

Less useful than trading cards in many ways. You can only trade them on the blockchains they exist on. And the creators determine on which blockchains they exist.

And, unlike a physical object, if its a picture, then anyone can use the picture that you "own"

For example, this NFT sold for 2.3 million dollars.

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Its effectively worthless as it is infinitely copyable, unlike a baseball card. But people pay money for them. Go figure.

Where they can have the most use is in walled gardens, but as i pointed out in an earlier post, if you have a walled garden you don't need NFTs.
 
Trading game asset stuff....you're talking about those game related trading pics of cards you can get, right? Baseball and hockey cards are NFT's, then? So that's been around for 100 years or so, or I have no idea what NFT's really are.
In those cases you own an actual item. With NFTs you're basically paying money to say you paid for something which you don't own. Literally buying a receipt.
 
Less useful than trading cards in many ways. You can only trade them on the blockchains they exist on. And the creators determine on which blockchains they exist.

And, unlike a physical object, if its a picture, then anyone can use the picture that you "own"

For example, this NFT sold for 2.3 million dollars.

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Its effectively worthless as it is infinitely copyable, unlike a baseball card. But people pay money for them. Go figure.

Where they can have the most use is in walled gardens, but as i pointed out in an earlier post, if you have a walled garden you don't need NFTs.

Downloaded, so now its mine! Where do I cash it in? Hey, I have this image I can sell you :cool:.

<this is not sinking in>
 
Downloaded, so now its mine! Where do I cash it in? Hey, I have this image I can sell you :cool:.

<this is not sinking in>

No, because its not unique. You can't sell it, you don't have the right. However, if you, for example, changed a green pixel to blue, it would be a unique piece of art!

Hold on a second! CR was just decades ahead of his time!
 
All this has got me thinking...digital cows as NFT's (Non Farting Types)...wonder if it would catch on? :whistle:

Most definitely. Even more so if they had smokes hanging out of their mouths.

Note that you're a bit late with this idea...
 
Most definitely. Even more so if they had smokes hanging out of their mouths.

Note that you're a bit late with this idea...

Its funny, they rescued the scam to continue selling the JPGs... and what is their roadmap? What will you be able to do with these NFTs?

The answer is Sweet Adams.
 
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