Game Discussions Star Citizen Discussion Thread v12
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One question; in SC, can you sell your cargo directly from your ship?
If the answer is no, which is what I think because it can only be done from the "Trading Consoles", where are those consoles in, for example, Orison?
If the answer is "Providence" and we land our ship in the hangars of "August Dunlow", are you telling me that every time I want to trade and sell my ship's cargo I have to go from one place to another in train, foolishly wasting many minutes? And does anyone want to convince me that run trading is a fun mechanic in the SC universe?
And once I've sold the cargo, to return to my ship and continue my adventures, do I have to go back to the hangar in "August Dunlow", again by train? Really?
And it's exactly the same if we talk about Lorville.
That, the first time it is very immersive and beautiful, the second time it is curious, and from the third time it is boring and stupid.
And that with EVERY MECHANICAL available in the city; hospital, refinery center, missions givers, rooms, etc... everything is forced "far" and causes you to waste time on nothing useful. Because, due to a supposed "immersion" that is not such and that really forces the player, like it or not, to spend some time not playing, just walking and taking trains?
A supposed "immersion" and "realism" offered by a planet (ArcCorp) that is a whole city but then you can only really land in 1 single place (Area 18)? What's so real about that? Obviously, like in all games, we use reality when we can. We can't enter almost any house in any Assassin's Creed, GTA 5 or Spiderman, of course, games have limitations... the immersion and realism is limited. Why then force the player into a meaningless mechanic like foolishly wandering around SC cities over and over again to be able to do the basic things just looking for a supposed realism and immersion that is, like everything else, limited when the developer has no more remedy than to limit it?
I repeat, as beautiful as the cities of SC are (which is even debatable) that aspect is insufferable nonsense.
Alpha means that saying that you need 15min to go to a planet because you tested it 3 years ago can be not true anymore now (and IS not true in this case). I just correct false infos.
Do you not realise yet that all the info you believe to be true today will prove false in time?
That's what happens with Star Citizen.
It's what amuses me with streamers. You currently have some significant streamer views for SC, driven by a few variety streamers Lupo on youtube and some of his friends on twitch. And having absolutely no history with the project or the lies and deception, they naturally believe what they are being told today in June 2022. Why wouldn't they?
I had it on today on twitch while working, and one of them mentioned the letter from the chairman, and how all this stuff was coming soon. I may have spluttered my coffee. If I'd had a bacon sandwich, I'd have dropped it.
Yeah Ollie43 was on that kick the other day...
All that's missing is some Salvage excitement really
It's not that stuff ain't coming of course. It's just that by the time he realises that 'Server Meshing' actually = 'Just more bog standard networking and bugs', it'll be time to get on the 'Road to Replication Layer V2' hype trail instead. By the time the Cargo Refactor turns out to be mainly a play pen for physics jank, it'll be time to get excited about Bounty Hunter V2 (Take 3) instead...
It'll all be their first tastes of classic CIG bait and switch. That whole 'wave a space whale, deliver a plushie' thing
Not enough to sour the cocktail. But enough to make them think back if/when they wake up all crotchety in a few years...
Yup, I have an Aurora of course. Right, larger ships/drives make it go quicker. Cant wait to get a bigger ship. If I lasted long enough in a game to do a mission, I guess I'd be able to save up credits towards that...but I always CTD or something before I can.Depends on the ship, size and grade of the QT drive...bigger drives fitted to bigger ships are faster...Size 3 over size 1 and so on. You can't downsize or upsize the drive like in ED though, ships have a standard QT drive size requirement, big ships are size 3, mediums are S2's...etc...The main difference is in the grade and type. A grade A military drive is faster than a grade C civilian one (Equivalent to an E grade drive in ED), irrelevent of drive or ship size.
If you're in a small ship like an Aurora with a grade C, size 1 civilian or industrial short range drive fitted as stock on small ships, not only are you going to be permanently short of QT fuel just jumping around the system...it's going to take a while getting anywhere. There are 4 main types of QT drive, civilian, industrial, military or stealth. Faster drives use a lot more fuel...it's invariably a trade-off between fuel efficiency and speed when you upgrade, but there's enough variety to suit every purpose.
Just like in pre-RNGineering ED, first order of the day is to make some credits to upgrade the drive
It's true for me, since it was 3 years ago that I was last able to do that. But, I did get into quantum within the last year. I walked to the door, and realized I could open it while in the jump. Then I think I took a bad step. Dead. I do like that it doesn't hold your hand lol.
Till people stop keep giving them tonnes of money for pictures, they have no need to release wormholes, or other systems or anything.
If I last long enough, I'll try some of that this weekend, or soon. I still haven't had time to make it to my ship. Turns out real life has a bunch of junk like driving in slow traffic, etc, that makes it tough to find time to do a mission...I mean, play SC or ED.
I had a good laugh at that vid, it's really typical of any newbie's first time delving into the dark world of SC. Confused that with a 3080 he had to turn detail levels down rather than up, but hey...I've been setting this game up to run smoothly since 2015, it takes a bit of know how.
It only shows that SC really needs a beginner tutorial system for the the randomly curious and occasional droppers in
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That'd be a fun movie
Sarah - "I'm back in time to stop you making Skynet Dyson! I'm afraid I'm going to have to kill you!"
Miles - "Wait! Wait! I can outsource it to Chris Roberts! It'll never happen!"
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Sometime in the future
Skynet - "Noooooooooo...ooo..oo.o" dies
12.4 parsecs.
Since when did they get the Aluminium Falcon in game? That's almost Plaid!
Answer the call and plaid today.
Yeah Ollie43 was on that kick the other day...
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdiaKKOzb6s&t=661s
All that's missing is some Salvage excitement really
It's not that stuff ain't coming of course. It's just that by the time he realises that 'Server Meshing' actually = 'Just more bog standard networking and bugs', it'll be time to get on the 'Road to Replication Layer V2' hype trail instead. By the time the Cargo Refactor turns out to be mainly a play pen for physics jank, it'll be time to get excited about Bounty Hunter V2 (Take 3) instead...
It'll all be their first tastes of classic CIG bait and switch. That whole 'wave a space whale, deliver a plushie' thing
Not enough to sour the cocktail. But enough to make them think back if/when they wake up all crotchety in a few years...
LOL
Eventually SC citizen will get a second system in the "verse"? Out of 110 paid for by backers almost a decade ago.
Wow! Such achievement! Much hype! Early days! They had to build a company first!
So funny.
Yeah Ollie43 was on that kick the other day...
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdiaKKOzb6s&t=661s
All that's missing is some Salvage excitement really
It's not that stuff ain't coming of course. It's just that by the time he realises that 'Server Meshing' actually = 'Just more bog standard networking and bugs', it'll be time to get on the 'Road to Replication Layer V2' hype trail instead. By the time the Cargo Refactor turns out to be mainly a play pen for physics jank, it'll be time to get excited about Bounty Hunter V2 (Take 3) instead...
It'll all be their first tastes of classic CIG bait and switch. That whole 'wave a space whale, deliver a plushie' thing
Not enough to sour the cocktail. But enough to make them think back if/when they wake up all crotchety in a few years...
Is it possible that these referral codes incentivises him to be "optimistic"? He wants his viewers to open their wallets and buy the game so that he can be in the top five list of referrers
Exactly what do these referrals net him? Does he get actual physical real-world dollars for his advertising, or does he just get shiny new ships? Maybe this is the reason we have $gazzillion spaceships? Chris Roberts says to his referrers "Thanks for your help in selling this game to the punters. Here, have this pretend spaceship. You are getting a great reward for all your effort selling this... erm... game, because this pretend spaceship is worth $gazzillion"
I don't know if this is how it works. Lots of games companies are on friendly terms with their streamers because of the new players they bring in. But I'm not sure many of them use referral codes, just so they can quantify the level of friendliness they deserve. The whole thing smells a little fishy
First question "What is your favourite race in Star Citizen?"
LOL, there are no alien races in SC.
"That's a lot of detail for greybox phase" - Hobo Lando
Greybox.... almost 10 years after it was first sold to backers.
Remember when backers funded the BMM in 2013?
Backers paid 1 million dollars to fund that.
Then CIG sold it. Then they sold it again. And again. And again. And increased the sale price of it to boot.
This is one of the reasons why CIG is shady AF.