I think of Ed Wood, but that's not an animated movie, but it depicts the mess better.As some kind of Tim Burton reenactment? What was the name of that animated movie again?
I think of Ed Wood, but that's not an animated movie, but it depicts the mess better.As some kind of Tim Burton reenactment? What was the name of that animated movie again?
Drove in-game events that resulted in more than 50% of the company’s overall revenue (IAE Expo and Fleet Week)
Directly interacted with well over 75% of the company’s PU related employees (roughly half of the company was allocated to S42)
I took my leave after strong disagreement with a number of decisions made regarding the Austin department and the direction of the company as a whole. To those who remain, I wish the best of luck.
Senior Dev Leavers: 25
Roles: Director: 1, Principle: 2, Lead: 5, Senior: 17
Locations: UK: 17, US: 3, Germany: 4, Prague: 1
Senior Dev Promotions: 20
Roles: Principle: 2, Lead: 4, Senior: 14
Locations: UK: 15, US: 2 Germany: 3
And it looks like possibly somewhat replaced by those senior promotions?
Pretty sure that will work out really well.
The intriguing aside there is that the replacement Seniors have a much higher 'noobiness' percentage in their ranks. (~31% of them had never worked in dev prior to CIG, compared to ~13% of this year's leavers.)
It's just a little thing, (and all of this is just a pretty shonky snapshot), but it does play into the idea of CIG's slightly 'student entry' culture. Possibly having more guys who've only learned their trade within CIG etc (with its historical yes-man response to Chris's whims...). That may not be completely ideal when they start to populate the top ranks etc.
(That said there are still plenty of nuggets of solid experience in the new hires etc. A Senior Networking Programmer from Rockstar, plenty of experienced sub-senior devs from Ubisoft, Team 17, TT etc. Hey, even an FDev guy in the mix. It's not like they can't attract experienced devs overall. But there is def a question mark for me over whether the ratio is still skewed a bit noob. And whether they keep enough of the experienced guys over the long haul
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Source: https://old.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/xdbve4/star_citizen_is_such_a_scam_some_blind_dude/ioave2j/Top Post said:It's not a scam, but I find it funny that your "evidence" is a screenshot of a ship that's been implemented for a couple of years now and whose escape pods, suit lockers, entire kitchen, armor, consoles, drones, bridge shutters, modular drop pods, mapping room, showers, toilets, engineering, sinks, antennae, decompression, servers, hologlobe, repair room, pool table and gravity generator etc. still aren't working, and which was built to map jump points - of which there are still exactly zero.
It's basically still mostly just a movie set. Visuals over substance - and a blind dude probably is less "deceived" by the visuals. So, yeah, bad choice with the "blind dude".
Again, I don't think it's a scam, but I can see why people would think that because -and this is the real problem here- it's taken far, far longer than anticipated and announced, and is still going to take many, many years. Like, far, faaaaaaaar. And many, maaaaaaany. So the years go by and the millions keeps rolling in and the game doesn't seem to progress that much when you look at the big picture, especially from the outside, so you can't really blame people for thinking it's a scam.
I love Star Citizen and am excited for its future, but it is absolutely a money gouging scam.
Source: https://old.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/xdbve4/star_citizen_is_such_a_scam_some_blind_dude/ioat2kw/Just because people have been scammed by a company doesn't mean the company itself, is a scam.
This is the first thing I looked at when I got into this game as I'm trained in Fraud Prevention and Online Scams...
"It's basically still mostly just a movie set."Gotta love it when a top post grabs the old guard's attention...
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So many views...
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I have no idea what the skin system is.
(Is that when the hull of one ship went all crinkly and cinematic under laser fire? For a little bit? In 2014?)
Meanwhile that mess hall scene gets more coverage than the death of the Queen.
The parallels to Freelancer are overwhelming imho. It's just in this case there are no evil publishers to lance the boil and get the project finished.Gotta love it when a top post grabs the old guard's attention...
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Would it be illegal though. If Calders gave out a loan, and loan and interest get paid, is it their responsibility to know WHERE money came from. Like say if you paid your mortagage with profits from illegal drug business, is the bank any way culpable?That would be, like, proper norty and illegal though right? In theory only the subscription cash could be tapped. (Products delivered etc).
I still reckon the Calders saw legit returns in this. They just may have been wrong. (Or they're playing some 4D chess game where they turn the Manchester offices into a full scale MSR, offer backers an endless theme park ride, and make out like bandits... Anything is possible in SC-land
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Banks don't own their debtors. The ones who own and shape their investments to extort money - that is another story.Would it be illegal though. If Calders gave out a loan, and loan and interest get payed, is it their responsibility to know WHERE money came from. Like say if you paid your mortagage with profits from illegal drug business, is the bank any way culpable?
That's the good pointBanks don't own their debtors. The ones who own and shape their investments to extort money - that is another story.
Would it be illegal though. If Calders gave out a loan, and loan and interest get payed, is it their responsibility to know WHERE money came from. Like say if you paid your mortagage with profits from illegal drug business, is the bank any way culpable?
That's an interesting point. Calders invest in CIG and get a return. GIG in time face a class action about something (s) and point to a myriad of shell companies. Calders sit behind the mess and shrug.... 'we simply loaned them money and got a return....'...
The Calders are from the music biz, so totally at home with dubious routes to profit, no doubt. But that seems to tip over into 'unwise' territory to me.
That's an interesting point. Calders invest in CIG and get a return. GIG in time face a class action about something (s) and point to a myriad of shell companies. Calders sit behind the mess and shrug.... 'we simply loaned them money and got a return....'
I'm in no way qualified or experienced enough to comment, but I wonder how bothered they'd be.
E. Although they invested in CIG. .... so maybe.... oh I don't know. I haven't had coffee yet.