Just to make it absoloutely clear, since there was some deflection and side discussion, yes you can. Not that anyone in their right mind would normally do it.
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Just to make it absoloutely clear, since there was some deflection and side discussion, yes you can. Not that anyone in their right mind would normally do it.
Seamlessly, just mind the gap.. er ramp.
Nightrider is probably on standby waiting for someone to say something hyperbolic about CIG so he can lock the thread!
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Some very good comments
And of course the usual guff
Which is immediately countered
Oh...
Just you wait until Nightrider wakes up sonny jim!
And
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People putting more thought into exploration than CIG has.
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I know this is a touchy subject around here, but I figured it should be discussed at least once a year, just to recap where we are currently, both in terms of development and communication of the...
robertsspaceindustries.com
Some very good comments
And of course the usual guff
Which is immediately countered
Oh...
Just you wait until Nightrider wakes up sonny jim!
And
so.. exploration? - Star Citizen Spectrum
The "verse" will be tiny for many years, and even as it grows we know exactly what planets, moons and jump points exist, there's a functioning, interactive starmap after all. Even if jump points...
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People putting more thought into exploration than CIG has.
AFAIK, ports open doesn't mean port forwarding. Ports open just means your firewall needs to allow them through.
Ok, a few questions...I'll try to keep the answers brief
Mining: roughly the same mechanism between hand mining and ship mining. It does require some skill and learned technique. Planetary rocks and asteroids are mineable in both FPS hand mining and ships. Asteroids and rocks can vary in mass, density, resistance and yield which requires a variety of skills and equipment to mine effectively...ranging from different mining heads and 'consumables' or mining modules fitted to the ship's mining head to assist. Ship based mining is ship locked (2 specialised mining ships) and behind a paywall... but you can rent or buy the mining ships in game.
There is also SRV mining via a ROC mining buggy...similar process to ship mining but on planetary deposits only. The ROC can also be rented or bought relatively cheaply in game with in game credits. You also need a ship to transport the ROC...or you can fly down to most planetary outposts and spawn one then drive off from there but that means leaving your ship unguarded and unmanned. A Cutlass Black is the smallest ship able to transport a ROC buggy...also rentable or buyable with in game credits.
Procedural generation is here and there, caves are hand built and placed...they vary in size and complexity from foot only traverse and entry to massive sink holes you can drop a medium sized ship in to. There are also hand mineable deposits...and ship or ROC mineables to explore and mine inside the caves as well as some of the caves being used as NPC bandit strongholds you receive missions via mobiglas to clear...either solo or co-op since you can readily share all current missions of all formats with team mates...the payout is an even split on bounty and missions rewards between team mates.
Rough size of current PU build is around 75Gb
Port forwarding isn't neccessary...I don't use it personally. It's only a recommendation for connectivity issues, not a requirement, same as for ED.
Recommended specs...if you can run EDO, SC will certainly run and a lot smoother over all. Frame rates aren't fantastic on any spec of PC since the game isn't optimised except superficially... but the game runs very smoothly across the board at very high/high detail settings, even on 5 year old PC specs. See Drew Wagar's recent SC streams. He has an i7 6700 and a GTX 1070 with 16GB of system RAM.
Final caveat, there are a metric ton of bugs and issues with Star Citizen...some of them have recurring birthdays. Assuming you decide to investigate further, keep an open mind and a closed wallet outside of the basic starter packs.
If you're looking for a balanced précis of SC (The game, not on Ci¬G or business politics)...it lies somewhere between both ends of the endless rhetoric of good and bad. It's not as bad as the 'haters' make it out to be, not as good as the faithful fan boys dream it to be
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Yeah but even if EDO would bring ship interiors, you probably wouldn't be able to take a virtual dump on a physicalized toilet with fidelicious pipe and bowels systems.
Let's face it, SC has already and forever won as it'll always be years beyond the competition even if eternally decades away from any sort of release (beta included)
Same in Star Citizen...as much as the distances involved are a fraction of ED's...nobody ever bothers to fly direct from a planet or moon's surface to an orbital station. As soon as the ship clears atmosphere, everybody hits that spool button for the QT drive
Ooooh, my ears are burning!
Maybe i missed it or forgot, but did you try a free fly?
Always try a free fly first
No, not yet. I'm also a bit scared of what I've heard about the controller setup. If that's true, I'm not sure I'm ready to get into it just yet, just for a weekend or so. ED's settings are nightmare enough for me - and I've had a few years to slowly grow into it.
Free fly's usually last a week or so, plenty of time to get a feel for it.
Servers do tend to be wonkier due to load though. YMMV.
If you really want to know more than you really should want to know about the caves....
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBFSTxGxddc
That's how I read it. Many third party firewalls will just block all incoming connection regardless of source and close ports not used for common activities like we browsing and etc, that's why many of them have a "gaming mode" you need to switch to when playing games, which opens ports that games communicate over.
It's fairly easy to earn the in game credits to buy ships these days, quickly too. Mission payouts even for the limited variety available are pretty good. The 2.1 million aUEC to purchase a Prospector would take a few days at most of box missions or basic low level bounties...since all mission types now steadily increase in payout with gained reputation. As an example, I did roughly 2 hours of basic box missions taking me to and from a variety of locations tonight, earned over 350k aUEC.
I also did some mid to high level bounties with a mate a bit later sitting in a turret on one of his ships for the ship bounties and delving into deep caves on foot for some of them, earned a further 230k in shared bounty payouts. I'm not quailified to do the higher level bounties myself...you have to earn a bounty hunter certification in various levels of bounty first, I haven't completed the certification (since I find them boring)...he has so could share the higher payout bounties with me.
It's not hard to make credits in game.
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I'm really surprised you didn't know this.
To be fair, even with the amount of time I have in ED...I had to think about it
I did the landing without supercruise years ago, just to see if it could be done. Never again!To be fair, even with the amount of time I have in ED...I had to think about it
A longish video this time. A bit of multicrew bounty hunting with me in the top turret of Badger's Connie (he's my ISP as well as being a mate), also...a bit of spelunking with shooty bits. The reason the vid is so long is that I forgot I was recording...couldn't be bothered editing either since I've no aspirations to become the next Spielberg
Apologies for the Scottish colloquialisms...two Jocks in Discord chat...it can be colourful
Apologies for the Scottish colloquialisms...two Jocks in Discord chat...it can be colourful
To be fair, even with the amount of time I have in ED...I had to think about it
Well we have had people pick up SRV's from the surface and fly them out to space stations sitting on top of their ships, you can also do that in H so it's not new to Odyssey, it occasionally comes up in the forums but new players may not be aware of it and I guess some older player could forget.
If you can land your ship on any planet, as demonstrated in the video, then you can disembark if it's an Odyssey body. What you are asking someone to do is to spend 15 hours+ repeating something for you that has already been demonstrated to work. Why don't you go and do that to prove the point you are trying to dispute, most of us don't have 15+ hours to waste on doing the same thing all over again!
A longish video this time. A bit of multicrew bounty hunting with me in the top turret of Badger's Connie (he's my ISP as well as being a mate), also...a bit of spelunking with shooty bits. The reason the vid is so long is that I forgot I was recording...couldn't be bothered editing either
Apologies for the Scottish colloquialisms...two Jocks in Discord chat...it can be colourful
Your friend is your internet service provider???
He is indeed, co-founder and CEO of Norsenet. I discovered when he came round for the installation site survey that he was a gamer and an SC backer... as well as playing a lot of the other games I play so we exchanged Discord handles and such as likeminded gamers do. Invited him into our little SC org too...he also keeps really weird hours so it's handy if I need a bit of extra bandwidth at 2am.... I can see if he's about on Discord and give him a shout to take the limiter off and wind it up a bit
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