Nit picking? that is certainly very precious, Chris...
Good. So CIG kept its promise about no loading screen because it's already the case.
Letter from the Chairman - Roberts Space Industries | Follow the development of Star Citizen and Squadron 42
Roberts Space Industries is the official go-to website for all news about Star Citizen and Squadron 42. It also hosts the online store for game items and merch, as well as all the community tools used by our fans.robertsspaceindustries.com"...the ability to seamlessly go from on foot, to onboard a fully realized ship, with functioning components and a livable interior you can move around, take off towards a twinkling pin of light in the sky, up through clouds into the blackness of outer space, only to get intercepted by a group of pirates looking to liberate your cargo from you, best them in an intense dogfight and continue your journey towards the twinkling light in the distance… that becomes another planet, that you can enter it’s atmosphere and land on, lower your ramp and walk out into a bustling city or beautiful river bank nestled in trees to harvest some alien fruit? All without loading screens, and rendered in incredible millimeter detail in either first person or third person?..."
We all know what CIG's "promises" are like; I say it in this or that video, in this or that interview, in this or that convention... I repeat it a thousand times, but I never "affirm" it... .so if I don't make it, it's not my problem...
ToW by itself was in good shape, well on its way and worked correctly on a local server. But the netcode/server used by ToW (the same as SC) were not enough in good shape to deliver ToW outside of a local network. The netcode/server is not specific to ToW and outside of the abilities of the ToW team. If ToW is not in game, it's not because it can't be finished, it's because the netcode/server must be improved before (you perfectly pointed that the engine, the servers, the core of the game were not efficient enough). Good news, they work on improving the netcode/server since several years with a complete overhaul of the architecture (PES, graph BD, replication layer...). We'll see with server meshing release (the last brick) if CIG can deliver a correct netcode/server architecture. And no, 4 years to switch from a relationnal database to a graph database with other big changes in infrastructure is not too long.
Not nit picking. The excellent VR of Elite Dangerous is here since a long time and Odyssey was the first patch to not endorse it for the main addition of the extension = the on foot part. When someone talk about no VR for Odyssey, it refers to the no VR on foot. Never said it was promised, just that it's not in game. One of the reason could be that the renderer is not efficient enough to give a sufficient framerate on foot. I like the fact that CIG completely redone its renderer, it's more future proof and FPS are better patch after patch.
Yes, that is pretty much common sense.Thing is, when you are architecting a framework for real-time interaction with thousands of concurrent entities with variable latencies and losses, “net code” is the second thing you get running to an acceptable and scaleable state, and you show it off to the world
Who cares what is in ED or not? No one. We care what's in SC here. Is VR in SC? No. What's your point?
They do. You don't pass from a relationnal DB to a graph DB for the pleasure. Like you don't upgrade the renderer or switch to Vulkan for the pleasure.
So VR is imminent then?
I'd be content with "30fps next year".
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That is incorrect.
And then paid himself for the “lore”
Star Citizen's favourite boogieman, Derek Smart, wrote about it here:
Smart Speak
dereksmart.com
This is a developing story. In the meantime, below are some third-party comments and analysis about the filing from the Goon numbers guys.
Consolidated
This year they filed their consolidated accounts. This means that rather than being just that company, the set of accounts is consolidated to include all the subsidiaries. Any transactions between subsidiaries/parent are cancelled out.Intellectual Property
The accounts preparation improves year on year as errors get picked up. I’ve pointed out the IP issue before and it’s now apparent what happened here.On the 1st of July 2015 CIG UK paid £1,359,185 for Intellectual Property. This isn’t entirely clear but the suggestion would be that this was for the worldwide rights to Squadron 42. The sale of intangibles for £654,612 was the US rights of Squadron 42 being sold to Cloud Imperium Games Inc. Because of apparent errors in earlier sets of accounts we can’t be sure where that £1.36m actually went to, it could quite easily be to Chris Roberts himself, or a personal services company that is essentially himself.Fixed Assets
These are actually broken down for the first time since they filed consolidated accounts. In the UK they’ve spent a little over £1m on computer equipment to December 2016. £400k on Fixtures and fittings. £300k improving the leased premises.
Goodwill
This is an accountancy term that represents the extra cash paid for an asset. If a company has a value of £34,851 and you pay £440,000 then in your company’s set of accounts this is recorded as an investment of £440,000. In your consolidated group accounts however, you include the activities of the subsidiary. Because of this, you do not include that investment of £440,000. You reverse it out through a set of journals which includes the value of the assets at £34,851 and the goodwill figure of £405,149. The goodwill is then amortised (written off) over, in this example, a five year period.As you have no doubt guessed, these are the actual figures for Cloud Imperium Games Ltd’s purchase of Foundry 42 Ltd from Erin Roberts et al.
This one on the limbo $2.4m (that could have fallen into anyone’s pockets) was fun too
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Obviously it’s a presumption that the IP money went to Chris 'ideas man' Roberts, but it wouldn’t be a surprise if he’s $1.4m better off there.
Add in the share sales...
And that’s a definite $3m that’s walked his way (probably $6m if mirrored in the US companies, and rising to $7.4m if the IP cash went his way).
Oh to be the creator of a successful early alpha
Odyssey IS in VR. The walking on foot is also in VR, if you use the 3rd person camera, they've just chosen not to build out the first person view for whatever reason, probably seen as a waste of dev time for little gain. The reason IS NOT the renderer as you claim ... we know this because it works in VR when walking around, just without the hud/first person model.
This is an amazing attempt to move the goalposts. Your claim was the reason there's no (first person) VR in EDO was the "generation of it's renderer". Clearly, that's not true.
