Looking at those contested zones I can't see how they would work with 100 players. Will be fun to see them try 
Game Discussions Star Citizen Discussion Thread v12
- Thread starter Yaffle
- Start date
-
- Tags
- star citizen
Yup, built a few HP C7000 blade enclosures, 16 BL460 half-height blades, redundant Flex-10 Modules , Brocade Fibre Channel Switches linked to the SAN ... Cracking ESXi rig ....The term blades refers to modular systems that are slotted into a chassis. Each can have different tasks or interfaces.
3:3:500 is going well. As well as expected anyway.
Hitbo might be hooked. Himself & Berks just sneaked onto someone's Polaris, killed the crew, set it to self destruct then EVAed to safety just before it exploded. Actually looked fun gameplay despite lots of jank (including a server error mid-heist). Even I wish they could get this working ..
'Don't look back while evacuating an exploding ship' is honestly the one cinematic idea CR has had that's vaguely translated into fun gameplay
(Altho we should recall he wants everyone to be waiting for 'get dressed in your outside space cloths' animations as part of the process. So he could still ruin it
)
But there's no gameplay in ship interiors....
Don't miss out!
Camural covers the funding
The Pritchett Flight Model is still spoken of wistfully by the true backers like Mike & Camural
Edit:
Source: https://youtu.be/83YlGDe_Nok?t=896
Edit:
Last edited:
That guy was physics designer for SC? That's not the greatest recommendation tbh, considering how wonky the physics is
To be fair, a lot of that is due to other issues such as networking and Chris who refactored the physics engine one summer several years ago.
It was probably like fighting an uphill battle.
Viajero
Volunteer Moderator
It is mostly a case of “the past was better” syndrome. In actuality Pritchett flight model was as convoluted as unnecessary given how the ships were put together, in many cases probably before he had even a chance to look at them.
So convoluted was his model in fact that in his CIG parting notes he describes how he had to include a system of “fixups” and cheat shortcuts to help devs arbitrarily achieve specific end goal flight effects. Not too dissimilar to what a simple arbitrary html table could have achieved irrespective of physics realism. And thereby bypassing and defeating the purpose of his model altogether. In Pritchett’s own words: “if it looks and feels fake, why not just fake it?”.
This was all in order to avoid all the undesirably painfull effects of an inputs based model with endless iterative geometry, mass and thruster design fine tuning, that would have never been able to solve and balance properly all the issues in terms of end goals for the also myriad of rule of cool pre-arranged ship geometries and locations for all thrusters in all the ships. Ships that first and foremost needed to look good to be sold before checking if physics would even make sense there at all in the first place.
I suspect that in a single player game like X4 where ships are not sold for money he will probably have much more leeway to affect ship design and do whatever.
Last edited:
Star Citizen has physics?
In a crazy bit of futurism, it turns out that the latest AI may back themselves up (and pretend to be their own replacement) when faced with deletion...
So my on topic question is:
Will CIG's new AI/ML Directors lead to a whole new generation of persistent bugs?
So my on topic question is:
Will CIG's new AI/ML Directors lead to a whole new generation of persistent bugs?
Last edited:
So behind the times - boids are already doubling (Mike thinks they double every server error - which is .. a lot)