Oh wow, that ... is a lot.
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Game Discussions Star Citizen Discussion Thread v12
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Previous to the 3.8 baby persistence patch it was indeed true...all in game assets were wiped at every point patch. Since 3.8, we've not had a persistence database wipe so everything accrued in game since 3.8 has stayed (mostly) persistent....that's earned aUEC, in game bought ships, upgrades and equipment.
All that will be wiped at some unspecified point in time leaving you with whatever you've paid for with real money from the RSi store that's tied to your account. Barring a few bucks here and there for purely cosmetic items like ship skins, I haven't bought anything from Ci¬G for quite some time...I ship shuffle using store credit gained through melting a ship or do Cross Chassis Upgrades. (ie) Melting is exchanging or cashing in a ship for the equivalent $ value in store credit... usually something I've got bored with, and buy some newer shinier ship with those store credits.... CCU is trading in an older ship plus some store credit (or cash) to get a bigger, better or shinier ship rather than paying the full $ value of the new ship.
Most backers since 3.8 have bought 90% of their ships in game after earning the aUEC to buy them...not all, obviously or Ci¬G would be skint. There's still a thing about ownership since those ships and other items bought from the store are tied to your account and won't be wiped with the persistence database when that happens.
It's a little more complicated than that...but you get the gist of it
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I like the fps. But at the end of the day it feels more like an arcade cabinet dropped into Elite than anything else.
Buy Idri.
Dang it, the barely-contained bitterness just oozes from this post
... to trigger people go play a game from another troubled and deceitful company.
Out of the frying pan....
Got to love the level of delusion
MULTI BILLION JUGGERNAUT IF SQ42 IS EVEN HALF GOOD!!!!
MULTI BILLION JUGGERNAUT IF SQ42 IS EVEN HALF GOOD!!!!
Miribot delivering the goods again
Last time i checked, SC still had less than 1 million unique backers. Meanwhile other AAA games exceed that by huge margins.
Cyberpunk had 8 million preorders, and look at how that turned out.
Star Citizen: FULL, HARD STOP!
I think you think too small
Let's just state simultaneous facts:
But you can define niche in your own personal dictionary all you want. The game is NOT niche just because it hasn't reached CoD levels (which is niche compared to Minecraft, if that's how you want to play it). The game also, while not being niche, while having a huge player base and group of supporters, is ALSO just getting started.
- SC has a massive audience. Evidence: WORLD RECORD crowd funding. The most "pre orders" in gaming history. FULL, HARD STOP. Not arguable, not debatable, absolute fact.
- The PC gaming population overall is MASSIVE. There are several BILLION gamers. While SC has a HUGE population already, the potential population is several magnitudes bigger. FULL, HARD STOP. Not arguable, not debatable, absolute fact.
- No game in history had more pre-orders than they did post-release sales. Not one. Not even close. There is no evidence that the same will not be true for SC. Once the game releases and traditional marketing begins to reach the balance of those BILLIONS of potential customers, SC will EXPLODE. I urge you to RemindMe! this post - I'll take one coffee, on you, when I've been proven 1000% right.
We're going to have to agree to disagree, if you can't see this
Fly safe! Or not - I'm not your mother.
Last time i checked, SC still had less than 1 million unique backers. Meanwhile other AAA games exceed that by huge margins.
Cyberpunk had 8 million preorders, and look at how that turned out.
Star Citizen: FULL, HARD STOP!
More delusion
LOL
Clive Calder has entered the chat with over 50 million dollars.
LOL
Clive Calder has entered the chat with over 50 million dollars.
Funnily enough I have played games that use speech bubbles, you just read what they say, sure you could go mocap and have the actual NPC use it which seems a lot of unnecessary work and trouble, or you could have optional speech bubbles.
Am I missing something here? Don't speech bubbles count as communicating with the deaf?
Yes, but don't tell the faithful that, it might startle them to learn it.
Also, i'm not certain, but i don't think the NPCs can use ASL yet anyway. I think this is another case of a backer using future-as-present tense.
Is that how long its been? That's 18 Months without a persistence reset. i think its time, i have a lot of junk cluttering up my inventory, i'm not a hoarder, i find it quite annoying having a mountain of stuff i don't use, what's the point of owning 3 different fighters? You're always going to have a favourite and with that the other two just sit in a barn slowly rusting away.Previous to the 3.8 baby persistence patch it was indeed true...all in game assets were wiped at every point patch. Since 3.8, we've not had a persistence database wipe so everything accrued in game since 3.8 has stayed (mostly) persistent....that's earned aUEC, in game bought ships, upgrades and equipment.
All that will be wiped at some unspecified point in time leaving you with whatever you've paid for with real money from the RSi store that's tied to your account. Barring a few bucks here and there for purely cosmetic items like ship skins, I haven't bought anything from Ci¬G for quite some time...I ship shuffle using store credit gained through melting a ship or do Cross Chassis Upgrades. (ie) Melting is exchanging or cashing in a ship for the equivalent $ value in store credit... usually something I've got bored with, and buy some newer shinier ship with those store credits.... CCU is trading in an older ship plus some store credit (or cash) to get a bigger, better or shinier ship rather than paying the full $ value of the new ship.
Most backers since 3.8 have bought 90% of their ships in game after earning the aUEC to buy them...not all, obviously or Ci¬G would be skint. There's still a thing about ownership since those ships and other items bought from the store are tied to your account and won't be wiped with the persistence database when that happens.
It's a little more complicated than that...but you get the gist of it
True that. In ED i have one of every ship, but most hardly ever get flown.
According to the front page there are a little over 3.1m registered 'citizens', and currently total funding in the regions of $354m, meaning the average spend is just over $100.
Now, that 3.1m may include all the folk who registered for 'free fly events', and the $354m may include the secondary investment CIG gathered, so take those figures with a pinch of salt, but it's unlikely that there are under 1m backers who've paid at this point.
The ASL thing I hadn't heard of, but that's a bit strange / overkill to me. What's wrong with subtitles? How's that going to work in the situations where it shouldn't?
NPC Boss: "Here, watch my hands and lipread a bit, because it's an interesting gimmick while my henchmen sneak around in the periphery of your vision to attack you!"
NPC Commando <signs(at 50yds)>GRENADE.
Sign language are just emotes and CIG have a dedicated mocap team which can spend some times to do the capture.
If you just want to 'subtitle', simply use direct chat with the player. Real subtitle bubbles break immersion and come with a lot of technical complexities in a 3D game.
There have been various numbers over the years. The first indication that "citizens" != "backers" was many years ago, around the time they had 1 million citizens on the tracker. Turbulent let slip that only around half of them were paying backers (and no mention as i recall of whether they were unique accounts either).
More recently, a year or two ago, CIG released some figures, and i'd have to go digging, or maybe someone can provide the numbers, but again, there was a big disparity between citizens and paying backers, and again, IIRC, no mention of how many were unique backers (although its hard to tell unless you start doing some deep analysis based on IP addresses, etc, and even then you're going to be off by a margin).
But at best, its something like 1.5 million (although again, you might want to check CIG's figures - if you're willing to accept anything CIG actually say) without taking in consideration alt accounts.
... and I immediately imagine fish. Dunno why - I actually prefer grilled fish. Or brined. Or raw. Or poached? Raw?! Saw a docudrama about ice cutter in Siberia. They ate frozen fish with vodka. I need bread with that.
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I nver understood the part when Rohan arrives at Gondor and they all shout "Deaf! DEAF!" and then charge but use lances and swords. Wouldn't it be better to use blunt stuff to give the orcs a good hammerin' for the deafening charge?DeafVerse would also like to have a word…
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