Star Citizen Thread v6
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Oh my! After the post earlier today sifting through the 2015 thread to pick some cherries, I decided to take a look further back to before I started following the thread (v4).
Some of the opinions at around November 2014 make fabulous reading now, in a time-capsule sort of way. There is one specific very pro-SC guy (not naming and shaming) who cannot seem to understand the difference between what "is" and what "might be in the future" when describing the game.
This is so far back in time that 1500 was polite to people! (kinda kidding)
Amazing that back then SC's moddable private servers, including the much-vaunted and still for sale "modder's manual" were being pushed as a reason why SC would rise as the premier space game, the one that keeps its features and promises...
Kind of got warn down, all the issues that are just excepted about CIG now are ones I pointed out way back then. Getting constantly attacked by fans of CIG gets old. Go far enough back and you will find that even I was pro-CIG at one point, there is a reason I backed the project at the start.
Until it actually becomes bigger I work with what we have which is a really small map regardless how much of "nothing" they throw at us. Theres really not much to do or visit in the PU currently. I m curious to see if it ll get bigger all that much with the release of 3.0...whenever that ll happen but I find your enthusiasm infectious
Sure, if you promise to behave yourself! [big grin]
I imagine a lot of folks will be flying about in Avengers. Another fair amount of people may join military or militia factions.
See, I have been trying to reason with this the last time there was an SC advert drive in General Discussions,but most people don't seem to see the problem with it. I just assume they have never played an MMO around expack launch..ever. Mr Eckhart, where are you? You are LOD faded out, because half the server is teabagging your spot... Not to mention imagine if the quest giver algorythm has a hissy fit,and 100 people get the same coords for their super secret mission. One pirate base every 5 meters. Much immersion
You can't seriously expect SC to have 100 people in an instance?
Oh my! I thought it had to be some form of parody.
Well, i suppose it shouldn't be surprising, but it does reinforce a lot of what was said last year in that Kotaku article about CR's management style and vision, and why things are taking so long.
Yes but you'll be able to do it alongside several other people (also in their pants) trying to get some Miles mission lovin'.
Edit: oh joke had already been done. :/
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gotta say i like the number of ships in the game....
The variants, so lets say the 300i (which is my ship) will a base 300i be able to be specced to the exact version of the military or exploration 300i albeit without the funky paint job, or are they actually slightly different ships?.
Regardless of whether i can confident CIG can pull of SC (personally i think they will...... in a manner of speaking, ie it will ultimately be a "decent" game - but that is by the by) the above is exactly the kind of thing i would hope for in a science fiction game about living the life of a space(wo)man.
one day when ED finally has the features that SC is aiming for - and the way things are looking it may be at a similar point of time for both games - ie space legs for ED and launch for SC, I really hope FD revisit some of the things which are simply not in ED which would ground ED a little more in plausibility...... until we have "stuff to do" however I get why Frontier gloss over things like refuel/repair/loading.
As soon as I saw that ship register my Spidey sense said "nope!"
No way CiG are going to go with an official register, to show just how few backers have bought more than a base package (and also how many are sat with 100+ ship packages trying to sell them on the grey market). Although I think the grey is slowly collapsing now?
No way CiG are going to go with an official register, to show just how few backers have bought more than a base package (and also how many are sat with 100+ ship packages trying to sell them on the grey market). Although I think the grey is slowly collapsing now?
As somebody who has a family and limited gaming time, the whole concept sounds interminably dull. I hate shopping and socialising at the best of times, so time sinks like this are more than likely just going to result in me logging out and doing something else. That being said, there *are* things that such a game could do to remain engaging during these times. Chained fetch quests, tracking down NPCs, even being a virtual taxi driver. But fundamentally these are all diversions from what's at the core of the game, and they're all things that require significant development investment, so even if that's ultimately what Star Citizen turns into, don't expect it any time soon. What's far more likely is that the down time when loading cargo will be exactly that: down time.
The cynic in me expects that we'll be able to pay UEC to expedite cargo loading. It's one of the fundamental tenets of F2P game design: lots of time delays where you can purchase the means to expedite your gameplay, using a currency that you can earn in-game but at a lower rate than you spend it.
I've been using project SC and CIG as an example in my Pmng classes for some time now, without pushing my own opinion I can tell you most people when given the facts are getting to the same conclusion, and most of them don't even know what a space game is.
all the signs are there, you just need to read them and you will see the iceberg ahead.
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Some of the ship designs in SC are really great, and I would love to see FD make some more detailed ships, mostly non combat ships, like large cargo freighters / bulk carriers.
Are any of the large hull ships in-game though? I personally haven't seen anything bigger then the Cutlass or the Constellation, so genuinely asking. The Idris in that demo doesn't count because that was supposed to be SQ42, so not yours to fly.
My Caterpillar(that i won last year in a the twitch stream) is in game and also the Starfarer both versions are ingame those 2 both qualifies as big ships as they are both over 100 Meters long(and then some), and the first time i enterd both of them i kinda got a Little lost inside ;-), i love flying around in my Cat, and cant wait for more of the bigger ships
I thought the current feeling among the tricksters and gremlins, was that the first Hull-E in the game will be used to rain hundreds of canisters of bio-waste all over Crusader until the game lags out? Wonder if CiG have considered jettisoned cargo limits around stations and canister degradation?
That's pretty disappointing of PCGamer - they should be calling them on those claims. Original 3.0 was the whole system with every planet (presumably excluding gas giants before anyone tries to be clever) landable and fully explorable. Now it's just the three moons and a handful of POI
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