The Star Citizen Thread v5
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It's all well and good using placeholders prior to going to press, but it is not okay in any final publication, and there is no way any client will want copyright infringing material in their final product, no matter what the deadlines, that said, Rsi seem immune to worrying about deadlines...
If you think that's okay, well then good for you, it's just that I don't.
Thanks. It still doesn't make any sense design-wise and it's busy with pointless details which muddy everything up, but at least it's somewhat more understandable. I think CIG's designers should take some inspiration from their other, less chaotic ships. Also, no more rep to give, sorry.
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It's never too early to start nerfing.
Seriously though, the cynic in me seems to recall that the Aurora is the ship that one of the fairly basic starter packages (sorry I loathe the word 'pledges') is based around. Perhaps if it suddenly gets a redesign to look like something a particularly unimaginative child made from lego some of those ship sales might look a bit more tempting to happy Commandos.
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Or maybe a cheese wedge?
But seriously... not everything always needs to be about having a purpose. Sometimes it's just about looking neat on-screen.
Why did the X-wing foils move? Really, we've seen exactly one scene where they were retracted during flight - and that was in Force Awakens. (Did Wedge also do it in Jedi? Can't recall.) I guess maybe you'd need to retract them for landing, the way the Lamda-class did... but then why didn't the X just unfold after liftoff?
Because it looks cool, that's all. Visually interesting.
I saw an AMA with the original designer of the TIE Fighter; he was asked how the TIE propulsion worked... His answer was "I have no idea." The ship still looked cool, though. Still does.
I noticed on Reddit that one guy is annoyed that the Aurora isn't detailed ENOUGH; he thinks it's too plain compared to other SC ships. So apparently (and as expected) you can't please everyone...
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Stop being facetious. Aurora is neither interesting nor cool, it looks like someone glued a bunch of random plastic waste to it. Neither is Gladius, for example, a cheese wedge.
Edit: Besides, Star Wars is pretty much space fantasy, it doesn't have ships with supposedly modelled subsystems, pipes connecting fuel tanks to the thrusters and so on. CIG's designs are both supposedly realistically modelled ships with bunch of random nonfunctional ornaments.
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I like it.
Hey I like my Aurora -.-
They make sense under water?
Is that an Idris?
It still doesn't make Aurora either cool or interesting. You can do flashy without making it a loose bunch of polygons.
Isn't SC meant to be super-realistic with every thruster correctly modelled down to it's power/command/fuel supply and damage states affecting everything about how you fly?
I mean obviously that's not everything but are we super-realistic or just looking neat on screen?
Either's fine, but CIG seem to claim one and deliver the other.
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Pub's closing, go home...
I don't believe the internal pipes on a Starfarer are actually modelling fluid transfer, if that's what you're getting at... whether the verbose marketing materials say it or not.
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Form over function.
The issue is that their marketing materials are implying that, there was also an official graph showing dependencies between different subsystem on a ship. I have no issues with playing either realistic Kerbal Space Program or arcade Freespace, but it would be nice if CIG has focused on one style. Either The Expanse or Star Wars.
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Who cares if it's shaped like a pretzel as long as it's pretty.
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