The Star Citizen Thread v5

[Tuub t Tute]

Probably best to focus on having opinions on the game and not the backers.
Any idea of when 2.6 will be released to the avocados, if 2.5 is live to the proletariat now?

 

[jcrg99]

At this point it just all seems like a sad (in progress or vaporware) sim for sad little people.
You guys really need to come out of the basement and go for a walk, or a date, or something. Look around and take a deep breath.

When I hear folks like you (some of whom have "pledged" over $10,000.00 per their own forum) I really feel sorry for you. Really I do. Live a little eh?

I agree. But you know... mobile have been allowing you to talk to the internet for years now. You can even catch Pokemons.
But I totally agree. Definitely to talk about Star Citizen is a waste of time and brain cells. This project does not deserve attention. But I guess we all have this obsession with this pathetic Amway show, everyone here and everywhere due their own particular reasons.

 

[1500]

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/funding-goals

Star Citizen 2.5 patch released at August 25. Since the gamescom demo +~50k new accounts created and +~$2million earned.

Very good I must say.

Those are the accounts created on the website, not a count of who has backed.

 

[jcrg99]

Those are the accounts created on the website, not a count of who has backed.

I guess we can say they just burned themselves with more 50k individuals. Or at least 99% of them. That is pretty much what they have been doing from the beginning. Burning themselves with the niche or any potential new group of customers.
But the folks say that their marketing approach is genious! Since when burning yourself with your customer base is genious. Specially with a MMO.
Fools.

 

[1500]

Somebody should start compiling a list of words than mean something different when applied to Star Citizen:

Innovative: not new
Ground breaking: not new
Trailblazing: not new
Fidelity: lots of polygons
Physics: things moving
Instance: everyone playing the game
...

Don't forget

Not P2W: Largest P2W game to date.
Open Development: Hide all progress (assuming there really is any).

 

[ianw]

Somebody should start compiling a list of words than mean something different when applied to Star Citizen:

Innovative: not new
Ground breaking: not new
Trailblazing: not new
Fidelity: lots of polygons
Physics: things moving
Instance: everyone playing the game
...

Universe: tiny fraction of a galaxy
Estimate: complete fabrication
Patcher: http://www.w3schools.com/downloadwww.htm
Original: copied and "refactored"
Limited: to be repeated whenever needed
Minimum viable product: any old crud that more or less works when the "donations" finally stop coming in
Purchase: donation
Vacuum: somewhere that has breathable oxygen

 

[darkoff]

Somebody should start compiling a list of words than mean something different when applied to Star Citizen:

Innovative: not new
Ground breaking: not new
Trailblazing: not new
Fidelity: lots of polygons
Physics: things moving
Instance: everyone playing the game
...

Stretch goal: R&D not to be mistaken with feature
will feature: hopes and dreams
definitely not on rails: on rails
derek smart: devil
weeks away: years away
Mvp: minimum viable product.
bdsse: best doomed space simulator ever.
hater: someone who doesnt believe in hype

 

[Dementropy]

And in a cruel twist of fate, the one thing that is ground-breaking in SC is its physics.

Not ground-breaking as in “new” but as in “the ground is broken and lets people fall straight through.”

You confuse "ground-breaking" with "game-breaking," as evidenced by videos of ships wildly spinning off to infinity and beyond, or commandos riding upright on top of cockpits at breakneck speeds.

 

[Tippis]

Universe: tiny fraction of a galaxy
Estimate: complete fabrication
Patcher: http://www.w3schools.com/downloadwww.htm
Original: copied and "refactored"
Limited: to be repeated whenever needed
Minimum viable product: any old crud that more or less works when the "donations" finally stop coming in

Refactored: remade from scratch to do something else rather than refactored
Donation: purchase
Pledge. purchase
Gift: purchase
Unique: done to death in the '90s–'00s and abandoned for being boring
New: copied from a decade-old game someone just got around to playing (often leads to “unique”)
Iron-clad: as resilient as a soggy biscuit

 

[Artemus]

Question for most of you. For free flight weekends do all accounts get access to the free ships? I played during one and I only had access to my 325A(terrible, refactor NAOW!). Could this be the reason there is a huge jump in accounts? I mean I'd want to play any ship I buy past a the basic package.

 

[ianw]

Question for most of you. For free flight weekends do all accounts get access to the free ships? I played during one and I only had access to my 325A(terrible, refactor NAOW!). Could this be the reason there is a huge jump in accounts? I mean I'd want to play any ship I buy past a the basic package.

No idea re ship access.

But it does seem plausible that the free flyers would be added to the total number of players - and not deducted - if they don't go on to buy a package.

Much like refunds are not - as far as we know - reflected in the money meter.

 

[LeSabre]

Refactored: remade from scratch to do something else rather than refactored
Donation: purchase
Pledge. purchase
Gift: purchase
Unique: done to death in the '90s–'00s and abandoned for being boring
New: copied from a decade-old game someone just got around to playing (often leads to “unique”)
Iron-clad: as resilient as a soggy biscuit

Really cool stuff : Really dull stuff
Persistence : Save game and quit to desktop, without warning
MMO : Up to 16 players depending on how many don't crash
Promise : Maybe, doubtful, probably not
Deadline : Miss them often enough and they become irrelevant
Pipeline : Blocked up Mcdonalds milkshake straw

 

[Zetta]

But it does seem plausible that the free flyers would be added to the total number of players - and not deducted - if they don't go on to buy a package.

Definitely so. It's just the usual 'registered accounts' that all of these companies trot out. Everyone else treats them as a useless metric in all honesty.

 

[Asp Explorer]

Much like refunds are not - as far as we know - reflected in the money meter.

I'm working on the assumption that as refunds are issued by a different company than RSI/CIG, there's no need for them to be deducted from RSI/CIG's numbers

 

[jcrg99]

Question for most of you. For free flight weekends do all accounts get access to the free ships? I played during one and I only had access to my 325A(terrible, refactor NAOW!). Could this be the reason there is a huge jump in accounts? I mean I'd want to play any ship I buy past a the basic package.

Good catch.

 

[CMDR_Orlando]

Question for most of you. For free flight weekends do all accounts get access to the free ships? I played during one and I only had access to my 325A(terrible, refactor NAOW!). Could this be the reason there is a huge jump in accounts? I mean I'd want to play any ship I buy past a the basic package.

Every free-flight works with a code that enables the respective account to play and have access to whatever free-flight-week ships they provide.
For anyone with already an account and the game bought all you have to do is go to the free-flight page and copy paste the code and your account is also eligible to use promotional ships.

 

[Artemus]

Every free-flight works with a code that enables the respective account to play and have access to whatever free-flight-week ships they provide.
For anyone with already an account and the game bought all you have to do is go to the free-flight page and copy paste the code and your account is also eligible to use promotional ships.

Thanks, more ships for ramming!

 

[Osmanthus]

Every free-flight works with a code that enables the respective account to play and have access to whatever free-flight-week ships they provide.
For anyone with already an account and the game bought all you have to do is go to the free-flight page and copy paste the code and your account is also eligible to use promotional ships.

Oh right, so the free flight code works with existing accounts too

 

[ianw]

This free flight stuff is !

Can someone please explain how it works if;

1 - I don't have an existing account

3 - I haven't downloaded the game

A - My HTC one doesn't have joystick functionality.

TIA

Not sure I can take anymore of this!

And it's bank holiday weekend!

 

[Asp Explorer]

Can someone please explain how it works if;

1 - I don't have an existing account

3 - I haven't downloaded the game

A - My HTC one doesn't have joystick functionality.

TIA

Not sure I can take anymore of this!

And it's bank holiday weekend!

Make an RSI account.

Download 25Gb

Use a mouse

Fill your luzbucket