The Star Citizen Thread v5

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Stigbob

Stigbob
Asp Explorer said:
Drunks of Sol approve!!!!!

Maybe, if we get refreshed enough, we'll buy a Polaris :D
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Whilst I was serving soldier I once woke up after a night in the bar with the welsh guards, scantily clad in a hedge overdue for duty in the wrong camp, holding an antique rifle (A Martini-Henry as used at Rourke's drift). My left leg had gone a funny purple blotchy colour from alcohol poisoning, my hangover lasted for a week and I was in trouble with various very shouty men with lots of rank and absolutely no sense of humour. I never found out exactly what had happened as I was banned from ever returning, but apparently me and some guardsman had formed a line at the bar armed with various military relics and only allowed people to buy drinks if they stripped naked and sang "men of Harlech" with us (the Martini-Henry was unharmed and safely restored to it's place above the bar).

I was not drunk enough to buy a Polaris.
 

Asp Explorer

Asp Explorer
Stigbob said:
I was not drunk enough to buy a Polaris.
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I've never been in the military - but I've had some fun with ordnance. Used to work with telemetry systems and oily engine things in various tank-shaped-objects. I also recall some fun in the NAAFI in Lossiemouth :)

Never got banned though. I've never been drunk enough to buy a Polaris either :D
 

Stigbob

Stigbob
Asp Explorer said:
I've never been in the military - but I've had some fun with ordnance. Used to work with telemetry systems and oily engine things in various tank-shaped-objects. I also recall some fun in the NAAFI in Lossiemouth :)

Never got banned though. I've never been drunk enough to buy a Polaris either :D
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Things went downhill after we started drinking pints of wine.
 

Tippis

Tippis
ZeeWolf said:
It's a good thing Frontier allow the same freedom of discussion here as they do on the many topics concerning their own games. If they were forced to remove posts for being "too negative" about SC that would put a game right up there with creepy cults. That would be a very silly thing indeed, so it's good that things aren't that bad.

I've seen perfectly civil discussion here between die hard fans, cynical observers, Derek smart and the only developer involved with both ED and SC. It's not a hardship to tune out the opinions if they offend.

Trying to instigate censorship makes people look "bad" quite frankly.
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Yes, but just imagine what an improvement that would be to the average citizen!
 

Dementropy

Dementropy
Supporting a game with enthusiasm is one thing. Scouring other outlets make sure any detractors are silenced, or yelling "bad journalism" at gaming sites in general (think about that one) when they make somewhat critical remarks toward the Chris Roberts Experience is a bit beyond the point of enthusiasm. Fanatical. That was the word I was looking for.
 

Tippis

Tippis
Dementropy said:
Supporting a game with enthusiasm is one thing. Scouring other outlets make sure any detractors are silenced, or yelling "bad journalism" at gaming sites in general (think about that one) when they make somewhat critical remarks toward the Chris Roberts Experience is a bit beyond the point of enthusiasm. Fanatical. That was the word I was looking for.
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For added happy fun time, look at what happens when apostates “well informed and great” sources suddenly report on something that's just a basic fact of what's going on.

For ages, PC Gamer was a sure-fire source of upbeat SC reporting. Even when others were raising entirely reasonable questions about some strange new development out of CIG, PC Gamer would happily chirp on about how neat the new thing they demoed in the last Reverse the 10 Against the Whatever episode. Citizens were happy and reposted these rosy reports with much glee, using it as evidence that the doubters were all wrong and silly. That is until, suddenly, the same source mentioned that going by the official statements out of CitCon, it was now unclear when we'd ever see something from SQ42 and that SC had been pushed further into the future. You know, stuff that everyone noticed in the presentation. Suddenly, PC Gamer was a rag; the epitome of unresearched click-bait written by amateurs who got their “journalism” credentials out of a cracker box.

Because they simply reported what Chris said on stage. Now they're obviously bribed by the nasty ebil publishers and we've always been at war with Eastasia.
 
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Dementropy

Dementropy
The most recent bit of pettiness has been citizens "archiving" potentially critical articles to choke off traffic revenue from direct links. If that doesn't scream "Shun the outsider!" I don't know what does.
 

Asp Explorer

Asp Explorer
Dementropy said:
The most recent bit of pettiness has been citizens "archiving" potentially critical articles to choke off traffic revenue from direct links. If that doesn't scream "Shun the outsider!" I don't know what does.
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Don't worry about it. People who depend on "traffic revenue" are the poor ones who face a choice between flipping burgers or learning marketable skills :D

It's great that they do that - as they save everyone else who is in the same situation the bother of making their own minds up :D
 

Vasious

Vasious
DLewth said:
You might think that. I couldn't possibly comment.
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Now that is a Character to borrow from for the Political intrigue side of things with the UEE Senate
 
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Stormprooter

Stormprooter
Asp Explorer said:
We don't need to say anything. That should be patently obvious by now :D

Buy a Polaris!

Joking aside - what we do say is mostly to demonstrate our irritation and unhappiness with the current state of the project that we backed. Nobody here, I think, really wants to see SC/SQ42 disappear - a lot of us put lots of money into backing the project. It really has potential to be good.

What many of us are continually frustrated by, however, is the utter lack of meaningful development and real progress. That is not the developers fault. It's not even the project managers fault. It is simply the fault of leadership - and nobody needs to look very far for direct and compelling evidence of this.
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+1 - still can't add real rep

The irony is, if they had a game to play, they would not be all over the internet whinging about the opinions of others, they'd be playing the game....
 

Farso Latido

Farso Latido
Star Citizen is already miles ahead of Elite Dangerous. Yes, that is a bold statement but I have actual facts to back that up.

I have a friend and we talk about space games. We also laugh at our geekiness and when we talk about ED we like to punctuate stuff with 'in our imaginary space game that uses pixels in an imaginary universe'. Oh how we laugh.

ED is so far behind SC 'cos ED is not a 'proper' imaginary space game, it does exist on my hard drive. SC is well more imaginary than ED, therefore better.
 

Stigbob

Stigbob
Harbinger said:
They already referred to the Polaris as the "Tip of the Spear" in their recent Citizencon promo video. Anyone care to guess what the French -> English translation of Fer de lance is?
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Wow, I never considered it beyond the scary snake name.

The fer-de-lance is a very scary snake indeed. They are big, belligerent, fast (they chase people). On the bright side their venom isn't as poisonous as that of some other snakes, however they make up for that by striking multiple times and injecting venom each time.
 

Viajero

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Viajero
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1500 said:
done that. And when you do get caught up production gets        because you are standing around. So you go hid behind the tools, and read the million and a half emails you have gotten about spec changing that does not matter to you but have to sign off on as reading.
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Catching up with the thread. Did I just see 1500 posting in page 1500?
 
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