Aramoro posted:

Sorry to hear about your brain problems.

CrazyLoon posted:

I have to ask since I keep seeing this pop up, is this the new fad in America atm, which is somehow supposed to absolve you of all criticism of racism?

quote:

I believe in them [CIG]
If they waste my money, I'll give them more

IrvingWashington posted:

Someone in a stream early this morning told me something along the lines of:


I don't understand these people

IrvingWashington posted:

Someone in a stream early this morning told me something along the lines of:


I don't understand these people

Berious posted:

Shameful. Even Scientologists believe if they spend enough they get to shoot lasers out of their eyes or whatever.

Loiosh posted:

Uh, 'k

G0RF posted:

It's not that new, though more and more Americans are claiming it because, I dunno, it makes you feel more American?

What's more interesting in this case is that Sandi isn't American. She's Australian and of Native American descent. Which is a lot harder to pull off.

IrvingWashington posted:

I don't understand these people

AP posted:

G0RF posted:

Meanwhile, on the Merchandise front, a fan tries to gently shame Sandi into using his better solution for Star Citizen swag.

This guy's merch looks better and would deliver faster than CIG's China solution (whether they did an outsourcing contract or licensing one). That CIG should do this or something like this has been obvious forever-- and yet...

...he took to reddit to try to get Sandi to pull the trigger- even putting out a poll titled "Getting Star Citizen Better Merchandise".

Personally, I think he just torpedoed his chances (and fan hopes). Quantifying fan dissatisfaction with CIG's crap solution does not seem a smart way to curry favor with someone who prizes loyalty above all other traits and expends enormous effort projecting an image of marketing competence.

That dozens chimed in excited about his proposal will likely be seen as an act of mass insubordination, further dooming the chances this better solution will see the light of day...

Oh well-- we'll always have China.

Aramoro posted:

I'm actually curious, you're interested in a Eurotruck Simulator in space, your husband is interested in mining. What have you actually seen which makes you think either of these things will be possible in Star Citizen, not what they've said but what you've seen. Because you say you like what you see but I'm not sure where that is in the game.

You say you want to do passenger transport, which is obviously just going to be NPC's because all PC's have spaceships. I'm trying to wrap my head around why that is specifically more interesting than hauling boxes of tea or space junk. Is it just conceptually more interesting?

Loiosh posted:

He wasn't building this initially. Their initial plan was to make Freelancer MMO, basically. A small team of about 20-50, working for 2 years. It's after they hit the crazy funding on the website they decided to expand the scope. Now, as to why he cannot even guess at a delivery date, that I have no idea about. Of course, this thread was started by the king of Delivery Date failure, so it's not like it's a unique problem. Heck, see all the delays for games this year (Deus Ex just announced they're delayed again). Missing deliveries is kinda a shrug from me.

Honestly, some things I'd like to see get another year, like Batman: Arkham Knight. I got that with my video card. :/

Loiosh posted:

So this is a little misunderstanding. I don't believe button pushing is compelling gameplay for me. I did like it when I was accurately simulating Apollo craft and Boeing Airplanes because that's what existed, but for the future, I would like more of that to be controlled by a computer. There's really no benefit to having humans do manual start ups that take 10 minutes to get going. I like the potential depth of a complex system simulation, without requiring manual start ups. I like troubleshooting problems, but like computer-assisted checklists and repair. Most modern aircraft, like the 777 and A380, are intelligent enough to at least offer the checklist to the pilots in case of failures or issues. Spending 10 minutes doing a cold-start is not that interesting to me.

I'm not saying Rogue System is wrong or bad. It's cool! it's just not what I'm looking for. I'm more into something like Enemy Starfighter.

Decrepus posted:

That is the penmanship of a grown man.

Tank Boy Ken posted:

So help me out. Since they just converted to 64 bit (and this is still cause a couple of issues). They basically have just started the development of the real SC (expanded scope). And are now ~ 1 year into development. Thus (your guess) it would be 3-4 more years until SC will release ?
Even at "only" 20 mill funding per year, that would be 60 to 80 mill more.

BMan posted:

Well, an AI to push the buttons for you is listed as one of the features in Rogue System. I don't follow the game though so I'm not sure if that is in the alpha yet.

Madcosby posted:

From cart videos, I've never seen more than 3 people online at once. How many people does this support?

Danknificent posted:

Roberts is offering an impressive vision. People with more information and context understand that vision isn't realistic. People without it are deeply impressed, and seduced by the possibilities of this brave new gaming world.

Loiosh posted:

I'm not really interested in Eurotruck Simulator in Space. They've documented their expectations here: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/14804-Design-Civilian-Passenger-Transport - Of course, none of this is in, so I won't be doing any of it for awhile (assuming the game ever comes out, of course).

If you're curious, it's pretty similar to what I had in FSX with PMDG + FS2Crew. FS2Crew is basically a passenger's are annoying whiny children mod. You have to deal with incidents, entertainment issues, passengers getting sick and the rare emergency diversion. It adds a bit of entertainment to simulator flying. Combine all that with the VATSIM and you have something that's more than Eurotruck Simulator. For those who don't know, VATSIM is a network of volunteer Air Traffic controllers and pilots, all flying together connected in a single multiplayer session. You have actual pilots and real ATC (and volunteers) who are showing what real flight operations are like. So it kinda spices up what is generally a pretty mundane task.

Eventually after a few years I got tired of that because there's only so many times I can do KDFW to KORD in one of those beautiful PMDG planes. I wanted Airbus, but for some reason they've never made one, and Boeing's never been my thing.

Now days people are moving to Prepare3d, so I've been keeping my eye on that while trying out whatever new space thing comes around and supporting various kickstarters.

revmoo posted:

Sums it up nicely. Loiosh I'm surprised that as an engineer you don't see the GLARING issues with the concept. I'm a lowly web developer and it's always been immediately obvious to me that they have no chance of implementing even a fraction of the promised scope.