spacetoaster posted:

Anybody keeping tabs on the game "dreadnought"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dm0g7mDKFq0

Mirificus posted:

You can choose from 36 different clothing manufacturers!

ZenMaster posted:

ONE play session.... behold the Star Citizen in all his glory

Sarsapariller posted:

You know, I appreciate the passion with which you dig this stuff up, but I just don't get why anymore. Everyone here knows she's an awful person. Most of the Brown Sea knows it too- nobody was thrilled when she took over. I don't see why it's worth the effort anymore.

Maybe it's me. It's not that my opinion of any of it has improved, it's just so consistently, blandly bad in every aspect that it's not really entertaining to read about anymore. Every day I come in here and it's like "Oh look, the Citizens are stupid, racist, gullible idiots. Chris Roberts promised something unfeasible. Sandi did something self-aggrandizing and narcissistic, Derek referenced his blogs, Ben was generally tragic, and no new gameplay was released. Here's a new jpeg, it looks worse than the old ones."

I think I'm burning out on hating Star Citizen.

Drewjitsu posted:

Dreadnought owns, I've sucked at it at pax a few times.

Daztek posted:

They better implement superb cloth physics

Daztek posted:

They better implement superb cloth physics

G0RF posted:

That's a fair point, Sarsapariller.

I sometimes do overlong posts like that because I assume some of the readers here are new and don't really have big picture context on stuff. Sorry if it's old, boring news to you, though.

If you're burned out on it all, I don't blame you. I'm OCD enough to still be fascinated by it all. I would not be but for the historic scale of this monstrosity, the apparent dysfunction of the people behind it, and the seemingly criminal economic model underneath it all. I can't believe they've gotten away with this much and that, despite some near brushes with a reckoning, they remain so brazenly arrogant. I just can't believe it. I keep wondering, "Are they going to get away with all of this?" So far, they have.

But for those three particular conditions (the scale, the dysfunction, the criminality), I'd probably be bored of it, too. But put them together, and they have the makings of a time bomb. It's hard for me to get bored when there's a ticking sound.

Scruffpuff posted:

It's not helped by the "Us vs. Them" narrative they've created and wrapped themselves in - one that doesn't even remotely represent reality. In their minds, if the game succeeds, "LOL we won stupid GOONS" as they give themselves ticker-tape parades talking about how RIGHT they were the whole time. Meanwhile, back in reality, goons all smile at each other as we wipe the remains of space autists from our ships, and get them polished up for another go.

Even with an infinite possible number of parallel universes that can branch out from this moment in time, there is still no possible resulting universe where things do not go badly for these people. Either the game doesn't come out and they've wasted their money, or it comes out and it sucks and they've wasted their money, or it comes out and it's everything ONE faction wanted, but since they all have different opinions of what it should be, ANOTHER faction is extremely disappointed and they've wasted their money.

This project is in a logical loop where success is the only impossibility.

Eonwe posted:

He wont get it because he never freed Kimsemus

A Neurotic Jew posted:

Guys.

Doobie's Dog House is closing

end of an era.

G0RF posted:

That's a fair point, Sarsapariller.

I sometimes do overlong posts like that because I assume some of the readers here are new and don't really have big picture context on stuff. Sorry if it's old, boring news to you, though.

If you're burned out on it all, I don't blame you. I'm OCD enough to still be fascinated by it all. I would not be but for the historic scale of this monstrosity, the apparent dysfunction of the people behind it, and the seemingly criminal economic model underneath it all. I can't believe they've gotten away with this much and that, despite some near brushes with a reckoning, they remain so brazenly arrogant. I just can't believe it. I keep wondering, "Are they going to get away with all of this?" So far, they have.

But for those three particular conditions (the scale, the dysfunction, the criminality), I'd probably be bored of it, too. But put them together, and they have the makings of a time bomb. It's hard for me to get bored when there's a ticking sound.

A Neurotic Jew posted:

I'm kind of excited for 2.2 because the plan seems to be to sell in-game clothing/weapons for real money. It will own because the clothes will look ridiculous and probably not function somehow because its CIG, and the blatant cash-grab will further disillusion some folks.

On the other hand I actually don't have much confidence in them being able to get mechanics like that in-game in only one month.

SirPhoebos posted:

This implies that the Persistent Universe is going to have some, you know, Persistence.

And while the whales have surprised me, I don't think that cloths are going to have the same appeal as spaceships. Call it a hunch.

CrazyLoon posted:

That lawsuit has to happen first, then maybe it'll be a small part of it, no matter how egregious. As for something truly damning purely from a PR perspective...cripes, I seriously thought Sandi's tears at the last CitCon would've snapped some people out of their stupor, but I guess nothing will really be enough short of them literally taking a giant dump on stage or somesuch.

Daztek posted:

You underestimate the popularity of playing dress up in games

SirPhoebos posted:

This implies that the Persistent Universe is going to have some, you know, Persistence.

And while the whales have surprised me, I don't think that cloths are going to have the same appeal as spaceships. Call it a hunch.

EDIT: And Doobie, even though I never quite got the fascination with him and his hotdog stand.

fuzzknot posted:

That's true. I'm buying Bootcha a Javelin for our anniversary, and then we'll dress sexy for each other in it and mix drinks before retiring to the other room to glitch out at 1000 RPM until we crash to the desktop.

Daztek posted:

Characters will die, not so much Organizations... what will happen of Death of a Spaceman then? posted:

I may have gotten it all wrong so, bear with me....... but there's something I am not quite understanding about Death of a Spaceman "taxing" issues for the heir....

I seemed to understand, that after an X number of "falls" in the game, eventually a final and lasting one would come and the deceased character will need to be replaced by a "heir" who will inherit the in-game assetts less an inheritance tax plus also the deceased character's Reputation's alignement.

Now, I seem to also understand, that it was said that Organizations "could" be entitled to own in-game assetts like Ships or equipment as well as other in game items.

Now, I wonder, if the above is all valid, and I am not missing some "details" which would greatly change things and the understanding of game mechanics, what would prevent players, I wonder, to transfer all (or most) of their in-game assetts onto their Organization and, when they die for good, go therefore"scott free" and pay no inheritance tax (or very little) because their character has nothing or very little to be subject to it ?

Organizations don't die so........ even if an organization had TONS of in-game assetts from lots of its members to hold, there would never be any UEC to be paid for them for inheritance taxes.......

Or will "perhaps" CIG make Organizations actually pay taxes, periodically (every Star Citizen's fiscal year ?) for any and all of their listed in-game assetts be them Ships, equipment, ammunitions whatever, to compensate for the lack of an inheritance tax for Organizations and to prevent scenarios like the theoretical one I imagined where a member could transfer all (or most) of one's in-game assetts to one's own Organization so as to "skip" having to pay any inheritance tax due when the time comes for that character ?

Just wondering since I read nothing so far about it.......