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Toops posted:Solar Plebeian weekly update is up! I managed to pull off my first big test of the great engine swap of 2016. I ported assets into Unreal Engine 4 (had to completely re-texture them), and was able to reproduce the Flight Model I wrote in Unity over in UE4 fairly accurately in a weekend. I also took a crack at the particle system which is the superheated debris flying past the spaceship you'll see in the video below. It's still wonky, and not connected to ship speed yet, but it's there. We love you C++ is still one of the most used languages for gaming, however it has it's own drowbacks, like being literally prone to every kind of crash and being quite hard to write. I hate it but i use it as well. Is Unity in C#? So you refactored all your work from C# to C++?
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intardnation posted:a simple simon and a pubic's cube! well done. And the fidelity I can tell the cube needs a shave as per sandi. Jumping on the need Solar Plebeian VR
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"Toops" posted:As for the code, it's C++ man. It's the official programming language of the Stimpire. I poo poo you not, I literally ruined my project due to a simple syntax error in C++. I made a change, hit compile, and the compiler crashed, which then caused Unreal Editor to crash. Then whenever I tried to re-open the project, it would crash. Corrupted the project files due to a loving syntax error. That was a real new one. 
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Toops posted:But, all in all, I think the results speak for themselves: CIG should C&D you, as you have already ripped off 90% of their code.
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Orions Lord posted:Is there more data available? That covers salaries assuming all 300 employees make 40k including roberts. It might also cover insurance hr things like that. So probably about covers labor period. Theyve been at a loss for a while now not including secret investments
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https://cloudimperiumservicesllc.zendesk.com/hc/en-us blank page Must be their regular monthly schedule where they take down the site entirely for maintenance. Just as you do with a service helpdesk. Has certainly nothing to do with their tagging i am sure. That was all lies anyway. DOCa Cola fucked around with this message at 12:44 on Jun 6, 2016 |
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Foo Diddley posted:Funny how they can do all this but they just haven't got the time to go to E3 Clearly it's more important to focus on game development and ignore the frivolous distractions that would just be seen as a shallow marketing campaign.
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DOCa Cola posted:https://cloudimperiumservicesllc.zendesk.com/hc/en-us Salty goon asshats hacked the customer support portal!!11
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RattiRatto posted:We love you C# is ideal for rapidly developing and changing business applications, but doesn't give you enough control over its features to make it a high performance language. Some issues you can work around, but the end result doesn't exactly look like idiomatic C# either  Sorry for the derail; I wish Star Citizen had a garbage collecting mechanism. It'd save each user about 30GB of hard drive space...
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Daztek posted:https://cloudimperiumservicesllc.zendesk.com/hc/en-us but they have done nothing wrong. so sayeth the visionary, so sayeth the backers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jkm5QrSzi_k you are welcome.
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Daztek posted:https://cloudimperiumservicesllc.zendesk.com/hc/en-us Congrats everyone. Derek is faking that too right??!?!!? -shitizen Also derek hasnt even been involved in like the last ten embarassing things. Hes a boogeyman and a simple retweet makes him the mastermind
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intardnation posted:but they have done nothing wrong. https://forums.robertsspaceindustries.com/discussion/331972/customer-support-page-not-opening 
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Daztek posted:https://cloudimperiumservicesllc.zendesk.com/hc/en-us good job goonies
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Orions Lord posted:Assumption is the mother of all fuckups but. Best estimates of their current costs with around 260-300 staff are around 3 million per month. There's no real information on what they have left as loans, investors etc are all hidden, everything is hidden. In June last year (maybe the year before, it all runs into one) Erin Roberts said they had 500 staff (once people started worrying about money they stopped giving inflated staff numbers). Either you think they have a lot left or a little and where you are on that scale is closely aligned to how dumb you think the management is. So I'm guessing with an estimate of 56 million left you must think it's the best run game company ever. AP fucked around with this message at 13:14 on Jun 6, 2016 |
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Meanwhile, in a slightly less fidelitious galaxy... http://dyingsungame.com/ It's out tomorrow.
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AP posted:Best estimates of their current costs with around 260-300 staff are around 3 million per month. There's no real information on what they have left as loans, investors etc are all hidden, everything is hidden. In June last year (maybe the year before, it all runs into one) Erin Roberts said they had 500 staff (once people started worrying about money they stopped giving inflated staff numbers). Either you think they have a lot left or a little and where you are on that scale is closely aligned to how dumb you think the management is. So I'm guessing with an estimate of 56 million left you must think it's the best run game company ever. I was just wondering about the costs etc. And at work there is not much to do atm. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QJXN6npjVaMuzkyX4ggg_w3lcsJihkC86TndCpCJmNg/edit?usp=sharing Very rough I am missing a lot of info but it's a start.
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:Meanwhile, in a slightly less fidelitious galaxy... This project needs all the love it can get imo.
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Orions Lord posted:I don't know how many people work for cig atm. 300 or so? Orions Lord posted:Assumption is the mother of all fuckups.
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Orions Lord posted:I was just wondering about the costs etc. 
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AP posted:Best estimates of their current costs with around 260-300 staff are around 3 million per month. There's no real information on what they have left as loans, investors etc are all hidden, everything is hidden. In June last year (maybe the year before, it all runs into one) Erin Roberts said they had 500 staff (once people started worrying about money they stopped giving inflated staff numbers). Either you think they have a lot left or a little and where you are on that scale is closely aligned to how dumb you think the management is. So I'm guessing with an estimate of 56 million left you must think it's the best run game company ever. You do have to add the contractors and other affiliated persons to this btw. From the contractors that are doing the vanduul armada to the outside people working on mocap, cutscenes, AI etc etc.
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Daztek posted:https://cloudimperiumservicesllc.zendesk.com/hc/en-us Lol Look at the source code of the page, the bit that had the categories in it is still there. CIG literally removed everything except for the thing people were making fun of.
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Chalks posted:Lol Par for the course
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Dante80 posted:You do have to add the contractors and other affiliated persons to this btw. From the contractors that are doing the vanduul armada to the outside people working on mocap, cutscenes, AI etc etc. I don't think it's possible to get an accurate figure as everything is hidden, talk to Orions Lord if you want to discuss it. The burn rate is the rough estimate given by a few people who'd have a better idea than me.
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Dante80 posted:This project needs all the love it can get imo. Seriously the storyline from the trailer alone is more compelling than sq42
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Daztek posted:https://cloudimperiumservicesllc.zendesk.com/hc/en-us Chris himself must have changed the code, probably in the early hours by candle light
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Come, My Friends, We Need to Discuss Star Citizen BY BRIAN RUBIN · PUBLISHED 07/06/2015 (this was a pleasure to transcribe and there is a TON more to listen to in the podcast, really recommend it!) https://www.spacegamejunkie.com/oped/come-friends-discuss-star-citizen/ http://game-wisdom.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Brian-Rubin-5-25-16.mp3 @ 1:31 Someone asked me this the other day, why don't you have more STAR CITIZEN videos on your blog? And I answered them, 'because I can't download it'. Because every time I try to download it, it just STOPS. It just STOPS and I'm like 'I'm DONE with you, I'm done with your LAUNCHER, I don't want to sit here for 30 hours just to download ONE GAME'. Someone actually emailed me and said, "You know what? If you turn off everything that uses the internet so that nothing can interrupt it, it'll be FINE", I'm like NO! I'm not doing that for one game! I'm not turning off my STEAM and my whatever to... NO! You're RIDICULOUS! I appreciate the advice, but NO! So I haven't played STAR CITIZEN in about... a year? And... um... I'm gonna make a CONFESSION to you, I bought a few SHIPS for it, and then I sold them at a PROFIT like six months ago... and then I bought a LIFETIME KEY for ELITE DANGEROUS! Because ELITE DANGEROUS is a game I can play RIGHT NOW. And someone will be like, "oh you can play STAR CITIZEN", noooo not really, I saw... have you ever heard of BAD NEWS BARON? He's a streamer? He's a FULL TIME STREAMER, it's what he does, and he's a big STAR CITIZEN proponent, so I watched a stream of him and a bunch of people playing STAR CITIZEN the other day and I'm like, 'aaaaaahhhhhh... this game's not gonna be done until TWENTY TWENTY TWO... MAAAAYBE...' I... I mean I still have bought into it, so I still have a SHIP and everything once the game is READY, I'm just like, 'I've got other stuff to play you guys... like ELITE, which ACTUALLY WORKS RIGHT NOW', Q: What are they doing like FUNDING WISE, I just went on their SITE for the first time and I see that there's... They're still selling ships! They're still selling ships, they're still selling... having SALES on SHIPS, ships that aren't even DONE YET, ships that you can't even FLY... people are still buying them! Man if that's... that's... you know, how your COOKIE crumbles that's GREAT, that's not how I'm... that's not how ME works... wow I can't even talk anymore... But like um... like... like... I don't... I mean... and they're still... you can still BUY, I think, you can still SPEND MONEY for IN GAME CREDITS I think... I think I saw a video were now you can buy PANTS in the game... for your CHARACTER... It's a CLOTHING STORE, it's like a FUTURISTIC GAP and you can actually buy... So yeah, I'm at my... I used to be a huge like 'oh my god this game is gonna be great', but as it gets FARTHER and FARTHER away from the date they gave us in KICKSTARTER, back when we got it... like, it was supposed to come out in 2014, and they just kept ADDING STUFF and ADDING STUFF and ADDING STUFF... like I think one of the stretch goals was a FISH TANK for your hangar at one point... it was like sixty some million or something, and they PASSED IT, of course they did, and uh... and it's like, OK, I don't... I don't... I'm just gonna... I'm just... I'm just gonna put you in the back of the ROOM for now, I'm gonna deal with the people... the GAMES up front here, that I can PLAY right now and that actually WORK... and I'll come back to you! Later! I'll check in on you... NEXT YEAR... when I've UPGRADED, that's probably what I'll do, when I've upgraded my computer in a year or two, I'll try you again. Like even before I install STEAM or anything I'll install THAT just to see what it's like. But... last time I tried it, I couldn't configure my JOYSTICK. Or my THROTTLE. Or my PEDALS. Or my HEADTRACKING. Uhm... and... and... like... it took FOREVER to get into a match, and I couldn't... I couldn't ENJOY it. So, I just like... 'yeah, we're DONE. For now. We're just DONE.' It's just... it's such a SHAME. Q: I'm looking at these STRETCH GOALS and there's a voice in my head saying, 'this is just all BULLSHIT'. I'm looking at the SIXTY FOUR MILLION DOLLAR STRETCHGOAL, which is the PET ONE that you were just mentioning. You're telling me that it costs ONE MILLION DOLLARS to add a PET SYSTEM in the game? That doesn't make sense. But all those FISH are INDIVIDUALLY MODELED and they have their OWN AI and... and.. each SCALE is individually RENDERED and... I don't know...I have no idea any more... Eventually I believe they stopped adding stretch goals, I think they did that a while ago but... I got other stuff to PLAY right now, I mean there's ELITE coming out with NEW STUFF and they're already, you know, past 1.0... there's just a TON of games out that I can play RIGHT NOW. Or look, I can go BACK and play WING COMMANDER, or I could play FREESPACE 2, you know, if I want that EXPERIENCE. I don't... need you right now, it's so... it's so... it's so FRUSTRATING. It's SO FRUSTRATING. Q: This is just really showing those tell-tale signs of a game that's GOING to CRASH AND BURN. Cos it just feels like there's no, like... PLAN... like they're just like ADDING STUFF by throwing darts on a BOARD. This is similar to what happened with PLANETARY ANNIHILATION, and how they hit ALL their stretch goals and I think it just OVERWHELMED them and... I know earlier this year they announced for STAR CITIZEN, there's now going to be a complete STORY BASED SINGLE PLAYER CAMPAIGN, I think MARK HAMILL and GARY OLDMAN are gonna be in it? I mean that was probably the original THING, was that there was gonna be SQUADRON FORTY-TWO and it was gonna be the more WING COMMANDER-Y single player portion of the game, I mean that was there from the get-go but then... MARK HAMILL? And... and... GARY OLDMAN? And... and... the... the woman I... from the X-FILES, I can't remember her name... GILLIAN ANDERSON... yeah SHE'S in it, it's like, 'Oh! Yeah, yeah, like BIG NAMES', it's like oh, so THAT'S where our MONEY'S GOING. And then you see like VIDEO of their OFFICES, like they've got... one of their offices has a DOOR that looks like it's from a SPACESHIP. Like... CUSTOM DOOR. It's like, is that what our... yeah. Is that REALLY what our money... when I saw that I was like 'OK, I... I'm just gonna... IGNORE this'
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Daztek posted:https://cloudimperiumservicesllc.zendesk.com/hc/en-us
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SirPhoebos posted:Anything interesting happen this weekend, commandos? http://www.dereksmart.org/forums/topic/general-discussions/#post-3617
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Ash1138 posted:the mobile site doesn't! The perils of modern web page design!
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Wait, are you trying to say that most companies don't treat customers like tagged animals, or is it more that most don't make it as obvious as CIG is doing?
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