Krycek posted:

I finally took a break from playing Elite, an actual spaceship game, to go and get my money back from the crobblits.

darkarchon posted:

loving

People are slowly waking up

starkebn posted:

Star Citizen: i feel like i am dumbed

starkebn posted:

Star Citizen: i feel like i am dumbed

AP posted:

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

hey that's like exactly one nintendo switch

Beet Wagon posted:

The main problem with the Star Citizen thread is the rate at which titles are spawned.

Krycek posted:

I finally took a break from playing Elite, an actual spaceship game, to go and get my money back from the crobblits.

alf_pogs posted:

this reminds me of some pretty intense claustrophobia nightmares i had as a kid and i don't love it

Sunswipe posted:

CIG really needs to change tack on their marketing and pitch Star Citizen as Silent Hill In Spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace.

Hav posted:

Be careful watching the news.

Can't fault anything you said there, although you should load balance those devices to get the best out of them.

Used to run servers in Telehouse (Telford) and Linx (London); one of my minions managed to 'halt' a server rather than reboot, which led to an entertaining road trip. That's before they offered the golden pinkie to go power cycle the device. Good times.


We have both, although the co-lo stuff is largely getting stuffed into AWS or into specific hives that that are managed. We sold one of our datacenters recently for $10 million, and Frankfurt's currently on the chopping block, which leaves us with four.

Fortune 500, upper 20 or so. I'm merely a tool monkey with extra bitching powers.


It is.

Xaerael posted:

That "chit" thread is going to be a catalyst for revolt. So many of the once stalwart whales are in there being pissy about giving more.

It's totally a begging thread that was generated in-house. My gut says that the clock is seriously ticking loudly for them to secure further significant funding.

Krycek posted:

I finally took a break from playing Elite, an actual spaceship game, to go and get my money back from the crobblits.

D_Smart posted:

I think so too.

Thing is, in Jan/Feb of 2016, they pulled in over $4.7m. This Jan/Feb, they've barely crested $2.7m. Considering their burn rate, I'm sure they've been in a panic since Dec when they blew their load (the lies) with gamecom and citizencon.

ComfyPants posted:

And if they'd just continued working on the game instead of diverting most of their resources into making bullshit special convention demos, they probably would have something to show by now and could keep a steady flow of pledges.

Mirificus posted:

TheAgent posted:

when it comes out of alpha. right now anyone can preview it

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC

Propagandist posted:

Did anyone say "the chit hit the fans" yet?

Mirificus posted:

quote:

I'm going to stick my neck out here and say that the next 3 months leading up to July are going to be memorable in the development timeline of Star Citizen and the PU. Something we'll look back on and think 'yeah, that was when it started to realise it's potential'.

I believe we are going to start seeing S42 assets and development released into the baby pu over the next 3 months: shopping, FPS aboard the Starfarer, planetary landing (bit of a game changer that one), new locations, female characters, currency and more. I'm excited.

Check out 10 for the Erin, specifically at 16:08:

Edit: the latest dev report as of 10th April 2016:

Extracts from CIG dev announcements re shopping:

Development

The major focus during the month of March here in Austin has been Shopping!

By this I do not mean that we all went to the mall together to pick up the hottest fashion trends, but rather we focused on driving the features to completion that are required to get the shop environments functional for players. Lead Designer Rob Reininger has been driving various subfeatures like the Single-Item Transaction UI and flow and the shop environment item setup. Pete Mackay has been driving the pricing of all the various items that we will be selling in the shops.

This has required much coordination between our Design and Community teams in LA and our Design Director Todd Papy and Pete has handled it just swimmingly. We’re now implementing the established prices into DataForge where they will exist statically until we bring our formulaic solution online.

The items will be able to be purchased with a new currency we’ve established, internally called Alpha Currency. This currency exists for the sole purpose of testing out these prices and balancing the game, and will exist separately from UEC or REC. At any point we’ll be able to wipe Alpha Currency and start fresh if something goes awry, and this will help us nail down final pricing numbers before we go Live.

Along with the Shopping frontend comes the work being done to support the Shopping backend. The Server Team here in Austin has been setting up the ability to add/subtract Alpha Currency in game and handing it off to the UI and Design teams in the UK to use for the shopping interface and providing alpha currency rewards via completing missions.

This work is part of Persistence as a whole, which made significant progress this month. We finally integrated Persistence into our main development stream, which means we can’t go back to the way things were before and Persistence is here to stay.

Engineering

This month, it was all about shopping and figuring out the best way to give you a perfect shopping experience. This feature has many elements that required a cool collaboration between us and the other studios. Which, so far, has been a lot of fun.

We created a new AR-based shopping interface for clothes and personal weapons. Also a Catalog-based shopping system for vehicle components.

With the different types of clothes that you can buy, we had to create a tryout camera to enable the players to preview them on their character.

There was also work on a new shop inventory and layout randomizer.

Tokamak posted:

On one hand Chris is a perfectionist who doesn't want to release anything unpolished, on the other hand we have the PU.

quote:

Perhaps, the success of Star Citizen will not be in the technical achievements, the numbers, or even in the gameplay itself. Perhaps the success will come in the community itself and what we shared with each other. The game is still a long way from being finished but the community is much more than just an ordinary gamers community, it is more akin to family.

Sometimes it’s a little bit of dysfunctional family that likes to bicker a little too much, but it is easy, for anyone who has ears to hear and eyes to see, to know that this doesn’t happen much. Life long relationships formed from thousands of miles away made “reality” at CitizenCon when hands grasped in friendship. Seeing Sandi break down in tears for being overwhelmed with the appreciation of the good people cheering her on the stage. Podcasts that give some entertainment to someone while on a long commute to work. BarCitizens that let us meet and drink with strangers who we share common ground with. Not since the anomaly that was World of Warcraft have so many from so far away been brought together, that is not to be ignored. WE are a success already, whatever follows is just icing on the cake.

A Neurotic Corncob posted:

Wolf Larsen presents...THE MEASURE OF A SPACE MAN – PART 1

A Neurotic Corncob posted:

Wolf Larsen presents...THE MEASURE OF A SPACE MAN – PART 1

quote:

The simplest measurement of them all, did you have a pleasant experience and come back for more? According to CIG’s leaderboards, there are a lot of space men and women who keep coming back for more and more Arena Commander. Some folks have even acquired more than a hundred hours in just one of those games, which doesn’t account for the time spent in the PU or other game features.

alf_pogs posted:

$175 for a jpeg of a videogame spaceship

$175 for dlc

fuckin hell