A man in dire need of his frog pills posted:

Hmm. Changes will happen but I have some concern about the number of things that remain 'delay a week, each week' or in this case now 'a week has gone by, delay 2-3 weeks'. It isn't that this is happening but the ratio of things where the schedule is clearly more of a guess then a fairly solid number.

It's also worrying that many things are getting blocked on 'we want to improve the starmap more'. That several things all say that mean they have some critical resources (likely gameplay engineers) that are overbooked.

On one hand I very much believe it is worth a delay to get the new Hint system in and am glad for that, on the other it looks like there are a few development groups that need some quick training in giving better estimates. Giving padding is fine - spitballing it (this week? nope. this week? nope) not so much. I was one of the first people to say the mid July date was going to inevitably slide. I'm not worried that it is. The point of more concern is you can see some groups aren't learning and significantly overcommitted human resources (like a few weeks ago when several items that had nothing to do with networking ended up waiting on people who got called in to tiger team a network problem).

Facebook Aunt posted:

Have you heard of the litter robot? It's like $500, but still a better spaceship than anything CR is offering.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4PaCFL1js0

I'd like to see a cat try to piss out of that thing.

Scruffpuff posted:

CIG is like a fake onion - no matter how many layers you peel, there's still nothing underneath.

Amazing Zimmo posted:

https://twitter.com/RobertsSpaceInd/status/873308771057053704

"Footage captured in engine"

So just like the homestead demo but without the dune sandworms. Also it may be just me but the footage they are releasing is gradually getting poorer in quality.

D_Smart posted:

So the latest 3.0 schedule is out. Here is a diff between previous and current versions.

Sillybones posted:

Something Awful is one person. This has become clear to me.

Mr Fronts posted:

So let me the this straight. In "Fantasy Schedule 2017", CIG say this:

Persistent universe content -> Mission Givers

ON April 14th, state DUE May 12th
ON May 12th, state DUE June 2nd
ON June 2nd, state DUE June 9th
On June 9th, state DUE June 30th


Or , to put it another way, assuming you are a lazy weekdays-only employee who doesn't understand game development,

The job is 20 working days from completion.
When the due date comes up, it's 15 working days from completion.
When that due date comes up, it's 5 working days from completion.
When that due date comes up, it's 15 working days from completion.


If any part of my own work projects ran like this, I'd be looking for another job. But then, I'm a lazy weekdays-only employee who doesn't understand project delivery.

D_Smart posted:

So the latest 3.0 schedule is out. Here is a diff between previous and current versions.

Everything is now delayed to July 27th: which we know they're probably going to miss. Remember when I said they'd be lucky to see this release out by Gamescom?

Fatkraken posted:

nope

One of my cats would literally just stand in it, facing inwards, with all 4 feet in the litter, raise it's tail and squirt piss out of it's catbutt directly out of the door. Another would probably be so scared from the motor running between pisses he'd assume it was a monster and wouldn't use it at all.

Tank Boy Ken posted:

I guess CIG is actually like a real onion - layers upon layers getting peeled off. And in the end, there are only tears.

Amazing Zimmo posted:

Also it may be just me but the footage they are releasing is gradually getting poorer in quality.

Sillybones posted:

Noticed that the most. It is like they have lost the actual art talent they had for so long.

AP posted:

MTBFritz posted:

Viajero posted:

Whoa

https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen...date_20170609/

https://www.diffchecker.com/oV4Ji8rF

This is especially worrying

quote:

In Core Tech, the Entity Update Component Scheduler, which was deemed completed last week, has actually been delayed by a whole month.

and

quote:

The network team also did it's weekly delay. As usual (it's been the 5th delay in a row)

. We are back in the old cycle folks. Its already IN, ahh newsflash we have to work on it some more even tho it was completed...refactors and all that. And surprise surprise the network code which many experienced people doubt they can even do is pretty much on a delay-tour. What else you gonna say if you cant solve the problem right? Coming right out admitting that you cant solve it wold be a death sentence to the project eh?

That post makes me shake my head. But then I guess its directed not at people like me but for a special group of people. The ones that "count" and will pay through the nose for a feeling of membership.

quote:

But let's not lose hope, some work has still been completed this week :

• Player Manned Turrets (Gameplay)
  
• Persistent Damage, Ammo and Missile Count (Gameplay)
  
• Heavy Armor for Star Marine (UI)
  
• Live Environment Probe Capture (Graphics)

.....until they are not anymore (see "Entity Update Component Scheduler")

And the first top comment makes me think 3.0 is taking the place of Star Citizen as a whole. "Better make it right even if it takes longer"....next they ll say they are okay if 3.0 is released in 2019 but will be perfect then.

They must realize by now that this cannot work out or at least that the probability that it all is a scam rocks a high % and simply refuse to acknowledge it by shaking their heads, singing praise and vigorously attacking everybody who mentions any of these things.

another nice one from the comment section

quote:

I expected delays, if it ends up just a couple of weeks that would be amazing.

Yeah man....a couple of weeks every time in the end it ll add up to months of years all the same hahaha.

shrach posted:

Average employees were 221 with £10m total wages in 2016 (132 @ £6m in 2015).

The Titanic posted:

But I never understood toilet man. I mean, why? Is there really a guy(s?) out there dying to sit on the space toilet? What do they think is going to happen? A push minigame or something?

Facebook Aunt posted:

I'd like to see a cat try to piss out of that thing.

No Mods No Masters posted:

fidelity 🤔

Space Crabs posted:

I know I dig on Star Citizen and spend way too much time here coming up with sick burns and wicked takedowns




But in all seriousness this looks like Final Fantasy 10. This is not a joke.



This might be an indication of the poo poo they are trying to push out and call 3.0 since it's not a flashy cryeditor.map demo and instead looks like Metal Gear Solid 2.

shrach posted:

Foundry 42 Ltd met their deadline and filed their accounts for the year ended 31 December 2016. There's a lot in there but here's some highlights.

It seems HMRC are actually paying over those tax credits now. Up to £3.6m for 2016 and around £8m total in the three years to 31 December 2016. Shame. I'd say it's now correct to add £8m to their funding figure of ~$150m. I doubt HMRC get any ships though.

They disclosed the lease is ~£250k per year. ~5 years left to run.

Average employees were 221 with £10m total wages in 2016 (132 @ £6m in 2015).

Erin's remuneration in F42 rose from £193k to £236k including benefits.

Total costs were up to ~£17.5m for the year (~£14.5m in 2015).

This one is a long one and a bit technical I'm afraid, but it is the most amusing and explains why they have now decided that they got their own turnover wrong by the small amount of £2.4m in 2015. As suspected in my various July blogs they are just moving money around the companies as they need it. Basically they are then retrospectively making up their own turnover figure by basing it on how much actual money was transferred. But they decided to change how they make up this figure which means they have to go back and adjust how they made up the figure in 2015 (because of consistency) and then disclose it:



Full accounts are at https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/08703814/filing-history

Rugganovich posted:

I can meet you half way
https://mrsred.com/products/robby-the-robot

Gradis posted:

my older catte has started pissing out the box. it sits in the tray but aims out and ends up pissing all over the place. what magic box is this?

shrach posted:

Foundry 42 Ltd met their deadline and filed their accounts for the year ended 31 December 2016. There's a lot in there but here's some highlights.

It seems HMRC are actually paying over those tax credits now. Up to £3.6m for 2016 and around £8m total in the three years to 31 December 2016. Shame. I'd say it's now correct to add £8m to their funding figure of ~$150m. I doubt HMRC get any ships though.

They disclosed the lease is ~£250k per year. ~5 years left to run.

Average employees were 221 with £10m total wages in 2016 (132 @ £6m in 2015).

Erin's remuneration in F42 rose from £193k to £236k including benefits.

Total costs were up to ~£17.5m for the year (~£14.5m in 2015).

This one is a long one and a bit technical I'm afraid, but it is the most amusing and explains why they have now decided that they got their own turnover wrong by the small amount of £2.4m in 2015. As suspected in my various July blogs they are just moving money around the companies as they need it. Basically they are then retrospectively making up their own turnover figure by basing it on how much actual money was transferred. But they decided to change how they make up this figure which means they have to go back and adjust how they made up the figure in 2015 (because of consistency) and then disclose it:



Full accounts are at https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/08703814/filing-history