Spermanent Record posted:

Hapy New Year everyone. You guys are the best. I hope you chill out a bit Jobo Fett, and Beet Wagon, you need to share your workout routine. Moma, you seem like a good guy at heart so why do you suck so much? Derek Smart, just try to huff less of your own emissions in 2018 and you'll get through ok.

Happy 2018!

Solarin posted:

Dapper Don post more dog pictures

Scruffpuff posted:

Good point - I continually see that misconstrued. Chris Roberts didn't "make" $175 million - he asked for it, and was given it, in exchange for something he isn't qualified to do. So he's sitting on a giant $175 million IOU.

DapperDon posted:

You got it friendo!

DapperDon posted:

You got it friendo!

Abuminable posted:

You have outstanding taste in art!

Beet Wagon posted:

Wanna pet that dogge

Latin Pheonix posted:

So it looks like some people on Reddit have pinpointed the reason (or, at least, one of the reasons) that FPS tanks way worse than even Star Citizen's lovely engine should tank. It turns out that if you have a ship in flight-ready mode, full of cargo and open one of the cargo doors the server shits itself and FPS drops to single digit numbers for everyone.

Looks like this bug is repeatable quite easily:


One possible theory is suggested:


Anyone who owns a cargo jpeg feel like repeating the steps above to kill a server? Please record it if so! (Bonus points if you say "Hey guys, what has 20 players and 0 frames per second? THIS SERVER!" before pushing the button to open your doors ).

skaboomizzy posted:

My favorite Star Citizen subplot this year was AMERICAN SATAN

Someone wrote a bit part in their movie for Sandi so they could use her to leech off CIG's equipment and who knows what other resources

Then they just totally cut her from the movie and didn't even bother to tell her so she had to find out by watching it

I want to shake that person's hand, they clearly understand the true meaning of DREAMS

EminusSleepus posted:

What are the chances that when this poo poo goes belly up that Croberts will convert UEC into. Crypto currency? Lol

kilus aof posted:

It's like having ships filled with tons of physic enabled objects is a terrible idea and that a simpler cargo system would be 99% identical in terms of actual gameplay and wouldn't have server wide performance issues.

DapperDon posted:

He has friends that would love that too. Leo and Spencer love the rubs.

ripptide posted:

Those appear to be goode and wyse doggos. Deserving of many pettings.

Dementropy posted:

G0RF posted:

If you think your biggest enemies are trolls or goons, or your biggest problems are making sure you delete any incriminating evidence you left behind on some old video archive your backers paid for, you really aren't paying close enough attention.

Your biggest enemies-- particularly right now-- are the toxic zealots who have already backed your game and, in absence of a game to play, have decided to role play as Riot Cops beating down anybody who looks askew at their beloved (fictive) super-game. This pattern repeats daily in more places than any of us can count. On Twitter, Youtube comments, Facebook pages, Gaming Media article comments, Reddit, and elsewhere.

Where did they learn and perfect this odious art, you wonder? Why, the RSI forums, of course!

THE PROBLEM, IN SUMMARY:

You have stated your intention to "take the pressure off backers to keep funding the game" by focusing your efforts on winning newer backers to the cause. This is a sensible strategy, at least on its surface, yet the proposition is going to be bloody difficult if:

1) The game is buggy, confusing, and unfun to play.
2) The tutorial is broken.
3) The community is hostile to new players who state that either or both of the above is true.

THE SOLUTION, IN SUMMARY:

You, the Community and Marketing Team, do not have the power to fix what is wrong with the game, or accelerate the development of its improvement. You do, however, have useful tools to combat this problem. There are good-hearted, patient members in your community, trying their level best to help win new converts to the fold. And not all of them are motivated by your cynical referral program carrot.

You are fortunate in that respect. They still love you, for reasons beyond our understanding.

Because of that, you need to:

1) EMPOWER AND ELEVATE THE GOOD GUYS --- they are the best tools in your arsenal in what will be a difficult new season of your life. Elevate their stature, and start taking a harder line approach with that part of your backer base that truly is the enemy within. If the game was not the mess that it is, then this particular issue would not be of such urgent priority. You, the Community and Marketing leadership, may have no power over the pace and quality of development, but you have a lot of tools at your disposal for changing the discourse in your own community.

2) PRIORITIZE NEW PLAYER EDUCATION VIDEOS -- Instead of doing yet another weekly show (the newest of which is apparently about Space Plants), you should focus on weekly programming aimed at educating non-players about the game and educating current players about the importance of welcoming any and all questions that non-players may have. Right now, some members of your own community are doing this for you, because they recognize the need is great, but it's YOUR GAME, and you need to do this for yourself.

3) FIX THE drat TUTORIAL - Tell Chris that fixing the Tutorial is a five-alarm fire and needs developer attention immediately. Pull five guys off their 4th revamp of a spinning space chair remodel and have them make a tutorial that doesn't suck.

4) DON'T JUST DISCOURAGE TOXIC BACKERS, PUNISH THEM -- Lando and Ben showed some encouraging signs in a recent Reverse the Verse, asking the community not to insult or argue with people. But an offhand comment in a show seen by maybe 1000 viewers is not enough. You need to make examples of the toxic losers who stand amongst the Welcome Committees with their guns out, ready to fire endless lobs of "You're an idiot", "You don't understand Game development", "This is an ALPHA, rear end in a top hat!" at your next potential wave of customers. You have seen it play out countless times, as surely as we have. You need to start doing something about it.

5) REFRESH YOUR PUBLIC PERSONA BY ELEVATING NEW FACES - Ben and Sandi, I'm sorry to break the news to you, but each of you have lost credibility with the fanbase over the last year, for very different reasons. The rapturous reception of Sean Tracy by "Reverse the Verse" viewers is telling you something-- that a straight-talking and informed developer actually talking about the true state of the game is like manna from heaven to a starving people wandering the desert looking for the Promised Land. You could regain some goodwill with an increasingly restive population by replacing yourselves with Sean Tracy and Cherie Heiberg. Ben, you come across as Uninformed and Sandi, you come across as Disinterested. Sean and Cherie are very informed, very interested and, in contrast to you both, they seem trustworthy, too. If you want to change the tone (and you bloody well should), it starts with replacing them mouthpieces.

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I recognize that this is constructive criticism, and will likely be seen as presumptuous and disingenuous, considering that it came from Something Awful. You seem far more likely to take action to our posts when you find us delighting in some smoking gun you've left buried somewhere that you need to track down and throw into the ocean.

Yet it is offered sincerely, and the advice is sound. Do not let 'director of spaceships' titles earned through sycophancy deafen you, Ben. Do not let your excessive self-regard as a Marketing Genius blind you, Sandi. Let neither your cash reserves nor past successes delude you about the present realities. There's a chill in the air now, guys, and it's not just the weather changing, it is the season.

“Knock knock. Who’s there? It’s Obvious. it’s Obvious who? It’s Obvious who everybody loves... Cherie!” posted:

“Maybe she didn't win the competition, but she won my heart.”

“I’m a simple man, I see cherie's name, i click on the video. That woman is amazing.”

“Cherie has such a sweet smile..... ”

“only clicked on this for Cherie.”

“(everybody skipping to the Cherie part XD)”

“1.) I'll totally admit I watched this 99% for Cherie. She's ridiculously cute, in every way. I've never had such a dev crush in my life.”

“Ah, mon Cherie!”

“cant wait cherie is always great to watch always soo cheerful lol”

“The Jeremiah bit at the very end was great. And I love that the whole community team is in on this stuff...and who doesn't love Cherie? Great episode.”

Beet Wagon posted:

lol this game is loving terrible, how do I get a refund?


P.S. let's rub!

G0RF posted:

Whoever you get, you need new faces, stat. This is so obvious and you actually could rejuvenate an exhausted formula by cycling out the faker brigade Sandi leads and putting in some actual male and female human beings who love gaming in general and YOUR game in particular.

All of this sound, obvious advice is sure to be ignored yet again in the relentless repetition of the self-interested and self-defeating. So I look forward to more, and worse, for as long as possible. Keep doing what you’re doing!

Zzr posted:

I hope B'Tak reads the thread. Because I'm coming for you. Are you happy with your land protected by UUEEC ? Do you like their fast response ? I'll just come crash a ship from orbit and make your 16x16 a crater. Or maybe you were just mining that time, I'll just come at you yelling "train to zone train to zone" EQ style, with a horde of pirates NPC ready to aggro anyone. Or I'll just fit my firefly with cloak and vanish when you are in their aggro range. When you are dead and after your third crash you'll finally be able to get out of your bed, I'll be behind the door. I'll follow you and be ahead of you when you command your new ship ; I'll be in the pilot seat when you enter your submarine, and 10 seconds later we will both be crashed into the starport, making you a criminal having to serve your time. When you get out of jail and want to mix yourself a relaxing drink, you'll only discover that the lemon juice was my piss. Then you'll crawl to the toilet to puke, but it will have overflown because the guy you hired to clean it was me. Put your pvp slider to 0 and I'll still be here for you B'Tak. Come into the space B'Tak.

Spermanent Record posted:

Hey thread, should I buy Oakley Jawbreakers or will I look like a middle aged dickhead? (They will be used for extensive cycling.)

Happy New Year!

CubicalSucrose posted:

I forgot about PvP sliders! Was that an actual thing anyone (CR) said would be in the game, or just a dream of a caremando?

Ursine Catastrophe posted:

Yeah turns out it's actually kind of easy to get a lot of money out of people when you can just lie to them outright and then never deliver

Kosumo posted:

A refund or a rubfund?

MedicineHut posted:

You are absolutely right of course. Seems CIG is terrified of change. Any change. Change can send the wrong message that they have been wrong in something. Anything.

But if the cult has been consistent with somehting is that they can accept and swallow anything CIG throws their way. They will panic at first but then they just rationalize in any way they find useful. Someone like Swofford should be fully aware of this.