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MedicineHut posted:Not sure I get the poll actual message to backers. On the one hand CIG says they would like to stop scope creep for a while and improve existing mechanics. On the other the poll itself is all about new mechanics. What gives? They want to keep to a quarterly release cadence. They have given backers a 3.x Road Map. Despite it being a major gutting from the 3.x plan Chris shared at Gamescom 2016, it is still too ambitious to keep to on a quarterly basis. Their 3.0 update, with its many feature additions, resulted in a largely unplayable build. Broken missions, difficulties landing on planets, degradation to framerates, poor support for social gameplay, etc. Backers were told by Chris that 3.0 would include extra polish and bugfixing. It would be when the game really started coming together. It has instead been a release where the game feels like it’s falling apart. Morale within CIG/Foundry suffered massively. Faith in the backer base is faltering. Streamers are abandoning the game for other titles. Parties within CIG have communicated to Chris of the impossibility of hitting all the 3.2 features. Also communicated is the necessity to improve or add features not formerly planned for 3.2 yet vital for improved player experience. The Poll then is a preemptive effort to let backers help steer development priorities for a revised, downsized but in theory more playable, user-friendly version of 3.2. Roberts has been the worst kind of Idealist — a Fabulist. Yesterday, under obvious strain and with garbled fluency, he made the case for Pragmatism about 3.2. To the extent I’ve sampled reactions, it mostly came as good news and it’s not hard to see why — his Fabulism was leading to Fatalism.
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Pope's been done, but I hope you'll accept this humble submission: In Lumberyard the packets flow Between the servers, row on row, That mesh our shards; and in the 'verse The shills, still bravely streaming, curse Scarce heard amid the goons below. We are the Pledged. Short days ago We paid, felt smug, saw Roberts glow, Played and were played, and now we fly In Lumberyard. Take up our quarrel with the foe: If Derek posts, don't let it go-- The dreams be yours so hold them high. If ye refund from those who lie We shall not sleep, though nothing grows In Lumberyard. Admiral Snackbar fucked around with this message at 21:21 on Mar 24, 2018 |
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Mar 24, 2018 21:13
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Ah, what is 3.2 promising? Magic beans?
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Mar 24, 2018 21:27
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Mr.Tophat posted:Ah, what is 3.2 promising? Magic beans? Farming is in?
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IncredibleIgloo posted:Farming is in? Hello, this is my farm, where I farm sensu beans. Oh, that? That's my jpeg crop duster. Nice of you to notice. I'm Goku btw.
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Mar 24, 2018 21:33
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Bootcha posted:Let's look: Soon, Star Citizen will have been in development for so long that we’ll need to start adjusting for inflation for these comparisons to remain meaningful.
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Mar 24, 2018 21:39
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D_Smart posted:I wrote a short thread... Crazy, if true.
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peter gabriel posted:So Captain PVP wants to have the ability to make info take billions of years to arrive? Simple. They're insane. No go alert the authorities to have them taken away
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The Titanic posted:Rebuild a game from 1994, turns out it's tough and takes more time and money than originally anticipated. Has to scale back to even maybe finish the project. 
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Mr.Tophat posted:Original content, till my field I can't wait till the citizens are being sold jpeg farm equipment.
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I love the comment about "not factually" backing up something in response to an argument about CIG being made of dreams and lies. It's the kind of technical correct immediately identifying you as an Assholian. Nice warning flag to not read anything by that guy ever again. I mean "Cymelion" already sounds like an alien name. Nice blowing your cover, you idiot. Now go climb into the next Ariane 5 and fly back home. 
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Mar 24, 2018 22:26
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Do you think CIG has gotten smart enough to at least be able to rig their backer polls? I remember the last "What should CIG work on next?" poll when Leaderboards was picked 7th in priority with something like 4% of the vote. Guess what CIG delivered next: Leaderboads.
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Mar 24, 2018 22:28
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 Ship Sales STALE?! Optimization STUPID!!! & Elitist ATTITUDES. https://youtu.be/vHASiof19zo?t=25 0:25 - "some people really tired, some people are like 'you know what I am so tired in this [...] candy cycle; you know it looks so good it tastes so good and then it rots the loving teeth out of my mouth' they're tired of seeing this cycle over and over again" https://youtu.be/vHASiof19zo?t=314 5:16 - "for the game to be successful we got to drop this kind of elitist attitude where we think we're the only people that matter and that [other people] just don't get it"
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Mar 24, 2018 22:31
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Virtual Captain posted:
Uh-oh. The backers are revolting. Also, some of them seem to be staging some kind of revolt.
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Mar 24, 2018 22:34
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Admiral Snackbar posted:Pope's been done, but I hope you'll accept this humble submission: I am loving all the poetry!
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I can only provide mathematical turgid verse. The average non-sale day bring in about $32,000. 2014 made $32,933,205, and had 138 days of sale, about 38% of the year. Minus the sum of non-sale day average of 227 days, those sales accounted for 78% of the year's earnings. 2015 made $35,961,202, and had 153 days of sale, about 42% of the year. Minus the sum of non-sale day average of 212 days, those sales accounted for 81% of the year's earnings. 2016 made $36,100,538, and had 121 days of sale, about 33% of the year. Minus the sum of non-sale day average of 245 days, those sales accounted for 78% of the year's earnings. 2017 made $34,912,412, and had 150 days of sale, about 41% of the year. Minus the sum of non-sale day average of 215 days, those sales accounted for 80% of the year's earnings. 2018 has to make about $36009847, and is projected at this rate to have 215 days of sale, about 59% of the year. Minus the projected sum of non-sale day average of 150 days, these sales will account for 87% of the year's earnings.
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Bootcha posted:I can only provide mathematical turgid verse. Yeah, but at this point one should be prepared to learn in the near future that most of these numbers (especially after 2016) are more or less made up by CIG, so we can't actually use them as a base for anything
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Libluini posted:Yeah, but at this point one should be prepared to learn in the near future that most of these numbers (especially after 2016) are more or less made up by CIG, so we can't actually use them as a base for anything True, but unfortunately we have to take funding tracker at its word, otherwise the facade of open development falls apart.
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Mar 24, 2018 23:16
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Admiral Snackbar posted:Pope's been done, but I hope you'll accept this humble submission: 
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Frank_Leroux posted:Not the OP, but I'll do my best: This, and the others, are exceptional creative works. My inner bard is inspired! Star Citizen is bad We've all been had.
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Tippis posted:Uh-oh. The backers are revolting. Sandi: "Finally, something we agree on."
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Apologies to Wordsworth. I wandered lonely as a sperg That sleeps in basements, digs and suites, When all at once I saw a morgue, So full of backers, with receipts; That told of gains from warbond sales, Sold only to autistic whales. So futile, just like Sandi’s shows Like RTVs with pointless scripts, Just fading into the shadows Along the margin of the crypt. Ten thousand saw I with one gaze, Their money gone or set ablaze. Chris beside them danced; and begged Did wave his hands, a lot with glee: Cajoled them to buy more jpegs, To spend their money recklessly. I gazed—and gazed—but little thought What wealth the show to him had brought: For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive air, I think of refunds, and then I Think of fortune, no longer there. And of future spergs without clue Of jpeg games, well overdue. Dogeh fucked around with this message at 01:14 on Mar 25, 2018 |
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It is an ancient Developer, And he stoppeth one of three. 'By thy thumblike head and glittering eye, Now wherefore stopp'st thou me?' 'Buy a ship,' quoth he
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Set a course for the cult system ENGAGE! https://twitter.com/discolando/status/977694796037873666
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Foo Diddley posted:It is an ancient Developer, The Backers' wallets are opened wide, And I am willing to buy in; The stretch goals are met, with little regret: By 2014 they'll call the project fin!'
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EightAce posted:Chris has seen Crobear and is amused !! He likes the idea of an all body toupee?
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Virtual Captain posted:Set a course for the cult system I'm trying to not sound big headed, but I pulled and kept an audience of well over 100, with a talk about how tough being in a fandom was in pre-internet 90's. It was the first time I ever spoke publicly about a topic that wasn't about crafting, and was to an audience of mostly people who didn't really know me, just that I'm that one person who makes crazy, over ambitious costumes. I guess good job Lando on your lovely dozen or so emotionally and financially invested idiots.
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Moma, thread is a bit slow can you spice it up with some tales of the wonderful adventures you are having in this game you paid $8k for?
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You still putting 40 hours a week into Star Marine and just out of interest are 36 of those hours spent "waiting for players"?
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Here are some of the things I love about the poster. The number of colours that the text has.. The glorious use of word art distortions and angles and all kinds of things to give it more pep. The excitingly stretched Star Citizen watermark. The mysterious light box that covers only the bottom half of the poster and bisects the times while tastefully leaving only a sliver of the sponsor logo exposed. The military-style 24 hour times. The fact that this is inaugural.
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G0RF posted:They want to keep to a quarterly release cadence. They have given backers a 3.x Road Map. Despite it being a major gutting from the 3.x plan Chris shared at Gamescom 2016, it is still too ambitious to keep to on a quarterly basis. Thanks Preemptive way to prepare the way to scope downsize then. Checks out.
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Bugtesters gonna bugtest... (Except when they physically can't) On the plus side Bug Persistence 3.0 seems to be in.
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Star Citizen: It's pretty clear you're not interested in reality right now
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doingitwrong posted:Here are some of the things I love about the poster. 
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  Welcome to the club Alternatively, the comedy option.
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doingitwrong posted:Star Citizen: It's pretty clear you're not interested in reality right now
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