Daztek posted:

Beet Wagon posted:

But I thought it was seamless

TheSickeningTruth posted:

I love you.

Tarquinn posted:

Hello fellow goonie FUDsters.

Speaking of ships, piracy and shooting your guns at other ships, I want to give something back to the community that enables my terribad dark passion of spreading FUD about the greatest game future technological singularity that is Store Citizzer all over the webspaces. For this I have one (1) free copy of an actual good game featuring ships, piracy, and shooting your guns at other ships; Assassin's Creed: Black Flag. So, if you want that free UPlay code, PM me a jpeg of your favorite cool space gun. As soon as I got three entries, I will pick the one I like the most and PM the code.


_{If you all have that game already and I don't get three PMs, then good for you, the code will go to first person messaging me.}

Spiderdrake posted:

Except it doesn't matter.

CIG is obsessed with leaking and distributing information that doesn't matter just as they're obsessed with models and mechanics that don't matter. The reason citizens respond the way they do is how nebulous and meaningless they've been taught the roadmap is. That's the Star Citizen thing right there: Spend so much time training your whales and psuedoshills you end up training yourself. The company has taught itself to replicate stupid patterns, they have scammed themselves into pouring effort into manipulating a narrative that doesn't matter.

It also just shocks me how they can't seem to get it through their heads that they can release joke mechanics as tier zero implementations and push them forward to massive acclaim. How hard is tier zero salvage? A ship blows up. If you're in a salvage craft, you touch the debris and bam you're salvaging. Mining isn't actually anything approaching what mining means in a mmo, but you see citizens posting about how they're being griefed doing this infinitely dull task. These people will lick the sweat from beneath just for a taste of gameplay.

Daztek posted:

doors, man

Scruffpuff posted:

This made me realize something that had been bugging me about the "Tier-0 Implentation" logic (which, let's face it, is actually extended to the entire game and engine, when you think about it.)

I can't think of the specific game right now, it's probably an RTS of some kind, but it starts with you building basic buildings. Let's say a straw hut. That would be the Tier-0 implementation. Then as you get more resources you "upgrade" the building and now it's made of wood. You continue upgrading and it becomes brick, then metal.

Lladre posted:

Then someone walks up to me.

“Oh, you ‘lone, Sister? Ain’ i’ late?” the man says.

Strangers don’t just walk up to you in Bazaar Street.

“Or ‘hapse you ain’ Sister. Null tha’. is i’ rat. Yeah. Gear rat. Street rat eve’.” The man had taken another few steps towards me and stopped again when I backed away.

What did he say? All the panic of a few minutes ago shoots back into my mind and stiffens my spine. I don’ eve’ got a slag.

I turn to look at the man for the first time. He’s rough and poor looking, but better dressed than I’d expected. He is shaved but unremarkable. I see the shadow of a face I remember well.

Boss Dirk.

Scruffpuff posted:

It's one of the reasons I'm looking forward to the collapse - once real developers start picking through the wreckage, we'll have laughs here for months, if not years.

Pixelate posted:

Old guard not happy...

Neltharak posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_LgG4hktvI

Elaborate humor made while trying to understand game development better.

Lladre posted:

Crytek winning the lawsuit (not getting any money cause lol it's all gone) then publishing all of cigs code out of spite would be pretty interesting.

Midnight Voyager posted:

gently caress's a grand marshall? That's not on the list.

Thoatse posted:

This cat lives on a horse farm and thinks it's a tiny horse

Scruffpuff posted:

Except that's not how construction works. You don't "upgrade" a straw hut into a wooden building. None of the components that make up the substructure are transferable. You have to know you want a wood building from the get-go. Then you plan for it and build it properly. If there's a straw hut already there, it has to be torn down. Not even the materials are transferable. This is true all the way up the tier chain.

Natron posted:

This is an interesting point, because not only are the materials not transferrable, if you're making a wooden building and the straw hut is there, you're actually adding extra work. Planning in architecture (or anything else really) is incredibly important, for this exact reason. Making a change when nothing is built is cheap and easy, because it's just lines in a CAD program. If you build a wall in your new house, put a floor in top of it, and then run electrical through it, when you want to take it out, you've actually created even more work than just putting in a wall there in the first place.

Tier 0 implementations, especially in a case like this, are loving stupid because you have to do the work to make it, then do more work to undo that work, THEN do what you should have done if you had a good plan from the beginning.

I don't know about you guys, but I'm starting to suspect that CIG's project management may be less than adequate.

G0RF posted:

YOUTUBE: Has Star Citizen Already Failed? (Feat. MandaloreGaming and TheYamiks)

90 Minutes!

Beet Wagon posted:

It’s funny you should post that because I have wonderful news: they finally put the grim reaper sign back in the bottom of Blue! I’ve been looking for it for years but apparently someone had stolen it.

Beet Wagon posted:

But I thought it was seamless

Daztek posted: