Beet Wagon posted:

homoerotic cyber meme code words is still one of my favorite phrases of all time

Koil posted:

quote:

Q: What incentives and gameplay benefits do we want to implement to encourage players to wear uniforms and clothes on ships and on space stations etc?

A: That is my big pet peeve, and bug bear, and if you sat in our meetings you will hear me harass our actor(?) teams, because there's a lot of sort of small detail on this. Essentially I want to make, ah, the use of suits and helmets be sort of appropriate the same way they would be in the real world. For instance wondering around in the medium or heavy armour you should not be able to sit into the pilot's seat, or an operator seat to operate stuff. And in terms of sort of doing things and communicating I want, you know, having your helmet on has, y'know, an impact on say, your stamina, your ability to communicate.

What I really want to move to is what we call a physical-based inventory, which is why we're building lockers onto the ships and everything. And so there isn't, you don't have some magic bag of holding that you can have every single outfit sitting there. Like you literally if you have your spacesuit on what I want you to do is you get aboard your Connie, and then you take off your EVA suit, put your helmet, and get into the pilot seat to fly. And if you've gotta go outside, there's some decompression, you've gotta run, put on your suit. And you shouldn't be able to operate or do things in cumbersome equipment. Or if you do the cumbersome equipment makes it more difficult, makes you slower, makes you have less stamina...

Other things that haven't been properly implemented yet is the, what we call the player status, a little bit, you've seen the stamina, but the light roleplay elements, having to hydrate, having to eat occasionally, and you know potentially having to, ahh, you know, go to the rest room, or take a shower so you're not smelly...

I wanna have those so it sorta facilitates behaviour like, if you go to a landing zone, y'know you take off your suit and you're walking around you can talk and communicate people with, you know, face to face. Rather than everyone's running around in battle armour or space suits, you know, it just feels kinda weird. But that's mostly because we don't have the penalties for having those things. But we will do.

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Players and organizations who amass enough wealth can take control of individual production nodes and begin building an industrial empire. The most aggressive entrepreneurs may take over whole sections of a supply chain and begin producing their own goods for sale on the open market – if they can keep the resources flowing. But be warned – some large corporations don’t appreciate competition!

downout posted:

3 days late to the agile discussion - anyone say agile can't fail, only be failed?

Koil posted:

Daztek posted:

https://massivelyop.com/2018/08/04/star-citizens-chris-roberts-downplays-currency-stockpiling-controversy-you-win-by-having-fun/

Malachite_Dragon posted:

We passed the point where mercy was an option long ago.

Liquid Dinosaur posted:

Okay so, I’ve asked this multiple times before I became a regular reader of this thread, but I’m really dumb and couldn’t find it. Where the gently caress is the parp? Could someone link me the exact moment in the Space-President Oldman Speech where the parp happens?

Also what’s the origin of “rub” in the context of the game. Did Chris describe high fidelity masturbating mechanics or something?

Dementropy posted:

The Titanic posted:

Parp:

Somebody showed a picture of this. It was from Peter Gabriel when he took some of the images of Gary Oldmans model being distorted in a YouTube video and they were showing off their face distortion technology for all of their miraculous cinematography back in the day.

It was widely seen as a bad idea to do that with the likeness of a real life actor, and yes it did indeed go poorly. This also was the origination of "flat gary" with all the flow lines on his unwrapped UV texture they also showed.

Beef Hardcheese posted:

Speculation is that one of the (many) problems behind SQ42 is that Gary himself got wind of this and is pissed about it... Perhaps making him less than willing to come back and do reshoots to fix all the dumb mocap problems they had in the first place.

This is also tied to speculation about why we haven't seen anything new about any of the actors in years. Something about the amount of time that an actor's likeness can be used in advertisements/ promo material, and how that clock began ticking with Gary Oldman as soon as these things were released. Now the time limit has passed, and he isn't letting them renew the agreement (or wants way more money because he's mad at them).

The Titanic posted:

photorealistic Gary Oldman banging photorealistic Gillian Anderson in some guy's machinima porn, which absolutely will happen 30 minutes after these assets get into some modders hands.

Tokamak posted:

It should be obvious to anyone who has played games in the last decade how spending money to short circuit progression can negatively affect the psyche of a playerbase

Koil posted:

Last nights RTV crobbers



Sadly the lighting was so bad it was hard to get good images.

Daztek posted:

https://massivelyop.com/2018/08/04/star-citizens-chris-roberts-downplays-currency-stockpiling-controversy-you-win-by-having-fun/

Pixelate posted:

It's long and makes no sense, so I put the best bits in bold.

quote:

Q: What incentives and gameplay benefits do we want to implement to encourage players to wear uniforms and clothes on ships and on space stations etc?

A: That is my big pet peeve, and bug bear, and if you sat in our meetings you will hear me harass our actor(?) teams, because there's a lot of sort of small detail on this. Essentially I want to make, ah, the use of suits and helmets be sort of appropriate the same way they would be in the real world. For instance wondering around in the medium or heavy armour you should not be able to sit into the pilot's seat, or an operator seat to operate stuff. And in terms of sort of doing things and communicating I want, you know, having your helmet on has, y'know, an impact on say, your stamina, your ability to communicate.

What I really want to move to is what we call a physical-based inventory, which is why we're building lockers onto the ships and everything. And so there isn't, you don't have some magic bag of holding that you can have every single outfit sitting there. Like you literally if you have your spacesuit on what I want you to do is you get aboard your Connie, and then you take off your EVA suit, put your helmet, and get into the pilot seat to fly. And if you've gotta go outside, there's some decompression, you've gotta run, put on your suit. And you shouldn't be able to operate or do things in cumbersome equipment. Or if you do the cumbersome equipment makes it more difficult, makes you slower, makes you have less stamina...

Other things that haven't been properly implemented yet is the, what we call the player status, a little bit, you've seen the stamina, but the light roleplay elements, having to hydrate, having to eat occasionally, and you know potentially having to, ahh, you know, go to the rest room, or take a shower so you're not smelly...

I wanna have those so it sorta facilitates behaviour like, if you go to a landing zone, y'know you take off your suit and you're walking around you can talk and communicate people with, you know, face to face. Rather than everyone's running around in battle armour or space suits, you know, it just feels kinda weird. But that's mostly because we don't have the penalties for having those things. But we will do.

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CONCLUSION: You will have to take your medium armour off to pee.

Plus he really thinks you can't communicate with your future space helmet on.

Plus there will be penalties. There will...

TheSickeningTruth posted:

I want to see old luke skywalker buttduck superman now. It will be good for Star Citizen.

colonelwest posted:

The RtV was very comforting for me, because I was getting worried that CIG was giving up on the dream of a supermassive black hole of fidelity that sucks in the player's time and ability to have fun. I'm glad to know that when I log into the game I will have to go to my space closet and put on individual pieces of my space suit, and then take it off and put on my space armor to participate in sub 20 fps first person shooting, taking a break every 30 mins to take it all off again to pee. Any loot I win from this, I will have to individually carry back to my ship and place in another space closet or container. I wonder when CIG will implement space label makers so I can remember which space closet or space drawer I put my phallic alien weapon in?

I'm glad Chris is out there fighting the good fight, and in his own words "harassing" his team to make this exciting vision come to life.

AtmaTheWanderer posted:

The Titanic posted:

I don't blame him in the least. When it comes to having respect for the actors involved, they didn't so that. They basically acted like they "owned" them and showed off all kinds of horrible digital crap that no doubt went sour.

The only thing worse would be if they release the models, and you end up with photorealistic Gary Oldman banging photorealistic Gillian Anderson in some guy's machinima porn, which absolutely will happen 30 minutes after these assets get into some modders hands.

Quavers posted:

I didn't know I wanted this until now

BeigeJacket posted:

I wasn’t paying attention during the early days of this fine mess. When did they shoot all the Oldman/Anderson stuff? Did the backers ever say anything about their money being spent on an all star cast? Roberts must have paid the actors millions.