Sandepande posted:

As requested, although they are bigger these days.

Lord Stimperor posted:

AbstractNapper posted:

I hope he does this forever. Even when it becomes clear to everyone that this is now a rotting corpse of a dead project, he should be there claiming that it's just resting.

Foo Diddley posted:

Look, I took the liberty of examining that gameplay when I got it home, and I discovered the only reason that it had been working in the first place was that it had been prerendered there

Beexoffel posted:

Can someone re-enact the Dead Parrot Sketch and replace "Parrot" by "Star Citizen"?

Mirificus posted:

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/forum/3/thread/kids

quote:

We don't really have a child character pipeline at the moment. So we may very well be guilty of what most other MMOs are. I would say if there were some children they would only be sort of background NPC stuff, kinda specifically just to add some variety to an environment. But yeah, we're really only planning on players being able to pick whether they want to be male or female - and it's an adult male or an adult female - and then sort of customize or dress up your character. NPC-wise is the only way you'll see a little bit of children, and that really comes down to variety.

So it certainly won't be something that we would be doing at the very beginning, because we've got our hands cut out for us just doing the various characters and costume combinations and all the rest of the stuff. But it is a good point, so thanks, Jeremiah.

tuo posted:

Backer: Hello, I would like to register a refund!
CIG: ...
B: Hello, RSI?"
C: What do you mean 'RSI'?
B: I'm sorry, I have a cold. I'm here to register a refund!
C: We're closing for space court action
B: Never mind that, sir. I'm here to complain about this spacesim that I pledged for eight years ago from these fourteen companies!
C: Oh yes, the...uh <waves hands>...quadrupled A spacesim....what's uh...what's wrong with it?
B: I'll tell you what's wrong with it. It's an unreleased broken piece of poo poo...that's what's wrong with it.
C: No, no....it's....uh....in Pre-Alpha
B: Look, buddy, I know an unreleased broken piece of poo poo when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.
C: No no, it's not broken, it's....refactoring. Best drat space sim ever, that Star Citizen, beautiful fidelity!
B: The fidelity does nothing. It's broken beyond belief!
C: Nononono...no, NO! It's refactoring.
B: All right then, if it's refactoring, I'll pull a new update.
(klicks update in launcher)
B: HELLO UPDATE! I'VE GOT SOME CASH TO PLEDGE, LITTLE UPDATE! HELLO UPDATE, RELEASE!!!!
(CIG loads up CitizenCon trailer)
C: There, emergent gameplay!
B: No, that's not emergent gameplay. That's an on rails bullshot trailer!
C: It's not!
B: Yes it it is! (stops video at exactly the right moments to show the cuts between sections)
B: (loads actuall PU, tries to get into ship, clips through floor and dies)
B: Now that's what I call a broken, unreleased game
C: No...no....you don't have enough RAM and no SSD!
B: NOT ENOUGH RAM AND NO SSD?
C: Yeah! Your computer can't play it. BDSSE easily break if they don't get enough RAM.
B: Now look, buddy, I've had enough of this. This game is definitely broken and dead. And when I pledged for it eight years ago, you told me that it's total lack of gameplay was due to the pipelines not beeing in place yet.
C: Well....it's....it's ah <waves hand>....probably taking a bit longer than we expected
B: TAKING A BIT LONGER THAN YOU EXPECTED? WHAT KIND OF TALK IS THAT? Look, why didn't you meet a single deadline from the very moment you started work on this?
C: The BDSSE needs pipelines. It's quadruple-A. The fidelity is amazing
B: Look, I took the liberty of examining this game when I got the right tools, and I discovered that the only reason why we can move around is that everything is underwater, and that even the procgen stuff is actually not procgen, and you simply hide the loading screens with transmition effects!
C: Well, of course we hide the loading and put everything underwater. Else we would be finished with the PU before Squadron42 is ready!
B: Buddy, this game wouldn't be finished if you put four billion dollars into it. It's demised!
C: No, it's refactoring!
B: It's not refactoring, it's passed on! This game is no more. It has ceased to progress. It's outdated and ready for the uninstall button. This is a broken game! It's a turd. Bereft of gameplay, it rests in poo poo! If you hadn't released bullshot on-rails trailers for six years and collected money from idiots, the game would already be forgotten.
C: Well, we better refund it then....
C: Tell you a secret....I never wanted to be a game developer. I wanted to be a hollywood director....

Foo Diddley posted:

I think the cheese shop would work better

Do you have bounty hunting?

No.

100 systems?

No.

Carriers?

No.

Space journalism?

No.

Exploration?

Uh, not as such.

Research, land claims, farming, procedural birds, insurance actuaries, alien races, private servers, single player campaign?

No.

Mining, perhaps?

Ah! We have mining, yessir.

You do! Excellent.

Yessir. It's ah, it's a bit buggy.

Oh, I like it buggy.

Well... it's very buggy, actually, sir.

No matter! Fetch hither the gameplay that we all spent two hundred million dollars on!

I... think it's a bit buggier than you'll like it, sir.

I don't care how loving buggy it is. Hand it over with all speed.

Ooooooohhh...

What now?

It's been delayed until the next patch.

Mirificus posted:

SpaceSDoorGunner posted:

Had the mods at /r/sc not threatened to tattle to the reddit admins I would never have ever known that SC was still NOT a thing nor cared enough to check this thread.

Hav posted:

This is great.

Also: moons.

And yet it appears that we’re still talking about the one system. They have another 99 to go before the can claim ‘release’.

biglads posted:

Can you consider the lawsuit to be emergent gameplay?

Foo Diddley posted:

Only if the bar association can find and destroy his phylactery

Zaphod42 posted:

I paid for motogp tickets and it was awful.

rally and rallycross is where its at for entertaining races.

Sandepande posted:

Greetings.

Took the $10 plunge after reading this particular thread for a few months. The whole project is... wondrous. Well, perhaps not so much the project, which seems to be rather horrible and going nowhere, but the (vocal) backers. I know fans can get a bit rabid about their favourite things, but to throw away every shred of propriety over something as bonkers as fidelity in a videogame (or is the accepted term "model viewer", please enlighten). Surprise sex, children (and why would one need some in-viewer banhammer to land on a person who harms a virtual kid - just do what Bethesda does, and make them immortal).

I take comfort in the fact (hopefully) that folks posting such drivel are a tiny, slightly dysfunctional minority.

In other words, it's a lovely thread. Very civil. Maybe this isn't the internet?

Sandepande posted:

As requested, although they are bigger these days.

Thoatse posted:

Foo Diddley posted:

Look, I took the liberty of examining that gameplay when I got it home, and I discovered the only reason that it had been working in the first place was that it had been prerendered there

Beet Wagon posted:

Nah they absolved themselves of that. Now it’s “five to ten” lol

Combat Theory posted:

Go to the ASSEN TT (Netherlands GP) and say that again

Also the awesomeness scale of Motorsport is

1. Isle of Man TT
2. Nürburgring 24H
3. Classic rallye
4 Le Mans 24H
5. MotoGP Assen and spain
6. WRC
7. Regular motoGP
.
.
.
.

Driving flip flop formula 1 with fart sounds

Zzr posted:

There is a play but there is no game.

tuo posted:

Backer: Hello, I would like to register a refund!
CIG: ...
B: Hello, RSI?"
C: What do you mean 'RSI'?
B: I'm sorry, I have a cold. I'm here to register a refund!
C: We're closing for space court action
B: Never mind that, sir. I'm here to complain about this spacesim that I pledged for eight years ago from these fourteen companies!
C: Oh yes, the...uh <waves hands>...quadrupled A spacesim....what's uh...what's wrong with it?
B: I'll tell you what's wrong with it. It's an unreleased broken piece of poo poo...that's what's wrong with it.
C: No, no....it's....uh....in Pre-Alpha
B: Look, buddy, I know an unreleased broken piece of poo poo when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.
C: No no, it's not broken, it's....refactoring. Best drat space sim ever, that Star Citizen, beautiful fidelity!
B: The fidelity does nothing. It's broken beyond belief!
C: Nononono...no, NO! It's refactoring.
B: All right then, if it's refactoring, I'll pull a new update.
(klicks update in launcher)
B: HELLO UPDATE! I'VE GOT SOME CASH TO PLEDGE, LITTLE UPDATE! HELLO UPDATE, RELEASE!!!!
(CIG loads up CitizenCon trailer)
C: There, emergent gameplay!
B: No, that's not emergent gameplay. That's an on rails bullshot trailer!
C: It's not!
B: Yes it it is! (stops video at exactly the right moments to show the cuts between sections)
B: (loads actuall PU, tries to get into ship, clips through floor and dies)
B: Now that's what I call a broken, unreleased game
C: No...no....you don't have enough RAM and no SSD!
B: NOT ENOUGH RAM AND NO SSD?
C: Yeah! Your computer can't play it. BDSSE easily break if they don't get enough RAM.
B: Now look, buddy, I've had enough of this. This game is definitely broken and dead. And when I pledged for it eight years ago, you told me that it's total lack of gameplay was due to the pipelines not beeing in place yet.
C: Well....it's....it's ah <waves hand>....probably taking a bit longer than we expected
B: TAKING A BIT LONGER THAN YOU EXPECTED? WHAT KIND OF TALK IS THAT? Look, why didn't you meet a single deadline from the very moment you started work on this?
C: The BDSSE needs pipelines. It's quadruple-A. The fidelity is amazing
B: Look, I took the liberty of examining this game when I got the right tools, and I discovered that the only reason why we can move around is that everything is underwater, and that even the procgen stuff is actually not procgen, and you simply hide the loading screens with transmition effects!
C: Well, of course we hide the loading and put everything underwater. Else we would be finished with the PU before Squadron42 is ready!
B: Buddy, this game wouldn't be finished if you put four billion dollars into it. It's demised!
C: No, it's refactoring!
B: It's not refactoring, it's passed on! This game is no more. It has ceased to progress. It's outdated and ready for the uninstall button. This is a broken game! It's a turd. Bereft of gameplay, it rests in poo poo! If you hadn't released bullshot on-rails trailers for six years and collected money from idiots, the game would already be forgotten.
C: Well, we better refund it then....
C: Tell you a secret....I never wanted to be a game developer. I wanted to be a hollywood director....