Star Citizen: Death of a Space Thread?

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The Titanic: Sep 15, 2016; Unsinkable

Evig Vandrar posted:

So anything new in the last 50 pages or are we still just waiting for the upcoming Citizen con disaster?

In a planned attempt to stop the ankle biting games from making him look stupid and like a thief and incompetent studio, Chris Roberts is planning to demo the unique and exciting multiplayer features of Star Citizen. The best runs he makes with the backers he plays with will make it into the final YouTube video cut.

# ? Sep 21, 2018 18:12

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# ? Jun 4, 2024 22:38

Scruffpuff: Dec 23, 2015; Fidelity. Wait, was I'm working on again?

The Titanic posted:

In a planned attempt to stop the ankle biting games from making him look stupid and like a thief and incompetent studio, Chris Roberts is planning to demo the unique and exciting multiplayer features of Star Citizen. The best runs he makes with the backers he plays with will make it into the final YouTube video cut.

Please let this happen. Please let this happen. :pray:

# ? Sep 21, 2018 18:13

Hav: Dec 11, 2009; Fun Shoe

Lord Stimperor posted:

IMO a CCG is about the only thing to make a game out of this convoluted ship buying simulator

A CCG of the development might have some mileage; werewolf rules but someone is a secret Derek?

# ? Sep 21, 2018 18:13

Scruffpuff: Dec 23, 2015; Fidelity. Wait, was I'm working on again?

Hav posted:

A CCG of the development might have some mileage; werewolf rules but someone is a secret Derek?

Leaker� - A Game of the Inept vs. the Inept

# ? Sep 21, 2018 18:15

Dynastocles: May 29, 2009; "If you'll excuse me, my dinner time is six o'clock. Only gangsters eat at 9 o'clock, after some bootlegging and a hot game of craps."

Beet Wagon posted:

"As long as you're making money who cares right?"

lol

# ? Sep 21, 2018 18:20

Pixelate: Jan 6, 2018; "You win by having fun"

Lord Stimperor posted:

Gentle reminder that you have 5 hour still to propose a new smiley for SA. Currently the only proposal is the animated crobear.

I triple this suggestion

# ? Sep 21, 2018 18:26

Complications: Jun 19, 2014

So I'm assuming UEC is the ingame pleb currency you can get without paying real money, and that there's nothing you can do with it

# ? Sep 21, 2018 18:26

The Titanic: Sep 15, 2016; Unsinkable

Quavers posted:

According to WTFOSaurus and his streamchat, Legatus ($25k+) backers will have a private lounge to themselves at CitizenCon

About drat time I get a reward for all my spite pledging. Each hate-fueled pledge for another ship over the years each time I threw dishes around the room because Derek or goons made another stupid post... has finally paid off. :grin:

I'll see you plebs outside my private lounge looking in through the one-way mirror.

# ? Sep 21, 2018 18:27

Turkina_Prime: Oct 26, 2013

Someone on :reddit:

made a pretty good point about SC cultists:

posted:

They're exactly like those middle age housewives who buy into some multi-level marketing scheme peddling cosmetics expecting the world and no matter how much time and money they waste, they'll cut anyone out of their lives who dares point out the scam.

And doesn't Star Citizen have referrals and poo poo already? It's one step away from literally being MLM.

# ? Sep 21, 2018 18:28

Virtual Captain: Feb 20, 2017; Archive Priest of the Stimperial Order

Star Citizen Good, in all things forevermore. Amen.

RELAY posted:

It�s not nothing, although the list admittedly gets a little more anemic if you factor in that some of those list items required real money pledges. Hurston, its three moons, and Rest Stops will be more environment and content for everyone. We want it too, but it�ll be in our hands before we know it.[/i]

lol

I'm half surprised Star Citizen fans have been able to sustain themselves on the 2 barren moons and a boring space station for this long. Like how many times can you run meaningless cargo runs between 3 places and not give up. Remarkable.

From the LittlebitOfMadness discord:

# ? Sep 21, 2018 18:30

Virtual Captain: Feb 20, 2017; Archive Priest of the Stimperial Order

Star Citizen Good, in all things forevermore. Amen.

posted:

They're exactly like those middle age housewives who buy into some multi-level marketing scheme peddling cosmetics expecting the world and no matter how much time and money they waste, they'll cut anyone out of their lives who dares point out the scam.

And doesn't Star Citizen have referrals and poo poo already? It's one step away from literally being MLM.

# ? Sep 21, 2018 18:32

Pixelate: Jan 6, 2018; "You win by having fun"

So the Photoshop guy is a passionate backer who's just joined, called Jon Hayter...

quote:

"I've been playing Star Citizen for YEARS before I came on the team. Uhhh, I've only been here a couple of months."

In fairness he has been a senior UI designer elsewhere. But this is the talent pool now. Backers...

# ? Sep 21, 2018 18:35

big nipples big life: May 12, 2014

They sell new promises to pay for old promises they haven't built yet, it's already MLM.

# ? Sep 21, 2018 18:38

Hav: Dec 11, 2009; Fun Shoe

BurtLington posted:

Someone on made a pretty good point about SC cultists:

If they actually tried, they could turn it into an MLM; a legal one, but they'd need an actual framework to place the ships in as value items. The main problem they have is one of _value_, in terms of how long it takes you to grind for anything, and whether there is anyone around to make the thing itself valuable. This has the knock-on effect of the _actual economy_ being entirely captured for them to control the _value_ of the assets being purchased.

In short, because they don't know how many people will play, they don't know how to value the unit time.

At this point in time the marketing is largely incoherent because it's based on trailing-edge scientology, or the concept of placing the adherent/acolyte within a structure that supplies inherent value, such as concierge, mile-high or having a printed card.

Like this. The 'belonging' level of Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

# ? Sep 21, 2018 18:39

Colostomy Bag: Jan 11, 2016; C-Bangin' it

Is Robert still alive or is it some sort of weekend at Bernie's gig?

Hell he is hasn't been spotted.

# ? Sep 21, 2018 18:40

Daztek: Jun 2, 2006

Colostomy Bag posted:

Is Robert still alive or is it some sort of weekend at Bernie's gig?

Hell he is hasn't been spotted.

He's busy mocapping in the mocap cave

# ? Sep 21, 2018 18:41

Aqua Seafoam Shame: Aug 20, 2018; by astral

Pixelate posted:

So the Photoshop guy is a passionate backer who's just joined, called Jon Hayter...

In fairness he has been a senior UI designer elsewhere. But this is the talent pool now. Backers...

If they start hiring fans as lore writers the Stimpire might finally become canon.

# ? Sep 21, 2018 18:41

Hav: Dec 11, 2009; Fun Shoe

Pixelate posted:

So the Photoshop guy is a passionate backer who's just joined, called Jon Hayter...

In fairness he has been a senior UI designer elsewhere. But this is the talent pool now. Backers...

Demonstrating the map in photoshop.

I mean, that's literally a jpeg of a mechanic.

Not the mechanic itself, not the background to the mechanic, a loving piece of concept art.

I think he understands how insane it actually is. They _demo'd a map in photoshop_.

big nipples big life posted:

They sell new promises to pay for old promises they haven't built yet, it's already MLM.

Yeah, only one party is actually making any money, though.

# ? Sep 21, 2018 18:42

Foo Diddley: Oct 29, 2011; cat

Beet Wagon posted:

"53801 global Organizations, of which 10372 specialize in Security And 6660 in Mining."

Yes, those numbers seem legit. There are definitely that many people securing and mining the 'verse right now

Well, who cares as long as you're making money

# ? Sep 21, 2018 18:52

Virtual Captain: Feb 20, 2017; Archive Priest of the Stimperial Order

Star Citizen Good, in all things forevermore. Amen.

Dsmart on Twitter:
"I woke up to an alarming secure message from one of my top sources (who is sadly leaving). It was rather long, but the gist of it is that the general consensus is that the project is doomed, they ALL know it.

Though people have been leaving or terminated since Dec 2017, the mass exit event is now a "sad reality" and will most likely come after the holiday live stream in Dec.

They are said to be basically working on the "last hurrah" of hype that's for the upcoming CitizenCon (Oct) and the holiday live stream (Dec). All the same hype of stuff that's not likely to ever see the light of day.

The person even gave examples of this sort of thing which we've already been aware of:
- standing on a ship platform and looking at a planetary base below. Nope, can't do it.
- Procedural cities? Utter nonsense that was hype bait.

So basically, they're about to do the SAME things they've done in the past, geared to keep ripping off backers (at least those dumb enough to still keep giving them money) as they continue to kick the dev can down the road with scope creep."

:rip:

3weeks

# ? Sep 21, 2018 18:56

Colostomy Bag: Jan 11, 2016; C-Bangin' it

So I guess we need to figure out hand signals in the Legatus club.

I'll be sporting a SQ42 stained shirt.

# ? Sep 21, 2018 18:56

Morphix: May 21, 2003; by Reene

Hav posted:

Demonstrating the map in photoshop.

I mean, that's literally a jpeg of a mechanic.

Not the mechanic itself, not the background to the mechanic, a loving piece of concept art.

I think he understands how insane it actually is. They _demo'd a map in photoshop_.

look man im sure like those layers are drawn super high res and it's like a hop skip and a jump away from just converting your png into like a ui element or whatever, point is OCS will be in the next patch, bet on that

# ? Sep 21, 2018 18:57

The Titanic: Sep 15, 2016; Unsinkable

Krycek posted:

Version numbering to begin with is such the old way of software development. Visionary code whisperers like crobear have transcended version numbering and exist in a plane of consciousness where all code versions coexist simultaneously and integrate flawlessly always and forever. CIG's "version" numbers are just there for the unwashed masses of lesser devs and fudsters alike so they can try to keep up.

Dev 1: Alright... lets get this going- what the gently caress. What the gently caress. Why is this all... what the gently caress.

Dev 2: Did you break the build?

Dev 1: No I.. no... mother fucker just pushed poo poo to live again. I'm gonna loving kill him! *gets up and heads to CRs office*

Dev 2: No don't do it! He's the boss! He can do whatever he wants! *holds back Dev 1*

Dev 1: He doesn't know what he's doing! This poo poo happens every time he's in town! Somebody has to say something! I'm tired of this poo poo!

Dev 2: Golden fingers! Golden fingers! Code whisperer! Learn from the best!

Dev 1: You're right... I'm going to kill the HR guys who explained this loving job to me!

And this is why CIG is now populated with fresh college kids who can't help very well but try.

# ? Sep 21, 2018 18:57

Aqua Seafoam Shame: Aug 20, 2018; by astral

I'm gonna write a Teen Titans Go fanfic where Robin learns about Star Citizen and gets all excited about it. He convinces the other Titans to buy ships - Starfire even goes so far as to get "The Legatus" - except for Raven, who is suspicious of the whole thing.

Later on the gang finds out that a supervillain (or so he seems) named "The Warlord" has been spreading FUD about the game on the Internet. The Titans (except Raven) adopt many aliases (wink wink) to combat this online menace.

Eventually they make it to CitizenCon where Starfire is escorted to the VIP lounge to hang out with the "cool" nerds, much to Robin's chagrin. They reunite at the keynote, where Chris Roberts himself morphs into the supervillain, "The Hoover", whose handwaving is so powerful is causes a vacuum that sucks up everyone's cash. The Titans spring into action to fight him, and just when all seems lost, The Warlord bursts in and takes down The Hoover with his patented Coke Machine Cannon. The gang thanks The Warlord, who gives them all a new space game to play that is incomprehensible.

# ? Sep 21, 2018 18:58

Colostomy Bag: Jan 11, 2016; C-Bangin' it

Virtual Captain posted:

Dsmart on Twitter:
"I woke up to an alarming secure message from one of my top sources (who is sadly leaving). It was rather long, but the gist of it is that the general consensus is that the project is doomed, they ALL know it.

Though people have been leaving or terminated since Dec 2017, the mass exit event is now a "sad reality" and will most likely come after the holiday live stream in Dec.

They are said to be basically working on the "last hurrah" of hype that's for the upcoming CitizenCon (Oct) and the holiday live stream (Dec). All the same hype of stuff that's not likely to ever see the light of day.

The person even gave examples of this sort of thing which we've already been aware of:
- standing on a ship platform and looking at a planetary base below. Nope, can't do it.
- Procedural cities? Utter nonsense that was hype bait.

So basically, they're about to do the SAME things they've done in the past, geared to keep ripping off backers (at least those dumb enough to still keep giving them money) as they continue to kick the dev can down the road with scope creep."

3weeks

This sounds serious.

# ? Sep 21, 2018 19:00

big nipples big life: May 12, 2014

Virtual Captain posted:

Dsmart on Twitter:
"I woke up to an alarming secure message from one of my top sources (who is sadly leaving). It was rather long, but the gist of it is that the general consensus is that the project is doomed, they ALL know it.

Though people have been leaving or terminated since Dec 2017, the mass exit event is now a "sad reality" and will most likely come after the holiday live stream in Dec.

They are said to be basically working on the "last hurrah" of hype that's for the upcoming CitizenCon (Oct) and the holiday live stream (Dec). All the same hype of stuff that's not likely to ever see the light of day.

The person even gave examples of this sort of thing which we've already been aware of:
- standing on a ship platform and looking at a planetary base below. Nope, can't do it.
- Procedural cities? Utter nonsense that was hype bait.

So basically, they're about to do the SAME things they've done in the past, geared to keep ripping off backers (at least those dumb enough to still keep giving them money) as they continue to kick the dev can down the road with scope creep."

3weeks

This is the same mass exit that has been predicted for more than 2 years and hasn't happened?

Does anyone actually believe this idiot has sources? Please raise your hand so I may lol at you.

# ? Sep 21, 2018 19:01

Renegret: May 26, 2007; THANK YOU FOR CALLING HELP DOG, INC.

YOUR POSITION IN THE QUEUE IS *pbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbt*

Cat Army Sworn Enemy

"mass exodus" aka the source and maybe a friend or two of his leave and they eventually get replaced so the cycle can continue.

# ? Sep 21, 2018 19:02

Pixelate: Jan 6, 2018; "You win by having fun"

Morphix posted:

look man im sure like those layers are drawn super high res and it's like a hop skip and a jump away from just converting your png into like a ui element or whatever, point is OCS will be in the next patch, bet on that

They're still using Flash for the UI apparently (Scaleform) so maybe it is...

# ? Sep 21, 2018 19:11

Sarsapariller: Aug 14, 2015; Occasional vampire queen

Virtual Captain posted:

Dsmart on Twitter:
"I woke up to an alarming secure message from one of my top sources (who is sadly leaving). It was rather long, but the gist of it is that the general consensus is that the project is doomed, they ALL know it.

Though people have been leaving or terminated since Dec 2017, the mass exit event is now a "sad reality" and will most likely come after the holiday live stream in Dec.

They are said to be basically working on the "last hurrah" of hype that's for the upcoming CitizenCon (Oct) and the holiday live stream (Dec). All the same hype of stuff that's not likely to ever see the light of day.

The person even gave examples of this sort of thing which we've already been aware of:
- standing on a ship platform and looking at a planetary base below. Nope, can't do it.
- Procedural cities? Utter nonsense that was hype bait.

So basically, they're about to do the SAME things they've done in the past, geared to keep ripping off backers (at least those dumb enough to still keep giving them money) as they continue to kick the dev can down the road with scope creep."

3weeks

Every time Derek does this I assume that some troll has managed to get through his extremely weak bullshit filters and is feeding him new lines about ELE's 2 weeks full disclosure federal investigation

I'm pretty sure the game is to continually leak the same exact paragraphs to him and see how many times he runs with it as new information

# ? Sep 21, 2018 19:13

monkeytek: Jun 8, 2010; It wasn't an ELE that wiped out the backer funds. It was Tristan Timothy Taylor.

Virtual Captain posted:

Dsmart on Twitter:
"I woke up to an alarming secure message from one of my top sources (who is sadly leaving). It was rather long, but the gist of it is that the general consensus is that the project is doomed, they ALL know it.

Though people have been leaving or terminated since Dec 2017, the mass exit event is now a "sad reality" and will most likely come after the holiday live stream in Dec.

They are said to be basically working on the "last hurrah" of hype that's for the upcoming CitizenCon (Oct) and the holiday live stream (Dec). All the same hype of stuff that's not likely to ever see the light of day.

The person even gave examples of this sort of thing which we've already been aware of:
- standing on a ship platform and looking at a planetary base below. Nope, can't do it.
- Procedural cities? Utter nonsense that was hype bait.

So basically, they're about to do the SAME things they've done in the past, geared to keep ripping off backers (at least those dumb enough to still keep giving them money) as they continue to kick the dev can down the road with scope creep."

3weeks

Wait, so it's ELE in 3 weeks now? That screws up all my sick Memes I've been working on!

# ? Sep 21, 2018 19:14

Sarsapariller: Aug 14, 2015; Occasional vampire queen

Have we talked about this already?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJy-fZ-BJvY

https://www.pcgamer.com/starflight-3-aims-for-classic-sci-fi-storytelling-in-a-new-part-of-space/

# ? Sep 21, 2018 19:17

colonelwest: Jun 30, 2018

space-X-chicken posted:

I call that a job well done Mister "Goon Top-Secret Deep State False Flag Operations Commander"!
When you sneak out of the burning Cloud Emporium Headquarters what will be your next assignment?

My secret fluoridation of CIG's water supply has sapped the precious bodily fluids of their devs to such an extant, that development has slowed to a crawl. I'll be moving on soon to join Q in his fight against Hillary Clinton's international cabal of billionaire pedophiles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr2bSL5VQgM

colonelwest fucked around with this message at 19:25 on Sep 21, 2018

# ? Sep 21, 2018 19:18

Hobold: Jan 10, 2012; I love my Cutlass
I love big stompy mechs
I love my HOTAS
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I love Star Citizen, and all it's craziness
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monkeytek posted:

Wait, so it's ELE in 3 weeks now? That screws up all my sick Memes I've been working on!

Just delay them by a week. Not like it hasn't happened before~

# ? Sep 21, 2018 19:18

big nipples big life: May 12, 2014

Sarsapariller posted:

Every time Derek does this I assume that some troll has managed to get through his extremely weak bullshit filters and is feeding him new lines about ELE's 2 weeks full disclosure federal investigation

I'm pretty sure the game is to continually leak the same exact paragraphs to him and see how many times he runs with it as new information

If this is what it is then I hope that troll reads this and keeps feeding him crazier and crazier poo poo just to see how far he can take it.

"Chris has replaced most of the senior execs with a poorly written AI he coded himself after a 3 day meth bender"

# ? Sep 21, 2018 19:21

Renegret: May 26, 2007; THANK YOU FOR CALLING HELP DOG, INC.

YOUR POSITION IN THE QUEUE IS *pbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbt*

Cat Army Sworn Enemy

big nipples big life posted:

"Chris has replaced most of the senior execs with a poorly written AI he coded himself after a 3 day meth bender"

while(true){
print("yes, that's a good idea");
}

# ? Sep 21, 2018 19:22

Beet Wagon: Oct 19, 2015

Sarsapariller posted:

Have we talked about this already?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJy-fZ-BJvY

https://www.pcgamer.com/starflight-3-aims-for-classic-sci-fi-storytelling-in-a-new-part-of-space/

"If StarFlight didn't exist, Gearbox would not exist."

I mean...

# ? Sep 21, 2018 19:24

big nipples big life: May 12, 2014

Beet Wagon posted:

"If StarFlight didn't exist, Gearbox would not exist."

I mean...

Yeah that's not a vote of confidence.

Also, stop giving money to these things.

# ? Sep 21, 2018 19:25

DapperDon: Sep 7, 2016

Posting on 5050. That is all.

# ? Sep 21, 2018 19:26

Colostomy Bag: Jan 11, 2016; C-Bangin' it

Yes. I'm sure the email feeding our dear warlord/uncle is basically "deepthroat@gmail.com"

Just strap in for the insanity of it all.

# ? Sep 21, 2018 19:27

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SPERMCUBE.ORG: Nov 3, 2011; Space commies are th' biggest threat t' red-blooded American Freedom we got in th' future. So me and my boys got to talking over a few hot dogs the other day and this is what we came up with...

Sarsapariller posted:

Have we talked about this already?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJy-fZ-BJvY

https://www.pcgamer.com/starflight-3-aims-for-classic-sci-fi-storytelling-in-a-new-part-of-space/

Don't crowdfund video games, TIA.

# ? Sep 21, 2018 19:30

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