Aqua Seafoam Shame posted:

to The Cure.

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Currently we are looking at the player’s building basic landing pads for ships. At this point in time it’s probably way too early to be expecting your outposts to work anything like Port Olisar or a Revel & York or Self-Land facility. While you can land and leave a ship on an outpost landing pad, the broader question of persistent “ship storage” is a nuanced and complex technical affair, as you have already seen from everything that’s already involved in requesting, replacing, spawning, despawning, and landing ships in places like Port Olisar. Doing even any subset of these things at a player outpost location, where available layout, structures, and systems are up to the player instead of a design team, would be very tricky to say the least. Should we come up with a good way to handle it someday, we’ll let you know.

Mirificus posted:

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colonelwest posted:

I'm not even sure what the point of this word salad is, but personally I'm happy with Chris' homoerotic fascist universe populated exclusively with uber-spacemen.

Sarsapariller posted:

trucutru posted:

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Absolute Virtue had, on several occasions, been fought and held by linkshells for over 30 hours trying to defeat it, to no avail.

Hav posted:

Anyone got a picture of Lowtax?

Hav posted:

One of my first.

Abriael posted:

Three beautiful Chocolate Elves have decided to look for a partner in adventure or crime. Rika the white-haired knight, Janah, the mage brunette, and Shaza, the blonde battlemage are waiting for you in different locations of Cyrodiil, ready to make your adventuring life quite a lot sexier.

Abriael posted:

Thanks to Mur_Zik for the sexy walk

Sample_text posted:

For bonus points, here's 16 small fighters versus one Hammerhead, in 3.3.6, WITH OCS.

https://www.twitch.tv/badnewsbaron/clip/CleverReliableShrewHeyGirl?filter=clips&range=7d&sort=time

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big nipples big life posted:

oh no

Sarsapariller posted:

I actually think it would be fine if a Hammerhead could fight a dozen fighters off, given that it is essentially an anti-fighter escort capital ship. It should emphasize the Rock-Paper-Scissors nature of combat by being vulnerable to torpedos and bigger capships while being very dangerous to the bombers and their escorts. Of course this is Star Citizen so torpedos and bigger capships don't exist, but I feel like the Hammerhead is in the right place balance wise. You can always just... fly away from it, if you don't want to fight it. Not like it's gonna fuckin catch you, thing is so slow it might as well be stationary. It's also extremely vulnerable if just one or two people are on board.

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13 October 2018, 4:03AM
Why do they not have a voice. I even tried the Brucevayne sound set on them still no voice???

Frog Act posted:

lmfao I just looked it up and if I hadn't known it was meant to be Alien going into it I would have assumed "Xi'an" was just another manufacturer, because look at this poo poo:



I really hate it when alien design is just "I dunno, lets make it like, splotchy and swoopy, people ships are blocky so anything else is gonna be alien I guess" is so loving lazy. aliens are meant to be alien. it should be easily distinguishable in profound ways from earth ships. its like a black hole for ceativity

Sample_text posted:

I was referring to the FPS, but I see your point.

Bargearse posted:

They have a really high opinion of their own influence, don't they?

Frog Act posted:

so EVE has an actual news broadcasting ship? how does that work? I tried to google it but unsurprisingly variations of "EVE news ship broadcasting" and stuff don't pull up a specific ship

M_Sinistrari posted:

One of those whales or wannabe whales might be a friend of mine who got hooked into this thing during the kickstarter. He did try his hardest to get me and my fiance into throwing some money at it for a while, but we're not really ones to contribute to kickstarters probably because we've read about too many failed ones in the thread here. He played up the 'c'mon you two liked Wing Commander, it's gonna be like that' angle, but to be honest, if we want to play something like Wing Commander, why not dust off a copy and just play the drat original. Eventually he stopped the active pushing and started doing a passive-aggressive version talking about what ships he'd just gotten for contributing. It sounded odd to us that they're pushing all these specialty items so early when everything he was saying they were going to be putting in sounded more like when you're a kid and thinking up what'll make the most awesome game ever rather than something plausible to start with.

I pretty much tuned out his Facebook posts about the game until one day he messages me out of the blue asking how I'm doing and all, then asks if I can help him out. Turns out he's a bit short on his rent and naturally I asked what happened. I'm thinking health crisis or emergency car repair. Turns out he bought ships expecting a check to arrive in time to cover things by the time the rent came due, but check was late and he was scrambling. Had it been something like covering a medical bill or an emergency repair, I would've given him something, but not this. I suggest he talk to his landlord about the rent going to be a bit late but he's not able to do that because he's been buying ships to the point rent's been late before and he's exhausted that excuse with the landlord. I tell him I'm sorry and I can't at this time, and I guess he found someone to cough up since I didn't see him posting about needing a place to stay. The next month, he's posting asking for suggestions of flexible ways to earn extra cash so currently in addition to the call center he works at, he's also driving for Uber to keep affording to throw money at this game. I don't know if there's been times after he talked to me about having trouble paying bills because of his throwing money at this game and I honestly think he's going to have a breakdown if it ever officially comes out that this is a scam with how much I'm guessing he's already tossed in.

Sarsapariller posted:

That's it. 8 days of ship reviews and I didn't even cover all of them. Holy poo poo Star Citizen has a lot of ships. In a lot of cases I was only skimming the very uppermost layer of how hosed up the stories behind them are, as well. Writing these has really been eye opening- it is kind of hard, mentally, to concieve of how utterly hosed Star Citizen and, by extension, CIG are, until you start thinking about the fuckedness of every individual piece. Thank you for reading along with me on this journey, I hope you had a good time. Please don't give money to Chris Roberts.

Mongolian Queef posted:

I just boarded a ship heading for who knows where. I was trying to steal an NPC ship as it landed on the pad next to me. I ran into it but the pilot never left his seat so I didn't really have anything to do in there.
Then the door closed and he undocked, headed to another system with me on board. I can only use my space suit (leave his ship in the middle of nowhere), if I press Shift-D I'm just back into the same NPC ship, not my own ship in the other system.

DigitalPenny posted:

Croberts sits alone in the dark room, light only by brief flashes of light from the monitor that commands his full attention. He sits watching in horror mouth agape, not even noticing the small trickle of blood that has begun to flow from his coke lined nose.

Silently his right eye starts to twitch, every single moment is worse than the last. His dreams, his vision, his purpose has been stolen, corrupted and tainted. He cannot tear his eyes away from the horror. He knows thousands around the world are also watching, many who once trusted him.

Crober pours himself another large tumbler of whiskey without taking his eyes of the screen which he then spills clumsily down his shirt as he swallows the contents of the glass in two large gulps. He wipes his face with his sleeve absently as he cannot break his concentration from the screen.

He watches a gamer land his ship on another capital ship without game ending bugs. Then as he walking around the capital ship docks at the station all in real time.

The horror begins to turn into rage … he blurts out … This is my dream ! and its never been done before how can you take this from me!!

The player walks into the bridge of this carrier now docked inside a station. His grip tightens around the tumbler, green pixels on screen taunt him. The lack of struts, the excessive viability from the cockpit make a mockery of the space sims, the very genre which created and ruled.... Amatures

He takes a deep breath, and starts reassuring himself. Don’t worry Chris you go this, those Europeans make the buggiest stuff ever .. while You ... YOU are an emperor of game development, you know how hard game development is. This is all cutting edge stuff, its not been done before, they don’t have the money or the manpower or time to pull this off ... this 'demo' will show its true colors soon enough.

Then the last straw comes …. A little bit of text on the stream,

PLayAX:Have I missed much?
SC4Eva: Dude like a solid 4 hours we have not even stopped for a crash, it all been amazing

Chris picks up the phone, and dails ortwin. He rants and raves yelling down the phone in fury.

Common sue these stealing bastards back into poverty of eastern europe he can see what they have done, it complete plagiarism of my lifes work !! show them the meaning of butt hurt snow falkes Ort!!!!!

After a long pause ortwin addresses Chris calmly

Chris, it is not plagiarism if you make it first.

The Titanic posted:

It's this kind of stuff that is still sad and makes me a bit upset at CIG and how they extract and target people specifically like this with their campaigns.

I know they don't care, and at this point I also don't care much, but it's still sad to know that there are people suffering out there because CR needs more blow and can't stop collecting money any way he can from people who look up to him and his company.

Hav posted:

Anyone got a picture of Lowtax?

M_Sinistrari posted:

One of those whales or wannabe whales might be a friend of mine who got hooked into this thing during the kickstarter. He did try his hardest to get me and my fiance into throwing some money at it for a while, but we're not really ones to contribute to kickstarters probably because we've read about too many failed ones in the thread here. He played up the 'c'mon you two liked Wing Commander, it's gonna be like that' angle, but to be honest, if we want to play something like Wing Commander, why not dust off a copy and just play the drat original. Eventually he stopped the active pushing and started doing a passive-aggressive version talking about what ships he'd just gotten for contributing. It sounded odd to us that they're pushing all these specialty items so early when everything he was saying they were going to be putting in sounded more like when you're a kid and thinking up what'll make the most awesome game ever rather than something plausible to start with.

I pretty much tuned out his Facebook posts about the game until one day he messages me out of the blue asking how I'm doing and all, then asks if I can help him out. Turns out he's a bit short on his rent and naturally I asked what happened. I'm thinking health crisis or emergency car repair. Turns out he bought ships expecting a check to arrive in time to cover things by the time the rent came due, but check was late and he was scrambling. Had it been something like covering a medical bill or an emergency repair, I would've given him something, but not this. I suggest he talk to his landlord about the rent going to be a bit late but he's not able to do that because he's been buying ships to the point rent's been late before and he's exhausted that excuse with the landlord. I tell him I'm sorry and I can't at this time, and I guess he found someone to cough up since I didn't see him posting about needing a place to stay. The next month, he's posting asking for suggestions of flexible ways to earn extra cash so currently in addition to the call center he works at, he's also driving for Uber to keep affording to throw money at this game. I don't know if there's been times after he talked to me about having trouble paying bills because of his throwing money at this game and I honestly think he's going to have a breakdown if it ever officially comes out that this is a scam with how much I'm guessing he's already tossed in.

hobbesmaster posted:

Meanwhile in X4....

Mirificus posted:

Agony Aunt posted:

Sure

Dementropy posted: