Hazamuth posted:

Nah, let me just say that I am an outside observer that has infiltrated the higher echelons of CI(not)G. You can probably see my hiding place if you look closely at the recent pictures from Bar Citizen with Erin. Let's just say that he is keeping me close to his heart..

Sanya Juutilainen posted:

Not really, no. The mines will have to have a stupidly big range, because space is big and free.

Naval mines were used, because you could use them in a narrow point when you lacked ships - so put them between two islands, move your ships somewhere else, great. Nobody made circles of mines around whole base / island.

In space you don't have such narrow points. What's worse, instead of a circle, you now want to make a sphere, which is even more intensive. By this point, it'd be better to make a small fighter and guard the area instead.

Not to say it's bad to have detached sentry points to cover blind spots (like Elite's outposts have), but to make them via minelaying is pointless.

As an example - if you have mines that can shoot 1 km and you can place them within 1 km of the station, all is swell, you'll need, say, 4 of them, placed as tetrahedron, and you'll be mostly fine. But if, say, the station allows to lay stuff in 5 km at least (as a no-shoot zone, maybe?), you'll need 100 of them, supposed you place them perfectly. 10 km and you'll need 400, and so on.

Mines in space really give about as much sense as the "border" in 5th Element (which was there for laughs) and is a sad remainder of the stereotypical "Space combat is naval combat in space" approach that you'd think "realistic" sim like Star Citizen would leave behind. Alas...

BobHoward posted:

I'm curious how he got the idea that the PS4 doesn't do process isolation. The PS4's operating system is a fork of FreeBSD, which totally does have full process isolation. Unless Sony spent a lot of extra effort removing that feature when they forked, but... why would they. That makes no sense.

Could it be... that Kazan isn't as smart or knowledgeable as he thinks he is???

Hazamuth posted:

Nah, let me just say that I am an outside observer that has infiltrated the higher echelons of CI(not)G. You can probably see my hiding place if you look closely at the recent pictures from Bar Citizen with Erin. Let's just say that he is keeping me close to his heart..

Erenthal posted:

also lmao is that minelayer really 600+ dollars?

how is this still going

Scruffpuff posted:

That brings to mind another couple chapters of humorous fraud from this sham company. Wasn't there some kind of Valentine's Day promotion where you could buy two ships or something, with the hilarious limitation that you were still buying them both for yourself? Or that when you bought Star Citizen "swag" like t-shirts or whatever, if you bought more than one you had to ship each one in a separate box, each time incurring the maximum possible shipping fee.

It's been going on for so long, and they've done so much stupid poo poo, it's impossible to keep track of all this. There's more information about their legendary ineptitude over the bigger part of a decade now, I feel universities have enough to offer a loving doctorate degree for people who can get their heads around it all. Maybe in the future we'll see accredited Star Citizen historians on documentaries with bookshelves behind them filled with encyclopedic tomes documenting CIG's fraud and unforced errors, and they'll tip their half-moon glasses and tell the interviewer "I'll have to re-read on that one, I think I remember it, there's just so much here."

Dementropy posted:

Sedisp posted:

Wait... Wasn't Cyberpunk 2077 playable at e3?

CeeJee posted:

Star Citizen: gently caress you, got minelayer

Hazamuth posted:

Nah, let me just say that I am an outside observer that has infiltrated the higher echelons of CI(not)G. You can probably see my hiding place if you look closely at the recent pictures from Bar Citizen with Erin. Let's just say that he is keeping me close to his heart..

Hazamuth posted:

How about another ship, this time 900 dollars, that can actually remove mines?

BobHoward posted:

I'm curious how he got the idea that the PS4 doesn't do process isolation. The PS4's operating system is a fork of FreeBSD, which totally does have full process isolation. Unless Sony spent a lot of extra effort removing that feature when they forked, but... why would they. That makes no sense.

Could it be... that Kazan isn't as smart or knowledgeable as he thinks he is???

Brazilianpeanutwar posted:

Cholesterol?

Tokamak posted:

Return of the space bulldozer!

peter gabriel posted:

How would laying a mine in space help?

Daztek posted:

https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/cv8al4/aegis_nautilus/

Dementropy posted:

Quavers posted:

My crapping out a steamy curler on my porch keeps Jehovah's Witnesses away. I guess something like that?

Quavers posted:

So if I understand correctly, the missile truck has a range of 2km, but mines have a detection and movement range of 5km?

Tokamak posted:

The Ballista is one third the price of the Nautilus, so by that metric it's actually overpowered.

Hazamuth posted:

Ding Ding the joke is that he has enough mass to hide a person inside like ben lesnick, enveloper

Quavers posted:

So if I understand correctly, the missile truck has a range of 2km, but mines have a detection and movement range of 5km?

Brazilianpeanutwar posted:

mines that chase a target? so like....missiles? literally missiles.

Brazilianpeanutwar posted:

mines that chase a target? so like....missiles? literally missiles.