Mirificus posted:

Grubby Hobo posted:

I kind of like this "Star Citizen Bile Archive" name.

Hav posted:

Me too, but the dueling Reddit and Forum thing is probably not a good idea.

Sarsapariller posted:

Calling it now, this one's going to be a sales flop.

Sarsapariller posted:

Well anyway that's enough about the interceptor.

Time to look forward to this Thursday when they'll do an ISC entirely about choosing the paintjob for the interceptor, and the sound that the interceptor makes when firing the interception beam, and the approximate temperature of the toilet seats on the interceptor, and

Scruffpuff posted:

I've said it for years. Stay out of Reddit, point at the "game," all the humor is in the "game." The occasional Bunnyman post is funny, or the CPAP Commando, for a little variety. Otherwise the show here is the game and the people making the game. Every Reddit post here is like pulling the camera off a sitcom and pointing it to people in the audience and pointing and laughing at them instead.

Scruffpuff posted:

What do you think this year's CitizenCon gimmick will be?

Scruffpuff posted:

I've said it for years. Stay out of Reddit, point at the "game," all the humor is in the "game." The occasional Bunnyman post is funny, or the CPAP Commando, for a little variety. Otherwise the show here is the game and the people making the game. Every Reddit post here is like pulling the camera off a sitcom and pointing it to people in the audience and pointing and laughing at them instead.

trucutru posted:

Doing some drive-by mass downvoting is perfectly fine as it doesn't really mess with the natives that much.

eonwe posted:

hello

Hav posted:

Can we put this on the big board as Goon Prime Directive?

I defer to the high Council of the Cockroach king, of course. Sheero Pippi.

Agony Aunt posted:

I've got a criminal record.

Sarsapariller posted:

Hard to tell. Something enormously complex that's taken the manpower of half their studio for 6 months without ever once registering on the roadmap, would be my bet.

I'm thinking multiple new systems and "Exploration" gameplay, i.e. traveling to the multiple new systems.

Scruffpuff posted:

I've said it for years. Stay out of Reddit, point at the "game," all the humor is in the "game." The occasional Bunnyman post is funny, or the CPAP Commando, for a little variety. Otherwise the show here is the game and the people making the game. Every Reddit post here is like pulling the camera off a sitcom and pointing it to people in the audience and pointing and laughing at them instead.

Dogeh posted:

Also, Russ Abbott?
Next thing you'll be mentioning Keith Harris, Frank Skinner and Peter loving Kay - all comedians who also think they can sing.

Sabreseven posted:

I reckon there'll be some sort of huge build up of hype and expectation with very few spoilers or clues, everyone will watch with baited breath as CR, barely containing his own excitement and dribbling profusely, does the finger point to the vid tech guy and stammers the words "Um so yeah, ahhh, roll it".

Then as the dark screen behind him slowly starts to come to life, the crowd of super nerds, clutching their 'not at all' limited edition SC tankards of factory made powered orange flavoured squash drink and visibly shaking, await the beauty of CR's "vision". Tears of joy well up in the eyes of absolutely all who witness the unfolding event, including us, here.

CR's eyes grow large, almost anime-like in appearance, from the screen, light bursts into the venue causing all to squint. "LOOK ON MY WORKS, YE MIGHTY, AND DESPAIR!!" CR bellows, slowly, the crowds eyes adjust to the scorching light, the Goons watching from afar are lost for words, there are no words PARP. The majesty of the spectacle is overwhelming.

The screen shows, the cafeteria scene, a commando jitters to a chair and falls though it, the proceedural eggs are floating high above the frying pan, a T-posing commando in the background spins on the spot. It is glorious.

Buy all the Idris.

Kosumo posted:

not empty quoting

Scruffpuff posted:

What do you think this year's CitizenCon gimmick will be?

Tippis posted:

Obviously.

Zazz Razzamatazz posted:

Oh, that's the good stuff...

Dogeh posted:

Also, Russ Abbott?
Next thing you'll be mentioning Keith Harris, Frank Skinner and Peter loving Kay - all comedians who also think they can sing.

Hav posted:

Jimmy Nail.

Robson and Jerome.

Americans have no idea what hellish evil the British pop charts have almost unleashed on the world. So many bad Christmas singles.

chaosapiant posted:

That's the thing. I'm probably wrong but I feel like Chris absolutely believes with all his heart that none of this is a scam. He reminds me of a child who was given too much money to design his dream toy, and while he's dreaming others are getting rich so long as he keeps dreaming.

Sarsapariller posted:

A 10k to 20k sphere is completely meaningless in a game where everyone can travel at 1km/sec when they've accelerated to top speed. It's even more meaningless when you realize that people are jetting around in QT at .2C and space is three-dimensional and infinite. Also a game where the physics programming and boundary collision detection was done by CIG.

Nobody's going to buy this because there's nothing in the game to loving steal. There are no NPC's to harass and you can't steal poo poo from other players. In fact you can't effectively engage them in any meaningful way except to shoot them. And superwhale ships are completely invulnerable to being shot. They've even announced already that they don't want just one of this ship to effectively stop the whale ships from getting around.

Calling it now, this one's going to be a sales flop.

Agony Aunt posted:

Well, its not all bad :P

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

SoftNum posted:

I mean, whatever else is going on here. these are shitizens and this is CR. of _fucking_ course they are going to buy this.

Scruffpuff posted:

What do you think this year's CitizenCon gimmick will be?

Chrom1um posted:

Caveat: I'm a little new to the Star Citizen schadenfreude community so sorry if what I'm suggesting is silly.

Gravity_Storm posted:

Migrating to UE4.

A ship that hints at new and exciting gameplay - moon fracking.

Buy your own space station.

Chrom1um posted:

Looking at the mining stuff is very frustrating, because it seems like something so simple to make into a neat little gameplay loop that won't stress the servers, but it's just break rocks, sell rocks, and doing it in person vs. doing it via a ship is so inefficient that it's simply a novelty.

So, I'd propose this:
-There are some ores and minerals that get destroyed by ship mining. They're just too delicate. In fact, make that about half of all the things you can mine. You won't find these in every single cave, but they won't be so rare it's frustrating.

-There's upgraded and extra equipment you can buy from a mining NPC, but he won't sell to just anyone. You have to prove you're worthy of it. Partly for ethical reasons, but also because mining equipment can be dangerous (and if you overeheat it, which should not be made easy to do, it can blow up as a bit of an Easter Egg). Also certain ores need to be carved out with care. But if you deliver enough of X ore and X mineral to the person, they'll sell you a better multitool. They'll also sell you things like a device that sucks up all the fragments on the ground so you don't have to pick them up by hand. And maybe better sensors to find new valuable ores and minerals. You can get progressively better stuff and become a geared-out expert that finds the ultra-rare stuff that makes on-foot mining more than a novelty.

-In really rare cases, with special sensors, you might find archaeology discoveries. Old relics that are worth a lot and for which you can be traded on the black market for a variety of special items (like say, pills that will allow you to not get a heart attack while running).

There, a reasonably straightforward and chill gameplay loop for on-foot mining with a couple of twists and progression, that involves all of two or three types of NPCs and a couple of special shops, and also doesn't involve implementing a crafting mini-game which frankly is a feature that's probably beyond them right now. I came up with this in 20 minutes. You could add the occasional cave monster, add ores that explode, and if you want to be anywhere close to as ambitious as regular MMOs, you could put them into crafting or have NPCs use these items for upgrades, but that's beyond Tier 0 and would take a lot more work.

Caveat: I'm a little new to the Star Citizen schadenfreude community so sorry if what I'm suggesting is silly.

queef anxiety posted:

I'm surprised they haven't offered full on space stations or real estate options yet. these idiots are paying a grand for a jpeg how much for a poster sized jpeg?

Sarsapariller posted:

You will, at which point they'll turn and spend ~5 seconds accelerating to 1000m/s and 20 seconds leaving your interdiction zone and that's the end of that.

The way this works in Elite is that you can pull a dude out of hyperspace with a bit of a struggle, and you're both going to land right on top of each other, him with a cooldown on his drive. It's still not hard for that dude to evade for the ~20 seconds it takes for his drive to come online and then warp again, but it's useful against NPC's at least.

Pixelate posted:

One such goal is to make both Quantum Enforcement mechanics more nuanced. "I'm sure in the future we want to require you to have a bunch of Mantises or other ships with Quantum Enforcement Devices and pull them together to pull out a large Capital Ship," Tome suggested. "Maybe there will be a Capital Ship designed to pull out other Capital Ships. But for this first version we won't quite get to that balancing yet."

Beet Wagon posted:

20-30 km

skeletors_condom posted:

I am glad I never played the SC2 campaign.