Baxta posted:

There was some guy who came into the SC sub ages ago to promote his book (On agile development) and constantly repeated that CIG are doing a great job with their agile project methodology.

I think his points were - They are using Jira. They have milestones and sprints, therefore its Agile.

I'm pretty sure a lot of these people have never worked a day in any sort of management capacity.

Dementropy posted:

Nyast posted:

The funny part is that although they've completed 66% of the ships, they've done the easiest / small ones.

The hard ones, the ones that are gigantic and require many times more effort than a single small ship, are the ones that aren't done / started yet.

So although in terms of quantities they can be proud of having completed 66% of the promised ships, in terms of work and effort, completing the remaining 33% is going to be a serious pain and will probably take more time than all the previous ships combined.

Der Shovel posted:

Nyast posted:

The funny part is that although they've completed 66% of the ships, they've done the easiest / small ones.

The hard ones, the ones that are gigantic and require many times more effort than a single small ship, are the ones that aren't done / started yet.

So although in terms of quantities they can be proud of having completed 66% of the promised ships, in terms of work and effort, completing the remaining 33% is going to be a serious pain and will probably take more time than all the previous ships combined.

tuo posted:

Is that a



purrito?

Der Shovel posted:

It is in fact precisely that.

quote:

The liquid sloshing around the screen and tinted green pulsing seem abnormal. Granted I'm brand new at this game and this was my first time playing a Vanduul Swarm match, but I doubt that these effects are supposed to continue past death and reviving in a new ship.

Mirificus posted:

Mirificus posted:

Not empty quoting!

Mirificus posted:

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Pixelate posted:

LIQUID AND GREEN PULSING ON SCREEN

Mirificus posted:

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Nyast posted:

The funny part is that although they've completed 66% of the ships, they've done the easiest / small ones.

The hard ones, the ones that are gigantic and require many times more effort than a single small ship, are the ones that aren't done / started yet.

So although in terms of quantities they can be proud of having completed 66% of the promised ships, in terms of work and effort, completing the remaining 33% is going to be a serious pain and will probably take more time than all the previous ships combined.

G0RF posted:

YOUTUBE: Star Citizen Turns 7, Still Doesn’t Exist


YT channel “Inside Gaming”, with 1.47 million subscribers.

IronicDongz posted:

usually this is because they're all being made to work crunch constantly and they basically just do not have time if they ever want to talk to their families

I imagine this is probably true of the recent college grads currently doing most of the work on SC as well

Beet Wagon posted:

Oh my God they never fixed the fact that it's all underwater as far as the engine is concerned lmfao

Nyast posted:

The funny part is that although they've completed 66% of the ships, they've done the easiest / small ones.

The hard ones, the ones that are gigantic and require many times more effort than a single small ship, are the ones that aren't done / started yet.

So although in terms of quantities they can be proud of having completed 66% of the promised ships, in terms of work and effort, completing the remaining 33% is going to be a serious pain and will probably take more time than all the previous ships combined.

Beet Wagon posted:

Oh my God they never fixed the fact that it's all underwater as far as the engine is concerned lmfao

Dementropy posted:

colonelwest posted:

Yeah that’s pretty much the mainstream layman’s opinion on this mess. We all know the rabbit hole goes much deeper, but most average gamers wrote this whole mess off as vaporware years ago.

Pilz posted:

No, see, it's actually quite smart. Sure it causes some weirdness up front but eventually the BDSSE is going to need underwater combat in its combined-arms segment, and when that comes up the experience the team has gained with making things work underwater will make implementing submarine combat a breeze!

Mirificus posted:

Pixelate posted:

Nope...

Bed Login working beautifully! Logged out on Hurston surface, woke up the next day under the ocean..

Baxta posted:

There was some guy who came into the SC sub ages ago to promote his book (On agile development) and constantly repeated that CIG are doing a great job with their agile project methodology.

I think his points were - They are using Jira. They have milestones and sprints, therefore its Agile.

I'm pretty sure a lot of these people have never worked a day in any sort of management capacity.

The aforementioned guy has gone strangely silent...

Dementropy posted:

Quavers posted:

Sarsapariller posted:

Most of Star Citizen's marketing can be viewed as a team of anthropologists uncovering a long-buried nerd subculture and peeling back their layers of anxieties about past video game traumas, one by one, in order to better sell them garbage.

There's insecurity over being an insufferable jackass that nobody wants to group with. Insecurity over your authority not being sufficiently respected, insecurity over constantly falling behind the "Curve" of power creep, insecurity over inadequacy in twitch based PvP combat, insecurity over being ambushed by other players from prepared positions. At the core is the insecurity over big hordes of players dominating their solo PvE play from the EVE days.

For each of these insecurities, a spaceship. For the insecurity about losing your spaceship, insurance. For the insecurity about not having enough time to play and maintain the insurance, lifetime insurance.

Much like the best right-wing grifts, it is an onion of neurotic fears, each targeted by a particular predatory sales pitch.

Nalin posted:

What I find interesting is that there is now enough content to actually create a compelling experience with a bunch of fun gameplay loops, but everything is so unbalanced, buggy and broken that you can't have fun playing it. If they want to sell a playable experience to people, they really need to spend a whole patch cycle just fixing these years old bugs. Make all these missions actually work, fix up all the ship and weapon bugs, and balance everything so an average player can make progress towards their goals. But they will never do that. They would rather sell a new ship reskin with broken weapons to their loyal suckers.

Dementropy posted:

Nalin posted:

What I find interesting is that there is now enough content to actually create a compelling experience with a bunch of fun gameplay loops, but everything is so unbalanced, buggy and broken that you can't have fun playing it. If they want to sell a playable experience to people, they really need to spend a whole patch cycle just fixing these years old bugs. Make all these missions actually work, fix up all the ship and weapon bugs, and balance everything so an average player can make progress towards their goals. But they will never do that. They would rather sell a new ship reskin with broken weapons to their loyal suckers.

Mr.PayDay posted:

It’s amazing how reckless the Shitizens won’t miss any opportunity to hate EA, Blizzard or Ubisoft and all the devil publishers for their lies and anti consumer bad business practices.

Like these idiots are part of the biggest crowdfunding fiasco of all time and support a memefestival that built It’s fundament on lies, misinformation and incompetence.
This is Freelancer multiplied by the Roberts Clan who found a legal way of money laundering by fleecing the backers with jpegs and without any liability.

How can you diss EA and be mad at Ubisoft when you support a 300 Million pre Alpha POS techdemo that is like 85 % behind the stretchgoals since half a decade and still defend this?

Oh, we know the answer: Sunk Cost Galaxy-fallacy. Thanks botcha

Mirificus posted: