The Titanic posted:

Star Citizen is like 4 1/2 light years away.

fuckin pingu posted:

The Room System has been in the game for quite a while and [INSERT YEARS WORTH OF TECHNICAL DEBT HERE] for the long term, and for people's ability to lose themselves in the universe of Star Citizen for many years to come it is the approach that will have the best results.

800peepee51doodoo posted:

No offense meant here, but this is exactly the kind of poo poo I hate. This dude is so enamored with spaceship technology that he hasn't put any thought into what to do once we get there. Like, as a scientific endeavor, its really cool. Hopefully we'll be able to do that kind of thing some day. But as a survival strategy, it won't work. He's also doing that thing I mentioned above, where its easier for him to imagine all of the world's governments coming together to build a giant space laser on the moon to send a ship to Alpha Centauri but can't imagine all the world's governments capping CO2 emissions.

The Titanic posted:

Alpha Centauri is like 4 1/2 light years away.

If we ever got something to travel that long, that fast, we could maybe! Even maybe sub light!

But if you were to hit something going that fast, it would effectively go right through you or vaporize you immediately. Not to mention only light travels at light speed, people and things are not radiation. Well never get to light speeds. You're looking at 100's or 1000's of years of travel time. A time where you basically have to have computers and systems not break even if nothing hit you.

The distances in space are super depressing to think about, and makes you really feel like your entire existence is just a tiny nothing of another nothing.

Nicholas posted:

Even if we had the technology to travel (close to) light speed, it would take about a year of continually accelerating at a rate that wouldn't kill us (~3g's) to get going that fast. Then we'd have to spend another year decelerating. Alpha Centauri would be closer to a 6 or 7 year trip.

peter gabriel posted:

heaven is a half pipe.

TheAgent posted:

another thps1+2 lover i see

monkeytek posted:

Who's to say we will travel the universe in our meatbag bodies?

Realistically we'll probably have a convergence with AI/vitualization of our organic bodies prior to any expansion into the universe. At that point would relative speeds matter?

Jonny Shiloh posted:

Tony Z to the rescue!

Nicholas posted:

Even if we had the technology to travel (close to) light speed, it would take about a year of continually accelerating at a rate that wouldn't kill us (~3g's) to get going that fast. Then we'd have to spend another year decelerating. Alpha Centauri would be closer to a 6 or 7 year trip.

peter gabriel posted:

By the time that fucker sorts it out you could've walked there

Nicholas posted:

Even if we had the technology to travel (close to) light speed, it would take about a year of continually accelerating at a rate that wouldn't kill us (~3g's) to get going that fast. Then we'd have to spend another year decelerating. Alpha Centauri would be closer to a 6 or 7 year trip.

TheAgent posted:

uuuhhh why don't you simply just open a hole into another dimension

The Titanic posted:

Humanity.txt

The grass is always greener on the other side, etc.

I took a lot of time studying astronomy and worked at some planetariums and their software when I was in another life, and there's a few things I realized:

1: The galaxy earth is in is really huge
2: I pretty much guarantee there is more life out there, probably even really intelligent life
3: Because of #1, it doesn't matter at all
4: If/when we pick up a transmission from another space race, they probably died millions of years ago
5: #1 is really depressing, we will never leave our solar system ever and we will die when earth does, assuming we last that long
6: When the sun dies, it will expand for a long time before going out. The outer circumference of the new sun will literally reach earths orbit and earth we'll be long dead and then also thrown into a fire. There will be no record we ever existed

colonelwest posted:

@croberts68 Thank you so much for such an in-depth reply on something the community is so looking forward to, but also even more for making an appearance to the community! Your visibility is sorely missed by the older backer community far more than you know. There is a huge disconnect between the massive increase in income from new backers and the broad anger and discontent from long term backers (not me, I fight this hard every day as one of the last White Knights) and it is 100% around the change in how CIG is communicating and involved with the community.

Small investments in time even once a quarter by you and the other key leaders that the older community loves and misses like Brian Chambers, Erin Roberts, and some others would pay tremendous dividends in goodwill, better press, and increased funding. The Pillar Talks started out great but are far too fast paced, edited out, and missing the authenticity that made the community love CIG so devoutly. If you, Brian, and Erin could give us one hour of your time in free flowing big picture, long range discussions even twice a year you would see an incredible change in the community's positivity.

Newer backers don't even know what the big picture is anymore because it's never talked about. I ask new concierge what they know of it and many haven't even seen the Starmap and are clueless, they are coming because of what is "right now" on youtube is beautiful and fun. It is YOUR vision and passion that the community is devoted to, we believe in YOU. The community has been and will continue to be the project's greatest advocates, cheerleaders, and marketers.

Only a small overall investment in time like this post will turn the tide against the angry loud voices and as someone who has been in sales and marketing for 30 years, I see the opportunity cost of not doing this estimating an intangible 15-20% additional revenue of 12-15 Million that could have been raised this year. I expect there is good internal data on spending by longer term backers (4 years+) that is down significantly.

But again, THANK YOU so much for taking this time Chris

Ffycchi posted:

I have cancer. The fact that I'm betting that I'll die before this game comes out says a lot...and that's with a prognosis of 5 years.

Deeturbomber posted:

My computer is freezing up trying to delete the folder out of Program Files after I couldn't find an option to uninstall in the launcher, so I figured 'okay, uninstall the launcher, that'll uninstall the game'.... Nope.

The Titanic posted:

You're looking at 100's or 1000's of years of travel time.

The Titanic posted:

Humanity.txt

6: When the sun dies, it will expand for a long time before going out. The outer circumference of the new sun will literally reach earths orbit and earth we'll be long dead and then also thrown into a fire. There will be no record we ever existed

peter gabriel posted:

Thing is with space science, you can make up any old poo poo.
Like, realistically who's gonna prove me wrong? Space is made up of gently caress all, it's just black and stars are bits of polystyrene packing that's left over, floating around from when God moved in.
The moon is a bin lid, black holes are just some bullshit someone made up to sell books and heaven is a half pipe.

Colostomy Bag posted:

What, throwing in the towel already?

peter gabriel posted:

Meanwhile a Xbox 360 looking train no clips into another train and water appears next to a cup, as a generic spaceman no clips through a grey corridor.
As a server strains to accommodate 12 players it disconnects and a .exe silently stops responding. On the other side of the world a man is confused as he tries to set a course to one of the 99% of star systems that do not exist. Like the unused sectors on his hard drive where content was once promised to be, space is empty, as his his wallet.
A lone commando pilots his chariot, weightless and without any discernible mass through the majestic cityscape of the solitary planet. He sighs as he nears a no fly zone, in this PC game that does not hold your hand or funnel you around like those despicable console games. He sighs. He knows this is freedom. He is liberated and elated to be part of the solution to the problem, the problem that is PC gaming is currently dead.

Citizens rejoice, thankful that their leader has bestowed upon them gifts of unparalleled simulation fidelity, and all this... Soon.

Orange Carlisle posted:

Thank you Chris, thank you for doing the absolute bear bare minimum and staying on vacation while still collecting millions from this scam.

Eternally grateful,

An easy mark

The Titanic posted:

This is why I sank.

TheAgent posted:

we'll put our minds into robot bodies waaaaaay before any of that, or just create synthetic life that will be the continuation/replacement of human life (and probably most life on the planet)

like lol who gives a poo poo if it takes me 50,000 years to get somewhere in my cool robobrain spaceship bod playing fuckin holideck games n poo poo sucking down light to power my quantumwhatsit CPUs or RAMdick or whatever

suck it meat havers

Brazilianpeanutwar posted: