Sarsapariller posted:

And they covered the one planet in city in about the same amount of time it took them to build the regular cities on all the other planets. Very efficient!

Also, despite the city planet likely having a population in the trillions, it has no private space traffic beyond the usual dozen or so player ships. Must be having a Covid lockdown.

kilus aof posted:

Original lore was it was discovered in 2903, sold in 2920 to be developed by Arccorp and by 2949 was a city planet. This was a bridge to far for the cultists so they moved everything back at least 60 years.

Jobbo_Fett posted:

Merry Christmas you lovable dorks

Thoatse posted:

Tippis posted:

Don't hunt and stuff ophanim. They're red-listed and people will think you're a bit of an evil creep.

Last King posted:

is it just me or is this literally the illusive man from mass effect 2?

History Comes Inside! posted:

Pages ago but in thumbnail on mobile this looks like a dude squatting and hanging a monster dong.

Sarsapariller posted:

The current story is that it was converted in about 80 years, entirely encased in metal factories, presumably because demand for the goods they make is incredibly high... somewhere. Unfortunately the only transports able to land on planets are the space equivalent of an 18 wheeler, and Chris Roberts never saw any cool movies with space elevators, so I'm not sure how the goods equivalent of like 1000 chinas is actually getting exported anywhere. Or who is feeding all these people given that there are no farms or food production places on any neighboring worlds.

But hey that poo poo's for boring nerds who like economics and poo poo. Not hardcore Han Solo space truckers! Now please sit down for my 400 page dissertation on the alien turtle man language.

sharknado slashfic posted:

I finally after many years decided to observe the poop and went looking for a twitch stream. In the 3 minutes I watched, I enjoyed watching a man mine for 5 minutes (watching Star Citizen time seems to run the same as 2020 time), run to some terminal to deposit(?) whatever he had mined, get an error message, mouth what I believe might literally have been a prayer, try another terminal, get an error message, and literally put his head in his hands.

It was simultaneously exactly what I expected and also better then I expected.

History Comes Inside! posted:

Pages ago but in thumbnail on mobile this looks like a dude squatting and hanging a monster dong.

Fidelitious posted:

How is a community sub-manager in charge of a reasonably complex web application? How was Zyloh even in a position to delegate something like this to a peon?

Fidelitious posted:

So this guy works under Zyloh. How is a community sub-manager in charge of a reasonably complex web application? How was Zyloh even in a position to delegate something like this to a peon?
I can see the relation to 'community', but at best the position would be something of a consulting/liaison role, giving input on what community members would like to see in a roadmap.

The Titanic posted:

Merry Christmas boys and girls! <3

Nalin posted:

Yeah, that's Orison. Each planet has a city, a space station, and a number of moons.

colonelwest posted:

Their lore is ridiculously stupid from any angle. ArcCorp seems only to exist because Chris wanted his own Coruscant and to able to dick wave about how his game had an entire city planet. But in Star Wars the Republic (a multi-species galactic civilization) has existed for 25,000+ years by the time of the Phantom Menace. In Star Citizen, humans have been putzing around space for just a few hundred.

Right now, if the entire population of Earth lived in a mega city with the population density of Manhattan, we could all fit within New Zealand. Building an ecumenopolis would be a millennia long project, and it would require an unfathomably large population and infrastructure, not to mention a really good reason for its existence. You would need massive fusion reactors, atmospheric regulators, a planet scale heat dissipation mechanism, giant arcological habitats with space for plant life and farming, and massive orbital elevators connected to huge orbiting space stations that could accommodate cargo ships that are kilometers long... You know all of those cool sci-fi things which would naturally flow from thinking about the concept for more than a minute.

But nope, CIG just covered an entire planet in a few dozen repeating/tiled skyscraper models and called it a day; and they couldn’t even bother with some random AI traffic flying around. It’s completely lifeless, boring and pointless, but it still probably represents years of work from dozens of devs. It’s a testament to CIG’s unholy combination of a complete lack of imagination, technical incompetence and managerial stupidity.

ChaseSP posted:

Not gonna lie that would be some great poo poo to have in an actual game. Imagine an entire ghost city but a planet built while the company behind it was doing an unprecedented fraud campaign with it to rack in untold amounts of money before it eventually falls through with the planet being left an unlivable metal shell.

But we can just call it Star Citizen.