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WaltherFeng
May 15, 2013

50 thousand people used to live here. Now, it's the Mushroom Kingdom.
Cant they at least make the jpg properly framed?

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Zazz Razzamatazz
Apr 19, 2016

by sebmojo

I like how he’s mounted all his screens before painting. Or maybe he’s not painting the particle board? (I’m at work so don’t have the sound on)

Also does his garage spaceship have a kitchenette?

Thoatse
Feb 29, 2016

Lol said the scorpion, lmao

Bingemoose
Mar 24, 2014

Hurr Durr muts saf gotam cety
I wonder when they are going to start selling NFT's of the ships for more cash.

Dynastocles
May 29, 2009

"If you'll excuse me, my dinner time is six o'clock. Only gangsters eat at 9 o'clock, after some bootlegging and a hot game of craps."


Is he planning to sleep in his spaceship in between gaming sessions?

Case in point: don't give gamer dads money. Or free time.

ronmcd
Aug 27, 2017

Pixelate posted:

Oh yeah, and ship sales



Ship Value $700.

$700.

Sometimes I forget just how incredible this grift really is.

akkristor
Feb 24, 2014

ronmcd posted:

Ship Value $700.

$700.

Sometimes I forget just how incredible this grift really is.

It really is a loving grift.

There is no scarcity to these. You can't construct a ship. You don't have to mine/purchase resources to have a ship constructed, leading to bigger ships requiring more materials and thus justifying a heftier cost. You click a button, pay some money, and a picture of a ship is added to your account. If you are lucky, you can spawn a ship in a lovely flight simulator that can't do proper inertia or collision detection because they scaled everything down to be able to fit a solar system into a 1km cubed area.

It's just a loving grift.

trucutru
Jul 9, 2003

by Fluffdaddy

Those are the weirdest steps for a 4-koma I've ever seen.

BumbleOne
Jul 1, 2018

by Fluffdaddy

Tippis posted:

I don't know. It's been pretty boring lately.

CI¬G has adopted the sensible strategy of, instead of producing laughably idiotic marketing and doing nothing, to… well… just doing nothing, but hardly ever talking about it — the heyday of lulzstupidity seems long gone.

yeah it was so easy to get entertained by store citizer without any effort. just type it into google and there goes the drama. now its just in limbo maybe forever

Quavers posted:

i have lust on my mind for your inevitable consequences

this goes over my head but im sure it must be witty :D

Nalin
Sep 29, 2007

Hair Elf

MedicineHut posted:

You mean all that the power triangle has been all this time is just a prioritization list in case power draw goes down for whatever reason, otherwise all three elements get always 100% irrespective of the triangle selection?

:laffo:

There is always more and it´s always worst

Yes.

1) Go to https://erkul.games/.
2) On the right-hand menu, click the green "Select ship or vehicle" button.
3) Select any ship in the game.
4) In that same menu pane, look for the power symbol. For example, with the very first ship, the Aegis Avenger Stalker, it will show "1325/2104 pwr/s".

The only time the power triangle matters is if your power draw is over the max (first number larger than second). No ships in their stock loadout are over capacity. Even if you overclock the weapons and shields, you don't go over capacity. I've only been able to go over capacity on ships like the Drake Buccaneer by throwing on military shields and overclocking them. And if that happens you can just overclock the power plant anyway for extra power.

The power triangle is literally useless. 99% of the time it has no function. The only time it ever comes into play is if somehow your power plant gets damaged in combat to such a degree that you lose all of your overhead. And by that time you are pretty much dead anyway.

If you look at the reddit posts for Inside Star Citizen this time, you actually have people calling for the removal of the power triangle.

Deskeletonized
Mar 24, 2021

akkristor posted:

It really is a loving grift.

There is no scarcity to these. You can't construct a ship. You don't have to mine/purchase resources to have a ship constructed, leading to bigger ships requiring more materials and thus justifying a heftier cost. You click a button, pay some money, and a picture of a ship is added to your account. If you are lucky, you can spawn a ship in a lovely flight simulator that can't do proper inertia or collision detection because they scaled everything down to be able to fit a solar system into a 1km cubed area.

It's just a loving grift.

This is all wrong. If you think about it, $700 is a bargain. You aren't just buying a picture of a ship, you're benefiting from the genius of the foremost visionary in the history of visual entertainment, Christobear Roberto, and allowing him to pursue his vision, which will surely be a triumph of genius and advance all of mankind. That's why I pledge $700 daily.

RearmingStrafbomber
Jan 29, 2009

1-1-2029, tonight the stars are shining bright

This is just the civilian version, no wonder citizens are so excited to see the military Bagel Carrier arrive this Invictus

JugbandDude
Jul 19, 2016

Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun

Shine on you crazy diamond!
The low hanging fruit is long gone, laughs are rare now. But I can still laugh at them failing to copy the system from a 1993 game.

How... why? My guess is the whale may drain their shields, forget to raise them and lose their ship to a pleb?

marumaru
May 20, 2013



apparently the entire server knows when the invictus event starts, because of how badly the game starts running the second there's a bengal in the game.

server meshing will fix this, don't worry. just buy buy buy!

Thoatse
Feb 29, 2016

Lol said the scorpion, lmao

Sarsapariller
Aug 14, 2015

Occasional vampire queen


JugbandDude posted:

The low hanging fruit is long gone, laughs are rare now. But I can still laugh at them failing to copy the system from a 1993 game.

How... why? My guess is the whale may drain their shields, forget to raise them and lose their ship to a pleb?

I really don't think a lot of in-game design decisions are dictated by whaling. I know that sounds crazy to say, but I think most of that stuff happens at the marketing and executive level. The designers get handed these jumbled messes and keep trying to make them work. My guess for why this is so hard to do is that there's now nine years of pointless, overdesigned ship systems crammed into an impossibly obsolete and famously difficult to use engine. You can't just make a number go up for weapons and another go down for thrusters, because there's engines and power output and swappable relays for big ships and this ship over here has flight mechanics wired completely differently from this one over here, which was used as a test bed for some kind of physics engine demo from 5 years ago, and half the ships are in an old format that the new ships don't use and on and on and on.

If you've ever worked in legacy production code you know what I'm talking about. They could go ten times faster if they threw everything away and started over, but that is something the executives would actually step in and prevent.

Mr Fronts
Jan 31, 2016

Yo! The Mafia supports you. But don't tell no one. Spread the word.

ronmcd posted:

Ship Value $700.

$700.

Sometimes I forget just how incredible this grift really is.

Ship Value $0

L. Ron Hoover
Nov 9, 2009
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr2dgnpTW6Q

These people are hopeless. Yep, the system after Pyro is just right around the corner. Right after Pyro. Remember when Pyro was coming at the end of the year... for what, the last two years? He says well Nyx doesn't seem like a hard system to do. Isn't Pyro basically a dead system with little settlement? How could you get easier? Well let's see what folks are saying:

:buddy:

quote:

it feels like we are starting to see that exponential growth in development :)

:smith:

quote:

I remember reading a comment like this in 2015

:smugbert:

quote:

you have not noticed the better visuals of planet surfaces? Merlin to Connie Docking? Names on ships?
Did you not play in Xeno-threat? Notice a huge reduction in the frequency of 30ks from a year ago?
What I've noticed is that people who have backed the project for many years STILL see little progress. People who have backed for 3 years or less see tons of progress.
I would expect the long term backers to be able to contrast the past 3 years with the previous 5, and notice "the pace has really picked up."
But for reasons I don't comprehend, they don't.

Weird, people waiting for 10 years are losing faith more than fresh backers. How could anyone comprehend it.

Sandweed
Sep 7, 2006

All your friends are me.

Songbearer posted:

I just want glitch compilations. More and more, even old ones. Feed me. They're so fascinating and loving funny

Like I know all game development has its fair share of hilarious or infuriating bugs but SC is the perfect storm of everything being awful all the time

Also have any other games other than Crysis actually used Cryengine in any notable way? Anything high profile? I've always found it crazy how this revolutionary engine burst onto the scene and then immediately wet farted itself into oblivion while Unreal just kept going from strength to strength

Mechwarior online and Prey.

Spatial
Nov 15, 2007

Songbearer posted:

I just want glitch compilations. More and more, even old ones. Feed me. They're so fascinating and loving funny
i've been getting into video editing a little bit lately. i'll post one tomorrow :v:

Sarsapariller
Aug 14, 2015

Occasional vampire queen


Good news! The tank got an update:



it's now $20 more expensive!

Sarsapariller
Aug 14, 2015

Occasional vampire queen


Also if you don't leave the big military spaceship tour after a one minute warning, you are teleported directly to jail.

:lol::lol::lol:

they really know their backers

Mr Fronts
Jan 31, 2016

Yo! The Mafia supports you. But don't tell no one. Spread the word.

Sarsapariller posted:

Also if you don't leave the big military spaceship tour after a one minute warning, you are teleported directly to jail.

:lol::lol::lol:

they really know their backers

All this unfidelitous teleporting. Surely some big, burly bears(tm) should escort the offenders very roughly to the brig, then to an airlock, a shuttle, a processing centre, then on to the actual prison. It should take at least an hour.

Armadillo Tank
Mar 26, 2010

Sarsapariller posted:

Also if you don't leave the big military spaceship tour after a one minute warning, you are teleported directly to jail.

:lol::lol::lol:

they really know their backers

What?

Daztek
Jun 2, 2006



The big ship visits different stations for 45mins, you can stay as long as you want on them during the visit, but once its time for it to leave for another station you get 1min to get off before it undocks and you get sent to space jail :allears:

DigitalPenny
Sep 3, 2018

Sarsapariller posted:

Also if you don't leave the big military spaceship tour after a one minute warning, you are teleported directly to jail.

:lol::lol::lol:

they really know their backers

I feel like I this should come with ..

Bing Bing Bing

*Cheesy market commentator*

Prices for tonks surged today upon a show stopping release, most investors expected the main gun not to work and the tonk second bedroom to be underwhelming but screen shots did not disappoint.

On the back of this smart investors will be buying heavily into herc.jpeg because those tonks won't move themselves.

I expect the scrubs who did not believe will now rotate into tonks now and burning their CCU tokens, plenty of blood of spectrum for anyone who does not believe and spend hard.

Back to you jarred with how to make a more positive spectrum post.

JugbandDude
Jul 19, 2016

Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun

Shine on you crazy diamond!
Ok, tell me about the wine glasses. If the tonk has more than one, it’s a no for me: I’m not sharing my vintage wine with a crew member.

punishedkissinger
Sep 20, 2017

Groshlak
Jan 9, 2021
Don't they have any self-awareness or shame? Yes, Store Citizen is like a wife... god drat... What's the German word again for describing when you experience shame instead of the person that should be experiencing it?

Jack-Off Lantern
Mar 2, 2012

Groshlak posted:

Don't they have any self-awareness or shame? Yes, Store Citizen is like a wife... god drat... What's the German word again for describing when you experience shame instead of the person that should be experiencing it?

Fremdscham or Fremdschämen as a verb

Groshlak
Jan 9, 2021
thanks!

Dwesa
Jul 19, 2016

Maybe I'll go where I can see stars
Broken video game has bond with him, sure.

Sammus
Nov 30, 2005

Sandweed posted:

Mechwarior online and Prey.

I honestly didn’t believe you about Prey and had to look it up. But I’m even more surprised at Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

Mr.Tophat
Apr 7, 2007

You clearly don't understand joke development :justpost:
How much for a space tank, a friend is asking and I can't stop laughing

Feindfeuer
Jun 20, 2013

shoot men, receive credits

Sammus posted:

I honestly didn’t believe you about Prey and had to look it up. But I’m even more surprised at Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

I'm not, but they actually delivered a fun game, even if it was a buggy mess on release that was almost as unplayable as a Bethesda Game.

related old SC news: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/13577-Kickstarter-Kingdom-Come-Deliverance

marumaru
May 20, 2013



Sarsapariller posted:

Good news! The tank got an update:



it's now $20 more expensive!

for the content you get with the purchase that's a very fair asking price

Songbearer
Jul 12, 2007




Fuck you say?
Star Citizen is one of the few games you can safely say you get more value from it the less you pay

As a game it's rotten but as a procedural hilarity generator it's just so good

punishedkissinger
Sep 20, 2017

Sarsapariller posted:

Good news! The tank got an update:



it's now $20 more expensive!

omg what the gently caress that is expensive

.random
May 7, 2007

punishedkissinger posted:

omg what the gently caress that is expensive

Well sure, when viewed outside the context of what a space ship costs, I am sure a tank looks expensive. But when you consider space ships cost $300, $500, over $1000... it really makes you appreciate the value. Heck, even a new paint job for your ship will run you $65+ so for the price of less than two paint jobs, you can get a tank.

If you stop drinking your mocha frappalatteccino at Starbucks for a week, you’ll basically have enough for an Idris. So which is more important to you, friend? Starbucks or space bucks?

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marumaru
May 20, 2013



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