Kitfox88 posted:

Eh, EVE got to keeping grisly war trophies first.

Antigravitas posted:

Still mad I never got my corpse display room from the Ambulations expansion

Antigravitas posted:

Still mad I never got my corpse display room from the Ambulations expansion

commando in tophat posted:

Did you at least got a space ambulance?

Tippis posted:

Yes. Well, sort of. Repair ships, which were essentially the same thing, and also… you know… repair ships, which is still on the waiting list for the poor citizens.

skeletors_condom posted:

...obviously I have spent more than that...

commando in tophat posted:

It's been a while since I saw EVE. What does "repair ship" mean there? Regular ship with +100% to repair beam?

reddit posted:

There is a chair at Everus Harbour that shrinks you by 10% everytime you sit in it

Thoatse posted:

or

Star Citizen: Art Archer sells.

Pixelate posted:

The secret of the mini-me is revealed





They just need to find the 'grow me' hot dog now

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Prisoner Compliance and Escape Mitigation, Helpful Medical Info for Our Bounty Hunters <3
GAMEPLAY

For our boys that plan to be bounty hunters and police officers doing dangerous work, I want you to know, Dr.Jade cares about you, so I came up with a few ideas to help make your job safer even if you're a low-budget startup PMC with a single cutlass to your name - based on my familiarity with soviet medical experiments.

In real life, it's possible to remove the arms and legs of a subject to reduce weight, space consumption, and for male subjects remove the testicles to halt testosterone production and increase compliance. I found some in-game analogies to the above when going through the healing your spaceman article, linked here.

The injury body template subdivides into arms, legs, head and torso. Unfortunately groin is not listed and the system is described as percentage based so castration options may be limited, however for the arms and legs, if they can be reduced to a "ruined" state of complete non-functionality, and the stumps bandaged to halt the bleeding out effect, (mechanically possible in the article) you should be able to take prisoners that have had their arms and legs removed or neutralized. This should eliminate the risk of them becoming an active participant in an escape attempt should someone unintentionally (or deliberately) release the prisoners from their pods during either bounty-turn-in accident, a hostile boarding action, etc. etc.

Hopefully they will take up less cargo space and can potentially open the door for mini-prison-pods meant to have reduced-mass occupants, but unfortunately I don't expect CIG to give you quite that much prisoner capacity leniency.

But as a career bounty hunter accidents can happen, and you know your captive will as soon as he sees an opportunity pounce on it to stick a knife in your back. So I thought, let's remove his ability to see and pounce.

It is stated in the player dragging segment it is possible for a limb to be ruined but not bleeding out, and as indicated by the RSI limb damage chart, if you can severely damage the limb and then stop bleeding, hopefully to blind the target by damaging the head, as well as keep the other limbs in a ruined state. Remember, a bounty for "alive" does not necessarily mean "healthy and un-maimed" - so on the off-chance your new recruit Jimmy accidentally releases "Terry, the honest crewman who accidentally locked himself in a prisoner pod while checking in on the prisoners with that buggy escape key" (actually a prisoner taking advantage of a gullible young novice) a disaster can be averted by taking some extra safety precautions.

It is also stated in the man-portable medical devices segment stopping bleeding is one of the effects - so you won't need to have someone in a cutlass red hanging around your cutlass blue as you try to make your living. You'll only need some basic medical supplies, which you should probably have anyway (even if only for yourself and your friends). Additionally, based on the bleeding out segment, it's indicated there's at least a good chance a target will not expire once shot, so it may be possible (once mechanics are appropriately implemented) to conduct field recovery of wounded allies and incapacitated enemies by designating a combat medic role for your small gang to increase safety, reduce costs, and bring law and order to our universe.

Summary TL;DR Based on what we know so far, the option of medically reducing a subject's limbs to a ruined state and then preventing bleeding should be a helpful option to prevent malcompliance or related accidents (like a prisoner convincing a new recruit he was a crewmember that locked himself in a pod by mistake), and should help limit murphy's law from screwing a bounty hunting operation. It should be available to even the smallest bounty and PMC / security operations + available for use to those with limited funds that can only squeeze in some medkits and need early success to make money that can ill-afford the insurance premiums from losing their cutlass blue on the first mission.

I sincerely hope this medical research makes your profession safer and your profits higher so you can afford your own in-universe 890J one day. May the stellar winds be at your back.

<3Mwah

~Doctor Jade

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...even if you're a low-budget startup PMC with a single cutlass to your name - based on my familiarity with soviet medical experiments.

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the removal of the testicles can mirror soviet medical experiment results IRL

skeletors_condom posted:

MMO server sizes are not written into the constitution.

Hobbergosher posted:

uh... did we know that there's more from "Doctor Jade"?

From 4 years ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/5gi6u3/prisoner_compliance_and_escape_mitigation_helpful/

They keep referencing their deep knowledge of "soviet medical experiments"





edit: Trying to fathom the feeling of disappointment that Doctor Jade will experience when some patch notes drop that say bounty hunting is like, some click through bullshit and you don't get to uh, manage the bodies.

Hobbergosher posted:

Well this is certainly one of the more disturbing people I've ever encountered on the internet

Play posted:

Are characters in zero g when they are inside their spacecraft and it isn't moving? When the spacecraft is accelerating does the "back" of the spacecraft become the floor or is there a magic gravity field on anything and everything that somehow keeps it at 1 G?

The Titanic posted:

I too wrote a thesis about bodily torture in video games.

Here it is in its entirety:

trucutru posted:

If you're in a ship the gravity goo always point you in the proper floor direction. It doesn't matter if your ship is accelerating or out of power.
If you're in a planet but outside a ship the gravity points towards the center of a planet
If you're in a space station that has artificial gravity then gravity points towards a universal "down" (all space stations rest on the same plane so this down is always the floor)

Sarsapariller posted:

The gravity goo works in exactly the way that CryEngine's default physics grids handle gravity.

It was an extremely lucky coincidence for the team and it's why they can never, ever, change the engine

trucutru posted:

If you're in a ship the gravity goo always point you in the proper floor direction. It doesn't matter if your ship is accelerating or out of power.
If you're in a planet but outside a ship the gravity points towards the center of a planet
If you're in a space station that has artificial gravity then gravity points towards a universal "down" (all space stations rest on the same plane so this down is always the floor)

Hobbergosher posted:

Unfortunately groin is not listed and the system is described as percentage based so castration options may be limited,

quote:

We are 9 years into this project come October... imagine how many times people told CIG and this community 'it can't be done'... 'the money will run out it can't go on forever'.. the amazing growth of support will dry up. Well, after all those doomsayers look what happened:



We are on course for another record year this year.

CIG took the time to make the tools that build this game, they did the R&D in a way most game development companies wouldn't even consider, knowing that it would take time and money. The whole point of this project - why EA aren't making this game for example - is that we allow them the time and money to make the very best, indeed this community demanded the BDDSE (Best drat Space Space Simulator Ever).

All the times people said that CIG would never achieve what they said they were going to try, and yet here we are. Yes it seems to take a long time, but more and more even newcomers are realising - it is worth it to take the time to get it right. It is worth the time and the money. Those who seem to insist that gamers are short-sighted, impatient and narrow focused for their particular game genre niche are just plain wrong, they can't accept that they are the minority in this community, a community who came together to give every gamer the experience they always dreamed of, a living breathing universe they could experience whole lifetimes in.

There will always be the impatient voices, there will always be the few who are not satisfied, but one thing this community knows for sure, CIG will do what they set out to do and when they do it will be fantastic, better than anyone ever thought it would be. Hold onto your hat and don't get bogged down by details - quiet times in development are not unusual, and it's amazing how quickly we forget content droughts when we see what they can achieve given the time and support.

Some of us joined this project when we didn't even have a ship or a hangar to walk around, we can tell you it's not game loops, noisy complaints, features or marketing that builds the very best experience - it's the dreamers. They are the ones who make dreams come true. When the dream is good you don't want it to end quickly, and it allows time for more and more come to join in the dream. Imagine if this game had been finished in 2014 the way some demand it would just be an old memory forgotten with the next blockbuster release, there would have been but a few 10's of thousands of us - now we have millions helping to make the BDSSE.
People point at Chris Roberts and say he can't manage a project and stop feature creep, it wasn't him it was this community - we were asked do you want to stop and settle for what was originally planned and almost everyone (80%+) said a big loud NO! keep going! Make the very best we can make!

Ask yourself.. what would you have answered knowing what we have now and what is to come? There was no possibility of whole planets and moons in 2014, there was no possibility of a gas giant planet.. do you think we were right to say keep going and tell Chris we'll wait for the very best gaming experience ever that no other game producer would even attempt?

Beexoffel posted:

Should I watch this? ("Sandi & Chris: Checking In", July 1, 2021.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bb4kBwa2iM

Or can I read the highlights in the past couple of pages?

skeletors_condom posted:

It's pretty poo poo. The only big takeaway is Crobear is moving to Manchester to finish SQ42 by 2022 or something.

There is nothing new in this video in terms of entertainment and it got boring really fast.

Play posted:

That's a shame. Would be pretty cool to even have a toggle for artificial gravity that you could turn on and off or something.

I assume you can go outside your ship, at which points you also have the same basic 0 gravity properties as your ship?

Holy poo poo nice find lol. Basically the same stuff but the level this gal is taking this to is hilarious. Little motherfucking Mengele-in-training is what we got here

Star Citizen: So castration options may be limited,

Mirificus posted:

Hobbergosher posted:

Well this is certainly one of the more disturbing people I've ever encountered on the internet

IncredibleIgloo posted:

From context clues it seems that their version of a team shooter, Theaters of War, I think it was called, was released? Is that the case? How bad was it? Was it good enough to get Rockzilla the Red Bull guy back on the team?

IncredibleIgloo posted:

From context clues it seems that their version of a team shooter, Theaters of War, I think it was called, was released? Is that the case? How bad was it? Was it good enough to get Rockzilla the Red Bull guy back on the team?

IncredibleIgloo posted:

From context clues it seems that their version of a team shooter, Theaters of War, I think it was called, was released? Is that the case? How bad was it? Was it good enough to get Rockzilla the Red Bull guy back on the team?

MostlyRandom posted:

I think the commandos must have gravity boots (or at least vacuum cleaners attached to their feet ) because inside a ship the floor is always the floor regardless of where the ship is or its orientation and all of the "planets" which are all much smaller than earths moon appear to have 1G when a commando or space golf cart moves over the surface but they have no gravity when a spaceship weighing thousands of tons is magically no clipping upside down 50 feet from the ground.

in reality CIG have given zero thought whatsoever into how gravity actually works, or weight or inertia or acceleration or newtons laws of motion. (sexy)bear in mind that crobber is the guy who thought you could swim in space. I've produced turds that understand space better than the muppets at CIG

SC "physics" are about as realistic as a roadrunner cartoon

Popete posted:

Despite being shown off at Citcon 2019 (and had a playable demo there) and promising it would be in "your hands" in a few months it was never actually meant to be released to the public.

JackSplater posted:

Wasn't it meant to be released to that paid streamer so he'd have something to actually try and hype people into playing? And then they stopped paying him and he bailed within a day?