lobsterminator posted:

And every time the game crashed you would die IRL, like when you disconnect in the Matrix.

Torquemada posted:

He appears to be the owner of a free money tree, what the hell is he doing at CI.

Beet Wagon posted:

Ah, I love to log out, go to CIG's broken-rear end website, and submit a character reset request every time I die to make sure I don't permanently lose my $45 spaceman hat. Truly this is the future of gaming.

e: also thanks for the shadowrun tips, I haven't played it or D20 modern in probably close to two decades at this point, so I might as well be goin in blind. Looks like it's gonna be Spycraft at first (cause I already have all the books) but then I legit might pick up Coriolis.

Bofast posted:

No, no, I mean Chris is probably still trying to rewrite the Star Citizen netcode in QuickBASIC for MS-DOS or something along those lines.

Edgar Allan Pwned posted:

I don't really follow star citizen but I'd been watching a bunch of 'top mmos' videos to find some for me and my friends, and ONE video mentioned it. Which was weird because i don't think people can play? Or you play with partial code?

Awesome! posted:

just a little broken? i guess they have been making progress

Mirificus posted:

Sim City used to be one of my top 5 all time favorite games, and Sim City 2013 was going to be a game changer.

Then it came out and wasn't but

History Comes Inside! posted:

Didn’t all of Sim City 2013’s promises of super simulated little people turn out to be absolute smoke and mirrors bullshit.

PAAAAARP!!! posted:

You aren't keeping up - there's a reason it has always been called the 'Living Breathing Universe'. They discussed many years ago what the universe will feel like and how the NPC's will behave.

They have likes and dislikes. Favourite places to hang out. Friends and family. They have jobs. It's not just a 24 hours schedule that they have they have a weekly and a monthly schedule, but more than that they can and will react to their environment and may decide to up and move to a new place or new profession altogether.

They have said it many times over and over again: There are no background NPC's in Star Citizen or Squadron 42. They have lives, they live and die. They have jobs and careers. Some will be Murray Cup racers, some will be politicians, some will be billionaire businessmen with protection teams around them 24/7, some will be burger flippers. They have goals. They have friends and family, colleagues. They have allegiances and most of all... they have memory.

It works like this:

When no player is around to see an NPC that NPC is 'virtual' and simulated on the backend systems. Their life goes on in the background and they 'virtually' respond to any events that are pertinent to them.

When an NPC is in a place where a player encounter is possible, they become 'instantiated' - they are present in the world space. There are 3 stages Quanta ->virtual-> instantiated. This is where the Quanta are handed over to the NPC scheduler. The process also reverses Instantiated --> virtual --> Quanta - but even as Quanta any variables previously assigned (face etc) and history stay with that quanta so that if they ever 'instantiate again they come back as they were with a memory of what happened to them.

The more a player or players interact with an NPC the more attributes and backstory that NPC is given, this why they say there are no background characters because any one of them could become a main character for you (this happens dynamically, randomly chosen from a database of variables, but any variables are location and environment aware). This means that some rando NPC you find in a bar could become your crew mate and best friend. They have a history, they have personality traits and preferences they have things they may ask you to help them with.

The universe is full of characters, not just static mission-givers. There is a government system both local and empire wide, you can go an visit the Senate. There are Spectrum stars - TV shows to watch like Empire Report, they have names and lives like Jax McCleary, Jimmy, Timo Baxxi, Laylani Addison, Beck Russom - you can go and finds them. For the first few years one of the perks of subscribing at the $20 level was to be able to name and give a backstory to an outlaw character who lived on Spider. They stopped doing it because so many qualified.

Squadron 42 takes place in the same game universe as star Citizen, (Jared Huckaby described it as one huge dynamic mission in the PU) only a few years earlier. Many of the characters that you meet in Squadron 42 may well be still in the PU after you retire, they may have relatives who know you and what you did in the military. This will affect how they deal with you. There may be some who are not happy with you, there may be some who think you are the great war hero. Choices you make in Squadron 42 will affect your life in the PU.

Events happen in the Empire. The economy booms and busts. Factions fight with each other. Areas come to prominence then fall into disrepair. As the economy booms the more affluent and influential NPC's move into the area, as an economy declines the affluent move out and the crime/low status population move in.

Some NPC's have jobs and careers in the universe. Military, advocacy and you will be encountering them everywhere you go. But they also have 'off time' so you may well find the guard who scanned you at at microTech New Babbage Interstellar Spaceport is they guy laying on the lilo at the pool next you on Cassel. Every NPC will have a unique appearance, you'll recognise them and they will recognise you. There are businesses in the universe - for example a company called Visangio operate a fleet of Genesis Starliners equipped with luxury cabins who operate regular passenger services to such exotic destinations as Aydo on Green to see the Murray cup races, or the Lagora Island Chateau tropical beach resort on Tangaroa.

Mirificus posted:

Barudak posted:

I don't want to be friends with the bartender in real life, why would I want that in a videogame

Torquemada posted:

He appears to be the owner of a free money tree, what the hell is he doing at CI.

Barudak posted:

I don't want to be friends with the bartender in real life, why would I want that in a videogame

Play posted:

If they really get out of hand you can start with the dismembering and chemical castration. Such gameplay!

Can we get CIG to do a quality pass on ALL starter/cheap ships? posted:

The state of starter ships is bad especially going into a free fly, but realistically they have always been some of the most bug ridden ships in the game and get barely any attention. This makes no sense when trying to build a community and attract new players. None of the issues are new, if a ship is pending a rework or new tech then tell us. If someone has a buggy ship as mentioned in another post they should be given an additional loaner with minimal known issues. Starter ships should be a priority above all other ships to be gold standard and reasonably bug free , change my mind. EDIT: Mainly talking about auroras and mustangs as the first landing page for new players on the store. We are actively funneling new players into the most outdated buggy ships as their first experience with SC, ships unable to do the most basic missions and functions due to bugs not specifications. TLDR: Remove auroras/mustangs from the stores available starter packs, fix them, or give loaners that are more functional and better represent the current game to a new player (pisces, titan).

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I maintain, they have nothing wrong.

For the Mustang it's because those guys call bugs something that is not a bug but a current limitation.
The mustang can't store manual packages because it has no room inside for it. It's not a bug but a limitation of the actual alpha because you can't store for now manual packages in the closed cargo that Mustang, Aurora and other little ships have. As the Aurora have an inside room, you can use it for manual packages.

Glitching and having boxes falling through floor are not specific bugs to starters ships but for all ships. Calling a "quality pass" on starter ships is useless because to get rid of those bugs, you need to debug the engine for all ships, there is not one specific engine for the starter ship to debug. The one thing that makes more bugs for boxes in the Aurora is only because the inside room is so tiny that you have to be carreful when you place them on the floor. When you understand that you have to correctly places the boxes on the floor not in front of the door or the seat, you have a lot less bugs. You can replicate the exact same bugs when you place boxes on the wall/doors or stack them in a Nomad.

History Comes Inside! posted:

Didn’t all of Sim City 2013’s promises of super simulated little people turn out to be absolute smoke and mirrors bullshit.

So, star citizen.

Barudak posted:

I don't want to be friends with the bartender in real life, why would I want that in a videogame

History Comes Inside! posted:

So once the game actually comes out is the intention that you just lose your poo poo if someone takes it or will the magic reset button always exist

Incitatus posted:

Will there be a wiping minigame?

Jonny Nox posted:

https://www.youtube.com/c/simcity/videos

This little historical relic is still alive.

I vividly remember the "What you see is always a 1:1 representation of what the simulation is doing" and realizing this wasn't gonna be one of the good Sim Cities.

eXXon posted:

Oh hey finally a SQ42 leak:

https://twitter.com/DigitalisHomo/status/1478094074909540354

Incitatus posted:

Will there be a wiping minigame?

eXXon posted:

Oh hey finally a SQ42 leak:

https://twitter.com/DigitalisHomo/status/1478094074909540354

trucutru posted:

Dunno, why don't you check their website?

superluminal

Zedsdeadbaby posted:

How is this game not just money laundering

Appoda posted:

E: how close are we to the 10-year mark on announcement to present? Should be hitting that this year, right?

Fantastic Foreskin posted:

Being "friends with the bartender" is just sad, having friends who are bartenders is an excellent source of free drinks and highly recommended.