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Cutedge posted:Remember when Simcity (2013) came out? It tracked every citizen in your city as they went to work, went to stores, went to the bar, were in traffic etc. You could watch them. Except they would sometimes disappear and reappear but I mean that's fine. It was online only because it needed the power of the cloud to work and run the simulation. Except later people realized you could sever the connection by blocking it and the game was the same, and the whole thing was a lie. And there was no simulation, it was just bad scripted go to work, come back from work. And people disppeared. So much worse than that. There were "agents" for humans, poop, water and power that would go from the building they started at to the closest building with a need. Power would flow from the power plant to the closest buildings and spread until it sent out all its agents. Sounds fine until you get to humans. If you have a low education neighborhood next to the nuclear power plant, despite having tons of high ed citizens in the town, the low education ones would go to the closest job (power plant) and cause a meltdown.
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I remember the kill-shot for me on Simcity 2013 was when someone figured out that the best, most efficient city design was to just build one giant spiral road starting from the center with no intersections whatsoever.
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Mar 20, 2023 14:05
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Also, hi. I've been following this thread watching this game not come out for like, seven years.
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Hobbergosher posted:I remember the kill-shot for me on Simcity 2013 was when someone figured out that the best, most efficient city design was to just build one giant spiral road starting from the center with no intersections whatsoever. That was because every day at dawn every single inhabitant in the city would go into their car and drive to the nearest free workplace. If someone got there first they would go to the next closest one, repeat until they got to one first. Then after a finished work day they would get in their cars and then repeat the exact same process with a place of residence. They would do this every day.
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Cheen posted:the low education ones would go to the closest job (power plant) and cause a meltdown. Sounds correct. Homer Simpson lives next to the power plant. At least in the Stonecutters episode.
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Streetroller posted:Lol, game still hasn't come out. Actually it's out and it's the greatest game of all time. Yesterday I went to an ice planet, couldn't find the place I was trying to go for a mission, then got bored logged out in my ship's bed. When I logged back in later I was floating in the middle of space without my ship. Clearly I was kidnapped by space pirates while logged off and went on an hours long adventure culminating in me being stranded in the middle of space. I can only imagine how much fun I had.
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Mar 20, 2023 15:18
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Oh god, if the persistent universe does/is an actual thing, I can just imagine the trolling potention if, say, pirates attack a ship and just keep killing the captain over and over again flooding the ship with their bodies before leaving the derelect husk of a ship to its captain, who now has to deal with the tons of bodies. What I'm trying to get at is that a persistent universe is dumb.
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Mar 20, 2023 15:57
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Randalor posted:Oh god, if the persistent universe does/is an actual thing, I can just imagine the trolling potention if, say, pirates attack a ship and just keep killing the captain over and over again flooding the ship with their bodies before leaving the derelect husk of a ship to its captain, who now has to deal with the tons of bodies. Counter point: emergent gameplay baby, you created a lot of work for wannabe janitors
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Mar 20, 2023 16:00
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Carmant posted:I can only imagine how much fun I had. Star Citizen: I can only imagine how much fun I had.
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Mar 20, 2023 16:08
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Nothing kills a game for me faster than "your player character, item, base, vehicles, etc are still online even when you're not." Yes I love the prospect of being easily griefable because I don't have the time or desire to completely nolife a game.
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Mar 20, 2023 16:15
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Randalor posted:Oh god, if the persistent universe does/is an actual thing, I can just imagine the trolling potention if, say, pirates attack a ship and just keep killing the captain over and over again flooding the ship with their bodies before leaving the derelect husk of a ship to its captain, who now has to deal with the tons of bodies. That's just a Viscera Cleanup Detail minigame. That's right, Star Citizen is so vast its emergent gameplay involves entire other games.
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Mar 20, 2023 16:28
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https://i.imgur.com/SVXJpE8.mp4
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Mar 20, 2023 16:30
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Everything is broken and I'm glad posted:When was the last time CIG pushed put a patch this large that caused the game to be unplayable? Its been years
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Mar 20, 2023 17:51
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I'm also personally happy it broke
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Mar 20, 2023 18:00
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That guys in for a big surprise when it’s revealed the game would have broken just as easily if 1 person tried to login let alone 10 people
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Mar 20, 2023 18:02
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Blue On Blue posted:That guys in for a big surprise when it’s revealed the game would have broken just as easily if 1 person tried to login let alone 10 people World's first successful SDOS attack. Truly CIG breaking new ground yet again.
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Mar 20, 2023 18:07
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On Friday, Diablo IV put their open beta live and the game was kind of a mess. Login queues, people getting disconnected, people getting booted and their characters getting deleted. By Sunday all the issues were basically fixed. Star Citizen is still unplayable. But guys they put a patch live, there's no way anything would have been remotely functional on an in development game for a significant period of time.
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Mar 20, 2023 18:31
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Apparently their last sale made 42% than the one the year before. How are citizens reacting to this news?quote:To their credit, they held when it was at its worst. This is conducive to thinking about your players, it is not conducive to making money. Guys, CI
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Mar 20, 2023 18:36
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Diablo 4: Lord of Destruction is just a copy pasta of the same game released in 1996, so that’s easy. They’ve been working on it for nearly 30 years
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Mar 20, 2023 18:38
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lmao, the cope of Star Citizen suckers to not have to accept that they got scammed.
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I said come in! posted:lmao, the cope of Star Citizen suckers to not have to accept that they got scammed. This is what confuses the poo poo out of me regarding SC Even the super hardcore true believers I used to play games with a decade ago have moved on, who the gently caress actually still supports this crap and still buys stuff?
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Mar 20, 2023 18:47
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A picture is worth a thousand words. PES in a nutshell posted:This is so awesome, I can't even explain how giddy it makes me. All of these cans and even a gown are from other players...tossed into the trash. I tossed about 5 more cans in there that were left on the floor.
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Mar 20, 2023 18:50
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or maybe just 3 words: SC is trash
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What’s all the content that’s loaded into this huge patch again? Is there anything of note other that PES? That barely seems like content frankly, even if it actually leads to some interesting interactions, which is unlikely for anyone but griefers and people who like picking up litter.
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i mean , i get some of these peoples enthusiasm i too used to follow 'the next big thing' game coming out, and read all the articles, forums, pour over screenshots of it, and get really interested in the finer details however i eventually A) Grew up B) noticed all game companies lie, or at least they don't tell the truth entirely when marketing their game C) Steam came out, and you no longer had to pour over some lovely games website, you could just download 100 over games and play those while you waited
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Mar 20, 2023 19:32
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How long until Space Whales quit throwing their entire checkbook at the game and CIG starts resorting to putting big ol' tits on everything to get the "lonely HORNY whales" audience?
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I like the persisted stuff because every apartment bloc is full of discarded gowns and every spaceport is overflowing with empty cans and bottles and it shows you how much people give a poo poo. I took one of the gowns I saw lying on the ground and spitefully threw it off the ledge of the cloud city planet into the abyss, polluting forever that dumb air whale poo poo. I hope it gets caught in their fins.
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Mar 20, 2023 19:48
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thread title also ironic considering that if you asked these same citizens about going and picking up trash in the real world, they'd tell you that it's SoCIaLiSM 
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Really makes me wonder how many of these are just idiot teenagers being scammed by CR. I know a bunch are gamer dads as they proudly proclaim so in their posts, but I refuse to believe that there are this many idiot adults obsessed with spaceships. Actually maybe it's not that hard to believe.
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Deki posted:This is what confuses the poo poo out of me regarding SC "There's a backer born every minute" -P. T. Parpum As backers die of old age and full self driving issues a new generation of fresh credit cardholders is ready to do their share.
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Like a timeshare that you have to keep paying for, Star Citizen accounts will be passed along to their children who will also be indebted to pay exorbitant fees.
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CIG should offer a buy now, pay later option with predatory interest rates IMO
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Blue On Blue posted:B) noticed all game companies lie, or at least they don't tell the truth entirely when marketing their game Oblivion was the release that broke me out of the same pattern. I spent years up to the release dreaming about how great it was going to be. Imagine Morrowind, but more, bigger, with real live AI! I still liked oblivion well enough, but I’ve never been hyped for a game like that again. Of course Crobbler still managed to get my $65 just after the kickstarter. Maybe we never learn
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I just let other people take the risk of preordering and Kickstarting stuff and just buy the stuff I know it's great. Preferably on discount. So I'll wait for a 42% discount on them Idrisses before buying a couple Last game I ever followed heavily before release (and got on day 1)was Diablo 3 and we all know how that went. And yet that Game has paid for all my Blizzard games from then on and a trip to Las Vegas of all places.
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LASER BEAM DREAM posted:Oblivion was the release that broke me out of the same pattern. I spent years up to the release dreaming about how great it was going to be. Imagine Morrowind, but more, bigger, with real live AI! Mine was shadowbane. Also soured me on MMORPGs pretty much forever
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Strategic Tea posted:CIG should offer a buy now, pay later option with predatory interest rates IMO
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I feel like Todd Howard gave me this pitch already, repeatedly
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The virgin Starfield player vs. the chad Citizen enjoying “the inevitable consequences of piracy”…  The world cried out for a new Space Waifu Simulator after Mass Effect, and Todd Howard said NO. colonelwest fucked around with this message at 01:05 on Mar 21, 2023 |
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I've heard Squadron 5404 is the next big thing, and also why is nobody at CInoG
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Experimental Skin posted:I've heard Squadron 5404 is the next big thing, and also why is nobody at CInoG i'm sorry to have to tell you this, subsumption was consumed in the great quanta outbreak of 2022
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