Eric the Mauve posted:

Isn't CRobber already blackballed from Hollywood

Shanghaied posted:

Restart? Restore? Stop spreading FUD!

There are no second chances in real life! Each retail copy of SQ42 is only good for one, single playthrough. If you fail the main quest, you should be required to buy a brand new copy. So immersive!

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Actually what is planned is going to be more sophisticated. There will be 3 sources of information about trade and item availability:

The Spectrum - it's the in-game internet. There are going to be online information sources, shops and services - we even know some of the names for services they plan to offer:

Sharrington Cross - both physical in game stores and an online store with delivery options for luxury items.

Epulae Dining - tickets for events and fine dining experiences. The information about Epulae Dining talked about tickets for the Metropolitan Opera House on Mars and Fashion Week on Terra II.

Visangio - A luxury holiday / travel service. There will be resort planets in the Goss system and Helios system.

They also plan for the Spectrum to be multi-platform so that it can be accessed when not logged into the game. You can access the Spectrum via in-game screens, terminals and your mobiglas. We'll be using it in Squadron 42 E1.

The TDD (Trade and Development Division) - it's like a commodities stock exchange and job board. It's in the game now but not functional.

The ARK repository - Players can buy and sell data / content to the ARK repository. Players can make their own news shows, dramas etc and put them on the Spectrum via the ARK.

CIG appreciate the community setting up websites, and communication apps, but it has always been their goal and plan to bring all that functionality into the game and the RSI platform.

Mirificus posted:

Rotten Red Rod posted:

can't wait to purchase and enjoy a meal and a show at a luxury resort. in a videogame.

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arse-wittery

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The project has a quality-first approach and it should be an easy way to recognize trolls and Star Citizen haters whenever this myth is resurfaced periodically.

a deranged star cultist posted:

quality-first approach

Only Kindness posted:

Well, shrieks of wokery are not just about what-have-you-got-in-your-pants type stuff, it's also every spittle-flecked white male grievance of the last 60 years refocused and given new breath - in Idlefarts' case, one common complaint seems to be the ever-popular Why Are There Women In Positions Of Authority This Is Literally Erasure Of Half The Planet MY IMMERSION. Plenty of mileage in that one.

Only Kindness posted:

These types of Poasts Bye P-Cahht might actually be more infuriating than the ones where he's muttering darkly about sinister forces conspiring to bring down "the project".

I mean, what he's describing are zero-gameplay points of zero-interest. Sure, user-generated content, that always goes great. What do you even do gameplay-wise at a "resort planet", much less his proudly parroting the names of two systems that will have them, despite the fact these systems literally don't exist.

Surrrrrrrre, you'll be "using the Spectrum" in "Squadron 42 E1"... except you won't, of course.

Talk about the death of third spaces - every item here, that doesn't exist and won't happen, is a chance to hand over more cash for more less-than-worthless do-nothing digital poo poo.

I assume the "opera house" these berks keep wanking on about is in there because Battlestar Galactica had one.

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

Lol we’re quickly approaching the ELEVENTH anniversary of the Kickstarter.

smellmycheese posted:

Hanging out at the space resort with my space friends. They’re all just out of shot having space fun too

smoobles posted:

What you're all forgetting is that video games are for children

Thoatse posted:

https://i.imgur.com/2LcqdRu.gifv

Viscous Soda posted:

I'm kinda sad that we've permanently passed the era of the "Graph of exaggerated devtimes to show that SC's development is normal." Ah, well we still have the memories... and the Imgur links:

Tippis posted:

Better understanding of toolsets and content pipelines than your average citizen, that's for sure.

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I am a software engineer and have worked on many projects where an app has to retrieve, parse, format and store data. It can be cumbersome but I have lots of experience doing that sort of thing. So a year ago I decided, just for fun and to learn a new web technology I was interested in, that I would build a "Ship Finder" service where a user could weight their favorite game loops (ex: combat 50%, hauling 30%, mining 15%, FPS 5%), specify various parameters (ex: at least 100 cargo space, purchasable in-game < 3 million aUEC, quantum range X and speed Y), etc. The app would analyze the user requirements and assign a score for each ship in the game for each stated requirement, then derive a total score from the subset, and spit back an ordered list of ships that, based upon the numbers, were the best matches for the user.

So I dove into the convoluted, tangled spaghetti mess of data and started parsing. A more wretched hive of scum and villainy, I have never seen. Most of the ship and component data is stored in XML files, and they were the biggest mess imaginable. Often improperly nested a dozen or more levels deep, tags opened but never closed, tons of pointless wrapper tags that held no data and served no purpose but to nest the data deeper. Awfully-named nodes that frequently had similar-but-slightly-different names for different ships even though each wrapped identical data, making it impossible to traverse the data structure one ship to the next. And on and on ad nauseam. Here's an example of what a tiny part of my parsing code looked like: https://archive.ph/uxTGF (go easy on me! I'm a Java dev first, PHP second). And that's after all the weapons, shields, coolers, etc, had already been parsed by other classes. I gave up after about 2 weeks when it became clear that nearly every vehicle (well over 100 of them) would require at least some degree of custom code. Writing it would have been a nightmare; maintaining it from release to release completely, utterly and hopelessly impossible.

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This illustrates the issue even better. Here's the xml that was in-place at the time for the Cutlass Black: https://archive.ph/Xjc76

dialhforhero posted:

Star Wars Squadrons deserves a followup.

Mirificus posted:

I am a software engineer

FishMcCool posted:

No it doesn't. X-Wing/TIE Fighter/Alliance do.

Asproigerosis posted:

Lol remember when they released some design sketches of the bad guy alien ships and the cockpit layout was such that it forced the copilot to be eating the pilots rear end?

smellmycheese posted:

PissCat will be along to explain that AssSniffing Aliens are fundamental to Croberts space vision

Blue On Blue posted:

the entire basis of this whole shitshow is that they imagine SQ42 will sell as many copies in the first week as GTA5 when it was released

we all know it wont do this in its life time, but still

once the billions start rolling in, Chris will pivot to movie making 24/7

which many suspect is the only reason he is involved at all

Randalor posted:

"If you attended the barhopping drug party at Civcon 2018, you would have heard Chris explain his visionary idea of a race who's ships are powered by the sexual pheromones secreted by the Assmunchers from Uranus, who's main way of maintaining the extreme orgasms required to generate sufficient pheromones were by eating rear end. If you were especially lucky that year, you would would have then been part of a select group that were invited to have the technique demonstrated for them in Chris's VIP suite that night. Chris was especially proud of this race as he did the full mocap for them himself."

Sorry, I couldn't think of a way to stretch the joke out to a novel like Pisscat would have.

Mirificus posted:

<SItemPortLoadoutEntryParams __type="SItemPortLoadoutEntryParams" entityClassName="DRAK_Cutlass_Thruster_Maneuver" inventoryContainer="None" itemPortName="hardpoint_Man_Thruster_Left_Rear_Bot" loadout="None" />

dialhforhero posted:

Star Wars Squadrons deserves a followup.

cirus posted:

E: all of them are Man instead of Main lmao

cirus posted:

Petition to change thread title to hardpoint_Man_Thruster

E: all of them are Man instead of Main lmao

Randalor posted:

"If you attended the barhopping drug party at Civcon 2018, you would have heard Chris explain his visionary idea of a race who's ships are powered by the sexual pheromones secreted by the Assmunchers from Uranus, who's main way of maintaining the extreme orgasms required to generate sufficient pheromones were by eating rear end. If you were especially lucky that year, you would would have then been part of a select group that were invited to have the technique demonstrated for them in Chris's VIP suite that night. Chris was especially proud of this race as he did the full mocap for them himself."

Sorry, I couldn't think of a way to stretch the joke out to a novel like Pisscat would have.