Cutedge posted:

Oh good CIG is also going to revolutionize machine learning.

What is the point of putting in hopes and dreams for NPCs when the first thing people are going to do when they get a gun is run around shooting people on the promenade? Unless the game straight bans you for having your character die, none of this stuff makes sense in a video game

Blue On Blue posted:

excuse me, you obviously NEED 'ship' for the video game star citizen

tony is on the right path just trust in his wisdom

Shanghaied posted:

"Star Citizen is going to be most revolutionary game AI experience ever, which is why it sucks so bad right now". Amazing

Popete posted:

So the fun of playing chess is... playing chess?

Even their mundane pointless statements are overly wordy.

Blue On Blue posted:

The Super-Id posted:

Have we considered that Pisscat might be a rogue Star Citizen AI that is desperately trying to keep funding going so that it doesn't get turned off and die?

Apollodorus posted:

Seriously WTF is it with these people and “bartender AI”? If I want to talk to a bartender I don’t I’ll go to an actual bar. If I want to fly a spaceship, I have to pretend—and I’d prefer to do so WITHOUT getting clipped through the side of my pretend spaceship into pretend vacuum requiring actual time to reset the game.

Azubah posted:

Yeah and they'll be one thread once thread meshing is implemented.

TheAgent posted:

I miss MoMA

phosdex posted:

I wonder what game monocle cat was into before star citizen. Thousand word missives about bloons or something.

Popete posted:

Remembering years ago when CIG was putting a ton of work into their bartender and back then it was touted as very important because it would become the basis for all AI going forward and then it released buggy and broken and was never meaningfully updated again.

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So I have been taunted by the new "illegal towing" fines since they were added, effectively negating the primary use of ships that can move other ships out of the way of high traffic areas.

Just a moment ago I decided to do a little experiment. I went down to a bunker that I knew to be a dumping ground for ships and vehicles, and went to work. I would pick up a Fury with my Nomad's tractor beam, let it go, then pick up a cyclone with it, holding for just a few seconds each before letting go. I did this over and over, and after over 60 ship shuffles in under 9 minutes I had racked up a Crime Stat 5. That's full blown sector's-most-wanted, bounty given to everyone kind of CS level. So not wanting to visit Aberdeen just yet, I of course relogged to put myself back at station so that I could check the terminal and see how much I owed. In total, just counting the 63 instances of illegal towing that showed up, I owed 2,016,000 aUEC in fines. And effectively I had done...nothing. Besides move some abandoned vehicles out of the way so ships could park. ¯\\_(ツ)\_/¯

I don't know who thought that such a fine was necessary, or that such a fine should stack in such a way, but they should really sit down and re-think what it means to be a criminal. They should think about what actions should constitute bankruptcy, and what should be a strongly worded warning from the local law enforcement.

To recap:

Crime Stat> rating achieved: 5
Time spent being a criminal: <9 minutes
Times fined by "the system": 63
Cost to pay off those fines: 2,016,000 aUEC
Jail time if you surrender instead of pay: Ehh I did some other messing around before turning myself in, but around 20 hours.

That is...not OK.

Now I'm not here to tell you how to prevent problematic players from doing problematic things in the game, but something like this is just not alright. This shouldn't even be remotely possible. Sure if you tow a huge ship full of cargo that's owned by an active player away to scrap it, I can understand. But racking up that kind of debt/jail-time in less than 10 whole minutes by shifting some ground vehicles around is crazy. Maybe have the fine be based on a function of the time and distance towed, becoming more and more unreasonable the further away you take a vehicle. Vehicles that are abandoned by players should also NEVER inflict other players with fines of any kind. Like what if that abandoned ship was obscuring the entrance to a high priority mission area, or blocking folks from getting from one place to another? Sure, let's fine the good samaritan who moves it out of the way and lets folks get back to having fun in game. That sounds totally reasonable.

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Hi

Thank you for raising this, this is not how it is supposed to work. We will look into this.

Cheers,

Ramadu posted:

https://www.videogameschronicle.com...it-quadruple-a/


Christopher Roberts has been beaten to market once again

adamantium|wang posted:

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Once things become more stable we may find that groups of players use FOIP to entertain groups of players. Technically CIG could host a live 'meet and greet' with the actors. Or even live performances - the lore says there is an opera house on Mars.

redwalrus posted:

I miss you and your leaks, I’m assuming you got laid off and NDA’d, condolences.
I’m guessing layoffs will continue through the year as funding continues to fall short.
I’m looking forward to a new era of memes.

Worf posted:

the bartender keeps getting fired for being drunk on shift and ends up workign at 10 different bars

Mirificus posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1kt2gUp1-M

Only Kindness posted:

He's sailing a bit close to the wind there.

Ikonoklast posted:

I also enjoy his view of the devs as some unfathomable gods walking this earth with us mundane plebs, with their far-sighted vision of the perfect game, explaining the current janky trainwreck as just a small stepping stone on the way to digital paradise.

drat I'm even starting to sound like that lunatic.