Star Citizen: $48,000 is only $334/month for 12 years

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LASER BEAM DREAM: Nov 3, 2005; Oh, what? So now I suppose you're just going to sit there and pout?

Sarsapariller posted:

https://v.redd.it/kbag11to2he61/DASH_1080.mp4

Wait a second, I'm dropping into this thread for the first time in 4 years, and this looked kind of cool before it exploded. Does the game occasionally do stuff now? Should I bother looking up my account?

# ¿ Jan 31, 2021 16:34

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# ¿ May 16, 2024 05:06

LASER BEAM DREAM: Nov 3, 2005; Oh, what? So now I suppose you're just going to sit there and pout?

ErrEff posted:

It makes me wonder about the many niche F2P mobile and browser games out there. It isn't the same as Star Citizen, of course, but the fundamentals are similar. Get people addicted enough and push them into a mental space where they feel compelled to keep spending, either to gain/maintain social status or because of a perceived game advantage.

Or all the literal online casinos.

I�ve dabbled in online poker(no limit hold �me with a max $5 buy in) and somewhat ironically my gaming instincts have prevented me from losing much. I�ve got 20 years of experience saying that when the number hits $0 the game ends, so as soon as I end up on bad streak I just quit. I�ve still got $50 on Ignition.

# ¿ May 16, 2021 16:30

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Last King posted:

"it's the best two-seater in the game." quote from their own brochure... the marketing on this one!

Christ, the one thing they had going for them was great marketing, or at least that's why I bought in 7 years ago. Even that part is getting lazy.

# ¿ May 20, 2021 19:58

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Zaphod42 posted:

Why? You can get a 6TB platter drive for cheaaaap these days. Know how much a 6TB nvme drive costs?

It makes sense to have one of each, the platter for long term storage.

This was my thought. Two 1TB NVMe drives in the desktop and two 6TB WD Reds in Raid 1 in a server with a 1 GB LAN connection.

# ¿ May 28, 2021 21:40

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Sarsapariller posted:

Subnautica is amazing, one of the best games I've played in the last 5 years. But I don't know if it's a sleeper, it's pretty widely acclaimed at this point

I think I get what they're saying, though. I've bounced off of Subnautica 4 times now, all within the first hour of gameplay. I know there is a ton more to it, but gathering those first scraps has made me lose interest.

# ¿ Jun 9, 2021 15:04

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I've been hanging out in this thread for 6 months or so, and I gotta say, I'm starting to watch the pro and anti-Star Citizen crowd with equal fascination.

# ¿ Jun 15, 2021 02:20

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Kikas posted:

The worst community is Elder Scrolls Modding. Just go visit the Awful/Awesome mods thread in Games and see for yourself. Or look up Arthmoor and what a dipshit he is.
Or hell, I'd say Bethesda modding in general because there's that dude who made a mod for Fallout 4 and included a secret button that made Brotherhood of Steel blimps roll out swastika flags and giving them nazi uniforms. I give him props that at least he built it as a physical button in the game world.

I modded Skyrim VR as a project during lockdown last year and came to despise Arthmor. I still pop in to the Skyrim VR subreddit and point people towards a copy of UESP that he obsesses over.

# ¿ Jun 22, 2021 03:33

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What a baffling choice for the video. Everyone knows the game is broken, why would you highlight that?

# ¿ Jun 24, 2021 20:19

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For reference, does anyone know what WoW's tick was/is? I remember it getting tighter as years went on.

# ¿ Oct 5, 2021 17:33

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LostRook posted:

Morphologis' stream is painful. He's got 3 other people streaming with him, but instituted a no talking over presenters rule. So it's four people looking bored out of their minds saying nothing with Tony Z promises to make pirating take longer and give fewer rewards.

lol

edit: I was in a 2 day training course held over zoom last month that had a mandatory camera on policy. I was the guy in the bottom right corner just reading forums, while pretending my camera was "off centered"

e2: update

LASER BEAM DREAM fucked around with this message at 22:37 on Oct 9, 2021

# ¿ Oct 9, 2021 22:35

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William Bear posted:

What about afterward? Would other employers in the game industry take a resume with CIG on it seriously?

Depends on what they did. I watched the 400i commercial the other day, and the production quality is still good. I could see putting that on a sizzle real.

If you were the lead of network design, on the other hand...

# ¿ Oct 13, 2021 17:43

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Flared Basic Bitch posted:

Ooooops, well I�m an idiot. I�ve been alive a long time and somehow have never seen or heard the actual term �philosophiae doctor�. I guess because Americans always say PhD or just doctorate. I�ve definitely never seen �Doctor of Philosophy� on a resume. Is that a British/European thing?

Isn�t RTT how they did all those Breen videos all over the city, or Barney on the security cam? That was pretty neat in 2006

e: Oops, random quote for no reason.

LASER BEAM DREAM fucked around with this message at 02:58 on Oct 15, 2021

# ¿ Oct 15, 2021 01:56

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cirus posted:

Cooling will be easy!

Isn�t cooling in space hard because there isn�t an easy place to dump energy?

# ¿ Nov 12, 2021 08:35

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I just assumed everyone here had an account because we all already got conned back in the early days!

I may fire it up this weekend, just to see if an RTX 3080 powers through the poo poo-show of an engine.

# ¿ Nov 19, 2021 03:44

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Remind me how they're supposed to be able to mod a permanently online game?

# ¿ Nov 25, 2021 01:00

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Kavros posted:

$45 between us. One mustang alpha starter package they bought some time back. Then two of us playing on starter accounts generously donated by people who don't give a gently caress about the game anymore and were happy to let us go nuts in the eternal ∞lpha.

I used to say that you effectively lose nothing by just starting in the basic starter ships. But that's not even true. You GAIN a lot by not buying ships as a backer. If you buy the ships you like, then you just ... have them. You've skipped the quest to work your way up to the ship you want. And there's so precious little to do to begin with that you're stripping out the majority of the things to do with your time in the PU.

You're basically paying the game company hundreds of dollars to ... remove anything to do or quest for.

Did you guys actually progress to new ships? Is it possible to attain one of the higher tier ships into the $500 level?

Was the actual content like fighting enemy ships any fun when it worked?

In a 2-hour play session, how many game-killing bugs did you typically hit?

# ¿ Nov 27, 2021 16:30

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Thanks for the detailed write-up! I've been really curious as to what the actual state of the game was, but not near enough to install it myself.

# ¿ Nov 27, 2021 21:00

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trucutru posted:

This op-ed got the Cool Chris award so I think it is cool enough

I've played a lot of Elite: Dangerous and bought a nice VKB Gunfighter / Desk Mount / Virpil Mongoose CM3 Throttle to kill time during the pandemic, since going out was off the table.

Say one thing for Star Citizens, they have legitimately done a lot for configuring high-end flight sim gear. I used a lot of their guides when building a Joystick Gremlin based system to get around some of Elite's archaic DX input issues.

edit: from just after I moved in to a new apartment last year. It's too bad Elite Odyssey killed my interest in the game.

LASER BEAM DREAM fucked around with this message at 01:26 on Jan 28, 2022

# ¿ Jan 28, 2022 01:20

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A VKB and Virgil combo are about as close as you can get.

I�m not joking when I say that the deep pockets of Citizens has been great for the joystick market in general. My new setup feels like a massive upgrade coming from a Thrustmaster Warthog.

# ¿ Jan 28, 2022 01:58

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trucutru posted:

(great)battle (methaphorical)location is where

Oh, you think I am kidding, right? I assure you, I'm not.

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/media/vg5vq01b40voor/source/Rust-Society-Banu-Guide.pdf

No joke, I�m mildly impressed. Someone must have spent a lot of time building a language then writing all of that in-universe as a guide.

Too bad it was for this project.

# ¿ Mar 28, 2022 04:11

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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

# ¿ Mar 20, 2023 20:47

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colonelwest posted:

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.

Everyone knows the nudity and sex come in 0-day community mods. Assuming they stay with the same Creation /Gamebryo engine and tools it may even be trivial!

# ¿ Mar 21, 2023 01:59

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Fidelitious posted:

I forgot to mention how absolutely insane it was to open that letter with a "quote" from Marcus Aurelius. Pretty pretentious for a crappy videogame.

First it's not even quoted correctly, and secondly Marcus Aurelius never wrote that and it is one of the most frequently misattributed quotes.
It is in fact "what we do in life echoes in eternity" and it's a line that was written for the Gladiator movie.

So many places say it's a quote from 'Meditations' and yet not a single source points to the actual quote. It's also completely at odds with stoicism and would make no sense for Aurelius to write that, particularly in Meditations.

IIRC Aurelius didn�t even say that in the movie. It was Crow�s character Maximus.

# ¿ Mar 16, 2024 16:02

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# ¿ Mar 26, 2024 17:31

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