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# ? Nov 10, 2015 16:41 |
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# ? Apr 26, 2024 06:42 |
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Actually it's because Fishmech is trying to avoid running a foul of the anti-harassment rules regarding the sex offender registry, though he did specifically hint that non-US based goons could share it without legal danger if they weren't cowards.
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# ? Nov 10, 2015 16:45 |
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Newest reply. Somehow being gifted something, melting it, rebuying the LTI version and gifting it back counts against my account even though the actual transaction is listed as $0.00USD in the billing page, therefore not contributing to overall amount spent. CIG CS Patrick posted:Thanks for getting back to me and pointing out the miscalculations. Reply: LCL-Dead posted:Patrick, LCL-Dead fucked around with this message at 16:58 on Nov 10, 2015 |
# ? Nov 10, 2015 16:45 |
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grimcreaper posted:I think the best part is that by the date being used in the game I am willing to bet that any kind of ship in that class would not have a cockpit window at all and the helmet itself would be linked to a series of cameras on the hull giving the entire hud, etc, inside the helmet with a perfect view of everything outside. This is kinda how Enemy Starfighter works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjjQtge5ssQ&t=1m23s The conceits are that there is FTL travel and communication, and that most ships are drones being controlled by AI. Pilots and commanders exist in a central control ship and can control and command any existing ship in the fleet. The entire game is being made by one dude originally as a side project to learn Unity.
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# ? Nov 10, 2015 16:45 |
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EightAce fucked around with this message at 08:38 on Apr 8, 2016 |
# ? Nov 10, 2015 16:46 |
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LCL-Dead posted:Newest reply. Somehow being gifted something, melting it, rebuying the LTI version and gifting it back counts against my account even though the actual transaction is listed as $0.00USD in the billing page, therefore not contributing to overall amount spent. The whole thing is confusing as gently caress.
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# ? Nov 10, 2015 16:47 |
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Aesaar posted:
Initially it was terrible. The first vendor they had (for a decade?) could never get it to work, and they had to switch to a new vendor because there were severe issues with latency and reliability of the software. A friend, who worked on the project but now moved out of country, said that the only reason the F-35 is in the (mostly corrected) state it is in is because they kept throwing billions at the project. 'When you throw that much money even a lump of clay can be fixed into something flyable' was the gist of his many posts on the subject.
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# ? Nov 10, 2015 16:49 |
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Beet Wagon posted:I seem to remember something CIG posted way back when during the Freelancer "Strut-gate" thing about considering something like that but ultimately deciding it didn't really fit the aesthetic they were going for. Some fan did a really cool mock-up of the Freelancer with no glass like that. Or they could just put the engine to work and make the frame turn 75% transparent so modelers still get some justice out of their horrible cockpit designs. Hell, the AH-64 Apache has been using a FLIR/PNVS system (Cameras) for pilot view since its inception. Which is all the more comical since the Cutlass cockpit is modeled off of one.
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# ? Nov 10, 2015 16:54 |
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LCL-Dead posted:Newest reply. Somehow being gifted something, melting it, rebuying the LTI version and gifting it back counts against my account even though the actual transaction is listed as $0.00USD in the billing page, therefore not contributing to overall amount spent. He's just making poo poo up and thinks you'll believe it.
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# ? Nov 10, 2015 16:59 |
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AP posted:He's just making poo poo up and thinks you'll believe it. Star citizen in a nutshell
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# ? Nov 10, 2015 17:01 |
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Thor-Stryker posted:Hell, the AH-64 Apache has been using a FLIR/PNVS system (Cameras) for pilot view since its inception. Which is all the more comical since the Cutlass cockpit is modeled off of one. That is in the cards. Some items, like FOF tags and gimbaled guns (aims) are projected into the helmet just as they are with the F-35. Speaking of that, has anyone had their display screen cracked in E:D? My roommate had that happen recently. He got shot through the screen. Not only was his atmosphere evacuated (and had only 10 minutes to land or he would asphyxiate), but that also cracked the display so a bunch of his HUD elements were fritzed. Looks like:
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# ? Nov 10, 2015 17:03 |
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MarcusSA posted:The whole thing is confusing as gently caress. It's simple to me: CIG is going through accounts when refunds are requested and comparing the amount of money spent (Which can be found on your billing page as a total amount) to the amount of money you gave away as gifts to other players. What's happening here is Patrick is figuring store credit into the "amount gifted to other players" when that store credit did not originate from either a purchase I made or a gift I received and kept. Example: I received a Digital Colonel package, non LTI. I reclaimed the package for a store credit of $125. I repurchased the package with LTI for $125 in store credit. I gifted the package back to the original owner. The funds are now gone and do not factor into my total amount spent. They never did to begin with. He's factoring that $125 into the amount of money I gave away and using it to take away from the amount of money spent that shows up on the account billing. The problem with that is that if you go into the billing statement and look at all ships bought with store credit, they do not generate more numbers onto the final amount spent. They are a $0.00USD transaction. Not counting money I received to purchase LTI ships for people, I only spent about $400 on this game. I'm just trying to get the $300 or so that wasn't in subscriptions and legit gifts to my friends back.
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# ? Nov 10, 2015 17:05 |
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LastCaress posted:The FM problems are indicative of a problem that I have been critical of CIG for some time now. CIG (CR) have lots of ideas, the problem is that they are just independent ideas and are not merged together to create a cohesive whole. Many of these ideas run counter to each other, "realistic" physics but "rule of cool" ships, "realistic" physics but physics will be different for each ship( same size engine is different across the ships), delayed ship replacement but short TTK, limited game resources but selling power for real money, just to name a few. But lets look at the FM. Ah plagiarism, you just quoted me without quoting me. https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=57576&page=552&p=3027637&viewfull=1#post3027637 1500 fucked around with this message at 17:18 on Nov 10, 2015 |
# ? Nov 10, 2015 17:08 |
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LCL-Dead posted:Newest reply. Somehow being gifted something, melting it, rebuying the LTI version and gifting it back counts against my account even though the actual transaction is listed as $0.00USD in the billing page, therefore not contributing to overall amount spent. They have thousands of tickets to reply to-- now I see why.
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# ? Nov 10, 2015 17:15 |
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LCL-Dead posted:It's simple to me: fyi, plenty of people have got full refunds of entirely gifted credit as long as the credit was less than the amount spent on the account. The reason they are making poo poo up and pretending there is a process now is that the number of refunds has become noticeable and therefore attempting to keep some money tightly gripped in their claws makes more sense. He even admits that none of this crap is written down anywhere and they've using the "donation" line again which is frankly pretty hilarious. Hey Patrick if you're reading, go get a decent job somewhere that doesn't suck and have you doing this dodgy poo poo over pennies.
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# ? Nov 10, 2015 17:15 |
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EightAce posted:So jog on Christ, how do I explain this? Look, I don't even think you're capable of actually sounding menacing. A Brit trying to be mean to a New Yorker is kind of like this: This is you. This is how you sound to me:
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# ? Nov 10, 2015 17:16 |
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Plankalkuel posted:Nice post. As someone who has his background in Control Systems, their approach is indeed very counter productive. In theory, you probably could actually automate controller design for the ship thrusters in the design pipeline. I bet you, they haven't done that and are, in fact, adjusting their P, I and D values by hand (NEVER DO THIS!). The whole thing strikes me as something that's indeed easy to fake. In my experience, physics simulations and control systems can interact catastrophically (e.g. if the controller is "faster" than the simulation). In the same vain, change the controlled system (e.g. loose an assortment of thrusters) and your formerly stable controller may become unstable, leading to the ship spazzing out. I imagine both these issues to be very similar to general game physics issues, so debugging might get interesting. So why not fake it and get rid of potential headaches. I also have a background in Control Systems, and that is why I wrote that. It is much easier to fake it then do what CIG are doing. There is also the problem that control systems are run on real time systems (windows is not a real time system), and as such are taken care of as fast as possible, if we take what is happening in AC, controls get worse as your frame rate drops, it might be because the control system is not getting updated and so you are actually losing control of the ship because you computer is not getting around to makes those calculations.
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# ? Nov 10, 2015 17:17 |
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1500 posted:I also have a background in Control Systems, and that is why I wrote that. It is much easier to fake it then do what CIG are doing. There is also the problem that control systems are run on real time systems (windows is not a real time system), and as such are taken care of as fast as possible, if we take what is happening in AC, controls get worse as your frame rate drops, it might be because the control system is not getting updated and so you are actually losing control of the ship because you computer is not getting around to makes those calculations. Yup, this is one of the issues they've admitted to and are supposedly working on with the flight system update. To the best of the ability with the limitations of running in Windows, on non-realtime hardware with wonderful quality** drivers in the way. Speaking of that, the sensor mapping for consumer joysticks is a thing of sadness: http://www.simhq.com/_technology3/technology_174g.html I'm sure that's helping in addition to all the performance issues and latency each stage brings into a game engine on Windows.
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# ? Nov 10, 2015 17:23 |
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Loiosh posted:Speaking of that, has anyone had their display screen cracked in E:D? My roommate had that happen recently. He got shot through the screen. Not only was his atmosphere evacuated (and had only 10 minutes to land or he would asphyxiate), but that also cracked the display so a bunch of his HUD elements were fritzed. Looks like: Yup that happens if you get your cockpit shot off, it can shatter in a few ways and makes flying slightly tricky as you can't see the HUD. Closest I've been was boosting into a station with 7 seconds left on the clock.
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# ? Nov 10, 2015 17:25 |
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LCL-Dead posted:As a side note, this was the last email I received from CIG: I have no idea why you think you should get a refund when you GIFTED people $800 of useless poo poo. You can't get money back on things you give away to other people, that money is no longers yours to get a refund on. Basic common sense for christssake. You're an idiot and you shouldn't get your money back. I can't believe I'm saying this but I side with CIG on this one. You're an idiot Maryland ex marine everything about you screams idiot. I'm stationed in Maryland and everyone here is a total idiot you fit right in.
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# ? Nov 10, 2015 17:28 |
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LCL-Dead posted:Newest reply. Somehow being gifted something, melting it, rebuying the LTI version and gifting it back counts against my account even though the actual transaction is listed as $0.00USD in the billing page, therefore not contributing to overall amount spent. So first they find nothing, then you come back and magically they find some token gently caress off and stop bothering us money. Do they pay someone to comb over webs of gifts and melts and LTIs manually then negotiate back and forth until the backer caves? Can't save much more than just playing it straight and refunding what you spent in the first place. Shady as gently caress, I'd stop talking to them and face the shame of explaining jpeg ships to your bank.
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# ? Nov 10, 2015 17:29 |
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Aramoro posted:Yup that happens if you get your cockpit shot off, it can shatter in a few ways and makes flying slightly tricky as you can't see the HUD. Closest I've been was boosting into a station with 7 seconds left on the clock. Also, the sounds become very muted, like listening to everything with your head underwater. Elite: Dangerous's sound design always amazes me.
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# ? Nov 10, 2015 17:29 |
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Loiosh posted:That is in the cards. Some items, like FOF tags and gimbaled guns (aims) are projected into the helmet just as they are with the F-35. Yeah, it's bloody brilliant. Here's what it looks like when it happens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1I_SS7jYQ30 The race to get your ship to a station - especially if you're hauling lots of loot or don't have cash reserves to cover the insurance rebuy on your ship - is one of the game's greatest bits of high stakes drama. It's so elegantly done, too-- losing the navigational overlays makes the whole thing all the more rich. I'm sure Star Citizen will copy it-- overcomplicate it in an attempt to 'one up' Braben-- and completely rob it of fun, as is their wont recently.
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# ? Nov 10, 2015 17:31 |
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celewign posted:I have no idea why you think you should get a refund when you GIFTED people $800 of useless poo poo. You can't get money back on things you give away to other people, that money is no longers yours to get a refund on. Basic common sense for christssake. You're an idiot and you shouldn't get your money back. I can't believe I'm saying this but I side with CIG on this one. You're an idiot Maryland ex marine everything about you screams idiot. Your reading comprehension appears to be poo poo, friend.
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# ? Nov 10, 2015 17:38 |
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1500 posted:Ah plagiarism, you just quoted me without quoting me. It wasn't even funny or cultish, what an odd thing to copy-paste.
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# ? Nov 10, 2015 17:38 |
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LCL-Dead posted:Your reading comprehension appears to be poo poo, friend. Your case is like a wet dream for CIG support: a tangled weave of grey market shenanigans (that they supported and enabled) that they can hand-wave at and say "no refunds!" Your best bet is probably Paypal/Bank chargebacks.
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# ? Nov 10, 2015 17:40 |
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1500 posted:Ah plagiarism, you just quoted me without quoting me.
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# ? Nov 10, 2015 17:42 |
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Seriously why would you do that? Did you think we wouldn't find out? Or maybe you didn't think at all?
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# ? Nov 10, 2015 17:45 |
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Namefag Edgelord posted:Seriously why would you do that? Did you think we wouldn't find out? Or maybe you didn't think at all? Irony, thy name is childfucker.
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# ? Nov 10, 2015 17:46 |
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LCL-Dead posted:Your reading comprehension appears to be poo poo, friend. I'm sorry LCL I shouldn't take it out on you. I get very unhappy when I see people spending hundreds of dollars on this game. It's a very kneejerk response. I still hate MD though, gently caress this state.
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# ? Nov 10, 2015 17:48 |
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dyzzy posted:Your case is like a wet dream for CIG support: a tangled weave of grey market shenanigans (that they supported and enabled) that they can hand-wave at and say "no refunds!" Probably bank if I were that horribly worried about getting all of the money back. celewign posted:I'm sorry LCL I shouldn't take it out on you. I get very unhappy when I see people spending hundreds of dollars on this game. It's a very kneejerk response. I agree, gently caress MD. That's why I don't live there and haven't for the last 10 years. I also didn't gift $800 worth of poo poo to people. Patrick is making mistakes that added up to $800 worth of gifting/reclaiming gifts. The real figures are more like $350 worth of my money (Which I'm still ashamed of at this point) and $400 worth of friends money and gray market stuff. I only legit gifted 3 ships. Two to a buddy (Aurora/300i) and his wife and one to another close friend (Hornet).
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# ? Nov 10, 2015 17:51 |
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1500 posted:I also have a background in Control Systems, and that is why I wrote that. It is much easier to fake it then do what CIG are doing. There is also the problem that control systems are run on real time systems (windows is not a real time system), and as such are taken care of as fast as possible, if we take what is happening in AC, controls get worse as your frame rate drops, it might be because the control system is not getting updated and so you are actually losing control of the ship because you computer is not getting around to makes those calculations. I love reading your posts on the Frontier SC3 thread, 1500. Glad to see you popping in here.
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# ? Nov 10, 2015 18:00 |
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Holy poo poo I actually met this dude at Pax East two years ago, he bought me a Jack Daniels on the rocks! Sad to see he's since lost his mind. This was the "this is bullshit!" event where the whiteshirt dude was "heckling" Chris for having a lovely, unprepared, 90 minute late failure of a presentation. Whiteshirt dude was right all along, the rest of us were fools. Namefag Edgelord fucked around with this message at 18:04 on Nov 10, 2015 |
# ? Nov 10, 2015 18:01 |
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Explain how! can be exchanged for goods and services.
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# ? Nov 10, 2015 18:01 |
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G0RF posted:I'd pitch in- though I think maybe it'd be better to have a joke to that effect in Latin. So it's not too on the nose.
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# ? Nov 10, 2015 18:04 |
Seraph spends most of his time thinking about the sa forums, online and offline. Lol
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# ? Nov 10, 2015 18:18 |
The greatest self own of all
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Google Butt posted:Seraph spends most of his time thinking about the sa forums, online and offline.
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# ? Nov 10, 2015 18:21 |
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Your posting
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