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Madcosby
Mar 4, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
i got permabanned for writing "derek smart" in chat

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Samizdata
May 14, 2007

fuzzknot posted:

Judging from the comments, I'm glad my computer's speakers are turned off.

I like that someone else asked if Sandi were hungover. Somebody should ask her how many calories are in a human soul. :fuzzknot:

Obviously not a lot. Just look at Sandi.

Norefund14days
Feb 2, 2016

NO ONE CAN HEAR YOU PARP IN SPACE.

Galarox posted:

Someone else no doubt just got themselves banned:



I lasted another 10 minutes before the Banhammer fell.

fuctifino
Jun 11, 2001

Sandi is stoned out of her face. LOL at her eating all the cakes too and refusing to share...

Also massive LOL at some of the comments on the cig chat.

:eonwe: :pgabz: :yarg:

fuctifino fucked around with this message at 21:12 on Feb 12, 2016

fuzzknot
Mar 23, 2009

Yip yip yip yip yip

Colostomy Bag posted:

Yeah, they cranked up the ban of the Stimpire keyword apparently. Last week it was auto deleted. Now it is a ban.

I guess they got the universal translator poo poo working.

That seems like a good use of backer money.

Berious
Nov 13, 2005

c2usaf2004 posted:

I lasted another 10 minutes before the Banhammer fell.

What sort of humorless monster would ban you for saying parpspace?

Kakarot
Jul 20, 2013

by zen death robot
Buglord
Sandi and Chris got so stoned, then she had the munchies and wiped out all the stimcakes

fuzzknot
Mar 23, 2009

Yip yip yip yip yip

Samizdata posted:

Obviously not a lot. Just look at Sandi.

I'll wait till after her munchies binge ends. :colbert:

AP
Jul 12, 2004

One Ring to fool them all
One Ring to find them
One Ring to milk them all
and pockets fully line them
Grimey Drawer

Saint Isaias Boner
Jan 17, 2007

hi how are you

i love that they even know about the stimpire, a piece of lovely fan faction written by one of the RSI forums lunatics

Dusty Lens
Jul 1, 2015

All Glory unto the Stimpire. Give up your arms and legs and embrace the beautiful agony of electricity that doubles in pain every second.

At this point I'm 80% certain that RtV exists to make sure that people are banned before streams where CIG tries to sell something.

Gilganixon posted:

i love that they even know about the stimpire, a piece of lovely fan faction written by one of the RSI forums lunatics

I love that people are scouring this thread to seize keywords to identify goons. I have a friend who bought an Aurora which was used to pay a man to scour this thread for fanfiction.

Happy Sisyphus
Nov 13, 2013

You take the blue paarp - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red paarp - you stay in pre-alpha, and I show you how deep the sperg wallet goes.

Gilganixon posted:

i love that they even know about the stimpire, a piece of lovely fan faction written by one of the RSI forums lunatics

well apparently they read this thread and we are now the keepers of the stimpire's lore

Ezekeel
Nov 18, 2015

Matlock Birthmark posted:

Another stretch goal checked off the list.

You are probably right. No person in their right mind would send a 'Making Of' book to press before having actually finished making what you went out to make. The reason must be that CIG wants to prop up the list of substantial progress and promises already delivered so they can continue denying people their rightful refund and later when the project implodes make it seem like they at least tried to deliver.

Mirificus
Oct 29, 2004

Kings need not raise their voices to be heard

https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/4575u5/question_on_probation/czxb0v8

tooterfish
Jul 13, 2013

Dusty Lens posted:

At this point I'm 80% certain that RtV exists to make sure that people are banned before streams where CIG tries to sell something.

Happy Sisyphus
Nov 13, 2013

You take the blue paarp - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red paarp - you stay in pre-alpha, and I show you how deep the sperg wallet goes.

now the question is will they feature Gilganixon's comic on the next around the verse art bit

Mirificus
Oct 29, 2004

Kings need not raise their voices to be heard

Happy Sisyphus posted:

well apparently they read this thread and we are now the keepers of the stimpire's lore

Now that I think about it, the CIG forums no longer have the Fourth Stimpire post but we do.

G0RF
Mar 19, 2015

Some galactic defender you are, Space Cadet.
Did they address my romance in S42 question? My signal kept dropping

aleksendr
May 14, 2014

Kimsemus posted:

Question of the hour: Is there a development studio or team on the face of the planet that could pull of Star Citizen?

Let's assume that:

1) Chris/Sandi Roberts are not involved in any way.
2) As far as "pull off" I mean, following the bullet points of promises as outlined in the funding milestones and kickstarter.


I'm really wracking my brain, and I can't think of a team with the unlimited funding, time, and expertise to do this. So to me, CIG being incompetent is not the reason SC will never happen, it's just that eventually, especially after the *original* funding promises were met, that the game became impossible.

Also with the new gas truck thing, having to fuel poo poo manually? Why do they insist on making awful things I don't want to do in real life and transcribing those terrible jobs into a video game I'm supposed to play in my leisure time?

The big problem in SC is the mutually exclusive goals. You cant have both "Vast, detailed worlds accepting thousand of players" and "Private servers" in the same set of design goal. The necessary infrastructure for #1 automatically exclude #2 just as "fast, fun gameplay" cant be on the same page than permadeath or "procedural generated content" and "hand crafted, exquisite personal narative".

They fail because they try to be everything to everyone and that's simply not possible and its boringly generic in its art direction.

The new fuel truck bring an interesting problem.

Either
A : Fuel tank are small and distances are long so you need a fuel trucks for serious play, meaning one player in a group get to be the "healer" and fail at having fun
or
B: Fuel tanks are big enough you can have meaningful fun without the use of a fuel truck, so why are you wasting assets and time on a loving specialist case ?
or (most likely)
C : Death in a such a buggy game cant have hard penalties beside time, so just self destruct if you run out of fuel and re spawn at the nearest station.

Meanwhile in E:D they have fuel tank modules and fuel transfer drones, so every ship, from the free 25T sidewinder to the massive 400T Anaconda can be a fuel truck if they want to.

Happy Sisyphus
Nov 13, 2013

You take the blue paarp - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red paarp - you stay in pre-alpha, and I show you how deep the sperg wallet goes.

G0RF posted:

Did they address my romance in S42 question? My signal kept dropping

no, but love is confirmed for the PU

Colostomy Bag
Jan 11, 2016

:lesnick: C-Bangin' it :lesnick:

Ezekeel posted:

You are probably right. No person in their right mind would send a 'Making Of' book to press before having actually finished making what you went out to make. The reason must be that CIG wants to prop up the list of substantial progress and promises already delivered so they can continue denying people their rightful refund and later when the project implodes make it seem like they at least tried to deliver.

"Making of Star Citizen" will be a coffee table book.

It will be about 10 meters square and have zero mass.

You open it up and it unfolds into a coffee table with the most complicated animation possible. <<USE>> to turn the page. At which point the book flies out of your house at parp drive.

Dusty Lens
Jul 1, 2015

All Glory unto the Stimpire. Give up your arms and legs and embrace the beautiful agony of electricity that doubles in pain every second.

I'm more curious at this point if anyone will ever attempt a Freelancer 2.0/Privateer 5.3/Tie Fighter the MMOening in the future or if other companies will consider the well poisoned by CIG for another decade.

Samizdata
May 14, 2007

Happy Sisyphus posted:

well apparently they read this thread and we are now the keepers of the stimpire's lore

That's fine. They can have whatever the hell it is they have, and we can have Goonfriends and Goonfun with Star Plebeian comes out. Especially when we have all the badass stuff, and they are riding their SoapBox 5000 fighters, with Stimperial Seating Systems.

Samizdata
May 14, 2007

G0RF posted:

Did they address my romance in S42 question? My signal kept dropping

If you had done the signal relay mission PROPERLY, that wouldn't have been an issue, you know.

Brazilianpeanutwar
Aug 27, 2015

Spent my walletfull, on a jpeg, desolate, will croberts make a whale of me yet?
We need to make a new insult for citizens and see how quick they start using it on RSI.

Saint Isaias Boner
Jan 17, 2007

hi how are you

Happy Sisyphus posted:

now the question is will they feature Gilganixon's comic on the next around the verse art bit

i will legitimately be pissed if they do that before i get the chilldanklis in

aleksendr
May 14, 2014

Dusty Lens posted:

I'm more curious at this point if anyone will ever attempt a Freelancer 2.0/Privateer 5.3/Tie Fighter the MMOening in the future or if other companies will consider the well poisoned by CIG for another decade.

The mouse might be tempted to do a "soft sim" with spaceships now that it has another trilogy goign on, but its goign to be on all consoles. Also keep in mind than according to the last published numbers, E:D has sold more units than SC has backers, so that market might be pretty saturated about now.

Fried Watermelon
Dec 29, 2008


Hey Guys,

Sandi Here.

The design of each page of the book has to go through the pipeline before we submit it to the book.

You can buy the binding and cover of the book for $200 and when we release the individual pages you can merely purchase them for $10 a page(BACKERS ONLY).

You can then opt to have us print on delicious card stock paper for a $5 surcharge per page.

Or you can even print them yourself for a $4.50 licensing fee. An additional $2.75 will remove the CIG watermark that covers the entire page.

We also have the "Completionist" Package of the book for $25,000 which includes a voucher for 50% Off the price of pages.

Sunswipe
Feb 5, 2016

by Fluffdaddy

Brazilianpeanutwar posted:

We need to make a new insult for citizens and see how quick they start using it on RSI.

"Lando." Should be a problem if they try to autoban it.

Dusty Lens
Jul 1, 2015

All Glory unto the Stimpire. Give up your arms and legs and embrace the beautiful agony of electricity that doubles in pain every second.

aleksendr posted:

The mouse might be tempted to do a "soft sim" with spaceships now that it has another trilogy goign on, but its goign to be on all consoles. Also keep in mind than according to the last published numbers, E:D has sold more units than SC has backers, so that market might be pretty saturated about now.

Yeah, they've got the franchise and the resources but I can't imagine there is any rush to compete with SWTOR.

Colostomy Bag
Jan 11, 2016

:lesnick: C-Bangin' it :lesnick:

Gilganixon posted:

i will legitimately be pissed if they do that before i get the chilldanklis in


Please tell us they will make an appearance soon.

Tijuana Bibliophile
Dec 30, 2008

Scratchmo

Gilganixon posted:

i will legitimately be pissed if they do that before i get the chilldanklis in

How do you chill dankly?

Is it a pun :confused:

Brazilianpeanutwar
Aug 27, 2015

Spent my walletfull, on a jpeg, desolate, will croberts make a whale of me yet?

Sunswipe posted:

"Lando." Should be a problem if they try to autoban it.

Lando it is, what a bunch of lando's! I saw them down at nando's! They were dressed as ponies.....

eonwe
Aug 11, 2008



Lipstick Apathy
I'm laughing at the fact that Sandi & Ben and others there have read the Stimpire thing in this thread and have taken steps to have it banned from their twitch channel

:laffo:

Berious
Nov 13, 2005

Gilganixon posted:

i love that they even know about the stimpire, a piece of lovely fan faction written by one of the RSI forums lunatics

I'm pretty sure they pay more attention to this thread than their own forums

Chalks
Sep 30, 2009

Sunswipe posted:

"Lando." Should be a problem if they try to autoban it.

That's actually a pretty funny idea

Tijuana Bibliophile
Dec 30, 2008

Scratchmo
I did a track for Solar Plebeian

AP
Jul 12, 2004

One Ring to fool them all
One Ring to find them
One Ring to milk them all
and pockets fully line them
Grimey Drawer
I only watched for a couple of minutes but I caught the bit about them wanting their fans to tone down the arguing with non-fans on "click-bait" media pieces.

Interesting they feel the toxic community of nutters is going to put new backers off, bit late to worry about it now though.

Another reason this thing is like a bloody cult is the limited vocabulary such as "click-bait" available to the loonies, they all sound the same and by "the same" I mean demented.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-6rLUwawQ0&t=235s

DigitalMocking
Jun 8, 2010

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
Benjamin Franklin
So here's a question.

There are ~300 people working at RSI/CIG/Whatever.

What the gently caress do they actually do? Figure 10 of them are involved in the lovely web-shows and forum bannings. What the gently caress are the other 290 people doing that produces NOTHING right now? Everything since the babypoop was released has been nothing but tweaks and minor fixes.

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Gerblyn
Apr 4, 2007

"TO BATTLE!"
Fun Shoe

Kimsemus posted:

Question of the hour: Is there a development studio or team on the face of the planet that could pull of Star Citizen?

Epic Games is the most likely, they have the expertise to pull it off, though I'm not sure they'd have enough cash to bankroll it all themselves.

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