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FrankieGoes posted:Did you post the link to anything at all in the way of evidence to the excessive net worth that you think Crobbits has? Asking seriously, I may have missed it. Again, I've seen this claim made numerous times, with never an iota of information to back it up. Frequently it's made by a shitizen while denigrated Dr. Smart, in fact. Which I find amusing because I suspect that Herr Smart's net worth was greater than the Crobbits, at least until SC became a thing. Who knows how much money CR has milked out of it since, though. I'll do you one better. He was asking for $500K (!) to make his dream game. Let that sink in. Through all that time, poor little old me, have been funding a massive game (as I have all my others) since 2010 without any investor or public assistance. AND in between that, I funded and finished a completely separate multi-platform game (LOD Tactics). They're morons who don't know poo poo about anything.
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Loiosh posted:Not something you can really say to your company, sadly, unless you want to hand in a resume (which some people do). I mean, if you want an example of a stupid problem percolating like this, just look at VMWare. It took them a year to address CBTs getting larger than 128 gb: https://www.veeam.com/kb1940 / https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2090639 and corrupting backups. This kind of problem happens all the time in the software world where another team builds systems and the impact is not clear until you're actually testing that. Again, not excusing CIG here, just pointing out this happens. I personally had to deal with this bug, so I'm still upset about it Huh? You can't call bullshit on things unless you want to hand in a (I assume you meant resignation?)? Calling bullshit on other people's idiocy is like 50% of my job. I do it nearly every day. And this isn't even saying "Hey this idiot is loving everything up" (which I do all the time), this is saying "hey, the framework of the engine we're using is causing this big loving problem, maybe we should do something about it" and you're saying that would cause them to be fired? hosed up if true. Glad I dropped out of college when I was a CS major.
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Truga posted:"we can't let china get ahead of us in space races" not sure i want a country with that attitude taking an interest in manned spaceflight and exploration of the solar system
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eXXon posted:I'm sure there's going to be plenty of screwing and complimenting but has anybody everprofessed a burning desire to be 2nd under lieutenant shitbird sitting at the engineering screen or in the cargo bay while captain jackass does all the flying and has the actual fun? It's more likely that there will be 20 different Starfarers flying around with brain-dead NPC crew clipping out of the ship during hard turns. I have. It's the kind of thing I wanted the original STO to be 
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D_Smart posted:That's PRECISELY what he has been preparing them for in the recent AtV appearance (first ever IIRC) and now this 104TC. Where's all this money going? Don't answer, we know you can't.
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FrankieGoes posted:What do the incompetent people in your country do? probably the same thing, honestly - I don't pay as much attention as I probably should, I've just always heard that was a very American attitude.
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no_recall posted:Where's all this money going?
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Ash1138 posted:a massive industrialized nation with an atrocious human rights and worker safety record with a government that's so hellbent on reinforcing its territorial claims that it's building islands out of nothing in the middle of a disputed sea? So here is an interesting historical fact. Did you know the Russians sent their first test rockets up into space with WOOD for heat shields? I'll have to dig through my Russian history books, but yes. They sent rockets with wooden heat shields up.
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10 for the Chairman: Episode 81 Apr 4, 2016 @ 30:36 Q: How will larger ships like the Idris be controlled by the player for flight? A: So the plan for the big capital ships is, ah, much like what happens on, ah, a big seafaring ship in today's world, so, there's a HELMSMAN position, and the difference between the sort of bigger ships is that you'll have multiple... ahh... CREW STATIONS, multiple SEATS where people, you know, one person's just a HELM... one person's doing COMMS, the other person's doing WEAPONS, the other person's doing RADAR and potentially you have like a CAPTAIN'S SEAT and they're... giving INSTRUCTIONS to the various people manning the different SEATS, ahm, so... ah... I would say it's a bit more... uhm... you know... you be in... sort of... I don't know whether... there's cockpit style SEAT CONTROL because... potentially the interface (waves arms) for you controlling the ship is ALL DIFFERENT but it'll be very much like a... a HELMSMANS STATION on a sort of NAVY SHIP that you would see in today's world... and that's how we've set up the... ahhh... ahh...uhh... the IDRIS and how we're setting up the BENGAL and... and I would ASSUME THAT'LL BE THERE... there may be a MODE that we'll do because we've talked about several different kinds of MODES and one you know sort of like MOVING YOUR SHIP AROUND, uhm, you know and... cos... the BIG SHIP'S just sort of gonna be sort of SLOW like moving a SLOW... FERRY or TANK around, ah... there may be a MODE you can switch into were if you've got a certain kind of flight control system besides just... sort of manoeuvring the ENGINES and POSITION you know, STRAFE POSITION on your ship, you also kind have maybe some kind of a HOLOGRAPHIC DISPLAY, and you could CLICK and say, 'I want the ship to go to THIS area or THAT area', uhm, and then... the eye-eff... the... the... CAP SHIP version of IFCS tries to get you there and then you can... manually take it over and ADJUST the courses... so that's... that's kinda what we set up I mean JOHN PRITCHARD already has a TASK for him... which is sort of DO THAT second... second stage so... STAGE ONE of the CAP SHIP STUFF is sort of, the BIG MASSIVE SHIP HANDLING which... ahhhh... we're sort of in progress for, we need it for the STARFARER and then obviously the IDRIS afterwards... and then the second stage will be sort of a kind of a more GO TO positional... MODE that you can do were you could say, 'Ah! You know I wanna go... A HUNDRED METERS to this spot, a HUNDRED METERS AHEAD', and the system tries to mover you there. Ahm... so you'll have those and you'll be able to switch between both of them.
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Darkpriest667 posted:So here is an interesting historical fact. Did you know the Russians sent their first test rockets up into space with WOOD for heat shields? I'll have to dig through my Russian history books, but yes. They sent rockets with wooden heat shields up. Oak. Best heat shield.
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Truga posted:"we can't let china get ahead of us in space races" Long March launch is on tomorrow 
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Ragequit posted:I definitely worded it poorly, and I wasn't trying to make him look stupid. We were just discussing the longevity of the topic. The magnitude of the other events didn't matter, which is what I meant to say. Most people in the world don't care that much about inane stuff for extended periods of time. Yeah, it's just miscommunication. No worries.
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A Neurotic Jew posted:well that's the "UEC", they also have "REC" that can be acquired through Arena Commander. Yeah but you can't actually acquire anything with REC. Just rent. And there's no way to earn REC in the PU currently anyway, IIRC. Yet another thing that if you tried to explain to an outsider, they'd think you were severely mentally ill. Not as bad as the whole melt/unmelt/ccu/token thing though, which you could probably literally be committed for, if you tried to explain it to a mental health professional.
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FrankieGoes posted:Huh? You can't call bullshit on things unless you want to hand in a (I assume you meant resignation?)? Calling bullshit on other people's idiocy is like 50% of my job. I do it nearly every day. And this isn't even saying "Hey this idiot is loving everything up" (which I do all the time), this is saying "hey, the framework of the engine we're using is causing this big loving problem, maybe we should do something about it" and you're saying that would cause them to be fired? Did you read the reply I was addressing? Here's the quote: and in doing so, the answer back to the coders is “we cannot make this diarrhoea pass through the network stack — make it stop.” You can certainly tell your boss that poo poo won't fit through their pipes (as some talented and frankly handsome people did over at a certain Virtual Machine WAREs provider), but you're just as likely to hear: Deal with it. Which is exactly how this kind of thing happens. What I was noting is that I'm quite certain their network team was aware of that issue even in 2015 while they were going through the back-end changes to get the ships having components and the pipe system, but if you want to keep your job, you do your best with what you can control. I get the impression a number of people have not worked at a largish company before on the software side. Any NEST people here want to share horror stories of their ops teams and the poo poo you guys have been put through? All that is to say: poo poo rolls down hill. And most people who are working aren't going to toss out a 'gently caress no' when they're told to work on a problem. You work on it and solve it as best you can, while making sure you documented exactly the concerns you brought up and were told would be handled later.
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Loiosh posted:Having been on (non-gaming) net ops teams, I can assure you that we have many times identified an issue. And there's nothing we can do because we're not the ones coding the backup calculating delta (cough CBT cough). We're just trying to make it work through the network stack. That's what I meant. I can tell you this. Any one who brought up performance issues got a stone cold stare. you never bring up performance with croberts if it means sacrificing fidelity. issues were raised, and beaten down into the sirt as fast as possible. the grunts (most of them) at cig are smart, its the entire management layer that's parp
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fnox posted:Even if CIG were to not explode within weeks, them struggling with the loving networking 4 years in is a death sentence. THIS is the complex part about the game, any idiot can tell. Yes. It is. Which is why the current PU is in maintenance mode because unless and until they solve (they can't for this type of game; wrong engine) it - they're hosed.
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Darkpriest667 posted:So here is an interesting historical fact. Did you know the Russians sent their first test rockets up into space with WOOD for heat shields? I'll have to dig through my Russian history books, but yes. They sent rockets with wooden heat shields up.
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SomethingJones posted:10 for the Chairman: Episode 81 I laughed, I cried, I caused myself to have what will probably be a permanent hand-shaped indentation in my face. Also, the drywall may need to be replaced when I move out because I don't think the next residents will appreciate the forehead-shaped dents in it. With that out of my system, let's see if I can interpret it into English. “You know EVE? It'll be like that, at least for one guy.” Tippis fucked around with this message at 02:47 on Apr 5, 2016 |
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TheCoach posted:Hey toops I've got a couple of my old 3d models that I could fix up and donate to SP, That Battlecruiser could be a Stimperial Battlebarge. It looks like it's got giant knives sticking out of it.
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I do like that in 10FTC Chris talks about things like making newer model year ships. It's almost like wayyyyyy too late he realizes that creating a new ship and set of gameplay mechanics to go along with it for a sale is dumb and that he can just ctrl + C / ctrl + V up the four hornet variants for a new model year and have four new ships to sell much easier.
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SomethingJones posted:10 for the Chairman: Episode 81 He was definitely high.
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Also people were being weird to that new guy because his first post that I saw read exactly like what a reputation management company's employee would write to 'soften the narrative' of the thread while maintaining tone close enough to the baseline to avoid being called out. I'm not saying that's what he is - it could have been just unfortunate phrasing plus residual kool-aid notions - but my first thought was the shill co. CiG hired threw some poor intern into the shark tank for grins.
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D_Smart posted:He was definitely high. Oh Derek that's just weak and not even trying. He was definitely high every time he was on camera.
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D_Smart posted:He was definitely high. Can you have your sources confirm that?
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atxsperg posted:I can tell you this. Any one who brought up performance issues got a stone cold stare. you never bring up performance with croberts if it means sacrificing fidelity. issues were raised, and beaten down into the sirt as fast as possible. Who are you?
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Seriously though, if you guys want to get frustrated really quick, build a simple game and implement netcode, for say 25 clients. loving row mismatch errors haunt my dreams. But yeah, I still say CIG makes it to at least septemberish, and they spit out a hacked up SQ42 game. No one will know how chris's space opera is gonna end.
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Ravachol posted:People forget that CR is a wealthy guy, and he'll probably bankrupt himself before he allows CIG to go bust... Sandi is going to go along with this plan of bankrupting themselves out of her hard earned money, depriving their children of their nannies and acting lessons and move back to an apartment? 
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another tidbit. croberts doesn't beleive in normal maps. he thinks their cheating. no normal maps, model it in geometry! drat the torpedoes and melt those graphics cards! you cant mip verts, so sparklys and poo poo performance for everyone! what are LODs? low resolution geometry??? no! not the fidelity! No lod's! no normal maps! its possible he doesn't even know what a normal map is anyway. if an artist used them they had to be very silent about it lest they anger the beast.
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Tippis posted:I laughed, I cried, I caused myself to have what will probably be a permanent hand-shaped indentation in my face. Also, the drywall may need to be replaced when I move out because I don't think the next residents will appreciate the forehead-shaped dents in it. Lol, I really thought he was talking about EVE Online.
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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:If you're going to be all hot air, don't get all mad when someone farts in your face I don't care what the circumstances are, if someone farts in my face, I'm not going to be happy about it >< I mean... eww.
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Scruffpuff posted:The punchline is that the 8 remaining leavers are Chris Roberts, Sandi Gardiner, Disco Lando, Ortwin, and Ben. So, you're saying Ben counts as three?
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Tippis posted:I laughed, I cried, I caused myself to have what will probably be a permanent hand-shaped indentation in my face. Also, the drywall may need to be replaced when I move out because I don't think the next residents will appreciate the forehead-shaped dents in it. Nah it's real man, here he is flying his Idris  e: might be my final post in the thread before it hits 3000. Really should have tried harder. gently caress it anyway.
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atxsperg posted:another tidbit. greetings! sounds like working under Chris is torture.
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atxsperg posted:another tidbit.
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SomethingJones posted:Nah it's real man, here he is flying his Idris Rings on the wrong hand though.
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A Neurotic Jew posted:greetings! sounds like working under Chris is torture. The 8Ace collective is breaking apart 
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Bolow posted:You teach economics and you don't understand how China is basically prolonging their inevitable financial collapse, and the subsequent social upheaval that will come from it. My thoughts about this subject are limited to entirely believing what David Brin said in his excellent novel, Earth: 
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A Neurotic Jew posted:greetings! sounds like working under Chris is torture. unemployment is preferable.
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Ravachol posted:Oh well, there's always the vast and crushing solitude of Elite to fall back on. B'tak alt spotted.
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Haskell9 posted:The 8Ace collective is breaking apart Ya he definitely types like one of the eight aces. Cool, keep posting more tidbits, it's far most interesting than the masturbatory postings of Derek smart
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