Star Citizen: Big MoMA's House

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Lime Tonics: Nov 7, 2015; by FactsAreUseless

Squadron 42 hoodies are back?

For a limited time?

Wait a second, by CIGs own defining skills, limited means forever.

I am on to your games now....

taxes,

# ? Aug 29, 2016 15:50

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# ? Apr 24, 2024 12:30

Jobbo_Fett: Mar 7, 2014; Slava Ukrayini; Clapping Larry

Tippis posted:

NMS has gameplay and multiple game mechanics and a game loop that leads to an end-game. That's a pretty huge difference.

Yeah but I'm talking about a hypothetical "what-if" Star Citizen actually manages to release.

Impossible, I know, but the point stands.

# ? Aug 29, 2016 15:54

Beet Wagon: Oct 19, 2015

HAHAHAHA HUGE MEGABRAND KOTAKU MUST JUST HAVE A REAL AMATEUR NETWORK SETUP

HAHAHAHA I WONDER WHY NO OTHER GAME RUINED THEIR INTERNET?

# ? Aug 29, 2016 15:57

Tippis: Mar 21, 2008; It's yet another day in the wasteland.

Beet Wagon posted:

HAHAHAHA HUGE MEGABRAND KOTAKU MUST JUST HAVE A REAL AMATEUR NETWORK SETUP

HAHAHAHA I WONDER WHY NO OTHER GAME RUINED THEIR INTERNET?

Because no other game has such a network-effective patcher. Duh. :smuggo:

# ? Aug 29, 2016 15:59

CrowdControl: Aug 2, 2011; Uhh Tommy, I think I'm just gonna sleep at my house tonight...

Kegslayer posted:

Goblin posted:
[�]TCABxlYouTuber 12 points 4 hours ago
At Gamescom, there was a booth where you could engrave things onto deactivated bullets. We did one with Derek Smart written on it in Comic Sans. Comic Sans shows we mean business xD

Comic Sans, good for both jokes and psychotic giggles aimed at Star Citizen critics

These guys are batshit crazy and this is legitimately hosed up on so many levels.

I agree. I know they are in a cult-like echo chamber, but you've got to have some principals. Comic-sans is never an appropriate font choice.

CrowdControl fucked around with this message at 16:54 on Aug 29, 2016

# ? Aug 29, 2016 16:00

grimcreaper: Jan 7, 2012

I have some disturbing information. We have a traitor in our midst.

# ? Aug 29, 2016 16:03

Nuclearmonkee: Jun 10, 2009

Beet Wagon posted:

HAHAHAHA HUGE MEGABRAND KOTAKU MUST JUST HAVE A REAL AMATEUR NETWORK SETUP

HAHAHAHA I WONDER WHY NO OTHER GAME RUINED THEIR INTERNET?

They probably do and it's because star citizen is uniquely retarded. It was essentially functioning as a denial of service attack from inside their network.

# ? Aug 29, 2016 16:04

grimcreaper: Jan 7, 2012

i will be posting picture proof of the Traitor in our Midst in mere moments.

# ? Aug 29, 2016 16:05

WhiskeyWhiskers: Oct 14, 2013

grimcreaper posted:

I have some disturbing information. We have a traitor in our midst.

How much did you buy back in for?

# ? Aug 29, 2016 16:05

Beet Wagon: Oct 19, 2015

CrowdControl posted:

I agree. I know they are in a cult-like echo chamber, but you've got to have some prinipals. Comic-sans is never an appropriate font choice.

Comic sans is the most appropriate font choice, if you're trying to enrage my girlfriend, who for some reason thinks that all her fancy graphic design degrees means she gets to be Head Font-Chooser in the house.

# ? Aug 29, 2016 16:05

Offkorn: Jan 16, 2008; Borderline Anti-Social Schizoid

Nuclearmonkee posted:

To be fair it's at least half their fault for running without some kind of qos/shaping.

Unless I'm misunderstanding you, the article mentions they do have shaping of some form (bolding mine):

The Article posted:

Here�s a more technically accurate explanation:

�Star Citizen was seen downloading a series of part files via Port 80 from multiple hosts (#.webseed.robertsspaceindustries.com � # being numbers ranging from 0 to 999) similar to P2P (Torrents) or Usenet,� our support staff told me via email. �It then established as many simultaneous connections as possible and saturated the internet allocation.�

�The simultaneous connections continued to increase which drained the anti-malware protection filtering on Port 80 on the firewall, this in-turned impacted the performance of the firewall and traffic shaping began to queue up. I believe Star Citizen just continued to seek as many connections as possible until the max bandwidth was reached (basically an octopus was trying to put as many tentacles into peanut butter jars as possible).�

# ? Aug 29, 2016 16:06

Truga: May 4, 2014; Lipstick Apathy

CrowdControl posted:

I agree. I know they are in a cult-like echo chamber, but you've got to have some prinipals. Comic-sans is never an appropriate font choice.

I have a shirt that says just "Helvetica" on it. In comic sans.

I work at a PR+web agency. :v:

# ? Aug 29, 2016 16:06

Beet Wagon: Oct 19, 2015

grimcreaper posted:

i will be posting picture proof of the Traitor in our Midst in mere moments.

don't doxx me tia

# ? Aug 29, 2016 16:06

grimcreaper: Jan 7, 2012

WhiskeyWhiskers posted:

How much did you buy back in for?

I bought back in for the grand total of $0.00. how can the $7200.50 be "bought back in" when i never got a refund?

Beet Wagon posted:

don't doxx me tia

Your not the traitor!

Still trying to figure out how to imgur to post proof.

# ? Aug 29, 2016 16:08

Nuclearmonkee: Jun 10, 2009

Offkorn posted:

Unless I'm misunderstanding you, the article mentions they do have shaping of some form (bolding mine):

You can and should make it so a single client can't open infinite connections or eat more than a small slice of your total bandwidth. It should have been detected as an attack and killed since that's what it basically was.

# ? Aug 29, 2016 16:09

Beet Wagon: Oct 19, 2015

grimcreaper posted:

Your not the traitor!

Oh good, I was worried for a minute. I've been spending a lot of time thinking about how to survive hidden in a cargo crate for days at a time, and I know that's a symptom of shillitis...

# ? Aug 29, 2016 16:10

grimcreaper: Jan 7, 2012

Beet Wagon posted:

Oh good, I was worried for a minute. I've been spending a lot of time thinking about how to survive hidden in a cargo crate for days at a time, and I know that's a symptom of shillitis...

Dont worry Beet Friend. I will exonerate you shortly. Still trying to figure out this imgur thing.

but the proof is damning.

# ? Aug 29, 2016 16:13

grimcreaper: Jan 7, 2012

Ok.. the proof is almost ready. The traitor will be unveiled. I am almost at the mountain top.

# ? Aug 29, 2016 16:17

Beet Wagon: Oct 19, 2015

I am unreasonably excited for another library of babel style reveal

# ? Aug 29, 2016 16:18

grimcreaper: Jan 7, 2012

Beet Wagon posted:

I am unreasonably excited for another library of babel style reveal

I wish i were that clever.

Imgur is awful. How do you upload stuff? Why is this so hard?

# ? Aug 29, 2016 16:19

Chalks: Sep 30, 2009

grimcreaper posted:

Ok.. the proof is almost ready. The traitor will be unveiled. I am almost at the mountain top.

Will you be writing about it in your blog?

# ? Aug 29, 2016 16:19

grimcreaper: Jan 7, 2012

Chalks posted:

Will you be writing about it in your blog?

I dont have a blog... And linking to a blog is a perma-bannable offense via Lowtax himself.

But the proof.. its here. I have it on imgur now.

# ? Aug 29, 2016 16:20

grimcreaper: Jan 7, 2012

And heres the proof!

# ? Aug 29, 2016 16:21

Google Butt: Oct 4, 2005; Xenology is an unnatural mixture of science fiction and formal logic. At its core is a flawed assumption...

that an alien race would be psychologically human.

grimcreaper posted:

And heres the proof!

that's a self own

# ? Aug 29, 2016 16:21

Beet Wagon: Oct 19, 2015

grimcreaper posted:

I wish i were that clever.

Imgur is awful. How do you upload stuff? Why is this so hard?

You know it's pretty ridiculous that people poo poo on imgur all the time. I have twice as many hours in imgur as I do in photobucket, and imgur's not even finished yet.

# ? Aug 29, 2016 16:22

grimcreaper: Jan 7, 2012

Beet Wagon posted:

You know it's pretty ridiculous that people poo poo on imgur all the time. I have twice as many hours in imgur as I do in photobucket, and imgur's not even finished yet.

I dont know how to imgur. I made an account after all these years to post pictures in this thread. Things such as this classic by Ryan Archer

Google Butt posted:

that's a self own

But they are the best

# ? Aug 29, 2016 16:25

Jobbo_Fett: Mar 7, 2014; Slava Ukrayini; Clapping Larry

Beet Wagon posted:

Oh good, I was worried for a minute. I've been spending a lot of time thinking about how to survive hidden in a cargo crate for days at a time, and I know that's a symptom of shillitis...

Lol I forgot about this particularly dumb scenario.

Does the box have a bed and toilet in it for long flights, or are you supposed to share with the pirates?

# ? Aug 29, 2016 16:25

big nipples big life: May 12, 2014

A glimpse into the future

quote:

"The sheer time spent and money it took to make _____ is really a product of fairly directionless creative leadership" said the commenter, "Certainly _____________ has great, strong, ambitious ideas for his games. But he's a big believer in letting the details emerge along the way, rather than being planned out beyond even a rudimentary form. For most of the lifetime of _____, he was also CEO of the whole company, as well as Creative Director."

quote:

"I think that it was trying to do too much in certain areas rather than focus on the core stuff. The customisation engine was phenomenal for its time, it was fantastic, but you've got to think, is it really worth putting all the time and money into that one feature when you can't even get driving right? They had so many issues with the latency, performance as well, and I think people kind of just never took the opportunity to buckle down and say, 'Okay, here's the things we really need to focus on now.'"

quote:

As the game got towards the end of development, many staff started to have concerns. _______________' almost messianic quality meant people were ignoring them, convinced the man behind ______________, ____ and ____________ had everything in hand. Unfortunately, in lieu of a solid development schedule, vision for the future of the MMO and a tight control on budget, the senior management had hubris that would prove catastrophic.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-08-29-what-happened-to-gamings-waterworld

quote:

adding it was the only company he'd ever worked at where he'd received paid overtime, a far cry from the horror stories of crunch that emerge from other studios.

Ok, maybe not everything.

# ? Aug 29, 2016 16:25

Google Butt: Oct 4, 2005; Xenology is an unnatural mixture of science fiction and formal logic. At its core is a flawed assumption...

that an alien race would be psychologically human.

grimcreaper posted:

I dont know how to imgur. I made an account after all these years to post pictures in this thread. Things such as this classic by Ryan Archer

But they are the best

you may feel that way, but that's an even trade for g0rf that i'm willing to take.

# ? Aug 29, 2016 16:26

Beet Wagon: Oct 19, 2015

Jobbo_Fett posted:

Lol I forgot about this particularly dumb scenario.

Does the box have a bed and toilet in it for long flights, or are you supposed to share with the pirates?

Well I think CIG walked the "must have a bed to save" thing back a while ago, but maybe they will implement some kind of quantum folding cot for commandos to use. That could create some emergent gameplay, where space hobos fight to the death over cargo crates big enough to fit their cot in

# ? Aug 29, 2016 16:28

tooterfish: Jul 13, 2013

I actually love how a lot of the ships in Star Citizen have beds, even the tiny ones.

Most of them don't have room for plausibly sized fuel tanks, power plants, or even ammo for their guns (it's almost like artists given no direction but "make it look cool" don't think about such mundane things!)... but they have a bed and a crapper!

# ? Aug 29, 2016 16:31

grimcreaper: Jan 7, 2012

These are still growing in my yard

They are spicy as hell.

# ? Aug 29, 2016 16:35

Jobbo_Fett: Mar 7, 2014; Slava Ukrayini; Clapping Larry

I bet this is what an "open development" for Star Wars: The Phantom Menace would've looked like.

# ? Aug 29, 2016 16:36

Beet Wagon: Oct 19, 2015

tooterfish posted:

I actually love how a lot of the ships in Star Citizen have beds, even the tiny ones.

Most of them don't have room for plausibly sized fuel tanks, power plants, or even ammo for their guns (it's almost like artists given no direction but "make it look cool" don't think about such mundane things!)... but they have a bed and a crapper!

I'm the fold out bed in the middle of the hallway

# ? Aug 29, 2016 16:37