Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

Project sketch:

I like digital synthesizers and want to make my ownish design. This arduino-compatible has some interesting features and has the capabilities needed for some pretty cool processing:



However, I also want to be able to turn knobs and push buttons and stuff to adjust the sound. Making a functional keyboard from tactile switches is absolutely possible but I've thought of a dumber solution: buy one of these cheap chinese toy keyboards and mod the keys into input:

$1.50:


$5:


$10:


Now that's so cheap it almost feels stupid. I've bought one of each of these little plastic miracles, will let you know how it works out

Erenthal posted:

Ok, so yeah, they might be doing better on the engine front. They might even get functioning net code. So what?

This does nothing to balance _{out all the other fuckery they have to deal with. One look at the checks that Crobberts wrote with his mouth and stretch goals will tell you how hosed they still are. No design documents. No gameplay foundation. Not even attempts at balancing the ships. Non-existant flight model. 140 million dollars of pre-sold commodities that will utterly wreck any attempt to create a functioning economy. A (relatively) tiny player base that can never sustain}

Facebook Aunt posted:

Which keyboard did you get? I hope it was the pink one.

Skellybones posted:

My guess is that they haven't actually merged the engine yet, Chris just said it was already done because why not, how long could it take? Then over the coming years "merging takes time" will be the prime excuse for why nothing is happening.

ewe2 posted:

1. They never customized the code. Thus it was easy to simply rebase on a newer branch of an updated codebase by literally changing the hooks to the assets. Possible but unlikely given 4 years of bugs. It's Hanlon's Razor, not a detailed sideshow to fool the public.

2. They customized the code 50% and it took months to rebase. Because VCS's are not magic wands and you make a choice about what to rebase to minimize the conflicts, it was an iterative process. The more you change the bigger the job. The bug-fixes were therefore iterations of successive deltas. And they kept this a secret to everyone with a small team. People like Ben Parry had no idea (if we are to believe him). The trouble with this scenario is that it would be impossible to track upstream changes to LY without significant pain. Your code looks almost like upstream but does something very different. Plus keeping it secret fails the same Hanlon's Razor test. They've been terrible at keeping secrets.

3. They only customized a portion of the code and found it easier to throw away and rebase than to merge. This kind of change only works if you have a specific area (like for example networking) that can be rebased without touching the rest of the codebase. I suspect this is what actually happened because it would be the easiest and quickest to do and therefore easiest to keep secret. It explains the kind of bugs they had with other parts of the software aside from those parts own bugs. They can then proceed to rebase other parts carefully over time if required but will still be a painful process. Still could have been done over months in secret, but Hanlon's Razor again, not for that long.

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

Read. It. Again.

Slowly.

DigitalMocking posted:

Have the citizens discovered yet that lumberyard isn't for mmos or any game with persistence?

AbstractNapper posted:

What the hell was mega map?

edit: And was it in their lovely open roadmap/ Gantt charts?

Chunjee posted:

MegaMap is the idea that they can put hangar walking, PTU, and Star Marine into one game-mode; as opposed to however you launch each of those right now.

The reason you have never heard of this new term is nobody in their right mind ever tried to make a fps-rpg-4x-procedural-singleplayer-mmo at the same time before.

quote:

$800 for an FPS game is a little bit too extreme for my standards. I am borderline homeless, so $800, when I look back on my spending, is sort of depressing.

Mokinokaro posted:

The idea is to throw the pieces for all of it into a single giant map file to eliminate loading.

Which given SC's brilliant code probably would cause most shitizens' computers to spontaneously combust.

Chunjee posted:

MegaMap is the idea that they can put hangar walking, PTU, and Star Marine into one game-mode; as opposed to however you launch each of those right now.

The reason you have never heard of this new term is nobody in their right mind ever tried to make a fps-rpg-4x-procedural-singleplayer-mmo at the same time before.

A Neurotic Corncob posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEJJGreKwUQ&t=137s

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

Project sketch:

I like digital synthesizers and want to make my ownish design. This arduino-compatible has some interesting features and has the capabilities needed for some pretty cool processing:



However, I also want to be able to turn knobs and push buttons and stuff to adjust the sound. Making a functional keyboard from tactile switches is absolutely possible but I've thought of a dumber solution: buy one of these cheap chinese toy keyboards and mod the keys into input:

$1.50:


$5:


$10:


Now that's so cheap it almost feels stupid. I've bought one of each of these little plastic miracles, will let you know how it works out

ewe2 posted:

feel mai raeg omg downvoted


Please do, that looks fun. I've dabbled in home-made electronic instruments, but you really need the hardware to take the work out of timers etc, arduino is really limited that way.

Scruffpuff posted:

Chris literally thinks he can build The Matrix with a combination of green developers and his own rampant autism. Even The Machines had the sense to only simulate one planet, with completely imaginary super-futuristic mega-machines, and even then Neo learned how to T-Pose and turn on NoClip. But Chris is going to use some HP blade servers to make 100+ solar systems and entire planets with full fidelity because of course he is.

In his mind, the reason this hasn't been done before isn't because it's mind-bogglingly stupid to even suggest, but because nobody else had the vision to think of it.

Any idiot can think "wouldn't it be cool if we had a game where you could do literally anything." It takes real vision to figure out how to emulate a targeted and enjoyable slice of "everything", pin down the essential elements of the experience, and find a way, within technological limitations, to make that experience the best it can be. That's what a game developer actually does, and it's literally the opposite of what Chris is capable of.

MeLKoR posted:

WTF is going on, did everyone eat ergot contaminated gingerbread?

Why is everyone so stressed less than a week after such a Chrismas miracle?

quote:

It’s reasonable to imagine that Wing Commander creator Chris Roberts’ grand vision of an all-encompassing multiplayer virtual universe may never be truly completed. With over $130 million in crowdfunding cash, and more rolling in by the day, Roberts and his team have more resources than virtually any other game creator to fulfill their grand vision of interstellar travel, spaceship combat, first-person shooting, and probably five more game genres. The developer has been continually releasing alpha versions allowing fans (some of whom have paid thousands of dollars to “own” virtual ships) to knock around with what it’s done so far, but when will the full game actually be released? Heck if we know.

Midnight Voyager posted:

Carrie Fisher has died and 2016 isn't over yet. Everyone's terrified 2016 will strike again before it's over.

Midnight Voyager posted:

Carrie Fisher has died and 2016 isn't over yet. Everyone's terrified 2016 will strike again before it's over.

Look! A Horse! posted:

this is like the 3rd time some random goon has popped in to talk about your sex life. where you involved in some goon orgy or something??

XK posted:

James Cameron drove his submersible right into her, recorded the whole thing, and publicly released a movie about it.

Facebook Aunt posted:

Which keyboard did you get? I hope it was the pink one.

A Neurotic Corncob posted:

Star Citizen makes Wired's 2016 Vaporware awards

https://www.wired.com/2016/12/vaporware-games/

The Titanic posted:

No.

It's a cheesy Titanic (the ship) gimmick I play with now and then. I don't dictate to people how they want to run with it, I just set up the jokes for them.

TheAgent posted:

circle with a dot in the center

Midnight Voyager posted: