AP posted:

https://twitter.com/csdesign72/status/829071424664924161

Mirificus posted:

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nawledgelambo posted:

At least that will be something easy to get covered up.

AP posted:

https://twitter.com/csdesign72/status/829071424664924161

HycoCam posted:

Hey Grandpa--what's a "Star Citizen"?

Not sure if having to tell people about the scam that was Star Citizen all the time for the next forty years is funnier than the moment the guy realizes he'd better get a refund.

Quavers posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1GUDQuFb1A&t=5520s

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Tokamak posted:

Has Peter Molyneux designed/produced a bad game? I think Black and White 2 was his worst, at 75. I remember Hi-Octane being pretty poo poo, but the PC version got 8.2 in EGM and 4/5 in NextGen. His worst game by far is Godus but it was never released, so by citizen logic you can't judge it. I don't know how you can be enough of a games historian to know Roberts's history, but not know that Molyneux games were critically well received.

Tokamak posted:

Has Peter Molyneux designed/produced a bad game? I think Black and White 2 was his worst, at 75. I remember Hi-Octane being pretty poo poo, but the PC version got 8.2 in EGM and 4/5 in NextGen. His worst game by far is Godus but it was never released, so by citizen logic you can't judge it. I don't know how you can be enough of a games historian to know Roberts's history, but not know that Molyneux games were critically well received.

DapperDon posted:

In the last 500 years, the Fourth Stimpire has dominated four systems, which it has united into one starzone, Stimsis. The Fourth Stimpire has origins from the Ten Empire War in which 10 of the United Stimpires revolted against each rules. All empires except for the fourth swore freedom upon their citizens. There is no free speech in the Fourth Stimpire, and all self-controlled transportation has been made illegal without undergoing painful medical verification methods, in which arteries are severed without pain resistant, operated entirely by machines. The way they work claim to be the most hygenic and healthy way possible, but these machines often rub against pain points, causing great deals of pain to patients. The heart is then extracted from the body and placed into a glass grinding machine. Various energy centers are also dissected and replaced with dangerous transplants. After the painful, 52 hour surgical procedure, patients will then have to use a fused guidance tool, which pumps painful resistors into the body every 2 hours. The pain they have caused is so bad, the victim would freeze in a tense position. They would then collapse afterwards.

Sexual stimulation in any way within the grounds of the Fourth Stimpire is strictly prohibited, and anyone detected even touching their sexual organs will be subjected to a penectomy or if the offender was a female, they would then have a razor inserted into their ovaries. They would pump a blue solution into the womb until the stitchings burst. Offenders would also be forced to show their operated areas in public, and they would always harass and punch them to a pulp, against their will.

Otherwise, offenders would be tazed with the worst type of electricity in the systematic district, causing so much pain, the victim would scream and flail in madness. The pain would also triple every second, but no death would be incurred. This is also used in combat against enemy units, which is why all UEE forces must wear the upgraded suit to block this effect.

However, enertainment is also questionable in UEE grounds. Sporting events end with the losing team being rounded into a grinder and shredded on live television, boxing matches end with the loser having their hands removed without anasthesia, flight races would end with the losers having their arms and legs removed, then being injected with insanity, for entertainment. People are also forced into these events, by undergoing a painful 127 hour procedure which involves tweaking the muscles so they will not listen to brain commands, and then having a painful drug injected which also causes madness if the player is not sporting. This is all for entertainment, and anyone not watching any of it during sporting times and cheering for the winning team, they will be imprisoned into galactic camps.

Snuff films are also broadcast, and actors are actually murdered just for entertainment. Stealth droids also guide these forced actors into behaving exactly as the director dreams, otherwise they will be punished by being placed into a macerator and having their execution written into the film. Any film that does not feature someone being murdered will be burned and the entire crew behind it will be executed in the most grotesque way possible - vivisection.

All executions are broadcast, and anyone who misses even a millisecond, even by blinking, will be executed. All citizens must boo to the person being executed, and the family is gathered to be injected with eternators, which cause pain forever, making them immoral but feeling the pain tenfold every millisecond. They cannot pass out, but they will feel like it forever.

Conquests by this Stimpire end in the planet being razed, and all the citizens being executed in the same way as their citizens are. The planet is then destroyed and all remnants of it are removed, and any memories of it will be erased instantly from civil minds. People who are also killed are also erased from memories, and all memories of them, including toys and pictures, are destroyed.

Prisoners undergo 40,000 years of relentless and endless labor, and anyone not complying is sentenced to the eternator injection. All prisoners injected with eternators are placed into capsules and launched into far space, then the room is closed tight to ensure maximum insanity. Some prisoners are also subjected to the removal of blood, the lungs, the liver, the genitals, the skeleton, the muscles, the eyes, and even the injection of pressure. Prisoners sentenced to pressure chambers are locked in until they are inflated to a high level. The decompression is then stopped to make sure they are inflated and uncomfortable.

Children born on the 14th of July are subjected to the removal of their skeleton and an implant of a silver liquid to replace it. The nervous sysem is also injected in various parts to ensure it is five times more sensitive than the average.

Restaurants also are ordered to serve civil meat, and anyone attending must give themself up to be cooked into a grotesque meal. They are cooked alive, undergoing extreme pain, and are then subjected to industrial grinders and blenders. The Stimpire orders at least 1 million citizens to be dispatched every day, as they are afraid the population may overthrow them. But only one planet is cared for, and the rest are banned from eating, drinking, talking, using technology, touching anyone, wearing unauthorized clothes, touching buildings, or walking a centimeter out of designated routes. Civil enforcers are on every planet, and they are engineered so that they are 40 times larger than the 300 quadrillion population. At least 7 billion die every 12 hours under this rule.

Thoughts are also surveyed, and anyone who does not think anything to loving the Stimpire with more than their capabilities will be sentenced to a prison. Prisoners who are punished for this violation will meet their greatest fear, only to have it amplified so they will turn insane as they imagine it exactly as they fear it. They then undergo a painful extraction of all fluids, to be replaced by a toxin which causes permanent irritation. The unknown substance keeps the subject aging normally, except they will never die. Prisoners punished in this way are unable to be reverted, despite many efforts, and they will never be able to be disposed.

The sickening truths have been revealed only today, and invigilation teams are still investigating the truths without setting foot in the galactic space of this sickening empire.

serious norman posted:

Tane

ManofManyAliases posted:

Except, inter-instance comm. is coming - 100% guarantee it. Just because you can't figure it out doesn't mean it cannot be done. And, what those idiots on reddit are trying to say is: zoning. There are zones, and others nested within. Etc.

ManofManyAliases posted:

Um, no? He made a claim (was either here or on twitter) that he was "walking into a federal building," alluding to some sort of CIG-related inquiry. I said it was for his ticket.

ManofManyAliases posted:

Hi SillyBones. Derek mentioned that he was walking into a Federal building, alluding to some made up story that he was filing something against CIG. I cracked a joke that he was walking into that building for a ticket. He went all warlord-y and stuff words words words. It was amusing for a hot minute.

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ManofManyAliases posted:
Walk into a federal building .... (at this point, and with his track record, that could be anything, such as the courthouse he went to fight his moving violation from December)

First, nice of you to troll public records looking for me.

FYI, I got a Red light camera ticket early this year. I paid an attorney $75 to beat it, since it was wrong (and court ruled illegal). Never stepped foot in a court building. Nice try.

When I come back from lunch, since it was already revealed to me that you are a CIG plant, now it would be my turn to uncover who you are, so you can end the bullshit. You have your "mate" to thank for that. And that's why I have a lockbin account.

Remember, you started this. And you had many chances to not make this personal. You should probably go back to the guide you were given.

bbl

Ghostlight posted:

Godus was released on iOS and Android.

AP posted:

https://twitter.com/csdesign72/status/829071424664924161

peter gabriel posted:

So erm we've erm made instances but instead of being erm you know like erm plastic bags they are like erm napkins and the data is like gravy so with a plastic bag erm you'd have a bag of gravy and it's all in there sloshing around and erm yeah but you can't get to the gravy because of the plastic bag you see so we've erm used napkins so gravy seeps through and then gets over to other places because a napkin isn't like a plastic bag

Tippis posted:

Well, ok. I should have added the qualifier “as little as possible” rather than “none”, but this is MoMA and that kind of detail level doesn't work well with him.

But the point remains the same: you use instances specifically to cut down on how many people are affected by each other's interactions with the world. EVE doesn't use instances (or shards, really… China server aside) — it uses zones (“grids”) and world (“systems”), where the distinction is more a case of what detail level of information is shared. Everyone in the same system is part of the same world simulation, with the server deciding to what degree they have any chance of interacting directly or not. Warp disruption bubbles, for instance, will have effects on someone not on the same grid. But everything is handled by the same server CPU core (which is one of the lasting limitations in how EVE can handle larger groups of people).

Beyond that, you can also indirectly interact with people in other systems, but that's through the back-end database server, and it's mostly about various system statuses and markets and the like.

Using the term in its most generic and meaningless sense, then sure, each system is “in instance” of running the world simulation code, but they're all different, each handling separate systems. But that's EVE and EVE is a very special and odd bird that has some pretty unique solutions for its equally unique demands and requirements — all of which require some pretty proprietary software and hardware. At no point do you have any duplication or separating people existing in the same space that regular instances are used for in MMO-land. So really, CCP hasn't solve the problem because they don't have that problem — there is nothing for them to solve like there would be for, say, WoW.

What CIG is talking about is having instances communicate with other instances — be they inside or outside or alongside — as if everyone in instance A were able to interact with everyone in instance B just as if they were all in the same instance. That would remove the whole point of having the two instances. Like you say, the problems they're trying to solve are solved by having larger instances, and the fundamental issue is that they can't do that. Never mind all the other problems, like transitioning between what's effectively two different copies of the world — seamlessly, of course — it's that fundamental misconceptions of what instances are actually there to do that is making their whole plan nonsensical. Sure, you can wire them up to interact, possibly even to the point they're talking about, but why would you? You're just adding complexity to solve a problem that is caused by a wholly different and unrelated problem.

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The devs have said that some capital ships will support up to 1000 players inside. We're also going to have to assume that capital ships will be duking it out every now and then (kinda like how they do in Elite Dangerous). My question is, how are we gonna fit over 1000 people in a single ship with no loading screens and no lag. It's just extremely hard to believe and i'm starting to get really bad No Mans Sky vibe from hearing this. Is there something I missed? Can someone just please explain how any of this will work and what will become of the losing capital ship? It sounds like a load of bull

Jobbo_Fett posted:

These fuckers keep making me change my venn diagram.

The BattleStar Galactica circle grows ever larger...

Raskolnikov posted:

Best of luck (Future) Developer Commando!

Scruffpuff posted:

This right here - the bolded part - is why this project is a scam. They never had any idea whatsoever how to build this right from day one.

CIG: SHIPS WILL BE BIG AND HAVE TONS OF PLAYERS LOL.
Backer: How will you handle instance sizes and whatnot with ships so large with so many crew?
CIG: ... UHH ... SHIPS WILL BE THEIR OWN INSTANCES.
Backer: Then how will people in different ships see each other?
CIG: ... THERE ... WE ... WE'RE GOING TO HAVE POROUS INSTANCES THAT COMMUNICATE WITH EACH OTHER
Backer: Can I get a refund now?

There's not a single part of this project that was ever considered, from any angle, at any time. Every question you can ask about "but how is x supposed to work" is a new problem they hadn't planned for, have no answer to, and will lie about by saying they've got it all figured out. In the meantime their "2.6" is a broken piece of poo poo that doesn't deserve to clean the crap out of the portable toilets that Ride to Hell: Retribution drives by on its way to work. And all the while, the most credulous apes in human history are believing every word.

HycoCam posted:

Hey Grandpa--what's a "Star Citizen"?

Not sure if having to tell people about the scam that was Star Citizen all the time for the next forty years is funnier than the moment the guy realizes he'd better get a refund.