Beet Wagon posted:

lol it's another loving motorcycle.

Spuckuk posted:

There's a reason E:D has harsh and uncaring traffic control.

Codezombie posted:

Meh, I'm utterly unimpressed, we have an air hockey table, pinball machine, a couple of arcade cabinets and a free gym... Far better than that lame offering.
Then again we've shipped a game, actually quite a few games...

(Though I still mourn the loss of lunch time Flight Club, where a bunch of us used to go out and fly RC planes and helicopters)

AbstractNapper posted:

I'm just going to comment here that there is absolutely no loving way they have been seriously developing a game even for just a year and this is the first time they are having this discussion.

They have literally just started trying to seriously develop something. And their inexperience with any tools that could assist them shows a lot.

Beet Wagon posted:

lol it's another loving motorcycle.

Hobold posted:

Traffic Control in ED reminds me a lot of Eves Concord.

Completely merciless, brutal, and will pop you in half a second.

I could only hope SC had something similar, because the amount of tears and salt from when one of those idiots loses a ship like that would be glorious.

Hell just look at old eve boards about idiots dying to concord, or ed pilots dying to station guns when they're loving around.

Beet Wagon posted:

lol it's another loving motorcycle.

SomethingJones posted:

Erin Roberts:
Please, just be careful of what you're checking in, don't just get on, on Friday night, check something in and go home... that's for your own... I'm not having a go at U.S., but also just sort of take care, make sure you get, you know CHECKED and so forth and things cos that costs us more time than anything when basically the build BREAKS and then we gotta (inaudible)... you know it kills you HERE, it kills us in the UK, you know we come in in the morning and we've got 4 hours at LEAST before we have to find the big fix and then by the time of the end of the day we've got a build and... so we need to make sure that everyone is being really CAREFUL when doing that stuff and I'd rather everyone took an EXTRA HOUR and make sure the BUG'S FIXED and then um, then try and rush on to the next one.

SomethingJones posted:

WARNING Verbal diarrhea incoming
This is the single most surreal transcript I have done to date.


Star Citizen: Around the Verse - Sep 21, 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV2qhhtsMA0

big nipples big life posted:

the only time you see business meetings full of happy people is stock photography

toiletbrush posted:

I've been using JIRA for a year with a tiny team and it's been really nice, but then again we've stripped it down so much we may as well be using Trello. Its excuse for markup is loving dreadful though.

aleksendr posted:

How does that even fit ? The first one expect you to die a lot to learn the enemy mechanics and the other one punish you heavily on death.

Might as well play a DOS text game.

code:

Thank you for playing Starcitizen

You wake up in a wank pod. You can go (N)orth  or (E)ast

Go E

You go east. You walk trough the floor and die. gently caress you. 

c:\

Beet Wagon posted:

lol it's another loving motorcycle.

Sindai posted:

And I can't believe they let that stay in the video. I guess they're assuming reddit is too dumb to notice.

aleksendr posted:

Make sense. The engine cant determine your position with enough precision to know when you cross the threshold. When your position relative to the door is within the engine margin of error your at the same time outside and inside the door, so poo poo breaks.

quote:

“Listen,” said Ford, who was still engrossed in the sales brochure, “they make a big thing of the ship's cybernetics. A new generation of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation robots and computers, with the new GPP feature.”
“GPP feature?” said Arthur. “What's that?”

“Oh, it says Genuine People Personalities.”

“Oh,” said Arthur, “sounds ghastly.”

A voice behind them said, “It is.” The voice was low and hopeless and accompanied by a slight clanking sound. They span round and saw an abject steel man standing hunched in the doorway.

“What?” they said.

“Ghastly,” continued Marvin, “it all is. Absolutely ghastly. Just don't even talk about it. Look at this door,” he said, stepping through it. The irony circuits cut into his voice modulator as he mimicked the style of the sales brochure. “All the doors in this spaceship have a cheerful and sunny disposition. It is their pleasure to open for you, and their satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done.”

As the door closed behind them it became apparent that it did indeed have a satisfied sigh-like quality to it. “Hummmmmmmyummmmmmm ah!” it said.

Hobold posted:

Traffic Control in ED reminds me a lot of Eves Concord. the LAPD.

Completely merciless, brutal, and will pop you in half a second.

happyhippy posted:

Remember when they showed a pool table in some bullshot make up and people were pissing themselves over the ability to play it ingame.

I would love to see the physic grid within a physic grid within a physic grid within a physic grid play pool.

runsamok posted:

My wife is a programmer on a globally-distributed project team. Every morning when she gets into work her favourite game starts: "What the gently caress have the Indians done now?" as they tend to get a little fast & loose with their commits & such when they're the only ones awake & coding.

AP posted:

Yes

https://twitter.com/SandiGardiner/status/909888270187732992

doingitwrong posted:

I’m reading this as a 4 part comic where they build the table proudly show it off, play on it for awhile, and then management removes it because it’s hurting productivity or whatever. Is that not what we’re seeing?

Taxxe: https://youtu.be/DuU82cQiv5k

Berious posted:

aka the "oh god all our whales are refunding conference"

Beet Wagon posted:

lol it's another loving motorcycle cynical way to sell idiots shitloads of LTI tokens or whatever it is.

The Titanic posted:

Waaaaay too close to home here, friend!

Mirificus posted:

reverend crabhands posted:

Cymelion having trouble accepting that he is a second class citizen.

Foo Diddley posted:

I like this guy


I like how they thought about this enough to realize they'd need the backup system, so that one player going AFK in a doorway can't shut down the station, yet they didn't think about it enough to realize that they should just do the generic computer voice and scrap the rest of this convoluted bullshit. It's just so much complication for absolutely no gain--from the player's perspective, it is exactly the same whether it's a "real" NPC or a "fake" computer telling you which landing pad is free. Even if you go inside and gently caress with the NPC traffic controller, well, there's the backup system so you've done absolutely nothing. Also, you can be sure that this NPC is going to be sending just as much network data as a player, in a game where the server shits the bed at ~12 players, so they're spending all this time and effort for something that's actively detrimental to the gameplay experience

It's mind boggling just how loving little these people know about making a video game. Whenever you're thinking about adding a feature, you ask, "What is this going to do to our development time?" and compare that to "What is this going to do for gameplay?" If the former outweighs the latter, your feature isn't going in. Period. "B-but immersion!" gently caress you. The players are going to be immersed exactly one time, and you're going to be maintaining this code for the lifetime of the game. No. The feature doesn't go in. I feel sorry for the poor bastards at CIG who understand this, because Chris sure as gently caress doesn't

The Titanic posted:

I'm the girl who wants to play a game all day where I can tell people and npcs they have permission to land on pad #. I want to get paid off so I can forget to scan the USS Millennium Enterprise when it comes in to land with a hot loaf of alien giraffe semen the player farmed for on a crysis like planet hunting fidelitous birds.

runsamok posted:

Actual conversation between my wife & one of her teammates.

They're doing a reorganization of the project & evidently she'll soon be the only Swede on the Indian team. This does not amuse her.

The Titanic posted:

I want to get paid off so I can forget to scan the USS Millennium Enterprise when it comes in to land with a hot loaf of alien giraffe semen the player farmed for on a crysis like planet hunting fidelitous birds.