EmesiS posted:

I would to discuss the Amazon AWS server racks

Golli posted:

Datacenters sound really dangerous.

Giant rooms full of spinning blades?!

IT workers are really brave.

Dark Off posted:

holy gently caress maybe cr wasnt lying.

check out the scale of that ship. Everything is scaled down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGcG0g7GsOI&t=1368s
as bonus Cr is talking about how nobody has done things at similar scale

SCtrumpHaters posted:

You obviously have no idea about game development or the time it takes to create a game.
I've said this before, most AAA titles take anywhere from 8 to 10 years to develope if not longer. Star Citizen has been in development for only 5 years. Do the math and come back when you have a real perspective of the time you are going to wait for a final release with the content they want to deliver.
4.0 in 3 years? yeah I can live with that. FInal release in 5 years? yup I'll take that too.

Star Citizen is being developed from the ground up with open development in mind, that means we get to see every detail including technical issues, bugs and fixes, new content as it's implemented into the game. The reason it feels like we are getting nowehre fast is because most other games have hit the shelves within 6 months of being announced, they already completed the development of the game.

We on the other hand have the privalege of being involved with the development, we have a say in what we would like to see and we, the community as a whole have the ability to shape the fundamentals of the game as we go along. Just because we mention an idea in a forum post one day doesn't mean it will be ready in a weeks time, the more ideas we come up with, the longer it will take to develope, but the more gameplay elements we will receive when the game is released.

So from now until then we can give fresh ideas and constructive feedback or critisism or we can go elsewhere until Star Citizen is released, personally I am thoroughly enjoying the development process, as long as it takes we will get the game of our dreams, you should feel honoured to be part of that adventure.

alf_pogs posted:

everybody should play super mario odyssey, a great game that exists, and avoid investing in star citizen, a bad game that does not exist

that's my hot take

VictorianQueerLit posted:

I skipped a few thousand posts like any reasonable person should do and missed that SD is still somehow getting thread regulars

illectro posted:

Honestly I don't care if they make the planets 1/10th scale with short days and hacked physics so that players don't have to match orbits with a space station. Full orbital mechanics is so trivial to implement that KSP used the stock Unity physics engine with no modification for ages, but it serves no purpose to most gamers and SC shouldn't be doing that.

Based on what I've seen they have 1/10th scale planets with a non-physical gravitational force that drops to near zero about 20km up. No problem with that. Don't stand on stage claiming that it's physically accurate.

Hobold posted:

Thats the secret. SD always gets regulars to bite.

fritzgryphon posted:

Took a moment to realize that the other spaceship passes between the camera and the smoke trail effect.

The Aurora is 8m wide so the ship would have to be less than a meter wide. This might also be a draw order problem, because the small ship -seems- to be further away than that?

ManofManyAliases posted:

Welcome friend. Good luck in your fight. It will be long and arduous, but rewarding if you just stick to it.

Things that will aid you on this journey:

1) If you know recipes, that's usually good to get a few of them tied up for 1-2 pages.
2) Don't mention Derek Smart unless you are willing to literally bleed from your eyes after he posts the must trite drivel you have EVER seen in your life. And even then, he'll just drone on about how fantastic a Tier 1 dev he is, everyone is wrong, he is right, blah blah words words. But, it is only the case that he engages in meaningful discourse, so fear not.
3) If you have cats or dogs, post them: again - keeps them occupied for a couple of pages.

Lastly, if you're out of ideas -

Have fun.

D_Smart posted:

The ship passing between the cam and effect is draw order problem.

The ship in the foreground being large in comparison to the one passing underneath is due to the view frustum camera zoom on the foreground ship.

The ships appear to be at scale.

Sillybones posted:

And it is actually a harder problem to solve, given their type of particle effects. Some AAA games ship with it still failing in the edge cases.

XK posted:

This is one of my favorite demonstrations of draw order problems:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2haKPefO3E&t=180s

Dark Off posted:

can you do video on scale of that city planet.
if Cr didnt lie about the realism of his physics simulation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGcG0g7GsOI#t=1677s

on earth sized planet gravity would be 9.7239 meters per second
if it was 1/100 scale would mean that gravity is 5.0676 meters per second
if it was 1/1000 scale it would mean that gravity is 0.407124021258469 meters per second
that would give us a sphere with 6.4 km radius.
A = 514718540.36415 m2
515 km2 would be the area of the city planet
for comparison just cause 3 map is 1036km2

the realities of CR's lies

Sillybones posted:

The secret isn't that people reply to him. The secret is he doesn't get banned fast enough.

We get enough drivel reddit posts in the thread from true believers. We don't need a lovely fake one that doesn't even try very hard to sound realistic.

Quavers posted:

So are ALL planets/moons in Star Citizen 1000km diameter or something?

VictorianQueerLit posted:

I like SD's trolling. It reminds us that even the decision to not buy internet spaceships doesn't necessarily make you smart.

Also it's not like anything important ever actually happens so he isn't exactly disrupting anything.

The Titanic posted:

Piss and blood soaked items? No problem!!! Let’s do it!

Donating to Star Citizen? Whoa there Nelly! You just crossed the line!

Quavers posted:

Unless my math is screwed up...



So are ALL planets/moons in Star Citizen 1000km diameter or something?

Quavers posted:

Unless my math is screwed up...



So are ALL planets/moons in Star Citizen 1000km diameter or something?

Viscous Soda posted:

You know, this honestly wouldn't bug me if Chris would actually just admit it. You want a universe where "rule of cool" is king, I'm okay with that. I mean look at Star Wars, almost everything it does is scientifically impossible, but it's so much fun you forgive it.

But here in Star Citizen land SC is both the most accurate space sim ever and also at the same time interplanetary space ships move slower then many aircraft and planets are a third the size of the moon.

Dementropy posted:

hardycore posted:

He just... he just totally made that up....

How can you