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DapperDon posted:Are you drunk? You seem to have forgotten how many times the thread lamented your absence. Someone has to provide some context around here. Wow! You're all crazy and I love you all E Can't taxxe on mobile Bugger it e: tax wagon 
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The Titanic posted:Don’t ever say this. I have talked about you often because of the great service you did in your transcriptions. I wouldn’t have been able to keep up with the videos unless you transcribed them. You kept me interested because I could actually follow along with everybody else. That’s a rare thing for me. Thank you, sincerely
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The Titanic posted:Don’t ever say this. I have talked about you often because of the great service you did in your transcriptions. I wouldn’t have been able to keep up with the videos unless you transcribed them. You kept me interested because I could actually follow along with everybody else. That’s a rare thing for me. This.  
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Also I’m sure everybody knows, but here’s the link regarding the absolute insanity of repair for your ship. https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/engineering/15062-Design-Notes-Ship-Repair-And-Maintenance I actually do not see capital ship repair scaffolding in there, so I may have got some theory crafting mixed in with CIG “reality”. Somebody should compare what they are doing in the game vs the dream and come up with a scale to measure “Dream Achievement” values on a per active system basis. If they were bored. 
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trucutru posted:Well, I guess they are learning. Specially that 9.9%. The "real" 3.0 with the complete Stanton system might not come out until 2019. If you recall the 'beyond 3.0' section on the schedule report, CIG should have finished a couple of the planets by now. It's a good thing that CIG removed it while everyone is still focused on 3.0. But that sweet Arc Corp demo though... https://robertsspaceindustries.com/media/6wkm33wpsnd1qr/source/EndofYear_PUTimeline_MonthsKey_Lines.png - Take a look if you want to be reminded just how behind they are. Arc Corp was supposed to be finished before they even revealed it at Gamescom. Also, We'll have three of four planets done by next week... Tokamak fucked around with this message at 05:48 on Nov 22, 2017 |
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Haha... ok... I think I found it: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/engineering/15088-Q-A-Anvil-Crucible It’s the ship everybody loves and is no doubt infinitely familiar with: The Crucible repair ship. Somewhere along the way people got to talking about how multiples of these can repair big ships, naturally they said “well probably!” and thus the whole scaffolding thing came about. It may not have been exactly called scaffolding, but there were ships with a bigger ship in them, and repair arms, and... heck guys don’t you remember how awesome the crucible was/is and is almost totally in the game?!?! 
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Flared Basic Bitch posted:Forums-people scatter into GBS and FYAD. The noonday sun beats down as two grizzled warlords size each other up, squinting across the now-deserted thread. Are you gonna link those blogs or whistle dixie?
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SomethingJones posted:I honestly didn't see the sale of land plots coming at all, and I still don't quite believe it I saw it coming a mile away but, while Derek isn't here, let's us all agree that Titanic called it first.
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SomethingJones posted:I honestly didn't see the sale of land plots coming at all, and I still don't quite believe it I wouldn’t worry about it. It’s not like they have any mechanic for it beyond ‘buy plot of land to give building ship purpose’. Hell, they were supposed to have scanning and mining down last year. It’s a Ponzi of mechanics to build hype. Echoing general fandom of SomethingJones too. No homo.
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Jobbo_Fett posted:Dear Beetwagon, Esq. Quite honestly, a single "Blocked Crew" gantag would be way easier to give out than having to clog up the radiumvault with personalized ones.
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hot balls man no homo posted:I think somebody once referred to the game as "Sausage Citizen" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clLqaaGJJZ8
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The Titanic posted:Naw, I’ll let him have the honor of calling it. It's a hell of a thing, calling a plan. You take away all his blogs and all he's ever gonna blog.
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I sure can't wait to buy some space land In five years when they have a half-assed, buggy as gently caress implementation of the mechanics required to actually own space land, all of you will be sorry you didn't buy before the rush
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trucutru posted:I saw it coming a mile away but, while Derek isn't here, let's us all agree that Titanic called it first. Aw, thanks. Toops posted:It's a hell of a thing, calling a plan. You take away all his blogs and all he's ever gonna blog. Never not blog.
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Foo Diddley posted:I sure can't wait to buy some space land You better put up double fences, because when they clip through the first fence by accident they’ll just get forever stuck in the second layer. It will be a gory reminder, as you weed your way through firing nipple jets as citizens ask you to free them. Since all moderation is done by in game lawyers, it will be a while before they find your secret parcel of hard won/bought land.
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The Titanic posted:You better put up double fences, because when they clip through the first fence by accident they’ll just get forever stuck in the second layer. It will be a gory reminder, as you weed your way through firing nipple jets as citizens ask you to free them. Double fences bought at Port Olisar one section at a time, loaded into the cargo bay by hand, then taken for an eight minute And this amazing experience will only cost you a couple grand
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BoredGamer gets a good 25-30k views on his daily videos which are just "And you will be able to do this, and then that, and then this, and you will be able to do this cool thing too" over and over. His audience seems to absolutely adore the stream of consciousness dream diarrhoea. Someone on here said he is the most credulous man to have ever lived, and that may be the case, but he might be just very clever instead, having found a quick and easy way to make reliable money (plus patreon) simply by verbalising digital space game possibilities for ten minutes every day.
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Rabelais D posted:BoredGamer gets a good 25-30k views on his daily videos which are just "And you will be able to do this, and then that, and then this, and you will be able to do this cool thing too" over and over. His audience seems to absolutely adore the stream of consciousness dream diarrhoea. But Chris already beat him to the punch on that, I guess there is still money to be made by riding the coat tails of a washed up hazbin?
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Foo Diddley posted:I sure can't wait to buy some space land Holy forking shirt, now I know how to spend those leftover SC credits.  
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Hi Cloud Imperium Games. It's apparent than in desperation for more cash, you've been trawling the SA forums for any ideas that will turn a commando upside down and shake the pennies out of their pockets. The selling land thing is loving great, and I can't wait to see this hilarity play out. I have some other ideas that are guaranteed to be winners and bring you in at least hundreds of dollars and I can't wait for you to rip them off: Robot butlers: When there's just not enough hours in the day to do space laundry or make space food, a robot butler will come in very handy. Buy your way into space government: Why be a citizen when you could be a senator? While I'm sure there are already plans to allow citizens to play politics in your game, why not sell off an instant political office so a player can start out with a guaranteed spot in government? A small pledge makes you a senator, a large pledge makes you a planetary governor, and for an extra large fee, you can make your position a lifetime term! Exciting! Toilet bowl cleaners: We all love taking space shits, but some of us spend too much time cleaning our space latrines. For a small wad of cash, you can get a toilet bowl disc that you can drop straight into the tank, making it so much easier. Porsches: Not space Porsches, but actual Porsches that commandos can drive on the way to their space job. Who needs a pleb buggy when you can drive to the office in style? They'll be very expensive, but you already know that. Wankpod Porn: Several nice packages of in-game smut for when you just gotta rub one out before saving the galaxy. Many different varieties to choose from, but the high end package will be nude videos and pics of Chris Roberts. Your fans will make you millions. Dorka Smerk voodoo doll: Something for your commandos to vent their frustrations out on while they're waiting for your dreams to become reality. In no way shape or form similar to any real game developers. Planets: Why buy land when you can have your own planet? As we all know, planets are easy. Randomize a seed and just flip the procedural switch and you're good to go. For a princely sum, commandos can outright have their own unique planet to rule with an iron fist. Goon Detector: When the game finally comes out, all of the goons that haven't died of old age will do what goons do. Since you already have in-depth profiles on everyone including goon tags and snowflake tags, you'll know which players are goons, but the commandos won't! Sell them a goon detector that they can carry around so they can run crying from the first goon that comes close to them. Rip off the design from the "Aliens" motion tracker, that shouldn't be too hard. Custom lines in Squadron 42: Who wouldn't love to hear Admiral Bishop give his stirring speech but also mention that Commando xxL3aveRoyMoor3Alon3xx is the best pilot in the galaxy? Or Old Man Hamill saying to his friends that you're the most handsome and virile man who ever lived? Or have Cara "Web" Webster calling you by name and offering to give you a handy? Dreams like this and more are worth a lot to lonely shut-in nerds, and they'll pay bank for them. An in-game copy of Star Citizen and Squadron 42: If you could sell a game twice, why wouldn't you? For a real challenge, players can buy a copy of Star Citizen for their commando to play on their space chariot while playing Star Citizen! They can even buy all the packages all over again! You can also sell an optional Kevlar case for them to put their computer in so it doesn't kill anyone when it explodes. Please use these ideas to keep the funding rolling so that the insanity never stops. ComfyPants fucked around with this message at 07:38 on Nov 22, 2017 |
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The Titanic posted:Never not blog. I'll always double back for a great poster.
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Foo Diddley posted:Double fences bought at Port Olisar one section at a time, loaded into the cargo bay by hand, then taken for an eight minute I'm the space forklift pushing an Aurora off the parking lot at Port Olisar Home Depot because it was parked in a handicapped zone.
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SomethingJones posted:Certainly seems that way. It'll be weird and sad to see what happens to the thread over the next few months. This is a good summary, imo
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HANG ON A MINUTE Is this a completely made up fake conversation testing the waters for this poo poo a year ago, or have I completely lost the plot The quotes are all from the same poster 'participation ribbon' https://www.reddit.com/user/participation_ribbon https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/5ci7eh/i_want_to_buy_some_virtual_real_estate/ (1 year ago) quote:So now that procedural planets are (an awesome) thing, how about selling us some exclusive real estate in exciting places? CR: "or you know it'll be a PENTHOUSE APARTMENT or something with a view" CR: "we'll have some new AREAS and PLANETS that people discover as they PUSH OUT" quote:Going forward I agree that they could come up with new concepts condos/penthouses, and maybe even work them into existing landing areas and POI's. It'd certainly be an interesting 'testing of the waters' for them to see if there is demand. quote:Yeah it'd be cool to reserve some virtual real estate for yourself after discovering something like a whole system. Fingers crossed! quote:I think it's more constructive to focus on asking "what value (if any) are people deriving from the money they're spending?" After all if it is adding value to their lives, then what's the harm? quote:I mean, why not buy a bicycle instead of spending ~$250 on a video game and get out there and see the world? The answer is that it is rewarding to us in some way, and we enjoy it. quote:That's super interesting. How have you felt about your investment in virtual real estate all these years? Do you feel more strongly about its worth now that immersive VR is here? What a load of poo poo (imo), there is no way I'm buying that's a real backer, not in a million years.
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To be fair, hiring is tough for everyone in tech, finance and medico/pharma. Top talent is getting increasingly expensive, outsourcing/offshoring ditto (and has turned out to not be the panacea many claimed it would be), and the wage gap which has always existed between game development and other software development is exacerbating the situation. It's not unique to CIG that filling positions is difficult. There's probably quite a lot of applicants to these positions, but most are likely either severely underqualified or demand a wage in excess of what they're willing to pay. The time when geeky whiz kids could be roped in with pizza and cheap benefits to offset the subpar wages and insane hours, is coming to an end. This is a good thing, as a lot of tech millionaires have built that wealth on the broken lives and bodies of underpaid tech workers and middle management.
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https://www.reddit.com/user/participation_ribbonquote:As others have stated things are very likely to be highly fluid. Over the years I've grown frustrated with how negatively the community has reacted to even the smallest changes, when CIG is clearly just trying to figure out the technical implementation of their big ideas. During Tony's Pioneer panel talk I was again struck by how clear their vision is; and there is clearly no shortage of ideas and concepts for game play loops! The challenge is to build an underlying technological base that can support the addition of many new gameplay loops and sprawling compelling content over the 10 year life-span of the game. https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/79n5p8/i_feel_citizencon_focused_on_the_wrong_things/dp3j589/ quote:You do realize that the team has plenty of experience with creating gameplay loops right? That their prior body of work is some of the best in the industry? That their team knows exactly how to make you go on a mission and enjoy it? CIG showed work at gamescom that was literally deemed impossible by everyone in the industry, and indeed CR himself, before they went ahead and did it. Can you understand why showing an industry first (which opens an entire planet up to gameplay loops) would be the compelling choice? https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/79n5p8/i_feel_citizencon_focused_on_the_wrong_things/dp3jx6c/ quote:Agreed! People are completely under valuing the extent of CIGs accomplishment. I'm going to be doubling down my investment in supporting this game's development solely on the strength of that accomplishment. Right now they are the only company that I believe can create the game world of my dreams. https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/79psz9/i_was_a_cynical_skeptic_until_this_citizencon_now/ quote:I'm willing to bet that past backers will actually double down with more funding if 3.0 meets expectations. Given the long time frames many backers that supported 1-2 years ago will likely feel encouraged by results, and feel comfortable putting in another $50-$100 (whether in ship upgrades or in new LTI token ships). The holiday sale this year will be suuuuper interesting, given that they are pressing hard to get 3.0 in our hands before that (and thereby maximize holiday stream revenues). https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/79qme7/did_anyone_have_a_gateway_ship_which_prompted_the/ quote:Connie definitely feels like the best all around pick, especially now that we have planets and ground vehicles will be needed. https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/79psz9/i_was_a_cynical_skeptic_until_this_citizencon_now/dp5hwc3/ quote:Given the scale of the planets my thinking is a rover will come in exceptionally handy, and the snub fighter will be a good arial scout.
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The Titanic posted:Omg I think I did. Fortunately, there's an archive of Smart's comments on popular social media platform reddit dot com, so figuring this out shouldn't be too hard haha it's the funny owl. i like the owl
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SomethingJones posted:10 for the Chairman: Episode 46 Well to be fair this is one of the only CRobbler promises that we can say is not only being delivered but they are actually going above and beyond what he originally promised. No longer will you be limited to just a gradual step up from hangars and personal rooms on developed planets to eventually being able to buy land on planets as the galaxy is explored and new locations are discovered. Now you too can buy real estate before the game even exists. They haven't even demonstrated the concept of "Land" and are years late in arriving at the basic feature that many other games launch with. Buy real estate now! 0.01% of the locations in an incomplete fraction of 1% of the systems doesn't have core foundational proof of concept technology in an alpha version of the game but buy real estate. This is not at all a desperate cash grab. Monetizing a feature the second they can classify it as "Technically existing" is perfectly normal. VictorianQueerLit fucked around with this message at 09:28 on Nov 22, 2017 |
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SomethingJones posted:Gameplay loops are in, you saw them Yes, I definitely recall the wheels doing loops off the charred remains of that unrampable rover.
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It's actually annoying me that I didn't see any of this before now. They've had an (obvious) paid shill on the reddit one year ago, testing the water for paid real estate. That didn't come out of the clear blue. The idea of real estate was already planted in 2014 in that 10FTC and this whole thing was about selling ships, vehicles and real estate, shops, clothes, weapons, armour right from the start. People said to me it was becoming more like Second Life in Space and I didn't really think about the ramifications of that. They were never building a game or gameplay, they don't need to. They just need this virtual sci-fi world. At some point between the original kickstarter and 2014 the idea of making a game was scrapped and supplanted with a virtual world with virtual goods for real money. Titanic is absolutely right on the money. All of the spaceship stuff as regards gameplay is completely on the backburner, in fact it has been for at least 2 years. The ships are just for travel, and the game will be to reach the top of the pyramid by owning and controlling the most stuff in a janky, glitchy, buggy virtual world in which you can pay to win in every single case. That's it, that's your game shitizens, enjoy it, you are playing it right now. That's why there's no release date, because you can continue to develop and add to something like that forever and keep selling more and more new stuff as you invent it, that's the vision - I have stared into the mind of Croberts and I see EXACTLY what he's doing. It must be loving killing him to see that engine way past its breaking point for something like this. Somebody tell me why I'm wrong, please.
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Quavers posted:https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/spectrum-dispatch/16270-Claiming-Space-The-Race-For-Land lol, this loving owns. This fuckwittery has no end.
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Krycek posted:Sandi is more into tickling than whipping.  ManofManyAliases posted:I've written off my contribution much like CIG has. Please tell me how that makes you feel. Considering how you might still have time to get a refund, it makes me feel like you might possibly be a moron.
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VictorianQueerLit posted:Monetizing a feature the second they can classify it as "Technically existing" is perfectly normal. It doesn't need to exist, that's the beauty of it. It's like a kickstarter within a kickstarter. The exact same mindset that enables someone to hand over real money for the IDEA of something existing in the future is the EXACT same mindset of handing over real money for a virtual item that MIGHT exist in the virtual game world in the future. The fidelity and the lore helps sell it, so do the things like the Citizen card and making the shitizens feel like they are a part of the virtual world. Once you've got them in the virtual world, all they need is the odd nudge every now and again to help CREATE whatever new shiny they want to own in that world. It's GENIUS. Look at these guys dressing up in their cardboard space suits, they are hook line and sinker in that world and just like in reality if they want something in there they either have to work or spend $$$. And you can't work because there are no career or earning loops... oops, I wonder why That kickstarter cash came in like a loving tsunami and Crobberts and co have suddenly found themselves in the company of some very smart people and the idea of making a game went right out the window
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Current guesses for their black friday / anniversary week sale. (in millions). Jobbo_fett - 3.2 AutismVaccine - 3.7 Quavers - 3.7 Goredema - 9 VictorianQueerLit - 4.35 big nipples big life - 1.7 Zzr - 4.2 Did i miss anyone? Keep them coming. Prizes are random games from Humble Bundles. Everyone is getting something at this rate.
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