Dewgy posted:

It's in alpha, but it's also at 3.0. Totally normal.

iospace posted:

Please note that version numbers, no matter what, are 100% arbitrary. Convention does state that pre release builds start with 0 but the is no standard at all for them.

Exposure posted:

This is from their backer update after their year of inactivity:

It's really fascinating, it's almost like, a nega-CIG in terms of what happened to the game.

Mirificus posted:

James Y. Pak Counsel, Intellectual Property Litigation

James Y. Pak focuses his practice on litigating intellectual property matters, including patent infringement, copyright infringement and trade secret misappropriation.


Kevin J. Minnick Counsel, Litigation

Kevin Minnick's practice focuses on large-scale class action defense, primarily involving consumer protection and securities laws. He also has represented clients in qui tam, patent and appellate matters.


P. Anthony Sammi Partner, Intellectual Property Litigation

P. Anthony Sammi is head of the Intellectual Property Litigation Group. He litigates complex, high-profile IP cases at the trial and appellate levels.

Bio posted:

Mr. Hemr, a member of the Skadden team selected as a finalist for The American Lawyer’s 2017 Litigation Department of the Year, also has represented individual and corporate clients in internal investigations and in proceedings before the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and other regulators.

Mr. Hemr’s experience includes representing:

• ZeniMax Media Inc. in litigation, co-leading a team that won a $500 million verdict on copyright infringement, breach of nondisclosure agreement and other claims relating to misappropriated virtual reality technology;
  
• the directors of EMC Corporation in post-merger litigation that resulted in a landmark Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision establishing the standard for such litigation in Massachusetts;
  
• Aspen Technology, Inc. in litigation in Texas, co-leading a team that won an $11 million verdict on trade secret misappropriation and other intellectual property claims, and successfully defending that verdict on appeal before the Fifth Circuit;
  
• MassMutual in a putative class action challenging that company’s payment of dividends and retention of policyholder surplus under Massachusetts statutes;
  
• MassMutual in a putative class action involving deferred compensation plans for its senior sales personnel, which resulted in a complete victory for the client that was subsequently affirmed on appeal by the First Circuit;
  
• AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company, Pacific Life Insurance Company, and other life insurance companies in product litigation in state and federal courts throughout the United States, both in individual actions and in purported class actions;
  
• a global financial services firm in obtaining summary judgment on antitrust claims in an action in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts;
  
• a mutual fund complex in SEC and state regulatory proceedings involving allegations of improper “market timing” trading, and in related civil litigation;
  
• a major shareholder of a significant New England private company in disputes with the company’s other shareholders; and
  
• Massachusetts businesses in suits enforcing non-competition and non-solicitation agreements with key employees, including by obtaining preliminary injunctions enforcing those agreements.

From 2000 to 2017, Mr. Hemr headed the Boston office’s pro bono program. In 2007, he represented the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in a widely publicized dispute with an artist who had stopped work on an artistic installation in the museum’s largest gallery. He also has successfully represented refugees seeking asylum, prisoners seeking protection of their civil rights, and nonprofit groups trying to avoid regulatory pitfalls.

In addition to courts in Massachusetts, Mr. Hemr is admitted to practice in federal and state courts in New York, and in federal district and appellate courts across the country. He is a director of the Boston Public Market Association, a nonprofit civic organization that brought a permanent, year-round farmers’ market to downtown Boston.

iospace posted:

Please note that version numbers, no matter what, are 100% arbitrary. Convention does state that pre release builds start with 0 but the is no standard at all for them.

Dark Off posted:

this is one hell of a video.

quote:

Derek Smart
2 seconds ago
I have a question. Were you drunk when @ 11:05 you claimed that they had met every stretch goal?

You see, this is why we keep track, and why only devout backers need pay ANY attention to what you guys ( have a vested interest in lying) have to say. This is a COMPLETE list of everything Chris promised. Even discounting 3.0, they haven't even made it to 18% completed yet. After 6 yrs and $175M.

https://starcitizentracker.github.io/

Mirificus posted:

CIG's death sentence.

Exposure posted:

This is from their backer update after their year of inactivity:

It's really fascinating, it's almost like, a nega-CIG in terms of what happened to the game.

quote:

THE BEST LAID PLANS

Another year is now ending and we’ve faced and are still facing challenges in various areas. Though this game isn’t even my biggest or most complex to date, most of the challenges have come from the usual nightmares derived from building (1, 2, 3, 4) a custom engine and game from scratch. Time passes, technology improves, the gaming landscape changes etc. A game designed in 2010 (following the release of our previous two games in 2009) and which goes into full blown custom engine development in 2011, outside of being a heavily marketed triple-A title (even those tend to face major challenges e.g. the excellent Titanfall 2, Mafia III, No Man’s Sky etc) will find it hard to compete if it cannot stay abreast of changes, or find its core target audience.

One of the challenges we’ve had these past months is due to the end-of-life support for the Havok Vision Engine (was Trinigy Vision Engine prior to the Havok purchase in 2011) which we used as our baseline engine. Not only is Havok no longer licensing (it doesn’t even appear on the website anymore) it, but the development of next-gen console (PS4, XBox One) versions of that engine was in a state of flux – right up until it was “no longer planned”. Thinking that Microsoft’s acquisition (in Q4 2015) of Havok from Intel would rekindle those efforts, sadly, that hasn’t happened – yet. So, for all intent and purposes, HVE is deprecated and dead. And we simply couldn’t wait.

Which means that going forward, we have had to make the decision to port the underlying base engine (Vision Engine) to another comparable middleware engine. We looked at a few, almost settling for Unity 5 but decided to go with Unreal Engine 4 instead; mostly due to it’s C++ core and component system which closely matche ours; thus making it an easier task.

Unlike our multi-platform title (which we developed as a marketing promo for the larger LOD game), Line Of Defense Tactics which was developed (I setup another third-party team for that) from scratch with Unity 4, and which then also ended up on XBox One (we developed that in-house, and not with the third-party team) almost a year following release on other platforms, we don’t have the luxury of starting from scratch with this much larger and more complex game which is purely C++ based.

The problem with using different engines for the same game release, aside from update parity, is that it gets to be resource intensive, requires completely separate teams etc. So the end result is that we would have a PC game developed with a Havok based custom engine, and a console version developed with the more powerful and robust UE4. Even with using separate teams as I did with LOD Tactics, like that game, there will still be resource overlap due to asset conversions, game design and features etc. And I’d have to hire more people due to the increased workload.

So, going into 2017, I have to decide whether to i) release the PC version as planned with the current Havok based engine, then release the UE4 powered console version later in the year or ii) just port to UE4, then do a multi-platform release as we did before with LOD Tactics.

While going to the far superior UE4 not only gives us a far more versatile and powerful base engine than HVE, with vastly superior and dramatically improved visuals, we also get out-of-the-box support for PBR, HDR and 4K. It is also the less risky approach in terms of marketing as well as competing technologies. The downside is that it is also a more expensive approach because putting the PC release on hold while transitioning to UE4 means no game to sell for a game that’s nearing completion. Not to mention the added costs of the port (which also entails a LOT of art and model asset improvements to take advantage of UE4).

Until I make a final decision by year end, everything is progressing as normal. But once that decision is made, I will of course be posting an update.

HOW TO ACCESS THE GAME

We disabled the Steam store page back in April and moved it into Closed Beta Test (CBT) for more focused testing, less drama, distraction etc. Since that time, you could no longer purchase it on Steam. However, Digital River still has some Starter Kit and TAK commercial keys (Steam) left. You can get them from here. When we need additional testers, we will again be giving out free keys (which do expire!!) via our CBT program. As we have enough testers already, we don’t expect to re-enable the Steam store until we complete some of the final goal milestones.

Dewgy posted:

While this is true, it does kind of back up the idea that CIG has no idea what the gently caress they're doing.

Cao Ni Ma posted:

so what if the litigator has an amazing record and is a graduate from harvard? Did he (co)write an IP law book? Thought so goonies

big nipples big life posted:

Ben Lesnick, Developer.

Xaerael posted:

See, it's a joke about how everyone's going to die of old age before Chris finishes his lovely game.

Mirificus posted:

Mirificus posted:

APPLICATION of Non-Resident Attorney Kurt Wm. Hemr to Appear Pro Hac Vice on behalf of Plaintiff Crytek GmbH (Pro Hac Vice Fee - Fee Paid, Receipt No. 0973-20978921) filed by plaintiff Crytek GmbH. (Minni ck, Kevin)

Kurt Wm. Hemr Partner, Litigation

Kurt Hemr’s practice focuses on securities and insurance product litigation, intellectual property litigation, corporate governance disputes, and other forms of complex civil litigation.

ewe2 posted:

Attention! Public Service Announcement!

Charlie Hall, Swofford crony and perpertrator of the doxxing of streetroller for Polygon, is emailing all contributors to https://starcitizentracker.github.io trying to get them to give up a contact to the main guys. Do not reply and do not give him a platform for his "balance"!

Attention!

Beet Wagon posted:

Montoya seemed ok when I was in TEST (before I fell from Christ Roberts's grace) but yeah I'm pretty sure he's an old EVE dude, despite statements to the contrary.

Also at Charlie digging for dirt.

FailureToReport posted:

Star Citizen is literally 2-3 years minimum behind getting the basic mechanics Elite Dangerous has into their build, but because you can get up from your seat, it's MUCH MUCH deeper than that lovely game Elite!

Mirificus posted:

RescueFreak posted:

Something tells me he overcooks his steak.

big nipples big life posted:

It's amazing that the star citizen demographic is entirely composed of top notch game devs.

RescueFreak posted:

Something tells me he overcooks his steak.

Dementropy posted:

quote:

Note that you also want to make sure your pagefile is on your SSD as well, as 16GB still isn't enough RAM(but way better than 8GB)