Over There posted:

Beet Wagon posted:

Guy nailed the nested physics grids, or whatever bullshit it is Chris Roberts says lets you clip through the side of your space truck.

Croberts posted:

LOCALIZED ARTIFICIAL GRAVITY (LAG)

1. PARTICLE GENERATOR – As featured in the FPS demo, the heart of any LAG system will be the core generator. This device converts energy from a power plant into gravitons(?). These particles don’t create gravity on their own, but instead are the fuel that allow the gravplates to do so. The size of the area that needs artificial gravity dictates the size and/or number of generators. A station could have a single large generator like Gold Horizon has, or could have multiple redundant generators.

2. PIPING – The gravitational elements created by the generator are transported throughout the ship / station by a piping system. If the piping gets destroyed or cut off, the areas it is sending gravitons to would lose LAG. Also, if the generator stops producing gravitons, gravity wouldn’t necessarily shut off immediately. Instead, LAG would continue to be produced for a few seconds until the gravitons in the piping were consumed.

3. GRAVPLATING – The gravitons are fed by the piping system into the gravplating that lines the floor of the ship or station. Constructed of a special material, the gravplating, when exposed to the gravitons, emits an Artificial Gravitional field (needs a name) that acts similarly to a natural gravitational field, but differs in a few key ways. One way is that the the thick hulls of ships and stations, designed to block cosmic radiation, also are able to prevent the AG field from escaping into space. In most instances, these gravplates are installed under the floor, but perhaps more industrial areas would use the gravplates as the floor itself.

Over There posted:

Raspberry Jam It In Me posted:

That's the famous jpg people pay money for? WTF?

Raspberry Jam It In Me posted:

e: don't know much about game development, but I assume geography doesn't matter, especially when you are working on a 0.5 billion loving dollar budget. programmers develop using temporary art all the time and drag&drop the final art in at the end. the amount of data they would have to regularly exchange between two offices is probably pretty small.

IRC they opened the other offices as a tax scam/government incentive scam. Germany and the UK are hungry for game companies settling there and offer all kinds of funding if you just plop down an office.

(I guess you could achieve some kind of positive effect from working around the clock because, realistically, only a limited number of people can work on one thing at the same time before the efficiency goes down the drain. If you implement "chain working", you can get in more manhours on that one specific thing. But that's a level of optimization/sophistication that goes light years beyond what those clowns are even capable of. I don't know of any real, working global company (like Siemens or Intel) who bothers with that for development. It's too much trouble and too hard to get working

Blue On Blue posted:

They use it as a proud point to toot around

We move 500000 terrabits of data a day in wasted uploads !

They even had that commercial with the US internet provider talking about how they need a fat pipe to move all the jpeg data every day

Like come on guys it shouldn't be something to be proud of that your daily builds are so loving bloated

Shanghaied posted:

It's gravity - graviton or whatever is pumped through the ship in a series of tubes:

Danger - Octopus! posted:

Wait, is this real? Rather than just handwave artificial gravity as space magic they never explain like every sci-fi property that doesn't want to have rotating ships, they instead come up with something involving piping it around the ships??

Danger - Octopus! posted:

Wait, is this real? Rather than just handwave artificial gravity as space magic they never explain like every sci-fi property that doesn't want to have rotating ships, they instead come up with something involving piping it around the ships??

big nipples big life posted:

grab yerself a tall glass of gravity juice

Over There posted:

food court bailiff posted:

the lawsuit was shown to be pretty much entirely crytek flailing around in its own flopsweat, like they kept claiming the squadron 42 thing was some kind of shady bait and switch and then cig came back with the original contract pointing out where squadron 42 was called out explicitly by name

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/2...it-doesnt.shtml

Bold Robot posted:

I called this when the complaint was first posted and everyone acted like I was some kind of croberts shill for suggesting that there might be two sides to the story and that crytek's allegations were not some kind of ~sick burn~ that would doom star citizen.

Bold Robot posted:

I called this when the complaint was first posted and everyone acted like I was some kind of croberts shill for suggesting that there might be two sides to the story and that crytek's allegations were not some kind of ~sick burn~ that would doom star citizen.

Bold Robot posted:

I called this when the complaint was first posted and everyone acted like I was some kind of croberts shill for suggesting that there might be two sides to the story and that crytek's allegations were not some kind of ~sick burn~ that would doom star citizen.

Nude posted:

I feel like someone could write a paper on how Star Citizens talk about their game vs other mmos.

Frankenstyle posted:

I really hope someone does a serious documentary that digs into the whole thing with some input from a panel of sociologists and psychologists and marketing folks. It's all so goddamn crazy. It's like a perfect storm of sunk cost fallacy combined with i can't guess what sorts of failed reasoning and dark Jedi mind tricks. I've half watched the story from a distance just for laughs, but I'm honestly really curious about the marketing scams and mental gymnastics behind the borderline mass hysteria of it all.

Icochet posted:

Anyone making such a documentary would probably get harassed like a motherfucker.

food court bailiff posted:

yeah, i was one of those people, because before cig released the contract as part of their motion to dismiss there was literally no reason at all to think the lawsuit was specious, and meanwhile cig is literally a company built on lies. like, i'm not going to apologize for thinking what all the information at the time suggested was correct

food court bailiff posted:

actually I know exactly how lawsuits work and the interesting thing is that crytek actually did file trash, like literally claiming things about the contract that are demonstrably and obviously false, and that's the whole reason it's weird, you tremendous moron.

Bold Robot posted:

Hmmm yes, it sure is weird that two companies fighting over a contract have different ideas about what it means.

food court bailiff posted:

did you read the complaint because holy poo poo you seem like a tard right now lol

veiled boner fuel posted:

Guys guys guys, no need to slapfight, you both look like tards.

food court bailiff posted:

most complaints over contract disputes do not lie about the material facts of the contract hth

Over There posted:

But for real, when is the game coming out?

Over There posted:

But for real, when is the game coming out?

Over There posted:

But for real, when is the game coming out?

Over There posted:

But for real, when is the game coming out?