Tokamak posted:

The inevitable consequences of race science

Beet Wagon posted:

Wreckage88 going to bat for diversity in the comments there makes me extremely confused lmao

Virtual Captain posted:

My favorite part about 'we need a little marker rendering for the mission giver' is that it is avoidable and imo preferable.

Instead of giving the player a giant OK GO HERE sign constantly, why not just give them a quest log at says "return to [QUEST_GIVER] at [LOCATION]" and just display the highlighted info when the player is looking at the map. Of course in Robertsian development they need a HUD overlay for all 30 points of interest.

Scruffpuff posted:

Except that's not what emergent gameplay means. Which adds up to this being yet another industry standard that Chris doesn't understand.

Emergent gameplay arises when players use implemented and designed gameplay elements in ways developers might not have expressly coded, but which the sophistication of the simulation allows anyway. Playing "catch" with a live grenade in a shooter, writing your signature on the walls using bulletholes, that sort of thing.

When you "plan" for emergent gameplay by basically not making a game, forcing players to make up poo poo due to the complete lack of anything to do or see, and you wind up with Big Benny's.

That's not emergent gameplay - it's desperation. And in 2018, desperation is the name of the game.

Beet Wagon posted:

Wreckage88 going to bat for diversity in the comments there makes me extremely confused lmao

gooncati posted:

for those interested in performance news, the new patch doesn't offer much. Remember that fresh servers always perform better due to low player numbers and low NPC/physics clutter.

I have seen averages in the 20 fps range with dips below 10 fps so far on aging servers with a regular number of players. Pretty much 3.01 business as usual

You also have to remember that given the current state of the patch with general instability, memory leaking and rather quick gameplay degradation, many players only access a server for a few minutes which leaves population and load lower than on the average live server

Virtual Captain posted:

My favorite part about 'we need a little marker rendering for the mission giver' is that it is avoidable and imo preferable.

Instead of giving the player a giant OK GO HERE sign constantly, why not just give them a quest log at says "return to [QUEST_GIVER] at [LOCATION]" and just display the highlighted info when the player is looking at the map. Of course in Robertsian development they need a HUD overlay for all 30 points of interest.

quote:

Star Citizen: Reverse the Verse LIVE - Alpha 3.0 Q&A
Published on Jan 12, 2018


Erin @28:46: So 3.1 is uh, we're very much focusing on.. <brief mini stroke word salad> this is a lot to do with uh think we got the 3.0 out want to get out there get the feed back. So 3.1 is all about a big drive to solidify all that stuff [the 3.0 release], as well as one or two new features we're going to push for. Uhm, but mostly its about... biggest one, and we're focusing it on already, which is a big thing, is performance. so you know getting all of the 3.0 stuff, all the different base checks(?) all the current stuff just getting the features working is a massive deal. And now we're taking.. and what we're doing is now we've got some of our more senior guys really taking the time out to basically now go in and do these huge optimization passes.

So we basically know.... we we we...... we know where we need to optimize. theres a lot of stuff which is stuff, we just, you know, when your doing the feature (crush inside?) you, you know, then thats focu, neeeyy neey knoww its supposed to foptimization. so thats a big one. so the plan for 3.1 is that uhm, it should be much faster than 3.0 is. and so it should be <garbled> experience, much better experience for the community.

Nicholas posted:

Just a reminder that 3.1 is focused on improving performance

https://www.dualshockers.com/star-citizens-alpha-3-1-performance/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2o1bJQQIXE&t=1722s


SomethingJones i dont understand how you dont get an aneurysm from transcribing these videos.

Scruffpuff posted:

Exactly. Which is why my eyes rolled into the next time zone when I first heard Chris explain how he was "planning for" emergent gameplay "possibilities."

There's nothing that fucker doesn't get wrong.

Aramoro posted:

I would disagree to a degree when you say you can't plan for emergent game play...

...Like I using my mining ship to drag asteroids out of orbit to bombard a planetary base. You wouldn't need to plan for that specific thing to happen...

Aramoro posted:

It cannot be said strongly enough that this is NOT what he has created.

Beet Wagon posted:

Beet Wagon posted:

Streetroller posted:

They filed a Motion to Dismiss.

Judge has two options: A) allow written rebuttal, B) hear the motion in court.
The latter option generally means the judge finds the case interesting enough to hear the motion personally.

Kilmers Elbow posted:

Look at Star Citizen utilising the exact amount of available memory.

That's programming!

SomethingJones posted:

Star Citizen: Around the Verse - Performance and Optimization
March 8 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU0sMZbhqoU

@38:00

Clive Johnson:
Miles is sat in his bar, in Levski. And you're on Port Olisar.

So we need a little marker rendering on your client, showing where Miles is, so you know where to head. But with BIND CULLING the Miles Eckhart entity won't be there, so what do we draw the marker on?

So those are the kinds of problems we need to figure out ways to deal with it, there's a couple of different ways we can deal with that situation and... (cut)

But until we do, we can't really put BIND CULLING in because it would break the gameplay. Probably won't see the full implementation of bind culling in until as I say, we get object container streaming in. Ehm... but for us internally we need to get it in as soon as possible before we can move on with some of the other stuff that we're planning.

So another thing which we've kind of done, I've mentioned BIND CULLING, I've mentioned OBJECT CONTAINER STREAMING, ehm... there's also SERIALISED VARIABLE CULLING, em... which is because we can't do bind culling just yet, because we can't get it out into the hands of the backers... SERIALISED VARIABLE CULLING is what we CAN do.

source http://dereksmart.com/forums/reply/6239/

source http://dereksmart.com/forums/reply/6078/


[b]Bind Culling and serialised variable were BOTH supposedly in development for v2.6 in 2016:



They even included them in press releases:




Bind Culling coming in 2.6
Bind Culling coming in 2.6.1
Bind Culling coming in 3.0
Bind Culling coming in 3.1
Bind Culling coming in 3.2
Bind Culling necessary to make the game run at >20fps with 8 clients

Daztek posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jx_v2w2HTG0

Star Citizen Alpha 3.1 is really good guys

ManofManyAliases posted:

Just an fyi: everyone files an MTD. It's common practice. In civil small claims court, it almost always goes to hearing.

Jobbo_Fett posted:

G0RF posted:

You sound like a man who knows a thing ‘er two about the law, friend. What’s your Star Citizen story?

Also, RTV is on.

Bayonnefrog posted:

non technical person here. Could someone explain what bind culling is for the lames like myself? Thanks.

Bayonnefrog posted:

non technical person here. Could someone explain what bind culling is for the lames like myself? Thanks.

Zest posted:

Is... that... Heat-reactive hair dye? Is it real?! I want it...

Toops posted:

One thing I think is pretty cool is when this thread turns into a reddit reader app.

Love readin' about what those little guys have to say!