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Hav posted:50% of the board are lawyers. 2/3rds of those lawyers are in the business of shuffling money overseas. Marc Nitsche is the Caymans, Eli and Alon Klein are British virgin Islands. The latter two run infatrade, which supplied gap funding for a bunch of Ascendent Pictures projects. I smell a conspiracy theory, you little FUDster goonie.. 
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6 years, 250 million, 350 employees, still pre-alpha.
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I said come in! posted:6 years, 250 million, 350 employees, still pre-alpha. And one visionary at the helm - makes all the difference.
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I don't think most of you understand Robert's vision. If he released Star Citizen on time it would ruin PC gaming instead of saving it. He is delaying it so other studios can catch up.
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It's weird, 3.6 hit the PTU yesterday night but I haven't seen any victory laps on reddit or in this thread?!? I need MoMA to get in here and tell me how cancelling all the AI and mechanics and only releasing 8 items out of 60+ scheduled is actually very good 
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In other news, they finally got those pesky shields tuned correctly. TLDR: 10 minutes of sustained fire from 4 ships cannot down a single shield facing on a Hammerhead now. Citizens praise this as excellent game balance.
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Sarsapariller posted:It's weird, 3.6 hit the PTU yesterday night but I haven't seen any victory laps on reddit or in this thread?!?   Checkmate.
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Sarsapariller posted:In other news, they finally got those pesky shields tuned correctly. Well, yes. It's perfectly balanced. You see, I spent $750 on this ship, and they did not, and therefore I win. I'd better run if I see someone who spent $27,000 though!
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Sarsapariller posted:In other news, they finally got those pesky shields tuned correctly. Well of course they do. It means that space poors like me can't shoot them out of the sky with an Aurora now. Hoo loving rah.
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Actually it's perfectly balanced - see, the shields all balance, back to 100%!
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quote:I think what you will get eventually is that ships operated with a skeleton crew won't be able to replace parts on the fly as they malfunction. So the massive stress on the shields for going 100% all the time starts to malfunction. It could take a minute. Maybe 2 minutes. But if you are under constant pressure from all directions you will quickly learn the benefits of having a squire on board running about replacing fuses here and there. Yes, I want to be a squire running around fixing poo poo.
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Nyast posted:I smell a conspiracy theory, you little FUDster goonie.. I don't eat my bodyweight in gummi bears to be 'little'. Everything else is accurate. Total tinfoil, whole cloth conspiracy right up until the paperwork gets filed. But I've always liked following the money, especially the money that gets a mention, then disappears forever, like the initial funding sources that Chris said he had before the Kickstarter went mental. I'm pretty sure that's the Kleins. Dementropy posted:Checkmate. Say what you like, I wouldn't be this sane without https://github.com/mbadolato/iTerm2-Color-Schemes
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Uhhh what the gently caress, someone posted a pornhub video of Sandi in one of the comment threads in that post And WE'RE the doxxers???
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BEST COMEDY/HORROR Film of 2019! Would watch again!
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Sarsapariller posted:It's weird, 3.6 hit the PTU yesterday night but I haven't seen any victory laps on reddit or in this thread?!? I can't find the post, maybe a thread bot can help me, but years ago MoMA, while defending the game, said something about the firey wraths of hell he would personally visit upon CIG were they to fail, however unlikely he felt that to be. It was almost Derek-esque, but I liked it because it was the only time he let his guard down and his inner doubt shined through.
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Scruffpuff posted:I can't find the post, maybe a thread bot can help me, but years ago MoMA, while defending the game, said something about the firey wraths of hell he would personally visit upon CIG were they to fail, however unlikely he felt that to be. It was almost Derek-esque, but I liked it because it was the only time he let his guard down and his inner doubt shined through. Yeah they pretty much can't ever EVER announce that they won't deliver. But it doesn't appear that people will hold them to anything as long as they promise to keep going.
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Anyone got the video where Gardiner lies about having a masters in "international marketing"? I believe it was an official SC video...
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Hi, my name is SirMunchAlot I was born in 1988, I like long walks in the beach and all my analogies contain nazi history.
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I might have guessed that this Marc Nitsche guy is overseeing the Roberts' family office, but I don't think they're actually wealthy enough for that to be a thing. So I guess they really just want his very useful tax evasion experience.
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SoftNum posted:Yeah they pretty much can't ever EVER announce that they won't deliver. But it doesn't appear that people will hold them to anything as long as they promise to keep going.
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Fidelitious posted:I might have guessed that this Marc Nitsche guy is overseeing the Roberts' family office, but I don't think they're actually wealthy enough for that to be a thing. He's there because the Calders have a board seat. Klein is the Roberts' guy, Marc replaces Dan Offner as the Calders' guy.
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Scruffpuff posted:I can't find the post, maybe a thread bot can help me, but years ago MoMA, while defending the game, said something about the firey wraths of hell he would personally visit upon CIG were they to fail, however unlikely he felt that to be. It was almost Derek-esque, but I liked it because it was the only time he let his guard down and his inner doubt shined through. Yeah, I think what you are thinking might of been different from "the quote the gently caress out of this" but after 3 years of stalled development my memory is hazy.
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Buying Star Citizen is like being the guy who goes into a casino and puts all his money on double zeroes, except even if you win the only prize is a video game
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Pulled from the Reddit thread about Sandi/Marc appointment, I honestly have no idea but I tittered reading it :
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It kinda sounds like some fanfiction poo poo... But they did just add that Cayman Islands banker dude to the board of directors, soooo
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Rotten Red Rod posted:It kinda sounds like some fanfiction poo poo... But they did just add that Cayman Islands banker dude to the board of directors, soooo Nah, we've been speculating that for a while. That 46 million that was for marketing? CIG would have run out of funds without it according to their own books. The investors did their homework and that 46 million came with some serious strings attached, the most likely being Squadron 42 releases before the end of 2020. And if it doesn't, the investors reserve the right to sell back their shares and take the money right out of CIG's coffers. And if CIG doesn't have the 46 million lying around? Well, they have to liquidate the company to pay it all off.
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Strangler 42 posted:Nah, we've been speculating that for a while. That 46 million that was for marketing? CIG would have run out of funds without it according to their own books. The investors did their homework and that 46 million came with some serious strings attached, the most likely being Squadron 42 releases before the end of 2020. And if it doesn't, the investors reserve the right to sell back their shares and take the money right out of CIG's coffers. And if CIG doesn't have the 46 million lying around? Well, they have to liquidate the company to pay it all off. VC types are usually pretty thorough, so they probably got personal guarantees from the three shareholders as well.
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venture capitalists are often scammed by morons with bullshit companies so maybe they didn't put in controls, but if so it's because chris lied to them endlessly lol
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I said come in! posted:6 years, 250 million, 350 employees, still pre-alpha. *squeak toy sound*
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corn in the bible posted:it's because chris lied to them endlessly lol I mean, what else is new? He might have made a firm commitment to launch SQ42 on X date to someone. It doesn't matter. Whatever promises he made or what ramifications it will have, he will find a way to continually delay. The difference between breaking a promise to kickstarter backers and breaking a promise to a VC investor is it's harder. But he'll still absolutely do it. This is the same guy that got railroaded out of both Microsoft and the movie industry.
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ZekeNY posted:VC types are usually pretty thorough, so they probably got personal guarantees from the three shareholders as well. corn in the bible posted:venture capitalists are often scammed by morons with bullshit companies so maybe they didn't put in controls, but if so it's because chris lied to them endlessly lol Both are correct.
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