TheAgent posted:

but those guys already have everything

are they really buying more of the same ships they already own in record numbers in a time of serious world financial uncertainty? I mean, I guess its possible but highly unlikely

here's the funding over the last few years...the numbers!
Jan 2013: $266,125
Feb 2013: $802,494
Mar 2013: $180,073
Total Q1 2013: $1,248,692

Jan 2014: $2,099,081
Feb 2014: $1,741,103
Mar 2014: $1,586,076
Total Q1 2014: $5,426,260

Jan 2015: $3,270,829
Feb 2015: $2,399,668
Mar 2015: $3,183,965
Total Q1 2015: $8,854,462

Jan 2016: $2,643,754
Feb 2016: $2,139,933
Mar 2016: $2,010,472
Total Q1 2016: $6,794,159

Jan 2017: $1,753,012
Feb 2017: $1,966,022
Mar 2017: $1,310,900
Total Q1 2017: $5,029,934

Jan 2018: $2,188,144
Feb 2018: $1,745,333
Mar 2018: $1,977,863
Total Q1 2018: $5,911,340

Jan 2019: $2,847,892
Feb 2019: $2,631,890
Mar 2019: $3,053,761
Total Q1 2019: $8,533,543

Jan 2020: $5,213,093
Feb 2020: $4,612,640
Mar 2020: $3,277,437 (so far)
Total Q1 2020: $13,103,170 !!!!

As you can see, the last few months have almost doubled CIG's revenue from the same time period last year according to their tracker. Jan 2020 is an 83% jump in funding, Feb 2020 is a 75% jump in funding and March 2020 is looking like it will be at least a 60% or higher jump in funding.

Everyone sitting around doing nothing but JPGs now makes sense, but what about the last two months can really explain the huge loving jump in purchases?

The Titanic posted:

Well I guess I'll just stay home and celebrate by seeing nobody at all and being alone! Just like every normal day these days! :3

TheAgent posted:

Like at this point, releasing nothing for 3 months besides the carrack that already had a ton of presales, they are doing the best ever and will take in almost double their revenue from last year

this doesn't seem shady at all

The Titanic posted:

I feel like the guys making the animations for guns in Star Citizen have never poo poo

Kosumo posted:

It's citizens buying heavily into medical ships so that they can support their org mates if they get Corona virus.

Need to get them now, before the supplies of those ships run out, I would expect the outbreak to affect the supply of the pixels that go into the spaceships.

God forbid that Chris Roberts may not having the choice to make that pixel Green anymore. (Explains the sale on green pixel ships the other day)

TheAgent posted:

the 3 largest countries supporting star citizen (US, UK, Germany) are about to have the greatest economic downturn probably ever in loving recorded history but I'm sure those "pledges" will just keep rolling in as normal

TheAgent posted:

Expect a letter from the chairman as soon as tomorrow

same guy right about pvp penalties

TheAgent posted:

piss Robert's indeed

biglads posted:

Star Citizer fans, ursine for a suprise

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New player just joined yesterday. I LOVE the visuals of this game but my ship (Aurora MR?) movement seems quite unrealistic. Inputs are instant on, instant off. No inertia or ramp on thrusters. Feels like I'm 'placing' my ship in creative mode rather than flying it. Even in atmosphere it feels ephemeral, like I can just park it in the sky at any angle. Is there an adjustment I can make to inertia? I want to feel like I'm flying a big hunkin' ship!

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There's tons of inertia in this game, there's even an inertia reticle to show you where you're drifting if you change direction. It's much less noticable on small ships like the Aurora unless you're going fast, more noticable (or more of a mechanic to deal with) on large ships. Don't forget these are all hyper advanced fantasy ships with dozens of gimballed thrusters and the ability to jump across solar systems in minutes..while maintaining artificial gravity. It's not too far fetched they can hover at any angle. That being said, this is an alpha and probably hardly representative of the finished product.
But to answer your question, no there isn't. I would suggest subscribing to the monthly ship program and trying out this months ship (the Argo Mole) as it's been for me the most drifty boaty hunk of space metal I've ever flown

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Hello, How many players can one server hold?

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This will grow exponentially when/if the server meshing technology needed is created/implemented.

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Can I get the real answer?

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Same for me. I haven't played SC for years. Played way back when I first had my Connie but that was it. Followed the development along a bit but that's all.
I recently got a new PC, absolute beast of a unit. Yet still this game feels like my character is running through treacle all the time. Nothing is smooth, half the AI are standing on tables or chairs instead of sitting, this hardly any content in game. Flying around is fun if not a bit janky.
I really don't understand the SC evangelists, I don't get how people can be so wowed by the game after all this time. At the risk of sounding like an old echo, they need to stop working on ships and start working on the core game.
[EDIT]: The downvotes without discourse just drives home my point. Thanks.

Beexoffel posted:

Markets hit hard by Corona from S&P500 through to silver, but not Star Citizen funding.

Around a million per week...

Mr.PayDay posted:

Pixelate posted:

Funding tracker explained! The sub Q&A is full of new players, returning veterans, you name it...

Zazz Razzamatazz posted:

I still think the funding tracker is BS

Popete posted:

My favourite explanation for why the flying feels like garbage is because the game is supposedly so advanced they've solved aerodynamics and modeled thousands of tiny thrusters keeping your ship held in perfect balance anywhere. Definitely not because they haven't figured out how to simulate flying in any real way.

Even if you believed CIG had a full fidelity flight model but it was being covered up by advanced tech that made flying feel like your ship was being held up by string why would you want that? Flight simulators are fun because you have to deal with aerodynamics or in outer space inertia.

Popete posted:

My favourite explanation for why the flying feels like garbage is because the game is supposedly so advanced they've solved aerodynamics and modeled thousands of tiny thrusters keeping your ship held in perfect balance anywhere. Definitely not because they haven't figured out how to simulate flying in any real way.

Even if you believed CIG had a full fidelity flight model but it was being covered up by advanced tech that made flying feel like your ship was being held up by string why would you want that? Flight simulators are fun because you have to deal with aerodynamics or in outer space inertia.

Mr.PayDay posted:

It’s still amazing how this thread underestimates the spending habits of the sunk cost fallacy gang since YEARS. We mock the Cult for the denial while many Goons are still in denial as well when it’s about doubting the funding.

I am reading many German forums and threads and you find so many gamer dads with disposable income and that logic:
“Star Citizen will be the BDSSE and I bought 2-4 full price games every month for my consoles/PC and I had so many IAP for my mobile games as well and steam sales with games I did not even install before SC!
NOW I am spending that 2000-5000 Euro/Dollar every year to keep the dream alive and collect my ships !”

Just add the event and anniversary sales etc and you still don’t believe there are several thousands of delusional idiots that are still pumping THOUSANDS of Euro/Dollar into this?
Every loving year! As long as they need to. They won’t stop. Every new fake trailer restores their faith. These guys are proud to support the most open game development ever with their macro transactions.

Pixelate posted:

There's another one of those lovely 'Don't tell my wife' / 'She spends the same on shoes anyway' threads on the sub...

colonelwest posted:

I’m sure CIG is still taking in a lot of money, and you’re right there’s a whole German side of the cult that us English speakers don’t see as much of. But, the longer this goes on I just can’t believe the funding tracker. After 8 years of lies and incompetence and the sentiment in the community at rock bottom, Q1 2020 is going to be their best quarter yet?

Yeah, there’s the idiots and their “Gibening” but the Carrack has been on sale on and off for years and it’s a very old dream at this point. Also the funding tracker is just shady as hell. There’s obviously some sort of smoothing of the numbers going on, as literally there isn’t an hour that goes by in which someone isn’t buying a picture of a spaceship for an 8 year old pre-alpha. And this is CIG we’re talking about, they’ll lie about anything and everything.

XK posted:

I'm a wife's dream come true. She can have whatever she wants. I bring in money and she's really stupid and I still have pocket change left after buying ships.

*wild economic downturn occurs

Food $200
Data $150
Rent $800
Space Ships $3,600
Utility $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me convince my wife she is a bitch

Agony Aunt posted:

Option 1: The marketing push is really working and people are buying in big. Problem: Once people get playing, are they really going to be as impressed as when they were sold on the game by shills and marketing? The blowback would be spectactular if this was the case.

TheAgent posted:

I'm deffo leaning to Option 3: Everything is Made Up and the Numbers Don't Matter

it will be especially apparent after what happens in April funding tracker wise

TheAgent posted:

the 3 largest countries supporting star citizen (US, UK, Germany) are about to have the greatest economic downturn probably ever in loving recorded history but I'm sure those "pledges" will just keep rolling in as normal

zcrow posted:

Just want to point out that ibuprofen is not recommended in the case of COVID-19, at least according to Canadian health care. NSAIDs seem to make things worse. They're recommending sticking to acetaminophen for best outcomes.

Hav posted:

When you do get sick, watch your dosages, although the lethal single dose for most OTC painkillers is _really high_ (unless you're on a bunch of interferons), it's sometimes easy to forget. Ibuprofen is good for inflammation, but they put that poo poo in everything.

TheAgent posted:

Expect a letter from the chairman as soon as tomorrow

same guy right about pvp penalties

Twyst posted:

Catching up with the thread but also while it may be difficult to literally kill yourself immediately with OTC meds taking too much paracetamol can give you some pretty nasty liver damage, so please follow proper direction while using it and make sure you're not double dipping with different products that contain it.

Kosumo posted:

/Rub

The Titanic posted:

I will make up every lost cent with money and blood from my donations because I believe in space ship gaming dlc for $1000's of dollars. It will be me and the guy who is a tentacle girl in VR chat bringing this project across the finish line, shoulder to tentacle.

colonelwest posted:

I’m sure CIG is still taking in a lot of money, and you’re right there’s a whole German side of the cult that us English speakers don’t see as much of. But, the longer this goes on I just can’t believe the funding tracker. After 8 years of lies and incompetence and the sentiment in the community at rock bottom, Q1 2020 is going to be their best quarter yet?

Yeah, there’s the idiots and their “Gibening” but the Carrack has been on sale on and off for years and it’s a very old dream at this point. Also the funding tracker is just shady as hell. There’s obviously some sort of smoothing of the numbers going on, as literally there isn’t an hour that goes by in which someone isn’t buying a picture of a spaceship for an 8 year old pre-alpha. And this is CIG we’re talking about, they’ll lie about anything and everything.