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May 22, 2020 05:48
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Beet Wagon posted:It was physically impossible for me to read all of that lmao. The only thing I came away with is that there's a dude named "Colt LeGrande" which like... lmao. It's actually kind of impressive how the combination of really poorly thought-out base storylines plus the need to be continuously updating the lore over the never-ending development (not because they actually need to, but because they think it keeps their players engaged) has combined to create this weird shambling monstrosity. Their lore is bad, it's really, really loving bad. But the constant drive to create an evolving story while their players are waiting for the game to make it feel like it's actually a 'living breathing universe' is what makes it unbearable. All these reams of text to establish some kind of backstory, and none of it sticks. It's like an egg sliding out of a teflon pan, but they keep adding more and more eggs. Yeah I always marvel at the reams of lovely lore they put out and their attempts to make it seem like things are happening in their “universe” of one partially complete solar system. It’s obviously all part of the bigger dog and pony show, but I never see citizens engaged with the lore at all, other than that one dude we had on ArgCast. The lore videos are CIG’s least watched content. I wonder why they even bother? But I guess some D-grade writers are getting Los Angeles poverty wages to endlessly churn this stuff out that will never exist in the game in any way. So, good for them?
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May 22, 2020 06:09
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Jack-Off Lantern posted:So wait,Earth and Terra aren't the same planet in Star Citizen? The UEE is the late roman empire. Rome (Earth) is going to get sacked by the Vandals (Vanduul) and Terra (Byzantium) will become the new capitol. except actually they're just moving the seat of government there now, early, for no reason i guess except that they read the plot in advance
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May 22, 2020 06:14
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Time_pants posted:Who the gently caress is thIs for? Illusion of productivity
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May 22, 2020 06:16
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Beet Wagon posted:"Colt LeGrande" Please don't reveal my sex-work pseudonym
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May 22, 2020 06:19
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Wow, that's some inaccurate poo poo right there. UAC doesn't give two shits about non-OS drives, it only gives a pop-up for elevated admin privileges for protected folder ON the OS drive. CIG ladies and gentlemen.
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May 22, 2020 06:21
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TheDeadlyShoe posted:The UEE is the late roman empire. Rome (Earth) is going to get sacked by the Vandals (Vanduul) and Terra (Byzantium) will become the new capitol. To be fair, Rome was sacked by the Visigoths a century after Constantine the Great established the Eastern capital in Byzantium. By that time the Empire was split in half with two emperors, and Rome wasn’t even the capital of the Western half anymore, that had been moved to Ravenna.
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May 22, 2020 06:29
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Sarsapariller posted:Have we ever heard about a single other branch of this gigantic, 100-planet Imperial Government other than the Navy? I've read way too loving much of the lore and I think that's literally the only government function that has ever been mentioned. Everything else is handled by private megacorporations. I believe the floor moppers union has been mentioned. Although they call them low level backers.
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May 22, 2020 06:42
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UnknownTarget posted:It's me, the turrets on every fighter that are as big as a house. It's entirely because of the Hornet. Their early line-up had zero turreted fighters and the Hornet's turret was remote. But it had more guns so they could charge 180 fuckin' dollars for it, and everyone (at the time) bought one because it was clearly the combat fighter. Someone in their ship design department twigged to the fact that turrets = more guns = sells better, and they've never looked back. What's astonishing is that 7 years later the turrets still don't work, and the fans aren't even angry about it. In fact it's really interesting to look back at the kickstarter lineup because it's like excavating the designs of a different game entirely. Aurora, 300i, Freelancer, Hornet, Constellation, Cutlass- only one is even remotely military and the rest are designed to be kind of "Lifestyle choices" with guns because it's Freelancer the MMO. The biggest ship in the loving game was supposed to be a 3-man hauler! It's amazing how hard they pivoted towards giant-sized industrial numbers and twenty-man cruisers and "Dropships" despite the Constellation being basically the biggest actually flyable vessel to this very day. It's so clear that the ship designs are purely about chasing dollars and otherwise totally detached from the realities of their engine.
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May 22, 2020 06:43
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UnknownTarget posted:It's me, the turrets on every fighter that are as big as a house. Because they are copying old space shooter design which is just Starwars WW2 in space but managing to screw it up anyway even after getting it right 30 years ago. The first ships they had back at the kickstarter were fine but the longer it goes the more any cohesive vision disappears.
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May 22, 2020 06:44
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Dementropy posted:
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May 22, 2020 06:45
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Sarsapariller posted:It's entirely because of the Hornet. Their early line-up had zero turreted fighters and the Hornet's turret was remote. But it had more guns so they could charge 180 fuckin' dollars for it, and everyone (at the time) bought one because it was clearly the combat fighter. Someone in their ship design department twigged to the fact that turrets = more guns = sells better, and they've never looked back. What's astonishing is that 7 years later the turrets still don't work, and the fans aren't even angry about it. You can basically see the reason for that change in that "Gatsby" trailer above. Somewhere along the line they stopped selling spaceships for a spaceship flying/fighting game and started selling an imaginary lifestyle. One where you're fabulously wealthy and respected and special, where people are just falling over themselves for a chance to ride in your space yacht and gush about how cool and rich and awesome you are. And that doesn't happen in some dinky 3-man ship. It happens in a giant space yacht, or a giant military ship where all the peons will gather and let you bark orders at them.
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May 22, 2020 07:07
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colonelwest posted:To be fair, Rome was sacked by the Visigoths a century after Constantine the Great established the Eastern capital in Byzantium. By that time the Empire was split in half with two emperors, and Rome wasn’t even the capital of the Western half anymore, that had been moved to Ravenna. If they were interested in creating an interesting setup based off actual Roman history, then management issues caused by the UEE being too big could be an enormous destabilizing factor and Terra could be being set up as a secondary capital for administration reasons. But since they are lazy they are running an 'election' where somehow moving the capital is a winning campaign issue. Looking forward to the Vanduul leader being named Visigoth.
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May 22, 2020 07:10
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I'm looking forward to the mission givers Asterix and Obelix.
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May 22, 2020 07:42
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Colostomy Bag posted:https://twitter.com/banditloaf/status/1262805745541746688 This is so pathetically sad I have a hard time processing it.
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May 22, 2020 07:52
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Zazz Razzamatazz posted:
It's your basic Decepticon color scheme.
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May 22, 2020 08:02
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trucutru posted:It's your basic Decepticon color scheme. Wait, are you telling me Space Kitty is a Decepticon? 
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May 22, 2020 08:18
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So, I bought the DCS Hornet pack earlier this week since its on sale and I'm back with another trip report. I've always wanted to get into DCS but never bothered due to the entry requirements. But with VR, everything is mostly simplified. I use a really old T-Flight Hotas X, which is still really good btw. Day1: Mainly trying not gently caress up starting up. Day2: Same as Day1 Day3: Cold start, into taxi and takeoff. Day4: Learning the Radar systems. I can see that Star Citizen tries really hard to follow what DCS has, or to promise what DCS is capable of now. And many many others have bought into the empty promises that Chris Roberts is trying to sell. Like DCS has this insane attention to detail, for their full fidelity airframes (planes that have fully pressable buttons in cockpit) and Star Citizen tries to Archer that to no end. I haven't even flown with my friends yet since we are all still learning the basics and trying to get our planes off the runway in one piece. Combat missions feel ever so far away. Star Citizen and its fidelitous ships will surely pave the way for next gen DCS in space. Just you wait. Buy an F8.
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May 22, 2020 08:21
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I can't get over the fact that in the the SC universe a loving car has a remote controlled turret, but combat spaceships has maned ones.
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May 22, 2020 08:44
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Just.. Don't make it EARTH? MAKE NEO TERRA Like in Battlestar Galactica or some poo poo
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May 22, 2020 09:04
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Sarsapariller posted:What's astonishing is that 7 years later the turrets still don't work, and the fans aren't even angry about it. Early days!
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May 22, 2020 10:15
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Mr Fronts posted:Early days! Previous iterations of turret gameplay were hand built, turret pipelines are not yet operational.
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May 22, 2020 11:37
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no_recall posted:So, I bought the DCS Hornet pack earlier this week since its on sale and I'm back with another trip report. I randomly skimmed the DCS thread and noticed they model the way cockpit anti glare coating degrades over time, which is such a Roberts thing to care about
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May 22, 2020 12:46
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sebmojo posted:I randomly skimmed the DCS thread and noticed they model the way cockpit anti glare coating degrades over time, which is such a Roberts thing to care about Except it’s in a game that actually works lol
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May 22, 2020 13:07
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MarcusSA posted:Except it’s in a game that actually works lol Exactly
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May 22, 2020 13:15
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Jack-Off Lantern posted:So wait,Earth and Terra aren't the same planet in Star Citizen? Earth: Gravity: 1G Atmospheric Pressure: 1 Earth Sidereal Rotation: 23.9345 SEH Equatorial Radius: 6,378 km (Real) 637.8 km (Ingame Scale) Axial Tilt: 23.439° Density: 5.51 g/cm³ Tidally Locked: No Orbital Period: 365.256 SED Orbital Speed: 29.78 km/s Orbital Radius: 1 AU (Real) 0.1 AU (Ingame Scale) Orbital Eccentricity: 0.016 Aphelion: 1.0170 AU (Real) 0.10170 AU (Ingame Scale) Perihelion: 0.9832 AU (Real) 0.09832 AU (Ingame Scale) Terra: Terra III System: Terra Type: Planet Classification: Super-Earth Habitable: Yes Affiliation: UEE Senator: Mira Ngo, Kelos Albervar Location: Orbits Terra Nova Natural Satellites: 1 Artificial Satellites: 3 Landing Zones: 3
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May 22, 2020 13:15
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sebmojo posted:I randomly skimmed the DCS thread and noticed they model the way cockpit anti glare coating degrades over time, which is such a Roberts thing to care about roberts has no idea what anti-glare coating is or how it functions. His real world experience outside of movies or yacht-aesthetics is extremely limited. See how every star citizen ship has horrible useless cockpit design and cockpit glass
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May 22, 2020 13:29
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Not even considering the question of why futuristic humanity would somehow go back to an "empire" as a system of government, why would you have voting at all? It's an empire. As far as I know, the only empire that voted for its emperor was the Holy Roman Empire, and it was closer to the system of confirming the Pope in that only the princes and prince-bishops could vote. I know it's a staple of space opera / fantasy to have a throwback to feudal times a la Star Wars, Dune, etc, but with SC's insistence on "realism" it comes off as even more dumb. CIG would have been better off researching the Orion's Arm universe, which has detailed, interesting, and believable ideas about how future societies might develop in their politics, economies, and cultures.
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May 22, 2020 14:17
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Scruffpuff posted:Wow, that's some inaccurate poo poo right there. UAC doesn't give two shits about non-OS drives, it only gives a pop-up for elevated admin privileges for protected folder ON the OS drive. Banking on the ongoing situation where big backers haven't played a PC game since 1996. Because I literally cannot recall a single other game that had issues with scanning the drives for file integrity, that's such an absurd excuse as to why they can't figure out how to make a goddamn launcher work. We can also recall how long it took them to get a delta patcher in place. Or the still ongoing for 6+ years that you have to manually delete your USER folder instead of the launcher doing it. It's sad and comical simultaneously.
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May 22, 2020 14:22
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Zazz Razzamatazz posted:You can basically see the reason for that change in that "Gatsby" trailer above. It started happening years ago, presumably right around the time their stream of new customers ran dry. That's entirely speculation on my part but the switch to insanely huge expensive toys for the "space rich" is like a giant neon sign saying "We're not worried about new customers, we want to capture repeat sales." It's also the exact thing every video on f2p economics in games warns against doing because it drives away any potential small customers, which your whales need to make the game fun. Except in this case there is no game so the entire death spiral of a heavily monetized game where you can buy power seems to have temporarily been avoided. Since all your whale customers want to do is look at their pretty spaceship and walk around and make pretend cups of coffee and stand on the bridge like Mal Reynolds, the whole thing has an unnatural life granted to it. It took 2 years and 6 months to go from 1 million to 2 million user accounts on the RSI website. It has taken 2 years and 1 month to add another ~600,000 web accounts.
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So I haven't really followed the drama around this in years. But I remember originally it seemed like Roberts just did not give a poo poo about the game, and was spending tons of money on shooting videos specifically with Mark Hamil. Did anything ever even come of the stuff he filmed? Is he still blowing money filming?
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May 22, 2020 14:26
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May 22, 2020 14:32
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Cripes, how did I miss the Gatsby vid? I was hoping for a t-pose in the pool at the end.
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May 22, 2020 14:33
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syzpid posted:So I haven't really followed the drama around this in years. But I remember originally it seemed like Roberts just did not give a poo poo about the game, and was spending tons of money on shooting videos specifically with Mark Hamil. Did anything ever even come of the stuff he filmed? Is he still blowing money filming? Apparently they did a ton of reshoots and eventually what we got out of it like 2 years ago was this monstrosity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5Q-QFvFHxg More recently they put out this to show off their star-studded cast and the heavy, super serious tones of their 400,000 page long script, and it's almost breathtaking in how bad it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMSGlZSL0DE The actual game is nowhere to be seen, and the video discussing the most recent updates to it has been delayed lmao
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May 22, 2020 14:35
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Dynastocles posted:researching hahahaha
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May 22, 2020 14:47
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Dynastocles posted:Not even considering the question of why futuristic humanity would somehow go back to an "empire" as a system of government, why would you have voting at all? It's an empire. As far as I know, the only empire that voted for its emperor was the Holy Roman Empire, and it was closer to the system of confirming the Pope in that only the princes and prince-bishops could vote.
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Dwesa posted:I think it's solely because CR wants to paint his militarized fascist-like dictatorship as 'good guys' the roman empire did nothing wrong!
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May 22, 2020 15:02
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Todays taxxe was brought to you by Chris's physics refactor 'Never cross the artificial gravity wells!'  reddit posted:That has been happening soooo much with 3.9.0
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I wonder what the Colosseum would look like in modern times if Emperor Roberts had a hand in its design.
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