trucutru posted:

Oh, and here is a full fly-over the place that'll introduce years of gameplay. Period!

https://v.redd.it/9tpkr7wjyuq81/DASH_480.mp4?source=fallback.gif

Mirificus posted:

fuctifino posted:

There's a chance to see Evie

https://twitter.com/Stormfire962/status/1508934131014684679

Mirificus posted:

How can cig hire so many people and not achieve anything?! Preposterous!

The Titanic posted:

So...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15443124/



So the unthinkable alternative to cig is that yes, there is a lot of people there, but no, they are not all hard at work on Star Citizen.

They are actually doing other things, likely not even using the CIG/CI name but some LLC shell company or something.

Pennywise the Frown posted:

That part of my joke was basically that Chris can't get her to come.

Mirificus posted:

quote:

The absolute simplest answer is: the community doesn't understand the development process, doesn't appreciate the complexity and depth of the project, and has no patience.

That is 1000x more likely than any other explanation. It's also 100% true.

Mirificus posted:

Mirificus posted:

Mumpy Puffinz posted:

I am so glad they showed us a "Rome: Total War" map

Plan R posted:

In conclusion -> Buy an Idris or watch Sandi's movie which is a real tough choice.

Mirificus posted:

Plan R posted:

How dare you disparage Rome: Total War that way!

If you order your troops into the river the horses will drown but part of the infantry will make it; If their shields are big enough!

In conclusion -> Buy an Idris or watch Sandi's movie which is a real tough choice.

Pennywise the Frown posted:

Yes. That's the absolute simplest answer. And not like...... poor management.

.random posted:

A real Sandi’s choice there

Mozi posted:

What if I could watch Sandi's movie in-Verse? Surely in the far future her rightful status as the galaxy's most beautiful and famous actress would be a reality...

Mirificus posted:

quote:

"The less people know, the more stubbornly they know it." - Osho
...

.random posted:

I think it’s really cool tech the way the barista and the coffee cup both quantum jump to new locations during the course of this video. When you’re modeling things at the subatomic level, you naturally start to see the underpinnings of our galaxy begin to peek out their heads.

Blue On Blue posted:

can't be , it has her kid and who i can only assume is her maid in it

Nirvikalpa posted:

Wonder why she decided to cast an Asian woman for the role of her mom though.

Pennywise the Frown posted:

Yes. That's the absolute simplest answer. And not like...... poor management.

quote:

I hire people for a living, in technology. It would be monumentally complicated to hire so badly, consistently, for this to ever even be an edge case factor. An absolute non-starter.

Occam's razor remains a solid analogy because the MOST likely outcome, as I stated, is that the game is complex enough that the good people they have working on it will take more than 10 years to get it done. That it isn't done at 10 years isn't because the team is bad, or they aren't up to the task. The simple answer is IT TAKES WHAT IT TAKES.

That is the entire, true point. There doesn't have to be "something they could have done better or differently" to be at a different level of "done" right now. Some people argue as if that is a given, that SOMETHING that can be controlled wasn't. But the unsatisfyingly accurate answer is: that's not the case.

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I'll only reply to the idea that 'it takes what it takes' is a poo poo method.

Let me explain why it is appropriate for SC.

When you are delivering code, let's say a new screen in a policy administration system (something I have 20+ years of experience with), you should be able to pick a date, plan sprints and hit the target relatively close. You are working in a system that you've worked on often for a decade plus, have extensive knowledge with, and are delivering something you've delivered dozens of times before.

Now let's say that the underlying tools you rely on are no longer supported by the vendor and security concerns press you to replace the entire system from the ground up.

You find me the company, fortune 500, technological, I don't care, that has EVER hit their targets doing that, and you'll have created a fake document from scratch - because (and here is where the rubber meets the road on this concept) - just like with SC, doing something BRAND NEW FROM SCRATCH is not compatible with pre-defined dates. Simply stated, and factually accurate.

If CIG was churning out "yet another" formulaic shooter, then this would be a reasonable thing to suggest. But they aren't. They have ideas on how it might work (as opposed to existing code that shows it does work) so they ARE going to have REASONABLE and UNDERSTANDABLE delays.

If this weren't the case - if CIG wasn't creating brand new, edge-pushing technology and unprecedented stitched-together gameplay including net-new systems, net-new game engine functionality, etc. - then sure, they missed a date and have no excuse.

But that's not the case. And that's what CIG has stated, when Chris delivered his year-end 2020 letter it was clear. When they revamped the roadmap because we struggle to understand its actual intent, it was clear. They've stated as much as I've elucidated. There is no mystery.

Just an unwillingness to accept the facts.

Shirec posted:

Everything I've read makes it sound like everyone there is working on building cumbersome, poorly thought out systems that get thrown away for not meeting some arbitrary vision.

obithrawn posted:

I manage creative people who always want just a little more time and just a little more budget and I've always wondered what would happen if you just endlessly accepted all of those requests. Now we know.

Chris Roberts, 2012 posted:

I needed a producer that could do more than just do a good deal. I needed someone to help me on the set, to tell me hey Chris I know you want to do these 10 things but we only have money to do 5 things really well. So let's pick what they are and knock them out of the park and cut the others. This is what a strong creative producer does, and its what I've tried to do for other directors I've worked with over the last 10 years.

obithrawn posted:

I manage creative people who always want just a little more time and just a little more budget and I've always wondered what would happen if you just endlessly accepted all of those requests. Now we know.

Nirvikalpa posted:

Late but I believe the woman playing Sandi's mom is actually a fairly prolific small-time actress who has appeared in things like Legally Blonde and the Walking Dead:

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1017246/

Wonder why she decided to cast an Asian woman for the role of her mom though.

Nirvikalpa posted:

Wonder why she decided to cast an Asian woman for the role of her mom though.

Shirec posted:

someone in fintech dev

.random posted:

Her real-life mother is of Chinese/Filipino/something else descent or something, so it’s not all that odd.

LOL but fins have already been developed, so it’s not a fair comparison, sir or madam! (I assume that poster was the same one from a while ago who was bragging about being in some Really Important Scaled Agile For Enterprise scrums or something, so I THINK I KNOW A LITTLE SOMETHING ABOUT QUARTERLY PLANNING, DAD oops, I’m dumb. apparently all these tech-adjacent people have irrelevant work experience they like to bring to bear)

Trollologist posted:

Okay, here's what I don't get about SC, at this point: Backers are lining up to suck off this river like it's the greatest, best designed river in video game history. A cursory search for "No man's sky River" yields the below and like like hundreds of other results.





It's a game that exists, came out, works, and has been patched to like, function. What exactly is SC aiming to do that Elite Dangerous and No Mans' sky, and Eve online aren't already doing? It seems like the answer to that question is: be a scam.

Regarde Aduck posted:

no coffee machine

Toilet Gameplay - a good and reasonable/realistic solution posted:

I always thought it´s a little exaggerated: toilets as gameplay?
But after a week of diarrhoea it was very obvious to me.

What can´t you do when you waited too long?
What can´t you do when the business is VERY urgent?

You can´t run.
You can´t run very fast.

So this could a good solution for Star Citizen.

Gaming-Loop:

- a while after drining/eating (some hours) a indicator appears that your avatar can go to the toilet
- first nothing happens 30 Minutes or so (we assume here you don´t go to the toilet)
- then after 30 or 40 Minutes your max. runspeed is slowing a bit down
- another 20 Minutes later your runspeed significant slower than normal
- another 20 Minutes and you can´t barely speed up (now it shows in your walking animation - we all know how it looks like...)
- another 20 Minutes later: you walking speed is slowing down too
After roundabout 90-120 Minutes your walking speed reached the slowest point - Let´s hope you find a toilette before you do some FPS-Action

[All numbers are just examples]

So what do you think? :slightly_smiling_face:
I like the idea, find it a little funny but also realistic.

I think the penalty for not going pee shouldn´t get any higher but with this it would make a difference for long time Missions.
Short Missions in something like a Cutlass shouldn´t be affected by this.

Oh and a good idea for the Starfarer Gold Pass or big ships: let smaller ships dock and let the passenger pee and have a drink or something ^^
So first you can tank and then you can go to toilet. And then the journey continuous.