Mirificus posted:

tooterfish posted:

Well this is bullshit.

Deckard was a replicant, he should be loving dead of old age.

tooterfish posted:

Well this is bullshit.

Deckard was a replicant, he should be loving dead of old age.

Mr.PayDay posted:

http://ca.ign.com/articles/2016/12/19/star-citizen-fps-module-star-marine-gets-new-trailer-details-a-ign-first


"Blizzard does a lot of this honing behind closed doors. It takes them quite a while, to hone and iterate. Then they release something, and generally it plays really well," Roberts said. "I think we're just trying to do the same thing, but much more public. We're inviting the community to participate in that. Here's what we think works well, and if it doesn't work well we're looking at it and adjusting it, and honing it, iterating it. It's very different than I've done stuff in the past."

XK posted:

All throughout my childhood, my mom always claimed I liked meatloaf. Even today she'll say I used to like it. I've always hated meatloaf. It completely baffles me.

Mr.PayDay posted:

MedicineHut posted:

What was this supposed to even do?

MedicineHut posted:

What was this supposed to even do?

DogonCrook posted:

"We already model atmosphere and different room volumes, so if a door opens or a window gets broken, it will start to remove the atmosphere from the volume," Roberts said. "That is all part of what we're trying to do for 3.0 which will allow for depressurization. People getting sucked out, or things getting sucked out. If you have a suit on you'll be okay. If you don't have a suit on, you'll asphyxiate."

Lol the airlock didn't fool anybody but chris it seems.

quote:

RIKER: You were right. Somebody blew the hatch. They were all sucked out into space.
DATA: Correction, sir, that's blown out.
RIKER: Thank you, Data.
DATA: A common mistake, sir,

Fat Shat Sings posted:

Daztek posted:

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/promotions/welcome-to-sc

XK posted:

All throughout my childhood, my mom always claimed I liked meatloaf. Even today she'll say I used to like it. I've always hated meatloaf. It completely baffles me.

Beet Wagon posted:

I've introduced beets to a couple friends who swore up and down they hated them based on some half remembered thing from their childhood only to realize they are actually doubleplus good. Memories are funny that way.

Mirificus posted:

grimcreaper posted:

Yeah.. I love yellow cake with vanilla frosting, that's the only thing I've ever requested when my grandmother used to bake me cakes still.

Never once got one. Every year, a week before my birthday she would call and ask what I wanted. I'd tell her: yellow cake and vanilla frosting.

Then she'd come down for my birthday with a chocolate cake with chocolate frosting. 'This is what you told me!' She would always get upset because someone would say something, usually not me.

To this day she swears I told her I wanted chocolate/chocolate ever single year.

radd posted:

True Australian burgers have beet on them.

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

The funny thing is that I think it represents the only bit of innovation that I can recall from Star Citizen. Since communication isn't instantaneous in the SC universe data has to propagate between solar systems on jump buoys that traverse points on regular intervals. Most data is transmitted this way and can take hours to go across the galaxy. Folks with data that's particularly critical or time sensitive can serve as couriers, so the end result is a job that's entirely dependent on getting from Point A to Point B as fast as possible. It also opens up the opportunity to erase data by intercepting buoys, or to have a crime not occur at all if it happens in a region where messages aren't transmitted and all records of the crime are destroyed. There's also some interesting possibilities for hacking messages, getting ahead of your reputation after you commit a crime, and a few other ideas (like how the right to name a solar system is bestowed upon the first player to report the data, not find the system).

It would make for some interesting gameplay mechanics if the whole thing wasn't a loving scam.

Beet Wagon posted:

Actually, other than the fact that it's missing a key component (Near-instant communication between star systems, except it's incredibly expensive and the equipment is controlled by a bunch of culty pseudo-religious whackjobs) that's not all that dissimilar to the way communication works in the Battletech universe...

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

The funny thing is that I think it represents the only bit of innovation that I can recall from Star Citizen. Since communication isn't instantaneous in the SC universe data has to propagate between solar systems on jump buoys that traverse points on regular intervals. Most data is transmitted this way and can take hours to go across the galaxy. Folks with data that's particularly critical or time sensitive can serve as couriers, so the end result is a job that's entirely dependent on getting from Point A to Point B as fast as possible. It also opens up the opportunity to erase data by intercepting buoys, or to have a crime not occur at all if it happens in a region where messages aren't transmitted and all records of the crime are destroyed. There's also some interesting possibilities for hacking messages, getting ahead of your reputation after you commit a crime, and a few other ideas (like how the right to name a solar system is bestowed upon the first player to report the data, not find the system).

It would make for some interesting gameplay mechanics if the whole thing wasn't a loving scam.

quote:

Communications
Real-time communication is possible thanks to networks of expensive mass relay comm buoys that can daisy-chain a transmission via lasers.

Comm buoys are maintained in patterns built outward from each mass relay. The buoys are little more than a cluster of primitive, miniature mass relays. Each individual buoy is connected to a partner on another buoy in the network, forming a corridor of low-mass space. Tightbeam communications lasers are piped through these "tubes" of FTL space, allowing virtually instantaneous communication to anywhere on the network. The networks connect across regions by communications lasers through the mass relays.

With this system, the only delay is the light lag between the source or destination and the closest buoy. So long as all parties remain within half a light-second (150,000 km) of buoys, seamless real time communications are possible. Since buoys are maintained in all traveled areas, most enjoy unlimited instant communications. Ships only suffer communications lag when operating off established deep space routes, around uninhabited outer system gas giants, and other unsettled areas.

During wartime, comm buoy networks are the first target of an attack. Once the network is severed, it can take anywhere from weeks to years to get a message out of a contested system. In systems where a buoy network has not yet been built or has been destroyed, rapid communication means ferrying information through high-speed courier ships and unmanned data drones.

quote:

Communications: Administration

While comm buoys allow rapid transmission, there is a finite amount of bandwidth available. Given that trillions of people may be trying to pass a message through a given buoy at any one time, access to the network is parceled out on priority tiers.

The Citadel Council and the Spectres have absolute priority; if they are using all the bandwidth, everyone else must wait. Individual governments and their militaries enjoy the next-highest tier. During wartime, civilian communication can suffer hours or even days of lag. Intelligence agencies study ping time through various systems to predict military buildups.

Below the governments and militaries, bandwidth priority is sold to the highest bidder. Media conglomerates, particularly headline news networks, purchase higher priority to provide their viewers with timely information. Corporations that require timely information and response capability (for example, financial institutions and investment firms) also invest heavily in priority access. The funds acquired through sales of bandwidth are used to maintain and expand the communications infrastructure.

While everyone with a computer has guaranteed free and unlimited access to the galactic extranet, they are last in line for bandwidth and may have to wait for their requests to be processed. Bandwidth resale corporations use investment capital to purchase blocks of high priority access, made available by paid subscription.

quote:

Communications: Methodology

As the population of the galaxy increases and new worlds are settled, timely access for home users and frontier settlements with underdeveloped communications infrastructures is a growing problem. To ameliorate bandwidth issues, a sophisticated array of data caches and virtual intelligence search agent programs are available.

When a user submits a query, it is first routed to the data cache, the user's search agent VI collates mountains of locally-stored data to find the desired material. If the information is not available locally, the query is passed along to neighboring systems, and then outward in an expanding network. VI search agents in those systems replicate the search. If the desired information is found, it is compressed into a "burst" file and queued for transmission to the source system. The burst is assigned a priority based on the number of queries for it; the greater the number of queries, the higher the priority.

When a new solar system is first connected to the net, a selection of the most popular data is installed locally. Though storage hardware is cheap, the capacity required to hold all the data produced everyday by trillions of people on hundreds of worlds is not trivial. It's not economical to store local copies of all the data available on obscure topics just in case.

As colonies mature, older and less-popular chunks of data filter into them as a result of queries and are placed in the local archive. Searches for obscure topics are increasingly likely to produce instant results as the archive grows.

The Rabbi T. White posted:

Just in case this got missed in my previous wall of text:
Christopher Roberts is an anagram for "poo poo Botch Errors Rep", which should be his new job title.

SelenicMartian posted:

http://i.imgur.com/xqJpnMh.mp4

Generation Internet posted:

lol if you ever thought they could pull that off/it was an original idea

here's a slice of the 2007 Mass Effect codex:

AlbieQuirky posted:

Who shows up for a professional meeting dressed like that?

MedicineHut posted:

Fuckng lol, really?

Xaerael posted:

HoHoHo, what's this I see? SELF ARCHERING now at CIG?

Mu77ley posted:

Easy. A software developer.

radd posted:

True Australian burgers have beet on them.

AlbieQuirky posted:

gently caress, the guy on the right makes Stallman look like George Clooney in terms of style. Who shows up for a professional meeting dressed like that?
At least Crobbers has the excuse that he's modeling the t-shirt so his fanboys will buy it.

Mr.PayDay posted:

Generation Internet posted:

lol if you ever thought they could pull that off/it was an original idea

here's a slice of the 2007 Mass Effect codex:

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

The funny thing is that I think it represents the only bit of innovation that I can recall from Star Citizen. Since communication isn't instantaneous in the SC universe data has to propagate between solar systems on jump buoys that traverse points on regular intervals. Most data is transmitted this way and can take hours to go across the galaxy. Folks with data that's particularly critical or time sensitive can serve as couriers, so the end result is a job that's entirely dependent on getting from Point A to Point B as fast as possible. It also opens up the opportunity to erase data by intercepting buoys, or to have a crime not occur at all if it happens in a region where messages aren't transmitted and all records of the crime are destroyed. There's also some interesting possibilities for hacking messages, getting ahead of your reputation after you commit a crime, and a few other ideas (like how the right to name a solar system is bestowed upon the first player to report the data, not find the system).

It would make for some interesting gameplay mechanics if the whole thing wasn't a loving scam.