Tokamak posted:

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SelenicMartian posted:

DapperDon posted:

What is it with Mr. 50 Shades here and that WWE chokehold?

Amarcarts posted:

lol I guess his package isn't as big as he thought it was

DapperDon posted:

What I am going to lost my poo poo about is when ol Daren here breaks the internet in loving half after he finishes and releases LOD to Xbox and it becomes a Platinum hit. Can you imagine that poo poo? During this whole time he has been taking poo poo from everyone about LOD he was actually changing everything and making it really kickass? All before Star Citizen gets out of Alpha no less? Now I realize I have had a few drinks tonight, but gently caress all that would be funny as hell!

Tokamak posted:

The Benefits of Castration self.starcitizen
Submitted 3 hours ago by jadesuccubusDoctor

Hello, my fellow citizens! I'd like to go over some medical notes in regard to bounty hunting and helping those that do similar jobs obtain some extra safety and budget flexibility.

In the live game, if you do higher risk work there's going to be a major factors on if you make money: Ship capacity.

What I refer to is if you have a ship with four prisoner pods, you're capped at a maximum of four prisoners via the pods at once. The storage capacity will influence which contracts and missions will generate profit or loss due to this cap: EG five capture contracts in one area may require a return trip and additional fuel/time cost or lower the profit beyond what it could be due to increased expenses. I've previously made a thesis on helping bounty hunters here, however new information has been laid out since then.

In particular, one bit may aid lower budget bounty hunters, mercs and organizations that don't yet have a lot of resources to increase their safety nets and cost-effectiveness: the combination of the limb damage system and the ability to place people in crates.

If you are a poorer player starting with only a humble aurora to your name, you may not be able to have multiple prisoner pods - but you could instead have a single storage crate for that you can stuff a human in after removing their arms and legs. You may even be able to create makeshift crates such as using a mustang's bathroom or simply keeping the body on the floor, if the arms and legs have been removed and they cannot move or attempt malcompliance.

Remember: a requirement to deliver someone alive does not necessarily mean in one piece - if they need to confess, they need to speak. They don't need to walk, see, hold things, or have testicles producing testosterone that increases aggression, upper body strength, and risks of malcompliance - so if you have a simple medkit, these non-essential items can be removed by crippling the arms, legs, and torso into a ruined state then halting the bleeding.

This may allow a humble aurora/mustang pilot, or other organizations that need to reduce costs and increase profit margin so they can upgrade their equipment faster, to have more saving power and more flexibility for taking on jobs as well as bigger cash reserves for safety nets. Suppose you are a small family organization and the only member on is a low-budget kiddo with an aurora that plays with his father. You can have more credits on hand to help him out if he's mauled by pirates if your profit margins are higher. At the risk of making a cliche, think of the children!

If it is not possible for a target with ruined arms to open doors, you may be able to safely store prisoners in a bathroom, closet, box, on the counter in a mustang, under the bed, or in any other random location, which will allow much more flexibility in which ships can take on which jobs and much less restriction on storage space for prisoners. That means higher profit margins!

Hopefully, the reduced weight of the lost limbs will allow some space efficiency like placing multiple prisoners in a box. This brings up another point though - the importance of castration.

It's listed that the torso on the medical diagrams will each have consequences for being ruined - in the case of the torso, it encompasses the groin, heart, lungs, and though they are non-essential many males seem to consider them so, testicles. Presumably there will be related penalties to a ruined torso. In the case of a male NPC, the removal of the testicles can mirror soviet medical experiment results IRL - that the lack of testosterone production will reduce rebelliousness and malcompliance risks. This has several effects on a real human:

A) The subject will not have as much upper body strength and will not be as likely to instigate a prison riot or be as difficult to restrain.

B) The subject will suffer negative psychological effects due to the loss of testosterone production and may be more compliant with interrogation, forced labor, protracted detainment, etc.

C) The subject will in addition to being unable to assault the bounty hunter or otherwise disrupt the operation due to limb removal, potentially slip into depression and can be controlled via medications that will make them more dependent on the prison, or if they need testosterone for forced labor, it can be provided by supplement rather than produced naturally, for the same reason of increasing compliance due to dependency on provision of the supplement. To be fair, I got that idea from half life 2's stalkers that have their organs removed to hook them on a nutrition provided by the combine and cause them to starve in the event of malcompliance and hands removed for tool grafts - which I think is an excellent idea if prisoner management becomes a thing in-universe.

The effects of the above could be placed in for NPC's to increase the ease of an interrogation, reduce costs, increase compliance or confession chances, or any other possible benefit of the above, should castration be included in torso ruining in addition to the heart, lungs, and others. Most males I know seem to consider the testicles a critical item so I think it's fair the removal of them have consequences, at least in the case of male human NPC's. Possibly also an option for capturing and interrogating Vanduul if their physiology has similar consequences for their removal, so this may be very helpful for management of Vanduul prisoners as well.

Anyway, TL;DR: due to the ability to "hide" a person in a crate, it may be possible to forcefully place a prisoner in a crate or mundane location such as a bathroom via crippling the arms, legs, and torso/groin. This could allow lower budget organizations, casual players, poorer players, smaller orgs, etc. to have more flexibility in which members and which ships can take which roles, and help overcome lower profit margin penalties that would otherwise occur. This could be especially helpful for small family orgs that have say a parent and a child that are playing together and may not have a lot of free time and need some higher profit margins. It could be helpful to them if a humble aurora can be used to cart around prisoners instead of needing to obtain a ship with a full prison pod loadout first. Similarly, this could increase flexibility of other ships such as a freelancer or cutlass red to take on a non-traditional role and store captives in this manner.

Thank you for reading, and I hope this was helpful to you; especially for those just starting out, and those that must start from little at live! May fortune favor you.

<3Mwah

~Doctor Jade

spacetoaster posted:

Hobold posted:

poo poo. Gold shirt guy is gone too? When did that happen?

TheAgent posted:

the new battlefront has new order/resistance factions and a single player storyline around the rebels timeline, fyi

Thoatse posted:

Not too long after citizens pooled like $50k to fix his broken daughter.

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A) The subject will not have as much upper body strength and will not be as likely to instigate a prison riot or be as difficult to restrain.

Hobold posted:

Hah. Thats kinda amusing. At least he had enough sense to get out after milking the whales one more time.

his nibs posted:

hey they don't give those hoodies to just anyone you know

you have to buy them https://robertsspaceindustries.com/pledge/SQ42-Hoodie/XS

Sillybones posted:

!!!

Tippis posted:

No-one knows, least of all CIG.
MegaMap is just the idea of not having a fixed space that you move around in, but rather that the player is the centre of their respective universe, and everything is loaded in around them at the appropriate pace. Coincidentally, MegaMap, if they used it intelligently, would remove the need for stuff like localised physics and even many of the issues related to instancing. But they're not doing that.

AP posted:

How do we provide windows search with a solution for this issue?

SelenicMartian posted:

his nibs posted:

Tis true I do like to mock the afflicted

specifically Canadian redheads

spacetoaster posted:

Sillybones posted:

I am still confused by this concept. I thought that using fixed point, 64-bit floating point and such, the whole point was to keep the animation system stable so that things don't go funky when you render distance things/things far from the world-space origin. If you can see distant things, which I thought was the whole point of worrying about this, then rendering them will require some form of more stable data representations. I don't think that goes away if you have a player-centric view of the deltas or not.

Also, surely they are doing something like 32-bit float sub-region relative positions, 32-bit float solar system or what ever relative positions, where the sum equals the true absolute world space positions. I can't see how just using doubles alone is going to be stable for boned animations for example. The relative difference in scale between a lever on some gun, say, and a planet is going to be too large to be stable, right? I could work it out proper if I knew how big their planets and solar systems 'are.

At least, that is my experiences and from believing what Tom Forsyth thinks on this subject.

Sillybones posted:

I am still confused by this concept. I thought that using fixed point, 64-bit floating point and such, the whole point was to keep the animation system stable so that things don't go funky when you render distance things/things far from the world-space origin. If you can see distant things, which I thought was the whole point of worrying about this, then rendering them will require some form of more stable data representations. I don't think that goes away if you have a player-centric view of the deltas or not.

Also, surely they are doing something like 32-bit float sub-region relative positions, 32-bit float solar system or what ever relative positions, where the sum equals the true absolute world space positions. I can't see how just using doubles alone is going to be stable for boned animations for example. The relative difference in scale between a lever on some gun, say, and a planet is going to be too large to be stable, right? I could work it out proper if I knew how big their planets and solar systems 'are.

At least, that is my experiences and from believing what Tom Forsyth thinks on this subject.

Colostomy Bag posted:

No...Megamap is basically the concept of jumping to different areas of the game (Arena Commander, Hanger module, Star Marine) without the loading/main menu screen poo poo.

Yeah, it is confusing. You think "Megamap" would include giant worlds but alas, it doesn't.

Mirificus posted:

https://twitter.com/DisturbedJim83/status/779136806872838144

Wise Learned Man posted:

If I had a dime for every time DisturbedJim posted fantasies about Derek's penis...

Tippis posted:

Oh, right. That's another bit of troublesome tech that megamap could render void if they applied it correctly.

Yes, 64bit is necessary if you want to track tons of details at large distances but only if the objects you're tracking are spread over a static coordinate system. You need to know that, when one player is at [4k, -16km, 2km], another player at [-1km, +12km, 0km] isn't spazzing out due to low distance granularity when both are so far from [0,0,0] (rendering is less of an issue here — that's converted to and done at 32bit regardless because that's what your GFX card is using). Everyone exists within the same coordinate system, and everyone needs to maintain reasonable precision not to skip around too much.

But… if you really embraced the megamap concept, then that would only ever have to happen on the server side, and you'd have other means of working around that 64bit issue anyway. All world-level position tracking is done there, and nowhere else, so it's only on the server that you need any kind of high precision. Locally, it wouldn't be a problem to just use 32bit because the player is always at [0,0,0] and anything that's really far off will be… well… far off so they wont' skip around anyway. A ±1m imprecision in location won't matter because the other guy is 20km away and can hardly be seen anyway — he's a static pixel no matter how ridiculously imprecise that placement is. And from his perspective, he is at [0,0,0] and you are 20km away.


Well, sure, that may be what it ends up as — we're talking about the concept as it has been described by Tracy.