Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

That's the old office. It's about three blocks away from the ocean but there's no view to speak of. It's actually kind of hard to find; the office itself is located down a long hallway that opens up into a back alley on one end and the promenade (basically a bunch of shops) on the other. There is absolutely no benefit whatsoever to its location outside of some good places to eat nearby. The office is tiny, traffic sucks, parking is a nightmare (I have no idea if employees have permits but I would hope so), the building itself is really dark, and you need a key to use the restroom.

Bootcha posted:

So many cat heads.

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The Collectors boxes are in the process of being made and will ship next year. They have been taking a little longer as there are thousands to make and it is a very complicated process.

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Once the data is collected hopefully at the end of September then there is production, quality check, logistics and shipping of the cards.
Should you not wish to wait, we can offer a full refund. Unfortunately we cannot make the card magically appear.

peter gabriel posted:

It's me, I am the major investor

Matlock Birthmark posted:

Wait a minute, I just looked at this. It looks like once again a ship is being put out that adds even more things they'll need to develop in the finished game. That ship apparently has two mini-games built in. One to move a repair arm (whatever that entails) and one to choose materials to craft/repair with.



It's no drink mixing minigame, but yeah for even more scope creep.

Loiosh posted:

Yup. The only funding used for this is the subscriber income. None of this comes out of the donations. You get what you pay for, basically.

Those mics being on the table is driving me crazy. They need to be mounted on arms or stands to isolate them from people hitting the tables. This is why I bought my friend one of these:

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

Obviously he's ahead of Patrick, who hasn't even gotten to early October...

Loiosh posted:

Honest answer: This is the most active chat about SC in a place I like. Reddit is a bit circle jerky for me. So when I'm all chatty, I can find people to chat with.

Once my interest wanes again, I'll be quiet and lurking for another bit. What's best though, is having excellent posts like you and Beer writing a lot of detail. I enjoy learning and well written posts, so you guys are a big part of it.

It helps temper my excitement to see the other point of view. That way I'm always getting a good balance of perspective.

botany posted:

haha yeah keep pretending you're a normal non-creepy person who just happens to speculate about a female game devs sex life for fun, it's really working out for you

bumbles posted:

That's him with the final solution

Colostomy Bag posted:

Yeah, there is "Shut up and take my money" item in the store for $5.

Sickening posted:

If you can watch the link below with the sound on and still tell me you don't believe its her I will stop mentioning it.

NSFW http://tinyurl.com/j2jonq2 NSFW

Lazrin posted:

do you know how hsa accounts are funded?

SomethingJones posted:

Sadly, this would appear to be an alternative explanation.

Jobbo_Fett posted:

Sandi is a mail order bride, hence the need to refund via paper cheque.

TheAgent posted:

Why would anyone want to stop this comedy train

Wtf

Wafflz posted:

The NMS thread is a window into the future

Wafflz posted:

Yeah the NMS meltdowns will be small time in comparison but it's a glimpse into emotionally invested space nerd meltdowns when they find out yet another space game isn't going to replace their life.

Pilz posted:

I'm surprised CIG doesn't have a Montreal studio to get those sweet, sweet incentives

A_ssR_apistDude420 posted:

MOMA tried but he was honestly just too nice and patient with this thread. Plus he was too focused on the TOS. The real problem is the people like you who think they can just register accounts on reddit and troll with impunity. They're on your rear end but im coming in the source.

A_ssR_apistDude420 posted:

But to be honest Derek is only a small problem on the hole its the rest of you chucklefucks that need to be taught whats what in true gaming.

Fat Shat Sings posted:

Some of the reformed backers responded to one of my posts recently echoing this.

"Has CIG thought about how LTI will even actually work"

The answer is that they said at one point what LTI would be and over the years have contradicted, changed, half referenced it so much that it's obvious they have zero actual plan, no documentation, nothing in the works. Chris Roberts decides everything and he is busy with his movie shoot.

Backers will answer this with "Of course" and then lightly reference the original definition CIG laid out then throw in 3,000 words of complete conjecture.

They have described mining a dozen different times in a dozen different ways. Nobody knows which version is the actual truth, what stage of work is complete on it, when it would even be in the game and the only way you can keep justifying all of this bullshit is if you are deluded enough to cherry pick 1/10th of the information CIG has given that you like and then pretend that's what you will get. The only reason to do that is to prove that you are right about Star Citizen not being a scam though.

Fat Shat Sings posted:

Star Citizen is by every definition a cult, but when you come up with a real world analogy you realize it's even worse than organized religion.

Imagine that the Vatican released an updated Bible every year.

One year Jesus died for your sins and resurrected after 3 days
The next year Jesus killed himself for your sins and you can't understand why yet, but only through prayer will the truth be revealed
The next year Jesus was involved in a plot to destroy Satan, but was tragically killed by humanity, and we are paying for that to this day
The next year Jesus was a human and until death his true potential wasn't released where he started shepherding humanity
The next year Jesus was a good guy that performed miracles to just test people to see how gullible they were, like a dick
The next year Jesus went down in a huge battle, Matrix Reloaded style under 50 Judas'
The next year Jesus was part cyborg and battled the armies of Satan with kickass machine guns
The next year Jesus was actually part Satan and killed himself to kill the part of himself that was Satan
The next year Jesus flexed his muscles so hard he shattered the cross and sent splinters into hell, defeating the armies of Satan

If you would then go "Well, based on that, this is exactly what happened (30,000 words of conjecture)" Congratulations you are a backer.
If, however, you would go "Well it sounds like you guys don't know what actually happened and I'm going to be at least a little skeptical" Congratulations you are not a backer.

At least in most cults or religions they have a handful of versions of the gospel that are somewhat related to eachother. There aren't 14 different versions of Genesis with the pope stumbling out and making up a new one every time he wants people to donate.

Colostomy Bag posted:

Ortwin: Chris Roberts, failed developer and director. A man whose career is barely alive. Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the crowd sourcing. We have the capability to build the world's first idiotic man. Chris Roberts will be that man. Better than he was before. Better, delusional, clueless.

natetimm posted:

Wanna go back in time and shop at that store.

Bubbacub posted:

lol

no



It's in the next most visible spot after his face.

Matlock Birthmark posted:

Thankfully, what appears to be a sock line makes me guess calf. But still, how do you even begin to explain that 10 years from now.

Goobs posted:

Lmaooooo holy sweet gently caress. Im actually dying right now. The combination of dumb loving douche facial hair, his fivehead, that loving shirt, AND the tattoo is probably the best combination ive ever seen.

TheAgent posted:

lol

another loving ship sale

Cigstomper58 posted:

What you said is in keeping with what I have heard, although I have never heard it put to this specific context.
If this is accurate, then players only impact on the economy from a resource gathering perspective is their choice of what to gather.
This puts the economy on rails as far as gathering is concerned.

I am not sure how I feel about that.

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Pilz posted:

Can I just ask something that's been bothering me for a while? What the everloving gently caress does a "good" space sim look like? This isn't even a matter of programming or performance, it's a matter of game design. Star Citizen and Elite:Dangerous and other people wanking over EVE were talking about how you'd have to mine asteroids, except you could be a pirate, except people needed to mine or they wouldn't get any money, but once you HAD money you could build a giant ship and be a god unto the miners, and also have massive space battles that were fun and it's all just complete bulllshit. I just don't see how that gameplay loop or structure is anything more than ,having a core group of early adopters/whales, and then a shitton of marketing to constantly coax in new players to act as targets to be pushed around. It reminds me of how fans of the multiplayer in Dark Souls laugh when new people complain about getting shat on by low soul-level builds or even just guys hacking the poo poo out of the game, pushing it off with 'oh we all just went through the same thing' like it's some sort of cost of entry and ignoring the fact that retention is gonna be poo poo. Maybe that's a bad example, but my point is that I've wracked my brain over how this sort of gameplay is supposed to be attractive to everyone involved, how the miners are supposed to be having as much fun as the dudes zipping around in fuckoff-huge capital ships.

I don't think it's impossible, I've had some ideas myself. A simple attempt at introducing interplay between miners and pirates would go a long way - but nobody talks about it. People who want to mine act like pirates don't exist, and pirates act like miners are eternally helpless before their might. I've barely even seen discussion of how massive spacefights between capital ships will be fun, just a dumb acceptance of the fact. It's this sort of lovely approach to thinking about games that's made star citizen so successful: people don't think about how star citizen will be fun because they've seemingly never thought about it beyond "Star Wars looked neat and is thus fun."


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