2DCAT posted:

i'm getting a good feeling that everything is going to resolve itself and that star citizen will officially release next tuesday.

Kakarot posted:

Oh yea, still waiting for that

The Titanic posted:

It's one of the 700 game mechanics that are promised and have huge written concepts about.

This was part of the passenger liner they sold a long time ago.

It also had in-game movies where the rarity of the movies you could find would affect passenger happiness.

It also had passenger illnesses.

It also featured server blades that could short out and would need to be replaced.

The drink mixing game was for mixing drinks to give to various passengers asking for those drinks.

I'm sure I'm forgetting something but it doesn't matter. This is the kind of poo poo Roberts promises people and they seriously think this is all possible, and it will work in a seamless MMO environment where your passenger liner could pass another passenger liner and you can all look at each other doing all these things through the windows of the ships, while on the other side is a space war.

People genuinely believe this kind of stuff is possible to happen, in a game that can't make a demo video, within a year.

thatguy posted:

Remember when Eonwe and friends posted like 40 pages of recipes peppered with Seraph meltdowns?

2DCAT posted:

god bless you

2DCAT posted:

eonwe would have wanted

peter gabriel posted:

Anyone got any good recipes / pet pics?

Mirificus posted:

trucutru posted:

MilesK posted:

Will missiles still be physical items in your ship that you can actually watch get loaded and fired? It's very important to gameplay and surely trivial to code.

https://i.imgur.com/UG7z54e.gifv

AP posted:

From the skype crash you can see that Nehkara, one of the founders of INN, is also known as "Vampyrerotica".

SelenicMartian posted:

SelenicMartian posted:

shrach posted:

Accountancy talk ahead.

The last thing you would want to do is treat it as cash. If it's cash then it's not revenue, it's a liability. Prepaid income. Accounting for gift cards is actually a pain.

I think a few years ago Sony or SOE? talked about a similar issue. They were charging a subscription fee and gave everyone some of their fake money each month. People would save up all this fake money and it causes a lot of issues because it is considered comparable to real money you have to provide for it as a liability. I believe they wanted to give their customers double the fake money each month, but not let the customers roll it over and save it up. They had to spend it each month or lose it. SOE wanted to avoid the prepaid income issue entirely. I think in the end though the customer base rebelled because they would rather save up half as much than be forced to spend it each month. Similar theme here about the perceived notion of investment vs expenditure on the part of the customer. I think SOE ended up sucking up the problem in this case?

If you take money for something and do not deliver the product it cannot be considered as revenue on your profit and loss account. The cash you have received creates a liability. You owe the cash to your customer. Once you give them all of the jpgs they think they purchased, you can move the liability to the revenue column. "Engineering debt" is just plain old debt that you owe to your customers in your accounts and must provide for it as such.

This subject is why I am interested to read the revenue recognition policy of the one Crobpany that receives the cash from customers. I would hazard a guess that this may be an issue that is holding up the production of the group accounts because it is a literally impossible task to calculate properly and make the accounts acceptable to look at from a going concern perspective.

Kakarot posted:

Regrettable posted:

That's Toast/MoMA

Lazrin posted:

So... even if we use the date of 2011 as the "start of development", and allow all the way to the end of 2018 for sc alpha 4.0 to hit... that's still just 7 years.

7 years to build a game that even everyone here admits has a far larger scope than any other game that has come before (but yet also somehow doesn't manage to do anything that hasn't been done before )

sure, there's no way they're going to be done with all of the *content* by then (other star systems), but i'd say there's a great chance of 1 fully fleshed-out and polished star system with all of the game mechanics in place. and that pretty much is the game... the mvp.

do you (or anyone) honestly think that's an impossible feat, to go from here to there? i don't.

HycoCam posted:

They have released a few group shots--never bothered to count, but I think one goon did once...

LA:
Austin:
Manchester:
Frankfurt:
Turbulent:

A Neurotic Corncob posted:

A Neurotic Corncob posted:

insert wankpod joke.

AP posted:

https://twitter.com/INN_StarCitizen/status/798302662349438977

2DCAT posted:

This has been the most inept space mutiny since the movie space mutiny.

FactsAreUseless posted:

Alright, peter gabriel can be the mod of cats. If any cats start posting here, he can mod them.

ripptide posted:

He can only probate cats.

peter gabriel posted:

It's POTATO all over again

Nicholas posted:

http://i.imgur.com/NuzHO3d.gifv

Daztek posted:

https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/5epycr/new_procedural_objects_tech_from_atv_314/

peter gabriel posted:

Footage of MoMMA's morning commute to CIG has surfaced

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHQdpnYFl7k

Sunswipe posted:

It's in if you REALLY believe in Chris Roberts. You do believe, don't you?