D1E posted:

EghtAce: when is CIG going to announce the Xbone port and make it available for pre-order?

Think of the massive influx of cash that could bring in!

fuctifino posted:

Disco: "The longer you wait, the better it will be"

Colostomy Bag posted:

https://forums.robertsspaceindustries.com/discussion/320364/change-it-back/p8

Probably the same guy that removed the chair.

intardnation posted:

and this is to save star citizen and make Chris Roberts a legend? I cant wait for the revues, if it makes it.
Something 2% of the people throwing poo poo at screen care about. loving brilliant you cant write this poo poo if you were Chris Roberts - well ok maybe he could.

Wafflz posted:

Be careful saying things like that, people may post anime porn in the thread again.

Terebus posted:

When's the next big news/drama coming out?

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

Ben, if you're reading this, go gently caress yourself.

Mirificus posted:

We have the privilege to be able to play the game in the state it's in

intardnation posted:

He can use the stick he wipes his rear end with. Or most likely already does that just to be sure!

Sorry that was disgusting.

Eonwe posted:

you turning on the game has been the high point of the threads to me

it was amazing it took so long, and took a purge by the Queen Bee herself, but you turned

and thats good

Beet Wagon posted:

That was pretty good. It did make me feel kinda bad for him though.

Beet Wagon posted:

That's what's loving astonishing. I wouldn't have been shocked to see someone throw down 20 bucks to buy back in or whatever - in fact if I thought there was a chance in hell of getting a refund now that's exactly what I would do, get a refund and buy back in at the minimum for griefing and enjoying this broken janky piece of poo poo.


But $2500?! Like... how does that thought even enter your head?

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

I think he just doesn't care enough to lie, because he knows people will find out anyway and gently caress them if they don't like hearing the truth.

Jared is basically Jay Cutler.

MedicineHut posted:

What about the infamous MS quality tests and such? I mean how buggy can it be allowed to be on xbox?

Mirificus posted:

https://forums.robertsspaceindustries.com/discussion/comment/6421089/#Comment_6421089


https://forums.robertsspaceindustries.com/discussion/comment/6421276/#Comment_6421276


https://forums.robertsspaceindustries.com/discussion/comment/6421400/#Comment_6421400

LGD posted:

fyi you can say "gently caress" or anything else you want (though note you can and will be banned/probated for unfunny uses of racial slurs), the word filters are only for unregistered users

(also there are a few comedy word filters for registered users to filter out overused memes, namely im gay, cuck and cuckservative [quote this post to see what they are])

(the last one is by far the best imo)

TTerrible posted:

Is that Karl showing dissent

Loiosh posted:

You had a nice talk with Tipp about this which covered the issues with lasers being used as direct weapons. They're not good for it (because of beam divergence, coherence of photons, and most important, slow effect). What I was referencing is things in the future when some future technology has far better ability to focus energy coherently. The point I was making, and what general relativity tells us, is that all energy is mass.

At the energy levels of *magic future weapons* you begin to encounter those issues. Remember that the reason lasers do 'only' thermal is that the electromagnetic force (whose force carrier is the virtual photon) is the second weakest of the fundamental forces. Any energy weapon of sufficient power will have kinetic energy. Mass is Energy. The more energy, the more mass, the more force required to move the energy.

Lasers have such a small kinetic component because they're (relatively) weak, based on the electromagnetic force of photon transfer. Things based on the nuclear force (fission/fusion bombs) are far more powerful. Those based on the strong force would be immensely more powerful than that. For reference, the nuclear force is the residual strong force, the energy left over from gluon/color interactions.

Here's a weird side-effect of how strong the strong force is: The binding energy of quarks is so powerful (there is so much potential energy tied up in those bonds) that when impacts are done in colliders, the potential and kinetic energy of the impact is converted into matter (of large particles like hadrons) before quarks would be seen unbound. In fact, the strong force is so powerful that could you pull a quark out of its hadron via some means, the energy required would create a quark/anti-quark pair that would annihilate before you would get that unbound quark on its own. The famous bubble chamber image of the charm quark discovery - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6d/Charmed-dia-w.png does not show a quark, but rather the ejection of hadrons, baryons, (unseen neutrinos), and photons. It was used to predict that for a femtosecond a charm quark existed within a 4-quark baryon before it continued its decay into more stable forms of matter. The quark is never seen. (Someone correct me if that is inaccurate).

tl;dr - Lasers are weak, that's why they don't have (much) of a force acting on them when active. In magic future weapon time, we'll have enough energy in energy weapons that we'll see kinetic force when using them.

PS: Star Citizen is still dumb about it and this absolutely does not excuse their stupid energy weapons.

his nibs posted:

re: eightace I'm wondering if hobo santa was the guy going to leave. He's got that 1000 yard stare thing going on (although it could just be for show), and probably one of the few people CIG would throw money at to hang around for more of the poo poo show. Whether he's any good or not is maybe not important - the important bit is that he is on the front line. Loose a programmer/designer and the Citizens can put it down to 'just moving on'. Loose chief community person and the community focus is deeply destabilised.

The Walrus posted:

then theres no way they don't have an actual roadmap, right? hes just saying they don't want to make it public? I mean there must be some sort of plan or structure to development? it can't literally be 100% piss in the wind, can it?

D1E posted:

Yeah well he's the the CEO of a $109 million company, worshipped by thousands of people, and married to a famous actress.

And you're not.

Beet Wagon posted:

I'd like to see him start funding insane "As Seen On TV" type stuff, and promoting it using in-game advertising. (I'm serious, Sandibots, pass the message to the top!)

intardnation posted:

Ooooooo! CIG U - Now you can learn about development and open development.

D1E posted:

Oh really? Check out the order of cast billing for SQ42 right here:

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/squadron42

Apparently Roberts Space Industries feels she is a) an actress and b) famous.

D_Smart posted:

Now that's entirely possible. It's a business line of credit. And we won't get any public details unless and until it falls apart, and the bank gets listed as a creditor. Now that I think about it, I remember seeing a NatWest (?) bank filing in the UK that makes reference to secured assets of RSI/CIG. So that could very well be it.

intardnation posted:

same school as sandi?

D1E posted:

Or the amount of ambergris in Ben's intestinal tract.

MeLKoR posted:

lol if you spend $30k on a coffee machine and then serve the coffee in a glass.

D1E posted:

Does it make you angry that Chris Roberts is the CEO of a $109 million dollar company, worshipped by thousands of people, and married to a famous actress?

And you're not?

Scruffpuff posted:

I know even the negative narrative from CIG is that they need the SQ42 revenue to continue SC. I don't buy it. I think that enough people there know the truth - SQ42 is all Chris cares about, and he's scared he won't have enough money to finish both. So he's choosing. If SQ42 releases, he'll be done. I don't think he'll even care if it makes one cent, as long as he gets his magnum opus out there for the public to shred. Then he disappears for good, telling himself he's a success.

Ash1138 posted:

there's a GBS joke in here somewhere

D_Smart posted:

No. Because I don't owe the world $109M. I own my company 100%. I'm married to a psychologist/therapist (also an ex-actress btw) who is way hotter than that hag.

Your move.

No Mods No Masters posted:

LowellDND posted:

SniperWoreConverse posted:

man this is just disappointing as gently caress. It'd be cool to have an actually fidelitous (within reason) game.

Both completely unsurprised and kinda disgusted they have a space ambulance. How could that ever be fun or interesting? How can you make money as a space paramedic outside of a large fightmans org that might actually need one? Why would you have that when you could just put a medbay in a bigger ship that's less likely to blow up and ferry guys to that? They don't even have loving wounds or damage states other than [Hitpoints] and [ALIVE | DEAD]! I would be stunned to believe having yellow legs has any effect on gameplay. Would having this granular damage even be fun?? What could be fun about having my legs shot off and having so sit here HOTAS jerking off while my bro carts my rear end to medbay?

Didn't crobs say some type of poo poo like there's slaver/abduction/bountyhunter pods, and if you get caught in them he's not going to make you sit in it staring at the wall until they turn you in. Why would basically the same gimmick exist in a different form? Are they expecting me to get my balls blasted and I shoot my sidearm while somebody firman carries me running away? No way could they pull that off.

SniperWoreConverse posted:

No way. There's no loving way they even have a jpg of this. This can't be real, even in the fevered dream reality that is SC

What does it even do?!? What could possibly be different between this and some starter ship? What the gently caress are you even telling me?