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Nicholas
Mar 7, 2001

Were those not fine days, when we drank of clear honey, and spoke in calm tones of our love for the stuff?
Why does star citizen need bartenders at all. They sold people a drink mixing robot...

my kitty

Nicholas fucked around with this message at 14:50 on Jun 14, 2019

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Beet Wagon
Oct 19, 2015





TheAgent posted:

100% confirmed this morning that my 13 years at my current employer ends sept 1st

maybe I'll get hired back on love pledge

drat, sorry to hear that, friend. Hope you land on your feet!

TheAgent
Feb 16, 2002

The call is coming from inside Dr. House
Grimey Drawer
just gotta get the patreon set up and I'll be bringing in that awesome space porn game cash in no time

Daztek
Jun 2, 2006



I hear CIG is hiring!

Sarsapariller
Aug 14, 2015

Occasional vampire queen

TheAgent posted:

100% confirmed this morning that my 13 years at my current employer ends sept 1st

maybe I'll get hired back on love pledge

In this market you should have a job within a couple of weeks, especially with a runway that long. Just hang in there. I'm on my last day at current place, first day at new place on Monday. It's always a bit of a gut churn but it gets better.

TheAgent
Feb 16, 2002

The call is coming from inside Dr. House
Grimey Drawer
I haven't been in game dev for about 15 years, so chris and I have a lot in common

Sarsapariller
Aug 14, 2015

Occasional vampire queen

Zazz Razzamatazz posted:

And yet they don't fix the one thing that really bugged me about SC's space ports... there's nowhere for the ships to get stored. All their talk of "fidelity" and yet the ships just vanish on the pad. ED figured this out gears ago...

The new stations have fully enclosed hangers, just like the ground stations and just like ED.

Unlike ED, they are still only putting 5 or 6 hangers per station, and you're still persistent in the hangers until you log off or your ship times out, so there will still be enormous traffic problems especially once they introduce NPC traffic (lol they will never introduce NPC's)

Hav
Dec 11, 2009

Fun Shoe
"Cyberpunk designer says CDPR is working on transgender character options"

I bet twitter is taking this well.

monkeytek
Jun 8, 2010

It wasn't an ELE that wiped out the backer funds. It was Tristan Timothy Taylor.

MedicineHut posted:

Citizens do not seem too concerned though. Everything is normalized. The collective brain wash says SC Space Stations are the best, and therefore even if procedural stuff is now used instead of handcrafting those Stations are still the best. No biggie. The BDSSE footprint is so prevalent and has been bombarded so repeatedly into the backers psyche that even steaming poo poo will be received in awe.

I love the point made that everything takes so much time because CIG doesn't release poo poo. And then nothing works, the station is too small, people insta die and everything needs to be refactored for the 3rd time but no one sees the contradiction.

Lladre
Jun 28, 2011


Soiled Meat
These self owns on their dev stream will never get old.

PS, good luck agent

monkeytek
Jun 8, 2010

It wasn't an ELE that wiped out the backer funds. It was Tristan Timothy Taylor.

TheAgent posted:

100% confirmed this morning that my 13 years at my current employer ends sept 1st

maybe I'll get hired back on love pledge

Sorry Agent, same here 6+ years and we got acquired wanted me to move to Georgia. I laughed and said no, so I'm a free man as of this month.

I've heard about this kickass game that is more of a lifestyle its called Star Citizen. It's so real I might just find my next job mopping for whales there!

SPERMCUBE.ORG
Nov 3, 2011

Space commies are th' biggest threat t' red-blooded American Freedom we got in th' future. So me and my boys got to talking over a few hot dogs the other day and this is what we came up with...

Baxta posted:

Yeah its the cpp (cost per pixel) marketing strategy. Everyone knows this and they have been open and up front about this from day 1.

FUDSTER

You don't expect pixels to be free, do you? From extracting raw pixel ore from the dangerous pixel mines to processing it at the pixel refinery into polygons... And that's not even mentioning interstate pixel freight. Stuff adds up.

SPERMCUBE.ORG
Nov 3, 2011

Space commies are th' biggest threat t' red-blooded American Freedom we got in th' future. So me and my boys got to talking over a few hot dogs the other day and this is what we came up with...

TheAgent posted:

100% confirmed this morning that my 13 years at my current employer ends sept 1st

maybe I'll get hired back on love pledge

Sorry to hear that TheAgent. But have you considered giving up the rat race and living full-time in Star Citizen?

Jonny Shiloh
Mar 7, 2019
You 'orrible little man
Bored is doing an AMA livestream at the moment with much theorycrafting and dreams:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq7uNx0ar5E

Favourite question from one of the 209 citizens watching so far:

quote:

When more gameplay loops become available, what do you think your favourite style of play will be? My Org is run as a mix of Military and Corporate layout, but I think I would enjoy farming.

You might be in the wrong org there Johnny Appleseed.

Jonny Shiloh fucked around with this message at 16:28 on Jun 14, 2019

AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012

Just me and my 🌊dragon🐉 hanging out

This magnificent story, poem, song, and pub was new to me and I am :swoon:

Dementropy
Aug 23, 2010



Tokamak
Dec 22, 2004

Nicholas posted:

Why does star citizen need bartenders at all. They sold people a drink mixing robot...

A big part of the game's aesthetic are cheesy and campy anachronisms since it is a grab bag of stuff Chris thought was cool when he was younger. A drink dispenser is a lot less cool than a bartender that assists the protagonist.

Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002

How to do a space bar right (from the RPG Lancer, created by the guy behind the webcomic Kill Six Billion Demons):



Getting served by a dancing fratboy bartender: not space!

Getting served by a Boston Dynamics looking robot that probably hasn't been cleaned in months: VERY space.

Rotten Red Rod fucked around with this message at 18:06 on Jun 14, 2019

his nibs
Feb 27, 2016

:kayak:Welcome to the:kayak:
Dream Factory
:kayak:
Grimey Drawer
cunts

his nibs
Feb 27, 2016

:kayak:Welcome to the:kayak:
Dream Factory
:kayak:
Grimey Drawer
sorry I meant to say mine's a hairy roberts

Sarsapariller
Aug 14, 2015

Occasional vampire queen


"The foundational aspects of the bartender are solid," I said about my spaceship game, where the flight model didn't work and we were redesigning all the space stations because the ships didn't fit in them.

Sarsapariller
Aug 14, 2015

Occasional vampire queen

Rotten Red Rod posted:

How to do a space bar right (from the RPG Lancer, created by the guy behind the webcomic Kill Six Billion Demons):

How to do a MMORPG bar right:
https://www.wowhead.com/news=284680/battle-for-azeroth-dive-bars-and-fun-drinks

Come up with a bunch of funny drink names, put them in your vendors which use the same loving animations and mechanics as everyone else holy poo poo, and then string them together with an achievement. Total writer time: 2 hours. Total dev time: 0 hours, because you're using the same loving animations and mechanics jesus gently caress.

You do not need custom NPC's to serve you cocktails! Nobody will use this! Immersion will not be damaged if you buy your poo poo off a loving menu-screen, just like every weapon, armor, and ship component vendor already in the game god dammit.

It's just so unbelievably stupid

Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002

his nibs posted:

sorry I meant to say mine's a hairy roberts

Hairy Roberts
1 ounce vodka (top shelf)
1 ounce peach schnapps (cheapest one you can get)

Serve in a high fidelity glass, no ice. You can pledge for other ingredients to finish it later. Coming next update: drink umbrellas!

Dark Off
Aug 14, 2015




https://i.imgur.com/3f9ayUd.mp4

Dementropy
Aug 23, 2010



MedicineHut
Feb 25, 2016

A new loving series lol

Dementropy
Aug 23, 2010



https://twitter.com/TheAstroPub/status/1139603255397376001

MedicineHut
Feb 25, 2016


wut lol

necroid
May 14, 2009


lol

Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002

Oh my god the editing, it's like they're filming a dramatic movie. So pointless.

Dark Off
Aug 14, 2015




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LWYtyV6pak&t=513s i would like to point the cuts in the video. Its seriously CIG quality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LWYtyV6pak&t=576s

Dark Off fucked around with this message at 19:55 on Jun 14, 2019

Thoatse
Feb 29, 2016

Lol said the scorpion, lmao

NoNotTheMindProbe posted:

Those cats are big

reservoir cats

Sarsapariller
Aug 14, 2015

Occasional vampire queen


Lol thanks for buying those yachts you dumb fuckers

Sarsapariller
Aug 14, 2015

Occasional vampire queen

Dark Off posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LWYtyV6pak&t=513s i would like to point the cuts in the video. Its seriously CIG quality

Chris: "The new throttle is like cruise control. When I set the cruise I'm adjusting the power that my car's engine is putting out. When I set the throttle I'm adjusting the power my thrusters are putting out, to keep the ship at that same speed."

Me: YOU STILL DON'T KNOW HOW loving SPACE WORKS DO YOU

Scruffpuff
Dec 23, 2015

Fidelity. Wait, was I'm working on again?

Sarsapariller posted:

Chris: "The new throttle is like cruise control. When I set the cruise I'm adjusting the power that my car's engine is putting out. When I set the throttle I'm adjusting the power my thrusters are putting out, to keep the ship at that same speed."

Me: YOU STILL DON'T KNOW HOW loving SPACE WORKS DO YOU

Brought to you by the visionary who explained swimming in space to someone who actually has been there.

Scruffpuff
Dec 23, 2015

Fidelity. Wait, was I'm working on again?

Sarsapariller posted:

How to do a MMORPG bar right:
https://www.wowhead.com/news=284680/battle-for-azeroth-dive-bars-and-fun-drinks

Come up with a bunch of funny drink names, put them in your vendors which use the same loving animations and mechanics as everyone else holy poo poo, and then string them together with an achievement. Total writer time: 2 hours. Total dev time: 0 hours, because you're using the same loving animations and mechanics jesus gently caress.

You do not need custom NPC's to serve you cocktails! Nobody will use this! Immersion will not be damaged if you buy your poo poo off a loving menu-screen, just like every weapon, armor, and ship component vendor already in the game god dammit.

It's just so unbelievably stupid

Counterpoint: what do you propose CIG works on, that is within their ability, and which Chris Roberts understands. Granted that last one is a bit of a stretch, but let's meet halfway.

There's not one thing they're doing that doesn't give away the fact that they lack the talent and ability to do the things that matter. To the submoron in charge, the "game" was a foregone conclusion, leaving the immersion details as his domain. As it turns out they can't make his idiotic "vision" and his very existence is why nobody will ever get this game. Which is why it's all about the most stupid poo poo imaginable. They can't do anything else.

Scruffpuff fucked around with this message at 19:59 on Jun 14, 2019

Dark Off
Aug 14, 2015




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LWYtyV6pak&t=656s

Sarsapariller
Aug 14, 2015

Occasional vampire queen

Scruffpuff posted:

Counterpoint: what do you propose CIG works on, that is within their ability, and which Chris Roberts understands. Granted that last one is a bit of a stretch, but let's meet halfway.

Yachts!

https://imgur.com/a/Agpn3w5

I love that it even looks like a boat. Truly the vision of a creative genius

Guaranteed that hangar is why they can't get it out the loving door- it would reveal their entire ship storage/spawning system is hacked in and can't translate

Sarsapariller
Aug 14, 2015

Occasional vampire queen

CaptZyloh: "To be clear, the 890 Jump is not moving to 3.7. It will come in a 3.6.X patch."



heeheeheehee

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Asmodai_00
Nov 26, 2007

Sarsapariller posted:

Yachts!

https://imgur.com/a/Agpn3w5

I love that it even looks like a boat. Truly the vision of a creative genius

Guaranteed that hangar is why they can't get it out the loving door- it would reveal their entire ship storage/spawning system is hacked in and can't translate

is it called the 890 because that's how much it actually costs in actual real world money

e; wait IT SERIOUSLY IS?

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