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I'm trying to puzzle out how having a shield operator and turret gunner has any bearing whatsoever on how easy any ship, much less a "Luxury Yacht", is to fly solo.
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I read all the financial stuff, looked at the sales graph and their new ship and all I can picture is CIG digging in the couch cushions to find this month's rent.
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Aug 31, 2017 23:29
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I desperately want Chris and Sandi to try and mash all the garbage mocap footage they wasted backer money on together into the best drat space film ever and release it upon an unsuspecting world. With Sandi the heading the cast list, naturally.
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Aug 31, 2017 23:31
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NoNotTheMindProbe posted:Why did they name the largest ship after a Nazi tank? Konigstiger = Kingtiger which is the German term for Bengal Tiger. Also, I want to say for the record that I looked that up on wikipedia just now because I was sure it had to be a reference to something he'd done before but couldn't for the life of me remember any ship names from Wing Commander.
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Aug 31, 2017 23:34
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SomethingJones posted:So whalefear may be enough to justify shuffling lots of paperwork under the desk without invoking another source of finance. The thing about another source of finance is...if it's out there, what's it secured on? Coutts did their due diligence and duly demanded the Star Citizen IP. CIG don't have any other major assets beyond their office furniture. If there's another loan, something must have been pledged as security but there's not much left they could pledge. More angel investors like Bootcha? Bootcha was the last one left standing when the runaway funding started - CIG bought all their other investors out. They kept him around because he'd shown up to their parties (and turned on him drat fast when the time came). Any kind of institutional investor would want equity, which would in turn mean board seats and a measure of control over the project. We'd see them throwing their weight around by now. The alternative is an investor that injected cash in return for a slice of projected royalties post-launch, in which case LOL but again where are they? Surely they'd be breathing down Crobbler's neck, if not threatening a lawsuit by this point. Any investor genuinely chasing a ROI would not tolerate crap at anywhere near CIG's level over the past year or so.
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SomethingJones posted:This answers my question, thank you.
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NoNotTheMindProbe posted:Is that the twin towers in the background? 
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Wiz posted:I'm laughing so hard at the idea of earnestly being asked how many toilets your sci-fi spaceship in you sci-fi spaceship game will have, and thinking the question matters enough to put on an official FAQ. Spaceship toilets are the equivalent of cup holders in cars.
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Trilobite posted:"a Bengal-class Strike Carrier" I read that as "Benfat-rear end Stroke Carrier". I lol'd a bit. 
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Loxbourne posted:The thing about another source of finance is...if it's out there, what's it secured on? Coutts did their due diligence and duly demanded the Star Citizen IP. CIG don't have any other major assets beyond their office furniture. If there's another loan, something must have been pledged as security but there's not much left they could pledge. Well, this all makes sense, and if whales really are the only source of income then they must believe the are funding an existential war on behalf of all humanity.
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Aug 31, 2017 23:52
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Lol if the Hollywood accounting is nothing more than ortwin ensuring his job security and justifying a fat paycheque.
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Aug 31, 2017 23:54
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D_Smart posted:Just so we don't lose it, and can refer to it later, I am posting [redacted] (Shillizens) write-up about their June 2017 studio visit. Read it. It's amazingly hilarious, now that we've seen what happened at GC2017. I remember in stark contrast to this Lethality went a little off the rails telling those people they didn't see anything, sort of implying that he too took a studio tour. He didn't seem to appreciate CIGS whole "wink wink nudge nudge" kind of hint they did to the people who visited them. Eventually people are going to get tired of pretending CIG is making progress and redefining video games and are some kind of huge deal with the future of gaming. Instead they're going to get tired of it, and the whole smile and nod thing is going to turn on them. Maybe. Been saying this for years now. 
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VictorianQueerLit posted:You have a dossier on ALL of your adversaries? 
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peter gabriel posted:I've never been more confused than when I played LoD, I was just bewildered from start to finish. Where was I? What was I? What was I doing? I still have no idea pgabz. The most furious individual that there ever was.
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Hav posted:Spitballing, but what would it take for Chris to get away clean (again). Selling his share in the company? Nice try Chris
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NoNotTheMindProbe posted:Why did they name the largest ship after a Nazi tank? Konigstiger = Kingtiger which is the German term for Bengal Tiger. Because it's expensive, overengineered, will come out too late to make a difference, and spend most of its time inoperable due to design flaws
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Wiz posted:Good idea. Maybe I should add this to the ship designer, require the player to spend minerals on luxury toilets for crew comfort. Add the toilets/toilet paper numbers as a displayed statistic and have it change randomly over the course of a game. Don't actually tie it into anything or let it do anything at all. Stellaris being a perfect space game is just one minor patch away. Of course, that last line is sarcasm, since you don't have snoopy caps.
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doingitwrong posted:How much do you think the biggest whale has invested in this game? one dude was in over $100,000 not an investor, just a guy buying ships for friends and family
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TheAgent posted:awhile back there was a leak about how CIG is targeting certain whales to come in and help design the game Was that the time they were looking to hire a personal valet for backers? Needed experience in fine dining and a few other qualifications that should never be asked of anyone trying to make a video game HAHAHA I forgot about this Came across it while trying to find the job description: https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/3n59ft/working_at_cig_from_a_cig_employee/ GUYS everything is great at CIG take it from me an actual employee not being paid to post this YEAH THIS IS JARED this man above me is right, we totally think CIG and especially CHRIS AND SANDI are great because we are totally NOT being paid to say these things Also I forgot how proud Lando was about having basically floated from job to job for his entire adult life Blue On Blue fucked around with this message at 00:18 on Sep 1, 2017 |
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How many years has Derek Smart been trying to create Planetside 1 lol
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Remember when sandy mentioned that they were looking to find a way to release pressure from the whales because everything is going swimmingly we dont need the money at all right? They've just been tightening the vices over and over again.
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Cao Ni Ma posted:Remember when sandy mentioned that they were looking to find a way to release pressure from the whales because everything is going swimmingly we dont need the money at all right? They've just been tightening the vices over and over again. Well, video games have taught me that whale oil has value, so that's completely understandable.
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Wiz posted:I'm laughing so hard at the idea of earnestly being asked how many toilets your sci-fi spaceship in you sci-fi spaceship game will have, and thinking the question matters enough to put on an official FAQ. P sure my hivemind just needs one really big toilet. Gonna need you to update that megastructure list.
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peter gabriel posted:I've never been more confused than when I played LoD, I was just bewildered from start to finish. Where was I? What was I? What was I doing? I still have no idea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9sqUHaJTG4 Here's the citizen version of a Pgabz video. Oddly, I haven't seen a single goon cultist try to defend Derek's game in any of the videos mocking it 
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Toops posted:It's so frustrating when you actually know something, have lived it, done it, seen it from the inside, and speak from experience, only to have know-nothing blowhards, who think they know better than you, just poo poo all over the evidence and facts. The nice thing about facts is, they're true whether you believe them or not. But this recent ability to create social networks that are completely insulated from facts and, worse, the desire to know, is a huge failure of the internet as a whole, and Star Citizen is a perfect microcosm of the vapid, repressive fabric that our civilization happily wraps over its eyes like a blindfold.  
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KM Scorchio posted:Derek what are you going to do all day after starcitizen dies? I hope you have a back up crusade ready to embark upon. I do. I'm going after the loving scam called Elite Dangerous. They built a loving game with crowd-funded money, and shipped it. Who does that?
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Jobbo_Fett posted:Finally finish LoD
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SomethingJones posted:I never thought any of the whales would refund, now I have to buy a CIG webcam so everyone can see my surprised face. Quite a few are refunding. I have received three emails from whales, not measly $500 backers. Sadly, most of them (like the $30K German guy I tweeted about earlier) don't want the drama; so they're not going public with it. But - right now on Spectrum - there are several confirmed kills. We always knew that most of them would refund if GC2017 was a bust. And we always knew that some would keep it quiet because nobody wants to admit they'd be scammed.
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To be fair to those guys, most people also don't want weirdos from Reddit and elsewhere stalking and harassing them, either. Who wants to deal with the endless stream of trolls and ill-wishers, knowing that there are probably some diehards in there who might try to get them fired or worse just for saying they got a refund?
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Loxbourne posted:Where was this? On Discord? He declared it on Spectrum. Word hit me on Discord and on Twitter DM. Then I pinged one person who confirmed it; just as another person sent me a Discord message, complete with translated (it's German) posts. It's legit. And he's pissed. I am waiting for permission to make his post public, though it is already public if you are on the German Discord. Look for user GOEI. Get this. He's Evocati too. So yeah.
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Sabreseven posted:And that's the really funny thing, Derek actually speeding up the dev time of SC. Hey, I was making a decent living out of it, too. Don't knock it until you've walked my shoes, man!!  I gave all that up so that I could sue CIG for some of that sweet, sweet backer cash.
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Decrepus posted:How many years has Derek Smart been trying to create Planetside 1 lol Video game development is hard!! Just ask croberts and his posse of 400 who can't get a vehicle up a loving ramp.
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POOL IS CLOSED posted:To be fair to those guys, most people also don't want weirdos from Reddit and elsewhere stalking and harassing them, either. Who wants to deal with the endless stream of trolls and ill-wishers, knowing that there are probably some diehards in there who might try to get them fired or worse just for saying they got a refund? Exactly.
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D_Smart posted:Video game development is hard!! Just make sure you emphasize the game part. They kick rear end at making videos.
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Sappo569 posted:He is probably not joking when he says it's all disposable income, unlike most of the other backers trying to console themselves Star Citizen: GO CONSOLE YOURSELF :xbox:
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