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AP posted:Getting rid of You just need to leave a few cakes unattended at the office everyday to get rid of Ben. ![]()
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The Titanic posted:Good info. I’m not readily familiar with this stuff, but a lot of people I️ work with are tying themselves to AWS lately, and the biggest thing I’m having to deal with is this SaaS stuff and “serverless” architecture. Lambda is actually cool, but microservices. The smart money is looking for alternatives to amazon at the moment; Google compute is probably a better option for most people. Effectively you're just serving a specific event and endpoint, like server-based AJAX. AWS is the prototype; Azure and GC were second generation. Third generation is about to crest the horizon as everyone discovers datacenters again. Docker and containerization was the new hotness for a while, but again saturating network becomes 'a thing(tm)' and you still have to maintain a certain level of control over the container hosts ~ Beanstalk is the Amazon version, and quite frankly it blew. The biggest problem about AWS is that it entrains people to use AWS. You get an imperceptible vendor lockin by adjusting to their terminology and protocols. Edit: If it matters to anyone, it costs $10/month to run a wordpress blog with no traffic on AWS.
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Hav posted:Lambda is actually cool, but microservices. The smart money is looking for alternatives to amazon at the moment; Google compute is probably a better option for most people. Effectively you're just serving a specific event and endpoint, like server-based AJAX. I think I pay $5 a month, or $60/year, for a shared hosting account for my business website running wordpress. Nothing fancy and doesn't get a lot of traffic. Use it more for email accounts now more than anything else.
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VictorianQueerLit posted:I'm not defending Derek, I'm the first one to make fun of him, but I've talked about this in the past and I think what he said was accurate at the time. This is an amazing post. The grapevine (which is 70% accurate) had a lot to say about how much time it was taking to process the mocap data around about the same time Sean Tracy was saying it was in-engine in 2 clicks. One of the guys in the German studios, I forget who, had been talking about how they still had to figure out how the scenes would play out and from which perspective, ie would the player have control, would they cutaway etc. That must be the guts of 2 years ago now. The grapevine was saying a few months ago that SQ42 was essentially canned, and the Agent has been saying that it has been folded into the PU - which if you ask me is a polite way of saying it's been canned, they are salvaging what they can but it has been canned. The issue of AI not working is another thing that's come down the grapevine again and again. WAN HUNNAHD AN SHIXTEE MEEEEEYUN DOWWAH
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thatguy posted:Chris could just buy out Lesnick with some RARE NEVER BEFORE SEEN NAPKIN DOODLES OF A HIDDEN SECRET SHIP FROM ONE OF HIS FIRST GAMES. The thing I've always found funny about ![]() I like to think this is because he's always known Star Citizen is bollocks because he invented most of the ships and if you take the ships, and the text paragraph of fluff devoted to each, away, there's nothing left. I can't think of any better fitting end for ![]()
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https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/7c3ds3/is_there_any_reason_left_for_evocati/dpmwc7o/quote:About the goons stuff.. i can tell you i know A LOT about this. And believe be they are powerless besides trolling now. No financial damage they do anymore.
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Deep Citizen
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Its true though. Especially since Citcon we got owned extremely hard.
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The Titanic posted:So AWS Lumberyard stuff now supports mmo functionality out of the box? I’m all kinds of out of date! I'm behind by 4 pages so may be beaten, but I don't think anyone knows if Lumberyard's network arch will support MMO-scale, but I assume it can't without modification. And I don't know of any games that have proven GridMate works well in practice. But when I read about it, I thought the theory was sound.
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A Neurotic Corncob posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/7c3ds3/is_there_any_reason_left_for_evocati/dpmwc7o/ ![]()
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AP posted:Getting rid of I'm not entirely sure Ben does know where the bodies are buried, tbh. He's been there since the beginning, but he's so clearly cocooned in his own weird obsessions that it's entirely possible that he's never looked beyond them and learned a drat thing about the company he works for. He might have spent the past five years bumbling around being VERY impressed at how GREAT everything seems to be going, and then headed home without ever once worrying about anything more bleak than "What if they're out of my favorite cake and I have to eat my second-favorite instead?" I mean, there are a whole bunch of people who have spent thousands of dollars on absolutely nothing and who still can't muster up enough sanity to even consider tapping the brakes on their relentless and entirely unhinged optimism, and some of them don't even have to spend most of their day dealing with horrifying health problems and obsessively indexing Wing Commander memorabilia. It's entirely possible that Ben knows even less about Star Citizen's actual progress than CIG's customers do at this point. That said, even if he knows absolutely nothing and couldn't retaliate against them even if he wanted to, they should probably try to arrange a soft landing for him when/if he leaves. That way it's not a "heartless company fires sick fat man like a common EA would" story, at least. I can't even imagine what other company would have a job for him, but at this point CIG's got to be worried about doing anything that might dent the confidence of their captive audience, right?
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A Neurotic Corncob posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/7c3ds3/is_there_any_reason_left_for_evocati/dpmwc7o/ Stand back everyone, I know A LOT about this
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SomethingJones posted:Stand back everyone, I know A LOT about this Have you lost everything as well friend. I would never have made fun of Star Citizen if I thought it would have such a devastating effect.
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I am continually amused at the amount of stuff goons get blamed for, and the ![]() "Trust me guys, I'm an expert on goons. I paid ![]()
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Trilobite posted:I'm not entirely sure Ben does know where the bodies are buried, tbh. He's been there since the beginning, but he's so clearly cocooned in his own weird obsessions that it's entirely possible that he's never looked beyond them and learned a drat thing about the company he works for. He might have spent the past five years bumbling around being VERY impressed at how GREAT everything seems to be going, and then headed home without ever once worrying about anything more bleak than "What if they're out of my favorite cake and I have to eat my second-favorite instead?" I don't buy Ben knowing the 'where the bodies' are buried line either Because a leak saying that implies the leaker knows what Ben knows, so why not just leak it? The truth of it is (if you ask me) that nobody actually knows what Ben does to justify his wage and Ben knows that people around him feel this way, or have made it known to him that they feel that way. At least Sandi tells people to tweet poo poo for her and shows up to If Ben's gone he has left by his own decision and past experience with CIG will tell you that he's likely signed something on the way out the door too. But what the gently caress do I know.
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Drunk Theory posted:Have you lost everything as well friend. I would never have made fun of Star Citizen if I thought it would have such a devastating effect. I have lost several important pieces of my brain yes It's lovely that CIG don't do anything funny any more, the wheels falling off the buggy was peak Citizen for me. I don't think they can top that in Season 7.
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SomethingJones posted:I don't buy Ben knowing the 'where the bodies' are buried line either of course, with the whole sexual predator thing in the news right now, it's p easy to bring up some of his earlier posts and creepy as gently caress demeanor around women to oust him out of the loving company no one there wants him around
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SomethingJones posted:I don't buy Ben knowing the 'where the bodies' are buried line either Chris keeps Ben on because Chris is a narcissist and loves having a literal yes-man following him around telling him how great every idea is. I'd love to know why Ben left, but I cannot imagine they got rid of him. My completely uninformed guess is a combination of his failing health and realization that there is no game.
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![]() quote:We’re two weeks away from our Anniversary Special, which runs from November 24th to December 4th.
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SomethingJones posted:It's lovely that CIG don't do anything funny any more, the wheels falling off the buggy was peak Citizen for me. I don't think they can top that in Season 7.
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a loving eight episode ship series hahahahahahahaha I dunno, maybe they still got it
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Nobody knows, since there are currently NO RELEASED GAMES that use LumberYard. The engine, as a whole, is all very experimental - and still in Beta. What I do know is that the CryEngine networking layer was always rubbish; and isn't something that they were actively interesting in improving because most of the games the engine targeted, with simple 16-player games, with lobbies. Forget about loving MMOs. And in the latest LY build, they even deprecated the entire CryEngine network layer in favor of their own. Which makes sense, since AWS is network-centric and they would have top tier network engineers there. The LumberYard engine was never designed for MMO games. At all. Even AMZ states this clearly in their docs and faqs about what the engine is designed to do, and the limitations/strengths of the networking component. Whoever wants to use LY for MMO games, is i) one dumb sumbitch ii) an incompetent moron I suspect that in the switch from CE3.x to LY, they ended up using the LY implementation, which would require them to strip the now deprecated CE3.x networking layer they were using in their Frankenengine. There was also indication that they were either using, or planning to use this experimental bullshit (in comparison to SDKs like RakNet or ReplicaNet) call yojimbo which they were Golden backers of. If they did end up using it, loving because it explains everything. Star Citizen was never designed to be an MMO. They have missed that boat. They're never - ever - going to get there because it's too late now. And the premise of them even attempting it, would mean a code/maintenance freeze of maybe TWO loving YEARS to re-jigger everything. When you consider that the last 2.6.3 patch was in April, and 3.0 is now almost a year late - and will be more than that eventually - it's easy to see how completely and totally hosed they are. As I wrote here, an MMO architecture is not the sort of thing you just tack on at any time during development. The best they could have even got away with, was how Elite Dangerous - which isn't an MMO - did it. And that was a phenomenal fit of engineering, given how it works, the world size etc. AND it has a ton of caveats, regardless. If they are now testing 60 client sessions, it's not because they magically came up with new networking tech (note that it's not listed anywhere in the dev schedule) at the spur of the moment. It's because they have realized that the AWS instances (these are the different tiers) they were usingvfor severs, are simply incapable of handling the additional poo poo that 3.0 is now throwing at it. Unfortunately for them, moving to higher tier AWS instances is not only going to cost them money, but it's also NOT going to solve the networking/connectivity problem. It's just going to solve the server's ability to just gently caress off and die at some point. And it was doing just that - CONSISTENTLY - in the tests they just had. To get a better understanding of what it takes to build an MMO using cloud tech - the dumbest thing to do since we elected a moron as POTUS - is to read these resources. Using the cloud to build a MMORPG <-- This is theoretical and shows you what's possible, not that it's possible for a real-time game, with high fidelity visuals etc Building a World in the Clouds: MMO Architecture on AWS (MBL304) | AWS <-- This is how Firefall did it. Multiplayer was pure poo poo. And the game died. As did the company. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvJPyjmfdz0 <--- This is how Frontier did it. And they don't even try to do anything more than 32 clients within a "bubble/island" They're completely and utterly hosed; and Star Citizen will never - ever - be an MMO. Backers should just pray that they are one day able to play with 32 of their friends in a session. loving if they all have multi-crew ships.
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TheAgent posted:no one there wants him around I've heard that MANY times from the old grapevine. To be fair the grapevine has withered somewhat, and it's more like a grapevine of a grapevine but some things are generally consistent and persistent. He actually has contributed the grand total of precisely gently caress all to the project, and can't even answer simple questions when he wheels himself out on promo videos out like some monstrous bloated vegetable
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![]() https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/spectrum-dispatch/16238-New-United-War-On-Water From their newsletter today.
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That's a new ship in the image, isn't it.
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CIG doesn't celebrate Star Citizen's birth, they celebrate its conception. Unless the crowd-funding is Star Citizen in which case it makes perfect sense that they would celebrate when they started getting money.
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:That's a new ship in the image, isn't it. Well their better be. How else will you fill eight episodes of ship commercials. Revenue this year must be in the toilet.
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well October ended at almost 40% below last years funding October 2017 funding: $3,251,843 (actual - estimated at $3,275,000 on October 30th) October 2016 funding: $5,215,403 Difference: -$1,963,560 Percentage: -37.7% Novembers estimate puts them even below that November 2017 funding: $3,750,000 (estimated) November 2016 funding: $7,776,767 Difference: -$4,026,767 Percentage: -51.8% that would be a huge loving difference and will make everyone poo poo their pants as I've said before, the only thing I could see saving them is a bug free, stable and content rich 3.0 out the door like right motherfuckin now
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AP posted:Getting rid of Ben doesn't know where the bodies are buried. He never saw anything.
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TheAgent posted:as I've said before, the only thing I could see saving them is a bug free, stable and content rich 3.0 out the door like right motherfuckin now oh dear... ![]()
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Drunk Theory posted:Revenue this year must be in the toilet. That's where Ben is for the most of his worktime.
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Zzr posted:That's where Ben pass the most of his worktime. He's trying to drop 3.0
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A Neurotic Corncob posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/7c3ds3/is_there_any_reason_left_for_evocati/dpmwc7o/ Star Citizen: I am deeper into this that you maybe think
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Slow_Moe posted:Ben doesn't know where the bodies are buried. Because he ate them blindfolded?
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Hav posted:Lambda is actually cool, but microservices. The smart money is looking for alternatives to amazon at the moment; Google compute is probably a better option for most people. Effectively you're just serving a specific event and endpoint, like server-based AJAX. Yeah, we’re switching a lot of apis to lambda because magic and unicorns are in the cloud. ![]()
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TheAgent posted:ben will probably stay on as chris's personal historian or something stupid because the second you get rid of him people are going to start worrying My favorite Ben moment was when Accelerwrath started sending unsolicited dick pics to female members of the community and when Goons raised a stink about it Ben banned the victim and a bunch of Goons while having a public meltdown about Goons. The icing on that cake was that backers have turned this into a heroic moment where Cloud Imperium Gaming officially condemned an organization of trolls and resoundingly announced that their poo poo wasn't going to pursue the refugees from EVE Online to Star Citizen. Basically this old post Just where he says "The goons attempted to use SJW mechanisms to accuse CIG of sexism" add in "Because a concierge backer, the guy who has apparently done security for citcon since then, was sexually harassing female members of the community and Ben banned the victims and called out the people bringing attention to it."
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