DapperDon posted:

Within 5 years he has increased his income almost 8 fold? Most major and established companies only offer 3%. What is Brabens salary again? Around $200k? Aren't gaming salaries generally on the lower side?

Mirificus posted:

TheAgent posted:

because gently caress why not

quote this post with your five best predictions of tomorrows live stream, whoever is most accurate wins wither a copy of elite dangerous or planet coaster or a steam game of equivalent or a donation to some loving charity because its christmas you stupid game addicted nerds

1. vignettes are finally shown for SQ42
2. star marine trailer with boot camp guy video, kinda corny
3. 2.6! amazing stuff that was shown last month
4. ptu announcement for 2.6
5. new features that are coming in 3.0, small demo

ManofManyAliases posted:

They're already on 2.6g. It was released yesterday:



1, They're still a couple big blockers that are not ready for prime-time. There's some sort of new system in place that checks obstructions in real-time and relays that to the radar. However, this is a glitch that is bogging-down some clients. I don't expect a live release (or PTU) tomorrow.
2. Ship sale with a possible new concept.
3. Clip from SQ42 demo that was previously unseen.
4. Jared WILL be there.
5. Some technical speak involving the new coding (such as obstruction/radar link) and new flight models that will be released with 2.6

Yolomon Wayne posted:

Seems Star marine is the second comming of jesus space christ, what does it do that Quake 1 didnt?

Mirificus posted:

ripptide posted:

In true CIG style, they'll probably have a concept ship and sale.

Amarcarts posted:

I seem to remember ultimately we were promised 70 missions in Squadron 42.

AP posted:

SALE SALE SALE

Soul Crashing Lag posted:

So DB's engine partly (mostly) predicted Trappist 1.
What did Croberts engine do?

AP posted:

https://twitter.com/banditloaf/status/838952435859140608

TrustmeImLegit posted:

Yesterday I had a nice talk with one of my fellows in my org. We talked about CR's promises, especially regarding subsumption.

One of CR's core promises is: "the player can do whatever a NPC can do". It also works the other way around: "the NPC can do whatever a player can do". For example, NPC ships are controlled by NPCs which are doing their jobs as much as they would do on a player controlled ships. And players can do the very same jobs. Also, NPCs can take missions as well as players can, which means, any job appearing on the job board IS done by someone, be it a PC or a NPC.

If CIG is able to pull that stunt, that's already a rather impressive feat.

Also CR promised us a "living" universe. NPCs do have lives as much as PCs have. They have a daily routine, they have a place where they sleep, they have their own hangars, their own ships etc. In a way NPCs and PCs are nearly indistinguishable from a certain point of view. Also there's that promise NPCs keep track of their interactions with other players, resulting in a dynamic relationship. They might become loyal friends - or have their own agenda, playing a foul game with certain players. And since the promise is still valid, NPCs may also have relationships with other NPCs and keeping track - which simply adds even more layers of complexity.

If CIG is able to do that, they nearly almost created a simulation of a small society.

And now substract any PCs from the game. Do it.

You may suddenly realize the game doesn't really need PCs to create a living universe. If done right, NPCs keep each other occupied with jobs, ever increasing relationships (or falling ones). They might even double cross each other. The command staff of the UEEN may decide to bring war to the Vanduul or vice versa. The economy is supporting that war - and the war may be lost if the economy fails doing so. Also the Xi'An may take a move towards UEE space, the old cold war turns in a hot one. Elections may happen, entire systems may suffer a total breakdown thanks to pirate raids against convoys and the UEEN may send fleets dealing with those pirates.

Now think about that. Basically, that's what CR promised in a nutshell. An living universe that's basically an independent simulation of a (small scale) society.

TheAgent posted:

me irl right now
https://imgur.com/Rq9zqLP

XK posted:

While I'm waiting for Linkedin to get its poo poo together and actually email me my confirm code (after the whole website was having tunneling failure), I'm watching a little Youtube on Nier: Automata. Looks cool as poo poo, but the open world sandbox looks empty. They made the cardinal mistake; you have to make your sandbox world feel like it organically exists on its own. This philosophy makes the environment fun to gently caress around in, even if you aren't engaged in game goals. So far, it looks like Nier's world only exists to explicitly serve the game.

So many open world games make this mistake, and it's one thing GTA has always gotten right. Two disappointments (both old as gently caress now) that immediately come to mind are "True Crime: LA", and "The Getaway". Both games had very decent mechanics, but the world was just completely dead. This is also why Saint's Row bored the poo poo out of me. In GTA, they make a world environment that lives and breathes on its own, then fit the game into it. That's why it's fun to just run around and gently caress with poo poo in every GTA game, for hours and days, and often boring in most other open world games. One of the directors/producers stated in an interview that they explicitly make their game worlds self-living like this.

It's just another thing CIG is certainly going to get wrong, but, to be fair, almost everyone else gets this wrong too.

Quavers posted:

Star is slowly taking shape...

AP posted:

https://twitter.com/RayRoocroft/status/849562329620639746

https://twitter.com/TheBristolBoy88/status/851451285312286720

D_Smart posted:

https://twitter.com/dsmart/status/854772434804846594

https://twitter.com/dsmart/status/854774920756301826

TheAgent posted:

star citizen is the escort you pre-book by paypal but never get to have sex with

The Titanic posted:

CIG wants to have everything and basically be The Matrix in space. The good thing is that they DO have one scene from The Matrix!

There is no game.

Whoa!

Thoatse posted:

Annabelle 'Bro' Huxely
Cthulu
Confused Monkeh
Lethality
Logic Sol
Hanthos Taal
Tarkashoe
Wesha
Montoya

no_recall posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04IKXdn96xA

Network bind / unbind / refactor / persistent data.

Really??? Shitizens buy these things?

e: Router Biasing / Network Diffusion.... WTF?

Tippis posted:

…and yet, the PS1 Deliverer was, is, and will always remain the best MMO vehicle ever.