mdxi posted:

So there I was, haulin' 27 deciLesnicks of X'ian Pearl Cream from the Eastern Systems over to GrimHEX.

My port-side quantum tubes were acting up -- probably because I'd been too cash-strapped to have them deschmegged for the past 3 maintenance cycles -- but I had to push my trusty MISC Endeavor as hard as she could go. Pirates are peevish and mercurial at the best of times, and this was defniitely not the best of times. The humidifiers had been out of commission on GrimHEX for over a week, and an ashy pirate was not a happy pirate.

"Cortana!" I called to no one in particular (for indeed I was the only person aboard -- a sometimes unavoidable side effect of being a rugged iconoclast with uncorruptible space-morals), knowing that my ship's female AI would respond.

"Yes, M'lord?" her dulcet, voice answered, with just the slightest hint of longing and submission, from the PA speaker overhead.

"I'm sorry, girl, but I need you to push the QD as hard as you can. Even if it means exceeding the B'tak thresholds by as much as 5%. And remind me to lay in new supplies of fresh wipes when we hit Stanton."

no_recall posted:

Star Citizen, from videos, has a ridiculous short TTK (time to kill) period. A connie dies within a minute, ships crash in spectacular fashion with no auto eject (not sure why this is not a feature), players die and ships despawn with them, jumping out of a ship while its flying doesn't follow physics (your velocity = ship velocity) but instead of a high possibility of your death.

Griefed Citizen.

Daztek posted:

https://vid.me/1Fys

this is amazing

almost pgabz worthy

Ol Cactus Dick posted:

croberts design = steal stuff and jam on greebling until you can't fit anymore

Daffan posted:

[INSERT ANY CIG IDEA TEXT, LIMIT 96 CHARACTERS] was an idea they came up with on the spot to placate the players, without thinking through how it would be balanced or actually work in the game - so they've pulled the plug on it IIRC.

Other famous CR ideas that have been stated here and there, but CiG have no idea how it will actually work in the game, let alone the implementation.

Agent Smithing function.
9:1 NPC:Player ratio.
Each random NPC has their own lives and are like real players. Don't just randomly appear/disappear
NPC crews are fully independent with wants/needs.
Living breathing economy that is ran by NPC's and can be dynamically affected by players.
Massive 200+ people fleet battles, with full crews aboard each ship with magic instancing.
[INSERT ANY COMPLETED FEATURE TEXT HERE. GO AHEAD, USE AS MUCH SPACE AS YOU WANT FOR THIS DATA] (I cant wait until people rage against this)

All this coming right after they work out the Flight Model and Controls.

cool new Polack jokes posted:

It's me, I'm the 12-sided "round" cartoon button from Conker's Bad Fur Day (N64)

(stop doxxing me)

grimcreaper posted:

I liked the look of armor in dead space though.. Croberts armor just looks like poo poo tacked onto poo poo for the hell of it.

Xaerael posted:

IDK whether this is a joke post or not.

The Titanic posted:

You're close, except it's butt plugs. And they aren't visible when equipped. Just knowing the fidelity is in him is good enough.

crisp roberts posted:

In a way CIG really reminds me of a modding team. The starting aspiration, the clunky tech demos, a bastardized version of an already released game, overpromising and internal struggles. Sure, sometimes great mods come out, but much more fail though.

peter gabriel posted:

Star Citizen

Hav posted:

My Kerbal Space Program story;

I started playing the game with very little idea of what was going on, so I killed a lot of my pilots early on, relying on scientists to do the flying. When we finally made high parabolas - orbits were slightly out of reach - I started the science experiments to earn some sweet cheddar from Big Environment on Kerbal. One of the experiments you can do is EVA, which is fine, because you have a ladder that you can hold onto.

So my Kerbal is hanging onto the ladder heading towards apogee, when I find out you can move up and down the ladder, until I fall off. it's surprising how quickly that separation goes from a couple of inches to a couple of meters simply from the impulse of leaving the ladder. I actually got quite anxious.

I had to pause and feverishly look up the EVA thrusters, then manuever the Kerbal back onto the ladder before things got a bit hot from re-entry.

$15 and emergent gameplay. Star Citizen can't do that.

The Titanic posted:

Hopefully the tide will continue to slowly turn. I don't see how it couldn't, but I also never would have predicted them getting millions because of their last stream. So I am continually surprised!

Nicholas posted:

heres your 42 million dollar stretch goal



totally not related to HGTTG

The Titanic posted:

It's been a while, so I may be a bit fuzzy on the details.

This was all at the very outset of everything. Sandi wasn't married to Chris, the ideas were still original. This whole Sq42 thing came around at some point, and everybody was like "Oh! Like Hitchhikers Guide! Haha!" And instead of go with it, Sandi determined that it wasn't in fact a HHGTTG reference, but instead it was her favorite number. So it's all original and totally not cribbing on Douglas Adams.

As for the towel, no idea? I'm sure towels are her favorite bathroom item or something.

Somebody like Beer can probably correct me if I'm way off base. This is some early days stuff when I wasn't really caring too much because the game was still feasible and not a train wreck.

The Titanic posted:

My bet would be that Chris Roberts knowingly rips this stuff off, but has a hard time admitting that he's creatively bankrupt. It's like if he only uses the Dune sandworm "a little bit" it's still mostly his creation on spectacle. Unfortunately for the whole Douglas Adams thing, it's pretty horrifically blatant. From the towel to everything else.

His whole game, from title to the details, is a rip off from better, original concepts from people far better at it than him.

POOL IS CLOSED posted:

how many of those guys unironically describe themselves as incels

thinking about the community just gets me down, time to enjoy some bubbly

The Titanic posted:

This seems to be the prevailing winner (where winning is bad) in most cases. Losing friends is an endless war of attrition between trying to be happy and trying to blend in with general society. Some day I will figure out the best mix and be totally cool and popular.

MeLKoR posted:

o4

A Neurotic Corncob posted:

pinepple on pizza: actually good

Raskolnikov posted:

Pineapple on pepperoni is the real winner. It's like #winning by slumming.

Seriously, it's good. Call me.
poo poo is tough okay?

Mirificus posted:

POOL IS CLOSED posted:

I'm afraid to gently caress with my stand mixer's dough hook when it's in action. You've got to have some sort of cognitive defect going on to think it's a good idea to jam your arm into an industrial version.

Tippis posted:

What else is there to do? It's not like CIG is doing anything useful that we can mock them for. We probably have to wait for the next livestream for that.

RagnarokZ posted:

Why the hell are the parking sensors that massive? Is that really needed on something that big?

TheAgent posted:

I have a set of Klobbs and I ain't afraid to use them

peter gabriel posted:

Is it literally just me left then?

TheLightPurges posted:

Ive got 5 dollars of skin in the game friend I'm riding this all the way down.

SpaceCurtisLeMay posted:

Well yesterday was a mixed bag. Got my refund deposited into my PayPal account and got a possible diagnosis of glaucoma. Have to go back for more tests, but I've had high eye pressure for years, but something they didn't like with the way the optic nerve looks or something. I'll find out more in a couple weeks when I go back in for more tests. Makes going ahead and getting a VR headset a bit higher on my priority list. Even if expensive and first gen and I know there will be better later. Better enjoy it now because there may come a day where I can't. Same with flying. Better enjoy the DA-40 while I can...

TheAgent posted:

klobbers

SpaceCurtisLeMay posted:

Could just be an elevated risk factor too. Won't know until the full tests. I have suffered a decrease in vision since my last visit 3 years ago, but I went from 20/15 to 20/20 vision. And given I'm in my mid/late 30's not unusual.

TheLightPurges posted:

a literal song and dance for the backers

peter gabriel posted:

Just landed the contract to do branding and promo for a large music festival yay!

Chalks posted:

Wait a good drat second, this screen isn't even turned on! It seems that I was wrong all along! Twitter does indeed include messages from people, even those I am not following!

In fact, looking down my Twitter feed for the last month the only mentions of star citizen are retweeted by one Richard "lowtax" kyanka, who seems to run some sort of internet comedy website.

My god, I certainly regret making all those retarded comments about Twitter now that I realise I have literally no idea how it works. I sure do feel like a bit of a twat. Let's hope I don't compound this mistake by incorrectly accusing someone of reposting poo poo from their feed in this thread, because I seem to be incapable of keeping track of who I am replying to!

XK posted:

Pouring out a drink for 1990's Diamond Multimedia hardware. All the old school pc gamers will understand.

nawledgelambo posted:

These people are so brokebrained they have to hold hands and keep themselves in a hug pit and begin echoing their distaste for ANYONE not associated with the 'Star Citizen is my life' reassuring kum-ba-yah circle jerk. All dissenters and naysayers will be hung publicly. Scott Manley, you're always welcome here, buddy. Even if you love star citizen and have hundreds of thousands of dollars invested in it, at least we won't try and cost you business, tarnish your reputation, and question your integrity.

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

Maybe Chris should license the Cobra engine and just use it to build his dumb bad game instead of torturing StarYard

That'd at least net us a pretty good reddit meltdown thread

thatguy posted:

Better, happier, more entertained
Excited
Occasional drinks at the pub
/dance3 at the club
Seven days a week
Getting on better with your associate streamer contemporaries
At ease
Having fun
No more scripted dialogue and on-rail demos
A patient, better pilot
A safer ship
Cargo resting in the hold
Sleeping well
No bad bugs
No glitches
Careful to all players
Never griefing in Nullsec
Keep in contact with old devs
Enjoy AtV now and then
Will frequently check credits on Mobiglass
Hole in the wall
Pledges for pledges
Fond but not obsessed
Charity standing orders
On Sundays Dumper's Depot repair
No killing noobs or attacking helpless NPCs
New referral training
Also on Sundays
No longer afraid of the Goons or Derek
Nothing so ridiculously teenage and desperate
Nothing so childish
At a better pace
Slower and more calculated
No chance of escape
Now single
Concerned but powerless
An empowered and informed Citizen
Pragmatism not idealism
Will not cry on Reddit
Less chance of being scammed
Tires that don't no-clip
Shot of ship exploding
A good memory
Still cries at the end of Wing Commander
Still pledges with new cash
No longer empty and hollow like an actress
In her 40's trying to make it in Hollywood
The ability to laugh at E:D
Calm
Better, happier, more entertained
A dreamer on Spectrum with an Idris