MrQwerty posted:

did anyone ever build the 4th Stimpire

Thoatse posted:

Etsy cow show moma!
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Mozi posted:

Yeah I mean I backed the original Kickstarter, there are probably a bunch of other folks here who did as well. It's been a long strange ride since then.

Viscous Soda posted:

I'd be willing to bet it'll be a mix of "Crobberts only sin was dreaming to big" combined with "The real goal was showing the other devs that there was demand for space sims" and a dash of "All the sub par space sims poisoned the well for SC!" Oh, and of course he'll learn nothing from his embarrassing decade of spending/cheer-leading SC and just ignore it, moving on to the true Next Great Game that's actually a whale milking machine.

IMO this is the kiss of death for any product.

I can't think of any entertainment product that tried to do the whole "We're not just a <film/game/cartoon/comic/toy line/etc.> we're also going to make a franchise that will contain films, games, cartoons, comics, a toy line, etc. straight out of the gate!" and actually succeeded. Every time I see it proposed, the project fallsc flat on it's face. I think the problem is that whenever it's proposed the creator has already decided that the initial product is going to be a huge success before it's even half finished. Mentally they've moved on to "How to we make the rest of the franchise products work?" leaving the initial product a half baked mess full of bad decisions from it's auteur designer.

onesixtwo posted:

I too miss Hawken

Biplane posted:

I even bought and enjoyed a Hawken graphic novel

HJE-Cobra posted:

To compare Star Citizen to Star Wars for a moment

In 2012, the Star Citizen Kickstarter happened. 2012 was also when Disney bought the rights to the Star Wars franchise.

Since then, ALL of the Disney Star Wars things have happened. The sequel trilogy, the standalone movies like Rogue One, the series like Mandalorian and Boba Fett and Andor... All of that was made after the Star Citizen Kickstarter.

DreadUnknown posted:

Hawken was visually very cool, I still have the client in my Steam library. There was a miniseries or something I think?

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The UEC price hikes were aimed at making the universe feel more realistic. As they always planned.

And I can tell you, whatever they raise to will still not be enough.

You should not be entitled to buy any ship you want, alone, just by "saving up".

Mirificus posted:

HJE-Cobra posted:

Lol wut

How else would you buy a ship if not by saving up

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Meaningless.

HJE-Cobra posted:

Lol wut

How else would you buy a ship if not by saving up

Facebook Aunt posted:

I suppose there could be gated access where you have to have completed a certain mission or participated in an event to get the right to buy the ship. Finishing the single-player campaign grants "citizenship" and it's possible some items are not allowed to be sold to non-citizens.

Or real money.

Facebook Aunt posted:

I suppose there could be gated access where you have to have completed a certain mission or participated in an event to get the right to buy the ship. Finishing the single-player campaign grants "citizenship" and it's possible some items are not allowed to be sold to non-citizens.

Or real money.

Facebook Aunt posted:

I suppose there could be gated access where you have to have completed a certain mission or participated in an event to get the right to buy the ship. Finishing the single-player campaign grants "citizenship" and it's possible some items are not allowed to be sold to non-citizens.

Or real money.

What if we could lend processing power to the verse posted:

With server meshing starting to become a thing I had a wild thought recently.

Imagine if we could spool-up small servers on our machines to help process off-screen NPCs behaviours (or other) around the verse while we’re not playing. A little bit like project SETI@home used to do in the past. The technology is not the same but the concept could be interesting.

Security concerns aside (I’m not sure this could be done without any risk of hacking), would you be willing to lend your processing power to CIG while AFK ? And do you think it would be technically doable ? With fiber connections starting to become more popular I’m wondering if latency would be an issue.

Jack-Off Lantern posted:

Sure, let's decentralize the calculations and add huge amounts of latency in every direction.

Why not offer the game client as P2P download only???

That way CIG can save bandwidth!