[Mikes]

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If they can't give mass to the ships why don't they disable the physics system on landing?
Or at least invent an excuse like clamps to keep them in place.

Afaik ... you can only watch it in  the Revel and York Hangar atm and it works fine there. /shrugs

Not sure how spoon got it into the other Hangar. ;-)

[Spoon]

Don't put me in the same category as those jpg buying plebians.
Clearly that's not my YT channel.

[Unknown Target]

I just hate how the ships look. The Starfarer looks like a fat whale with a tiny nose.

[Charismatic]

I know this is newb but:
I was ~around~ when the whole Derek Smart and Freespace rights thing happened, but I was very limited on time. That said, I did not read the 500 pages of replies to the shenanigans.

Is there a "Best Quotes of Derek Smart" or "Derek Smart for Dummies" out there where I could see the core of it? I want to fully understand.

Also anyone have a friendly summary of what star citizen is? Iv read some and looked at their RSI website. But it seems its hard to understand. You have all different game types and its a whole universe? huh?

[Spoon]

Star citizen is everything you want it to be.
It's a dream~

[Kszyhu]

But only if you dream of mixing drinks or manually swapping video disks for the passengers of a futuristic spacecraft, which looks susiciously like an airplane. As for the summary, it's quite hard to do, thanks to the way the promises are spread out through multiple videos. I think there are MMO (Star Citizen) and single-player (Squadron 42) components. As far as I know, the MMO is supposed to be something in the vein of Ultima Online with spaceships/Star Wars Galaxies, while SQ42 looks suspiciously like the next Wing Commander, though with motion capture (I saw mention of 10 hours of footage sometimes last year) instead of live-action cutscenes. The game types are a relic of their older approach to developing the game, with features spread into different modules (hangar, where you can look at ships, dogfighting module and FPS module). Currently, the development is apparently focused on the so-called Baby Persistent Universe, which contains one part of one of the 100 systems planned at launch. I think it's supposed to be a core of the MMO part, though at the moment you can shoot some NPCs, crash into few players and do two missions.

[Unknown Target]

2.4 just came out, adds "persistance" (aka item shops). It was pretty late, and people started questioning The Vision.

Something Awful dedicated an entire sub forum to this game.

I give it maybe 2 or 3 more patch releases before the next big drama bowl.

[Col. Fishguts]

Clearly, the addition of clothing stores is what all the backers have been impatiently waiting for since the release of the PU.
I mean who wouldn't want to spend the ingame time browsing through shirts to put on your spaceman doll?



It's the BDSSE after all.

[Sushi]

It doesn't appeal to me either, but clearly there's plenty of demand for that sort of thing.

[Dragon]

Believe me, for some people it's probably more important than actual gameplay. Consider that many spend real money for entirely cosmetic and utterly pointless additions in other games.

That said, it's good to see them doing something with the project, at least. For what people have been saying about it, it already got quite far. They need a decent variety of clothes for NPCs anyway, so I suppose it's not entirely pointless.

[StarSlayer]

Clearly, the addition of clothing stores is what all the backers have been impatiently waiting for since the release of the PU.
I mean who wouldn't want to spend the ingame time browsing through shirts to put on your spaceman doll?



It's the BDSSE after all.

It's the height of folly to challenge TF2's insurmountable dominance in the realm of tactical hat and clothing simulation.  Clearly CR's hubris knows no bounds.

[RangerKarl]

Not sure why you'd associate a clothing line with nuclear shaped charges, but okay. Did somebody actually ask for this?

[Luis Dias]

The finance minister at Robert Space Industries.

[Dragon]

Not sure why you'd associate a clothing line with nuclear shaped charges, but okay.

I've seen stranger ads for that sort of thing (shavers and fighter jets, for example). I wonder, though, if they just picked a cool-sounding name or if it was an intentional reference. It seems pretty realistic, had the technology not been so obscure (and nuclear weapons not so taboo), we'd already have advertisements touting washing machines, blenders, shirts and watches to be somehow as cool/powerful/whatever as a nuclear shaped charge. You can already get a motherboard named "AMD Fatality 990fx Killer" (I recently upgraded to it), which is pretty violent for a computer component that can only really harm your wallet (unless you're willing to bludgeon someone with a 200$ motherboard, of course ).

[Aesaar]

It really amuses me that the new CoD game is basically SQ42 but with non-retarded developers.

[Dragon]

It's probably just that CoD has a reasonable budget and a proper deadline. SC has far too much money for its own good. Give CoD devs an unlimited budget and an arbitrary amount of time and I'm sure they'd come up with something that tries to be CoD, ArmA, Second Life and EVE Online at the same time. The religiously devoted fanbase only makes it worse. CoD people know what they want (though judging by the trailer, it wasn't what they were showed), SC people want everything.

[Unknown Target]

Star Citizen dropped out of E3. The redditzens are in a tizzy.

https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/4lpkst/cig_wont_present_at_pc_gaming_show_after_all/

[Col. Fishguts]

According to the RSI forums that's good news and a sign that all is according to plan.

But FFS, I cannot comprehend why they don't release some generic space combat or FPS footage/screenshots of SQ42 to appease the backers. Hell, it could even be fake/staged footage, nobody could tell anyway.

But even the game journalists are shown nothing of SQ42 when they get a tour of the CIG studios. Either they really have nothing to show, or CR is really thinking that even a small snippet would spoil the fidelitous immershun of his masterpiece.

[The E]

According to the RSI forums that's good news and a sign that all is according to plan.

Isn't literally anything CIG does, including nothing at all, considered as such over there?

[Luis Dias]