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Topic: The Official One and Only Star Citizen Thread: The Thread to End All Other Threads (part 2)

squeegee started this discussion 11 years ago #45,096

This thread is made to be a catch-all for all Star Citizen conversation and news.

I'll update this thread when there are new releases or anything related to Star Citizen that might be of interest to people here. If you're thinking of making your own Star Citizen thread, consider posting your thoughts here instead of making a new topic.

Social Module published to Live Servers 8/28/15

CIG finally hits a release date! even if it's only a pushed back date, but they did it! Good for them. let's hope it's the start of a trend. Probably not, but, it's here and people are playing it and here're some pictures you can enjoy. it looks great, and it makes me hopeful the next zones coming out of the pipe will be even better.

From what we hear Nyx is next. damnit, i think that's it, it's the asteroid base though. It's been described as a huge old mining operation on a gigantic asteroid. The facilities were all abandoned (or taken by pirates or something) and now a huge city has built inside the mines and structures above ground. The devs say it looks way more impressive than Arc Corp, the first zone included in today's update. Arc Corp was laid out a year ago and has been their test bed for designing Augmented Reality and the Hololens system, the building system, how shopping works, and since then they've improved their art pipeline with what they learned from building arc corp. with a better understanding of the systems they need to design around the newer zones are said to be much more interesting and complex.

Tony Zurovek is the producer of the Persistent Universe stuff (and by extension the social module systems architect) is publishing a companion document with the social module later tonight where he will detail what updates are coming up and how quickly we'll be seeing additional zones. At first we'll be able to visit all of the zones by "magic elevator transit" but when the zones are all connected up via large-world-maps in the Multicrew Module then we'll be very close to the alpha Persistent Universe and the magic elevator will lose its magic and we'll have to start flying between systems and worlds to visit the zones.

still, the big FPS delay feels like they won't make their targeted deadline for a PU alpha by the end of the year. If FPS comes out next month, then they'll have 3 months to get Multi-crew out. once that's in, we'll have all of the underpinnings for the Persistent Universe including up to maybe 5 star systems.

but, we'll have to see what the director of the PU has to say later tonight. should be interesting! i'm downloading the update right now, see y'all at the g'loc bar!

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oh man. if only we could have a pistol. apparently they're squeezing up to 30 people in instances, and that the "DevStream build" supports 50 but that's the FPS stream, so once they kick all that into the main build we should be seeing some serious multiplayer numbers.

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the only NPCs are inside buildings i think. but the plan is for a city thriving with activity and NPCs and players all coming and going. Also Arc Corp is about 1/3 its full size. there are fenced off streets that lead to more areas that are being worked on now. the idea is server load capacity and stress testing rather than a playable gamey area. the devs want as many people in instances as possible, and to be as stable as possible on release day. So more and more functionality and features will be added in the coming months as the other modules all start pulling together.

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someone made these for reddit: What we have now.

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What we should have this year at least.

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What the full game should have.

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no. i think it's all hooked up to the website or something though. this "social hub" stuff is news to me, not even sure what it's all about. Turbulent is the contractor doing the website i thought. the plan is for the website to have a lot of features that hook up with the in-game universe, so we'll be able to manage some aspects of the game from a browser. right now there is a "hub" of sorts for organizations and it gives them essentially a blog space and tools to organize and all of that is supposed to become more robust in the future as well.

and it might actually help people be social by allowing folks to group up outside of game and then meet up in the universe to run missions together, etc. Since there is a big, big focus on multiplayer ships, there's a big focus on giving players tools to reach out to other players and find friends. i guess. i know that turbulent is doing the Star Map which will be available in browsers, and it might be that we can get online and set up everything from missions to plotting courses, etc. there's been a lot of talk about how the website should integrate into the game, and the social hub might be the real beginnings of that kind of thing.

we'll just have to wait and see. until then, here's Tony Zurovec talking about the Social Module release:

Star Citizen is comprised of two fundamental pillars. Squadron 42, a single-player experience, is story-driven and linear in its progression. The Persistent Universe, on the other hand, is completely open-ended. You’ll have free reign to travel wherever you want within a huge, incredibly detailed galaxy filled with places to explore, challenging situations, an endless stream of diverse mission types, and hundreds of thousands of other players and AI characters.

The Social Module – which has been undergoing testing in the Public Test Universe for the last several days, and which will be released to the general community starting today – is the first basic component of the Persistent Universe to come online. As such, I wanted to take a few moments to explain exactly what it is, why we’re releasing it, and how it fits within the longer-term schedule of the Persistent Universe.

The Social Module allows you to select from any of half a dozen character configurations and explore the first of many planetary landing zones – ArcCorp’s Area 18 – with up to 24 other players. You can communicate with other players via a chat system, and express yourself via a variety of different emotes. An augmented reality display system allows you to view additional information about various objects in the environment, including the names of other players. A number of retail shops can be inspected, although they’re not yet open for business.

There are three primary reasons for the existence of the Social Module. First and foremost, we wanted to open up a bit more of the Star Citizen universe to the community, and allow people to get a sense as to what some of the various cities you’ll be able to visit will look like. We also wanted to allow people to be able to gather together within the actual game and engage in real-time discussions – associating animating characters with speakers – rather than having to predominantly rely upon the message forums and the web chat, which equates to a far less personal experience.

The second major objective of the Social Module is to serve as a testing ground for a multitude of fundamental technologies. We’ll be gathering detailed information on a number of different fronts based upon what we see and using that to improve the game. The networking back-end, in particular, has advanced tremendously since the beginning of the year, and stress testing it now requires fairly large numbers of concurrent players. While we’re only exposing a small amount of actual functionality with this release, what’s going on behind the scenes is far more complex. An intricate dance of network services and systems controls everything from the way that new servers are spun up, registered, and told how to configure themselves. GIM – the Generic Instance Manager – and a host of related programs have been designed to support large numbers of simultaneous players, and determine everything from the server to which you’ll be routed to how chat messages are efficiently propagated. There have also been dramatic improvements to what I refer to as the low-latency network functionality – the code that is responsible for how efficiently information is passed between clients and the server, and which is one of the primary determinants with regard to how many players and NPCs we’ll be able to put onto a given server. Whereas only a couple of months ago fifteen players would absolutely bottleneck a server, the network is now a complete non-issue with twenty-five. Improved animation blending, interpolation, and prediction now renders characters far more smoothly, even on busy servers. All of these features have been tested internally and refined, but we’re now at the point where we need to see how things perform when exposed to a much larger audience. The really exciting thing in this area, though, is that there are still a number of major network performance optimizations in the works, such as event-based animation synchronization and more advanced dead reckoning. Needless to say we’ll be needing your help to test ever larger player counts in the not-too-distant future.

The last major reason for the existence of the Social Module is the most important with regard to the future. It’s intended to serve as the basic foundation upon which new pieces of the Persistent Universe will be periodically unveiled. That, in turn, brings me to my final point…. What can you expect to see from the Persistent Universe going forward?

The Future

The Persistent Universe will be moving to a more frequent release schedule, with the idea being to routinely put new functionality into your hands to enjoy, provide feedback, and help us verify how well certain systems are performing. One important point to note here is that there is a lot of work involved in releasing something that’s at such an early stage in its development, as no game smoothly proceeds throughout the entire development cycle. At any given moment, there are typically a variety of systems that are in completely different states – some having only recently been started, and many being in the middle of having new functionality inserted. Locking down the code base to ensure that everything is in an acceptable state for release to the public takes considerable time and effort. Thus, there is absolutely a real cost to releasing updates. For that reason, the next half dozen or so Persistent Universe releases will be considerably more focused upon giving you exposure to new features and ensuring that what we need to get feedback upon or tested is included, and less about trying to give a truly comprehensive sense of the gameplay. To some degree, that will limit the expense of releasing more frequent versions – minimize the impact to the long-term schedule. In practice, this means that, for example, when the AI finally makes an appearance you’ll see a fair sampling of character behaviors, but the focus will be upon stress testing the underlying Subsumption, animation, and networking systems, and less about trying to give a particularly accurate sense of what a final city will truly feel like. In essence, then, you will often see some basic functionality appear before we really attempt to go “wide” with the implementation. The appearance of new features will be fairly abrupt, but the full exploitation of those systems will arrive more gradually.

As has been noted elsewhere, Star Citizen’s code base split back in March when Star Marine – the FPS module – was targeted for release. The main development branch is called GameDev, whereas Star Marine’s was referred to as 1.2.0. Star Marine’s subsequent delay led to those two streams gradually growing apart, and a considerable delta now exists. The new back-end network service architecture was needed to ensure a smoother launch for Star Marine, and therefore all of the recent development and refinement was done in the 1.2.0 branch. This wasn’t supposed to be an issue for the Social Module because after Star Marine was launched GameDev and 1.2.0 were slated to be re-integrated, and the Social Module was to launch from there. With Star Marine’s latest postponement, though, the decision was made to flip the release dates and allow the Social Module to go out the door – something that the Persistent Universe group has been wanting to do for quite some time.

The re-integration of the two disparate branches has already started. Once that’s complete, subsequent updates to the Social Module will have access to other code that we developed earlier this year in the GameDev stream, as well as a number of major graphical and spatial partitioning optimizations done by other studios that should make Area 18 look and run quite a bit better than it already does.

Persistence

The next major deliverable for the Persistent Universe will be called Persistence. Its namesake feature won’t generate much in the way of immediate visual rewards, but it’s an absolutely crucial part of the underlying massively multiplayer technology. It will involve everything from communicating with the web platform so that purchased items are converted into actual game items, database abstraction layers and caching functionality, integration with a new global entity ID system that will allow the seamless transition of items from one server to another, and deep integration into various parts of the game server. Ultimately, this update will enable objects to begin to retain state, which sounds simple but – in the context of a massively multiplayer game with seamless transitions between servers – is actually quite involved. Shared hangars will come online and grant you the ability to invite others back to your private hangar. You’ll be able to more easily jump into simulated games together…and eventually head out as a group into space. The Casaba Outlet store in the main Area 18 courtyard will be opened up, and you’ll see quite a few more visual upgrades to the city, especially in the realm of store facades and the main Astro Armada building. Players that previously purchased memberships in the Million Mile High Club – and their invited friends – will gain access to private lounges accessible from their hangar elevator. Additional emotes will be unveiled, with the intent being to really ramp up the variety and allow players to start to really express themselves in the way that they want. The chat system will be dramatically enhanced, with private conversations, the ability to ignore other players, and a much more robust user interface made available. The maximum player count will rise, with the goal being at least forty players in a given server instance. There’s a lot more that will be going on under the hood, including a massive update of the Hub Service that acts as the intermediary between your client application and all of the back-end services, and a considerable enhancement to the communications layer on the game servers. A lot of work will also, of course, be getting done in areas that won’t be exposed until subsequent milestones arrive.

It is possible that Persistence will be split into two separate releases. The rationale is that once we’re back into GameDev we’ll be very close to being able to improve upon some of the basic features of the existing Social Module, and thus we might try to push an update out as soon as possible rather than wait for everything desired to be completed.

Shops

Following Persistence will come the Shopping release. It will allow a variety of items to be purchased in the Area 18 shops, including clothing so that you can begin the process of customizing your character. This update will devote considerable attention to the entirety of the shopping experience, including the augmented reality and mobiGlas interfaces, product delivery options, and how things like the medical scanner and healing apparatus in the hospital function. This release will also ensure that things like the product selection, pricing, and quantities available are connected to the appropriate back-end systems, which is a necessary step to eventually allowing such things to be impacted in real-time by the actions of players and NPCs. As will typically be the case, there will again be a lot of work expended in areas that are either improving the basic foundation – like a streamlined user interface programming architecture – or that won’t be ready for release until a bit later, such as facial customization. I’d expect a few surprises with regard to the types of things that you can purchase…and use…in Area 18 with this release.

Subsumption

The next major update will be Subsumption, which will showcase some of the hard work that’s been going into the development of systems that will allow us to construct environments filled with intelligent NPCs going about their business and that really feels alive. We’ll be aiming to deliver a completely new environment – Nyx – with that release as well. Final Frontier will follow and enable you and your friends to accept some simple missions while planetside and then head out into space together to accomplish them. Quantum will unveil the full-blown solar system navigation map and allow easy access to any part of the current system, including cities on three other Stanton planets: Hurston, Microtech, and Crusader.

More details will be provided on these updates as they get closer, but that’s the basic roadmap for the near future. In between the major releases it’s quite possible that you’ll see smaller revisions since delivering content becomes far easier as more and more of the underlying foundation comes online. While there’s still a tremendous amount of work to do, the clouds are finally starting to part and the stars are coming into view….

Sic itur ad astra.

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/14927-Welcome-To-ArcCorp-Star-Citizen-12-Released

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and the last update for this week:
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/14926-Design-Notes-Electronic-Warfare

Design Doc: Electronic Warfare

design docs pop up every now and again. As they flesh out game mechanics and "jobs/careers" in the PU they do up a design document so the backers have an idea of what kind of gameplay we can expect. previously they've done the signature system/missile system and they've done mining and also salvage design docs. there have been others, i think they did data running, and there will be more like bounty hunting. anyway, it's aaaaaaall about mechanics.'' enjoy.

When Arena Commander 1.0 launched earlier this year, we introduced the technical design behind signatures; emissions such as infrared, heat, electromagnetic, etc. that can be detected by other players’ scanners. As Arena Commander’s gameplay becomes more complex, this game design will increasingly play a major part. Initially, these signatures were important for general targeting: how you identify other ships, how you lock missiles and the like. Now, as we develop out the electronic warfare for ships like the Hornet Tracker and the Vanguard Sentinel, we are expanding the signature system to enable more diverse gameplay. Please note that this is just part one of our electronic warfare design: a future post will deal with hacking and other aspects of the system!

it goes on...

this is a very long document, best to read it on the RSI website if you're interested in how eWarfare is initially planned to work. it actually sounds pretty fun. It'll likely be a big thing to deal with, and there are specific countermeasures everyone will become familiar with because it sounds perfect for pirates. A well equipped eWarfare ship sounds like it will be able to knock down, interrupt and shut off systems and leave vessels stranded and defenseless. AND this doesn't even cover hacking which is another big part of eWarfare.

you'll also be able to spoof ship id's, muck around with signatures, obscure your radar visibility, and focus scanners to detect the otherwise undetectable. a scenario i can envision is spoofing the signature of a heavy fighter and firing off a half dozen decoys and flying along side them to turn away pirates who don't get close enough to see the bluff. i can see a well experienced eWar specialist as being a very useful role on board a ship. this would basically be the tactical officer i guess.

That's pretty much it for the module launch this week. hopefully the next time i post we'll be looking at the imminent release of the FPS module.

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Dragoncon Fly Free 2015

Roberts Space Industries is proud to offer Dragoncon 2015 attendees a free flight week to try out Star Citizen’s Arena Commander module! If you have a valid code given to you on the floor, paste it below to activate the Dragoncon free flight week on your account!

With this pass you will be able to download and install the game, and try Arena Commander. Once activated the pass is valid until September 14th!

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/promotions/dragonconflyfree2015

this code will give you access to all single player modes, all multi player modes, the new social module, and three ships (the Aurora MR, Mustang Alpha, and Aegis Gladius light fighter) for 2 weeks.

minimum specs:
Windows 7 (64 bit), DirectX 11 graphics card with 1GB Video RAM, Quad core CPU, 8GB Memory

disclaimer: if you have performance related problems there are several quick fixes. post here if you have questions.

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Star Marine: Audio Update

kind of a neat 4 minute documentary about how they are doing sounds and using real world sources
https://vimeo.com/138360203

Fan made content

someone cobbled together this from new assets in the last build. demonstrates blood splatter in zero-g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdygqSp49ug

video by T3ller showcasing the Gladius light fighter, one of the Dragoncon free fly ships
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQLsmpO5B3o

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Dragoncon

buncha CIG folks are speaking on panels at dragon con and doing some other stuff i guess

it's not being streamed so all we have to go off of are pictures and early reddit threads and the like. there are some guys from the fan site Imperial News Network (INN) who are taking pics and going to do a write up of everything later i would think.

here's our first glimpse at the MISC Endeavor, it'll be a science ship that can be outfitted as a hospital. apparently the middle section is modular and whole sections can be swapped out. want a mobile drug lab for manufacturing expensive cargo to smuggle? this is your ship. want to save lives or do plastic surgery for people? yup. maybe you just want to park in a beautiful nebula and sit back and farm science data while sipping an alcoholic beverage and trolling chat.

we'll know this week.

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This Week in Star Citizen

not much worth mentioning tbh

i've mentioned previously that the development workload was split up between several studios and that a "code merge" was underway stitching several development branches into the main development branch. The Great Merging has been completed. bug fixes are ongoing, so much of this last week has been spent doing clean up. no patch this week, which may be an indicator that we'll be looking for a patch to the live build come tuesday. general balance and a few quality of life fixes more than likely.

we're still hoping for the FPS patch this month, but with company wide play tests announced for next week IF we see it this month it'll go to the PTU the very last few days. we're still probably weeks away from a general release at least. the struggle is real

Citizen Con is coming up on Oct 10. Citizen Con is like an anniversary celebration of the founding of the original kickstarter. day 1 of star citizen proper.
every year they do a big presentation and do some kind of reveal. Originally the big reveal was the idea of Star Citizen itself (along with a simple tech demo)
the first Citizen Con they revealed Arena Commander, the nuts and bolts of it at least. it featured all brand new physics, a new IFCS flight control system, physically based rendering, dynamic lighting, and all updated artwork. not to mention an entirely new network backend for multiplayer and a ton of behind the screen bespoke cryengine tools.

Citizen Con 2 showcased Star Marine. at the time it was 6 months into development but was already looking pretty good. cryengine IS an FPS engine, afterall, so it wasn't hard to put together a quick and dirty demo of a few key features they were wanting to demonstrate. it was the first look at what the gameplay should feel like, or what they were aiming for at least. people got hyped

Citizen Con 3 is already getting hyped. we know very little, only that it's going to focus a lot on the Squadron 42 single player campaign. it's on the horizon, maybe by the end of the year, but i think spring is more likely tbh. there's probably going to be (as always) live gameplay, and they'll definitely be showing off the new facial animations and mocap work that was finished up this summer at Imaginarium. so i'm thinking they're going to play through some cinematic sequence, either on a station or on a multicrew ship, and play out a scene with an NPC and then maybe do a mission. all of the studios are preparing to buckle down and work on a Citizen Con build of some kind. the dev branch is way, way ahead of the live branch, and we know quite a lot of squadron 42 stuff is almost done, so there's no telling what all they'll be able to demonstrate.

it'll be hard to beat the multicrew reveal a few weeks ago at gamescon, but we'll see. we might even get to see which celebrity actors they hired to play key roles in the story. now that would be cool.

tl;dr not much new, probably 3 weeks away from anything major

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This week in Star Citizen

wednesday september 30, 2015

Gamer's Nexus interview with Chris Roberts discussing DirectX 12, Vulcan, and rebuilding CryEngine from the ground up. it's a pretty good read and has lots of contextual commentary. there's also a full transcript that goes into more detail. basically CR explains how they reduce draw-call overhead and at the same time run more processes in parallel. it's a complete refactoring of CryEngine being done in Germany by the German engineers that originally German Engineered it.

personal commentary: i like seeing people do interviews with primary sources rather than report on rumors and speculation and then wave the banner of "opening dialog." too many bloggers and journalists re-blog, re-tweet, or re-report some speculative bit of conjecture and then ask their followers for comments, as if that's going to get them fucking answers. their job these days seems to be to ask their viewers what they think rather than go find sources and get actual answers.

a brief word on "pipelines"

development pipelines are basically nothing more than workflows. there's a character pipeline, a ship pipeline, even an environmental pipeline. piplines are serviced by many, many people, and as assets move along the pipeline they are handed off to another person for the next portion of work. it's a digital conveyor system for game assets. the pipelines all start with concept, move through white boxing/grey boxing, they are made flight ready, and then they get put in game. The concept phase has two parts, art and functionality. a mining ship needs to be designed to look cool but they also need to design fun mining mechanics. art and design bounce concepts back and forth such that function influences design of the ships very much. the ships undergoing concept these days are the very large sub-capital ships used for non combat roles in the verse.

so far we've seen the Orion Mining platform along with a companion design document explaining mining mechanics. we've also see the Reclaimer salvage ship and the design doc on salvage mechanics. we've even seen the Starfarer and the design for fuel mechanics and gas collection. then there was the Starliner and the doc about passenger transport. oh yeah, and the Hull-series and cargo transport mechanics.

after the design/concept phase the ship heads down the pipeline and waits it's turn for detail work. right now all of the single seat ships are in, the capital ships are nearing completion (they are used in Squadron 42 and will be needed sooner than others) and several of the medium sized ships are just about done. since the majority of the work on the little ships is done, and the enormous ships are nearing completion, the medium sized career oriented ships are about to start rolling out. that brings us too...

the Misc Endeavor

at 200m long, it's more than twice the length of a starfarer and as long as a frigate. it's a multipurpose technology ship. it can be outfitted as a hospital, a general purpose science lab, perform astronomy, or even be outfitted as a farm.

pictured: the Misc Endeavor with bio-domes for farming

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this is the endeavor without any attached modules. modules mount along the narrow waist of the ship. there are three mounts on each side and most modules come in pairs, one on each side to preserve symmetry.

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this is the "Hope class", which comes with attached hospital modules as well as a landing bay for 2 ambulance ships. there is also an attached service module in the extra slots. the hospitals will be used to stop players from dying if they get critically wounded. they'll act as a sort of mobile spawn point or something along those lines. presumably they'll work in tandem with rescue ships that go off and find players and NPCs broadcasting for emergency rescue and stuff.

the Hope Class will also have less than legitimate purposes, you'll be able to perform black market upgrades to players in the form of cybernetics.

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hospital interior

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underslung shuttle bay

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that's a particle accelerator. it's also got attached science modules. evidently the accelerator is somehow used in component tuning. you can modulate people's weapons and shields or overcharge them or something. it'll basically amount to being a legendary item generator, i suppose. in an MMO this would amount to buffs, i guess.

squeegee (OP) octuple-posted this 11 years ago, 5 minutes later, 1 month after the original post[^] [v] #607,783

this is the general purpose science platform. outfitted to manufacture "things." namely, drugs. there are plenty of legal drugs and chemicals you can manufacture and sell, but you can also make a variety of illegal drugs and sell those. Some compounds will even come from farming. the endeavor supports as much illegal activity as it does legal activity.

edit: also, this picture demonstrates the "workshop" (rear section) and the detachable "explorer" (front section)

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squeegee (OP) nonuple-posted this 11 years ago, 5 minutes later, 1 month after the original post[^] [v] #607,786

glamour shot of the explorer. it can land on planets and travel about freely, but it can't jump without the workshop attached. also, the workshop is immobile when detached from the explorer.

squeegee (OP) decuple-posted this 11 years ago, 5 minutes later, 1 month after the original post[^] [v] #607,789

telescope array

this is the UEE's premier stellar observatory. you can find stuff no one else can detect. you can also use attached science labs to turn collected data into even more valuable info.

squeegee (OP) undecuple-posted this 11 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 month after the original post[^] [v] #607,790

farm

squeegee (OP) duodecuple-posted this 11 years ago, 11 minutes later, 1 month after the original post[^] [v] #607,791

very cool, versatile ship, with almost zero use as a combat ship. a lot of people have been clamoring for their starship enterprise, and i think this is going to be it for a lot of people. and i gotta say, i fucking love it. it satisfies so many people's wants.

everybody has been begging for fucking farming. so i'm really glad that they went ahead and just bit the bullet and made a farming module. it makes sense, too. it's basically a discrete illegal hydroponics grow. Or maybe you're growing valuable alien plants bathed in the light of their native sun to maximize growth. they've at least given it some thought and it sounds like they're going to have a few simple mechanics that'll make for a nice complex system to figure out.

i've always enjoyed doing little management-ish games, and i think i'll retire my characters to a farm in orbit around a distant star. growing space weed.

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On the narcotic side, there are still legal and illegal drugs. Overtly harmful drugs (particularly those with no medical application) fall into the illegal category.

Popular drugs:

Stims: Legal drug, composed of various combinations of tobacco, caffeine, and mood-enhancer. Smoked as a cigarette. Cheaper, knock-off brands are sold as packs of individual smokes while higher-end versions have electronic cylinders with replaceable cartridges.

SLAM: A fear-inhibitor and painkiller. Most commonly ingested as a gas. Vials of SLAM are cracked and inhaled. Initially gained popularity as a steroid for athletes before going black-market. Heavy-duty SLAMjunkies are easily identifiable in public; they have ‘the shakes’ — involuntary muscle twitches. Important to note that this is not a sign of withdrawal, simply a side effect.

WiDoW: Thick ink-black Opiate. Exclusively injected as a liquid. Extensive use stains the veins black, creating web-like subcutaneous patterns through the body.

Neon: Club drug. Similar to Ecstacy. Slight hallucinogenic, affects the nervous system.

Color: Street name for a tranquilizer and knock-out hallucinogen, believed to be Xi’An in origin. Looks like flakes of bark. It’s lethal in heavy concentrations (many who try injecting it die immediately); it’s meant to be ingested. The digestion process distills it to where it just messes you up. Getting ‘colored’ is like taking a massive journey into your own mind. To the outside world, you’re nearly comatose, but to you, it’s a wild trip. A handful of religions have been started after a user took a dip in color. Aside from the toxic element, there’s a chance you won’t come down from the high. They call this ‘getting disconnected.’ Users stay locked in their own head until their brain decays.

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squeegee (OP) sedecuple-posted this 11 years ago, 22 hours later, 1 month after the original post[^] [v] #608,077

Star Citizen in the Media

many criticisms are leveled at CIG, some completely unfounded.

And yet the articles continue and the accusations grow more and more bizarre. today, the Escapist, posted this article Star Citizen Employees Speak Out on Project Woes. Interestingly enough the article was published without comments from CIG despite CIG having disputed many of the claims as outright lies. Chris Roberts published a timestamped photo showing that comments were indeed in the Escapist's hands, but they chose to publish a one sided attack piece with unnamed sources and anonymous accusations. Later in the day the piece was edited with bits of Robert's comments included, but the accusatory tone and presentation of verifiable fiction were still included. (Full response by Chris Roberts)

it's also shown that the author has a clear bias through various social media posts made about it to Gamer's Gate. The article also cites Derek Smart as a primary source. Derek put together a fancy spreadsheet and guessed at their running costs and says CIG has 8 million bucks left of the 90 million. He cited his own guesswork as an "insider source" and then people quoted him on it as if it was verified. he never cites anything, and he says he has insider sources and sources and he conflates the two. the accusations are so drenched in misinformation it is absolutely outrageous. but all that gets reported is this 8 million dollar figure and not a single source to back it up.

And then Forbes picked it up and re-reported that the escapist reports that Derek Smart says there's a problem. mother fucker. there was only one outfit that did an actual meta report of the whole thing, Game Informer wrote about the Escapist article and explained how they asked for comments and then published a story without them. It goes on to explain, point by point, that the unverified source's claims are all being called fictions.

someone from Kotaku weighed in calling it "one of the most disgusting pieces of reporting I've ever seen." kotaku
that's pretty bad to get called out by one of them.

i don't have much to say except i'm tired of the kind of journalism where reporters ask questions of the viewers and solicit comments rather than get off their ass and dig up the story. The media will report on rumors and say it's "starting conversation," as if conversation about what people think matters as much as figuring out what's really going on. especially if the rumors aren't even fact checked.

In his letter to the Escapist, Chris calls it a "hit-piece" and outright describes Derek Smart's involvement a F.U.D Marketing campaign designed to harm their funding model. the community on reddit is no stranger to trolls, and it's becoming more and more evident to people that the sub has been being brigaded for several months. pretty much since Derek Smart started publishing his Star Citzen Blogs.

the community is in some kind of turmoil right now, because it feels like the negativity is overwhelming. a lot of it has to do with how every report is full of even just simple mistakes about minor details they've blown into major problems. it's like every article is so full of holes and they cite anonymous sources and then spew derek smart text voice, it's maddening. it's like the media is being played and trolled, and there's shit all the community can do about it because he's always one step ahead and all we can do is respond. and then we're labeled white knights!

Jesus fuck. then later today several CIG staff posted to reddit about their experiences and said there is NOT animosity, anger, distrust or any of that crap going on, and that everyone IS a professional and no one goes around on power trips and having temper tantrums. some were even leaving their personal emails so that reporters can interview actual named employees and not just accusations from throwaway emails. Chris even invited reporters to go to any CIG studio and get the real story. of course, the reporter declined to reach out.

it's a real shit show. especially when the writer has links to derek smart through her gamer's gate activities.

excerpt from CR's letter:

This would explain her approach to the article, which was to pretty much take everything that Derek Smart claimed and report it without allowing us any opportunity to properly respond. Liz’s first email to David Swofford was at 744pm on the 24th, after which “Bandit,” riding into battle for his/her new friend, and Liz directly referenced Derek Smart’s claims. I didn’t see this until Friday afternoon (David works out of our Austin office, I was in our LA office) after David had a brief and rather irritated exchange with Liz (attached). I replied to him with some comments and concerns expecting David to have the opportunity to go back to Liz to further discuss some points she was bringing up that were clearly just singing out of the Derek Smart hymn book and much to my dismay and disappointment the article had already been published.

Which brings me back to my original point on all this. Why the rush to publish an article without allowing a proper round of fact and source checking?

indeed.

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wow, yeah, here it is, word for word, the entire article was based on anonymous postings as sources. the site requires no authentication and all of the reviews cited in the article went up this week. it also looks like the writer was maybe tipped off to the review site by a social media account with ties to Derek Smart.

it's a huge mess. it's possible all of her sources were trolls posting Derek Smart copypasta :/

squeegee (OP) just kept on posting this 11 years ago, 41 minutes later, 1 month after the original post[^] [v] #608,158

oh, interesting. shit might get real. The author of the forbes article was notified on social media that the escapist article appears to have used bogus sources.

maybe we'll actually get to find out if her sources were legit or fake

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squeegee (OP) just kept on posting this 11 years ago, 2 days later, 1 month after the original post[^] [v] #608,878

CIG's legal dept has issued a letter calling the actions of the escapist libel

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squeegee (OP) just kept on posting this 11 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 month after the original post[^] [v] #608,880

best part: verified by photo of company ID card

CIG doesn't issue company ID cards!

lol, seriously, i think the Escapist just got trolled...

squeegee (OP) just kept on posting this 11 years ago, 2 minutes later, 1 month after the original post[^] [v] #608,881

demanding an investigation, a retraction, and an apology to the individuals slandered or they threaten legal action

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squeegee (OP) just kept on posting this 11 years ago, 6 minutes later, 1 month after the original post[^] [v] #608,884

so there we go. that's CIG's response. we'll see what happens next

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oh fucking wow
https://twitter.com/lizzyf620/status/650617503450841088

confirmation that the ID badge that was used to identify people was a generic RFID tag used to open doors.
pictured: Disco Lando, a real CIG employee, showing the generic badge issued to office workers all through the country.

according to CIG they don't issue any kind of badge used to identify employees. at all.

squeegee (OP) quadruple-posted this 11 years ago, 4 minutes later, 1 month after the original post[^] [v] #609,040

pictured: ben lesnick showing the front side. Lizzy claimed the ID's she was showed had info blacked out. did someone photoshop a black box onto a picture of a keycard and lie about it covering up personal info? Should photos with blacked out personal info even have been used to identify anonymous sources to begin with?

lots of questions. the escapist has till monday to figure out what the fuck happened.

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Killer Lettuce?? !!iNo3FkiZx replied with this 11 years ago, 7 minutes later, 1 month after the original post[^] [v] #610,086

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24 hours till Citizen Con!

Get Fucking Hype!

http://www.pangamers.com/gaming/star-citizen-ship-explosions-are-some-of-the-finest-ever-committed-to-space/
http://www.pcgamer.com/star-citizen-video-shows-spaceships-exploding-spectacularly/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=pcgfb
http://www.gamestar.de/spiele/star-citizen/news/star_citizen,48820,3237501.html

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Killer Lettuce?? !!iNo3FkiZx replied with this 11 years ago, 20 minutes later, 1 month after the original post[^] [v] #610,674

Derek Smart posted this on his blog.

The sheer egotism of it is hilarious to me.

squeegee (OP) replied with this 11 years ago, 9 hours later, 1 month after the original post[^] [v] #610,869

15 and a half hours to Citizen Con!

https://youtu.be/e_SL4Mb5Yhc

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@previous (B)
In nov 2012 Star Citizen was announced. at the time Star Citizen was a very small CryEngine mod, a proof of concept, that space vehicles in zero G would work in CryEngine. a short trailer was produced, and the original Kickstarter pledge drive went up that year. The next year in oct/nov 2013 CIG celebrated the anniversary of the launch day with a small live event called Citizen Con. The devs do a "State of the Game" kind of presentation and there are usually some surprise reveals. They did another one last October in 2014 as well, and it's becoming sort of like BlizCon for Blizzard. This year it's in Manchester and they are expecting a pretty large crowd.

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5 Minutes to the Citizen Con Presentation!

hold on to your asses, we hear it might be a 3 hour presentation!

also, holy fuck, there are over 2 million viewers
edit: oh, i jumped the gun. that's over 2 million total views, derp.

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squeegee (OP) quintuple-posted this 11 years ago, 2 hours later, 1 month after the original post[^] [v] #611,106

Squadron 42 Teaser

Full Cast Reveal: Gary Oldman, Gillian Anderson, Mark Hamill
http://www.pcgamer.com/star-citizen-features-gary-oldman-gillian-anderson-mark-hamill/

Squadron 42 on the RSI website
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/squadron42

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squeegee (OP) septuple-posted this 11 years ago, 11 minutes later, 1 month after the original post[^] [v] #611,114

New Military Ship Concept Sale!

yes, it comes with LTI
the Aegis Sabre

Part of Aegis Dynamics’ Phase Two of new ship models, the Sabre was designed as a space superiority fighter for those situations where you need to leave a lighter footprint. While no one will deny the Hornet’s place as the UEE Navy’s brawler, the Sabre offers an elegant and nimble alternative to handle an ever-evolving combat landscape. Designed to be a rapid responder, the Sabre is more than capable of establishing battlefield dominance for any number of combat sorties.

Engineers looked equally to the past and the future to build the Sabre . Incorporating Aegis’ battle-tested power distribution systems into their dependable ship-hull construction while developing cutting-edge flight and system technology, the Sabre is truly a next generation fighter that represents the new Aegis.

Aegis Dynamics has designed the Sabre in response to a United Empire of Earth Navy’s request for proposal for a next-generation fighter capable of outmatching the Vanduul STINGER-class heavy fighter in speed and turning. While the Navy has not yet accepted the the Sabre bid, Aegis has opted to make a run of production prototypes available to licensed civilian operators.

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Ooo

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:D

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I'm Derek Smart: by Kate Russell a freelance reporter on the Webscape segment of the BBC technology show Click.

this really made my day :')

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1.3 published to live

after 5 or 6 updates to the PTU 1.3 is pushed to the live server. the next patch version they are aiming for is 2.0

Port Olisar Space Station is found in the Stanton system orbiting a gas giant named Crusader. it's among orbital shipping hubs and other service oriented platforms such as security and repair. the other planets (Hurston, Microtech, Arc Corp) are all having their landing zones completed. Crusader appears to be the hub of the "mini PU" release (aka 2.0) and will feature a procedural mission generation system. there is going to be high security space, as well as lower security space further from the trade lanes and ports. random enemy encounters will be a thing, as well as other scenarios (derelict space ship full of alien bugs kinda stuff.) you can find out more about the Stanton system by checking out the Arc Starmap here and you can see more pictures of Port Olisar here.

i really, really doubt we'll see 2.0 within the next 2 weeks, but, CIG does try to do a patch release at least that often. it's possible we'll get a 1.3.1-whatever series of patches over the coming weeks, but, it does sound like they are making a really big push to hem everything up into the 2.0 deliverable. there are still problems they consider "blockers" and game play bugs they are "investigating" and systems they are "iterating upon" so i expect it soon, but not immediately. end of the month is the most optimistic, end of the year is still a much more reasonable expectation.

Weekly status update: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/15024-Development-Update-Star-Citizen-Alpha-20-Star-Marine
1.3 patch notes (short version): https://forums.robertsspaceindustries.com/discussion/292236/publishing-1-3-0-to-live

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oh yeah, and lastly, 2.0 will release "very close to the november livestream" which is in like a week or so i think. hype.

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livestream starts in 15 minutes
until then watch this interview with Mark Hamill about his role in Squadron 42!

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oh man, it even matches your environment to your marital status. hnnng

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ship repair and maintenance design doc

Space is a hostile place and even the most skilled pilots will need to have their craft patched up from time to time. Fortunately, there are a number of options available to Citizens to get themselves back up and running.

Star Citizen’s repair system works in conjunction with the engine’s detailed damage model to create intuitive and engaging gameplay for players wishing to pursue a career in ship repair or for pilots to execute quick field repairs.

The basis for repair technology in Star Citizen are tools equipped with multipurpose lasers that can trim away damaged material or sinter construction material injected onto a component’s frame, rebuilding its structure

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/engineering/15062-Ship-Repair-And-Maintenance

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_qAtqm4XUI

i'm about to watch this. one of the "big time" star citizen streamers is attacked by a bunch of CIG QA people in some space station. it's at the top of the SC sub right now and has traction elsewhere. evidently it's "cool as fuck". let's see...

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i forgot it takes like 4 hours or something to download so i'm stuck with you bastards for a while yet

oh yeah, and that bad news baron video was only kinda cool, but not the big fight i was expecting. it was like one dude. but still, space stations, guns and ships. also some thievery.

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jesus fuck! the servers are on fire! 15,000 new invites went out today bringing the total up to 16k! the patch earlier has resolved a lot of the crashing issues (evidently they were related to repairing the constellation, anytime someone went to get repairs the server tanked) but now the new EMP device on board the new Avenger Warlock causes everyone in its sphere of influence to CTD. lol.

the download is going poorly, something happened and i had to restart and now the launcher isn't allowing me to download. this was a problem yesterday for people. you just have to wait for traffic to die down, people are hitting the pipe pretty hard.

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Ooo, i'm updating. sweet. only another hour and a half wait.

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okay, this gif is cool as fuck. constellation class frigate in super cruise (traveling at about 3 thousand mph) buzzing Port Olisar and flying between the rotating rings of the station. ships are fast as fuuuuuck now.

https://gfycat.com/PaltryQuickEeve

picture: view of the planet Crusader from the docking collar of an RSI Aurora.

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also, boy, the 985,000 people who haven't gotten an invite yet sure are jelly. i guess maybe i'll stream some so people can live vicariously through me.

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oh yeah, and the Archimedes picture. it's basically a racing Merlin. it'll be fast and highly maneuverable.
Kruger Intergalactic ships are some of my favorite looking in the game.

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@626,014 (J)

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awesome. this is the same ship, same interior space, but after 2 revisions. the latest connie rework is gorgeous. makes the first pass look like trash from last decade.

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@previous (L)
have you heard about the cool ignore function? you should be able to ignore "star citizen" and this thread won't even appear to you! pretty cool, huh?

anyway, check out this picture from CIG. "bug smashers", and by the looks of those windows i think CIG is serious about getting it done.

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@previous (L)
it's only over posting if you're spamming the board with new threads. bumping a thread with relevant information isn't over posting, especially since you can choose to ignore content you dislike. i purposefully put Star Citizen in the headline specifically so people CAN choose to ignore this content if they don't like it or find this thread spammy. what people can't choose to ignore are hundreds of unrelated shitposts with the only thing in common being the drunken anonymous spastic spamming periods.

so either relax and enjoy the content or ignore the thread knowing there's nothing here for you. but shitting up my thread isn't the answer. AA is the answer.

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2.0d

4th version of the 2.0 patch. still a crash fest. things have improved, but just not super noticeably on the user end. there are issues connecting to servers, and once you're in the likelihood of a crash is 100%, it's all a matter of how much uptime you get. 2.0b fixed some pretty major issues with simply connecting, and connecting is easier, but it didn't fix the crashing. c was introduced late the next day but it didn't include fixes so much as it included additional bug tracking into the client. the tools have negatively (but expected) effected performance a bit. earlier this afternoon 2.0d was released with fixes that didn't make it into 2.0c.

2.0d of course still crashes, but they are honing in on the sources of server crashes. it's been known that the new repair system was bugging out and it's disabled at the moment it looks like and stability is measurably up. i had a 30 minute run earlier, i thought those were only rumors or lies. probably won't see another patch till next week so this is looking like it won't be the shortest PTU. but the war stories people are telling in the reddit sub all sound pretty bad ass. as sson as this is stable the RPG folks are going to go nuts. already people are performing a search and rescue role because everyone is ganking each other and lots of people get left stranded and call for help in chat. and now that one guy has posted a story about it other people will make the videos and then everyone will start doing it themselves like the asteroid belt supercruise videos people have been putting out. afaik i was the first to video it and then everyone one upped me by filming bigger risks, bigger less maneuverable ships, or longer times in the belt.

orgs are even already discussing what stations they're going to try and occupy and hold. half of my org mates are looking at being Gank Pirates and the other half are wanting to fly patrols to help keep unsafe stations safe from greedy orgs and gank pirates. all it really needs are the few core careers (cargo hauling, salvage, mining) that make up the economy and half of the roles (pirates, merchant marines, wingmen) will just fall out of the gameplay organically.

but, i digress. they need to fix the disconnects and crashes before anything else is even possible. it's still got a long way to go, but alpha is actually about to start getting really interesting

Constellation firing off entire compliment of missiles at once.

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patch e

''it dropped last night. seems like many of the issues with logging in have been sorted, but CTD still persists and there's still a high frequency of server crashes. there are also some new bugs breaking the ship selection screens for many players. i had guessed based on previous PTUs that we'd have something stable by today, but E is only stable-ish. up-time has improved for servers, but the CTD client side issue hides the gains made on the server problems. you are still 100% going to crash, but people are reporting improvements to playtime. so not every session crashes after 7 minutes. sometimes you'll play for an hour.

it's still unacceptable for a live build, so my guess of a publish next tuesday is certainly wrong. devs are confident that the problems have mostly been identified and fixes are in the works, so they opened up the PTU to group 3: 50k players picked by citizen number. there are now 66,000 accounts with access and some fraction of that playing periodically. servers are packed despite the crashes.

my new prediction is one more week in the PTU, but with an invite to all players with one of the next daily patches. maybe by this time next week everyone will have access and we'll have a stable enough build in our hands that CIG can publish it live the next week.

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2.0 G

they've stopped the server crashes! people have been able to play for much longer than previous patches, but, g does come with a few unique bugs of its own. there's currently a framerate problem and the game goes to stuttering. the dev ops team was talking earlier about knowing the source of the problem. hopefully one more patch and we'll have stable servers and clients with acceptable performance. beyond that there are a host of bugs that'll will triage next, most are geometry issues and clipping and are related to the new layered physics grids. new waves of invites have gone out, no idea how many people are in now but the servers are getting smacked pretty good.

i really won't be surprised if this ends up being the longest PTU to date. they could easily continue polishing it up through the remainder of december. i do kind of expect a general release sooner than that, but we'll see.

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