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Wanna know why Star Citizen is taking so long?
- Thread starter Marcus Aurelius
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Reminds me of Jurassic Park: Trespasser's weird overly complex arm. Which did not make for a better game.
It's such a good parody of itself I originally thought it was to complain about the complexity and I had to read it 2 more times to completely get my head around it.
I am a layman but this is what I think. SC can be a feat of engineering for a game.
So when something better (gaming engine, engineering techniques or design etc) is out, they rebuild, redesign and start from scratch again.
Another year has passed, so now there is something better, SC team will redo everything again, so it's the latest and greatest again. Another year has passed, another newer and better tech has arrived, and the same old thing repeats.
So when can it be completed?
So when something better (gaming engine, engineering techniques or design etc) is out, they rebuild, redesign and start from scratch again.
Another year has passed, so now there is something better, SC team will redo everything again, so it's the latest and greatest again. Another year has passed, another newer and better tech has arrived, and the same old thing repeats.
So when can it be completed?
But why? Does any of that make it a better game?
Just abstract it.
I'll be laughing last when my digital janitor's union gets me a nice bonus and demands my regular interval breaks over your union's shitty benefits.
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He is watching.
Oh don't worry, I've learned all I need to learn from this thread. Don't discuss Star Citizen on ResetEra. Ever.
off topic but if you have a browser that has apps/extensions/add-ons or whatever they're called, try and find some kind of quick imgur uploader or something of a sort. These add-ons give direct links and do it in the background, then it's just a matter of hitting the image symbol and copy/pasting the link. I took yours in a few seconds using my Firefox IMGUR uploader and it was painless.
Keep It Simple Stupid is an omnipresent design paradigm for a reason.
Oh my god
Oh my god
this post makes me yearn for a like button. The desire to over engineer is found everywhere in software development. While usually fun exercises for the engineer they almost never yield meaningful results in my experience.
Going to need some higher estimates.
To be fair, if gaming tech has evolved in the past year to where space toilets can now have space bidets, how could you NOT want to start the whole ship over from scratch?!?
Honest question. When do you realistically think it will be done? It's been 8 years and it's around 30-35% done last I checked.
What discussion? You literally explained nothing about your point. The first page is full of people going "I don't understand or know what you are trying to communicate".
Good news, their plan is to develop it forever. Infinite ambition and infinite opportunities to sell $5000 ships
You posted a picture with little context besides "engineering specs," and said "This is why Star Citizen is taking a long time. Let's give them time."
I strongly backed this game (and put in a not small amount of its various ships ) and while I still strongly hope that this game comes out, there needs to be a point in time where it needs to be said "where's the fun". This feels more like iRacing in its ever increasing complexity, which is only going to scare away potential players when it eventually does come out.
bummed cause this is my 3rd "dream game" that has gone off the rails/tarnished in one way or another (Cyberpunk and Vampire: The masquerade bloodlines 2 for very different reasons)
I'm starting to realize Dream Games maybe should remain dreams for a reason
bummed cause this is my 3rd "dream game" that has gone off the rails/tarnished in one way or another (Cyberpunk and Vampire: The masquerade bloodlines 2 for very different reasons)
I'm starting to realize Dream Games maybe should remain dreams for a reason
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I would have thought the reference to FTL should have given plenty of indication as to what the picture was demonstrating. Each of those symbols is a module of the ship that needs to be maintained depending on its current condition, which clearly requires cooperation with a sizeable crew of players. It really isn't that hard to comprehend.
it is when you do a poor job of explaining what we're looking at in the OP.
Sign me up for a janitor in one of those fancy ships. I wanna fly around and do cool stuff in space, but I don't want any virtual responsibility. To be honest, I'll do a pretty sub standard job as a janitor. But if you have a beef with someone in the ship, I can make their life awful smelly
About as reasonable as defending what will be a 10+ year development cycle.
I'm guessing you need a 5th engineer to keep the escape pod working?
Humans will be mining asteroids in improved versions of Musk's Starship from a space station base somewhere in Titan's orbit by the time this game comes out.
I am only being partially facetious here. 😉
I am only being partially facetious here. 😉
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User Warned: Dismissing Concerns Around Abusive Work Practices
Every cloud has a silver lining, Era: At least we can be sure there is never any crunch at CIG, amirite
THis shit has been in games for ages.
Try looking at high fidelity flight sims.
I literally stopped and laughed out loud! HA!!! Flawless.
That being said... no this is still super funny.
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They will likely fully stimulate preordering a 3080 at a space-Best Buy, getting faked out by a scalper, pillaging a corpse after a shootout over a shipment, bringing one back to your ship, building a virtual PC rig, then troubleshooting driver installation so it doesn't crash every time you try to play in wide-screen mode on your virtual desktop.
Of course they need to model the interactivity of Windows and Steam and an internet connection, so they devoted 3 years to building a virtual OS, in game intranet, an online game delivery service, and populating it with dozens of hand-crafted browser games so the store wouldn't look empty.
Indeed, as an engineer turned ux guy turned data science dude what matters is the business end a.k.a. users.
Right!
Oh man, I feel bad. I do. I feel bad. I'm sorry, you clearly felt strongly about this and put together an intelligent and funny post and then everyone jumped all over you for no reason. It's just that there's a lot going on in the world and this was such a timely diversion! That's all.
Honestly, it's obviously not your fault, just people are exited about everything going on and not at all excited about projects that we've LONG since written off.
It's not you, it's us. Don't be mad. I feel bad. I'm sure a lot of people feel bad. Don't give up, Marcus. I even appreciated your word use. This site could use more of that.
And yet, when dozens of people gave you clear indication that was not the case and nobody knew what you were talking about, your reaction was "yeah ok my work here is done, y'all just aren't interested".