I can’t watch those sub 15 fps videos… arghh…
Wonder how much time it will take to earn 12700 uAECSKJ credits to fly the ship I bought that was destroyed probably due to a glitch in the matrix.
Never fear! It seems you’ll be able to buy credits when the game comes out.
So wait, what if one only wants one ship? Is one stuck waiting for 24hrs before they can fly again?
The video was showing a 20 minute wait period, not hours. But who knows? It’s still open in the air, though I highly doubt CIG will keep doing that beyond the testing phase, because I highly doubt it will be well received.
The wait period is probably a stopgap to prevent you from running out of money and being stuck with no ship for the rest of the PTU. EVE Online just gives you a free noobship whenever you enter a station without a ship. I think CIG’s plans for vagrancy going forward are more complicated.
What do you mean ‘when the game comes out’? They are for sale right now! Don’t wait! They will only increase in value, so are a wise investment. Forget bitcoin, the future is in UEC.
Honestly, what kind of fool buys in-game currency for a game in alpha.
I think he was trying to convey that the in-game currency that you can buy on the website isn’t the same currency that you use in the Alpha right now.
I think the currency store is currently pretty pointless
Really, so they are selling in-game currency that can’t even be used for anything at all?
Or, it can be used for stuff like Hanger ammenties/cosmetics, which carry over to release, but not integrated into ever-evolving PTU systems like re-buying the ship as per that video? In which case, fair enough.
You really don’t know do you? This is all candy canes and dreams as far as reality is concerned. The wait period could be so you can go to the pants shop and buy a pony on your way there, so when your ship is ready you’ll have a friend with you. It could be so you can get some ice cream and stare at the empty spot in your hangar where a ship used to be for 20 minutes or whatever. It’s probably all of those things. You can’t dispute me, because you don’t know. You’re making this up as you go along because you’re so, so hopeful. I was hopeful once, but my hope to an arrow to the knee.
People in the Persistent Universe are currently awarded Alpha UEC, which will be wiped from release to release. Alpha UEC is used to respawn your ship, pay death fees, refuel and re-arm, and buy anything sold in an in-game shop.
The UEC that you can buy on the website can be used for hangar cosmetics and ship weapons, both of which will carry over to release. Your ship comes with weapons, and every weapon they sell on their website is already used by one ship or another in its default loadout; however, this is still a way that UEC can currently be spent on something that affects gameplay. Once ship weapons are sold by in-game vendors (as personal firearms are in 2.4), they will stop selling them on their website, and they will instead be purchased with Alpha UEC.
Even in the relative realm of imaginary spaceships, spending real money on ship weapons is a waste. Their stats are constantly being modified, we don’t know what will be added next, and they don’t come with any unique perks like lifetime insurance.
I’m not making anything up. I am explaining what the developers have indicated to the backers thus far, mostly gathered from 10 for the Chairman. Do you write replies like that in other threads?
Only when I’ve lost my everloving mind.
Well, just to be clear, their stated goal is that when you have lost your ship and can’t afford to buy another one, you will have to either hitch a ride with another player or use the public transportation system, which was the basis of the $24m stretch goal. So obviously that does not imply the continued existence of a respawn timer.
You can call it a pie in the sky vision, but I just want to be very clear that I am not lying to you.
A monorail makes a space game more immersive? I hope travel time is real-time.
Do you get a Chris Roberts in-game newspaper to read while you travel?
Stretch Goal 69: Fun.
Stretch Goal: $250 million - Characters now have a “Go” Meter which determines when your character needs to take a toilet break. Failing to take a toilet break may require payment of a cleaning fee. Repeated failures may result in medical fees. Not all ships come with toilets so ensure you plan your missions accordingly.
Stretch Goal: $500 million - Chris Roberts now admits that this whole thing is a farce, initially thought of during a period of peak midlife crisis, when he was facing the fact that he was an abject failure as a filmmaker, and that his creative glory days in the late 80s and 90s are long past, never to be repeated. Now, instead of constantly trying to cash in on the lucrative grey goatee nostalgia market, Chris will simply fuck right off with all of the money and never be heard from again, until his bloated body washes up on a beach in Barbados after a decade of drug-fuelled bacchanalia.
Backers at this level will receive a free GoG code for Strike Commander.
I know that you believe what you’re telling me is the truth, but please no, it’s not you personally I have such a hard time believing. It’s the crap they’re shoveling at you.
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I think it would be more like: Backers at this level will receive concept art of the possibility of fully functional retro gaming consoles and a 486 complete with turbo button to place in their quarters.
So someone has reached the edge of the known universe…
https://forums.robertsspaceindustries.com/discussion/335753/the-edge-of-the-know-universe
…and no restaurant in sight. Perhaps they’ll add it in Alpha 3?
There was never a chance that your investment would have the payoff of, say, a mcdonalds cheeseburger, but that’s your choice.
