4186

You can go check the development progress yourself and see what’s in it, and what the progress is on individual features.

4187

Sounds like it to me.

The progress status page is here, by the way (already posted by Timex last month): https://robertsspaceindustries.com/schedule-report

4188

It can’t be a reference to 3.0 because we already know that it will only take place within part of the Stanton system. I do think it would be wrong for them to officially release without the 100 systems they promised.

The “Not everything that will be in 3.0 could they test. (trading, insurance and stamina).” line can’t be referring to those features not being in 3.0 since one of them is already completed and the other two are still listed in the production schedule as of yesterday.

4189

I think it means that the authors weren’t able to test those things?

4190

Yeah, and it’s not the first time. In fact, I have an entire list of media articles whereby they visited a studio, got shown some stuff…and which never made it into the game.

As to the 5 - 10 systems at launch, I wrote an article yesterday with an excerpt from a well placed source who tells me it’s probably nonsense.

4191

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v3.0 sounds like … they already had a v1.0, so a feature complete version.

Or they are using versions in a marketing style, and v3.0 just mean “the third big release”?

4192

Bingo.

4193

Something like that, though it’s not consistent. Nobody knows how or why they came up with this nomenclature tbh. It’s completely unheard of in game development AFAIK. e.g.

Major Releases:

  • 3.0 (Moons) is rumored Aug 2017
  • 2.6 (Star Marine) // Dec 2016
  • 2.0 (Persistent Universe) // Dec 2015
  • 1.2 (ArcCorp Social Module) // Aug 2015
  • 1.0 (Arena Commander) // Dec 2014
  • 1.x (Hangar Module) // Aug 2013
4194

But…but, the numbers are going up!

4195

http://i.imgur.com/qyyWLMc.mp4

4196

That’s (kind of) it. After all, 80% of SC now is “marketing”. Also, Alpha releases tipically have all basic/core features in, so SC 3.0 would be better described as a pre-Alpha.

4197

Is there a playable game available from this thing at all today?

4198

Their vX.X versioning nomenclature started with the release of Arena Commander v0.8 in 2014. They later released Arena Commander 1.0 in December of that year. However, instead of using the name “Arena Commander 1.1” for the next release, they named it “Star Citizen 1.1” because you would eventually be able to launch more than just Arena Commander from the client. This understandably caused confusion, so from then on they added the word “Alpha” to all their versions. So it became Star Citizen Alpha 1.1. This continues to today, so v3.0 is technically Alpha 3.0.

More like a tech demo.

4199

Technically, it’s pre-Alpha 3.0, because…

…you said it yourself.

4200

I guess I should have said “officially” rather than “technically”. Although Alpha 3.0 will make some strides towards a more complete game experience, there is still more work to be done before I would consider it to have left the tech demo realm.

4201

I really can’t stand when devs use a post-1.0 number for a clearly pre-1.0 product. Stop it.

4202

Also, I fixed a typo that I hope wasn’t too confusing. Arena Commander 0.8, not 8.0!

4203

There’s a playable Early Access tech demo for $45. But it’s nowhere near a “game” yet.

4204

and dsmart is an expert on incomplete games so listen to him.

4205

You just couldn’t help yourself, huh?