5151

I know, it’s hilarious. They’ve been stripping stuff from 3.0 since the Sept 8th update, under the guise of releasing a subset to Evocati, piece by piece. In fact, now that you mention the totally-not-feature-creep ATC nonsense, I just wrote a post about it, complete with transcript. It’s amazing that anyone left with a pulse, thinks there will EVER be a “game” coming from this.

5152

We currently live in a culture where investment equals belief, with the corresponding refusal to acknowledge obvious truths

see: 45

5153

Is @Ryan_Kelly still carrying the torch?

(I’m not asking out of snark, I love hearing his contrarian views on the Star Citizen project)

5154

He hasn’t been around for a bit. Not sure if he feels like he’s been pounded on, as that would be sad. His contrarian views, while woefully and hilariously misguided, are a welcome counter to the lols.

5155

That ATC thing was cringe-inducing to apocalyptic levels.

By the way, the section in the video opens with “AIR TRAFFIC CONTRROLLER” - yes, there is an extra R in “controller” there. I suppose it’s because of all the R-EALISM.

5156

Would they be selling images of new space bikes if version 3.0 wasn’t going to be awesome?
The Origin X1 will go on sale Friday, September 29, 2017. There will be three variants with prices ranging from $40 to $50.

No word on three pack pricing but I bet it’ll be a real bargain!

5157

They can sell anything they want; it doesn’t have to be supported by the game in any way, shape or form.

5158

Why do people buy .jpgs? How does that work? I don’t get it. I can barely be assed to buy $20 WoW mounts, mounts that I can actually see in game, in a game that I’ve invested 12 years of my life and something like $5k between subs and I’m still like… meh, no thanks, I’ll keep my $20.

5159

I agree. This has been pretty one-sided lately. I enjoyed reading his posts.

5160

Someone else wrote a lengthy missive about this ATV nonsense. Seriously, read it.

5161

Here is a link the article you mentioned Derek:

The fact that hey are dedicating resources to this is really quite inexplicable considering that they don’t even have any sort of game now. Just a bunch of modules that demonstrate the various aspects of the tech.

5162

Apart from the sheer insanity of the particular feature set, the really weird thing is these people are going through a massively rehearsed external presentation of what should be a dev standup meeting. How much money did they spend just setting up the newsdesk and practicing with the teleprompter and getting made up for the camera and all that?

5163

That link is in my article which I posted earlier up the page. And it has a transcript. It’s amazing when you read what precisely went on in this broadcast.

5164

It’s free money. So they can do whatever the hell they like, you see.

5165

Well at least that portion is free money, in that production of their YT update marketing material is supposedly funded by forum donation, rather than game donation. Though, tbh, that’s a fairly subtle distinction at this stage.

What made me chuckle was all the people around boardroom tables casually flicking through their phones rather than paying attention during important - and broadcast - development meetings!

The ATC stuff is stupid. They have made things more challenging for themselves from a development perspective, by at least an order of magnitude, for almost no discernible benefit, at this stage of development.

And they missed a trick - they should have launched ATC as a new job role in SC and sold some custom JPG’s of ATC control desks!

5166

That really stuck out to me as well, it was weird. This is a update going to they public explaining how hard you’re working, and half the people in the meetings they know are being filmed are just looking at their phones?

I’m sure everyone looks at something like Facebook or Qt3 or whatever at work. But if I have a camera pointed at me while I’m being interviewed about project progress, I’m at least going to minimize my browser, you know?

5167

Well another came is coming out so you don’t have to play Star Citizen: https://www.evevalkyrie.com/warzone

5168

I’m so glad the Valkyrie folks are moving away from VR, so now I can play it.

5169

Also, ATC has been implemented in a cool, realistic manner in quite a few games. Falcon 4 is the one I remember the most, but space games like Elite Dangerous and Starshatter also had ATC, and it worked great in both.

5170

Yeah, I fail to see why the Elite ATC model wouldn’t work here. The whole 1:1 crap is causing them nothing but grief and I think they’ll ultimately find that it’s really no more fun than the abstracted version. In fact, it’s probably going to be a total bitch for them to balance versus a simplified ATC can be tuned with a few basic parameters.