I love that this is somehow supposed to be a positive thing. NPCs get frustrated and bored of waiting for trams.
1-1 replication of REAL TEDIUM.
Thanks rhamorim. My life is WEIRD. But cool. <3
Given that this is the rate of progress for SQ42 in one month, this game should take… 4-5 years tops?
I just really hope their mention of GUIDs is not what 99% of engineers expect a GUID to be, otherwise …
While they have creative names for some stuff, I fully expect this to mean exactly what we think it is. Maybe they’re having issues with 128-bit integers and want to store GUIDs as structs with 4 32-bit integers instead? Or null-terminated strings? Or as TEXT fields in a SQLite 3 database? The sky is the limit!
My understanding is that there procedural planet generation technology spontaneously created kryptonite causing all their Super GUIDs to lose their powers.
Yeah, I’m also wondering what a “superGUID” would be. Maybe it’s a 256-bit GUID? You know, because 128-bit GUIDs are not nearly enough to hold all the awesomeness in Star Citizen, despite the fact that if you copied the whole internet for every person in the planet every second (and assigned a unique GUID to every single page/image/resource every time you copied it, etc) you’d still need a few billion years to exhaust that 128-bit space?
The more you think about it, the better it gets. ;)
You are forgetting that Star Citizen will have 100+ solar systems populated by trillions of NPC characters so realistic that they will be indistinguishable from players. Each one will have their own space phone filled with family photos, space podcasts, space tik toks, etc etc.
Who among us has never gone into insane detail
on a status update to mask how little we actually were able to get done over the last two weeks :)
I for one am extremely impressed by that update. I understood almost none of it, but then that’s why I am happy to invest so many thousands into the product as clearly the brightest minds on the planet are working on it.
Also, I was extremely happy to read about the crate unloading progress and am crossing my fingers that they will be able to use that tech to make a Law & Order game.
This bullet from the update seems significant.
“Created a GUI in visual basic to track the killer’s ip address”
I know, right? They know that the majority of their user base are clueless anyway. So, uhm, yeah. :)
That update posted upthread reads like a parody. It is a parody, right?!
Year after year they put out top notch content. No slack periods. Just pitch perfect every time.
Sorry, I normally link to the full report. I don’t add/change anything but I do cut out a decent amount:
“The parody is coming from inside the house!”
Inside Star Citizen has a look at the features coming in the next point patch, 3.17.2
New stations, new derelicts to explore on the ground and in space, as well as a new large dynamic event.
I’m looking forward to visiting the derelicts.
heh
The new derelicts offer a cool little game loop with rare treasure to be found.
I really need to find time to go explore.