Star Citizen

[AchillesLastStand]

Got to say those screenshots look awesome. Couple questions though.
Is there enough content at this point to merit buying in?
How does one obtain additional ships, real life money or can you earn them in game?

[Jarhead0331]

Got to say those screenshots look awesome. Couple questions though.
Is there enough content at this point to merit buying in?
How does one obtain additional ships, real life money or can you earn them in game?

There is totally enough content to justify a pledge at this point. You can get a starter package for around $40, or just wait for a free fly weekend. They have those all the time. As I've said, I'm awestruck just running simple delivery missions to various locations around the Stanton System. They also have investigation, maintenance, bounty, mercenary, mining missions, etc.

You can buy or rent ships in game now with credits earned in the verse, or you can buy them with real money. Obviously, if you buy them with real money, they are yours to keep, even if there is a database wipe during development.

[Jarhead0331]

One would hate to see what normal is, if this is mature peoplr in general. I find that in star citizen its almost 50% of people that are lude deviants, either trolling or legit thinking that they are showing off.
But yes you get em all the time. Maybe star citizen can finally make a game an experience like socialising in public, i.e. clean up the crud and let us all enjoy some good clean fun without the bollocks.

I haven't seen this at all. Like zero. I'm sure it exists out there because assholes...but given the amount of time I've put in, to have never experienced anything like you describe, I would hardly say it's a rampant problem.

You must have extremely poor luck with servers. Maybe they put all the dickheads together on the same server. Can't imagine why you'd be there with them?  :DD :hide: :timeout: O:-)

[Gusington]

O NO YOU DID ENT

[Jarhead0331]

O NO YOU DID ENT

Yeah, I went there, but I was totally joking. Couldn't resist. We all know Destraex is a stand-up dude.  :hug:

[Skoop]

Servers are regional, I usually just click best or US and it drops you where it drops you.  And with that, my experience has been like jarhead described.  Every now and then you'll get some griefers trying to ram you on landing pads or someything. 

The other nite I came across a guy in a gladius out in the middle of no where space.  We both did this face off and the guy broke the silence with friendly hello, probally help I had my 600i with 3 size 5 cannons trained on him.  We chatted and then went on our separate ways in very cordial manner.

When I get a crime stat I just go on a rampage until someone gets my bounty and takes me out, thus erasing the crime stat and you wake up in port olisar.  I had a great rampage once where I took out 8 players and became public enemy number one.  I finally got taken down by 6 players coming at me, and the final blow was from 2 guys in a mole ripping through the shields of my 600i with mining lasers. 

3.9.0 will bring the new prison gameplay, so the crime stat thing will have way more impact.  Being hauled off to prison and having your character stuck there for 30mins might deter griefers.

[Destraex]

One would hate to see what normal is, if this is mature peoplr in general. I find that in star citizen its almost 50% of people that are lude deviants, either trolling or legit thinking that they are showing off.
But yes you get em all the time. Maybe star citizen can finally make a game an experience like socialising in public, i.e. clean up the crud and let us all enjoy some good clean fun without the bollocks.

I haven't seen this at all. Like zero. I'm sure it exists out there because assholes...but given the amount of time I've put in, to have never experienced anything like you describe, I would hardly say it's a rampant problem.

You must have extremely poor luck with servers. Maybe they put all the dickheads together on the same server. Can't imagine why you'd be there with them?  :DD :hide: :timeout: O:-)

Lol. I think it's the time I log in. I go to work later in the morning than most at the moment. Now combine that with connecting to a local Aussie server here. What you probably get is either school kids at home or dole bludgers\druggies on benefits. That's my theory and I'm sticking with it. But hey, it might just be the Aussie servers in general that are full of kids a couple of generations before my time. This may be the normal Australian lingo now. I'd still like some less than manual sanitatisation options in SC.
Now as for me being with them... well yeah, maybe I better become more woke so I can be elevated in status again to be with you good blokes. :P Just remember what grognard means  grumble grumble...

[Jarhead0331]

I picked up the Carrack Expedition too, but haven't flown it out  and about yet. Nervous flying in the verse in a big ship without a crew. What is your name in SC? I'm Jarhead0331.

My SC handle is Skoop1.

The Carrack has no pilot controlled weapons, so it's tough soloing it.  I manage it against AI, but fighting humans is impossible with out crew to man your turrets.  Fortunately it's extremely fast and has very tanky double size 3 shields.  I use it in claim jumper missions against AI by using the stand up pilot console then take 6 steps over to the remote turret console to blast all the targets.  The bridge has both a pilot seat and a stand up console, it's pretty handy.  I'm happy with it.  Fit's into a jack of all traits well and it is just under the capital ship size. Also has a 460 scu cargo hold, so it will allow me to upgrade my caterpillar to something really big for cargo hauling like a MISC Hull D or a Hercules C2.  I've seen youtubes of guys stuffing a buccaneer in the hangar bay if you want your small ship to have more punch than a Pisces.       

I added you as a contact. I'll look out for you, bro.

[Jarhead0331]

Some more traveling today...

Parked on the bright side of Wala


Working for Corvalex in Arcorp territory


Self portrait


Not expecting any trouble


Exiting the settlement


Lifting Off for Arial


I really love this ship


Cruising


Entering Quantum Space


Burning rubber


Long trip


Above Arial


Leaving Arial. My delivery was on the dark side of the moon. Not much to see.


On approach to Port Olisar


Permission to land granted


Docking


Landing with a big Caterpillar in the background


A Constellation parked in front of my Valkyrie


Connie lifting off. You can see a Merlin fighter docked to the rear

[Skoop]

I picked up the Carrack Expedition too, but haven't flown it out  and about yet. Nervous flying in the verse in a big ship without a crew. What is your name in SC? I'm Jarhead0331.

My SC handle is Skoop1.

The Carrack has no pilot controlled weapons, so it's tough soloing it.  I manage it against AI, but fighting humans is impossible with out crew to man your turrets.  Fortunately it's extremely fast and has very tanky double size 3 shields.  I use it in claim jumper missions against AI by using the stand up pilot console then take 6 steps over to the remote turret console to blast all the targets.  The bridge has both a pilot seat and a stand up console, it's pretty handy.  I'm happy with it.  Fit's into a jack of all traits well and it is just under the capital ship size. Also has a 460 scu cargo hold, so it will allow me to upgrade my caterpillar to something really big for cargo hauling like a MISC Hull D or a Hercules C2.  I've seen youtubes of guys stuffing a buccaneer in the hangar bay if you want your small ship to have more punch than a Pisces.       

I added you as a contact. I'll look out for you, bro.

Cool, I'll be back on tomorrow.  Saturday's a work day for me.  We could multi crew or multi ship some missions, I figured out a way to share uec between players.

I did a little mining in a mole yesterday, then got sucked into hunting down players for bounty.  Always nice to take some real human scalps for a change instead of stomping AI. 

[Pete Dero]

Star Citizen releases a roadmap to the release of the Roadmap  >:D.

https://www.bluesnews.com/s/213471/star-citizen-squadron-42-and-roadmap-update

The new Roadmap is something we hinted at in March but because that is still very much in development, we can't share as much about it as I would like. Believe me when I say I'm personally very eager to release it to you. We took the time to explore options for how we could better represent our progress, and I believe we are getting close to landing in a pretty great spot. Our goal with this new Roadmap is to give you better visibility into what teams are working on, share the progress of more teams, and go so far as to indicate the size of the projects for our tech, features, and content teams. This new Roadmap will drastically change how you follow the development progress for both Squadron 42 and Star Citizen. The new Roadmap will focus more on breaking out teams and features so you can interactively see what is being worked on across all teams, as opposed to what features will make X release. While it's not quite ready, it's currently top priority on the web team's current projects. In the immediate future, we plan to deliver the following communications:

    Give an explanation of the goals of our new Roadmap and what to expect from it
    Show a rough mockup of the proposed new Roadmap
    Share a work in progress version of the Roadmap for at least one of our core teams
    And then finally transition to this new Roadmap

We'll approach them in the order above, and we'll likely need a few weeks between steps, so I don't want to create the impression that this is happening overnight. But we should be announcing step 1 pretty soon if my meeting on Thursday about this is as good as I think it will be.

[Destraex]

Haha, yeah. Man I need a new computer. I would play so much more if I had something more able to handle it. It's smooth enough don't get me wrong. But my PC has a 3570k and it can only do so much these days.

[devoncop]

Star Citizen releases a roadmap to the release of the Roadmap  >:D.

https://www.bluesnews.com/s/213471/star-citizen-squadron-42-and-roadmap-update

The new Roadmap is something we hinted at in March but because that is still very much in development, we can't share as much about it as I would like. Believe me when I say I'm personally very eager to release it to you. We took the time to explore options for how we could better represent our progress, and I believe we are getting close to landing in a pretty great spot. Our goal with this new Roadmap is to give you better visibility into what teams are working on, share the progress of more teams, and go so far as to indicate the size of the projects for our tech, features, and content teams. This new Roadmap will drastically change how you follow the development progress for both Squadron 42 and Star Citizen. The new Roadmap will focus more on breaking out teams and features so you can interactively see what is being worked on across all teams, as opposed to what features will make X release. While it's not quite ready, it's currently top priority on the web team's current projects. In the immediate future, we plan to deliver the following communications:

    Give an explanation of the goals of our new Roadmap and what to expect from it
    Show a rough mockup of the proposed new Roadmap
    Share a work in progress version of the Roadmap for at least one of our core teams
    And then finally transition to this new Roadmap

We'll approach them in the order above, and we'll likely need a few weeks between steps, so I don't want to create the impression that this is happening overnight. But we should be announcing step 1 pretty soon if my meeting on Thursday about this is as good as I think it will be.

Jarndyce v Jarndyce in the Dickens novel "Bleak House" had nothing on this farce  ::)

[Skoop]

^ Have you played it ?  Saying star citizen is a farce is like saying DCS is a farce.  This thing in alpha state is better than elite in finished state.  Like dcs this thing will be developed, improved, and added to for a decade.  I think people have a hard time wrapping their heads around that.

[al_infierno]

^ Have you played it ?  Saying star citizen is a farce is like saying DCS is a farce.  This thing in alpha state is better than elite in finished state.  Like dcs this thing will be developed, improved, and added to for a decade.  I think people have a hard time wrapping their heads around that.

I mean, that's all well and good, but the whole "roadmap to a roadmap" thing is just outrageous, no matter what state the game is in.