Vapourware Scam Citizen - Only people with too much money can become StarCitizens! WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW MORE?

[Perkel]

yeah they have their own procedural planet team to handle that. Basically they want to mash hand made content on large scale + fill smaller things (like rest of unhabited planets in system) with procedural generation.

 

[Runciter]

A real human doesn't become all limp when falling, they will actively react to try to minimise the damage, e.g. bring arms out in front and twist their body so they fall arms first. Uncanny valley.

 

[Brzęczyszczykiewicz]

I kinda remember that this game was supposed to be a spaceship simulator.

 

[almondblight]

I genuinely don't understand what makes some people moist about procedural planets. Oh look, vast empty lands of desert! Isn't that amazing?

Yeah, I remember all the idiots who were talking about how amazing the new Elite would be because it would have 100 billion systems. Having generic planet #71,235 is bad enough in a singleplayer game, but in multiplayer games like these it's even worse because it dilutes the user base, and everything outside of the core worlds are going to be empty.

A single system with a bunch of handcrafted planets and moons would be much more interesting. But I guess this procedural stuff appeals to the target audience (people who are daydreaming that this game will let them live out their space opera fantasies).

 

[dbx]

Elite's problem have nothing to do with it having buttload of planets. It's more down to David Braben's inability to do MMO stuff right and failing to produce an actual single player game.

 

[AN4RCHID]

Hand crafting entire planets isn't realistic. Procedural planets as background with hand crafted points of interest is pretty much ideal, if they can deliver on the content.

 

[Drax]

I didn't see the last video but I did watch the first procedural planets tease and it was pretty sweet, there were no bumps in the transition to the hand-crafted POI.

 

[Country_Gravy]

Will they do it?

 

[Makabb]

No Man's sky will be here in 2 months without 100 million crowdfunding made by 4 man team, this maybe in 20 years with few studios making it.

I dropped everything i hoped for this a long time ago. NMS is the real deal today.

 

[AN4RCHID]

The Scam Citizen alpha already looks better than No Molyneux's Spore

 

[Drax]

 

[ThisNameIsFree]

Ugh. They both don't deliver.
By itself procedural planets nothing special - scripts which generate surface from height map existed since forever and CryEngine not exception.
I mentioned procedural planets video only because this is probably means progress on SQ42 since Chris promised battles which can span on both space and planet surface.

And about seamless landing video: if it's not ingame it's fake
There is absolutely no point keep it out of game if it's been possible.

 

[DosBuster]

If you use a height map that's not really procedural though

 

[ThisNameIsFree]

Height map can be generated as well...
Random sample: https://www.seedofandromeda.com/blogs/58-procedural-heightmap-terrain-generation

 

[Thane Solus]

Height map can be generated as well...
Random sample: https://www.seedofandromeda.com/blogs/58-procedural-heightmap-terrain-generation

Yeah many forms of generating random maps, uses heightmaps as guides for terrain.

 

[ThisNameIsFree]

Ok. So Around The Verse 2.27 came out. Nothing really new.
tl;dr: we fixing bugs, working on AI for SQ42, getting ready for 2.4, new concept sale: mining ship $140.

Nothing really news worthy, just wanted immortalize this for amusement of codexers from future:

Friends, Citizens, People who Buy Spaceships, lend me your eyeballs;
I come to speak of ship prices, not to avoid them.
The cost of ships may rise as they move through development;
The best deals are often lost as time moves on;
So let it be with the Starfarer. The noble Ben
Hath told you that prices for new concept ships,
Would be announced a week in advance.
And dutifully so has he mentioned it.
Here, will we post such communications,
For Ben is making me do this and I am,
But only a person who does what Ben says.
Come I only to speak of new concept ship prices?
Nay, we will also disseminate changes to existing,
Continually developing spaceships as they go,
From concept, to hangar, to spacefaring adventures.
You all did love these spaceships once, not without cause:
So we will keep this thread locked and purely informational,
Lest it digress into unsavory action and postings of ill repute.
O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their wallets. Bear with me;
My heart is in the Starfarer I bought for $175,
And I must pause till I fly off in it.
_________________________________________________________

2016.04.13 - The MISC Prospector Concept sale will go live on April 22nd, 2016 for the introductory price of $140.

https://forums.robertsspaceindustries.com/discussion/326607/spaceship-prices

 

[Ulminati]

They aren't even pretending they're doing anything but milking whales at this point. My capacity for outrage was reached long ago. Anyone who is still invested in this deserve what they're getting.

 

[Spectacle]

The only thing I really care about is whether or not the game will be playable as a single-player empire-builder in the style of the X games.

 

[AN4RCHID]

It won't be. There's a cinematic single-player campaign, and then there's the MMO part.

 

[Spectacle]

You're supposed to be able to use a slider to adjust your exposure to other players. Can that go to 0 or nearly so?

 

[Drax]

You're supposed to be able to use a slider to adjust your exposure to other players. Can that go to 0 or nearly so?

Yes.

There was also a kickstarter objective of having private servers, though they'll obviously be quite limited in comparison with what the official server-farm will offer.

 

[justincz]

this is what they spend time and money on, long before there is anything close to a game. an automatic space door to ten forward

 

[vean]

The guy who made the door is Roberts' brother

 

[Country_Gravy]

The guy in the picture looks like a major tool. How much did he "invest" to get to be in the pic?

 

[Grotesque]

he's a producer.
2/5