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Vapourware Scam Citizen - Only people with too much money can become StarCitizens! WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW MORE?
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fantadomat
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They only need like 600millions to finish the first solar system.
rusty_shackleford
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what do you even do in this game?
just fly around?
just fly around?
Perkel
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from my experience:
- mining path is most complete right now. You can mine stuff in three different "tiers". Hand mining for crystals, vehicle mining for crystals, ship mining for ores. The stuff later can be refined at refineries at Lagrande points and then hauled in your trading ship to planet main hubs. You can also directly sell it without refining at planets.
- bounties, both PVP and PVE
- various combat missions for both ground and space which range from destroying some hostile turrets in mining filed in ateroid belt, clearing out enemy base on some moon/planet, board huge cruise ship and kill pirates.
- there are more story focused missions via in your face contacts where you talk with people. Like whole chain where you have few missions culminating in some event.
- there are package delivery missions
- beacons by players who need various stuff from taxi to combat help
- search missions where you need to find bodies of crewmembers of some ship or some explorer in caves, black boxes etc.
- illegal missions where you do similar stuff as above.
- aside from that some missions give you some loot you can gather and sell later on provided you have ship with enough space
- aside from that this is mmo so you can find what are current popular trade routes and do some piracy where you promise to blow up someone transport ship filled with cargo if they don't pay money
- you can ask to be hired to help mining in bigger ships or as an escort
- you can try to take out pilot with balistic weapons and take over ships or AI ships (you need cutting attachement and shoot door of ship that is immobilized), or use EMP weapons but those work pretty much only with group of people well.
Naturally when you get money there are almost 60 ships with total of 100 ships/variants you can buy for ingame money + ton of weapons and equipment for both you as player and your ships. You can also rent ships if you don't have money which is imho fairly cheap. Most of this stuff is done in person. So if you want to buy H Dynamics weapon you go to lorville trading hub where Dynamics have its weapon showcase with shop or explore world looking for good shop with stuff.
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Myobi
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Alexa, play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjedLeVGcfE
2019-09-11, 03:10 AM
I'm telling you guys, MMO-C SC thread is the best toilet reading material ever! My god I love it.
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2019-09-11, 03:10 AM
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I'm telling you guys, MMO-C SC thread is the best toilet reading material ever! My god I love it.
Trans-Financial-Man
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Xeno threat is a fun mission chain. Sometimes assholes horde all the crates you need but you can just board them and take the crates back in most cases. And you'll have a shiny new ship you can crash into the Idrises that spawn.
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I don't see anything "huge" about the battle being shown, never see more than 6 players firing at same time. I also see choppy FPS, and lots of sus cuts. Particle effects look no better than the ones in Tie Fighter (the 1994 one).
Myobi
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Shit. Now if only I was mocking someone for enjoying a video game and not for their lack of consistency on the shit they post online about a project for a video game....
Well, at least now I'm starting to understand how they keep breaking funding records even failing to deliver year after year. :D
Edited: Also, the quote is fucking broken.
Edited2: wait, is that quote even real? Rofl.
Well, at least now I'm starting to understand how they keep breaking funding records even failing to deliver year after year. :D
Edited: Also, the quote is fucking broken.
Edited2: wait, is that quote even real? Rofl.
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Perkel
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vehicle team interview:
Q: Will multicrew ships operated by x amount of players ever be balance to be able to compete with the same amount of players in separate ships ? Multicrew feels like the underdog in every scenario
A: YogiKlatt-CIG: There is no simple answer to that, it depends on the chosen ships and what they are meant to do. A second crew seat should not automatically mean "twice the combat performance" but we obviously want a crew seat to matter and make a difference. That part of the game is obviously not fully developed yet but we're slowly steering towards it. The first steps happened with the turrets (which are not under pilot control) and more steps will be taken in the future. So crew seats will be a force multiplier ... though not necessarily by a factor of 2.
Q: Is there any intention to reduce the speed ceiling or force combat into SCM speeds?
A: ApexRT-CIG: We don't plan to actively force players into a certain speed range, but we do want the speeds at which players engage in combat to be much lower but how we achieve this organically is still under evaluation as it requires lot's of moving parts to come together to achieve.
Q: Will G mechanics make a return? As of now they are non existent.
A: YogiKlatt-CIG: Yes, we definitely want proper G-force exhaustion effects back. We're focusing on capacitor gameplay first though.
Q: Are there plans any time soon to increase specialization/focus of ships and their intended roles?
A: YogiKlatt-CIG Yes, a lot of our work this year will entail to change the tunings and abilities of the ships to fit their intended roles and purposes. The rough plans were already laid out during the combat summit but doing the actual work will take some time to complete.(edited)
Q: Why are these afterburner overheating ceilings so drastically different between fighters? Most being way too short
A: YogiKlatt-CIG: That is based on the dynamics between the amount of thrusters and much cooling and power they require (which in turn informs the heat build-up). For the capacitor gameplay pretty much all items and ships will have to be taken under scrutiny. A large part of our design work resolves around predicting dynamic effects and finding potential balancing problems before they end up in the game. We're really trying to improve in that regard but there is quite some complexity to manage.
Q: Any info on the landing camera yet and if it can show the terrain underneath it while landing?
A: JonnyYoungCIG: We've definitely talked about the need for landing cameras, and while it's not on our short-term schedule, this weeks ISC on docking shows off something quite similar for some ships..
Q: The current experience we see when it comes to combat is triangles, names and lots of icons...everywhere on screen. Has there been any discussion on streamlining the information the pilot gets for targets, friendlies, POI, during combat to clear the clutter? Thanks
A: JonnyYoungCIG: There are definitely plans to be able to filter different kinds of radar contacts at different times (e.g. choosing to only see friendlies, turrets, mineables, etc), although this falls into another teams hands rather than VET.
Q: Can you tell us anything about New Features that you have been working on that are planned for later this year? Like what you are most excited about.
A: ApexRT-CIG: I'm most excited about the capacitor game play, how players will manage the energy available and how it changes the combat dynamics, but also how the balance will change because of it as thrusters, shields and weapons will all have to adapt and be re balanced to deliver the short and long term dynamics will want.
Q: Whats the difference between capacitators and the power triangle we currently have? Will capacitators be a different system or an evolution of the existing one?
A: JonnyYoungCIG: Capacitors will be a separate system, and so we're reviewing how existing features (such as the power triangle) could possibly change to give us the gameplay we want while not stepping on the toes of other systems, as each feature has to fit nicely into the overall ship experience.
Q: Will capacitors replace/eliminate thruster overheat?
A: YogiKlatt-CIG: Capacitor gameplay will be used to drive "short term" consequences of using your ship systems while heat will be moved to longer term. So (without speaking out guarantees about balance numbers) the idea is that in a 1-minute dogfight heat won't matter that much. If you keep fighting for 10 minutes or longer though, heat will become an issue that needs to be managed.
Q: Ship combat, many backers feel, is in a weird place right now, with the apex predators of the verse being the Talon and Vanguard. Do you feel that future systems (Armor, Physicalized damage etc...) will allow ship combat to organically shift into the non-meta style your looking for, or is there more that has to be done with the ships themselves to achieve that?
A: ApexRT-CIG: That is our goal, these systems should push the combat more organically into an area we're more happy with, but it isn't just armour and damage, it's the performance of the ships, the weapon balance and how multi-crew game play changes the dynamics.
Q: The Arrow and Talon have better rate of acceleration and higher vertical thrust, which allows them to be more efficient in dogfights . Are you going to update the other light and medium fighters in this direction or decrease the abilities of these two fighters ?
A: ApexRT-CIG: These are two of the highest performing ships, where we move these ships going forward depends up on the results of multiple changes we have planned to how combat will work and the speeds they happen. As far as overall balance goes though, we do plan to move specific fighters like these closer together in terms of performance.
Q: Any ideas on how to combat pip wiggle?
A: YogiKlatt-CIG Yes we are aware of those problems and it is actually caused by several issues coming together. We tried out a couple of things already but working with prediction is not the easiest topic in game development. So atm we're not yet confident that we found a good solution yet but it is a high priority issue due to its impact on the game
Q: Light and door panals for all ships
A: ApexRT-CIG: Yes, that's planned and all new ships are having this built in during production and we'll retroactively add to existing ones as we go back and do other fixes
Q: With Missile Operator Mode coming up (Which we should from now on refer to as MOM) What is the overall feel that you want larger from torpedo's, S9 and above? Do you want it to be a more strategic weapon fired from afar after planning or the more tactical, dogfighty type that smaller missiles lean towards?
A: ApexRT-CIG: Our goal with Missile Operator Mode is that firing missiles or torpedoes becomes a much bigger event, it's a specific choice you're making at that time to engage. It brings together a lot of the dynamics we've been working, so from a long distance you open up yourself to a lot more risk from all the defence systems, the missile can be deflected with counter measures, intercepted by other ships or even destroyed by turrets, but we also want the risky game play of fighting to get your ship closer to your target to increase your chances of having a successful hit, and if you're good enough to hit your target without a lock you feel the achievement of doing so.
Q: Will the Nova Tonk control like a just another ground vehicle or will it have independent track movement like a real tank?
A: ApexRT-CIG: It will have independent track movement and behave like a real tank would.
Q: Why is ship tuning and balancing not a higher priority task within CIG?
A: YogiKlatt-CIG: It is a high priority task but we are dealing with a lot of ships and items. There are a lot of moving parts and interacting elements with the ships, e.g. thrusters, power consumptions, heat build-up, etc. So changing one thing might "feel" good but could have a lot of unforeseen consequences. It's incredibly complex and going through everything just takes time. But we'll get here step by step.
Q: Is it planned to give the spaceships a more realistic behavior in atmosphere in the near future?
A: ApexRT-CIG: Yes, our goal is to make the light fighters at least behave more and more like modern jet fighters, as we move the movement from maneuvering thrusters to control surfaces, allowing our ships to perform more extreme behaviours in atmosphere then is currently possible with thrusters alone.
Q: Any plans for futur to rollback on Gimbal Assist or it is settled for good ?
A: YogiKlatt-CIG: The amount of gimbal assist and all other aiming helpers we're using is heavily dependent of the combat speeds, network performance, pip stability and other factors. As these factors change we will re-evaluate if we need to increase or decrease the effects. So no, it's not set in stone.
Q: Tell us about Bombs and Mines and what you guys have been working on for them (or are planning)?
A: ApexRT-CIG: I wouldn't want to drop any details right now....
Q: What is your favorite thing you have done since you joined the Vehicle Experience Team?
A #1: YogiKlatt-CIG Updating head tracking, I just can't play without a head tracker
A #2: Edgeley_CIG: Watch Wing Commander
Q: Is a more realistic friction simulation planned for ground vehicles?
A: ApexRT-CIG: Yes, we're planning a complete overhaul of the ground vehicles that will bring more realistic physics and behaviour.
Q: What's the story with component sub targeting and disabling ships? Right now you can sub target engines (and some turrets) but it's not a particularly deep mechanic.
A: ApexRT-CIG: We do plan to add more deep mechanics to sub targeting that allow you to target specific components that go beyond just the engines and turrets.
Q: Hello folks. After the PvP of the Xenothreat event, will you consider evaluating comparative fighter stats to identify underperforming / over performing ships, with a view to tuning balance?
A: ApexRT-CIG: We're constantly evaluating the ships and events like Xenothreat are a great way of us to further understand the balance we have in the game, but it's not just about the balance for Xenothreat it's the PU overall.
Q: Space combat is mostly face to face shooting, which better resembles a shooter game than a dogfighting game. Has the team given serious consideration to the aspects of the ship flight models that generate this result, i.e. the ratio of linear acceleration to rotation rate?
A: YogiKlatt-CIG: We are invested heavily in achieving a good combat geometry, so the way how ships can move around each other. We're approaching that from both a mathematical and an experiential point of view. Ultimately we do not want the FM to feel on rails or like you're controlling a camera but we still want to give you a proper 6-DOF experience. Developing the capacitor systems is actually based on that demand. They allow us to add more variation into dogfighting to create a meaningful and fun experience.
Q: Will multicrew ships operated by x amount of players ever be balance to be able to compete with the same amount of players in separate ships ? Multicrew feels like the underdog in every scenario
A: YogiKlatt-CIG: There is no simple answer to that, it depends on the chosen ships and what they are meant to do. A second crew seat should not automatically mean "twice the combat performance" but we obviously want a crew seat to matter and make a difference. That part of the game is obviously not fully developed yet but we're slowly steering towards it. The first steps happened with the turrets (which are not under pilot control) and more steps will be taken in the future. So crew seats will be a force multiplier ... though not necessarily by a factor of 2.
Q: Is there any intention to reduce the speed ceiling or force combat into SCM speeds?
A: ApexRT-CIG: We don't plan to actively force players into a certain speed range, but we do want the speeds at which players engage in combat to be much lower but how we achieve this organically is still under evaluation as it requires lot's of moving parts to come together to achieve.
Q: Will G mechanics make a return? As of now they are non existent.
A: YogiKlatt-CIG: Yes, we definitely want proper G-force exhaustion effects back. We're focusing on capacitor gameplay first though.
Q: Are there plans any time soon to increase specialization/focus of ships and their intended roles?
A: YogiKlatt-CIG Yes, a lot of our work this year will entail to change the tunings and abilities of the ships to fit their intended roles and purposes. The rough plans were already laid out during the combat summit but doing the actual work will take some time to complete.(edited)
Q: Why are these afterburner overheating ceilings so drastically different between fighters? Most being way too short
A: YogiKlatt-CIG: That is based on the dynamics between the amount of thrusters and much cooling and power they require (which in turn informs the heat build-up). For the capacitor gameplay pretty much all items and ships will have to be taken under scrutiny. A large part of our design work resolves around predicting dynamic effects and finding potential balancing problems before they end up in the game. We're really trying to improve in that regard but there is quite some complexity to manage.
Q: Any info on the landing camera yet and if it can show the terrain underneath it while landing?
A: JonnyYoungCIG: We've definitely talked about the need for landing cameras, and while it's not on our short-term schedule, this weeks ISC on docking shows off something quite similar for some ships..
Q: The current experience we see when it comes to combat is triangles, names and lots of icons...everywhere on screen. Has there been any discussion on streamlining the information the pilot gets for targets, friendlies, POI, during combat to clear the clutter? Thanks
A: JonnyYoungCIG: There are definitely plans to be able to filter different kinds of radar contacts at different times (e.g. choosing to only see friendlies, turrets, mineables, etc), although this falls into another teams hands rather than VET.
Q: Can you tell us anything about New Features that you have been working on that are planned for later this year? Like what you are most excited about.
A: ApexRT-CIG: I'm most excited about the capacitor game play, how players will manage the energy available and how it changes the combat dynamics, but also how the balance will change because of it as thrusters, shields and weapons will all have to adapt and be re balanced to deliver the short and long term dynamics will want.
Q: Whats the difference between capacitators and the power triangle we currently have? Will capacitators be a different system or an evolution of the existing one?
A: JonnyYoungCIG: Capacitors will be a separate system, and so we're reviewing how existing features (such as the power triangle) could possibly change to give us the gameplay we want while not stepping on the toes of other systems, as each feature has to fit nicely into the overall ship experience.
Q: Will capacitors replace/eliminate thruster overheat?
A: YogiKlatt-CIG: Capacitor gameplay will be used to drive "short term" consequences of using your ship systems while heat will be moved to longer term. So (without speaking out guarantees about balance numbers) the idea is that in a 1-minute dogfight heat won't matter that much. If you keep fighting for 10 minutes or longer though, heat will become an issue that needs to be managed.
Q: Ship combat, many backers feel, is in a weird place right now, with the apex predators of the verse being the Talon and Vanguard. Do you feel that future systems (Armor, Physicalized damage etc...) will allow ship combat to organically shift into the non-meta style your looking for, or is there more that has to be done with the ships themselves to achieve that?
A: ApexRT-CIG: That is our goal, these systems should push the combat more organically into an area we're more happy with, but it isn't just armour and damage, it's the performance of the ships, the weapon balance and how multi-crew game play changes the dynamics.
Q: The Arrow and Talon have better rate of acceleration and higher vertical thrust, which allows them to be more efficient in dogfights . Are you going to update the other light and medium fighters in this direction or decrease the abilities of these two fighters ?
A: ApexRT-CIG: These are two of the highest performing ships, where we move these ships going forward depends up on the results of multiple changes we have planned to how combat will work and the speeds they happen. As far as overall balance goes though, we do plan to move specific fighters like these closer together in terms of performance.
Q: Any ideas on how to combat pip wiggle?
A: YogiKlatt-CIG Yes we are aware of those problems and it is actually caused by several issues coming together. We tried out a couple of things already but working with prediction is not the easiest topic in game development. So atm we're not yet confident that we found a good solution yet but it is a high priority issue due to its impact on the game
Q: Light and door panals for all ships
A: ApexRT-CIG: Yes, that's planned and all new ships are having this built in during production and we'll retroactively add to existing ones as we go back and do other fixes
Q: With Missile Operator Mode coming up (Which we should from now on refer to as MOM) What is the overall feel that you want larger from torpedo's, S9 and above? Do you want it to be a more strategic weapon fired from afar after planning or the more tactical, dogfighty type that smaller missiles lean towards?
A: ApexRT-CIG: Our goal with Missile Operator Mode is that firing missiles or torpedoes becomes a much bigger event, it's a specific choice you're making at that time to engage. It brings together a lot of the dynamics we've been working, so from a long distance you open up yourself to a lot more risk from all the defence systems, the missile can be deflected with counter measures, intercepted by other ships or even destroyed by turrets, but we also want the risky game play of fighting to get your ship closer to your target to increase your chances of having a successful hit, and if you're good enough to hit your target without a lock you feel the achievement of doing so.
Q: Will the Nova Tonk control like a just another ground vehicle or will it have independent track movement like a real tank?
A: ApexRT-CIG: It will have independent track movement and behave like a real tank would.
Q: Why is ship tuning and balancing not a higher priority task within CIG?
A: YogiKlatt-CIG: It is a high priority task but we are dealing with a lot of ships and items. There are a lot of moving parts and interacting elements with the ships, e.g. thrusters, power consumptions, heat build-up, etc. So changing one thing might "feel" good but could have a lot of unforeseen consequences. It's incredibly complex and going through everything just takes time. But we'll get here step by step.
Q: Is it planned to give the spaceships a more realistic behavior in atmosphere in the near future?
A: ApexRT-CIG: Yes, our goal is to make the light fighters at least behave more and more like modern jet fighters, as we move the movement from maneuvering thrusters to control surfaces, allowing our ships to perform more extreme behaviours in atmosphere then is currently possible with thrusters alone.
Q: Any plans for futur to rollback on Gimbal Assist or it is settled for good ?
A: YogiKlatt-CIG: The amount of gimbal assist and all other aiming helpers we're using is heavily dependent of the combat speeds, network performance, pip stability and other factors. As these factors change we will re-evaluate if we need to increase or decrease the effects. So no, it's not set in stone.
Q: Tell us about Bombs and Mines and what you guys have been working on for them (or are planning)?
A: ApexRT-CIG: I wouldn't want to drop any details right now....
Q: What is your favorite thing you have done since you joined the Vehicle Experience Team?
A #1: YogiKlatt-CIG Updating head tracking, I just can't play without a head tracker
A #2: Edgeley_CIG: Watch Wing Commander
Q: Is a more realistic friction simulation planned for ground vehicles?
A: ApexRT-CIG: Yes, we're planning a complete overhaul of the ground vehicles that will bring more realistic physics and behaviour.
Q: What's the story with component sub targeting and disabling ships? Right now you can sub target engines (and some turrets) but it's not a particularly deep mechanic.
A: ApexRT-CIG: We do plan to add more deep mechanics to sub targeting that allow you to target specific components that go beyond just the engines and turrets.
Q: Hello folks. After the PvP of the Xenothreat event, will you consider evaluating comparative fighter stats to identify underperforming / over performing ships, with a view to tuning balance?
A: ApexRT-CIG: We're constantly evaluating the ships and events like Xenothreat are a great way of us to further understand the balance we have in the game, but it's not just about the balance for Xenothreat it's the PU overall.
Q: Space combat is mostly face to face shooting, which better resembles a shooter game than a dogfighting game. Has the team given serious consideration to the aspects of the ship flight models that generate this result, i.e. the ratio of linear acceleration to rotation rate?
A: YogiKlatt-CIG: We are invested heavily in achieving a good combat geometry, so the way how ships can move around each other. We're approaching that from both a mathematical and an experiential point of view. Ultimately we do not want the FM to feel on rails or like you're controlling a camera but we still want to give you a proper 6-DOF experience. Developing the capacitor systems is actually based on that demand. They allow us to add more variation into dogfighting to create a meaningful and fun experience.
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tl;dr everything is in progress, we have big plans, gonna be so cool and everything you want, but every "part of the game is obviously not fully developed yet but we're slowly steering towards it".
CIG PR would do great in politics.
CIG PR would do great in politics.
Peachcurl
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At some point it will be easier for them to provide actually-working/real/full-scale space ships to all their backers to make good on their promises.
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As a general rule, the more crew seats in a ship, the more degraded the performance of that ship is going to be. We saw this back in the old text days, when ships could be crewed by either multiple people manning different ship systems...or one guy just piloting the entire ship by himself, which resulted in vastly superior performance, to the point where one guy flying a single light ship could defeat 10 heavy ships manned by 3 players each...and take no damage doing it.
So there has to be a REALLY compelling reason why a ship NEEDS to have multiple players running it, which means ship systems need to be of sufficient complexity that one player CAN'T realistically operate them all in combat.
So there has to be a REALLY compelling reason why a ship NEEDS to have multiple players running it, which means ship systems need to be of sufficient complexity that one player CAN'T realistically operate them all in combat.
Myobi
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Multi-crew sounds fucking awful, imagine sitting in a god damn cannon waiting for something to fly by just to shoot at it... What if I'm the only member of the crew online, wtf am I supposed to do? Wash the windows, wank in a corner and hope some cunt doesn't show up and shoot me down? Meh.
Perkel
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ISC. The finally managed to get docking tech working for both ship to ship and ship to station and it is to be released in 3.13. It will be featured for 3 ships for now as they will have to update a bit rest of ship to support it. 890 and Hammerhead for ship to station docking and Constelation for ship to ship docking.
TLDR:
- ship to ship and ship to docking is locked for 3.13
- designs for ground vehicle and ship based caves exploration
- designs for settlements
- Pyro system folliage and harvestables
new reputation screen in the works:
Change ship to something that doesn't require crew also you don't need to wait in turret whole day, you go there when it is needed. Also you will be able to hire AI npcs as your crew. So even if you are alone you will be able to still fly those bigger ships.
Moreover multicrew ships allow for actual jobs to exist. Meaning that if you are starting you can just get hired by someone as crewmate for money. Which i did few times as i didn't really knew how to earn good money at start.
Here is mining ship difference:
currently:
- it takes much longer for small mining ship to break bigger rocks, which means either skipping those or buying mining heads which are pretty expensive. Bigger ship = bigger mining laser = less need for mining heads.
- fuel costs. Mining on one ship like Argo with 3 mining beams instead of 3xsingle mining ships is more fuel efficient
- better to defend 1 ship in one place that 3 ships all in different locations, you can hire just one dude in fighting ship to have decent cover
- Argo has way better storage than 3 ships combined so no need for frequent runs which both comes at price of fuel and safety
- It is definitely harder to take down one big ship than 3 small ships with small fighters as they usually have trouble going through big shields. So your enemies will be bigger ships which will be rarer than standard pirates.
- It is much harder to board big ship with multiple people in it than one small ship with 1 pilot in it which doesn't even have combat gear or weapons to defend himself. So if you have one man mining ship it can easily be disabled and stolen from you. Though at this time EMP weapons do need 2-3 people to shoot at target to keep it powered down and you can' actually lose ship
future:
- the most profitable runs will be to mine at borders of civilization not everthing in one system like now at best 2 minutes away from you, which means that supplies management will be a thing. So one bigger ship will be far more efficient than 3 small ships. For both fuel and safety but also maintance, supplies, mining hardware storage (mining heads), defense and so on. Your small mining ship has limited space for cargo boxes with food or repair hardware in case of fuckup or skirmish.
- Scanning. Right now it is pretty dumb but soon they will expand it a lot (i think it is comming in 3.14) which mean that you won't be able to just set 360 ping and just know where everything is. So for mining ship person dedicated to scanning minerals will be much more efficient than one person to mine and then spend next 15 minutes to find good rock to mine.
- Components - Components are in the game in not physicalized form but they will be moving toward physicalized components pretty soon. They will be adding wear and tear too. MEaning that if you fly run down ship you can end up stranded somewhere and you need to repair your ship. So in with small mining ship you have limited space for components while big one can have multiple spares with easy access to those components inside of ship rather than on exterior.
TLDR:
- ship to ship and ship to docking is locked for 3.13
- designs for ground vehicle and ship based caves exploration
- designs for settlements
- Pyro system folliage and harvestables
new reputation screen in the works:
Change ship to something that doesn't require crew also you don't need to wait in turret whole day, you go there when it is needed. Also you will be able to hire AI npcs as your crew. So even if you are alone you will be able to still fly those bigger ships.
Moreover multicrew ships allow for actual jobs to exist. Meaning that if you are starting you can just get hired by someone as crewmate for money. Which i did few times as i didn't really knew how to earn good money at start.
Here is mining ship difference:
currently:
- it takes much longer for small mining ship to break bigger rocks, which means either skipping those or buying mining heads which are pretty expensive. Bigger ship = bigger mining laser = less need for mining heads.
- fuel costs. Mining on one ship like Argo with 3 mining beams instead of 3xsingle mining ships is more fuel efficient
- better to defend 1 ship in one place that 3 ships all in different locations, you can hire just one dude in fighting ship to have decent cover
- Argo has way better storage than 3 ships combined so no need for frequent runs which both comes at price of fuel and safety
- It is definitely harder to take down one big ship than 3 small ships with small fighters as they usually have trouble going through big shields. So your enemies will be bigger ships which will be rarer than standard pirates.
- It is much harder to board big ship with multiple people in it than one small ship with 1 pilot in it which doesn't even have combat gear or weapons to defend himself. So if you have one man mining ship it can easily be disabled and stolen from you. Though at this time EMP weapons do need 2-3 people to shoot at target to keep it powered down and you can' actually lose ship
future:
- the most profitable runs will be to mine at borders of civilization not everthing in one system like now at best 2 minutes away from you, which means that supplies management will be a thing. So one bigger ship will be far more efficient than 3 small ships. For both fuel and safety but also maintance, supplies, mining hardware storage (mining heads), defense and so on. Your small mining ship has limited space for cargo boxes with food or repair hardware in case of fuckup or skirmish.
- Scanning. Right now it is pretty dumb but soon they will expand it a lot (i think it is comming in 3.14) which mean that you won't be able to just set 360 ping and just know where everything is. So for mining ship person dedicated to scanning minerals will be much more efficient than one person to mine and then spend next 15 minutes to find good rock to mine.
- Components - Components are in the game in not physicalized form but they will be moving toward physicalized components pretty soon. They will be adding wear and tear too. MEaning that if you fly run down ship you can end up stranded somewhere and you need to repair your ship. So in with small mining ship you have limited space for components while big one can have multiple spares with easy access to those components inside of ship rather than on exterior.
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Myobi
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Sure, but if mofos log out in the middle of nowhere how am I supposed to get to a space station to change ships? Same with the AI… the fuck am I going to get NPCs? Especially if I’m not even the owner of the damn thing…
Unless you have some kind of “fast travel” system, like AI taxi service bullshit, the damn thing sounds like a boring ass nightmare.
Perkel
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If they log out you can yourself fly ship to nearest station. When someone logs out their ship doesn't dissapear until well after last player leaves it.
If say you just catapulted out of broken ship in fight you can just set up beacon with some information and stake say 5k or 10k to get your back from somewhere to station of your choice. I personally hauled few dudes after their ships got fucked by other players or ai pirates, for now there is no real downside to just commiting suecide but in future there will be huge penalties involved and this is how you get around.
There won't be "fast travel" system in game. If you want to go to other side of known universe you will have to either fly there yourself or use player or ai services.
Delterius
Arcane
"its a legit investment, like buying houses out of the print" - someone, somewhereFlyable jpegs are more expensive than non-flyable ones, buy now:
fantadomat
Arcane
Or buying a tesla..."its a legit investment, like buying houses out of the print" - someone, somewhereFlyable jpegs are more expensive than non-flyable ones, buy now:
SerratedBiz
Arcane
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Next Tuesday.
Delterius
Arcane
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