Star Citizen - media blowout, Chris Robert's new game

shifty68 said:
Haha who needs to board when you can just shoot their life support, pull up a chair, make a bowl of popcorn, kick back, and watch them asphyxiate
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shifty68 said:
Haha who needs to board when you can just shoot their life support, pull up a chair, make a bowl of popcorn, kick back, and watch them asphyxiate
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only issue with that is it takes 40 minutes to run out of air in your space suit so assuming you breached the hull and all the air in the ship is gone too thats still 40minutes you have to wait and at 10minutes left an AI AAA vessel should show up to bring someone to safety.

so assuming the pilot put out a distress beacon to more than just AAA waiting 40minutes might not be a good idea.

im assuming other pirates would see the distress beacon with the right sensor array, and then military/police
 
Wildace said:
only issue with that is it takes 40 minutes to run out of air in your space suit so assuming you breached the hull and all the air in the ship is gone too thats still 40minutes you have to wait and at 10minutes left an AI AAA vessel should show up to bring someone to safety.

so assuming the pilot put out a distress beacon to more than just AAA waiting 40minutes might not be a good idea.

im assuming other pirates would see the distress beacon with the right sensor array, and then military/police
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Something tells me Shifty would still go this route and enjoy every second of the 40 minutes... He may also destroy the AAA ship
 
Wildace said:
only issue with that is it takes 40 minutes to run out of air in your space suit so assuming you breached the hull and all the air in the ship is gone too thats still 40minutes you have to wait and at 10minutes left an AI AAA vessel should show up to bring someone to safety.

so assuming the pilot put out a distress beacon to more than just AAA waiting 40minutes might not be a good idea.

im assuming other pirates would see the distress beacon with the right sensor array, and then military/police
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Signal jammers.... because with a signal jammer space is a big cold place without witnesses. (i hope they implement them)

plus since you aren't actually killing them it might work out better for your reputation wise.

or they might just surrender. oh man how fun would it be to shoot an escape pod into a black hole or a Sun.
 
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Someone needs to take the youtube thumbnail of the latest Wingman's hangar that's on the RSI website and turn Wingman and CR into the blues brothers. Chop gawds, get to work.
 
I am also on my phone so its a huge pain in the ass, but they do give some new info, like ship dimensions. speaking of which, i didn't realize that the caterpillar was bigger than both the Stella and the retaliator.
 
Dimensions of the Stella were scaled back it seems, length used to be 55M. And yeah the Caterpillar is supposed to be big though it has fewer and of lesser grade upgrade options.
 
shifty68 said:
I am on my phone so its a huge pain in the ass, but they do give some new info, like ship dimensions. speaking of which, i didn't realize that the caterpillar was bigger than both the Stella and the retaliator.
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JusT installed chrome on my S2 and it works way better, give it a try.
 
I declare SHIP SPEC BATTLE SEASON open

P.S: Bow to your Constellation overlords, it has more weapon hard points than an Idris
 
Lorien said:
I declare SHIP SPEC BATTLE SEASON open

P.S: Bow to your Constellation overlords, it has more weapon hard points than an Idris
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Sold. I am will now decide how best to break the news to my wife so I can live to play with it. This way I can keep those damn pirates at bay :p
 
Decimus said:
Sold. I am will now decide how best to break the news to my wife so I can live to play with it. This way I can keep those damn pirates at bay :p
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You've got it wrong. Join me and lorien, we could always use more connie's for our pirate fleet lol
 
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Lorien said:
Dimensions of the Stella were scaled back it seems, length used to be 55M. And yeah the Caterpillar is supposed to be big though it has fewer and of lesser grade upgrade options.
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i havnt looked at the stats yet just got home, but is that the length with or without the 4 main thrusters tucked in, i think in the tucked mode the ship is longer


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i just looked at the hornet, 4 class 4's ohhhh man :)

it shows a variant up there too

F7C looks like the base model which is the colonel package/110$ addon F7A is the military model
 
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Ragenrok said:
You've got it wrong. Join me and lorien, we could always use my Connie's for our pirate fleet lol
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Sure! This way I can get good intel on where Lorien is operating and join the fleet of bounty hunters after him on another account. Should net me a tidy profit :D;)

I want one though specifically so the wife and I can pilot it together so still need one!!!!
 
Decimus said:
Sure! This way I can get good intel on where Lorien is operating and join the fleet of bounty hunters after him on another account. Should net me a tidy profit :D;)

I want one though specifically so the wife and I can pilot it together so still need one!!!!
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Then join us and we won't steal it from u lol
 
Uh then why is does the military version have a cargo hold and less weapons and a smaller engine?
 
shifty68 said:
Uh then why is does the military version have a cargo hold and less weapons and a smaller engine?
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If referring to the Hornet:

Military (F7A) vs Civilian (F7C)

F7A has 4 tonnes less cargo space, 2 less upgrade slots, larger max power plant and a better power plant by default, TR4 engine vs the F7C's TR3, and 4 turrets vs the F7C's 0.

Since all we get access to right now is the F7C, grabbing a F7A for dog-fighting would be delicious :D
 
Things I took away from the specs page:

Stella is broken OP and gets more OP every time info is released.
Cutlass is way bigger dimensionaly than I was expecting, its as wide as a Starfarer. Doesn't even make sense.
Both the Freelancer and the Retaliator have smaller max dimensions then I thought they would.
Either the Starfarer is made of cast-iron or the Idris is made from Airloy.
Kicking myself for not jumping on a Scythe during the Kickstarter campaign.
As op as the Stella is, I refuse to break down and buy one.
 
i dont see how the stella is over powered when you need 4 people in it to crew it or use AI and we dont know how effective AI will be.

we havent even see it in combat.

supposedly it can only handle taking on 2 hornets.

so 4 people needed to take down 2 people.

3 hornets would most likely kill a connie.
 
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All I meant was that it started as a lot of ship for the money and that it keeps getting "buffed". Why does it have as many upgrade slots as an Idriss now?

Somebody had to jump on that whiner bandwagon, might as well be me.
 
RealityCrunch said:
If referring to the Hornet:

Military (F7A) vs Civilian (F7C)

F7A has 4 tonnes less cargo space, 2 less upgrade slots, larger max power plant and a better power plant by default, TR4 engine vs the F7C's TR3, and 4 turrets vs the F7C's 0.

Since all we get access to right now is the F7C, grabbing a F7A for dog-fighting would be delicious :D
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ah I was reading the hornet store page wrong. definitely gont to pick up a mil spec version if i can.

and the stella isnt that op. its got a blind spot so big you could park a starfarer in it.

if any thing the retaliator is going to be op because its going to have loads of turrets loads of missiles and its 14 tons heavier, which means boat loads of armor. that the stella doesnt have.

the caterpillar doesnt seem so band any more. I would trade my Stella for one if i could.
 
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we dont really know what that many mod slots will mean. but its clear the setlla/connie is ment to be highly moddable because it most likely will be the core vessel of smaller groups of players that cant afford to maintain an idris.

it will need to have better sensors than the fighters around it, along with C&C equipment and other things. it will be a long distance hauler/explorer so there no telling what it will need to fill those roles being so far from a friendly port.

for small groups it really will be their hub until they get the assets for bigger ships like the idris.

maybe one of those mods for the connie will be in flight refueler too so it can have a proper fighter escort that can keep up with it. all those things will most likely take mod slots or even possibly a turret slot.

also value wise you cant gauge how much it is going to cost ingame by its dollar to credit value. if anything you are getting a good deal now on its price vs if you were to pay for credits and then buy it ingame with paid for credits.

its estimated the connie will be 500-800k+ credits compared to the aurora estimated 30k and we dont know what its going to cost to keep 4 T6 main thrusters fueled. or how much its going to cost to actually Fill up all 20 mod slots, and if you want the electro skin hull mod thats 1 slot wasted on a vanity perk how many more slots might you want to waste on vanity items? lol
 
woo an animated spreadsheet let's all throw more money at them.

having seen what happened to these guys and then seeing how the new crowdfunding goals include things like nicer offices for the devs i lowered my expectations by orders of magnitude. this game was supposedly doable on $6m and now we have $15m goals with 42-page PDFs as a reward.

am i just really out of touch with the project? are the reasons we need to throw millions more at this project buried 20 minutes into a 30-minute interview with chris?
 
LstOfTheBrunnenG said:
woo an animated spreadsheet let's all throw more money at them.

having seen what happened to these guys and then seeing how the new crowdfunding goals include things like nicer offices for the devs i lowered my expectations by orders of magnitude. this game was supposedly doable on $6m and now we have $15m goals with 42-page PDFs as a reward.

am i just really out of touch with the project? are the reasons we need to throw millions more at this project buried 20 minutes into a 30-minute interview with chris?
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The original 6million was to prove there was interest to their potential investors. But the crowd funding become so succesful that they said fuck it to investors and are trying to keep it completely private so they have %100 of control over development and can do things their way. They actually need 20million for the game and that's their goal.
 
I'm seeing this being mentioned in public quite often now so no point in keeping it quiet anymore. People can technically still buy Idris's (both variants) and Vanduul scythes.

The way it works is you submit a ticket to support and ask them that you want to buy one. They will then offer to put you on a waiting list for either of them. No matter how nicely I asked they wouldn't tell me how long the list is for the Idris-M (which I'm currently on) or any of the others for that matter. Anyways, when someone who already owns either ship reclaims or asks for a refund the next person at the top of the list gets a chance to buy it.

Obviously having concierge makes it a little easier since you get replies much quicker as opposed to playing e-mail tag with regular support staff. Oh and you can only buy one at a time to give an equal chance to everyone. So yeah, if people want an Idris (M or P) or a vandull scythe, that's how you do it.

P.S: Forgot to add prices. Idris-M $1k, Idris-P $1.25k and Scythe is $300.
 
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Haha wow. So noticing a lot of people going cutlass since the new stats, definatly glad I got my digital pirate pack now. So many people unaware of guys like lorien offering to melt and gift lti's for it and other ships. Been trying to steer people to hardforum to check out this thread and all the "info" available on the game lol. Mods are strict about this no lti upgrading/gifting and trading thing despite people are doing it free of charge.
 
Oh I figured as much. I also just mention there's lots of info on ships and other "info" hoping they catch the hint as I don't want to get my account in trouble lol
 
Ragenrok said:
Haha wow. So noticing a lot of people going cutlass since the new stats, definatly glad I got my digital pirate pack now. So many people unaware of guys like lorien offering to melt and gift lti's for it and other ships. Been trying to steer people to hardforum to check out this thread and all the "info" available on the game lol. Mods are strict about this no lti upgrading/gifting and trading thing despite people are doing it free of charge.
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i want a cutlass but i dont know if i can bring my self to spend on another ship. still waiting to see what the hornet and connie variants might cost.
 
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