Star Citizen, Roberts Space Industries - Chris Roberts' life support and retirement fund [2012-]

Carrier's will be points in the game that guild's will fight over to control.

 

That's space stations and outposts. Carriers will be player pilotable ships. At least according to the funding goal posts.

Regards,
SB

 

Melt my dollars down, eh? Sounds like pure win!

Anywaaaayy... So it's a MMO. Strange that I never heard about that until now. Suddenly makes me a whole lot less interested. I can't play this game at all in single-player mode? How is it financed, "micro"transactions? (Considering we can buy capital ships right now for a thousand bucks a pop, that suggests "yes" to me.)

Hopefully Elite will launch some day and ride to my rescue then, in the far-flung future when we already have intergalactic space travel. (Extragalactic even, perhaps...)

 

Just the terms they use !

There is a single llayer portion called squadren 42

 

That's what insurance is for. It's a money sink and you have to make sure you keep paying for it by whatever means you can. Going into potentially dangerous situations with an uninsured ship will be a bad idea.

For the backers, we all have lifetime insurance on any ships we have already purchased and continue to purchase up until November 26 of this year.

 

Those of us who merely purchase the game at full price will be at a significant disadvantage. It is pay to win. Only justification I hear is "some people don't have time to play the game so they should be able to pay to win".
If it were single player, none of this would be an issue.

Squadron 42 looks like a real winner.

 

Yeah, that's a damn weak, pitiful argument. If you don't have time to play the game, don't play the game alright? If you get all the nice toys right from the outset, then where's the fun?

It's like every time that next big shooting game everybody's been waiting three years for and you immediately type iddqd idkfa, and then run straight through it to the end (including all of the enemies) inside of 15 minutes...

 

Having a more powerful ship doesn't mean you will win. This isn't an MMO. You actually have to fly in space and dogfight. There are going to be many factors that will separate the skilled from the unskilled, irrespective of what ship they paid x $ for.

 

Right , I can have a constellation which is a $225 ship and maybe I can take Grall out in his aurora which is a starting ship at $45. I mean I do have him out gunned but he can most likely out maneuver me. However I might have trouble taking out Grall and homerdog and then if malo jumps in I'm as good as dead even if all three of you have the starting $45 ship.

At the same time If Grall has the super hornet he is going to be faster than me and out maneuver me and maybe even have more fire power than I do. But its only a $145 ship.

Also I could just be a crappy pilot and Grall can kill me in his starting ship

 

26 million in funding was hit .

We unlocked

The 28m goal was announced

 

Now I just wish the new goals in funding were directed to speeding up the game delivery.

 

I hope this won't be bloated. This game needs to be polished.

 

Ha these two make me laugh , speed up the game ... no needs polish lol its awesome how they were right after each other.


most of these goals wont affect the game. I'm pretty sure a new ship wont change much. Also 2015 for the game isn't that long of a wait. Dog fighting should be here by the end of the year and I'm sure that will keep people happy for a few months of 2014

 

Well we are flirting with 31m at this point and the anniversary sale ends the 26th

We are currently at 39% of the way to that goal. Here are the last few letters

29 m letter

30m letter

Tonight is the last night to get the two bombers. Tommorow the starfarer comes out which is what i'm personaly getting

 

Well we hit 31m

 

This is becoming more and more interesting - if I had no money invested, I'd be really excited about all the fun of watching how it's going to unfold after the game's release.

First of all it's still very likely that their sales are more front loaded than anything before - at this time almost everyone interested in the game has probably bought in, so there might not be enough new customers to maintain the staff and the infrastructure on sales alone. 30+ million suggests a dev team near a hundred people - salaries, software updates and office space will cost a LOT for such a large studio.
So they'll need to push more pay to play content and devaluate the initial package even more, in order to get people to spend more money. This could easily make a lot of their existing customers unhappy and leave.

Also, all these ship sales are forcing players into a real-money arms race. I've pledged a little more than the standard amount to get the Orion ship - but now it's like the second worst tin can in the galaxy? Based on how much money they've already made, it's not only possible that I can't even hope to become a bounty hunter or pirate, but in fact I'll probably have to fear for my skin even on the safe space routes, as it seems that everyone is sporting a ship 3 to 6 times as expensive as mine...

So, I'm afraid that their push for independent financing and more content may actually end up ruining the game for the average gamer (especially people old enough to remember the Wing Commander series and Privateer - we're well into our 30s by now). It may already be too late.

 

Like I said before , it doesn't really matter what ship you have if your skillful.

I bought a starfarer(195) today but you in the aurora ln ($40 pledge) would easily take me out. I know its a tanker vs your fighter. But you would even have a chance taking me out in my super hornet. Flight skills are as important as your ships and customizing them the right way is also important

 

The skill angle is iffy because there are going to be lots of people who play this game like a full time job. I'm not going to be one of them.

I really just want some sort of single player space shooter experience here.... I hope there is something like that in the cards. That Squadron 42 part I guess?

 

Squadron 42 is single player a. It started with 35 missions but the 4m stretch goal was to bring it to 45 missions at 5m it got bumped to 50 missions and celebrity voice acting .

Then at 6m the second mission disc was funded . 10m was their own private mocap for the game , 12m was their own sound studio

Jump to 22m and they liscensed infinite realities facial capture system , 29m was the last squadron 42 stretch goal basicly enhanced mission design for it.


You can also set up your own server for star citizen and play with just your friends



You should go here to learn more about it . https://robertsspaceindustries.com/about-the-game esp watch the video , he talks about squadron 42 and everything

 

Holyshit are you serious? That changes everything. I am officially jacked .

WRT the "player skill trumps better ship" argument, you know what we'll end up with is hardcore players running around in 1337 ships that they pre-purchased with the skills to beat you even if the odds were even. It only throws things more out of whack. Fine with me anyway since I'll be playing in my own private universe.

Where can I read about doing my own server?