/edg/scg/ - Star Citizen and Elite Dangerous General #38

Play ED, you can go "offline"

I don't want to go offline, really. I just also don't want to just get murdered for no reason (actual piracy is really cool) when I'm carrying 1/4 of my net worth in cargo

Well, the wings themselves are suppose to be heat sinks/radiators. And the Vanguard's wings originally had mav thrusters on them and so they'd move based on it's flight mode. But as for why they move, fuck if I know. Because CIG's favorite planes are the A-10 and the F-14. So every ship has a big ass gun on it's chin, sweep wings, or both I guess.

>I'm a sissy, I can't play game

?!?!???!?!?

I think there might be private groups with PVE only rules? You'll have to check it out.

for sure getting slaughtered for no reason when you're in a type-9 by 3 pythons is

>GAMESCOM TROPHIES FOR SALE

my god, they're really squeezing you people

>can't just right click on the destination at the mission board and set destination
>STILL have to load the galaxy map to do it

Do they just try to make things as tedious as possible or are they just incompetent?

muh immersion

>I just also don't want to just get murdered for no reason
But they do have a reason. The risk of attack is to encourage you to either hire an escort, (both as a money sink and to give fighters a job) or chose to fly a ship that holds less cargo but is better able to defend itself.

When is the shitty RSI website getting fixed?

Is it getting fixed?

Please tell me it's getting fixed.

On one hand, it's shameless. On the other, I can't really blame them for milking stupid people for all their worth.

im at about $6000 usd spent total. i sold some ships on the black market but for the most part i kept all that cash in my account in either ships or uec or just stuff

i make over 120k a year as a software developer, i have no kids, no gf, so nothin to do but spend monmey

could you call me a stupid person for funding a game that I really think I would enjoy?

sure

i just dropped in on, literally ON, an Imperial Interdictor

What the FUCK is going on in LFT 133

Why are you going to CGs in a Type 9?

I could believe it, but really?

>hire an escort

Go to the core and become a rock collector

yes.

What's the refresh time on mission boards?

24 hours

kys

It's your money and people spend that much in a year on shit that's just as frivolous. Coke, parties, skydiving, fucking Warhammer

Though to be honest if I was in your position I'd probably fund some of my friends who were stuck in shit jobs to get an education or whatever.

kissu to you too user

sorry for the /agdg/, but if I wanted to make a space game where would be a good place/engine to start?

As admirable as that is you do have to exceedingly careful about who you do it for.

You /don't/ wan't to become known as 'that guy with money who gives it away like candy'

Fuckers come out of the woodwork asking for all sorts of shit, getting all emotionally manipulative and cracking the shits if you don't pay up.

Never underestimate greed, it is infinite.

I'd buy property in the country side and a boat

but that's just me and I'm 3/4 normie

>Property anywhere
>Under $6000 USD
Fucking where? I'm genuinely curious, because I doubt you're talking about anywhere in the United States.

Always thought it'd be funny if humans were under quarantine by aliens because our pheromones make every one of us an irresistable Captain Kirk to them.

Which would be a lot nicer if most of them didn't look like giant starfish.

Unreal 4?

I'm just talking about disposable cash, but you could probably get a small lot for 6k in Costa Rica

>materials hunting in a Cobra
>suddenly muh BIG HAUL, etc
>it's an FDL
>appeared right behind me, interdiction imminent
>Federal Security Service in an Elite Anaconda right in front of me
>fuck it
>interdict the po-po
>pull him out
>he mad, scans me
>dindu nuffin
>FDL shows up
>Annie scans him and starts wrecking his shit
>join in, free 200K bounty

>tfw a whole Mad Max planet

Fucking witness me, brother.

Or Detroit

I already own a 30 foot catalina sail boat so... heh.

Hellion, House of the Dying Sun and Kerbal all use Unity. Also while not a game the NASA/JPL Eye on the Solar System uses it.

I'm super introverted so I only have a few close friends, so I think it'd be fine. I'm an autistic neet anyway but I share the disposable income I have with friends worse-off than me.

A house in the country with a fibre connection, a lan room, and a few bedrooms (as well as some private living space for anyone who wants it) for buddies would be basically be the best thing ever.

reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/50zh5r/the_rumor_was_right/
It just keeps happening

>fanfiction

Absolute madman.

I want to fuck Microtech

grab whatever apple product you have lying around
stick it in the freezer for 5 hours
pull it out and put it in ;^)

youtube.com/watch?v=NSrXsbRh6k8

People in the Star Citizen thread on the Elite forums actually take this seriously
Poor Ben Parry has to hold the line all on his own

F

>all on his own
There's usually a revolving door of SC fans that try their luck in there.

Ben's great though he's the only one in there that has inside knowledge of both games/companies. Even if he is careful what he says.

Ben also said he regularly checked the 4chans back when he was at Frontier.
What if he still does?
What if you are Ben?
Hi, Ben.

Yes I'm Ben. Ask me anything.

Why the blue hair, Ben?

do you stick a wacom pen up your butt for motivation?

He's a programmer not an artist you idiot

I swear, if planetside is good we could spend days or weeks just fucking around on planets making settlements, riding around in rovers and hover bikes.

You could have a whole gang of raider pirate bikers hooping and hollering as they ride around raiding settlers and towns if enough players settle one planet.

It'd be like a scifi western/Mad Max shit on a desert western planet.

>mfw I spent 10 hours just traveling around in ED, scanning and exploring
>check out the Orion nebula
>Black holes and Neutrons
>check out Messier 87
>it's fucking nothing
>trying to head back
>Col 70 is in the way, have to bypass via lower Witch Head
>mfw when I have been doing this with Econ routes

Why is this so engrossing? It's not fun, but I can't stop.

Are you an astronomy nerd? I find ED exploration is a bit more interesting when you go out and have a look at the shit you read about in a textbook.

That said
>Econ route
Madman

Holy shit! This guy is a piece of work.

it works either way

Kinda. Definitely an amazing subject, so I suppose you are right.

Space blog:
I did enjoy that Betelgeuse was a larger red giant. Was not expecting it. Got to check out the Pleiades up close. And my trip to California was interesting.
I think a little over 550 jumps in one day. Would have been more but I had to bypass a few dark sectors, and a couple locked ones.

This is an odd 'game'. So empty and little to do really, but it's captivating at the same time. There really is no end goal, only death if you mess it up.

Also, I never though plotting routes, looking ahead to avoid dangerous jumps, and the feeling of endless brown dwarfs could be so entertaining.

Where do I go from here?
>Been playing Elite for a good few hours
>I've done maybe 2 missions tops
>Otherwise the entirety of my time has been spent Bounty Hunting in RES
>Built up to a Viper MkIV, I think I prefer tankier ships over fast ships
>1.5mil in the bank

Just not sure what to do or even how to begin other ways of playing. I'm enjoying bounty hunting, at least.

I don't understand what this video is trying to prove to me. So the stream cuts perspective a lot so it was all bullshit? I'm confused.

Take part in the bounty hunting community goal?

You can slowly start getting into things. Get yourself introduced to the mechanics and see if you can get some nice RP going.

Do you have Horizons?

Played ED for like 400 hours now, haven't touched either game in months.

Started playing star citizen with my free ship yesterday and after I got the control scheme working which was a total mess, it seems pretty cool. Looking forward to what comes in the future.

You could do some bounty hunting for the current community goal, you'll make some extra money that way. Then you could move up to a Vulture. You can find it from the mission board or galaxy map.

>Also, I never though plotting routes, looking ahead to avoid dangerous jumps, and the feeling of endless brown dwarfs could be so entertaining.
Well they're giving stars another art pass next patch. Which is nice since you see a fuckload of them as an explorer.

Good idea, I'll check out the community goal.

Also no, I don't have Horizons, I decided to just get the base game to check it out. I've not really had any reason to need the Engineers or go down onto a planet yet, but I imagine I'll be missing out a lot when Fighters come out.

Honestly fighters will be fun for a bit but probably not that great in the end.

Haven't watched that video but desu I did find it fishy that they said approaching a planet was seamless and then proceeded to focus the camera on the front of the ship for so much of the descent. At best they were hiding pop-in.

I figured I'd be losing out on damage regardless of fun-factor.

I guess. Though only if you're flying one of the big three.

So, overall Horizons isnt really worth it unless you wanna do planetary stuff? I'd love to go exploring on planet surfaces but not for 20 quid.

It's only on planets with no atmospheres, too

That's good to hear. I will probably set a course to VY Canis Majoris and later VV Cephei.
Maybe when I get bored, head over to Sagittarius A*.
Can't wait to see things after the art change.

>watching the caterpillar video
>all those modules

I'm getting one and turning it into a mobile brothel. I'm going to have the armory and docking collars in the back and all the bedrooms in the front. I'll have someone sit out front where the opening is and solicit players when we land on planets or greet people at the docking collars and show them into the rooms where the "girls" will be.

And by girls I mean feminine sounding traps.

>parked at some planet around a settlement, front door opened on the caterpillar with a flamboyantly dressed greeter lounging around in a chair.
>"Hey pilot, looking for something?"
>"Whatcha selling?"
>"Comfort."

Does elite have a roadmap for development yet? When can we expect to be able to walk around?

It won't take long for people to realize your pirate scum if you trap players and rob and kill them asshole. This is why people want pve slider.

4channers are fucking scum.

That thing's a monster

Note the distances. I'll have to head back with VR when I finally get a set.

>4channers are fucking scum.
Why are you even here?

FDev doesn't give dates until they're fairly close to release. Everyone says season 3 but FDev haven't confirmed anything.

Not that kind of trap. Are you old enough to be here?

>pirate
>trap and rob

Wrong type of trap my friend. We're not in the business of robbing anything except innocence.

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i want to put my penis in that

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>You are scan is clear
What did he mean by this?

The Taipan seems like it defeats the purpose of being a snub fighter by giving up mobility for tankiness. Unless those shields are absolutely amazing it like trading up a wet tissue paper for a slightly less damp one.

>flying around in my clipper
>guy in a python interdicts me, I ask what's up and he instantly fires on me
>Fly past him and keep going until 3km out
>Laugh at him from a distance and jump out
>Interdicts me again, instantly fires again
>I fly past him again until 3km
>He says his whole stream is laughing at me
>I jump out again
>Go to twitch
>See his twitch channel has the same name as his CMDR
>Stream titles "trying to make players rage"
>2 viewers
>go into chat
>nothing in the chat history
mfw

>settlements

So beluga's going to be longer and thinner than an anaconda. And the panther clipper is going to be longer than the beluga while being as wide as a type-9. I'm guessing two panther clippers won't be able to use the docking entrance at the same time. Also afraid to ask how much a panther clipper is going to cost if it's size is MAXIMUM. The cutter already costs over a billion A rated and the panther's twice the size.

Chris mentioned being able to possibly create player settlements when talking about the new planet system. He even mentioned farming.

If this game has even half the shit he throws out there it'll be amazing.

All they'd need to do is come up with some prefab settlement structures, maybe modular.

I doubt it would be as hands on as it would be in a game like Ark, Rust or Minecraft. Probably more like having a company come in and build it for you or something to your specifics.

>Squadron 42 officially delayed
welp