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How I Feel About Star Citizen At This Point
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If you are holding out for the perfect game, the only game you play will be the waiting one.
CIG will otherwise never be able to put everything promised into the game, because there's no end to Roberts ego.
If you are holding out for the perfect game, the only game you play will be the waiting one.
You have trading, missions, planetary mining, character customization, ground combat, atmospheric flight, racing, ground to air combat etc.
If you have been following space sims at all really, you would know that is one of the most robust packages ever included in any such game. And we aren't even talking about "what is promised" or "what is coming soon". That entire list is what you can go do in the PTU and Arena Commander right now.
So most likely CR will scale back his ambitions the moment he realizes the money is running low. And if not someone will purchase what's been done for millions upon millions when CIG folds.
Crowdfunding itself has evolved into a beast of a thing. This project is not unique in that aspect.
As I said, crowdfunding has become a beast of a thing.
What's more, the cited evidence for land deeds as a requested feature is rolling paper thin. Nothing in the cited stretch goal even hints at land deeding or selling those to players for cash. That was feature creep that appears to have been created merely for the opportunity to sell something else before there's anything in the way of a complete game.
So, at this point, a massive feature cut would actually be releasing an unfinished game per the promises made and funded by the crowd. I am very skeptical the team behind this project will successfully implement all these ideas in a workable manner. If you don't feel that preying on an emotionally invested group of folks to garner millions in funds for a dizzying amount of features that were never part of the original plan is A-Okay, then sure, there's not really more to be discussed here. But excuse me if I don't take your word on that or agree.
If the majority of backers agree, that is all that matters. And the numbers keep climbing and the devs still get paid .... so I would say they agree.
Have fun
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I really only care that you replied to my statement saying that most of the anti-fanboys of this game remain exceptionally ignorant of what the game already has to offer. I'll continue to stand by that statement.
Yes that must be it. How petty can you be?
Ignore all the whiteknights liking other whiteknight posts and single me out for the occassional post I agree with. What a baby.
I'll call out the "white-knights" when their presence here is as pointless as yours and their general posts as useless. So far all of them are much more productive posters though so no need.
Eldurian would be welcome to his observation if his claims were anywhere close to the truth but liking 2 posts out of the whole page is literally the opposite of what he is claiming.
I find it odd because he was on a bit of a crusade about exposing anti-fanboys for ridiculous claims (ie the game not coming out at all) all while making a ridiculous claim himself... why would a person set themself up like that?
But yeah I don't really care that much if they fail to deliver on some of their more pie-in-the-sky promises because I had bought in before the first stretch goal was announced so things like your avatar being able to mimic your face is a bonus I never really expected.
If the CEO emphatically states something and then tramples all over it in their desire for more green, what are they but a sell out. Everything is up for being shat on if they have so little conviction in what they say.
Here is where people thinking "bigger ship = win" is entirely wrong.
What is the point if an aircraft carrier? The real life prominence of them came about because fighters are more effective at sea than battleships per man, and per $$$. So why not just use nothing but fighters? Well because fighters have a much more limited range than an aircraft carrier or a battleship.
So why is it that you would want a big ship when man for man and $ for $ smaller ships are better in every way in the SC universe as per existing content?
Because larger ships can range deeper into space. That's why some of these ships come with fighter bays.
So if you think you're going to "pay to win" by buying the biggest ship, and going up head to head against as many fighters as you have crew members, prepare to die unless you have an excellent crew, and those fighters have crap pilots. You are paying for something. Just not what you seem to think.
SC is going to have traditional MMO stat features, the ship modules range in grades with stat increases per grade which is no different than traditional MMO stat increases, overclocking is akin to enchanting or gemming etc, the game is an amalgamation of traditional MMO design and aim based combat.
More DPS is absolutely better regardless of whether this is an aim-based game or not, and as those stats showed the more you pay the better the dps you achieve within a certain class.
With the absence of so many features might it not be rash to say that bigger is not better. We honestly don't know how these ships will perform once they get their full feature set, ie crew functionalities etc. All we know is what CIG have said they intend.
So acting like the bigger ships are going to be pay-to-win is absolutely inane when:
A. That is not currently the case.
B. Fighter bays, carriers and the need to refuel are all confirmed features.
These is no reason to assume they will go back on what they said and make the game less realistic, and less balanced in the process other than an outright desire to see everything in this game turn out as bad as possible.
Sorry boys, if you bought an Idriss to own the skies it's probably not going to happen, at least until you get out of fuel range of ships like the hornet and avenger.
He didn't even argue against the case that more expensive fighters had better stats than cheaper ones for the role. And in a skill-based game, the idea that you can pay for ships with better ratings is no better than traditional tab-target MMORPG. Battlefront 2 should be ample evidence to support that notion.
As I mentioned, trying to completely ignore the fact that tiered ship purchases absolutely do follow "more expensive --> better" for each individual role is akin to saying water won't burn you because it's not boiling. It's not the most egregious situation, but it isn't absolved just because it could be worse.
I'll give you an example. Per stats the best ship in Freelancer was the titan. Most hitpoints etc. It was statistically superior to every other ship.
Only newbs flew titans. On vanilla servers nearly every single veteran pilot flew the Eagle despite it being only the 3rd best ship in the game both in price and statistically. Why?
Smaller hitbox, tighter turning radius. Something the eagle shares in common to some of the cheaper fighters in Star Citizen like the aurora and avenger compared to pricier ones like the hornet.
I should know. I own the super hornet which I believe is the heaviest fighter and is for sure one of the priciest fully-combat focused fighters, and it certainly does not let me just plow through everything effortlessly. I stand no chance against the people who have been playing this game hardcore the whole time. I don't care what they choose fly. Until I invest the time to develop my aiming and dodging techniques in Star Citizen to a level I am veteran status myself, they are going to beat me. Period. I'm actually a bit afraid I will have to downgrade to a ship like an avenger to really master dogfighting in SC.
Really this game revolves around skill and tactics. There is absolutely no room to win against a good pilot as a swiper who isn't skilled. There is absolutely no room to win against a good pilot as a no-lifer who isn't skilled. The better player is generally going to win. Just like in Freelancer.