Ketchupninja

Some corrections on your statements: There were exactly 2 release dates given, November 2014 and "2016".
November 2014 was the release date for both Star Citizen and Squadron 42 as stated in the Kickstarter campaign. This would have been the 19 mio $ SC/SQ42 as you saw it back in the Kickstarter video and tbh I'm not mad that we didn't get that one as it would never been able to live up to the hype the community created for it. Chis Roberts also saw this and tried to rase even more money after the campaign to get the game to a real AAA level. So with all the additional funding going in late 2012 early 2013 the game we pledged for basically got cancelled and replaced by a much bigger one, increasing the development time from a 2 year medium budget indie game to an estimated 5 years. And this was the first issue as this was never publicly communicated and is still mostly speculation.
 
2016 was the release for the first chapter of Squadron 42 in its current state that they announced back in October 2015 at CitizenCon. However because of the great improvements they had with procedural planets they wanted to have those included so they moved it to early 2017 (no official statement on that tho). Interestingly, the planets doesn't seem to be the problem at all here as the tech demo showed at Citizen Con 2016 was cut by half and only showed the planet. Sounds like feature creep but if this part is ready while other main components are not, why not include it for a better game experience?
 
Looking at the development logs it looks like their bigger problems right now are FPS and AI. FPS as in the current playable demo doesn't really feel finished to me, which is probably their feeling to, as 2.6 was supposed to give us an overhaul on this and was set to be released soon after CitizenCon 2016. 5 Weeks later we're still waiting for that update.
 
Regarding the long development, you also have to consider that the studio had to be build in the first place. The Kickstarter demo was build by 12 guys, a year later they had I think about 70 people. 2014 there were already 270 hired and as of October 2016 CIG has now 360 developers and they're still hiring. Going through the years you could really feel accelerated development. There were barely any patches before 2014, and especially early 2016 the hammered patch after patch. (there was a nice timeline but I cant find it)
 
All in all, no, Chris made some questionable decisions which shows that he has been absent from game development for a while and his inexperience with crowdfunding that my let SC look like a scam, but it is not dead, it's more alive than ever when you actively follow it and I'm still happy with the progress and looking forward what we will see the next 2-3 Months

Its not like you have to spend the money, remember you can get them all in game That hasnt stopped me but meh the crucible doesn't seem that appealing any more for some reason. Its all normal I keep zoning in and out of SC hype

I try, I try. I need to code a thing tonight
 
 
So a bit of an update, we seem to have 13 Idris, meaning we have 3 squads of capitals lead by an M variant each and a spare P

updated, just to let you guys know average reported member funding $190.45 with 1,061 members reporting and 1,919 ships reported

see my vote goes for this version
 

 
just saying, and @ixi_your_face if you want to make some of these I can give you the thread color numbers so they can be reproduced by your supplier.

I plan on pimping out my starfairer and pass gas

They've not released any information on the location's address yet, but they should be updating the LinusMediaGroup.com website when they do.

I'm interested... and if the Starliner is good or I can see the potential I may buy one. We will just have to wait and see. An AWAX version would tickle my testies.

I submitted them to official announcements, there is a section called "We Want Your Arena Commander Highlights!"
 I just dropped it there I didn't even type anything, just the posted the video and never thought too much about it. I thought it was good highlight so I shared it. I was floored when I saw it on ATV. I couldn't stop grinning. I look forward to being a part of some of your missions. I'm going to need protection for my large ships, it's going to be pretty.  

Exellent,
 
this calls for a drink.
 
 
We need to at least 10 minutes of free flight at meetups so we can spam them even more 

@11:41
https://youtu.be/GrUFKuxO6so
Yay! This was from our latest meetup
 
nappers version:



@Ketchupninja @CommanderFett @Napper198 @Corwin111

#i'mfamous

It was fun finally getting to know a few of you here is a highlight from Sunday/May/31
 

Look what I got:
 

 
The battle starts at 7:33

Yeah, free flight is always the best way to have some fun. Cutlass skydiving, @ComanderFett shooting me in the face, cluster missile fuck (that wasn't free flight but fun anyway)
 
Once the whole 80min are rendered I'll upload them for everyone to enjoy, but for now here's my view:

 
I'm also considering to send it to RSI for Around the Verse

It was fun finally getting to know a few of you here is a highlight from Sunday/May/31
 

It was fun finally getting to know a few of you here is a highlight from Sunday/May/31
 

It was fun finally getting to know a few of you here is a highlight from Sunday/May/31
 

Just to let you guys know, that most of what's been released isn't the full ammount of data, and we already had probably 20 gigs of that "data" since it was a private ptu build, but there were some 30 ships we don't yet have in the download, plus several test levels.
 
Yes, this game is gonna be big, deal with it.
 
No CIG didn't intend this to be public, personally I don't see this as a bad thing, the ships textures and everything in here are work in progress and are awesome. but they are not done, once they are done they will be even better.
 
Most of what we are seeing is videos from people who don't really know cryengine or the editor, so meshes arn't right, textures are missing, the people who do know cry are starting to show stuff as it should be seen and it is insane.
 
After seeing this stuff I am 100% sure I made the right decision backing star citizen.

I picked up a Star Farer Gemini. My ships are  Cutlass Red, Retaliator, Hull-C, And Star Farer Gemini. I cant wait to pilot my ships.

It's never too late to start following again. I believe it's better to be one year behind than to be two years behind when the game launches. There's still plenty of time to catch-up. The RSI website is redesigned now so it's much more friendly and easy to follow.
Also subscribing to their youtube channel will help. The weekly shows will keep up up-to-date.
Cheers

If it runs good, no.
I would wait till its out