What in the hell is star citizen?

[catzambia]

Can someone please tell me? I read a thread on here and I saw spaceships. So yeah what is it?

[givingtnt]

3 minutes ago, catzambia said:

Can someone please tell me? I read a thread on here and I saw spaceships. So yeah what is it?

its a : 

"life simulator" (be whatever you want)
space sim
mmorpg
fps
economy

you will be able to : 
mine
pirate (aarrgh !)
transport

war other people
sell your body (if its your thing)
make money
make actual money (maybe ?)

things


its cool. its like a drug

but don'T do drugs
drugs are bad

 

but this is not a drug

so its ok.

 

do it.

[catzambia]

2 minutes ago, givingtnt said:

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Sounds freakin awesome, so how does I do a star citizen?

[givingtnt]

Just now, catzambia said:

Sounds freakin awesome, so how does I do a star citizen?

http://robertspaceindustries.com

signup there, though for now you need to buy a pack pledge (the cheapest ship will not allow you in the PTU)
get either : the Aurora package (45$ ish ?) or the mustagn alpha package (45$ ish)

we should get a new upate with FPS soon, and 3.0 will come. "by december"

[Adreyu]

I want to make sure you understand, it is in alpha right now, if you want to a finished game wait till release. Please don't get a package until you are satisfied you know what
you are getting into. 

[catzambia]

3 minutes ago, Adreyu said:

I want to make sure you understand, it is in alpha right now, if you want to a finished game wait till release. Please don't get a package until you are satisfied you know what
you are getting into. 

Yeah, thanks, I'll look into it more

[catzambia]

@Adreyu

8gb min system memory? ouch

[Adreyu]

1 minute ago, catzambia said:

@Adreyu

8gb min system memory? ouch

Yeah, star citizen is big in a way that games haven't been before really, and detailed similarly. they are doing things that other people have never attempted.

[givingtnt]

1 minute ago, catzambia said:

@Adreyu

8gb min system memory? ouch

the networks are bad right now, though they are working on it. I have 300mb/s down and 100mb/s up, and its still having trouble. servers are eh for now.

[catzambia]

2 minutes ago, Adreyu said:

Yeah, star citizen is big in a way that games haven't been before really, and detailed similarly. they are doing things that other people have never attempted.

Wow, so I guess I will need to upgrade

2 minutes ago, givingtnt said:

the networks are bad right now, though they are working on it. I have 300mb/s down and 100mb/s up, and its still having trouble. servers are eh for now.

I was talking about the system RAM requirement, but thanks for the info. And holy shit 300 down??!?!?! 100up!?!?!?

I hate living in Southern Indiana, shittiest internet around.

[MatsNorway]

If your reacting to the 8gig ram demand im more curious about if the rest of your PC can keep up.

[catzambia]

57 minutes ago, MatsNorway said:

If your reacting to the 8gig ram demand im more curious about if the rest of your PC can keep up.

Er, Q6600 and GTX 460

[Corwin111]

38 minutes ago, catzambia said:

Er, Q6600 and GTX 460

I'm sorry mate, but I wouldn't recommend even attempting it, in this case. You may be able to squeeze 10-15 FPS out of it with these specs, but its not guaranteed.

 

Star Citizen will be an extremely demanding game upon release. And the current alpha state is not optimized for performance at all. You need some pretty beefy hardware in order to get it to run at playable frame rates. I doubt a Q6600 and GTX460 will be able to handle even the optimized end-product, though.

 

If you like the concept, I suggest you not waste your money on pledging just yet, and instead get an upgrade. Even a relatively modest one like going to a used 2500k CPU and something like GTX 770 would be adequate. But what you have now is just way too weak, unfortunately.

 

[catzambia]

2 hours ago, Corwin111 said:

I'm sorry mate, but I wouldn't recommend even attempting it, in this case. You may be able to squeeze 10-15 FPS out of it with these specs, but its not guaranteed.

 

Star Citizen will be an extremely demanding game upon release. And the current alpha state is not optimized for performance at all. You need some pretty beefy hardware in order to get it to run at playable frame rates. I doubt a Q6600 and GTX460 will be able to handle even the optimized end-product, though.

 

If you like the concept, I suggest you not waste your money on pledging just yet, and instead get an upgrade. Even a relatively modest one like going to a used 2500k CPU and something like GTX 770 would be adequate. But what you have now is just way too weak, unfortunately.

 

lol rip

[typographie]

It's also in very early alpha at the moment, and most of the promised features are still not playable. If you want to play this game when its actually "done," you've probably got years. Plenty of time to cobble together a better PC.

[Urishima]

On 9.10.2016 at 8:29 AM, catzambia said:

so how does I do a star citizen?

Well, if you really wanna know...

 

First I'll need a photo of you. Sorry, but I am very 'visual' person.

 

We can split the bill for dinner, but I expect you to chose a good restaurant at least. We'll see how things go from there.

[catzambia]

4 hours ago, typographie said:

It's also in very early alpha at the moment, and most of the promised features are still not playable. If you want to play this game when its actually "done," you've probably got years. Plenty of time to cobble together a better PC.

Yeahhhh, but I'm 14. And I'm going on my class's washington d.c. trip. So I won't have money to spend on a PC for a while

Hopefully my brother gives me some parts from his pc when he upgrades.

4 hours ago, Urishima said:

Well, if you really wanna know...

 

First I'll need a photo of you. Sorry, but I am very 'visual' person.

 

We can split the bill for dinner, but I expect you to chose a good restaurant at least. We'll see how things go from there.

That may have been funny but I'm 14. 

I'll send a photo in exchange for $200

[kirashi]

On 10/8/2016 at 11:23 PM, catzambia said:

Can someone please tell me? I read a thread on here and I saw spaceships. So yeah what is it?

Star Citizen is a spaceship simulation game that is currently is in Alpha status since beginning in 2011 and raising over $120 MILLION US DOLLARS. Yes, you read that right. It's been in development for 6+ years. They only have an Alpha release. People have essentially donated $120 MILLION USD in anticipation of a release coming out "soon" ... "very soon" ... Alright, I'll turn off my inner cynnic now.

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/funding-goals

 

Now, before the die-hard Star Citizen fans send missiles to my home, hear me out: If you love this game, or are part of the "cult following" that resides around RobertSpaceIndustries, awesome for you. No really, I mean it. It's similar to my undying love for CoD4:MW1, CoD:WaW, and CoD:MW2 that will never die. Ever. I will continue to play those games until the private servers are on fire or no longer running at capacity. I compare CoD to Star Citizen in player fan base alone - I know of no other recent game with as large a following as CoD. (whether this is a good or bad thing is irrelevant here, just comparing the player base)

 

Star Citizen has such a healthy community that I'm sure would be able to continue on with their own game at a later date, even if they never managed to release a working game themselves. This is what you're buying into, and it's wonderful to have such a community with an undying love for a game. So @catzambia, if you're down with that, research the game, and back it!  

[rucdoc]

17 hours ago, kirashi said:

Star Citizen is a spaceship simulation game that is currently is in Alpha status since beginning in 2011 and raising over $120 MILLION US DOLLARS. Yes, you read that right. It's been in development for 6+ years. They only have an Alpha release. People have essentially donated $120 MILLION USD in anticipation of a release coming out "soon" ... "very soon" ...

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/funding-goals

 

6+ years? they didn't start preproduction until 2012 that's 4 years ago it went in to production in jan 2013. so please fact check yourself before making claims, thanks

[kirashi]

6 hours ago, rucdoc said:

6+ years? they didn't start preproduction until 2012 that's 4 years ago it went in to production in jan 2013. so please fact check yourself before making claims, thanks

Pre-production is part of Game Development - you can't develop something that doesn't have a concept idea.

One of my old coworkers worked for EA Vancouver, directly supporting the development of Mass Effect 1 with concept artwork and storyboarding.

The team reported to BioWare's Edmonton office, but worked out of Vancouver because of relative location to graduating art students.

Official development began in 2004, even though there was no public disclosure during the initial pre-production phases.

http://www.xboxgazette.com/interview_mass_effect_en.php

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_Effect_(video_game)#Development

 

Star Citzen development began in 2011 with Chris and Ortwin's Cloud Imperium Games. Chris spent $1 MILLION of his own money to start this.

Although the company was not "Incorporated" until late 2012, the idea and passion for this game has existed within Chris for a long time.

They were then able to release a demo for October 2012 to support their Kickstarter campaign, along with marketing material.

 

Back on topic, a game developer sinking a million of their own money creating both a new game and company is uncommon these days.

If that's not dedication to making an idea happen right there, then I don't know what is. Chris is putting his vision into this game.

All I was trying to jab at is the amount of money raised compared to other games with long development times, as seen in this post.

I suppose I was being a bit cynical toward the game in this regard, and for that, I apologize.

 

Although I show little interest in Star Citizen at the moment, I am confident that will change if it finally launches.

My point was to simply save OP @catzambia some time researching the facts, while also checking out how awesome a game this could be.

 

https://forums.robertsspaceindustries.com/discussion/279662/why-star-citizen-is-taking-so-long-now-with-poll/p5

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Citizen#Development

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Roberts_(game_developer)#Cloud_Imperium_Games_Corporation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Imperium_Games

[rentaspoon]

 

On 12/10/2016 at 8:44 PM, kirashi said:

Pre-production is part of Game Development - you can't develop something that doesn't have a concept idea.

One of my old coworkers worked for EA Vancouver, directly supporting the development of Mass Effect 1 with concept artwork and storyboarding.

The team reported to BioWare's Edmonton office, but worked out of Vancouver because of relative location to graduating art students.

Official development began in 2004, even though there was no public disclosure during the initial pre-production phases.

http://www.xboxgazette.com/interview_mass_effect_en.php

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_Effect_(video_game)#Development

 

Star Citzen development began in 2011 with Chris and Ortwin's Cloud Imperium Games. Chris spent $1 MILLION of his own money to start this.

Although the company was not "Incorporated" until late 2012, the idea and passion for this game has existed within Chris for a long time.

They were then able to release a demo for October 2012 to support their Kickstarter campaign, along with marketing material.

 

Back on topic, a game developer sinking a million of their own money creating both a new game and company is uncommon these days.

If that's not dedication to making an idea happen right there, then I don't know what is. Chris is putting his vision into this game.

All I was trying to jab at is the amount of money raised compared to other games with long development times, as seen in this post.

I suppose I was being a bit cynical toward the game in this regard, and for that, I apologize.

 

Although I show little interest in Star Citizen at the moment, I am confident that will change if it finally launches.

My point was to simply save OP @catzambia some time researching the facts, while also checking out how awesome a game this could be.

 

https://forums.robertsspaceindustries.com/discussion/279662/why-star-citizen-is-taking-so-long-now-with-poll/p5

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Citizen#Development

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Roberts_(game_developer)#Cloud_Imperium_Games_Corporation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Imperium_Games

The sources you linked contradict themselves on when the game start getting built and the sources inside also don't look as though they have been checked on top of that the love picture done by beerforthebeergod isn't the most accurate so i wouldnt trust anything he posts unfortunately.

 

It's easier to say 2012 but the didn't actively start till 2013 when they finally got the Austin offices, not wanting to argue but that is confirmable if you wanted me to post my sources.

Edited October 14, 2016 by rentaspoon
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