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Star Citizen

Discussion in 'Other games' started by Freddex, Nov 19, 2012.

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  1. Freddex

    Freddex Haxor

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    I guess many already heard about this one, but I saw no thread, so I made one.
    It's a new game by Chris Roberts, who made Wing Commander. You're a random guy in the vast galaxy. You can become everything from a crime lord to a merchant king. You can also serve in the military or become a citizen of the Galactic Empire. You command your ship and travel around, you can meet friends and make missions with them. So it's similar to an MMO in that fashion, but battles are supposed to be comparable to World of Tanks. I'm not really good at describing this stuff, so you'd probably prepare reading the features list on their website or on Kickstarter:
    http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cig/star-citizen/
    http://www.robertsspaceindustries.com/star-citizen/

    As you can see, it's still all dreams and plans, but reading through interviews and explanations, how the world is laid out is perfectly doable, it makes sense. But see for yourself, just didn't want anyone to miss it, I'm pretty enthusiastic about it.
    If you want to do me a favor, please use my referral link thingie( http://www.robertsspaceindustries.com/star-citizen/?rid=67307 ), I could get goodies for that. Or, hurr, don't if you don't want me to get goodies.
    Some eyecandy to avoid tl;dr:
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    That's all advertisement stuff, you can start with cheering or shouting now.
     
    Freddex, Nov 19, 2012
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  2. Wonkyth

    Wonkyth More precious than carbuncles! Donator Tester

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    Bit bummed that the Multiplayer servers are US only. :(
     
    Wonkyth, Nov 20, 2012
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  3. Freddex

    Freddex Haxor

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    You got that from that line?
    Yes, they wrote it a bit confusingly, but I think they meant that the game servers are hosted by THEM. US like us, really.
     
    Freddex, Nov 20, 2012
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  4. BlueLuigi

    BlueLuigi :^) Forum Moderator Donator Tester

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    Yes they meant that it was hosted by them, so as to not confuse the fact that you can do moddable multiplayer but it would be hosted by YOU the mod-playing player.

    By the way while this looks good I don't like their umm 'incentives' they work on, a bit worse than most people do, I mean by god did you look through all those 'add-ons'.

    "No pay 2 win"
    >$1000 'add-on' ship.

    Yea okay, I'll just sit here and believe it's fully cosmetic ;)
     
    BlueLuigi, Nov 20, 2012
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  5. Freddex

    Freddex Haxor

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    Yap, don't they dare to make it pay to win, that would be one big dissapointment.
     
    Freddex, Nov 20, 2012
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  6. Galen

    Galen Haxor Staff Alumni Donator

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    Afaik they are limiting this 1000$ ship to a maximum of 100. Now, you have this freaking huge universe and multiple servers, means that the chance that you're meating on of these things is pretty low. But still, it's freaking unfair to sell such a thing for real money, imho. Unbalances the game way to much.
     
    Galen, Nov 20, 2012
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  7. BlueLuigi

    BlueLuigi :^) Forum Moderator Donator Tester

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    If it's purely cosmetic it's not a big deal, but assuming it's probably going to be HUGE compared to other ships... well, I'd imagine it has some 'benefits' or at least being a high-mid-tier ship which allows people who got it to start off pretty high right off the bat.

    Good to know the limit is 100 though, yeah I doubt you'll run into one, most of those people who get it probably won't play more than 3 months lol
     
    BlueLuigi, Nov 20, 2012
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  8. Wonkyth

    Wonkyth More precious than carbuncles! Donator Tester

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    No, I got it from asking them.
     
    Wonkyth, Nov 21, 2012
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  9. BlueLuigi

    BlueLuigi :^) Forum Moderator Donator Tester

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    No servers outside of the United States? Really?

    Seems like a bad idea, :(
     
    BlueLuigi, Nov 21, 2012
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  10. Wonkyth

    Wonkyth More precious than carbuncles! Donator Tester

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    I imagine things'll clear up a little.
    The gist of it seems to be that the "persistent universe" servers -- the ones making it quasi-MMO -- will be US only. Private servers are still a thing, obv, and I guess it depends how servers sync with the persistent servers that'll make or break how that goes...

    Regardless, it still looks like it'll be a great game. I've got my citizenship, now all I need is the mothership of a computer to run it on. :o
     
    Wonkyth, Nov 24, 2012
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