However, the news last November that CIG's main development studio in Cheshire would be moving to Manchester's Enterprise City, site of the old Grenada Studios, with a view to expanding operations to 1000 staff within five years, seemed to suggest that while we may never know where Star Citizen will end up or what state it will be in when it gets there, we can at least put an ETA to what that that might be: Five years from now, if our maths is correct, is the year 2027.
"I think by that time we'll be operating a very large MMORPG," says Carl Jones, CEO of Cloud Imperium Games. "So there will be a lot more publishing resources, a lot more games masters, more player support. That may require us to open facilities in other locations. At the moment we don't have any major Asia Pacific presence and that's probably something that will have to come in the long run, because if your game explodes over there, then you really need to start building up teams to service that. Jones suggests while the potential to expand the new Manchester studio beyond its planned 1000-person capacity exists, the world is practically CIG's oyster. It might be Europe or the US that CIG heads to next period the point is that CIG will increasingly resemble an online publisher, "we'll still have huge development resources, because by that time will be developing the sequel and sequels for Squadron 42."
Scheherazade wrote on Jan 13, 2022, 13:34:Yeah, it's part of the Gen12 renderer rework. But for now the game runs appallingly, even on high end systems.
sc is cpu bound.
1080 with a 3950 cpu beats a 3090 with a 2950 cpu - at 1440p
iirc the renderer is thread limited (2 threads iirc???), and so it heavily depends on raw cpu core performance.
as of a few months ago, when i last checked in on it***
asmodeos wrote on Jan 13, 2022, 14:42:
Star Citizen allows me to get out of a virtual bed, go to my space ship, leave the hangar, the planet, travel to another, land, get out of my ship. Load some cargo on the ship. That is physically put a box from the new planet on my ship. Not just an inventory menu! Fly back to my apartment. No loading or interruption whatsoever. That is incredible.
The game runs well on my RTX 3080, i9 10900k, 32GB system. It’s an experience.
theyarecomingforyou wrote on Jan 13, 2022, 11:11:asmodeos wrote on Jan 13, 2022, 08:39:A pretty AWFUL technological experience, sure. Even with an RTX 3080, I get framerates in the single digits at Orison and it probably averages about 20fps there.
Star Citizen is a pretty epic technological experience. I have a very high end machine and it would be a disservice to not play around with star citizen on it.
Dash wrote on Jan 13, 2022, 00:31:crazedgironemo wrote on Jan 13, 2022, 00:01:Razumen wrote on Jan 12, 2022, 20:01:Is $40,000 still considered a microtransaction? cause the Legatus Pack 2951 costs that much now...jdreyer wrote on Jan 12, 2022, 19:40:I think by that time we'll be operating a very large MMORPG
The reason this worked for Blizzard is that they had 10 million or so people paying $15 for WoW. Is SC going to start charging a monthly fee?
Many successful MMOs have operated on the buy once, support through microtransactions model. Many you don't even need to buy.
Some people have more money than common sense, I guess.
asmodeos wrote on Jan 13, 2022, 08:39:Whatever drugs you are taking, stockpile as much as possible. That is some good stuff. nice troll BTW
Star Citizen is a pretty epic technological experience. I have a very high end machine and it would be a disservice to not play around with star citizen on it. It’s a long term thing, like DCS and il2. I’m happy with what it is and it’s great that more keeps coming out.
asmodeos wrote on Jan 13, 2022, 08:39:A pretty AWFUL technological experience, sure. Even with an RTX 3080, I get framerates in the single digits at Orison and it probably averages about 20fps there.
Star Citizen is a pretty epic technological experience. I have a very high end machine and it would be a disservice to not play around with star citizen on it.
Dash wrote on Jan 13, 2022, 00:31:I know someone IRL that spent thousands on this game.crazedgironemo wrote on Jan 13, 2022, 00:01:Razumen wrote on Jan 12, 2022, 20:01:Is $40,000 still considered a microtransaction? cause the Legatus Pack 2951 costs that much now...jdreyer wrote on Jan 12, 2022, 19:40:I think by that time we'll be operating a very large MMORPG
The reason this worked for Blizzard is that they had 10 million or so people paying $15 for WoW. Is SC going to start charging a monthly fee?
Many successful MMOs have operated on the buy once, support through microtransactions model. Many you don't even need to buy.
Some people have more money than common sense, I guess.
asmodeos wrote on Jan 13, 2022, 08:39:
Star Citizen is a pretty epic technological experience. I have a very high end machine and it would be a disservice to not play around with star citizen on it. It’s a long term thing, like DCS and il2.
Dash wrote on Jan 13, 2022, 00:31:crazedgironemo wrote on Jan 13, 2022, 00:01:Razumen wrote on Jan 12, 2022, 20:01:Is $40,000 still considered a microtransaction? cause the Legatus Pack 2951 costs that much now...jdreyer wrote on Jan 12, 2022, 19:40:I think by that time we'll be operating a very large MMORPG
The reason this worked for Blizzard is that they had 10 million or so people paying $15 for WoW. Is SC going to start charging a monthly fee?
Many successful MMOs have operated on the buy once, support through microtransactions model. Many you don't even need to buy.
Some people have more money than common sense, I guess.