Otherwise known as the "Capture a Whale" event... 🐳

Year 11 and the game is in a slightly disastrous state... that might explain why it's free so often

"Free Fly Referral Bonus", similar to what you get when you pre-order a game.

Chris "Madoff" Roberts really found his calling.

WannaLogAlready wrote on Apr 14, 2023, 12:56:
Chris "Madoff" Roberts really found his calling.

These free fly events are the equivalent of the Church of Scientology's "take a free personality test friend" events.

Judging how these events are becoming more frequent it would appear that the "easy money" has dried up. with no development completion end in sight for this game it should be concerning for anyone that has spent a lot of money on this.

Yeah, aside from that whole "most experienced developers could have made not just one but SEVERAL games already with this amount of time and money" thing.

Was Chris Roberts in the US military doing budgets? Only other group I've seen that can be given virtually unlimited money and still fail to have enough for ANYTHING.

<cough> My referral code STAR-FYPW-T2XM </cough>

I briefly fired up the new version but immediately ran into issues (climbing out of bed, just to be immediately teleported back to climbing out of bed; doors not opening). Surprisingly, I'm getting better framerates (and running at Ultra settings at 1080p, to boot!). Overall progress is glacially slow and far below expectations, but I am glad to see it improving little by little -- while recognizing that it's still a terribly behind schedule'd mess.

I started playing Spacebourne 2 last weekend. It costs $19.99. It's not perfect (it is, in fact, janky in many ways), but I think it is really fun anyway. It gives me what I wanted from Star Citizen so many years ago when I backed the original campaign. I don't even feel like I want to play Star Citizen at this point in time, especially given that Everspace 2 is in my play queue once I'm done with Spacebourne 2.

Bubicus wrote on Apr 14, 2023, 14:53:
I started playing Spacebourne 2 last weekend. It costs $19.99. It's not perfect (it is, in fact, janky in many ways), but I think it is really fun anyway. It gives me what I wanted from Star Citizen so many years ago when I backed the original campaign. I don't even feel like I want to play Star Citizen at this point in time, especially given that Everspace 2 is in my play queue once I'm done with Spacebourne 2.

That looks very cool. I wish it had a co-op feature, but I may check it out.

Bubicus wrote on Apr 14, 2023, 14:53:
I started playing Spacebourne 2 last weekend.

The trailer needs more bass...

OmegaFoRCe wrote on Apr 14, 2023, 14:56:

Bubicus wrote on Apr 14, 2023, 14:53:
I started playing Spacebourne 2 last weekend. It costs $19.99. It's not perfect (it is, in fact, janky in many ways), but I think it is really fun anyway. It gives me what I wanted from Star Citizen so many years ago when I backed the original campaign. I don't even feel like I want to play Star Citizen at this point in time, especially given that Everspace 2 is in my play queue once I'm done with Spacebourne 2.

That looks very cool. I wish it had a co-op feature, but I may check it out.

The really sad thing is, this game is being made by just one guy!!!

Puts Start Citizen to shame in the worst way possible. It just shows what a shit-show Star Citizen really is and all Roberts is doing is milking the community for money to get rich!

Bubicus wrote on Apr 14, 2023, 14:53:
I started playing Spacebourne 2 last weekend. It costs $19.99. It's not perfect (it is, in fact, janky in many ways), but I think it is really fun anyway. It gives me what I wanted from Star Citizen so many years ago when I backed the original campaign. I don't even feel like I want to play Star Citizen at this point in time, especially given that Everspace 2 is in my play queue once I'm done with Spacebourne 2.

Everspace 2 is awesome. It has a solid story with side quests; about 90 hours worth of content.

Are the elevators fixed?

Is broken support for throttle axes fixed?

So 3.18 (named Lasting Legacies) came out with the persistent universe and it was a clusterfuck of epic proportions. The 3.18.1 patch released yesterday is all the work that shoulda gone into 3.18 to make it stable instead of doing the a-fucking-typical "it's good enough, push it to live" crap CIG does. There was so much trash (litteral and ship debris) that it choked the holy fuck out of the servers.

If ya go through all the reading they provide, and see some of the tech demo's they show, you soon realize that the CIG has no clue wtf it's doing or how to get there.

So here is my referral code. STAR-QVDN-J4LM
If anyone wants to play until the 20th and come join my org (we are 1 part jackass 1 part stormtroopers and 1 part a-team) I am CptRanger#4907 on discord, and add me as a friend as CptRanger in game.

This game has some brilliant moments and here is a Short Clip taken from my org leaders perspective. The setup is this: We had some people join our org from an org with an abusive asshole who's name was Itorca. So we all piled into a sever and one of the ex-members of his org said that he was online. So being the "lovely" asshole I am, I called him out in chat asking if he wanted to "play". We were getting all our org members together at the semi-pirate/seedy station called Grim Hex. I'm in my ship with a gunner waiting for the guild leader who is doing the recording. So all of a sudden my ship is being rammed by another ship (turns out to be Itorca). My ship and gunner engage him, while my org leader is in a small ship, gets down his rear shields, breaks open the rear landing ramp of Itorca's ship, boards it, goes up to the cockpit and kills him. Enjoy.
This game has so much great potential, but after the mess of the 3.18 patch I feel like Tina Turner after 3 rounds with Ike Turner.

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I wonder what the daily player count is. Some sites are speculating around 500k to 900k players per day. I'd be really surprised if that were the case

Steele Johnson wrote on Apr 14, 2023, 16:53:
I wonder what the daily player count is. Some sites are speculating around 500k to 900k players per day. I'd be really surprised if that were the case

What the FUCK!?!? Oh, during the free fly event. For a second there I thought you were saying potentially almost a million people bought this ponzi scheme of a game.

MoreLuckThanSkill wrote on Apr 14, 2023, 18:25:
What the FUCK!?!? Oh, during the free fly event. For a second there I thought you were saying potentially almost a million people bought this ponzi scheme of a game.

StarCitizen had a million players in 2015 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34548609
https://mmo-population.com/r/starcitizen/
As for how many backers there are, my guess is it's now close to that number.

RedEye9 wrote on Apr 14, 2023, 18:38:
As for how many backers there are, my guess is it's now close to that number.

According to their website 4,500,746 "Star Citizens".

Mr. Tact wrote on Apr 14, 2023, 18:52:

RedEye9 wrote on Apr 14, 2023, 18:38:
As for how many backers there are, my guess is it's now close to that number.

According to their website 4,500,746 "Star Citizens".

Ugh, okay... there goes even more of my faith in humanity.