Out of Pod Experience

Early work on the Pegasus class escort carrier, which is currently listed as 700 meters in length and can deploy 30 fighters, and can be purchased by players but requires a crew of a few hundred at least:


https://robertsspaceindustries.com/media/uiwex4ux1l68pr/source/Fullscreen-Capture-12162014-93825-PM.jpg

And?......I mean have you see what a large fleet battle is like in eve?, and you happen to be flying a ship class that is designated as primary?.....3 things happen:


1: The FPS performance is utter **** while in that big group and waiting for the fight to start, never mind after it's started.
2: The fun factor ended for you right after you got locked up by hostiles, as you were vaporized in under a second afterwards.
3: It is very much a twitch game on big fleet fights, and someone telling you what to do and when to do it.



Instancing I don't mind so much if it keeps the overall numbers in a fight, for both hostiles and ships in your own group, between 50 and 100 ships, as tactics like focused fire don't work as well( not enough ships on either side), and both sides can't afford too many losses and still expect to be effective, so tactics come into play to get a victory and minimizing losses, since ships can't be easily replaced even if they're insured.

Actually, the alpha was released 2 days ago.....Well, AC 1.0 anyhow....


Here's a video of what's coming in 2015, and it's all in game footage and not pre rendered:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJJ9TcGxhNY

Where s the SC alpha? All I see is a space Barbie game, and a dogfight game. Nither of which appear to really be connected in any way. The AC on its own is prolly a lot of fun. the rest of it... we will see, I mean what with the servers disconnecting every 60 min or so,

I seem to remember you last year stating that dog fight would be out before pax.. then before e3... then before something else. so I doubt 12 months

CCP must be kicking themselves to see that they could have set up the NEX store to sell items without even going to the trouble of putting the items into the game first.

Did you read the article on energy and shield management? It loosk like a potentially awesome system...

...as far as the average incoming fire takes a good while to take down a shield.

"I need extra power for my section!"
(2 seconds later)
"Aye, redirecting power to your section"
(1 second later)
"There you go, stand fast!"
"Nevemind, we're effin' dead..."

But then, if eating through the shields of a multicrew ships is a non trivial task, requiring focused fire and a management of DPS... that could be a good game.

Frankly I haven't played Arena Commander so i don't know how fast do ships die (whether they're EVE Online-tough, Zero-tough or Thunderbolt-tough), but I hope SC gets it right among all the other endless things they must get right to succeed as a game.

Literally the entire business model of Star Citizen is making wild claims about 'potentially awesome' features to tempt in gullible nerds and pocket their cash without having to worry too much about the means of actually implementing them.

From the looks of it they really should ditch the PvE aspects to just a one multiplayer campaign and make it a 'carrier class' dog fighting game where you and your buddies form up a crew in fighter pilots/command staff/ what ever and then duke it out war birds style.

Theory: YARRR! TAKE MY MONIES AND BRING'EM DUMB ROCKS TO MAMA!!

Practice: We'll wait and see. We are EVE miners. We are patient.