Out of Pod Experience

Rovinia is absolutely right. Everything looks nice on videos. The game publisher will only capture the "best of moments" for public and most of the times, the videos fall far short of all the promises made by these video game makers.

From time to time, other game developers will take us to high places where all kingdoms can be seen, and whisper us with promises of great glory.

Just like what Jesus did, do not fall prey to those temptations. The Gate of Kingdom is only through the EVE Gate. Not Star Ctizen dingleberry ****.

Development wise not really. A lot of Eves coding is ancient and not really modernized. The main reason there isn't much competition is because many don't see it as a good investment. It's a very niche market with an already established filler.

Everything released about the game indicates the only thing it will have in common with EVE is space and space ships. The games aren't really comparable.

From the very small details we have on the game mechanics there are already 2 huge issues

First: instances. Ok, you can't have an Asakai battle rendered in realtime with the details of a singleplayer mission but this brings to further troubles. How to organize different fleets and reinforcements if the system decides who can warp into an instance and who cannot? Try to imagine how often in EVE fights escalate. There won't be much of an escalation at all in SC. Never, ever.

Second: it won't be a sandbox. There will be mining, planetary production and manufacturing but the market fluctuations will be compensated by NPC's who will be selling the same goods as the players at a variale rate and price, in order to avoid market manipulation. Yo Jita alts, I feel your pain!

So even if I threw quite some money at Chris Roberts and I'm waiting for something to play, I really wish that we'll have some EVR environement to drool on in the near or even not-so-near future. I will happily sell my SC account and worship CCP till the times are fulfilled

He didn't say there will be NPC supplies untill the players are able to fulfill all the demand, but to avoid speculations. So only because of this last part, the "no speculation", I assume it means "no sanbox" either now or in the future. But yeah, there is nothing really clear atm.

Felt like you were flying a ******* turret in space, they were terrible games. Privateer was awesome just by virtue of the other game elements. Nothing from Privateer on back had a decent "flight" model, kinda jaded me to any later games which I never played.

All that being said, SC looks pretty good from the few videos I've watched but the previously discussed "PvP slider", if it still exists, is stupid.

I have no desire to play a fighter sim game nor do I think my computer can even handle running Star Citizen at minimum specs, but....

It has gained over 9 million in crowd funding from people who are looking foward to the game and the mechanics are pretty much state of the art.

Also the start citizen devs mentioned that they thought EVE clones were too lenient as a way to avoid suffering because of death. I'm sure I can google that statement but I figure I'd let everyone else do the work for me.

don't tell CCP I said this, but... I like a game that can be scaled in terms of clicks and inputs per minute depending on how bad my ADD flares up. a brilliant stroke of luck that the EVE client is so manageable with multiple instances. great idea that I can do something like skill up while I am away.

Not again.

All I have to say is that eve has a pretty good head start.

Goddamnitalltohell