Out of Pod Experience

F**k me. I'll have to convince myself to NOT buy a Retaliator when it's available. Really shouldn't be spending that kind of money no matter what.

FUUUUU!!!

It's a good deal considering $150 EVE CE gives you only cosmetic golden pod.

Prolly will be in the line of the Constellation... so, 225 $

But damn, that appartment section is amazing (that's no window, but a kind of decorative wall... so maybe the theme on it can be changed or even link to an outside cam...).

And the ship is sexy as hell, sleek and mean looking. Go bombing in style! It's almost too beautiful to be a Navy thing!

- games especially mmo typically aren't governed by the "zero sum game" rules. Generally players of MMOs try most if not all similar game styles depending on what feeds their most active addiction. If the game in question doesn't have enough features that are similar or same to their current game of choice they typical retreat back to the game or play parallel until eventually something gives way. When a user does adopt a new game it's typically because their behaviour has peaked (consumed all features and levelled to the max) and their incentive to play has decayed ages ago (cognitive dissonance matrix) .

- game feature growth isn't as seamless as one would think. You can end up destroying a game by a single feature so when you have steady growth metrics and profit + gamer activity is balanced there is not a lot of upside into rocking the boat unless their is a significant competitor threat which at that point it's typically economically more sound to abandon the current game and retry with another.

For instance many virtual economists have argued that what killed Ultima Online in the end was the introduction of the black dye tub. From there it was a cascade of bad decisions that ultimately left the game in abandonware

- Eve allows chaos to reign from a pure psychological view this game is probably a rare MMO where the players aren't put into player daycare meaning the game masters typically let natural selection / justice self correct the players behaviour with the exception of high sec being relatively safe (not entirely immune though).

If a game is to topple EVE then this benchmark for pvpers is typically in place in most MMOs ... Only other game I have seen similar behaviour traits to this is Ultima Online

- Scale .. This game to me is quite basic in its technology needs so scaling out wards shouldn't be as hard given today's gaming engines are lowering the barrier to entry. Space allows the developers less work in terrain or procedural terrain generation so it really comes back to managing models in a space setting with a focus on hyper realism and xyz coordinate packets etc. the cloud capabilities of this game would be some fun code to write especially the market trading systems.

I'd love to own this product as to grow it outwards would be an interesting and fun challenge to occupy given your starting technically from a fairly simplified platform.

It took me months to decide whether or not to get the bounty-hunter package. I suppose CIG wouldn't have $23 million if not for folks like you guys, but it does stun me how loose peoples pocket books can get to fund the development of a game they want to see.

I would say that it was a combination of factors rather than a single incident. Namely inflation, exploits (including black dye tubs), player dispersion (adding more maps and dispersed player housing reduced random interaction) and long term effects of changing PvP with the introduction of Trammel (although it made the game more accessible it effectively changed the playerbase).

Well when you put it that way. For myself however I might put more into it when the dogfighting module comes out just because I'll be getting gameplay out of it. The ships aren't that big of an incentive for me since I would rather get them from gameplay, so when it comes to that I might be more inclined towards a development sub instead. I don't have any issues with others throwing gobs of cash at CIG however since that $23 Million and climbing bolsters my confidence in CIG's ability to deliver quite a bit.

I wish I would have known about Star Citizen when they had their lifetime insurance. It feels too late to get involved now.

Did they tell how insurance is going to work?

I should have pledged when it was the beggining, as other have pointed out here. Maybe they will release a special pack that include what other got earlier. I don't think people would be upset if they sell such pack in the 200-300$ range.

Read this:


When a vet backer contacted me on SC forum, he told me he could help me getting Lifetime Insurance on any ship I wanted. I wasn't expecting that much, but was still interested. It sounded simple. I gift him any ship or package, and since he's an original backer, that ship - or package - get the lifetime insurance perk, so he then gift it back to me.

Now here's the catch: would you thrust someone on the internet you never met, giving him a virtual good that has a value of 65$? (Or more?). People in EVE scam each other for a lot less than that.

Well, I did, expecting that PERHAPS I would never receive anything back.

10 min later, I received a gift, with my new liftetime insured Aurora 300i.

I would had never belived this in EVE... Now, I have the undeniable proof that the SC community is on the right path. Someone I don't know just took 20 min of his time, handle my 65$ package back to me, for my own benefit, without asking anything. I'm shocked...