Out of Pod Experience

Well, considering that each ship comes with a unique ID, according to the FAQ, it is easily tracked and I doubt the inane Star Citizen community would be fine with "meta-game" thefts and I think it is entirely plausible that the guy would find himself in a bottomless pond of **** that he will drown in.

Obviously Chris Roberts doesn't wants to pay royalties to CCP for using their masterful scheme in which criminals shot by the police were reimbursed of their losses. Cunning guy, he should be developing games or something.

Playing Eve for years and years rewires your brain to not trust complete strangers.

This whole EVE vs SC "competition" highlighted obvious problem: for CCP it's easier to find new subscribers for existing content and sell PLEXes to "hardcore PvPers" rather than develop new PvE/RP/interesting content for existing players.

Why bother with actual content expansions when you can simply intensify PvP to sell more PLEXes?

I hope StarCitizen devs won't get this "celebrity complex" when existing clients aren't interesting for devs and will continue to listen to players' ideas like it happened in recent hangar patch: players asked to add hairs to protagonist - CIG delivered ("Freelancer" suit has hairs now).

Here is a funny little thread from the SC forums... as an afterthought to: Goons are coming to StarCitizen.

Isn't it hard to have a "vs" thread when one thing exists and has for years and the other doesn't and may never in any meaningful way?

It's like comparing the car I have in my driveway vs the one I dream about in my sleep.

The one in my dreams is much nicer by the way, but that's selective memory. When I'm actually in it, in my dream, I'm sure there is some crazy feature like my legs don't work and I'm not wearing any clothes. Not that that is a bad thing. But I digress.

All the more reason to be cautious to be fair, Star Citizen is pulling in ridiculous amounts of dough, but as more money pours in, expectations continues to skyrocket and in the end, those expectations will simply be impossible to appease. For now, Chris Roberts seems to think he can handle it but that can change.

To be honest, I am thinking that the LTI grey market has something to do with the soaring pledging. So far Chris Roberts already is stating that further pledging will not mean "feature creeping" because they're still within the post-launch development plans, that is, they will just make things a bit sooner and faster THX to additional funding, but only after launch.

That's a sensible answer, and if the LTI gray market is behind the pledging, that won't hurt SC before the LTI promotion ends (and never too soon, it's kind of ludicrous what's going on with it).

I have a feeling people will still turn to EVE for their griefer fix. I'm happy for SC, for committing to game mechanics that make it different from EVE. I'm also pleased that by doing so and being softcore, SC will not be a direct competitor with EVE; between the two games, I think EVE has an advantage in being more... Elite. EVE has free-to-play functionality too, and while free-to-play is relatively difficult to attain compared to the default free-to-play nature of SC, EVE's player culture is such that complaining about the challenge of obtaining PLEX through gameplay is seen as an admission of failure. Conversely, achieving free-to-play proficiency in EVE will mean more than ever.

For the record, I haven't installed SC. I'm letting everyone else be excited about SC, in hopes that it will motivate improvements in EVE. I think EVE still has the potential to be more than SC, even after SC had the advantage of sizing up the competition first.

I almost hate to say this, but the private server option is something I sometimes use Sisi for, and seeing it promoted as a mainstream function of the game makes me realize that something similar in EVE would detract from the pulse of Tranquility.

While I'm on the topic, and so you know where my head is, I just want them to open the door.

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I see resentment coming. with all the incentives of SC geared toward being first, I think SC will be more guilty of gerontocracy than EVE. It also strikes me as hype, considering 'earlybird factor' is most of their appeal right now. you have to admit, when you compare SC's start to EVE's, the kickstarter funding model is a causative factor in early-backer benefits that will not be available to latecomers, and if EVE's player culture is a predictor of an outcome, those advantages will be less well-received over time. It's not a big gripe right now, but it's still early and the windows for those benefits have only recently closed. Consider how strongly people feel about exclusive items in EVE. In SC's case, it's things like forever-reimbursed ships. They've made a statement to assure players there isn't a significant, practical in-game advantage of having a permanently reimbursed ship, but how players perceive it is outside their control. The better option would be leave those things open at a higher premium. "no, never" kinda sucks, and goes against the goal of raising money, and the greater theme of SC that seems to be "we're doing it better than EVE the other space MMOs."

Heh. Such obvious parallels between SC cheerleaders, such as yourself, and Apple nerds that it is just tragic.