Out of Pod Experience

My ideas for avatar gameplay spanned from the very mundane (waltzing and fashion collecting) to the very EVE (corrupting NPCs) to the very wild (swordfighting in blood games).

The idea was: if it can't be done in space gameplay (because of :exponential complexity:, :lobbies: or :old code:), do it in avatar gameplay.

Instead, CCP botched everything and now they're spending three years just to add more nullsec to the game. And that despite that they're fully aware that hisec PvE is the main reason why people pays the game for two years and then leaves.

Do you know what annoys me of you the CCPites? Rather than tell how great is going to be EVE, you just tell how bad could be Star Citizen.

I will let you figure on your own what does that mean on the actual merits of what you defend.

And meanhwile, crowdfunding for Star Citizen has reached another milestone, unlocking the 36 million stretch goal.

In the related Letter from the Chairman , Chris Roberts stresses how the goal has been unlocked as the Austin office was relocating (thus, all operations were shut down) and no special Holidays promotion has been released -so the goal has been achieved solely through word of mouth and people who trust the project.

There's also some details on future works, from the inmediate of setting the release goals for the dogfighting module, with input from player feedback, to a general meeting of all teams to schedule and coordinate in detail this year's work.

The stretch goal unlocked by the 36 million goal it's a special system, namely a black hole event horizon:

Tamsa System – Located near the fringe of Banu space, Tamsa System features a massive central star that has collapsed into a black hole. Only two planets remain in the system, a chthonian world and a gas giant located far from the black hole’s event horizon.

The stretch goal voted by the players for the 38 million mark is a fully aquatic world (I love it, as I voted that!):

Cano System is home to a G-Type Main Sequence Star that’s almost identical to Earth’s. Of the four planets in the system, only one is inhabited: Carteyna. Located on the edge of habitable zone, Carteyna is a classic waterworld. Fortunately, its planetary axis constantly keeps the northern hemisphere away from the sun, which allowed for the water to freeze into the landmasses used as the initial landing zones in 2587. Multiple attempts have been made to try to convert the thick atmosphere into something breathable, but the process never seemed to stick. In fact, over the years, every time there’s a new technological development in geo-engineering, they test it out here on Carteyna only to yield the same result. Almost fifty years ago, scientists discovered microscopic organisms in the very early phases of life in the depths of the oceans. This caused a massive uproar throughout the UEE at the prospect that they had been attempting to terraform a developing world. Carteyna was immediately placed under the Fair Chance Act. Unfortunately, Humans had been living here for almost over three hundred years and the families that had been here for generations felt that they had earned rights as residents. After years of debate in the political and scientific community, the population was allowed to stay, but only under certain conditions: future terraforming attempts have been outlawed and the Human population has been consolidated to a single arcology to minimize their impact on their environment and the development of whatever species is growing in the deep.

Terryfic concept, I can't wait to see that planet!

Also is going on the votation for the 39th million goal, the penultimate System being picked by the community.

Last but not least, Chris Roberts brags a bit about how player feedback has led to a redesign of the Freelancer cockpit, now featuring improved visbility as was demanded by the players after testing it at the Hangar module.

Star Ctizen may be a case of follie à deux, but, what a splendiferous madness!

For now i agree, but do keep in mind 2 things that star citizen will offer that has major implications for the game universe, and wich EVE will never offer even in a million years:

1: Dedicated tools for end users to create their own content, so they're not dependent on what CIG does, or their displeasure of the content in the game.

2: The ability to run their own servers with said user created content.


Years down the line, these 2 things allows star citizen to be radically different as there may be several versions depending on the content on that specific server, and all the end user has to do is download the custom content and install it.....Star wars mod, babylon 5 mod, gallactica mod.....List goes on and on.

Modded servers/clients can make a hell of a difference. NOT implementing that would be a terribly serious mistake on CIG's side. Players always win the race against developers (as consuming content is WAY faster than producing it), but when the player become producers... KA-BOOM! Magic ensues.

CIG is already stepping in that direction, as the Next Great Starship contest is drawing in highly skilled "amateurs" right into the core of the game. And anyone willing to mod will learn "how it is done" by watching the contest...

Eve does it too......Look no further than the abomination of gametime cards, and people buying those up from CCP's website, and then selling them in the game, and with all that isk, it allows the purchase of supercarriers and titans if the users in question have the available funds for it.

Get ISK, go to Characters Bazaar, buy char, buy supercap, enjoy.

Can't do that in Star Citizen either. Capital ships aren't available for purchase at the RSI store. Bengal carriers and such are only available ingame.

Still doesn't change that it is pay to win even if you have to buy plexes and a player that's for sale that has trained those skills....You don't care how long it took for that char to train those skills at all, so plexes should be gone and so should selling chars.....Bring back the old style of EVE gameplay of 2003 where you were on your own, and there was no way to accelerate aspects of the game like there is today.


The game has been watered down beyond belief these days.

Yep, technically this game is the one that could be interpreted as pay to win, since you can even come here and convert real money into a highly trained character that will give you an edge over new players on new characters.
Micro-transactions on game items like ships/weapons/boosters/vanity/etc when well implemented (as opposed to the way they were implemented in games ruined by EA) give the company extra revenue and allow casual players to enjoy the game aswell. They don't make the game pay to win as long as you can get all the sold items with ingame money too at reasonable prices.