Star Citizen

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Great set of common questions about star citizen.
http://imgur.com/a/MOKDA

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New video: The Wonderful World of Star Citizen (highlights of fan videos)
The Wonderful World of Star Citizen Episode 1

New Meet the Dev's:
Meet the Devs Episode 14 - Austin Art Team

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Great article that includes a sort of vague schedule (not finalized)
http://www.polygon.com/features/2015/3/2...-interview

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Latest 10 for the chairman

10 For the Chairman Episode 55

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New meet the devs (but it's more community and support staff this time).
Meet the Devs Episode 15 - The Community Team

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Alright, a BUNCH of new thingies since my last post,

First up, the latest Around the Verse:
Around the Verse: Episode 34


Second: a VERY cool update to the damage system:
Star Citizen - New Damage Model

Video of the soon to be available (in the pledge store) Aegis Retaliator (multi-player-crew bombing ship, definitely looks awesome).
Aegis Retaliator Pre-Flight Check


The latest 10 for the chairman:
10 For the Chairman Episode 56

Here's a bunch of shit from PAX East (including an in depth look at the FPS stuff, it looks REALLY REALLY REALLY cool! I'm excited)
Star Citizen PAX East Presentation


Weekly rundown from last week:
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-...ly-Rundown

A western digital promotional collaboration and interview with Chris Roberts' team:
The Vision behind Star Citizen

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New Meet the Devs (QA Manager)
Meet the Devs Episode 16: Justin Binford

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Not a small game... official estimate, 100GB when all said and done...

https://forums.robertsspaceindustries.co...nt_4591962

And even then... it won't be done upon the estimated release date, there's going to be so much more, plus they're estimating patches to possibly be anywhere from 2-6GB... unless they refactor file types which means about 40% of the game would need a redownload...

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Latest Around the Verse:
Around the Verse: Episode 35
In Depth about Instancing/Zoning/Etc
Chris Roberts on Instancing & Star Citizen Player Counts

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Amazing new trailer that was shown at SXSW (Great music mixing)
Star Citizen SXSW Video Montage

Inside CIG: The Music of Pedro Camacho:
Inside CIG: The music of Pedro Camacho

Info on the Helios system:
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-...ios-System

Weapon mounts, and how they will work
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-...nt-Updates

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New 10 for the producers:
10 For the Producers Episode 4

New meet the devs:
Meet the Devs: Episode 17 - Jeremy Masker

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Around the Verse Episode 36
Around the Verse: Episode 36

Star Citizen Client 1.1 released (this is Hangar Module, Arena Commander with a 64-bit [ONLY] client, and bunches of awesome updates).
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-...11-Is-Live

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New 10 for the Chairman
10 For the Chairman Episode 57

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Fan Spotlight:
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-...Choice-FPS

New Wonderful World of Star Citizen (Episode 2), it's basically an extended video based fan spotlight:
The Wonderful World of Star Citizen: Episode 02

New Around the Verse:
Around the Verse: Episode 37

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Rather neat 24/7 Star Citizen audio web-cast.
http://thebase.sc/

Note: They do giveaways...

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Latest 10 For the Chairman:
10 For the Chairman Episode 58

Latest Meet the Devs:
Meet the Devs - Episode 19: Gurmukh Bhasin

And Around the Verse Episode 2654? (April Fools)
Around the Verse Episode 2654??

Also as part of April Fools they have temporarily renamed the game to Island Citizen, details are here:
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/about-the-game/

Oh and an update to the Star Citizen Client that trumps any and all game updates... ever:
There is fish in my hangar... swimming everywhere in my main bay... because why not? This is Island Citizen right? Alien Fish swimming in midair and through normally collision objects is PERFECTLY NORMAL.

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Around the Verse Episode 38 (the real one):
Around the Verse: Episode 38

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So while there's no new update today, I thought I'd post up something that has been confirmed multiple times, in news posts, videos from Chris Roberts himself, interviews and so on.

There will be supported private servers. Yep, these will not be considered a breach of EULA, against the rules, etc. The development of Star Citizen will have private server software available.

Question 1: "Isn't Star Citizen an MMO?"
Answer 1:
Kind of yes, kind of no, Star Citizen will have a single player campaign (Squadron 42) mission that will support drop in multiplayer cooperative play that is NOT part of the "Persistent Universe" (though your progress there could be stored in "the cloud" of the persistent universe.
For example, if you complete all of Squadron 42 it's entirely possible that your completion rewards you with a free ship to be used in the "Persistent Universe" (the MMO-Side of things). You will NOT be required to complete Squadron 42 before jumping into the Persistent Universe, but it might help if you're a newcomer.

Question 2: Persistent Universe?
Answer 2:
The Persistent Universe is the MMO side of Star Citizen, basically this is where the potentially thousands of other players will "reside", and where the largest multiplayer aspects will exist. This is the part most people are looking forward to.

Question 3: Will Private Server stuff be translated to the Persistent Universe?
Answer 3:
No, basically because individuals can modify the private servers, fiddle with settings, give themselves ships, etc as administrators over them (useful for Corp training btw) it would create unfair advantages over those who do not have access to the resources of running their own servers, SO, private servers will be independent of the Persistent Universe.

Question 4: Why are you so obsessed with this game?
Answer 4:
That game that we've all wanted since first seeing Star Wars, that universe we wanted to escape to (that we were able to do so when we first EXPERIENCED Star Wars, and many other Sci-Fi films), that's why. Go back and watch all of the 10 for the chairman, producers, artists, etc, and see how many thing are said an outright no to, in recent memory I can't think of anything, quite literally I've hear "is item x going to be in the game" and the closest thing to a no is "Well maybe not at first" the majority of the time. Primarily this has to do with diplomacy based mission systems (since this is more a star wars than a star trek). Also I owe Wing Commander my gaming namesake.

Question 5: Why this instead of some mech game?
Answer 5:
I've never liked mech games, I've never had fun with them (and yeah I've played with plenty of friends in the past). I always felt the pacing was poor, and the intensity was not as engaging as space combat games. That's me, that's how I feel about this, I don't get excited about mech games because I don't enjoy them, any of them, and I've given them a chance... many a time, INCLUDING MWO, and I honestly can say the same reason for enjoying other MMO's over WoW. I just don't have fun there. I have way more fun in space.

Second item: Tuning kits
Apparently there's going to be tuning kits, for things like adjusting power consumptions, output, thrust, usage, etc for every component on a ship, this can create some really insane detail in the way you can customize your ship, and yeah you can swap out your thrusters, your engines, your power sources, your shields, your weapons, your missiles, your storage systems, and so on.

Final recap:
This game is called Star Citizen because each player can exist within it's universe as a citizen of that universe.
Can you be a pirate? Yes
Can you be a bounty hunter? Yes
Can you be a smuggler? Yes
Can you be in a military career? Yes
Can you aid in humanitarian (or... alienatarian?) efforts? Yes
Can you become a race-ship driver? Yes
Can you just be a long hauler? Yes
Can you be a ore miner? Yes
Can you board an enemy ship and take it over? Yes
Can you board a space station and take it over?
Can you be a salvage operator? Yes
Can you and your friends be individual operators in a specific ship? Yes
Can you have frigate or even aircraft-carrier style large scale ships with smaller ships that your friends can pilot? Yes
Is there a first person 0 gravity combat arena game with a tournament latter based on Ender's Game? There will be yes
Is it a spreadsheet timer simulator? No

Do you have to be only one of these things? No
Can you be all of these things? Kinda yeah, though it'd be pretty hard keeping up pirating alongside a military career.

Lastly, there's one thing, as indicated by Chris Roberts when asked; "Why do you think you have become so successful with the crowd funding where others have failed?"

His respond: "Because we didn't stop.", basically implying that while many items did get successfully crowd funded many got lazy on keeping their community in the loop, interestingly enough some of the very first hires for Cloud Imperium Games (Primary dev company, though there are many branched dev companies with many names) were community managers, the additional designers, developers, etc came rather quickly after that.

I understand the skepticism, and hell I have it too, but there's just way too much awesome to just write this off and ignore it... also... the Vanguard looks fucking awesome: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-...s-Vanguard

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10 for the Chairman:
10 For the Chairman Episode 59

Meet the Devs - Episode 20: Thomas Hennessy
Meet the Devs - Episode 20: Thomas Hennessy

Around the Verse: Episode 39
Around the Verse: Episode 39

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Inside CIG: Foundry 42 Germany
Inside CIG: Foundry 42 Germany