******Official Star Citizen / Squadron 42 Thread******

The whole process needs simplified, but I think they've got themselves tied in knots to the degree now that unraveling it will take a bit of effort.

Hopefully they come up with a simple drop down like:

Ship I have ¬UPGRADE TO¬ Ship I want


=Cost

Accept?
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that's really all that's needed !
 
francky said:
Well I think ill melt my Herald as they have changed the design to Asymmetrical and Cutlass because I hate flying it.....it feels like Bambi on Ice...then just pay the rest for the Tali!
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I liked the Herald because it was ugly, wish they'd stop trying to make everything look nice! We need variety, sadly many on the forums don't agree and whinge about everything.

There's pointing out that you can't see out of a window (like some of the Freelancer comments) and then there's whinging because a ship isn't to your personal taste which is what many did with the Herald IMHO. It had already been approved by Chris Roberts so tbh, as far as I'm concerned it should have stayed.
 
X55 is fine, I'm really happy with a right wierd combo at the moment. CH Pro throttle, Cessna Pro pedals and a G300 mouse. Didn't think I'd enjoy HOTAM but somehow I'm starting to click with it.

£120 is a very good price for an X55, seeing as a CH pro throttle itself will set you back £80+ in the Uk.
 
Freelancer was one of my favourite ships until I owned one, it feels tiny. Looks more like Serenity but in reality the Merchantman or Caterpillar are more her size.
 
Never really got into the dogfighting module, it's not how the game will play anyway, hell the flight mechanics aren't even going to be directly taken from that, it'll be similar but altered as it's an artificially small area. I'm more interested in seeing how well multi-crew can be made to work, expect some hilarious bugs for the first few releases of it tbh :)
 
another reinstall? Sky must hate me installed PTU and then patched a second client back to the previous install afterwards just in the past week.. now another reinstall :)
 
Sweet mate, love the Merchantman it's going to have such a unique look at least for now and seems to me at least to be the best "space home" for players :)
 
Wow the new infrastructure for patching is a bit hit and miss, download rate all over the place and this is my second attempt to get that massive file :-/
 
Curunen that's pretty much how I feel about the FPS site, I'm more interested in having friends tour ships, multicrew etc than pew pew with it, at least until the game is more complete. Still could be a laugh if there's some good bugs lol
 
Yeah I finally got it downloaded, not sure what the problem was before tbh. Just had a fly around in the Gladius - great fun, joystick more fun in combat, but terrible in racing, ship feels far all over the place in a race compared to a mouse.

I don't intend to race much if at all in the final game but just wanted to give it a try - will try tweaking controls tomorrow when I'm more awake!
 
The concierge and subscribers sections are still fairly good although both, especially the concierge bit seems to be turning into a "I want to be a special ********* and I think (insert subscribers/concierge) should get this extra bonus because.."

They forget that they backed/subscribed for the given bonuses at the time, now they all seem to want additional stuff "because".

However back on topic, I am loving the current way the game is heading even on my 7950 - hardly state of the art the game looks fantastic even on medium settings. For an unoptimised game (devs words not mine) it looks pretty staggering. Here's a handful of unedited vids I uploaded last night, there's some texture pop in - this is down to the MECHANICAL drive I have the game on, reinstalled client to the wrong drive :)

Gladius canopy detail (medium graphics):

Gladius canopy bug I found and reported:

My Retaliator (now melted):

As much as I like the Retaliator I'd rather be crew on someone elses and between all the OCUK orgs we've probably got about 20+ of them (PAGAN have 5+) so it's no big loss. The choice was between the Retaliator with 2 year insurance and a Banu MM with LTI, truth is once mutli crew ships come in I'll likely upgrade my Superhornet LTI to a Retaliator LTI anyway unless something else comes along, which seems to be a trend these days with CIG's method of releasing ships - Vanguard sounds like it'll be the new top dog in fighter terms.

I do love the Gladius though, it looks fantastic and flies like a dream.
 
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IvanDobskey said:
Graphics look good on this but the whole micro transactions thing leaves a sour taste in my mouth. People stupid enough to plough cash into it will have a big advantage. I'll be giving this a wide birth and sticking to elite dangerous thanks.
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You haven't looked at the way the game is funded from what you've written. Microtransactions? Many are too big to be considered that but every single thing you can buy now can be earned in game or gives no advantage as it's cosmetic only. The only advantage people have is a saving of time, the instant the game goes live everything people have spent real money on becomes obsolete due to the overclocking/optimisation of equipment and ships. Those who are time rich/cash poor will as always retain the advantage over those of us with full time jobs and kids.

It's not pay to win, if you genuinely believe it is then frankly you're no loss to the SC community who would eat CIG alive if they tried to make it so.
 
Sega Mega Dave said:
If it's anything like my flying ability then people will be more than happy to take me on.
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Crew a ship then, it's what I intend to do most of the time. Love the idea of sitting with my feet up, drinking coffee, chatting away on comms whilst "monitoring the area for hostiles"

Or going for a walk around the ship whilst someone else does all the work :D
 
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