Depends on the area the lawyer works in, if it's copyright dispute then being able to get an out of court settlement isn't necessarily a bad thing particularly if you can hide the amount by getting confidentiality agreements so "everyone wins".
******Official Star Citizen / Squadron 42 Thread******
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Most people I've spoken to agree with him to be honest, I'm one of them. CIG is making a game which unless they introduce improved mechanics for cargo etc which they've promised (drones etc to assist) it's going to feel like going to work.
no point shoving in content until the basic mechanics etc work. they could have all the quests/missions in the world and it'd be pointless without an enjoyable mechanic underpinning it which is what they are still working on. the content is being created but not rolled out yet, no point.
Your date is a bit off but I actually think if they got performance sorted the alpha would be far more playable, right now it's a mess and not just because the NPCs are thick as mince but because it's got partial content in it and various elements are a different stages of development.
I look at Arena Commander early days though and then what we have now and I feel the same way, we've a long way to go before it improves (Remember early Arena commander against what it was like a couple of years later? totally different experience).
I do disagree with calling what's in "amateur" though, much of it has never been done before and what's in like local physics grids for ships etc is pretty mind blown when you realise how it all works, the gaseous system will also be ground breaking in many ways but here's the problem most people don't know how all that works and aren't interested and to them, what we have now feels like some amazing visuals, at a low framerate with intermittent gameplay bugs. Yes it's an alpha but that's not how I feel it's being marketed and that irks me somewhat.
It's arguably part of the initial funding pitch and yes it does make the game more fun having ship based gravity etc in game already. We are not seeing anything close to a full game though.
I'd argue the less fun elements can all be altered later easily enough and most already are planned - such as improved GUI, drones to help load cargo and functioning NPCs who can take on ship based roles. The gaseous system will add in a lot of gameplay and strategy to boarding ships etc.
Bottom line it's still a long way from being done.
I'd argue the less fun elements can all be altered later easily enough and most already are planned - such as improved GUI, drones to help load cargo and functioning NPCs who can take on ship based roles. The gaseous system will add in a lot of gameplay and strategy to boarding ships etc.
Bottom line it's still a long way from being done.
Not really, I'd honestly say until 2.6.3 there wasn't really an alpha. What we had before was a fancy version of space invaders at best (Arena commander), a tech demo racing track (still is), a ship model showcase (hangar model) and a half baked but somehow still cool FPS module.
One of their biggest weaknesses has been having to redo parts.
FPS module, now done twice. We even sure it's not going to be redone again?
Ship models, many of them have been done at least twice. Sometimes because of basic errors like making the Mustang with the wrong size reference character so the cockpit was physically too small. It's since been remade again, third time lucky?
Hangar module - we're now on version 2 of it with two maybe 3 of the hangers having been made twice for the "room module" which was being worked on in 2014.. but we don't have.
It's pretty late but I'm sure there's been more redone from scratch..
EA ? what? they don't improve anything they buy.. heck I'd rather it just not get made than end up like Sims in space with 20+ DLCS.
rumour? I'll get my tin foil hat polished and good to go
Jail for what exactly?
As it's a law suit you can never say. Unless it's changed dramatically over the past couple of weeks it's just a blip IMHO. Cryteks claims don't add up. The contract they have was for exclusivity but Crytek appear to have assumed that means Star Citizen (or then Space Citizen) MUST be made with Cryengine. I don't read it as that when you look at the contract though, all it does it grant rights for CIG to use Cryengine, it doesn't say they MUST use it.
Poor choice of phrasing on my part bud. I meant I'm not surprised to see full and and detailed responses to my post, like yours was, as people invested in the game seem quite, invested in it! Get my drift?
people thought Kingdom Come was too complicated. It's been well received.
Some of us want a game where you as the player have to actually do things yourself and not simply mash the same button and move on. I want something more involved than the generic nonsense we've been getting for years. Elite Dangerous was a step in the right direction, I'm hoping SC will go further but I'm not losing sleep over it. it'll come out if/when it's ever done then we'll see.
Still it's nice to have games even try something unusual rather than copy each other endlessly.
Those backing the game just want to give someone the chance. worth a punt imho.
Must be the fortnightly "adults are spending money how they want" time again.
Us adults, we're almost like those guys who buy collectors editions, spend $100 a pop on CS:GO vanity items, buy WoW accounts, spend money in tesco at the weekend buying food, buy petrol for a station, own a car etc etc.
It's like we've got fiscal responsibility or something and have EXCESS. What fools are are generating income we then decide to spend on a game we'd like to see made and what fools we are actually being involved in testing it. What fools we are having fun in this game which (according to some) it's impossible to have fun in. Oh it's "not a game", but somehow we still find ourselves laughing and joking and enjoying the experience.
We really are fools folks, pack up, he's won the argument, time to close the thread down again because we aren't allowed to make our own independent decisions because Zethor or some random passerby doesn't approve again this month.
Us adults, we're almost like those guys who buy collectors editions, spend $100 a pop on CS:GO vanity items, buy WoW accounts, spend money in tesco at the weekend buying food, buy petrol for a station, own a car etc etc.
It's like we've got fiscal responsibility or something and have EXCESS. What fools are are generating income we then decide to spend on a game we'd like to see made and what fools we are actually being involved in testing it. What fools we are having fun in this game which (according to some) it's impossible to have fun in. Oh it's "not a game", but somehow we still find ourselves laughing and joking and enjoying the experience.
We really are fools folks, pack up, he's won the argument, time to close the thread down again because we aren't allowed to make our own independent decisions because Zethor or some random passerby doesn't approve again this month.
I really wish I could gift my evocati status to someone else, barely making it on at the moment due to sorting out my parents house and probate etc.
What free time I do have I'm spending scanning old photos and spending the odd hour in Kingdom Come lol
What free time I do have I'm spending scanning old photos and spending the odd hour in Kingdom Come lol