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Corrections - $15,000 got you a ton of ships and other stuff. Most (all?) of the people that spend thousands have lifetime insurance so there is zero risk of ever losing your ship. If you came in later and bought a ship for hundreds of dollars, however, and for some reason you don't have the cash to cover the menial insurance cost in the event of destruction or theft, you WILL lose your ship forever. This is all hypothetical though, like the rest of the game, since it all exists as words out of Chris Robert's mouth and nothing more.
I've been involved with a couple vaporware projects (as a fan/follower in the early stages of development) and what I see happening with Star Citizen is a bit worrisome. I feel like the only reason they pumped out the PU (mini public universe) was to lock in funds (deny refunds because something has been delivered). It's just in a horrible and extremely limited state for being 4 years into development (Elite and NMS were both released in ~5 years).
What they have going for them is cash, and tons of it. That means if they are even a little bit frugal they can draw out the development process for 8-10 years with Squadron 42 releases generating revenue and the mad fanbase dropping thousands on jpegs. If they manage to pull it off NMS won't compete and hopefully Elite has its act together. Elite is like the sleeping giant right now, you can't write them out.
Don't get me wrong.... I am very excited for Star Citizen. It's just the equivalent of having a $15,000 car being stolen by a criminal, except it is COMPLETELY legal to do. I think I'll wait for the full game to come out in four to six years before I buy anything too crazy.
For now: No Man's Sky will be the hope in my life.
You don't know what you're talking about. There is no $15,000 ship, but even if there was you don't lose it forever if it gets stolen.
Does anyone ever ask wgere the money all went? Hahaha, man.
Sweet scam though. They'll have to release ..something at some point I suppose.
They have released two things:
1. Arena Commander is a 4 player death match that lets you use purchased ships against other players (not all ships that have been sold actually exist, and CIG's track record suggests these larger ships take 6-12 months to release in a limited state. You do the math). You can also play solo against waves of bots. There are 2 maps and the performance is actually pretty good, with solid FPS and beautiful graphics/physics. You can shoot off wings and send chunks of enemy ships floating through space. You earn credits here that can be used to rent ships and equipment you don't normally have access to for 1 week.
2. The Public Universe, or the baby alpha version of Star Citizen. This is what everyone paid for and it is really, REALLY rough right now. It only supports 24 players at the moment but you can fly around to different POIs within a single system and complete a few quests, fight pirates, land on stations and do FPS in zero gravity. They just introduced a crime system that lets you turn criminal or get rewarded for killing a criminal with 5 counts. All of this sounds fun on paper but it is basically unplayable for me and for a huge chunk of the playerbase as well.
Let's all just take comfort in the fact that there is a resurgence in the space sim genre, and leave it at that.
I have pledged a substantial amount to Star Citizen and have pre ordered No Man's Sky. Is it risky. Possibly. But its my decision and im optimistic about both games. Why? Why look at a birthday cake and think it will taste like ♥♥♥♥?
Im no fanboy of either but ill be stoked if they both come out on top. Bring it on!!
Also Berserking... if your going to nay say about a game best you do more research. Not quite sure you have a grasp on Star Citizen and its development.
I bought Elite Dangerous, Star Citizen, I've played EVE and I pre-ordered this.
Star Citizen is kinda cool, but its not ready for prime time and I feel like they have a problem with feature creep.
Elite Dangerous is nice, but there really isn't much to do in the traditional sense.
EVE is... a mess. A fun mess, but one that can grind on the soul. Especially working with nullsec corps and wardec spam
Right now No Man's Sky is top contender for the sci-fi game i've been looking for. Time will tell.
Same way i feel, NMS feels like the only "complete" package right now and a very good one. All those are sims sort of.
NMS is like the fun brother of all those not serious and what not...just hop in ur ship and fly away to whereever you like to find new worlds. :p
I mean playing elite for anything less than 3h will result in nothing at all..SC is in early testing so we dont even know how the gameplay is and NMS just seems like full of freedome.
You like space sims.. you must LOVE Universal Combat
*hides*
I do love space sims. never played Universal Combat... looking at the reviews I doubt I ever will.
He's not in the wrong forum, because his post is directed at people who keep bringing up SC in here and saying it's going to be better etc.
So it's them that are in the wrong forum.