Official Star Citizen Thread

[Blazzok]

Elite: Dangerous also had a form of insurance. Insurance was 10% of your ships worth if I remember correctly. So you always had to make sure you have enough spare money to cover your ship in case of destruction. If your ship gets destroyed, you lose your ship and cargo; but with insurance you could atleast get your ship back (cargo is still lost).

If you don't have enough money to cover insurance, it is back to the starting/base ship in the game.

 

[ArchieChoke]

holy shit!

but then why even have this insurance kak?




http://starcitizen.gamepedia.com/Release_schedule

I'm not sure, it was one of those things they thought it was a good idea, but then seeing the reaction of the community quickly came up with a solution to make it literally something you don't worry about.

 

[ArchieChoke]

Elite: Dangerous also had a form of insurance. Insurance was 10% of your ships worth if I remember correctly. So you always had to make sure you have enough spare money to cover your ship in case of destruction. If your ship gets destroyed, you lose your ship and cargo; but with insurance you could atleast get your ship back (cargo is still lost).

If you don't have enough money to cover insurance, it is back to the starting/base ship in the game.

Yip that is true. Bit of a kak one considering if you got blown up with your cargo.

You loose the 100 000 cr's used to buy the dam cargo, then your left with 10 000 cr's with a transporter. Then you get killed in space or even better eskom strikes. Bam your grind fest of 2 months gone.

 

[BeoTeK]

http://starcitizen.gamepedia.com/Release_schedule

Yeah, no way am I trusting that.

Squadron 42 will be released in 'polished' [9] chapters or stages, the first of which are anticipated to begin in the beginning of 2015.First episode of Squadron 42 will be released Fall 2015

Yet it's hardly been started. You'll only see this component released mid 2016. Hopefully a full game release by end 2017.

 

[MalicE]

Elite: Dangerous also had a form of insurance. Insurance was 10% of your ships worth if I remember correctly. So you always had to make sure you have enough spare money to cover your ship in case of destruction. If your ship gets destroyed, you lose your ship and cargo; but with insurance you could atleast get your ship back (cargo is still lost).

If you don't have enough money to cover insurance, it is back to the starting/base ship in the game.

yeah I'm completely fine with that. but you don't buy ships in Elite with real world money...

 

[BeoTeK]

yeah I'm completely fine with that. but you don't buy ships in Elite with real world money...

There a few "elite" ships you can purchase from their store page

https://www.frontierstore.net/game-extras/elite-dangerous-game-extras.html

 

[Dragonic]

Yeah Beta slots closed April last year.

Ah that's a bummer, so buying now will just be like a super pre-order :/

 

[ArchieChoke]

Ah that's a bummer, so buying now will just be like a super pre-order :/

If you a really interested in alpha/beta testing i could help you out.

 

[BeoTeK]

If you a really interested in alpha/beta testing i could help you out.

would repping also help?

 

[Dragonic]

If you a really interested in alpha/beta testing i could help you out.

I would actually, wan't to get a feel for the game... however, how far is the game at the moment, would Beta give you much to go on for a decision to purchase?

would repping also help?

Beo knows what's up

 

[ArchieChoke]

I would actually, wan't to get a feel for the game... however, how far is the game at the moment, would Beta give you much to go on for a decision to purchase?


Beo knows what's up

Add me on steam.also tell me your steam nick
http://steamcommunity.com/id/ArchieChoke/

 

[Dragonic]

Add me on steam.also tell me your steam nick
http://steamcommunity.com/id/ArchieChoke/

Sure man will do when I get home.
Steam nick is Dragonic87.

 

[GregRedd]

Looks like they released yesterday's batch of 1000 discounted Starter Packages at 9AM PST, which was 7PM here. Missed it by 2 hours. Forum posts suggest they were all gone within 20 minutes. I'll try to check what time they release today's batch tonight if I can.

 

[ArchieChoke]

The screenshot that is completely ruining my gaming life. I just want it now!:-

Zoom for extra awsum

 

[BeoTeK]

The screenshot that is completely ruining my gaming life. I just want it now!:-

Zoom for extra awsum

Almost as good as Elite: Dangerous


"whistling:

 

[ArchieChoke]

Almost as good as Elite: Dangerous


"whistling:

Funny guy.

 

[Wyzak]

I accidentally launched star citizen yesterday. Took AGES to load.

 

[BeoTeK]

I accidentally launched star citizen yesterday. Took AGES to load.

Is that a thing or specific to your setup?
Maybe cos it has to load everything to memory?

 

[Wyzak]

Is that a thing or specific to your setup?
Maybe cos it has to load everything to memory?

I'm not sure, I doubt it's my machine though.

 

[GregRedd]

I accidentally launched star citizen yesterday. Took AGES to load.

Wonder if it's got anything to do with the new AC2.0 release that's presently on the Test Universe servers? From what I remember the first thing the SC Launcher does is connect to their servers to check if there are any updates/patches to be installed. Maybe the servers were just too overloaded when you tried? (could be way off track here of course.)

I accidentally started my install yesterday mid morning (did an upgrade to a M50 and wanted to see it in my hangar) and the launcher updated itself, and then I was told that there's a newer version of the game available for me to download. I shut it down then because I want to wait for 2.0 to go to the live server before chewing through another 30Gb of bandwidth.