I would be happy about the increase in prices if they did not also increase the mission payments . I still think ammo needs 10x the price as well as guns

Coupled vs Decoupled feels like walking vs ice skating to me. I still have to learn it but I'm convinced that once I do it'll a lot less effort.

i actually was excited to buy my first ship(s) this iae thanks to the good state the game was in end of last year...also i am very patient^^ btw do you have a ship recommendation for a (more or less) single seat fighter (vanguard or ares e.g.)? xD

Didn't they just massively bump all mission payouts? I usually find your content to be bang on but in this case you seem to be missing a key aspect of the whole discussion. Think entry level missions from 5k to 34k.

So, when I’m orbiting around, am I better off using control and space with little shots of w to stay close and in blind spots? I’ll fully admit I’m guilty of always holding w and doing side or vertical strafes, but I’ve wanted to get out of it cause I know it’s making me overshoot

I want to be able to have NPC crew supplement player crew. I eventually want to take an Idris with NPC crew overseeing hangar operations (refuel/rearm/repair), doing small repairs, cleaning the ship, and maybe even a few turret gunners, while my friends and I man the bridge. I want a player to be able to assume a lead engineer role over a small team of NPC crew. I want NPCs to take the turrets if I can't get enough friends to man them. I want some NPC marines stationed on the ship to act as cannon fodder for a boarding party and slow them down while my friends and I maneuver through the corridors to hopefully fend them off and get the kills. Everyone keeps thinking of NPC vs player crew as an all-or-nothing affair, and I don't understand why. If I can only get 3 or 4 friends on a given day, I'd still like to be able to take a big ship out and kick ass with them in. Or from an org perspective, it would make sense to take a capital ship out on patrol with an NPC crew with the possibility for org mates to log in and man stations on short notice.

I've been a backer for a long time, but I barely play the game currently. Every now and then, I'll check in, see what's going on, play around just a little bit, and back off. My approach is "wait and see" (with a pretty large emphasis on waiting, but that's besides the point). I hear lately that people are angry about master modes, and after watching several videos on the matter, no one even explains what it is, and I don't feel like reinstalling the game right now. But whatever, I care less about how the game is now, and care more about how the game will be years from now. So I'm browsing KZbin, and see this combat ship tier list done by someone named Avenger One. I figure let's check it out. As I'm watching, something's just not making sense with his list as he ranked all the combat ships as trash, listed tiny racing ships as being top tier, and I noticed he seemed very defensive around his reasoning. He also sounded like a dick, but that's besides the point. It kind of had me wondering if something's going really wrong with Star Citizen if this is the kind of tier list people are making for it. According to this guy, no matter how good I'd get in a heavy fighter, I would get trounced by someone good in a Razor or something. I don't want that kind of bullshit in my space sim. Lo and behold, the KZbin algorithm later recommended your videos to me, and after watching this one, Avenger's video is now starting to make a lot more sense to me.

It's time to make another video for upcoming 4.0 release :)

My first thought, when viewing these sorts of changes is: How is it going to affect the noobs? We all know the learning curve alone is daunting, when you add in near instant bankruptcy how many more people are you going to effectively turn off forever. Either that or they learn that begging in global pays...

It's a game in Late Stage Capitalism

Brother these Militant PVE players are back at it again on spectrum, I swear to god if CIG adds anything for pvp players they lose their mind!

Maybe scavenging will become more important. Cutty and a vulture you could sell your findings at half price to other players and still make a killing

We do know how game universe instances (shards) are going to work in Star Citizen, they have explained it. An instance of the game is a separate game universe that players cannot traverse between, a shard is a collection of game servers with their own support servers ergo it is it's own instance of the game, an exact copy of the game universe in each instance or shard. They do plan to eventually have a single shard instance for all players but that won't come for many years (if at all) due to real world signal travel time limitations and global network backbone hardware limitation. So there will be regional instances of the game universe for a long time to come. What they are talking about is making some game features 'cross shard', so the activity in one shard affects all shards. This uses the persistence database to share that data between all shards, since it is a global database that feeds data to all shards. If you build a base in a particular location on your shard, then other players in other instances of the game universe cannot use that same real estate to build a base. Your base is represented in all shards as well as your own. In shards where no-one is supposed to have access to your base then it will be locked / protected on that shard even though you can physically see it in all instances. For non-fixed game assets like ships etc there will be no cross shard instancing. Like you I am also very concerned about area domination by organisations, to put it bluntly I did not support this project for 12 years and around $9000 for it to be area dominated by the likes of Goonswarm because it then becomes an arms race where that arms race takes up the majority of the resources and since resources are physicalised in Star Citizen that also means anyone who wants that level of resource gathering has to control the real estate where those resources are located. In non-UEE space anyone who discovers a deposit of resources will have to defend that location from much larger groups who have the resources to take your resources. In UEE controlled spaces they say this won't be possible, but we have yet to see the details of how that is going to work. They have vaguely talked about planetary shields and base shields, as well as an ever escalating NPC AI law enforcement spawning , this brings it's own problem of magic inflation of resources, since NPC ships and assets once supplied into the game universe are then available outside of the location based resource gathering, it becomes a virtually infinite resource. You can salvage NPC ships and game assets for as long as you can match those arrayed against you. ie What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger - quite literally. Picking a fight with the game becomes the most efficient predictable way to gather more and more resources. Why go exploring for resources when you can make the game bring those resources to you? The game, or at least very large sections of the game universe, become permanent war zones because it is advantageous to very large organisations to have it that way.

I think CIG should have a PTU special event specifically to test all of this. Allow 2 large orgs to have instant access to enough resources to build their own base and fight over these end-game tokens. Collect the data, figure out what's wrong with it and fix it.

Thank you for the content

Nothing to buy.

THANK YOU!!!

What can we glean from that? 1) all military components are being taken off the market, so you won't be able to buy them. 2) ship piracy with a focus on disable and dismantle for the resale of components will become huge as a consequence. For this reason, distortions will become very necessary and desired weapons, and this new increase in their percieved value reflects that expectation.

It means that selling guns that you take on the destroyed ships you create is going to be worth doing.

The decisions CIG has made in the past year (across the board) are so bad that its hard for me to accept that they're all unfortunate accidents. So I got to thinking - if I was Chris, and I realized (grudgingly or not) that my vision for this game was simply not possible, for whatever reasons, I would crank out changes that would quickly make the game a sad failure, so that I could escape the entire situation with a legit bankruptcy (and have it happen before I reach retirement age). Just a theory.

Late to the party, but ... yes, this year's IAE ships were a boring selection, or wouldn't work with the way I want to play (FWIW, I have a top-hat & monocle, so ... this year's ships were dull). Join a larger crew ? Well, I do so because I want a social experience. But do I want to sit in a turret for a two-hour session going where the pilot chooses -nah, socializing is better value to me, I want to drive, and I'd be happier flying a heavy fighter, or a Freelancer. (Yeah, I'm weird like that, preferring the Freelancer MAX to the Zeus CL). Master modes? I didn't like them when they were introduced, but am neutral now. Are they 'realistic', even for a space game? No, Elite Dangerous does space combat better.

CIG marketing does not want you to earn a weapon in game quickly. CIG marketing runs this game. Therefore everything will get more expensive and rewards will drop. The game is broken and not fun. I found another game to play some while ago.

i last played for 15 minutes when 3.23 dropped and then i stopped. There are some items i no longer like. 1stly, i don't play SC as a living, 2ndly, you almost have to as the economics are crap, mission payouts are crap, i don't like that we don't have a local inventory any longer, 3rdly i don't like the time-sink to load your own ship, they should make that selectable - i have a good "investment" in SC - and a nice picture of a BMM i own (tsk tsk tsk) imagine loading that fking ship manually - i have no interest in that (and NO fan boys, it IS crap and if you love that good for you) you almost need to find someone who will feed you and let you live rent free in their basement so you can play SC 24/7. i MAY have an hour a night, sometimes 2 and all the manual crap i have no time for. The way everything now costs more, i have about 27m AUEC and with a wipe coming, which is fine, it'll probably take 3 years to get another 27 in the state the game is now. the reality is SC is now the LAST game i would EVER think to play to unwind after a long day - SC IS a LONG day on it's own... it's crap.

Totally awesome! Thank you for Sharing! 💯✴

You mentioned the Polaris and its size 6 weapons around the the time you were mentioning the Attritions. Polaris size 6 is bespoke projectile weapons. The size 4 turrets however, they could use them.

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Hold up, don't you ever get 1 loaner HH anymore? Also thought the new matrix has no more HH loaners, only polaris - still that's a decent chunk of panthers and other stuff that can be stolen

When are these fucking morons going to balance mission payouts?

The utter unplayability of the IAE freefly event certainly didn't do them any favors. Log in, nothing works, fall through the world, HEY, BUY A SHIP!

Thanks for the excel sheet and the excellent video

I sincerely believe that CIG dont even know what an economy is as so far they havent done anyhting despite numerous patches claiming that they have introduced something to have some economic meaning

DAMN! And I thought .50BMGwas expensive!

Compared to starfield , it is a hard game, but starfield had a story line, a way easier method for upgrading ships, equipment , weapons. The only time my ship blew up was in combat . I Love and hate Star Citizen . Now I am a newbie still learning 1 week in playing hours every day. I hate the time wasted re equipping your ship and character every time, especially because your ship blew up running into an unseen object at 2m/s with shields on. At low speeds, with shields, they should just bounce . They could make a fortune with subscription if you enabled game saves through subscriptions . I miss playing 2d wolfenstein on apple Io 😂

As I see it schedule is issue one. I play solo for that reason, I don't want to be in a crew and then get a call or something comes up where I have to cut and run while others or depending on me to fill a roll. A human multi-crew should be vastly superior to a AI/NPC crew as not every best option is the logical one. I understand your point and agree in a PVP scenario but in PVE I do not see the same issues. Thanks for the video and the information.

With engineering and having to replace parts, i saw a game that is a lot more of a struggle..... Then they've increased rewards for missions and grinding them. I feel that will negate a lot of it, just devaluing the starting UEC on a player account. I hope we get nearer to a struggle going forward, but i worry it won't happen in case of upsetting players.

I get this game is trying to be hyper realistic or wtf ever, but it needs to be a game. All this bs with multiple tiers of insurance warranties and like somebody commented on grinding salvage for an entire day to fund one load of torps is fucking insane. I mean if they dont want any casual players to play the game at all then aure go ahaead but the game is not exactly on stable ground so seem crazy to put more tideous junk in an already tideous game to make people want to paly even less. Just my 2 cents.

I think it's a good thing as it'll make a certain subset of players, murder hobos, rethink at least momentarily, their actions as replacing their lost armour and character weapons, ammo etc... will be a lot more expensive.

You don't even realise probably how much these rants about "useless ballistics" exposes player incompetence :) Have you ever tried to pvp Connie solo in a medium fighter, like Hornet? Try it with Attritions and then repeat with "useless ballistic repeaters" setup. Depending on Connie pilot competence time to kill difference will be 6+ times in favor of ballistics.

Im excited that there will finally be some (heavy emphasis on some) semblance of consequence for losing ships.

its actually insane, I have never seen a company try so hard to get the player base to quit in my life, either there is a high up decision maker that is actively trying to make the project fail or they actually hate the existing player base. I sure as hell arent interested in playering 4.0 at all and i am sure I am not alone. 4.0 is all enshitification of the existing game and no new content. Yeah most of the player base have actually spent thousands of dollars in SC

Hey, buzzcut. I'm using your hosas config for my gladiators. Thanks for posing that. You're awesome.

size 3 omnisky is way cheaper than size 2 omnisky??

Dude I love the smooth lounge music tho

Maybe there needs to be some kind of metric as to how powerful an org is, making bounties on their heads bigger. With enough incentive your average zergfit gets picked apart by the elite farming class. Still with a game this big, there will always be big dogs that rise to the top and start dominating. It's simply the law of the jungle. I don't pretend to have a solution either.

Thanks for this, Buzz. I may not always be able to comment on every video you make, just know that its appreciated. I do sometimes have the urge to disagree with some of your takes but then I'm reminded that you know MMOs inside and out so I just auto pilot through it all 😅

This Price huge increase is right because the Ship Weapons upgrading at only one Time, not many and multiple Times! So is the increased Price a mirror of the Value of the Ship Weapons. Its so easy to become inGame Money!

Forgetting one thing: most of the higher end stuff has been shifted to Contested Zones, and removed from shops. Mostly components but i believe some weapons as well. This all looks to be a piecemeal balance pass overall. They're not done and they're operating with a final design goal that we cannot see. So all of this is going to see further revisions as more of the game's actually built past 4.0. 4.0 being all about Server Meshing, the new foundation.

I'm happy that salvaging ships actually has a point

So now we can sell stuff from our loaners and dont need to run any missions

Thanx for the nice summary! I hope, we get to see the diversity of weapons (the usefulness, that is) returning soon in the game...