You can put Mole bags. On a prospector

Have they confirmed a wipe or nah?

I think something in this conversation was very revealing... He says he supports MM because he isn't good at flying, then maticulously critiques gunplay/scope physics. He makes his bias as a veteran clear, so that's fair enough, but what is revealing here to me is.... Everyone wants THEIR area, that THEY like to be really deep, engaging, and as realistic as possible. Then, the other aspects of the game that they are not good at ... Those can be dumbed down and gamified. I think we, as a community, need to come to a realization, and Tomato hinted at it when they were talking flight....THE WHOLE GAME should be deep. Being ground forces, understanding how to calibrate your weapon, bullet drop, shooting from an elevated position etc should all play a role in that skill curve. The same should be true for pilots....the same true for miners....for cargo haulers....for engineers. There is VALUE in having someone with those skills, because not anyone can be a sniper, and not just anyone can be a pilot. WE are the character classes, and WE level up our skill. This whole thing where we level down to the lowest common denominator really should stop, on my opinion. Instead of dropping the skill required so we can all do everything, the game should be increasing the skill required so we have to pick the things we want to excel at.

things need to start being less buggy, like EVERYTHING need to start working more bugging less.

@Yoyomeg "Star Citizen is in another league." Some others are saying that SC will be the first "AAAA" game. I tend to agree.

55:54 A lot is in 3.23 yeah, it's big, but not "most of what they showed." It's loads of S42 ports, and basically every feature is a partial version of what they demoed at CitCon. Master Modes? Archetypes. Interactions? FPS. Reputation? Hostility. DCs? Surface. Starmap? Partial. Minimap? Partial. Partial? Partial. They showed off Armor Progression, Specialized Armor/Undersuits, Clothing/Armor Layering Refactor, Utility Pouches, Rep-gated Clothing, Starcloth, etc., but none of it is anywhere in sight, and people still say, "we got the new Dusters gear so check off Armor." Unreal. Hangars, Cargo, Freight Elevators, and Item Banks dropped off. Where's FPS radar? Scanning refactor? Hygiene? Fire? Maelstrom? Realistic Audio? Ray tracing? Multi-threading? The list goes on... Wanna say 3.23 TOUCHES ON most of what they demoed? Okay, fair enough, but we're over halfway into their timeline, nothing's been delivered so far this year, and 3.23 is not even close to half of what they showed. Being realistic isn't negative, and being positive won't change the facts. Just sayin.

Um counter: 😓😂

@~56 min, I think you're backwards. The salvage entry ship vulture should be readily available to anyone, the reclaimer should be the one locked behind a rep wall. Unless I misheard you

Hell yeah! Meg!

Oh snap! There's my Double Dog!

Heh I think I might have been the one to show Meg the MSR at first. Really happy to see her killing it in the SC community. Can't wait to meet at Citcon this year!

o7 ... 🫡

Yoyomeg… glad space could highlight you channel

I really want the scanning gameplay in. I sometimes go looking for good rocks to mine and sell locations for them to miners. That's the best we have for now. I did love scanning in EVE Online as well. It was quite satisfying to drop probes around and triangulate locations of players.

IMO Data running will go hand in hand with smuggling, because either way, your transporting something you don't want anyone to know about. The MSR was made just for that purpose.

Nice to see new faces at Tomato 🍅 shows 👌🏻😎🥳🙌🏻

lol i started when 3.18 was released glad im still playing it on the daily

It seems to me that SC is more like 8+ games in one. FPS, Racing, Mining, Exploration, Transport, Engineering, Flight Sim, Scavenging............ I don't really mind that ships can get expensive since this is one game that has basically infinite replayability. It is an absolute bargain at the $45 buy in point!

Spoilers: they don't, the game is dying

This came out just in time for me to start my work day

I lost count on how many times Tony Z said "You know"

Sooooo we dont see Tony on camera anymore because he has James Holden syndrome and cant keep his mouth shut. yeah? Didnt he also spoil Nine Tails lockdown ( not that that event was any good)

Time kills hype. Hype isn't a good thing though.

It not only could, it most likely will.

1:23:18 - No way he talks about investing ~35min to be flight ready and then suggests hiring an escort/scout. People in servers already are deep in their own jobs/ventures and most likely just ignore your plea. So you say I have to "hire" security and wait another 10-15 minutes in order to have somebody arrive at my desired position, IF somebody has enough boredom to do so? There needs to be an implemented gameplay loop and reputation system for security runs.

what i want is a crusader ares bomber variant as there arent any light bombers with actual bombs and honestly the ares should get an interior its so big but so underwhelming with just a cockpit or a really light cutter dropship/gunship variant or an 85x limited limousine type variant

Tony, where is Tony?! Bring back the Z! I love the way he thinks in systems interacting instead of hard coding/designing everything causing everything to always be repetitive and boring. Brain to my brain :)

Thank you all for the video! It took me a moment to process everything, but I'd love to dive deeper into this topic. How can we make exploration more rewarding? You all have amazing ideas, even though some might be a bit too specific for me. Still, I appreciate the effort in bringing up such wonderful points. I think we might be underestimating the potential here. Let's think bigger! Exploration Mechanic Dynamic Wormhole Network: Temporary wormholes exist and form spontaneously, connecting various star systems across vast distances. The SC Ark Starmap still contains several unnamed stars between known systems, possibly due to their lack of habitability. These temporary wormholes are inherently unstable and cannot be artificially held open for long periods at the current technological state. The UEE (United Empire of Earth) has developed technology to stabilize some wormholes, allowing them to be maintained for longer periods if properly powered. A maximum number of stable wormholes can exist at a time; any more and the existing connections may collapse. Exploration Opportunities: Discovery: Players may discover new wormholes forming or already open. Wormhole Probing: Players can send probes through a newly discovered wormhole to gather information such as distance, location, type of star, and age of the star system. Cartography Long Range: Players within the new system can explore and chart it, by mapping planets, moons, asteroid fields and nebulas with their respective location to the star. Cartography Mid Range: Of Planets, Moons, Points of interest, asteroid field regions with their containining valueables from distance. Deploying Temporary OM/s: Players can set up temporary orbital markers (OM/s) to assist smaller ships with navigation in the system. Resource Gathering: Mining and extraction teams can explore systems in detail, harvesting resources such as quantium reserves and other valuable materials. Alien Encounters: Players might encounter various alien species, some friendly and others hostile, which can lead to diplomacy, conflict, or trade. Sightseeing: Players can enjoy stunning visuals no one has ever seen. Events and Challenges: Security and Combat: UEE military forces may need to defend wormholes against alien threats or pirates trying to block or gain access. Strategic Planning: Fleets should be organized for expeditions into unknown systems, providing security for miners and explorers. Weekend Challenges: As wormholes near closure, alien species may attempt to take advantage, requiring player defenses and combat. Exploration Contests: Players can participate in weekly or monthly contests to chart new systems and discover rare resources. Procedural Generation: Randomized Star Systems: New star systems connected by temporary wormholes can be procedurally and randomly generated each week, featuring: One or multiple stars, and several planets or moons, possibly with asteroid belts and nebulas. Varied sizes and types of stars and planets (rocky, gas giants, ice planets). Asteroid fields, nebulas, and other space anomalies for mining and sightseeing. For Starters, Initial Lack of Habitation: New systems initially lack any living inhabitants, focusing purely on exploration and resource gathering. CIG could reuse all existing moons and planets and use them plain without any settlements. Its all about exploration and minin, with a lot of potential.

5x bunker missions with 5 code locks that have been in the game for years, 3x com arrays with some kill the space ship and mines, 5x Kill the space ships, 1x go to SPK and kill non-functional AI, 1x triple box mission that CIG couldn't even get to work properly for 90% of the player base. Oh man they never wheel out that liar Tony Z anymore I wonder why.

I'm also interested how to trade location information. Will it be stored unreadable in game and therefore not multiply-able and therefore better sell-able?

CIG could add something other than Comets that passes trough the local star system like like a wreck or an artifact. I'd really like to know how the telescope array of the endeavor is supposed to work/integrate in the exploration system

When I finally managed to complete phase 5 one of the boxes used the admin center box terminal. Try the mission again and if the box terminal errors out in the cargo center try the admin center and vice versa. Also don't use the tractor beam for the boxes

There is nothing dynamic about the current plan for anything. It is all triggered manually by CIG each week for the next phase. I think over the last few years Tony Z has either not been allowed to add his work to the verse or this whole thing of quantum has shown he is not capable of doing it.

so is this why we have no missions? we dont have quanta?

Most likely (and Hopefully?) most of these advanced missions/features that have been discussed over the last few years have not been released due to tech. blockers, direct or indirectly. Massive battles, might be on hold due to server player limits, AI responsiveness, and things like that. Or something like server instancing to provide the area in space the battle takes place in.

This is a great subject to have a conversation about. I would love to see another episode of this w guests that are not so industrially centered. Let’s talk to people who know the lore, that are story tellers, that are creative that may be able to generate ideas that CIGA could run with and implement.

Oh god. Jared's face during the talk about Xenothreat is incredible. Tony just rambling and pulling the veil back, and Jared's like "Yep. So about that 'Not spoiling anything' aspect..."

Tony Zurovec and light hearted conversation does not even belong in the same library, let alone the same sentence or conversation!

Take the arena commander Tank Royal map and remove the vehicles and make it a sniper rifles and pistols only mode.

You scared me with the appearance of a cryptid in this video!

Legend has it, poor Draygon is still out there to this day, in the void of space, waiting for Tony Z's Quantum Simulation to give him something dynamic to do....😢💀 Where's Tony Z???

TONYYYY!😢

I want to hear from Tony Z. again! :)

@1:20:00 I think you're right that the game NEEDED gamifying, as to this point too many of the systems were cumbersome impediments to play. With that said, I can understand why the 'sim' focused people might be let down as the marketing tries to make it sound like all things to all people when it still isn't much to anyone.

Bloody decrypt cards disappear on me during the SPK mission in stage 4. Pick it up, put it in backpack, put it in hand…*poof*. Where did it go? I think it relates to ongoing back-end database issues, but who knows?

In my perfect dream of SC I see exploration as the foundation of most other professions. I dont think there should be random missions at least high level stuff without someone finding it first and selling the data. There no HH to salvage? well guess I better get my scanning ships looking for wrecks. My org needs a supply of unatainium but theres none on the market better send the scouts out looking for it. Make it an auction style bidding so the market can semi regulate its self.

#WhereIsTonyZ

Apart from the Phase 5 box mission mess (which I have attempted over 10 times now with no luck) I agree that they are getting MUCH better.

In RL cargo goes from port, to a regional distribution center, to a local distribution center, then to your house.

Cornerstone compendium, verse guide and item searcher are one of those essential tools. Thanks for your effort guys.