These guys don't understand what Tier 0 means. Mining isn't the only thing that's not tier 0. Since Cargo hauling was introduced, they added physicalized inventory, physicalized cargo, cargo hauling tools, freight elevators, cargo grids, cargo missions, etc. Since salvage was introduced they added crafting, different sized boxes, breaking ships, disintegrating ships, weapon salvaging, salvage missions, etc. While perhaps not the final 1.0 implementation it's FAR from their Tier 0 implementation. Get it right.

its always cringe to me when "the community" dreams about how to make a game better, the community dont own the CIG Corporation and are not paid devs...CIG will do whatever makes them $$$ period. Dreamers dream, businessmen bank.

what we need is a PLAYABLE GAME with mission markers, no lag, not been quicked out of game for 9 DAYS, interesting game play mission, NO MORE SHIP UNTIL PLAYABLE

I've had some hangar bugs, but i haven't had any bugs that killed me since 4.0, which is great. Additionally nothing game breaking either.

If you only had an hour to play it might be nice to immediately log into an instanced mission with a group.

The mission team is probably the worst team at CIG.

Racing is great... In arena commander. It's not worth the time sink punishments for death in the PU or the 400 credits you get as a reward.

The biggest point behind one material rocks in mining is remove randomness... The end goal is that find different materials in more logical spots, say one kind of mineral that shows up around eroded river spots, one on mountain peeks etc. If you know the lay of the land it should be easier to find specific things.

As someone with literal thousands of hours on swg and first major mmo growing up. I play SC because it’s the first game to give me the same feeling SWG did since its death. Hearing about crafting gives me literal goosebumps thinking about how it’s exactly like swg. CIG just take my wallet please.

@12:10 Regarding instancing. This really shows the lack of foresight on CIG's part. Instancing is, for the most part, supposed to reduce network utilization by having your "world" isolated, reducing or eliminating other extraneous data streaming to your PC from other player's game activities thereby optimizing network utilization. Case in point, the instanced hangars. As it is currently, you can still see from the map view when you are in your hangar, what everyone else is doing in your "isolated" instance. What this means is that for each (ghost) player in the hangar, they would have their own ships, riser-platform, storage elevators, hangar gates, boxes, and all their associated coordinate data etc., still streaming to your PC. And if we consider that over ten to twenty pilots can exist in a space station (e.g. Seraphim station) retrieving their ships and messing around with boxes, that's a lot of extraneous data you don't need about them (and they don't need about you). Not only does the current way defeat the purpose of network optimization, a negative side-effect is that the physics and audio systems that used to work globally, now need to be patched to work conditionally. Like, disable visibility, physics and audio for all entities that don't belong to John when he is in his instanced hangar. Or some nasty programming like that. Maybe it's just me (I used to install/setup multi-node, realtime video-conferencing systems) but it seems evident to me that they (CIG) didn't really take good care in planning for "proper" instancing in all the years of SC development. One would think that they would take scalability very seriously from the get go right? I mean, the significant savings in network utilization alone would have had enough priority and importance that none of the hangar instance issues we experience today would have even occured -- for any service with massively scalable aspirations.

Another big problem is the lack of ship tracking. We now have several ships that can act as motherships but they are completely useless for that because you lose the marker as soon as you get out of radar or scanner range with you snub. This alone is holding so much emergent group, org and exploration game play back. That single feature would open the game up to so many new possibilities. Why CIG are not taking care of this is a complete mystery to me. This could literally change the way this game is played. And we had that before. We could even QT to party markers anywhere in space. The tech is not the problem. We are waiting for our connie's snubs to become part of the exploration game play ever since the Conny is for sale. That is my biggest disappointment.

The servers are on fire, 50% of players locked out of the game, and the other 50% going hard on the dupe exploit.... Yeah, Things are looking pretty good...... this is just an ID10T error

Redeemer in dogfights? If it says "Gunship" expect it to be heavily armed and fly like a cow. Redeemer was supposed to be agile and look what we got. This will not be different for the Palladin. They always try to compensate firepower with lack of agility. When it comes to multicrew, there is no problem as long as there is enough equivalent opportunities for solo players, which, as multiple studies suggest, make more than half the player base and even more when it comes to players over 50, of which we have many in SC and there will be many more because of demographics and the extended development time of SC. The only real problem is, that many players have bought larger ships because CIG didn't make it clear that they will effectively useless for solo players. Look at the Carrack commercial. It misleads you to think this was a solo player home base...

CIG should really just poll the community what professions they want (now) and get on them. Doesn't make sense to work on stuff people don't want as much. UNLESS they think working on something not as many people want now will bring in a whole new crowd of players. I wish they would be more open what professions are being concentrated on and which ones are further along. Regarding jumping in points I decided to jump in with 4.0 with the huge addition of Pyro. Though I haven't been in game much. Been setting up stuff up, HOTAS, head tracking, etc. Out of all the times to jump in this seemed like the best time yet. However those that have been playing for years would know more than me.

Great stuff guys, keep it up!

Star citizen is in a horrible state. It’s not even playable most days. Very very disappointing!

You were on the right track with the instancing. They aren't doing actual instancing from what I can tell where the hangar is on it's own game server using it's own resources. So currently it isn't truly instanced but more likely we could call it virtually instanced. Because it shares the resources of the gameserver and the other hangars it is likely that is partly why we have the bleeding effect from other hangars and what not, as well as they will be impacted by resource usage throughout the server it resides on. But in the future with SM now they could potentially do truly instanced hangars, but guess we'll see. I think the current reference of instanced is a bit cart before the horse or it's the loose representation other game platforms are using.

I don't know why I never hear reference to Albion online in discussions about PVX game design

Please no instances... Find another way CIG

how can this game be this bad this long!!!... i mean im 44 , I have been waiting ........12 years, the way it looks , I need to wait what?. another 10? come on man!! im angry at this point. its so broken, copy and paste bunkers in Stanton, witch horrible loot mechanics and gameplay.. It's every year. this is the year!! ,,, this is the year!! i been hearing that for 12 years!

Oh man, talking PVE piracy and NPC cargo ships flying around… and my brain said “image being in a queue to land in a hangar and there are now NPCs in that queue “

If needs a main story to add adventure. Just logging in and doing contracts isn't gonna cut it and no S42 should not be the main story of SC

They don't need to fix the game. They just have to finish it. And we just have to let them do their job. ^^

#delusional

@1:14:00 As i played elite in the past i do like the deep core mining they have , its fun 👍

The next big thing is Maelstrom because Maelstrom is the destructibility and how things brake. This is not only good for combat but also for resource gathering, whether that's Mining, farming, hunting, whatever but of course the reverse of that is the system for repairing & building thus Crafting & Engineering. The other thing is in the presentations it seemed like each of the professions will have 3-4 specialisations. So for example resource gathering could have specialisations of ore mining, gas collections, salvaging, farming & hunting of which balanced to the trade system would have rewards based on 'supply & demand'. and they would feed into crafting profession with its specialisations of arms manufacture, parts manufacture, drugs maker and cook. But as things degrade they have to be repaired via Engineering with its specialisations of mechanic, system optimiser, medic, etc which also requires materials gathered by resource gathering profession generating demand and completing the game loops. Point is that once Maelstrom is a part of the game that allows things to be broken down for combat & resource gathering or put together for crafting & repairs completing game loops. Just as we where waiting on server meshing, we are now waiting on Maelstrom.

Well the big different is that Server meshing IS HERE , compared to the other years where we said this years is the years , but SM wasn't there , we hoped it would come but it didn't well only very late , so NOW , NOW it really begins i really think

Why do people think that any EVENT they have is suppose to be smooth an bug free? Even though this is a Pre alpha development, that might move into official alpha with 1.0. Events are for bug smashing an code testing. They will an should show bugs unilt the product is released.

If we are in a global event and a group of player pirates come to shoot everybody, then these are ruining the experience for all the other players. First because they are out of context with the event and by extension out of the Lore of that event. And second because they're only there to ruin other peoples game and have fun over this fact, which is like trolling. If the event allows to join as defender of the A.I faction, then is legit. But it's different than shoot to everything.

Yeah, the guy who (I believe) heads the mission team was on interview during Citcon briefly, he seemed quite proud and fond of his work. Completely disconnected from reality. You can really tell these developers don´t play their own game.

waste of money and time. 4.0 big problem with logging into servers.. waste of time

Content to me are missions and assets. A new planetary system is content, many missions from the panel for 1.0 are content also and do not require extra features to be incorporated. Patrol missions for example. Kill/Save VIP missions, some of the sports missions....etc. On the opposite side there are features like player skills, control surfaces, crafting, stun & capture, customizable hangars, base building, weather... Stuff that the game cannot do currently without adding new mechanics to the game.

the only global event/mission i repeatedly have fun with is siege of orison. all the other "missions" in stanton have been boring filler and only worth doing to find loot boxes at bunkers or outposts. the missions in pyro have been more fun due to the locations actually being made for gameplay rather than just an asset sitting there for a screen shot.

mining at the moment is not to worth it. relaxing but not worth it

17:30 - Something I’m really hoping won’t change is the ability to enjoy gameplay without being forced into interactions with tryhards or large groups that dominate everything. Right now, Star Citizen offers ways to engage in gameplay on your own terms, and I’d hate to see that ruined by massive orgs monopolizing certain parts of the game. Zergs / Orgs / Large groups have the potential to lock away entire gameplay loops or resources, making it nearly impossible for small teams or solo players to compete. This already happens in games like Rust, where large clans dominate servers, raiding smaller groups with ease. You don’t just lose the battle-you lose hours of effort that are funneled into the war chests of big orgs. Eventually, you’re left with no real options except getting wiped out or quitting entirely. I worry that if this dynamic plays out in Star Citizen, entire regions of the game could become gated behind org control. For players who don’t have the time to invest in an org or don’t want to deal with zerg-style gameplay, that would be a huge loss.

The mission team gets smeared by the WIP game engine. They need to push fully dynamic server meshing sooner rather than later. These bugs are ham-stringing the content. Finish the engine first.

the new events are just overly dragged out, ie. the xeno mission and save satnton. i dont want to do 6 of the same bunkers over and over just to get the information you could have gotten the first time. they could have had this done at a distro centre, or orison platforms or other place. they are big enough to have all the information or fights to be at. and scattered the tasks out that are needing to be found or done.

Arena Commander will never suffice to meet the promise of private servers. Those of us who are interested in that aren't even looking for the entire back end to be there like CIG thinks when they tell us we'd never be able to run it; we're looking for something like ourselves and our friends on what would be at most two DGS at a time running, say, mining operations to and from the base we built. We're not looking to wander around the entire game with thousands of other players we don't even know; we want our small group to affect OUR world without some jerk with an A2 or a Polaris coming along and burning off some ordnance for kicks. We're not even opposed to PvP. We just don't want the random people coming along to gank/grief everyone in sight.

games a scam- they dont even have a full team of coders. they farmed out the new content to generate more cash to pocket and they are just spewing more empty promises. SCAM.

Look forward to all your videos, listen to the Podcast while I work every day and I just wanted to say thanks for keeping us all informed!!

I built my new first new computer since 2012 based on TP42's recommendations (5800x3d, 32gb ram, yadda yadda) and it runs Star Citizen fantastic. I built an entire computer around just playing SC. I bought an Aurora starter package. And there was damn near nothing I could do to just PLAY the game. I upgraded to a Cutter so I could at least do box missions more easily. Now in 4.0, starting with a Cutter and there is still SO LITTLE TO FRIGGIN DO. Basically the starters exist to fly you immediately to a place where you can rent a ship that's ACTUALLY USEFUL, or you can spend real cash to upgrade your upgraded upgrade ship. I don't understand how utterly pointless this game is for actual beginners with no experience and a starter ship. A designer was paid to make the game so that your FIRST cargo hauling contract is for 9-11 SCU when NONE of the starters can handle that. Why are there not a whole series of starter cargo missions for 1-4 SCU? How does it benefit the game in any conceivable way to make them 9-11 SCU? Why is it that the "Very Low Risk" bounty missions are still way more than a beginner in a 2 gun Aurora can handle? How is a new player supposed to LEARN how to do ship combat when they're dead in seconds on the "easiest" missions? How is it that the Space Ports at Lorville, Hursten, etc don't have permanent HUD beacon markers telling you where the hell they are? When I'm on a planet my screen is bloody FILLED with useless red markers showing me all the places I CAN'T fly to. And yet, the most important places where they should have beacons.... they DON'T?!?! Now in 4.0 they decided it was time to fix that, so they added a stupid light to mark the location? ARE YOU KIDDING ME? People are getting paid good money to make these utterly idiotic decisions ON PURPOSE. How? HOW? HOOOOOOOWWWW?!?!?! I want to love this game so much. It's all the things I love. But I can't just sit here and let this game continually punch me in the face. I just have to stop. It's time to move on a play other things. This just isn't worth it.

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Chris feature creep is the problem. Until you fix the problem, things will not improve long term for the game. Chris needs to step down from the day to day. There, I said it.

I have to take some cues from elite dangerous here. I've been playing a little bit more since 4.0 ended up being without missions for me. Reputation is a huge factor in the game, from custom ATC messages. You've got a high reputation in that system, to the response time of local factions coming to help you if you get attacked. High reputation means a faction response in seconds versus minutes if you've got a lower reputation or not at all. The factions are interesting too, you have an empire and a federation, but you also have hundreds of offshoots of different federation factions or imperial factions. So you might go to a system and do work to gain reputation for an imperial subsect for example. I think the soldiering thing is a great idea, and again the way elite dangerous does. It is interesting. Interesting. If you go to a system that has two factions in conflict, you can essentially sign up with Frontline services, choose a faction to fight for, get an npc taxi over to the Battle zone, and then fight a capture the flagstyle engagement against NPCs or any other players that signed up in the same area. There are possibilities with the systems they have now, to do some of this stuff. You could sign up for a war zone in crusader and fight between crusader security and the nine tails for example. I think it's also possible that if you got enough reputation with crusader security doing bounties or mercenary missions, that something from that faction could turn up and help you if you got interdicted or into a combat. Going back to Star citizen properly now. It's only been recently that having a CS5 from killing security forces, resulted in hammerheads turning up at Port olisar. They used to be a time where you could guarantee there would be two to five hammerheads from the UEE Navy just hanging outside. There are systems that have been overwritten and replaced over time that seemed insignificant or unfinished but had meaning and gameplay implications that have just kind of been lost now and would work really well to make Stanton feel like a proper secure location

These two are the best SC You Tubers and together they are a great duo- not quite Morecombe and Wise level but definitely a solid Hale and Pace lol One thing they forgot though is the Flight Model. I still think MM is shite. And due to ( in 2025!!!) still not having gravity/atmospheric flight the flight model is still shite too. Watch when ships come in to land- you can tell when they are tapping the WASD keys etc lol

Wow, I soloed the first bits of the Save Stanton event over a few days and then got together with some players from global chat to smack the Idris a bunch of times!

Its kind of sad that at the moment the most fun part of this ludicrous space ship game is the FPS combat... As for security in stanton, I dont see why the UEE military and station security turrets dont have hitscan beam weapons. For hunting/crafting, it would be great to be able to modify armour sets and weapons with animal/monster components, like a Kopion horn knife, or valakar scale armour etc...

Quality of Minerals and Ores is determined by the process you use to refine it, and the process you use to mine it. Riskier mining should return better quality ores. Longer refining processes should result in a higher quality final product as it would have less contamination resulting in a 99.9999999 % Pure. vs 99.9% pure.

The best event is the: SIege of Orison kzbin.info/www/bejne/eWKYkp-PfKudqtE

Medical gameplay is D.O.A.