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[@circuitguy9750]

I'm always impressed at your ability to just pop open a random tab and find something.

[@blackmamba___]

Let’s not forget he has been covering this game for over half a decade. Even doing something for a year, you tend to get really good at it

[@circuitguy9750]

@@blackmamba___ It's possible for people to do something a long time and be bad at it

[@blackmamba___]

@@circuitguy9750 If anyone been doing something for 5 years consistently and find themselves getting worse, then they need to find a new thing.

[@blackmamba___]

@@circuitguy9750 I'm glad he is not one of those people. Space Tomato 🍅 not only has gotten better, he has became the best star citizen content creator for keeping up with the verse for me.

[@bobstark4201]

Why would people be mad that the C1 gets a bigger hangar now? Idk, but it's probably the same people that got mad that CIG tried to make it so the 400i could fit a ROC in it. Someone always has to be the turd in the punch bowl.

[@bakad7424]

I can’t tell you how many times I hit my ship on those small ass hangers. These people okay in the head?

[@Cmoth040]

When you brought up the massive amount of unused buildings, it reminded me of my big gripe concerning the re-introduction of hangar modules. While I understand it's easier to create instances and just use the existing modeled structure of the spaceports, it's annoying that the personal hangars won't be spread out among the multitude of unused buildings. If you just own a small to medium starter, you could have rooftop landing pad. There are a ton of hangar doors visible on buildings where it's clearly intended to be personal residences. Instead of having to go to a spaceport, I could just fly to my house and open the hangar door with my mobi. I'll enjoy having my personal hangar back, but it won't feel like I own it until it's independent of the communal spaces.

[@aennaenn7468]

It does feel wrong to be "living" (as they've said we can) in hangars that are ostensibly at an airport. No one "lives" at an airport.

[@valeriansamborski5844]

I kind of agree, because I don't mind instanced hangars, but I would love to have non-instanced housing. There is enough real-estate to go around as it is, and if you should run out, because everyone decides to live at new babbage for some reason you can simply create more with just a few keystrokes.

[@elainebenes1482]

The end game is power and control. Prepare for EVE style war

[@misstressscarlet]

Indeed. Not absolute, but enough to make going to certain systems or asteroid belts very inconvenient or "dangerous".

[@Turican76]

eve is trash

[@Fragnatix]

Exactly, they talked about Command and Control with capitals ship which will give tools for orgs to organize. While this will lead to power and control (4X style). In this result, the initial 100 system goal will be ridiculous for the small quantity and the amount of time 1 system takes to make. They will make nulsec system procedurally so that we can have the real deal in the perimeter of the "galaxy" map while more sec system will be in the center or organized by the lore depending. That mean, also, player driven Economy (all economy).

[@korbentherhino]

Thats the end game for all capitalistic corporations so why not. lol When you have huge wealth the next thing is to lord over others.

[@blackmamba___]

I look forward to the day where its only one main server and land claims.

[@Snozberry3]

Ready for my retaliator rework

[@jedi_drifter2988]

A neutral reputation can be a good thing ... As soon as you get a good rep working for/in some company/system, you will be hated by another opposing company/system, that will attack you. Very tricky to manage that.

[@CitizenScott]

Good vid. One thing I think people need to do is stop thinking in terms of "endgame" in SC. It's not meant to work like that at all. It's like asking "what's the endgame of life?" The endgame is living IRL. The endgame is the playing SC.

[@mprgan613]

yeah endgame will be player interaction so wars and the like , a lot like eve

[@SPAMRAAM_GOAT]

all i want is my polaris, that way i can assert dominance and ram everything.

[@davewills6121]

Im there, us Polaris owners should form a ''WolfPack Club'', concerned with promoting a safe enviroment to learn ship crew specialization and command, hunting and obliterating feral vermin as HunterKillers. If captains/Commanders take the Capitals and the like into the verse without some gameplan, its a waste of a Polaris, might as well go out in an Aurora CL

[@Henkums]

You want to ram other with a ship that has the bridge right in the front? You better use the Perseus for that, it also has way better armor and is therefore more likely to survive this endevour

[@rooster1012]

Definitely a CitizenCon ship as that is their hype factory, remember the Carrack was the center piece ship at Citizencon when it released and the Polaris is almost as gib as it was.

[@hitmanstallion2697]

Hear me out, a travel bedroom is cool and all but what about a travel camping kit? We could bedlog with a campfire tent and bedroll have a cooking stove on the fire to cook up some food you've gathered.

[@blackmamba___]

I imagine once we have land claims, we'll be able to log in and out from there. I know that is a little different than your camping idea, but it will still be a huge step forward toward stationary bed log.

[@hitmanstallion2697]

@blackmamba___ I'm sure there will be times we get stranded on planets and are having trouble getting people to reach us and take us off world and since player death will be huge in the future backspacing just isn't an option. Chris even spoke about crash landing on a planet and setting up a camp that stave off the night. I think we are on the same page and this thought of Chris Roberts might be a miniature version of a temporary land claim

[@naseros464]

I expect that after 1.0 they still do ship sales, but start making them straight to flyable only. I hope they keep them limited to invictus or the I.A.E. though. It could make I.A.E. an even bigger event to look forward to if the announcement of new ship coincided with the only time you could buy them with cash. But i expect funding the project could also be funded by making new single player games that take place in the star citizen universes history. There is plenty of lore, and C.I.G. could write sripts for any of it

[@JJS563]

As per usual you have a lot of optimism. But with recent progression, I am inclined to believe we will have Pyro by year end

[@JClif]

I Love this series you do! It really gives be a big picture look at what CIG is working on. They should give you a commission for your hard work.

[@subklueless]

I feel like i saw something about having a system to quickly generate planets and environments etc.

[@aennaenn7468]

I wanna hear about drones and engineering next. And the ships that use them.

[@Spike.SpiegeI]

lots of great questions answered ST!

[@blackmamba___]

You are definitely correct about being more optimistic than most. I told you 2 years ago that adding new systems would be a very slow process. That it might take 10 years or more before we see 5 being added … and you said it would not take that long. 2 years later and we are still waiting on our second system and it still wouldn’t surprise me if we don’t see Pyro until 2025. Some may argue after that we will see one after another with each year, but I doubt that. Even the ones that are done for SQ42 will get some additional work done to ensure it’s optimized for SC.

[@SpaceTomatoToo]

I certainly don't think it'll take 8 more years to see 5 systems, I'll stand by that.

[@MurkMercy]

"Si even if they could magically squeeze 1 planet pet year....100 planets = 100 years. So here's an idea CIG....clone the 98 other planets. Make a new feature...seed tech. Then we can spend real world money to buy seeds and go to planets and farm and plant trees and landscape the planets while exploring (another feature and gameplay loop, oh and base build homesteads, another one). All the while the backers will bleed cash to build the universe so it won't take CIG 100 real life years to complete this game! Btw, when server meshing comes we'll be playing video games telepathically! But still at 10fps.

[@cicio7777]

Any chance on Polaris release for Invictus 2954 this end of May? Can't wait for DLSS and the Polaris...

[@mrtinythumb5363]

i have a suggestion actually for base building. building on a planet is cool and all. but what about "org" built space stations? should be ALOT more expensive to make but it should be possible. would be fun :D

[@mprgan613]

love to know when the in game guild system will be around an if we will ever rly see the exosuits

[@quadrapodacone]

The end game in an open-world MMORPG is and always has been whatever you want it to be. For some, that is being part of or running an org; for others, that's amassing as much power and rep as possible. If you have ever played EvE online (which has a ton of parallels with SC), you would know there is no end to "end-game" activities for a massive space game. It really comes down to the individual deciding what they want their end-game to be.

[@Jragron]

Building interiors will come with server meshing

[@Simmortus]

I see the only way to make this ultra interesting would be to have alien threats - both intelligent and more your space bugs or xenomophes

[@quadrapodacone]

Found the Warhammer fan. :P

[@Simmortus]

@@quadrapodacone xenomorphs is actually a reference to the Alian films…. But your correct I do love warhammer 🤓

[@BionicBurke]

@@Simmortus The Carrack already gives me Alien vibes... I don't need to recreate the chest burster scene. I'm good.

[@nypctechman]

[QUESTION] Has their been any discussion on any levels or roadmap information as to when they will finalize the way the systems and their objects move, adding physics and physicality to celestial bodies, moon, asteroid in their respective flight patterns and create dynamic mass movement with objects interact with? Case in point, destructible asteroids, adjusting or effecting their movement ect…. Systems were supposed to be fully realized and operate as a solar system should.

[@blackmamba___]

This will probably come sometime after they nail down dynamic server meshing.

[@hollywoodguy70]

Nyx by the end of next year is very pessimistic. We can't forget that planets is Turbulent's main task. They've been building out star system content for over a year now. The only thing holding them back was server meshing. I'd say we'll easily have Stanton, Pyro, Nyx, Magnus and Odin for 1.0 with the SQ42 release end of next year.

[@SpaceTomatoToo]

I really hope so!

[@Octobouch]

But why Nyx ? Other than levski, which is clearly outdated and would have to be redone anyway.

[@ESC_907]

Just gimme Rockets! Especially for my Talon Shrike!!!

[@bryanperras7628]

They will NOT charge extra for additional Star Citizen PU content. They made that very clear, it was a one-time purchase. They will make money after release by producing more SQ42 single-player campaigns and selling those separately.

[@paulnolin862]

If they ever get theaters in game, they should open with Attack of the Killer Space Tomatoes!!

[@terohaapakoski354]

it has been 12 years now, when i join the star citizen still dont know what i want to play in star citizen (role) :D Now fight it is between exploration vs bounty hunting

[@Gh0stHack3r.]

Think they said there will be 5 systems in 4.0 release ?

[@Octobouch]

Since they took out PO bc it was outdated I doubt the Levski we had is any less outdated and still relevant. i wouldnt assume nyx next because of it.

[@bryanperras7628]

You mentioned it briefly, but people need to realise that Squadron 42 is nearing a commercial release and AFTER it drops, we'll get everything in it, which would include Odin, Vega, and anything they needed in between. So, all those systems plus the two we have plus Nyx. After that, I think they'll focus on Terra and Earth as those will be the starting planets for the Commercial release of Star Citizen. Once those are in and the systems leading to them, I think that's when they'll look at a 1.0 release. They're supposed to have all 100 systems in game for the release but that's not realistic at this point and not really needed. They can do something to explain the lore behind why other jump points are closed or inaccessible while they build the remaining systems but they haven't even announced (like publicly named) all the systems yet. My guess is after the initial "needed" systems, they'll then focus on getting all the UEE systems in, then all the Neutral/Contested systems, then either the Xi'an or Banu then the other, kind of one race at a time as that will be faster, then the vanduul last as those will be unreachable by most anyway and then eventually get into the unknown systems and the Kr'thak at the very end.

[@Fragnatix]

1 shard 1 universe, 10 systems? Lol do you know how many players will be in each systems? They'll make procedurally generated systems without landing zone for orga to build their bases and control region

[@MDR1405]

👍👍

[@trashdoktor]

Need some news on the Railen.

[@iamFreddyP_]

For solo players.. aren't they planning to add AI / NPCs you can hire to assist you?

[@nuvankstrickland9223]

Polaris is out of grey box and in final art like 2-3 weeks ago. Give or take a week

[@reynardtv1]

I have been playing SC religiously for the last two years and have been really impressed by the game, now that it is picking up speed I will be playing less. Your stream about master modes made me make this decision. I was not impressed by the current release of MM but I am happy with the direction. With the game picking up speed I will probably log in every now and then during events like IAE to get a sneak peek but am going to hold off until 4-5 systems in. This is a game I am probably going to play for years to come, and I will be paying attention but want as much unspoiled content as possible.

[@_larkin_321]

I am in for the ride since Xmas holiday 2015/16. And I've never regretted it, even though I spent a ludicrous amount of money on SC. But it's less than 2$ a day, so not really a big deal (WoT and WoWS was not cheaper for me per day if I recall correctly). For the last few years I've just been playing a day a week with my org (weekly play-day), enough to see the rough edges but the progress as well, but not enough to become frustrated. With most of the existing game mechanics reaching a stable base this year, my online time will definitely increase again.

[@uddek]

@1:06:13 -- "Any starter pack you get is going to have LTI." -- That's false and hasn't been the case since 2014. Every starter pack since then comes with 3 months insurance by default. The only starter packs we've had with LTI recently were with new starter ship launches. However, you can upgrade those 3mo insurance starter packs with a CCU from one of the big events (ILW, IAE) from 3 months to 120 months.

[@SpaceTomatoToo]

Jeez, is that the case?

[@bakad7424]

I got a nomad in 2020 with LTI, hangar, and a paint job.

[@derjadebaum9159]

Anyone else thinking that they will only go on dead or alive bounties to be able to kill em?

[@Vara508]

i miss levski so much man, the space hippie vibes even from the landing authority was so fucking chill

[@teemos2732]

Tomato - how did you take CIG's CitizenCon announcement that their investigating the use of AI to create, or assist with the creation of, planets? Do you feel it is an exciting new avenue (all positive) or do you view it as an admission of not being able to create systems fast enough and now they're considering AI as a kind of pacnicked response?

[@SpaceTomatoToo]

I think they've always planned an algortihmic way to build planets, which we can see in their planet tech. They are just starting to tackle the questions of scale. I see this in missions, planets, POIs, etc.

[@blodrush25]

i have the Arrastra i guss i am going to mine the hell out of Dodge if as i think they are doing at CIG they have coopy Eve online so you start 4 5 places like Amraa gelente an so on 5 capitals also they need Wormhole space so you can ship flying all the way if you can find a connection. also ship sale need to only become starter ship or something under 125 dollers as starter ship was the point not that you make ships ingame an sell them ??? otherwise whts the point of mining an ship years ??

[@varlmorgaine3700]

Also apoint is that if you dont find something todo, do something for someone else. I think we will get more then 100 systems... in the end, will take a long time after 1.0 but yes if all features are in it will be much easier to create things with scripts. ( you need emopty or enemy ruled systems and that can get easily created by scripts)

[@j.d.4697]

4 star systems by the time SQ42 comes out with 1 year per system?! I sure hope not!

[@critic_empower_joke_rlaxtslife]

Not against it tomato, but I don't recall jail cells coming with Zeus mr

[@SpaceTomatoToo]

Hmmm, well hopefully there is some way to carry bounties.

[@aleace11]

When did he say, he thinks the Zeus coming out?

[@SpaceTomatoToo]

Not until CitizenCon

[@bryanperras7628]

Chiron - (kahy-ron)

[@macvid867]

ships,ships and more new ships but no release dates for the game ore for the 3.23 patch lol

[@6spacin9]

Everyone always looking for progression/endgame. And here I am just not caring about that. I play to just live out a space based life because I can't IRL. Maybe my endgame is just living in my Rambler roaming Microtech scavenging supplies (While the corsair I CCU'd to LTI collects dust, realized I like small ships and simple play). Been doing that for over a month now and still having fun. Hopefully a new system and planet will be in game by the time I'm ready to move. But right now I'm rolling into another long term camping binge and my GF is bugging me to turn off the computer and load up the Jeep so I'll check back on the game after 3.23 is out since I'll be in the forest drinking beer for a bit.

[@blackworldtraveler3711]

Never understood that talk about end game in a multiplayer like this. Just want to live the life of characters I’ve been reading about in sci-fi space opera novels since grade school.

[@anjalasuun4138]

Interactive map what is the link?

[@chippazilla23]

You can just read it from his browser…

[@rooster1012]

Just Google "Star Citizen Ark map".

[@ufeelinselfrighteous8470]

1 2 3 4 I hope the procedural planet generation comes before........ I grow old.... er...... that rhymes

[@phoenixsui]

Bring in logistics and industrial gameplay cig. Why is every idea including pewpew

[@korbentherhino]

because they build the easier to do stuff first and add stuff like logistics and industrial after the basic stuff is in. logistics and industrial wont be a simple UI screen and just click on various options and sit back and chill.

[@Kevlar-78]

So my fear is , as they add content , the players will just keep moving to the new hotness. I want a reason to go back to some of the systems that we have spent so much time in to date. Ya know ?

[@elvisman1075]

TV shop for dudes who want to buy pixels. At some point just unplug the copium, get in some fresh air and think about it with a clear mind.

[@SpaceTomatoToo]

Everybody should approach these things with a clear mind.

[@AlbertoMartinez765]

THEY WILL Create 100 systems They Legally have to as its part of the Original KS and was a PAID for Stretch Goal. Most of the systems in the Game will be Procedurally generated and mostly empty with maybe some copy pasta outpost and a Refueling station at best. They can pop out several of those a Month by the time the game is ready for release. This is still prob 5+ years away though

[@SpaceTomatoToo]

I think they'll be aiming for no more than 7 systems at launch. Hopefully they aren't forced to downgrade quality because of the kick starter, they completely changed the idea of a star system in 2014

[@JoseJimenez-fc6pu]

Ha! FIRST!!!!

[@The_Opinion_of_Matt]

Second, haha!

[@donotwantyoutoknowit]

I thought we left that BS behind 2 or 3 years ago. Don't start this again!

[@rooster1012]

It is to early to talk about 1.0 because they have not even released 4.0 which was supposed to be out years ago, remember "Road to Pyro" years ago and we still don't have that so it sure as hell would be irresponsible to hear about a "Road to Release" when they continually miss release milestones.

[@RoninX33]

This game is going to end up like eve where jump points will be camped by goon squads. Assuming it gets that far.

[@MadM4F14]

u start talking like everyone else, "think his year, think by the end of next year, think by the end of the year".... be clear. say it like it is. we cant count on nothing they say. the progress they do surprises them as it surprises us.. locationwise its a catastrophy. even if pyro and servermeshing comes this coming patch, so whut. the rest will take forever too. looking at the starmap is looking into the future beyond our lifetime. premiumsalt.

[@wawh_tv]

It’s like they are all saying the same thing. Which is basically not much at all. For sometime now…

[@KhairulFadzlyAKarim]

To me you have to think of its this way, either you wait for what Chris envisioned comes true which whenever it’ll be, get progress incrementally but progress nevertheless or you get everything now because there are so many ways to finish this game faster but it will be Starfield.

[@CaptainSF]

Lol, then why are you here? Anything at all in life about which I say the things you are saying here isn't a part of what I do at all. That you are here means you don't - you can't - full believe all that you submit...or, you hate yourself. Don't hate yourself. Love yourself. I love you, and want you to be happy. Go be happy.

[@MadM4F14]

i just help this channel grow by dropping some wisdom and make people react to it. so the channel grows even more. and my wisdom will help, or not, the contentcreator to grow in wisdom too. good day citizens o7 c u, in the verse ^^

[@mhchx3]

Pyro 2025, Odin 2028, 1.0 release 2029, Nyx 2030, Terra 2042 If you think it happens any sooner you're deluded imo. Remember Pyro is 8 years late. They've been working on it for over 9 years. They are still building planetary/system tech to this day. Ain't no way Nyx is 1 year away when all the development focus was on SQ42 and Pyro all these years. I'm done being optimistic it's just not worth it, never rewarded.

[@rudstar64]

Nuh uh

[@Mike-fg5bz]

Pyro at the end of the year

[@travisd1631]

You're thinking linearly, but growth is exponential. CIG spent SOOO much time in R&D, but now they can use that investment to churn out content.

[@mhchx3]

@@travisd1631 They'been saying that for many years already. I'm not thinking linearly at all. You're just way too optimistic about how exponential things will get. Nyx will take less time to complete than Pyro but certainly not 10x less lol. Same for Odin, it is already done in theory (SQ42 system) but they have to convert everything to multiplayer and it will take them several years knowing CIG management. They are still working heavily on R&D for many aspects of the game. We are not anywhere near the content flood that comes after that. Anyone who thinks after Pyro we get 1 new system every year is crazy.

[@mhchx3]

@@Mike-fg5bz How many years have I heard that. If we're lucky we will have 3.23 fully functional and stable by the end of this year.