#21

Shiny! Make sure you have Mumble/Steam on tonight then Greg - we may be able to try it out.

#22

I might download the demo too and have a look i should give Rome a rest for a couple of days

#23

It's about time Maximouse. 70 hours in 2.0 weeks is so nuts. I mean, listen - listen to what you're saying. It's paranoid delusion. How - It's really sad. It's pathetic. 

#24

It is bizarre time for a break am starting to dream about it  

#25

Just added a forum specifically for this game...

#26

It was good fun yesterday Greg. I played for about an hour after you left to try gather some more information. All I really achieved was a few contracts:

One involved bringing some platinum to a station, as that is what I was already doing it wasn’t that hard.

The other involved cleaning a solar panel. You use the mining beam to clean shit off of a solar panel which looks like a big picnic blanket floating in the middle of nowhere.


I think this will be good with a few of us, perhaps doing some mining in a dangerous area whilst the other provided fighter cover. The trade system means you can then split the profits.

#27

Cool. I see far greater potential in this game than X3, for me.

The game seems to be a mix of Freelancer and X3, with all of the best bits of both, without any of the shite that plagued X3. The controls and interface are spot on and took little getting used to. The addition of the Newtonian physics is a welcome one and I can only hope that Star Citizen takes some pages from Evochron. 

Graphically it is nothing to write home about. It is better than Freelancer but not quite on par with X3. The tutorial was essential and good enough to get you going with the basics.

Combat feels good - certainly much better than X3 ever was. I had trouble with some of the bigger paid missions, but then I expected to as I had the basic starting ship.

Mining was worked well (me and Greg had a go at this together).

Ship customisation seems to be extremely cool. You can move about, shape and rotate parts of your ship to your liking, as well as the usual upgrades such as shields, cargo, weapons etc. You choose different "frames" for your ship to alter its attributes (basically like buying a new ship).

Multiplayer seemed good when it was working, although Greg did keep getting disconnected. Whether this was the game or his connection I don't know, but either way I will definately be setting up the server to run it dedicated.

All-in-all, I really enjoyed my time on it and I forsee that with a few of us this could be really good fun.

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#28

It was good, I look forward to doing some exploration into other sectors to see what we can see.

#29

Yes, it looks like fun. Do you think the G-Man will like it?

FYI: Dedicated server will be set up (hopefully) by Friday game-night. I am already looking into this.

#30

Nice one, hopefully the server will mean less drop outs. I think my net was about as good as it can be yesterday but it’s hard to tell.

I text G-man last night to say we would probably be playing this on Friday to give him the heads up. That’s about as far as I can be arsed to go with that really so it’s up to him.

#31

I wanna play again tonight but i am going out with Jen so going to have to wait until Thursday.

#32

Nice one, hopefully the server will mean less drop outs. I think my net was about as good as it can be yesterday but it’s hard to tell.

The dedicated server is a good thing to do no matter what anyway, since player bases are only enabled and persistant if you use a dedicated server. Hopefully we will iron out any issues and be up and running soon. It may have been my end, who knows.

I text G-man last night to say we would probably be playing this on Friday to give him the heads up. That’s about as far as I can be arsed to go with that really so it’s up to him.

I suppose that's the best we can hope for. He is elusive at the best of times.

I wanna play again tonight but i am going out with Jen so going to have to wait until Thursday.

It will be Friday for me I may be able to do some tinkering with the server, but won't be able to get on to play until then.

#33

I will not shoot off ahead if I play on Thursday. My intention is just to have a play about and work out some of the features.

I think it would be a good idea to stay at about the same level during the beginning phase of the game.

#34

Agreed. Or at least keep one profile that we only use when we are both on, or something like that. Then you are free to do whatever you want on another profile (both of which can still be used on the server).

#35

Have you come across any information on commodity trading? I can’t see how it is supposed to work.

#36

I haven't as of yet, but I haven't really been looking for that kind of info yet. If I find anything out I will post it up here.

#37

I will try and get on Friday night for a bit of this it sounds good.  Will definately try and get on the demo tonight if i like i will get the game.

I did play last Friday but it wasn't really games night do you think that will work?

#38

Sure it will. If there is any doubt, give it a clout.

#39

Be good to get us all on for Friday. Shame that Captain Gout has got trapped in his pie-making machine ATM.

#40

Argh yes how could i forget if in doubt DH and pout bur?