Star Citizen

[ZeDestructor]

If you are planning on pledging higher than the basic, going by aesthetics is good

At the same time, this can be horrible double-edged sword... I now co-own a Banu merchantman just cause it's so pretty :3

 

[IceBone]

Also, go talk to loose_unit. He has a few packages with LTI (which you can't get anymore).

 

[Chaos]

LTI = Lifetime insurance?

If so, I'd most likely be interested, seeing as I have the tendency to destroy things I own.

 

[loose_unit]

LTI = Lifetime insurance?

If so, I'd most likely be interested, seeing as I have the tendency to destroy things I own.

I literally sold it yesterday.

If you are willing to pay a bit of a premium you can go here for LTI ships: http://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen_trades

But remember not having LTI won't be a big disability in-game anyway.

 

[TobiasG]

LTI is not worth the premium. If you don't get it for the same price as they bought it, then don't buy

 

[loose_unit]

LTI is not worth the premium. If you don't get it for the same price as they bought it, then don't buy

Indeed

 

[IceBone]

First episode of The Next Great Starship has been released to the youtubes:

 

[TerranCmdr]

I watched through all 3 episodes. There is some great work, and some not-so-great, but overall I'm pretty impressed with the entries.

This one is by far my favorite though:

 

[IceBone]

That one is cool and I'm finding myself shying away from the guns that follow the whole gattling cannong multiple rotating barrel approach.

 

[TerranCmdr]

If I remember correctly, the rotatey thing was part of the requirements.

 

[GaryC]

So, this game is something like Eve? How spreadsheet-necessary is this?

 

[IceBone]

Not at all. It's a 1st person dogfighter.

 

[Adrian]

That's just a part of it, Ice. There will be spreadsheeting for those who want that too

 

[IceBone]

But not like Eve. There will be no km long skill tree.

 

[loose_unit]

ALSO As a quick note to anyone who is on the fence, there is only 6600 alpha/beta slots left - So pledge now!

 

[IceBone]

Not to mention episode 4 of Fortnightly Frontier is out!

 

[TobiasG]

Roughly a 1000 alpha slots are gone each week. So if you are on the fence for whatever reason then you are running out of time. By the time the Dog fighting module is released it will be all gone and no way to get in on the action until the release in 2015ish. Unless they add more slots, which has happened once. But there was a lot of talk about doing that before they added some slots. Haven't heard anything this time so I would just take the leap and jump right in it while I could. For 45 dollars you get alpha and beta access and the full game of Star Citizen and with that Squadron42 (Which is big enough to be a completely separate game) Damn good value for you 45 dollars. They even throw in a ship for you!

 

[Chaos]

Welp, got paid so I went and got a ship. The Avenger, like I had initially planned.

It's so pretty.

 

[mclarensmps]

Jeez, I didn't know there was a SC subforum here

I'm annoyed that team Damage and team AEM got eliminated from the Next Great Starship comp . You would think that a pair of automotive designers would be able to come up with a decent ship (Damage).

Anyhow... I've backed for a Constellation and a Hornet, myself. As far as alpha slots go, I would imagine that they would increase the capacity of Alpha slots as they did last time around. It also appears as though they secretly add a couple of alpha slots on a daily or weekly basis. I've added the last digit of taken and available alpha slots every now and then, and sometimes I get an odd number, sometimes even. Something sneaky is probably happening behind the scenes

 

[TobiasG]

There are no indication that the alpha slots will be increased this time. So I wouldn't bet on it. Down to 5600 now btw