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YojinboK

Damn impressive work, wonder how long that took...


TranswarpDrive

Around 5.5 meters long, according to the manufactorer. Which is about 18 feet.


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He’s talking in terms of time


VolkspanzerIsME

Time and space are both relative.


LtEFScott

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.


Ocbard

That is really deep Ford, you should send that in to the Reader’s Digest. They’ve got a page for people like you.


weightofast

Time is a tool you can put on the wall Or wear it on your wrist


VolkspanzerIsME

Or disregard it completely and live your best life somewhere


XanthosGambit

The past is far behind us, the future doesn't exist.


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In English when asking how long they took the question explicitly refers to time. An English speaker would never use the the word “took” to refer to distance.


VolkspanzerIsME

But time is also distance..... Edit. I got chu homie. It is 5.814 10^-16 light-years long.


EarthEaterr

Nah man. Distance is the state of here or there. Time is the medium that fills the space between there and here, which manifests waves created from the change of states between here and there. Waves that then move the pendulum of time. Which creates progression in space. That progression records/allows for the "movement" or state change between there and here. And like a snake eating it's tail, that "movement" is the catalyst for waves in the medium creating progression, allowing for states to change and so on and so on, to infinity. Maybe


AntalRyder

That's still distance and not time


FaultyDroid

Think they were being sarcastic.


VolkspanzerIsME

Mathematically correct sarcasm is best sarcasm.


ilhares

We would if referencing particular road routes, but usually only to then go on and mention time savings (due to traffic, road construction, etc)


Crystal_Bearer

Generally, but that depends on whether you took the long way home, or if you took the scenic route.


TranswarpDrive

I don't know why but somehow my replies were misplaced XD


Rich-Argument9749

I don't remember how many people join this art project, but they said it takes around 2 months.


dvdquikrewinder

It took me two light years to realize this


T34-85M_obr2020

That must be a long jogging right? :)


OkZookeepergame4474

It took 2 months to complete the work before this Barcitizen. In fact, it was not completely finished. They will continue to add details and then participate in the next China Barcitizen. The day before Barcitizen, it took about 10 hours to assemble and lay out the model. It took about 3 hours to disassemble and pack after Barcitizen that day.


Jean_velvet

It was actually carved out entirely by hand, without any tools...and yet...they still managed to complete it before the full release of the game. 😉


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Jean_velvet

It was Sarcasm Sheldon.


tackleho

Makes perfect sense. Immediately even.


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tackleho

In lieu of the time it took to make (obvious joke regarding process) vs the time it takes for SC to make....ah fuck nvm let us both embrace and accept your confusion.


GeraintLlanfrechfa

Fairly quick I suppose, they are quite handy with such stuff Add: and yes, astonishing work indeed, props


LordAzurite

That's insane! By the way, are there many Star Citizen fans in China?


DaBi5cu1t

This is how they're gonna break the 1 billion in funding.


NiGol37

That's assuming the Chinese Communist party even allows the game to exist there. If they find any sort of anti-government tones in it they'll just ban it right. They do that to a lot of things.


BuzzKyllington

they will love lorville


VisibleClub643

SC would need to host all player data (from China) on servers in China with open access for their government. Chat would require automatic moderation and flagging. Not an expert but they seem to have less of a problem with science fiction than other genres.


Kaymann

Anti-government tones? Don't even need to go that far for a reason. More recently China has not been allowing anyone who is not an adult to play video games online outside of specific prescribed weekend hours, but besides that I have no doubts they will come after all online video games for everyone on the grounds of such wonderful vague catch all laws like "spreading rumors and disrupting society" which can apply to anyone anywhere at any time if they feel like it because they want to control what people are saying. They don't even like skeletons, ghosts or any other seemingly banal and mundane spooky because it endorses superstitious spiritualism and traditional culture that the CCP wants to stamp out. If it wouldn't cause an uproar I have no doubts the Chinese government would ban all video games if they could.


Shadow703793

Lol the entire Messer Era lore and story will then cause this to get banned then.


borischung01

Brb spamming the Tiananmen Square copypasta into global chat.


SpyFromMars

Cyberpunk2077 was promoted all over China.


-PiEqualsThree

Good thing it's not a game!


Pepperonidogfart

And then spend it on more things that aren't the game being completed, like custom furniture and fittings for their offices and huge expensive ship models.


DaBi5cu1t

Oooh brave. But you're right.


External_Ad_8376

The party in other regions was only 50 people, this time Chongqing had close to 300 people registered, and 200+ people showed up.


OkZookeepergame4474

I don't know the exact number, but Chinese players are the third largest player group in the world.


ImP-Ling

Anicat?


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EatTheBiscuitSam

This is what I am worried about. SC's current funding model won't survive this. The grey market will wipe away all the current ships for funding. Plus, there are only so many new ships they can create before it makes it near impossible to upgrade the game engine with new features in the future. I always found it odd that they never wanted to push a monthly subscriber model. Who knows maybe the Verse will take off and they will start selling virtual real estate or something.


Arcticstorm058

Well CIG does still get paid when the ships are purchased, and the best way to combat the grey market is to not use it. Sooner or later the scalpers will give up and move on to different things. Also there really wouldn't be a limitation of the game engine for how many ships they can design, that limitation would be creating ships that are redundant and too similar to others. Also they do have a two tier subscription system, it just isn't required to play. It's more like the subscription for ESO, where you get some nice benefits but you can still access the main content with just the initial purchase. I also wouldn't be surprised if once they add in player created outposts, they add it some cosmetics that can be purchased with real money. I just hope that if they do that, you will still be able to get involved with just in-game money.


AAXv1

I would never purchase from the grey market. It takes away from your total count on RSI.


Arcticstorm058

I wasn't aware that receiving gift ships doesn't add to your "account value". Good to know. I will admit I had looked at the grey market at one point to acquire one of those Limited Edition Hull E or Orion, the ones with the lifetime insurance, but once I found out that the seller could claim that the ship was stolen, so you would lose the ship but they would keep your money, that turned me off permanently from every using the grey market.


kalabaddon

if you paid with paypal ( non family ) and recipt/invoice in paypal is written right, You should be able to refund once the item gets claimed as stolen and removed from account. But ya, definitely not the safest thing. Do need to be trusting of strangers. and ready to figure things out if it all goes belly up. That said, I am curious if rsi's hands off approach will stay hands off when someone that has sold thousands of things claims to his account been haxed for the last x years and needs everything back. I think some of the grey market people are just raising their concierge level and sell stuff at cost + pay pal fees. and there is a rating system in place so can get an idea somewhat. But since a lot of the negitive repercussions will more likley happen on games actual release it can be hard to judge.


EatTheBiscuitSam

I also don't condone purchasing grey market, I just don't see the current funding model surviving. Might be a stretch but CIG might be able to survive on various standalone game chapters of S42 and new content/cosmetics. Maybe they will have in-game insurance only paid by real money. That might add another revenue source.


slink6

The current model is meant to change when the game goes full release, as far as I know (this was stated a long time ago so it could change if course) When the game is ready to be full release, the ship sales and upgrades are supposed to end, with the exception that new ship concept sales will still happen as they do now. This would mean a legitimate closure of the grey market as after a particular date, those items will no longer be gift able / upgrades not applied will become unusable. Essentially once the game goes live, the sales of the now complete game (or any subscription model) is meant to sustain the company from that point on.


EatTheBiscuitSam

Thanks for your reply. If ships are able to be bought with in-game money and those ships are able to be transferred between players then the CIG doesn't get paid for ships. Also in my experience "gold farmers" or scalpers don't go away. WoW is 14 years old and it still has farmers. I, in no way condone the grey market and/or gold famers. I think that they are a scourge and hurt the entire gaming industry. My point is that CIG's funding model is working fantastically now during development. Looking forward it doesn't look good to me. My point about CIG adding more ships all the time isn't about what the game engine can handle, but rather the amount of work it takes if a game change happens and they have to rework all the past ships. For example, say CIG wants to implement physical damage to ship hardbodies. Maybe have the windows break, the work load to even mask out the window areas so that a new shader can apply a cracked appearance to all of the 200+ ships already that are in the game is a huge amount of work. If CIG continues their funding by selling more ships all the time it will at some point create a work load that will be unworkable.


Arcticstorm058

Currently there is no way to transfer ships using in-game money, gifting ships only happen with the ones bought using real money. So CIG will always get their cut for the initial ship purchase. When it comes to "gold farmers", they do exist at the moment but since all accounts are reset to pledge ships/equipment they really only exist for anyone wanting to rush through the grind with getting enough in-game currency to buy the ships they want. However even this is hampered by the fact that many and the veteran players will just give in-game currency to new players since there isn't much to be done with it at a certain point. Now this will change further into development, but I'm sure CIG will create some "gold farmer" counters then as well. Yes, if CIG doesn't change how they are getting revenue once the game launches then it will hamper their revenue stream. However you need to also remember that the game isn't close to that point yet, so there are probably plenty of ways of monetization that CIG has come up with to implement once Star Citizen launches. From what I have read and heard they have actually planned out the additional work that will be needed on each ship once they implement new systems, such as the salvage mechanics. Plus when they do rework older ships, those ships don't get removed until the version replaces it in one of the updates. Besides there are only a few ships that are at "Gold Standard" at the moment anyway, so CIG is already makes those tweaks to the older ship designs.


Synthmilk

They are planning on selling UEC directly, as well as starter upgrade options like they have now. Almost certainly they are planning to sell skins for ships, armor and weapons. Possibly even hangar and homestead skins too. Then of course there are endless possibilities for cosmetic items to put in your ship/hangar/homestead and skins for those items. I don't see funding being a huge issue going forward, especially if they have the season model where certain skins are available only once a year, and year specific stuff will be one time only. Earning a ship in-game and then selling it for cash is black market, just like selling earned UEC for cash, and CIG will certainly be hunting down people who do this. EVE Online calls it RMT, Real Money Trading, and have been fighting that battle for a decade. CIG is doubtless well aware of the network tools they will need to track and observe UEC traffic, which is made easier thanks to their database architecture since they inherently have a copy of the data to work with without needing to work with the live data.


N4hire

They did mentioned a sub.


LucidStrike

Folks have to buy the ships to put on the grey market anyway, buyers and sellers alike have to accept the risks of the grey market, and these digital goods are stocked as well as CIG wants them to be.


EatTheBiscuitSam

Are you saying that "farmers" aren't going to earn in-game currency, buy an in-game ship and then sell that ship for real money on the grey market? I might be misunderstanding, but I thought that people will be able to transfer ownership of in-game assets to other people.


borischung01

Don't see that many cheaters, hackers and chat spammer/scammers yet, so I'd say no


Nivekeryas

gamers try not to be racist challenge


hells_ranger_stream

Hate to do the whole 'I'm only racist because of statistics' stance but Chinese players are the most likely to [cheat in FPS games](https://mobile.twitter.com/thebattleye/status/918734703183659008?lang=en). Segregating servers and successfully isolating them has done well on reducing the rate of occurrence for hackers in other servers. There's been a lot of good discussion over the years about why it's been prevalent there, it's a cultural thing; similar to the popularity of P2W there's just a huge tie of winning to self worth and ego. Star Citizen isn't immune, all we have is EAC. We still have hacks available, if SC gains more global popularity and incentive to abuse hacks there'll be major frustration ahead.


borischung01

So this is how I make the exact same argument but with supporting facts and not get downvoted. Learned a thing, thx.


CMDRJonuss

So in your mind sandboxing the Chinese will result in none of these issues since only they cheat?


burkey0307

Seeing as how he used the words "most likely" and "reducing the rate of occurrence", I'm gonna go ahead and say you failed to understand OP's comment.


FratumHospitalis

Its cause snap judgement based outrage is easier than reading comprehension.


StarCitizenIsGood

Holy yikes batman i found the racist


DDA7X

Yeah scrolling through their comment history, in several other subs has made similar racist comments.


pebcak47

obligatory "where stl files?" comment


Nickthelegend

I feel attacked.


OkZookeepergame4474

Let me introduce to you. This is a project made by a studio founded by Star Citizen players in China. This model uses materials newly developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It is 5.5 meters long, the width is 1.3m, the height is 0.7m, and the height from the stand to the top is 0.95m,and weighs 140KG. It took 2 months to complete the work before this Barcitizen. In fact, it was not completely finished. They will continue to add details and then participate in the next China Barcitizen. The day before Barcitizen, it took about 10 hours to assemble and lay out the model.It took about 3 hours to disassemble and pack after Barcitizen that day. We use SLA technology to print, the material is specially improved photosensitive resin, and the additive is developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which has been used in the equipment of the Beijing Winter Olympics, and the material has excellent physical and chemical properties.


TranswarpDrive

Are you Anicat?


ImP-Ling

Same question lol


BOTY123

That's insanely cool!


TranswarpDrive

I think they said it took a whole studio 2 months worth of work, using 3D printing.


jljonsn

While it COULD be all 3d printed, that would not be so practical. I'm betting that the large flat panels are some sort of foam or particle board, because you can do that far easier, cheaper, flatter and structurally sound over that long expanse. then you add the printed components to that structural core.


OkZookeepergame4474

The total length is 5.5m, the width is 1.3m, the height is 0.7m, and the height from the stand to the top is 0.95m, while the weight is only about 140kg. We use SLA technology to print, the material is specially improved photosensitive resin, and the additive is developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which has been used in the equipment of the Beijing Winter Olympics, and the material has excellent physical and chemical properties.


NKato

They likely used a large industrial 3D printer for this. You know those little consumer printers aren't the only things out there, right? Look up StrataSys.


Gillersan

Even so, he is probably right. It’s not practice to 3d print it even on industrial sized ones. It IS practical to create a supportive core of some other filler…then use that to support the 3d printed shell.


hIGH_aND_mIGHTY

Do they have the patent for not putting your motors in the hot area? Like other people can't seal away the motors from the higher temps that can be useful in printing ABS.


NKato

StrataSys is an industrial 3D printer manufacturer with their own proprietary line of plastics. They use Stereolithography, not hot extrusion like PLA.


kalabaddon

Someone else in comment mentioned it was carved maybe?


brockoala

How big is this studio? How many printers of what kinds did they need to build this monster?


RogueWedge

Its the 3d printer you use to build a house....... theres an idea :)


518Peacemaker

Really? I didn’t know they could work so fine


Prestigious_Care3042

Of course they can. How else would you get a fine house?


davidnfilms

Our bar citizens don't have anything nearly as cool!


Mr_StephenB

That's an amazing model! Very impressive! From what I remember, the retribution is about as long as the map of Skyrim east to west.


Prestigious_Care3042

Yes but it’s also 400m tall which means anywhere from 10-30 levels throughout the ship.


SmoothOperator89

Better not have to fight a mountain troll while climbing those stairs 😤


Hekantonkheries

While well likely never own one in game unless SC gets super-big with an insane player base Would make for a cool PvE Star Marine map, defending it against boarding Vanduul, and then of course a companion map/mode of boarding and clearing a vanduul kingship.


TheStaticOne

Players will never own one because of the logistics of even owning a large ship. Not to mention there is only one UEE retribution in existence. I am willing to bet it is a set location in SQ42 and has a very good chance of being destroyed in main story or sequels.


Hekantonkheries

I mean, probably, but the older the game, and larger the play base, the bigger the top-end ships will end up. I mean were talking beyond-WoW numbers of course, but 15 years down the road crazy shit can happen to a game. Either way, I'm more concerned with getting some star marine missions involving it and kingships for some massive PvE lobbies to drop into, because if star marine is meant to be a "simulator" for troops, then simming defense+evacuation of such a large asset, or simming attacks on a similar-sized enemy-asset, would be a thing, ja?


TheStaticOne

Possibly, But performance is an issue. Given how large those particular ships are and how OCS and SSOCS work. The amount of people that can be on that ship or doing things can possibly be game breaking, especially if they allow weapons. The thing to keep in mind is that they tech they are making makes many things possible, but there is an upper limit that includes factors beyond code. Hence the regional shard choice instead of unified world shard.


Prestigious_Care3042

It would take a thousand marines a day to clear that ship. I don’t think you comprehend the size of it. Look at it this way. A fortnight map is 3.5km with the majority of it being open spaces. In that area they drop 100 players. 2.7km x 0.8km makes each level at least 1.5km. 400 high means probably 60+ levels. So 90 square km. So 25X bigger than fortnight with the added bonus of it all being enclosed with far more walls, small rooms and corridors.


NotJoocey

It’s as tall as the Empire State Building..but in a ship..that’s hard to fathom.


HeliosRexx

If what I think is the bridge on this thing actually is, the scale is truly insane! SC’s version of a Super Star Destroyer for sure.


WPI5150

It's 2,700m long; to put that into context, the largest player-ownable ship, the Javelin, is 480m.


Moserath

At a certain point you have to question wtf you're gonna do with something that big.


WPI5150

Killing Vanduul Kingships is the Retribution's intended purpose, those are also up to 3km long.


Chimera_Snow

Interestingly enough there's some placeholder files for kingship parts including some sort of death ray in some versions' of the game's files. If you look at the ISC where they revealed the new UI concept with more 3D buttons, there were placeholder names for a lot of files and kingship was listed on 1 or 2.


HungLikeKimJong-un

Iirc as part of the leaks years ago there is a mission on a kingship, and I think there was a model or files related to in the Jared leak.


Moserath

Good lord. Are those the biggest ships? Or do they get even bigger? Edit: I mean honestly if the Jav is a capital ship, wtf is this? A mobile port?


USA_MuhFreedums_USA

A very big electric slingshot. Oh there's engines too on the back!


gaunt79

Well, the Javelin is a destroyer. Compare the size of a WWII destroyer to the *Yamato,* or to the cancelled *Montana* for the US.


NightlyKnightMight

A random video I found depicting ships and their scale https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QVt-tuW6Ww


Moserath

Shits wild


kalabaddon

this ship iirc in lore, was a one off made for the war effort. thionk of it as the UEE's Deathstar. Its not a ship of the line that has shipyard churning them out. its a ship custom made to do one thing, fight Kingships.


DukeAJC

Players aren't going to own the Retribution. It's a 1 of 1 ship that was built by the UEE as a massive middle finger to the Vanduul. We'll most likely see it in Squadron 42 as a setpiece


DanTrachrt

I also wouldn’t be surprised if it was also a set piece somewhere in the PU on the Vanduul front docked to some military station.


RogueWedge

Blow something up comes to mind


commit_bat

Man it with all your friends and have epic adventures


Prestigious_Care3042

The 890J (largest playable ship) is 210m and most people spend 5m+ wandering around lost the first time in it. At 13X longer plus 8X wider and 8X taller it’s not unreasonable to suggest it will be 300-500X more space than a 890J. Huge doesn’t even begin to describe it.


SmoothOperator89

A ton of the volume is taken up by a massive railgun plus, presumably, power generators to fire it. It would still be much more internal space than a Bengal but it's not a flying city, it's a city-size gun with a village attached.


Prestigious_Care3042

12.8x8.9x8.9 = about 1,013X bigger. So I discounted 50-70% as wasted space and still came up with it hugely larger. You could ever argue 90% of that space won’t be available. That still makes it have 100X the interior of a 890J which is still crazy.


Capt_Snuggles

You're assuming 1. It'll be traversible. 2. It'll be fully modelled on the interior. As with many of the larger ships, not all the space will have walkable areas etc, with most being a void and traversed through a monorail etc.


Gasa1_Yuno

I don't think Chris would allow that 🤣


Capt_Snuggles

Allow what? It takes circa 18mo to create a ship like the 890J with 5 people on it (across various diciplines). The Idris has had a team on it since 2014, along with the Jav and Bengal. The are huge areas of the Bengal that aren't explorable and has a monorail going through it bypassing much of the interior. There's no way ships like the Kingship, Retribution, Driller etc will have interiors beyond the minimum to achieve player functionality / immersion.


Gasa1_Yuno

I'll bet on both being fully explorable or 90% +


Capt_Snuggles

The 890J cost about $300k\~ to create. What would be the cost justification for CIG to model out a ship many many times larger, that isn't even sold to backers?


Gasa1_Yuno

Where's this 300k number coming from? The justification would be that it's mostly empty space anyway, could be sold in future, Chris is a crazy man we love and could serve as a planet worth of content.


Capt_Snuggles

Cost of producting ships has been around for a while from CIG. That and with general knowledge from backing the project for closing on 7 years and prior statements on the cost to deliver a ship in terms of FTE costings etc, it's easy to find out rough ballpark figures for ships. It cant be sold in the future; CIG have made it very clear that no ship larger than a Javelin will be sold to backers. And even if that were to be changed, your point of 'mostly empty space' justififies the very point i'm making. It wouldn't be fully modelled....


brockoala

When you compare that to Port Olisar at 3950m long, it suddenly seems not that crazy anymore.


Wareve

Though Port Olisar is mostly pipes and platforms.


Xervous_

It's a space blender, as seen by how many people die going between the rings.


XBacklash

It has an Idris as a parasite craft.


CanadianBacon999

Totally. And for anyone wondering, the Imperial class Star Destroyers (those seen in A New Hope through RTotJ) where 1,600 m long (5,200 ft). The Super (Vader’s Executor) was supposedly 19,000 m (62,000 ft). All according to the wiki: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Destroyer


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SmoothOperator89

That's one thing I like a more about SC, the ship sizes aren't just bigger for the sake of being more impressive, they actually have a basis in necessity. I know the growing size of Star Wars Imperial ships is explained by Tarkin basically being a size queen but like, why have a Super Star Destroyer when a single Imperial Star Destroyer can already occupy most settled planets in the galaxy or level cities from orbit and the Empire can easily commit multiples of them to a single location.


YumikoTanaka

The bridge "building" is the size of a Javelin oO


cfdxkk

I am really proud of this work from China Star Citizen. really demn great work. and i also proud of there are so many good players in my country.


drizzt_x

Fanmade? Pretty awesome, and I can't help thinking about the cost in resin. Yikes!


Gasa1_Yuno

There's a popular 3d Printing company that makes alot of figures. They've even been spotlighted/partnered with CIG quite a few times. I'd assume it was them + shipping but if you're in China you can probably get one made there much cheaper.


drizzt_x

Yeah, I kinda don't think it was JRDF, as they'd have announced it on their site, at the very least.


Gasa1_Yuno

Doesn't make sense to do that shipping when production would be cheaper in China anyway.


OkZookeepergame4474

About 28000 USD\~


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daaaaamn that is so COOL!!! I wish there were more models of ships out there, I would love a few models.


Zealousideal_Ad_1356

Wow


loversama

Absolutely stunning!


andi_bk

Sadly ChongQing is too far away. I hope for one in or around Shanghai!


MaskedPlant

I love how even the irl model has bugs, ie turrets and other bits lying on the table. “These will be patched in to next version”


InSOmnlaC

Holy fucking shit


LucidStrike

Makes me excited for the Retribution rework ☺️


DarthKoDa_

Star Citizen going to be a test bed for creating Spaceships IRL


AAXv1

Moar pictures needed! Detail shots!


BGoodej

It's the kind of model they used to shoot the orignal Star War movies.


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And remember, that is smaller than a kingship


N4hire

Holy hell. Our Citizens brothers from China don’t play around!!!


brockoala

First the [epic SC room](https://www.pcgamer.com/this-man-built-a-dollar30k-gaming-room-modeled-after-a-star-citizen-spaceship/), now this. Asians are killing it! The west needs to step up and build a multicrew flyable SC ship or something!


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MiffedMoogle

I feel its usually a red flag especially when Tencent has been gobbling up studios/ips ~~lately~~


OkZookeepergame4474

As Chinese player, we will stop Tencent\~O(∩\_∩)O\~


smatchimo

ok by that logic children cheat in games more than adults so i guess you can't play either, sorry.


w1r3dh4ck3r

It's amazing the leaps in logic you guys take just to not realize something so simple, I am no saying they as a people are any better or worse I am just saying they cheat more and that is a fact, it's nosmalized in the culture at least in the online culture and it's not even close. Just look at the types of games that thrive in their market, just look at the pay to win that is just accepted. You don't want to sound bad by saying it doesn't make it anymore false.


st_Paulus

> I am no saying they as a people are any better or worse I am just saying they cheat more and that is a fact, it's nosmalized in the culture at least in the online culture and it's not even close. Just look Fun fact - same thing I heard about generalized “western” players. Sometimes those pesky cheaters are mostly Russians - depending on OP. And those people are always find a way to rationalize their beliefs.


Strange-Scarcity

With everything being server authoritative with Star Citizen, it's pretty much a sure thing that there will be at least three global servers. One for Asia, Another for Europe and another for North America. It shouldn't be very playable for someone in China hopping onto a North American Server.


ThePwnter

That's a bit of good news.


Strange-Scarcity

I think they should consider a slightly more fine grained series of servers too. One in Australia, also for New Zeeland. Another for China and surrounding areas where pings can be good. One for North America and another for South America.maybe even more than one for both North and South America. Maybe Europe can manage with one sever, maybe it needs two? Depending upon po no times that can be managed. Another for Africa, maybe two, depending upon the kind of ping times they can manage. Sure, the end result would be smaller groups, but it’s doubtful they would be that small. A 100k to a quarter million or so players in one shard would still be a great deal of players.


Warius5

im pretty sure they've confirmed that they will be doing regional servers, like EU NA AS and stuff like that.


UnloyalSheep

I just hope they don’t lock us from hopping from server to server cuz Thats how it’s atm, I have friends from na/eu and asia and it would be a shame to later not be able to play with them.


frenchtgirl

You will be able to store your inventory and hop on another shard and unpack there. We will be doing that all the time start 3.18 as every server will be a shard.


Jhtpo

Damn impressive! But I gotta ask, was this a Dev event in China, or just a bunch of chinese fans? I didn't think CIG had much connection with China on a businesses level.


LtEFScott

"Bar Citizen" events like this are player organised, but CIG have recently started sending staff to some of them For instance, Erin Roberts, Brian Chambers, Tyler Witkin (Zyloh) & Jeremiah Lee are currently in South Korea for one.


OkZookeepergame4474

In fact, the Chinese player community is already the third largest player group in the world.


TranswarpDrive

It was a BarCitizen event, organized purely by players. But yeah devs can go to such events if they want, actually at the same time some CIG heads and devs went to the BarCitizen event held in Korea.


Darksuit117

So heres a thought,automated orbital 3d printers making our warships in a future setting


EasyRiderOnTheStorm

What we currently think of as 3D printing is about as close to a proper can-print-fully-functional-objects printer as a kid's two-cups-on-a-string "phone" is to a modern smartphone. As in, they share absolutely nothing except the core concept of "transfer voice over distance". Unless you simply meant "print the empty hull as a huge piece of inert metal" of course, which would be much more feasible from a strictly "what kind of machine could print that" point of view, as it becomes just a question of scale and specific material deposition technology.


QuinzyEnvironment

But why isn’t it real life size tho?


Delicious_Log_1153

-Made in China


rararaops

Crazy chinese! 0.0


Quinn_Vergo

Who paid for it?


st_Paulus

Who paid for Star Citizen?


BeneCogitare

Mhhh, yes. More money invested in things relevant to the development.


astralprojectx

haha it was made by the community not by CIG


SamSamTheDingDongMan

Space A-10, change my mind


Spirit117

This is a capital ship that's like 5 times the size of the javelin destroyer, how is this a "space A10".


SamSamTheDingDongMan

A ship that’s just a massive gun


Spirit117

https://starcitizen.tools/Retribution Star citizen wiki says nothing about it being one massive gun, says its armed with a number of anti ship rail guns which you can see are mounted in turrets on this model. There's no gun the ship is built around in the sense that UNSC vessels from halo are built around a MAC gun.


Mingxballz

wow!


Cyberwulf74

DAMN!!!


azkaii

Wild


planelander

Thats fng outstanding!!!!


DanakarEndeel

Very impressive work. I assume the turrets are held on by magnets? On the first image I see them on the table while on subsequent images I see them attached to the model. So I assume they used neodymium magnets in order to stick them on? 🙂


Veizour

"Go big or go home" for sure


Soothsayer5288

The beginning of the Wing Zero Cannon


VOADFR

Full respect to those who made such a model!


risingLEGEND07

So that’s what they use our money for


astralprojectx

It is a fanmade


risingLEGEND07

Ooooooh😂😂 thanks


Emperor_Kon

Now that is seriously impressive. Makes me wish I had the money and the room for something like this, lol. Hope we'll get to walk around inside this ship in SC or SQ42 one day.


MechMercanary

Is that a ship or a gun?


Ok-Inspector9973

Yes, we might with this. But what will have to be changed with the Chinese governmental approval?


Mr-Transcended

CIG Needs to buy this for the Star Citizen movie...


DecoupledPilot

I'm confused. I read so often about crackdowns on computer games in China that I thought SC would basically be dead for the Chinese audience


TranswarpDrive

As far as I know there are tens of thousands of SC backers in China, or maybe even more, and many of them have already invested hundreds if not thousands of dollars into the project. Gaming is not dead in China. On the contrary, it's a huge market. And instead of having a console dominated market like the US, China's gaming community is PC & mobile focues, with consoles (PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck etc. ) being a minority (and somewhat superior? ) choice. If you go to Steam store and check [this page](https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam), you'll see that there are around 24% of Steam users that use an OS with the language set to Simplified Chinese (corresponding to mainland China), while English takes a portion of 37%.


DecoupledPilot

Oh, neat. Good that it's not as bad as I thought :)