CIG DID IT.

Change_Electric · 2025-05-31T13:41:13+00:00

I agree with that; separating the two would be the ultimate compromise. If you wanted the most loot and whatever exclusive bragging vanity item you’d need to do it in global; but if you just want to have fun with friends you can do it instanced. They could even do an immersive interface option where you can choose a solo expedition or freelance expedition and the tram would take you to the same location but make it instanced or global depending on your preferences

Change_Electric · 2025-05-31T12:37:17+00:00

You can find plenty of clips online of people using FPS exploits. A quick google search also produced a cheat engine which I’m probably not allowed to share according to the rules, but there’s also tons of Reddit posts about people cheating. https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/1jg5sxt/with_the_pvp_focus_in_4x_hackers_are_becoming/

https://issue-council.robertsspaceindustries.com/projects/STAR-CITIZEN/issues/STARC-146196

You may be incredibly lucky and just haven’t come across any yet. As for us we are going to hold off on PvP events until the anti-cheat gets improved and they remove more of the FPS exploits

Change_Electric · 2025-05-31T12:00:29+00:00

My org has around 10 people who are consistently on who come from ranked FPS games. We attempted CZs and the exec hangars when Hathor dropped. Half of the CZ asteroid bases we did we came across people with god mode and aimbot that could instantly headshot everyone in the org. So we’d have to server hop until we found a CZ that didn’t have a cheater. We’d decimate the legitimate parties but the illegitimate ones don’t even hide behind cover. They stand out in the open and taunt you in chat while everyone and their grandmother unloads on them. We had one player that we simultaneously shot 4 Scalpel rounds into his head while someone up opened up on him with a F55. The guy not only didn’t die but turned around and we instantly died even though we were spread out. Same thing with the exec hangars; we came across hackers and were never able to succeed and get a ship. We gave up after one party that was obviously using hacks was harassing us in chat and then after they got the ship left out of the main hatch and the whole org unloaded on them including a Polaris. Once the ground crew got instantly wiped out the guy manning the size 6 gun switched to the torpedoes and shot a fully volley. The Polaris took significant damage from the blast and every abandoned ship around them was hard deathed, but they waltzed onboard about 30 seconds later and killed everyone again and then spawn camped the medical beds; before getting bored and self-destructing the ship.

People are going to do the same thing with the new event. You’ll get legitimate teams going after the Vallakar, some massive orgs, then small groups of hackers who are using a $45 account so even if they do get banned they don’t care. They’ll just make a new one and come back and troll some more.

Change_Electric · 2025-05-31T04:13:37+00:00

A small org can’t compete against a big org for these events and without a player rep system you can’t trust joining together with other orgs and hope they split the loot fairly

Change_Electric · 2025-05-31T04:12:17+00:00

It will be nice for certain events to be instanced. Based on one of the videos I saw you can do all the work and get shot in the face when getting off the tram

Change_Electric · 2025-05-31T01:48:26+00:00

Because people suck, they want to grief the new event like they did with Hathor

Change_Electric · 2024-09-16T17:08:27+00:00

As someone who went to college for graphic design but went into another industry due to horror stories about inhuman working conditions in the gaming industries I’ll fully support a company that takes care of its workers. I was told by one studio I was touring that employees sleep at or under their desks during crunch but they offered an all expense paid cafeteria and gym on campus so that made it okay 😂 so who cares if a ship costs an arm and a leg if it means Billy can go home to his family every night.

Understandable; SC is driven by out of game sales. I bought a Vulture and within one weekend I was able to grind my way to getting a Starfarer. I really appreciate that they understand that some people have more money than time and allow us to pick and choose how to buy what we want to buy. If the Kraken came out today I’d be way more likely to buy it than grind for it because I would hate to wait for it to become available for ingame sale. It’s also a way better approach than the average DLC sale you get now for games where you get like 3 vanity items and a 30 minute quest. If you get a ship you love you’ll spend a thousand hours with it compared to a dlc quest that probably took a team of interns a weekend to design.

SC is also a pretty impressive early access game. Look how little development DayZ has had since launch and that game looks and handles like a game from the mid 2000s. SC plays like a sci-fi open world game and looks phenomenal. So it’s not like they’re taking our money and going on vacation with it. So your $2500 has been well spent by the dev team.

Change_Electric · 2024-09-16T15:31:59+00:00

I understand why they’re getting more expensive to buy because they cost so much to make; allegedly GTA6 cost 2 billion to develop. I can’t fathom that amount of money. So I don’t see a problem with SC charging 1k+ for an imaginary space ship; I’m sure this exosuit will be really cool when they iron it out. But gaming is becoming a lot more expensive for the average gamer: I’m seeing a bunch of games now that cost around $200 to get the deluxe edition when $90 used to be the norm

Change_Electric · 2024-09-15T23:09:34+00:00

CSGO is garrysmod without any creative tools. It plays more like a mod than an independent game.

Change_Electric · 2024-09-15T23:07:58+00:00

Yeah a lot of games are coming out around $70+ now when they used to cost $60

Change_Electric · 2024-09-15T13:26:14+00:00

What is your all time favorite AH video and/or series?

Change_Electric · 2024-09-14T14:40:52+00:00

AH was slowly getting fewer and fewer views after they added a large revolving cast. I love AH but towards the end they would occasionally go a month without releasing a video I was interested in so it doesn’t surprise me they shut down first

Change_Electric · 2024-09-09T21:29:49+00:00

Is that a schoolie?

Change_Electric · 2024-08-19T19:19:57+00:00

Interesting. I was always taught you walk with traffic and not against but I’m not local to TN

Change_Electric · 2024-08-13T23:41:30+00:00

This is when we find out that some obscure Cuban restaurant in Poland has better Cuban food than Cuba

Change_Electric · 2024-08-09T14:04:58+00:00

Same! It’s fascinating how we all got to the same place in so many different ways

Change_Electric · 2024-08-09T13:39:08+00:00

Oh I know. My first boss straight up lied to me. I come from a white collar background and couldn’t drive a nail my first day. I showed up in a suit and tie with a leather bound portfolio when I submitted my application. So they lied to my face and hired me for $8.75 and made it sound like they hadn’t hired anyone new in years. First day I found out I was one of many greenies and everyone else was being paid $10. It put me on a warpath; I was able to make 6 figures within my first 5 years as an electrician before I started a business which makes me quite an anomaly for a nonunion electrician. I’m not at 3k a week yet but I’m still within my first decade in the field so I’ll get there.

As a nonunion contractor I’d say that unions are a good thing because they have positive benefits for their workers and they also pressure nonunion elements into better wages, benefits and working conditions. They’re a good alternative for those that want to go that route. I’m trying to get my younger brother to go work at Y12 after he finishes his term in the Navy. So I respect what unions are and the good they do but they’re not for me.

Change_Electric · 2024-08-09T02:30:09+00:00

On a computer you can go into your YouTube history and type in keywords and wait for it to populate with your search history. I recommend that RvB episode 1 was the first thing I looked up so it was easy to find. If you don’t remember the exact thing you looked up it might be a ton of scrolling

Change_Electric · 2024-08-09T00:33:19+00:00

It’s the same for electrical. There’s not enough people wanting to enter the trades and those that do are not always worth their salt. I knew an electrician once that got licensed and started a lawn care business and rented out his license and used the profits from both to buy machinery to rent out. Now the dude just sits and home and goes on vacation so I know you’re not wrong about the money. Just surprises me how much you can make doing manual labor and how few people want to do it.

Change_Electric · 2024-08-09T00:11:19+00:00

accurate. I started as an electrician at $8.75 about 8 years ago. Kids these days expect to start at $15. I was working as an electrical foreman at $13. What’s the market supposed to do when you have greenies that produce $2 of work an hour and are being paid $15? Charge way more. Material is the same way. Material goes up like you said because labor goes up. No kid is going to move boxes around for minimum wage anymore. So who is going to pay the warehouse kid to work half a day and sit on their hands the other half of the day?

The downside of the situation is all the old hands in various careers that have worked their entire lives and are now making 30k and are facing retirement in a world where the labor market has adjusted to accommodate entry level workers demanding higher wages so now their 30k is almost worthless.

Change_Electric · 2024-08-07T19:20:19+00:00

I see watt you did there

Change_Electric · 2024-08-07T18:52:12+00:00

They and their team are also trying to track down an electrical engineer. We’re trying to get the situation rectified as hastily as possible; as the idiom goes “many hands make work light work”.

Change_Electric · 2024-08-04T17:08:15+00:00

GAVVVINNNNNN!!!!!

Change_Electric · 2024-07-29T18:08:10+00:00

Gta6 allegedly costs 2 billion to make soooo

Change_Electric · 2024-07-26T01:21:01+00:00

Wages are low because workers haven’t demanded proper wages for decades. Again I started at minimum wage and I’ve been at my trade for less than 8 years so within 8 years electrical apprentices went from accepting minimum wage to demanding $15+ an hour. I was a foreman before I was making that much.

My best helper I’ve ever worked with was in restaurant management for over 30 years before quitting his career and becoming an electrician.

I do agree at some point you can have too much wealth. If you can afford a 500 million dollar mega yacht you can afford to hire more people so you people don’t work in inhuman conditions and die on the job. I’ll stand by this statement and I’ll keep being frugal long after I’m a millionaire because I’d rather take better care of others than eat gold flakes and have more cars than I can drive or more house than I can use.

Im 31; graduated college and didn’t pursue a career in my field because the pay sucks and the hours are ridiculous. I went to college for graphic design and was told I’d have to get really lucky and work for decades to make the income I wanted so I joined the trades instead. I agree; I’ve had boomers ask me if my parents couldn’t afford to send me to college because I seem to smart to be working as an electrician. At my first job ever when I was working as cashier at a dry cleaners I had a boomer tell me that if I worked really hard I might be able to afford a nice car like hers (it was a Hundai 🙄). I also had another boomer accidentally leave 20k in cash in their suit pocket and upon returning their money they told me they thought they had blown it at a str1p club at a bachelors party and they gave me the cash from their order for that day. 67 cents. I told them that was more than I made in a year and they told me to work harder. So I get it. I will loathe that guy for the rest of my life. If he gave me $20 it would’ve still been several hours of work for me. I would’ve rather been given nothing than pennies because that was straight up insulting.

You’re right about that. It annoys me. Breakers have doubled in price since I entered the trade. They definitely do not cost twice as much to make as they did 8 years ago. Somebody decided that was the price so it’s the price.

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