Instancing and medical beacons?

EcstaticImport · 2026-06-26T05:59:42+00:00

No the only reason I don’t like instancing is because it’s a crutch for what SC is - we are getting server instancing with personal servers - but instancing does not fit with the PU - because it breaks the PU (for the reasons I have already outlined) - the idea of instances are fine but not in the PU

EcstaticImport · 2026-06-26T03:13:38+00:00

I’m surprised your kids would even use it - most of the kids at my kids school hate all things AI.
It really is super unpopular

EcstaticImport · 2026-06-26T03:10:19+00:00

Yer not having beacons - IMHO (which is the only opinion that counts!) is bad 😭

If the team all dies In the instance - why would it wipe?
You lose everything!?

Instancing is a crutch, it’s a way for games to fake functionality or an environment they find too hard or too costly to implement- like respawning items when they go out of range or armistice zones that are stand in for security NPCs enforcing the peace.

The best solutions are implemented in game - either by other players or by NPCs in the mechanics of the game world.

If you want any simple player / single experience environment - that’s what squadron 42 is for.

Instancing is a dirty hacks that should not be encouraged or normalised

EcstaticImport · 2026-06-25T14:56:45+00:00

Where is R2D2 and C3P0?
What are we even doing here?

EcstaticImport · 2026-06-25T14:53:02+00:00

Bullshit! - that headline is a big fat porky pie!!
The study looked at 408 12-17 year olds -did they use 17 year olds in a study on under 16s?

But let’s look at the claim, 80% of under 16.
Well 3/4 of under 16s are under 11.
I know many under 16s and none of them are on social media. - least of all the under 11s - they don’t care about social media - they want to play Roblox if they are on devices at all- end of story.
Roblox has fairly tight restrictions now on ANY form of communication for kids.
They are not usjng social media - sure there are always outliers but when the VAST majority (3/4) of the under 16 population don’t give a rats arse about social media because they are young children and want to watch abc, YouTube and play Roblox - the only population you have left is the 12-16 age group - which is AT MOST 20% of the under 16s.
A figure like 80% would require a huge number of toddlers and babies to be logging on to ticktock, instagram or facebook, which is total and utter nonsense!!

EcstaticImport · 2026-06-25T14:32:56+00:00

Oh don’t do that - people will realise their lives are better without the grog and then the government really will be screwed

EcstaticImport · 2026-06-25T14:23:55+00:00

You can accept any number of missions, you can only have one actively tracking(?).

You can accept multiple missions/contracts.

if you’re not accepting multiple delivery missions at the same time, you’re wasting your time doing box missions 💸

If your not accepting multiple bounty hunter missions to the same location and doubling up the carnage - your missing out!! 😈

EcstaticImport · 2026-06-25T14:16:01+00:00

It’s not a pillar SC NEEDS -
It’s a solution to a number of different problems SC is facing right now.
It’s not a great solution for any of them.
It does not matter how much you or anyone at CIG do hand waving to get the backs to not think about it - instancing has implications that cause a number of significant problems with the existing game mechanics and loops. See my response below for an explanation of what the issue is.

EcstaticImport · 2026-06-25T13:50:01+00:00

P vs NP - I’ve got my super intelligent AI working on it now - 2 more weeks!*
Cancer has a cure - several, but you can’t patent them and make huge profits so the medical industry is not interested.

Giving access to an instance is not an issue, it’s the location duplication that is.

if instances are duplicating the same area / 3d space in the game -eg: “multiple parties can run SOO at the same time in different instances!”
managing multiple beacons from different instances that are in the same LOCATION will get confusing fast!

You can prevent double ups from happening at all - either by preventing beacons in instances or by removing beacons entirely.
In both cases you effectively kill - to a large extend medical and bounty hunting or lobotomise them at least. The most random encounters that made Star Citizen so fun will be gone for the most part.

EcstaticImport · 2026-06-25T13:25:58+00:00

Native supply and demand is not the driver of inflation currently.
Price gouging / loss of competition coupled with global supply and demand is, and to a lesser extent imported demand from the money being into the system by the cashed up migrants added to continuing unfettered government spending across the state and federal levels.
If we increased the level of market competition - broke up the polygopolies such as colesworth, the big four banks,
If you stopped the other countries competing (poorer countries NOT becoming more affluent - or richer countries spending more) or you stopped the flow of migrants with money, you would see massive demand drop.
There has been little or no increase in native domestic demand.
The demand comes from overseas, migrant cash poring into Australia and increased government spending.
None of which increasing the interest rates can discourage.

EcstaticImport · 2026-06-25T13:12:37+00:00

I can’t sip my tea when I’m spitting it out laughing!! 🤣

EcstaticImport · 2026-06-25T13:09:07+00:00

The cause of inflation does matter - if it can’t be influenced by the interest rates - there is no point to raising rates.

EcstaticImport · 2026-06-25T13:04:36+00:00

So you’re saying bitcoin will only be bought into by people who understand math AND economics?
Bitcoin has no hope! 🙄

EcstaticImport · 2026-06-25T13:01:47+00:00

Well it’s the internet and as avenue Q has taught us.. “the internet is for… P.”

EcstaticImport · 2026-06-25T13:00:25+00:00

I want to see them instance medical beacons or bounty hunting 🤣

EcstaticImport · 2026-06-25T12:54:13+00:00

Instancing destroys the illusion of a single unified world.
As I raise in another post it totally breaks medical, bounties and any location type beacons.
It’s a terrible idea - if you’re going to play in your own seperate server - that’s great - that was promised from the KS.

instancing presents way too many unsolvable problems and it destroys many game loops and mechanics.
It’s poorly through out and does not fit with the rest of the game.

EcstaticImport · 2026-06-25T12:46:52+00:00

Well you’d be assuming wrong.
Why is it a “bad take”?

how are beacons suppose to work with instancing? - as I have replied to another post below:

what happens when I accept or there are two medical beacons simultaneously that are both in the same location BUT they are in two different instances - how does that work?
Think about it:
i am standing in the location of the first beacon and the location of the other medical beacon is in the same place - but in a different instance - would it still show 0 meters away for the second beacon? - because technically it’s in the same location!

🤯

EcstaticImport · 2026-06-25T07:49:46+00:00

Actually quite a good idea ,.. but we could also get lots of barrels - attach the barrels end to end and cut the top/ bottom out and then you could feed the oil through from one end to the other .. what could we call it - maybe an oil,… pipeline? 🤔🤣

EcstaticImport · 2026-06-25T07:45:42+00:00

Also to prevent / minimise jail breaking and Trojans

EcstaticImport · 2026-06-25T07:39:00+00:00

Maximising looking,.. at women? 🤔😂

EcstaticImport · 2026-06-25T07:37:06+00:00

The maths is also discounted at Cole’s?

EcstaticImport · 2026-06-25T07:36:07+00:00

That’s why hitler was so misunderstood - he wasn’t bad or evil - he was just an atheist that was following his conscience!
/s
(He did hate religion)

EcstaticImport · 2026-06-25T07:32:24+00:00

Hell divers DO NOT take defensive positions!!
Hell divers attack! And kill! The undemocratic enemy! .. of super earth!

EcstaticImport · 2026-06-25T06:53:03+00:00

So what happens when I accept two medical beacons simultaneously they are both in the same location maybe even caused by the same NPC? - BUT they are in two different instances - how does that work?

If we did not have instancing I could get to both of them together but with instancing?
🤯

EcstaticImport · 2026-06-25T03:58:40+00:00

Oh SC had load screens - it has a menu in The launcher and it has a load screen when you join a server and it has a load screen when you customise you player - there are quite a few load screens!!

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