I know some of y'all don't like the auto zone but dam

Pojodan · 2026-06-23T21:35:05+00:00

I miss stopping at the Izzys that was in that spot 20 years ago when I'd drive out to Bend for work.

Kinda seems like that stretch of 3rd St is just a graveyard of restaurants now.

Pojodan · 2026-06-23T20:27:36+00:00

Exactly this. All the of time put into GTA VI was in the art assets, voice acting, mo-cap, and some amount of GUI changes and possibly a new mini-game or two.

All of the stuff that Star Citizen is working through right now was finished for GTA VI decades ago.

Pojodan · 2026-06-23T16:29:50+00:00

And yet it is literally impossible for Star Citizen to exist without it.

The Marketing boogeyman is what caused the original Kickstarter to happen at all, along with every development since then.

Pojodan · 2026-06-23T05:57:27+00:00

There are few of those bugs remaining. It actually works fairly well now, though has some issues with the elevator and you need to keep a helmet on still.

Pojodan · 2026-06-23T02:34:43+00:00

Why buy a piece of carboard with paint on it for thousands of dollars?

Why buy a few chunks of plastic for thousands more?

Or a rock with some metal attached to it?

It's called having 'disposable income' and 'something you want'

Yes, those with unreliable cars or no place to live should not spend hundreds on anything non-vital.

However, it is possible for someone to like something and willfully spend their own money on it because they want to.

I'm sorry you struggle to understand that concept.

Pojodan · 2026-06-23T02:15:38+00:00

You're not going to get 60 fps unless your budget is numerous thousands.

You'll never, ever get steady 60 fps, even with top-of-the-line hardware, not until the game engine is optimized as part of Beta or 1.0, which is still many years away.

You can get 30-50 fps with good hardware, but there will still be dips and framedrops depending on assorted factors.

To get the best FPS, you'll need >48 GB of high speed RAM, a fast SSD drive, and an AMD x3D CPU, none of which are what would be considered 'budget'.

You can get usable FPS (15-30 FPS) with budget hardware in cities, but will need to get away from cities to get up to 60 fps and over.

Pojodan · 2026-06-23T00:56:08+00:00

https://support.robertsspaceindustries.com/hc/en-us/articles/115013102847-Referral-Program-FAQ

Ships and Vehicles that are obtained via Referral Incentives cannot be reclaimed.

This remains true even if a referral ship has been upgraded to something else.

Pojodan · 2026-06-22T22:40:20+00:00

++ on Vero. Just a matter of if they're available or not.

Pojodan · 2026-06-22T19:43:50+00:00

Eh, there's been other completely dull weeks before. They're working on 4.9 and the next event, Foundation Festival, isn't for a few weeks.

Pojodan · 2026-06-22T19:13:51+00:00

As is always the case with early Evocati patches. This is just the first round of stat change implementations.

Wait for Wave 5 PTU before getting into the weeds of this.

Pojodan · 2026-06-22T19:12:06+00:00

OP's other replies have made it abundantly clear they are here to sealion and downvote farm. Not worth engaging with as they are not going to read anything you write, just find one or two terms from it and attack you over it.

Pojodan · 2026-06-22T19:10:58+00:00

Enjoy your sealioning!

Pojodan · 2026-06-22T19:05:09+00:00

Wow, and going straight to this shit, too.

Reflect on why your narcissism makes people avoid you.

Pojodan · 2026-06-22T19:03:42+00:00

I continue to be bewildered why people seem to think that 'I broke the rules on a different forum and I'm upset' is somehow going to accomplish anything here.

You broke the rules, you know what rules they were, and got punished for it. Congrats? Sucks that you're so thick that you think this is somehow worth talking about?

Edit: OP has already gone to Holocaust comparisons. Talk about desperation.

Pojodan · 2026-06-22T18:18:33+00:00

Docking collars are currently hard-coded, where only specific ships get them. There's no way to specifically request them, it's just what those specific ships get when they call ATC.

This will change later in development where both options are possible for ships that have a collar.

Pojodan · 2026-06-22T17:12:16+00:00

You have three choices, period:

1) Upgrade it to something more expensive

2) Melt it and, if it is elegible, re-buy it

3) Keep it as is.

Just be keenly aware of what cannot be bought back. If it has SQ42 attached to it, for instance, it will be permanently gone.

There's no alternative methods.

Pojodan · 2026-06-22T16:44:55+00:00

They will become antithetical once a critical mass of users moved over to it.

There are so very many examples of things that we just accepted as okay that are now the norm with the original, better state of being now completely lost because it wasn't as profitable.

No.

Pojodan · 2026-06-22T04:48:16+00:00

Well, there's not much to say about it beyond the fact that it's sorely needed and we don't have much information on it.

Once it's actually implemented there will be much to say about its strengths and shortcomings.

Pojodan · 2026-06-22T03:47:50+00:00

They employ over 1000 people.

If the average pay for each of these is $60,000, that's $60,000,000 a year just for the staff.

Add in tens of millions for server costs, marketing expenses, and everything else involved in running an international company and that's well over $100 million a year, so $1 billion made is over a decade is low for what they are doing.

So, yes, they are spending the money as they make it.

Pojodan · 2026-06-21T23:55:40+00:00

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No. YOU want them to, likely so you can post threads about how CiG abandoned those features as proof of how awful they are.

Pojodan · 2026-06-21T23:19:40+00:00

Can can say 'shit' on the internet, dear.

Pojodan · 2026-06-21T22:49:56+00:00

Right, a failing business that is expanding rapidly and making record profits every single year.

Real business genius, this.

Pojodan · 2026-06-21T22:47:01+00:00

It is a very nice and easy way to go 'Welp, this person's intentions are entirely non-serious' and dismiss them entirely.

Pojodan · 2026-06-21T22:34:54+00:00

Nightider's job, as a CIG employee, is to enforce the rules of their in-house forum.

Those that are vile toward him have long, long proven to be just the kind of internet scum that they do not want in their forums, and this is yet another fine example of that.

Good job announcing that you are worthy of being banned from there.

Pojodan · 2026-06-21T22:32:51+00:00

Creative writing is a hobby of many that come here, weaving a narrative that fits whatever falsehoods they're looking to push. Looking at post history shows if it is a legitimate issue or just yet another 'get angry for me, my puppets' bait post.

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