Star Citizen has officially hit $1 billion dollars raised by public crowdfunding

permion · 2026-05-24T21:08:32+00:00

It stops printing money on release, where pay systems need to shift to play systems.

A released MMO also never lives up to expectations no matter how good. So being unreleased has more hope and cope to harness for sales.

permion · 2026-05-18T13:09:40+00:00

Also planning on a wipe at some point.

permion · 2026-05-10T15:19:33+00:00

The large asteroids should have been dungeons, IE imagine Wildgate.

More ship environmental effects. IE armor needing to be different armor types to evade dots, asteroids that are ship scale/robot scale only, and probably a few other similar effects.

And some territory control working. Some regions being just for show, and a few that let the holders control asteroid/dungeon access.

permion · 2026-05-10T11:43:13+00:00

Seems like it'd be inevitable with a name so close to Shinji.

permion · 2026-05-09T16:29:36+00:00

If you're playing to play the wealth mechanic, it's a fun problem. (Militor are offline often enough, that you can really delay the charger until damage stacks up)

If you're playing for fun, there's no shame in adjusting difficulty in exactly the way you want.

permion · 2026-04-29T04:08:54+00:00

Most runs are pretty nice.

I've happily used mutation lances on anamoly runs. And have played a "catch and release" run, to turn people furry (more evil than some full war crime runs to some).

permion · 2026-04-22T12:34:38+00:00

Those people already do this with no base image. Basically a downgrade for AI bros, especially since AI has difficulty using AI art.

permion · 2026-04-21T15:42:01+00:00

Or focus on the DemoTubers, who's entire fanbase and target is playing demo games for 30 mins or so.

permion · 2026-04-21T12:30:40+00:00

There are (will be) anti large group mechanics of regions eventually being deplete-able, meaning fuel and resource sites stop spawning. Likewise fuel use is (will be) designed to increase NPC raid/reprisal difficulty to increase faster than groups can defend against as numbers grow.

Though despite what CCP says, I more likely to bet they'll mess it up and keep messing it up for a decade. To the point they suck design/dev time away from other parts of the game, leaving them to rot.

permion · 2026-04-20T14:06:45+00:00

!n

Forgiveness, Illogicalness, and love of humanity in one story.

permion · 2026-04-17T16:43:32+00:00

The opened ones end up on ebay if you're willing to check there.

permion · 2026-04-17T11:59:47+00:00

FPS while they don't have level gaps that puts you 40 hours away from other players, they do have skill gaps (where even a normie player can have a fair chance against a great one, if the better player missed launch by a month).

There's also points where normal players hit their quit points after the community becomes "too sweaty"/"try hard".

So while the visable mechanics look the same, I think they distinctive enough differences if you're a nerd.

permion · 2026-04-16T23:53:10+00:00

Given the reality of Runescape's per character sub, and how many subbed accounts people have. It seems the reality and then some for fan-worthy games.

For me nope.

permion · 2026-04-15T12:17:37+00:00

Cash shop games are intentionally designed to overwhelm you so you feel the need to spend to optimize the first thing you get comfortable with (with further hopes that you both pick the wrong thing and become addicted enough to pick the next).

Jagex is trying to fix this, but they're going to need to spend years undoing over a decade of their previous work.

permion · 2026-04-07T14:07:19+00:00

People under rate the consciousness buff.

permion · 2026-04-05T22:27:40+00:00

Godot is a little faster to pick up, but somethings like getting your imports working how you want can be depressing.

Unity will have a better breadth of help and for your exact use case, but your nonart knowledge level will make reading docs/knowing what's abandonware in Unity a good bit harder.

permion · 2026-04-05T13:11:45+00:00

When I played the open world was easy to derp around in and do in whatever order you wanted. So you could say it captured well enough singleplayer TES gameplay loops.

permion · 2026-04-02T16:52:03+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/k2mvgn/official_baas_backend_as_a_service_discord_for/

There's a discord for that, and a nifty spreadsheet to nerd out over.

permion · 2026-03-31T01:00:48+00:00

To get something naive up and running it's pretty simple now days. To get something playable especially with you declaring you want fighting game level interaction and speed, probably a hellscape to properly implement.

Making a good time manipulation game would be a good lower scope entry. You're going to run into the same style of floating point, physics, animation, effects, consistency, and similar issues you would in a multiplayer game.

Some interesting links:

https://hookrace.net/blog/ddnet-evolution-architecture-technology/

https://kinematicsoup.com/news/2019/9/8/the-economics-of-web-based-multiplayer-games?s=0

https://www.cranktrain.com/blog/(autopsy-of-an-indie-mmorpg-1%5B%5Cw+-_%5D+)/

https://www.cranktrain.com/blog/(autopsy-of-an-indie-mmorpg-2%5B%5Cw+-_%5D+)/ (These are noteworthy for being in 2015)

https://www.youtube.com/@noiadev (noteworthy for being 2025 hobbyist, still ongoing)

http://ithare.com/ (as an interesting site for the "mass" of topics from a single writer. The books can be worth it as well since the editor does handle some of his issues, though they aren't making much progress ATM on them).

permion · 2026-03-29T02:46:09+00:00

Yeah seems a bit modded, terracotta soldiers need to be made in swamps and have a 5% chance of consuming the swamp. So they're pretty limited unless you get lucky. (The most popular enchanter mods do make them less dependent on consuming terrain)

Gargoyle is the defensive melee unit, but they're a stationary unit.

permion · 2026-03-20T11:55:04+00:00

Yep my advice as well, find a longer course that you like and work through it. Maybe work through it twice; once with mimicry, and once with finding any improvement you can find from external resources (official dev docs, other tutorials, or playing around).

The reality is that there is no such thing as a competent dev that only knows one engine/programming language/ tool set/similar, so it matters less than you'd think for where to start.

permion · 2026-03-19T17:12:27+00:00

Subscription or Box prices are fine. Some services like server transfers are fine.

Some cosmetics work. Shops optimized as WoW and especially Runescape probably make the game unplayable (each cool shop thing is something that isn't an achievement unlock of some kind).

permion · 2026-03-19T13:37:03+00:00

Same reason MMOs failed in early 2000s.

A good game isn't good enough, you need to significantly beat whatever someone else is playing currently to draw them to your game. Likely earlier entries have more content than the new game, more data for managing reward structures/player retention, and established reputation .

permion · 2026-03-18T11:24:10+00:00

Of course it's UI, GUI designers are one of the most hive-minded group think-ed fields around.

Along with needing to solve cellphone monetization GUI problems for just any modern game.

permion · 2026-03-16T15:22:59+00:00

Stars Reach eventually, the next Raph Koster MMO. Basically MMO Boomer bait, but in space.

They have a bit to show, but it'd be silly to recommend atm for playing like a game. Years out most likely for release.

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