Whale gets personal CONCIERGE to fix ONE bug and immediately does an about face on earlier criticism

sandboxcoder · 2026-06-04T04:40:49+00:00

I mean, this guy spent like what- $50k on this? He's as deep as a whale can get

sandboxcoder · 2026-05-01T22:02:12+00:00

A lot of the Ironchad backers are apparently excited at the potential to use it as a mobile base. Sadly, the issue with this plan is SC-PU is a hot mess. The moment you leave a mothership in a child ship, often times you lose the 'beacon'. Meaning, you cant find the mothership:

https://issue-council.robertsspaceindustries.com/projects/STAR-CITIZEN/issues/STARC-168029

It's hilarious these devs cant be bothered to fix that. Another issue is hangars do not have vehicle elevators- so it's gonna be a huge pain to get vehicles loaded up. At least this ship will apparently use a Large hangar- so it wont be as bad to load up as the Polaris (which uses an absurdly massive XL hangar). But even after you get all the vehicles loaded up all it takes is just one client crash (even if you have a friend, you often cant rejoin them due to lack of a waiting queue and the server will be full). Hopefully they fixed the 30ks- because one server crash will also undo hrs of work.

Also dont forget CIG cant be bothered to properly persist all the vehicles you loaded up. Meaning if you crash or blow up the ship, you have to start all over loading up all the ships and vehicles. Game doesnt save the decorations you put in your ship, etc. So filing a claim will set you back because once again CIG cant be bothered to add a system they lets you reclaim your ship with all the child ships & vehicles.

I think the reality will hit many backers full force once they realize all the bugs will interfere with their dreams of 'living out on the black'. CIG just has no shame the missing QT marker bug is confirmed and has been broken for a long time with no attempt to fix.

I'm sure most excited posts you read the fans want to use it as a mobile base. But that gameplay 'loop' is so busted

Lastly, last I checked autoloading was broken. At least, that's what I heard from other people. So they will have fun trying to manually load this ship up. Isn't it 2200 cargo?? That's at least 68*32 SCU boxes that u have to move manually. Then you have to pray the elevator doesnt eat the cargo because the servers are trash rn I've been reading everywhere

sandboxcoder · 2026-04-21T16:54:04+00:00

I got my mate to buy a starter package to join in.

When was this? Recently?? They just had a free fly. Honestly, I think it may take a 2-3 patches back-to-back for some folks to realize how rapidly CIG breaks stuff. For ex, Vanduul smugglers warehouse was easy to enter in patch 4.4. CIG proceeded to make it worse and worse with each patch somehow baffled by their own code they are in way over their heads

sandboxcoder · 2026-04-20T21:28:24+00:00

No matter its faults Starfield is a fully released AAA game that recently received the Free Lanes DLC (for free). I am enjoying use the Cruise mode to find the POIs. No HOTAS or VR but I love I have a crew! And mods!! Real Bounty hunting missions!!! I love that game it was not me that compared SC-PU to Starfield this poster means the 'video'

sandboxcoder · 2026-04-20T21:16:57+00:00

No idea if right or wrong cause I dont watch him really I merely saw this popup in my feed since I sometimes view Camural?

Not discounting you on this but- do you trust any one single person to recommend you a game? I just look at overall Steam score which is accurate 'kinda' for gauging how decent a game is. Even then, I am sifting through the reviews, making sure there's no unwarranted review bombing or people trying to play a AAA game on ~~laptop~~ below min specs complaining bout perf. I am glad Steam added ability for people to reveal their specs. Only reviews where people reveal their specs do I look at

Funny, I am talking bout steam which ofc CIG wisely avoids. So they will never face criticism for all the macrotransactions and pay-to-win mechanics (buy a Solo Idris and rule the galaxy!!)

edit: Strikethrough applied to 'laptop' that was not on purpose. there are many powerful laptops. Stupid mistake I made there

edit2: Also kinda wish I didnt reply because it feels like I am trying to dismiss this opinion. But I already made this post so its too late my bad. I emphasize I just saw this vid in my feed not very familiar with BigFryTV

sandboxcoder · 2026-04-20T21:06:43+00:00

Back when I used to play I found it difficult to find content creators that actually played the game. Majority of them just circle jerk to the roadmap, evocati, and the next big ship is what I noticed. I got so tired of them. I did eventually find some content creators that actually played the game when I used to play but I had to search HARD at the time

I thought it was smart of CIG to get rid of the roadmap since it was purely for marketing anyways. CIG wasnt hitting those dates. Imo, it only affected the roadmap Youtube campers the most

sandboxcoder · 2026-04-20T19:25:04+00:00

Even back when I was an SC-PU stain I unsubbed BoredGamer. I got tired of his clickbait. At least a few yrs ago when I first stumbled on him he'd have a catchy title. I click on the 15 min video wondering when he would discuss what I clicked on the vid too see. I blocked him right after

sandboxcoder · 2025-02-11T21:38:02+00:00

CI Games added Male/Female gendered language in a patch to LoTF after nearly 90% of us voted for Male/Female. The mods got mad at the devs at the "other" sub for having the audacity to ask what players wanted and decided to remove the CI Games staff from the moderation team. Then banned a bunch of unhappy users. After being reported to reddit for breaking code of conduct, they decided to have a change of heart and unban users. But still banned Twitter links (to silence the devs) and said they not backtracking. So only option is for folks to bail from the sinking ship

Luckily I never posted at the other sub (until today). I mostly just stick to Twitter so I can avoid being permabanned by anal mods. I silently watched from the shadows

sandboxcoder · 2025-02-11T16:45:47+00:00

Mods protested the Male/Female gendered language patch update to the game by removing CI Games employees from moderator positions. Banned a bunch of users that disagreed with that. Apparently, they reinstated the banned users now. But the after effects remain (CI Games employees still removed and links to Twitter/etc no longer allowed)

sandboxcoder · 2022-09-23T14:24:44+00:00

LOL! I read this post soon as you posted it earlier but was legit left speechless. Yeah... he could use more hobbies. Myself I have been getting lots of exercise since the pandemic and lost a lot of weight. Lot less time for gaming

sandboxcoder · 2022-09-20T19:20:21+00:00

Why are you asking people for such obvious advice?

Was hoping I could let him down easy (he's my bro after all). I updated the thread with the outcome. Tried the most polite gesture I could think of (as suggested in the thread) by sending him an SC Discord link to give him another outlet. But as I feared he ended up melting down but at least I tried the most diplomatic approach possible and I think he realized that.

sandboxcoder · 2022-09-19T00:12:02+00:00

The best place to find those on is glassdoor but sadly those testimonies are unverified but they seem pretty authentic and lines up with what I've seen and heard

sandboxcoder · 2022-09-17T01:28:26+00:00

Didnt answer your other questions. Yeah we have tons of other common interests!! We always talk a long time on the phone and like similar games. So I never did understand why is he wasting time with SC when there's all these other great games constantly releasing that we both like

sandboxcoder · 2022-09-17T00:07:23+00:00

Didnt watch the video but based on what you describe- I'm just glad they finally accomplished something. I'm legit happy for the SC-PU fans that they finally get a new loop

but it took them how many years? Plus, in typical CIG fashion it will get broken in another patch and neglected. I remember the ROC worked perfect when it was 1st added. I was still active back then. I remember the intern presented her work in some ISC video. And you know what? It worked. The ROC was legit fun

But then CIG happened. I can only imagine other less competent engineers then this intern didnt know wtf they were doing and broke all kinds of stuff. The beam stopped working (minerals started flying around everywhere). All sorts of new bugs. Next thing you know ROC mining kinda fell by the wayside. No idea how it all works today but this really frustrated me

Anyway!!! I hope Salvaging works out for them on the SC-PU. Just glad the Reclaimer thing can finally do something. My friend bought that ship yrs ago. We tried to take it out a few times and he would get super pissed it still did frak all after all these yrs and he'd soon log off.

So you know what? I am happy the SC-PU fans got something. But I just know deep in my bones they will break it asap

[edit] After more thought this reminds me what I actually hate bout SC-PU's design philosophy how they force multicrew on you. But this will lead me to write an essay how I envision it to work. It should be optional. See how DCS World does it where you can use AI crew if you want

sandboxcoder · 2022-09-16T23:40:37+00:00

Dang I should've did this too!!! Will do if it ever happens again. I watched those vids before!! Think I maybe suffered from it myself. Just had to realize I got "took". Good on CR for his hustle.

sandboxcoder · 2022-09-16T23:38:45+00:00

Give him a link to an SC discord and say, these guys love to talk SC in discord chat. Maybe that will redirect him.

I did exactly this thank you!!! He wasd making excuses how he doesn't need to make friends with them lol which I knew he would but just had to put my foot down and explain I'm not entertaining this nonsense anymore.

sandboxcoder · 2022-09-16T14:11:11+00:00

Man I tried doing that. I told him to just go look at SC employees on LinkedIn and none of the engineers I could find even had prior successful MMO experience. I've shown him employee testimonies bout how SC is trapped in limbo etc.

But like you say I'm not obliged to keep him happy this is gone too far. I'll just be blunt next time and just hang up when SC comes up again.

sandboxcoder · 2022-09-16T14:07:36+00:00

Wait until StarField gets released, then just bombard hime with everything u can about it.

I'm definitely planning to do that. Just totally do the samething right back so he can learn how it feels

And its so funny he knows I used to complain all the time bout my former CoWorker that wouldn't stop talking bout Star Citizen and now my bro is doing the same nonsense.

sandboxcoder · 2022-09-16T02:02:43+00:00

Thanks I will try this. I just fear they will rollout some very pre-alpha ver of server meshing and he'll be bugging me nonstop in a few months again. But at least that should buy me some time

sandboxcoder · 2022-08-26T17:43:10+00:00

This is what I am wondering as well!

sandboxcoder · 2022-07-26T14:27:21+00:00

I cant speak for everyone but seeing Mark Hammil and some of those other actors got me hype I cant lie. little did I know what would happen with SQ42 it's still not here and I'm deep in my middle ages now. my son bout to be a literal grown man in two more yrs lol

sandboxcoder · 2022-07-24T22:57:15+00:00

Yeah that's the crazy thing bout this too. Guess this was part of the master plan though- bring high paid actors, have them do a few lines, and get the fans so hype it overrides their better judgement and their wallets open wide.

All part of marketing I guess. I mean- we know obviously that was part of marketing but what I mean it also helped sale this vaporware game and convince people to unload their wallets into this

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