Posts by Cygna

  • Star Citizen by Chris Roberts

    Quote from Crossfire

    I agree with what you guy say. First of all people pays the money because ppl see in Chris Roberts the creater of space simulations (action). Off course There was other games before Wing Commander, how ever all the great games I played and also many friends of me were made by him (his team).
    So thats why People trust in him and ppl wish to see a new space simulation like all the great games we know from him. And yes I can good imagine that Star Citizen would cost lot of money. Not only by buying the game also by running the game, as it has been told by OP for many other things. How ever I am sure ppl would gladly pay the money when they can get something which they were looking/waiting for it since ages.....
    So I hope Chris can give ppl what all we are expecting and I hope this time Chris can take his time and create a game as the way he wants it to be. And hopefully there wont be a EA or Microsoft which again try to over take his Company.......
    Crossfire

    What !! are you mad or just space wacky. ;)


    First of all i have a saying " You can't polish a Turd "
    Which in fact thats what Star Citizen is, a BIG FAT polished TURD.
    Its just Wing Commander taken to the next level, with an element of Freelancer
    in it, to entice US Freelancer communities in to supporting it.


    But i don't buy it, and never will....
    I have said on many posts about this and also others have too.
    If it looks like its too good to be true, it most probably is.


    Once we have Crossfire 2.0 up and running and bug free, One can only assume that
    the powers at large will try something new in the development of the next version,
    i.e- a new game engine, who knows what OP and the DEV team will do next, its a mystery.
    I for one will support it, and promote it, whenever and wherever i can.


    imo, Roberts only claim to fame was Freelancer, and even then he was loosely involved with it.


    WC is his baby and always is/was and will always be.........



    Rgds


    Cygna

  • PC Gaming Video Recaps Several Decades in 2.5 Minutes

    Quote from Bot

    Silent Hunter spotted a clever video that documents the history of PC games "from the earliest text-based adventures to the latest modern shooters." It uses only game audio to form the soundtrack, and Wing Commander makes several appearances at 1:03, 1:10 and 1:30. The sudden appearance of WC3's live actor FMV is almost jarring in the midst of other games from the early '90s!




    Source: http://www.wcnews.com/index.shtml#11924


    Wow, quite a few games there i recognized...shows u how old i am..lol


    I do think BOT needs re-programming, as i feel his loyalties are drifting to much
    in the RSi direction.. ;)



    Rgds


    Cygna

  • Polling For Additional Stretch Goals


    Whoah there OP ( Chris ;) )


    Looks like from that post you did blow a fuse. :D
    Well tbh mate, yes i did notice, thats WHY i have been saying on here that this sounded wrong to
    me at the very beginning.
    Also you will be glad to know that ALL correspondence from ANYTHING that RSi send to my
    E-mail, has been directed to my Spam box for deletion.


    Its the oldest trick in the book, and I WONT FALL FOR IT.


    This Forum/site is all that interests me, as it still holds values and integrity from its members for a
    game we all love.
    NO gimmicks, NO Golden Tickets ( no Willy Wonkers here ), NO Con's.


    Just a DONATE button , if you wish too, Can't be fairer than that.


    LONG LIVE CROSSFIRE, FRAG THE REST


    OP, have a Glass of wine and relax.. :D



    Rgds


    Cygna

  • Elite:Dangerous

    O.M.F.G :arghs:



    As you all know i rate Braben/Bell as the Founders of ALL space sims, and they have my respects..... But Really !!!!!!!
    ANOTHER Micro payments backed project....give me an effing break............


    He saw what Roberts has done, and has jumped on the band wagon...really really sad..


    Is this NOW the shape of things to come with making new games, in that case, i want NO part of it.


    OP........ PLEASE don't go down this route, i beg of you.... :thankyou: :P ;)


    So ppl, just donate to Crossfire, so we can blow these sorry ass cons outa the water.



    Enuff said....


    Rgds



    Cygna


    Edit: I am now wearing a black armband in the loss of sanity for these Game Designers....

  • Star Citizen Has Raised Over $2.75 Million

    STILL a BIG con in my eyes.
    Any game of that magnitude should have a major Game House fronting it, like i said b4
    EA , Edios , MS , Valve , Ect. Ect just to name a few.


    When the project is done and he is sitting in a swanky house somewhere in Cuba, and the
    game has a shit load of probs, i will then say " Told you So" :rolleyes:


    Carry on pledging , if YOU dare.... :diablo:




    Rgds


    Cygna

  • Did the site go down yesterday???

    Quote from Xero18

    Are you guys ever going to get a new server? The one you have right now constantly crashes. That and I herd its based in germany, so it makes my ping suck monkey nuts...


    I live in the UK and my ping is between 49-65 tops, and sometimes i still crash.
    Remember it also depends on the loss and packets sent, should be 0, any higher than
    5, will make it crash.
    Plus the amount of traffic on your internet provider will effect it too.


    What can help is a reset of modem, and a restart of your computer, clears all the crap.



    Rgds



    Cygna

  • There are days...

    Quote from SWAT_OP-R8R

    ...when really interesting things start to happen for no obvious reason.


    From little acorn's, Trees are grown...


    Great work guys.


    CF 2.0 will be better than Star Citizen...lol


    Now just get on doing it on the Cry Engine will ya........ ;)
    Prove him wrong..



    Rgds


    Cygna

  • Did the site go down yesterday???

    Yep, i had the same problem also, Site down and also the Mddb site probs also.


    Perhaps it was the solar flare...lol
    Login problems just after the solar flare i mean.... :bomb:


    Still, it would take a lot more than the Sun spitting its shit out to stop
    us Spaceanauts in our tracks.. :walklike:



    Rgds


    Cygna

  • FreeLancer 2 By Chris Reberts ??? There's going to be an anoucement on October.

    Quote from /V\ichael

    Consoles were ment to be only for games, but now the ones like Xbox or PS have online capacity, you can chat with people through them, see videos, the internet, a lot of things from the PCs, that were forced to be added since not enough people buy whole consoles only for games, and they weren't going to survive like that.


    The professional ones know what's best.
    Especially since, with emulators, you can even play Gameboy Pro games on PC, or Nintendo DS... PS3 games too.


    Also, as it's only about money with the consoles, the console itself like PS3 only costs like 150 € here (a lot cheaper than PCs), but each new game costs half of that. Games with 50 € or 70 €... the new PC games cost from 15€ to 30€ (by what I've seen here).
    So with the ammount of money you spend for a console + 10 games, you can buy the best PC arround and never spend a fortune on each game, also there are more torrented PC games and such. Modding's still a PC exclusive feature.


    Exactly Mike, i left that detail out, as i thought it was obvious, but you know what console ppl are like,
    you have to remind them, time and time again... ;)


    Hands up, all who had a SEGA Mega Drive, and then payed up to £50 a game and sometimes more... :nummer1:
    Well...they were Game Console's in the right sense.
    Anything Cartridge based IS a Game Console.....in order of manufacture...


    Atari 9000 ( i think it was called )
    Nintendo
    Sega Mega Drive
    " " Genesis, for USA
    SNES


    others i cant remember , but oc u had the hand held Consoles, Di, DSi etc etc


    All above Are Consoles,
    The PS3 and XBox are Multi-Cross platform Game Systems, PC's in a small box
    that don't deserve to be called Game Consoles imo, that their main reason for life is just for games
    only, but have an aspect of a PC so us PC users may find them worth a buy, but still they were only
    a computer in a nice box.


    They are good, but no where near as versatile as a PC.


    Game Consoles to me, mean the Cartridge based one's only !!



    Rgds


    Cygna

  • F2P Freelancer? Ah, no, something like it.

    Looks interesting, but smells a bit like Star Citizen, as they would most prob
    rely on " Community Funding " as he put it, to get the project off the ground.


    Even some of the voting on there is virtually the same.


    I wish them good luck with their project. :thumbup:


    Rgds


    Cygna

  • FreeLancer 2 By Chris Reberts ??? There's going to be an anoucement on October.

    Quote from Rexor

    .... The advantage of consoles is that they never have problems ............. the computer often has trouble ......... you must maintain its OS clean and well working ............. Damn ! .......... how much I hate computers ......... I made on average one formatting per year.


    Wrong!


    Take the PS3, You load a game onto its hard drive like a computer, you play online like a computer,.
    When u have finished playing the game, you un-install the game like a computer.
    Same goes for the Xbox.


    Game consoles like PS3 and Xbox, keep little bits of information in its memory ( Registry, if u like )
    and over time, like a PC it gets corrupted and you have to do a reg clean, but NOT on the PS3.
    You have to wipe the whole HD in the PS3 and start again ( call this re-install of OS, like the PC )


    Remember, not forgetting all the pic's and music u have put on it too which can cause a problem,
    Consoles don't have the protection like PC's do, well we all know that PSN been hacked and now for
    a third time so as ppl can play pirated PS3 games online, SO not very safe.
    Lets not forget the over heating problems that consoles have too, they get very hot and the processor
    pops from the board, and the jamming of disks and the dreaded yellow light to tell you that you have
    a serious hardware malfuction.


    I format my computers once a year also, not bc of a problem, but to ensure there are no nasties on it
    and to start with a fresh Registry. Cleaners don't do it for me i am afraid.


    So before you moan how high maintenance a PC is, please remember Consoles are a bigger headache when
    they go wrong.


    Rgds


    Cygna

  • FreeLancer 2 By Chris Reberts ??? There's going to be an anoucement on October.

    Quote from /V\ichael

    Anyway, new space sci-fi/sim games are always welcomed :D


    Yes, i would applaud any new Space sim game, no really i would!!
    But Roberts new game is just Wing Commander re-named as Squadron 42/Space Citizen,
    all polished up and re-packed bc of as he put it " Due to the new technology, i can now do what i wanted to acheive "
    And to keep it interesting for others who do not like WC, he has put a bit of his Freelancer
    freedom in it to entice us in.


    Anyone with an ounce of sense can see what he is doing and saying.


    As you know i have played a shit load of Space Sim Games, X held me for a long while, but when i discovered
    Freelancer, it manages to tick all the right boxes for me, and i wont look back.


    Freelancer has and still does, the potential for amazing storylines and restructuring, why he cant see that, i don't know.


    What Freelancer/Crossfire needs, is a new game engine, which in turn could make it the BEST space sim out there.


    If i had the skills,and knowhow, this is what the future holds imho, the best way a space sim should be.



    Rgds


    Cygna