• Appeal to the authority you give yourself based on *past experience (leave out any negative past experience) *religious/spiritual “insight” can be a substitute here

• Present an ambitious “vision” that claims to require said past experience to fully grasp

• Allow your targets to start building the product in their imagination based on the crumbs you gave them with step 2

• Sell disjointed tangential products that don’t interfere with the player’s dream logic and promise they will connect to your cohesive vision with time

• Find “technical delays”

• Express that you need backers to buy more of the dream to help get through the “technical delays”

• Repeat for 9 years until the market begins to retract

• Open the dream up to asian markets

• ???

• Profit

All it requires is being a soulless piece of shit.

so ducking annoying

You did a reverse EriKa KirK there. I think you meant “grift” not “gift”

I really wish another company would come along and just do properly what CIG pretends they’re doing. I would love the game SC shows in their marketing, I wish a company would come along and make their own competent version of that experience while leaving the Chris Roberts and CIG jank and practices behind. They should hire Todd Papy.

I’ve watched the pieces “start fitting together” for like 14 years now… There is fun to be had, but it’s an ocean wide and an inch deep imo. SC stopped being fun for me the moment I realized most of the fun I was having was imagining hypotheticals to pass the time while fighting their shit product to function in some meaningful way. This becomes especially painful when you see all of the effort is supposedly going into a single-player game that we’ve barely seen while they fail to deliver an acceptably functional version of the product we actually play and use the ships we payed money for in…

It has other massive problems with the company’s motives. For example: why balance the game to incorporate cohesive and effective multicrew ships, and sell 1 person a 725$(CAD) ship (hammerhead) to invite 6 other people to crew, when they can leave it’s future balance a dream and have everyone in OP F8s (or whatever the current light fighter “meta” ship is at the moment) for 260$ each… 725$ dollar multicrew ship, or 1,820$ in light fighters. hrmmmmm A Hammerhead should melt light fighters according to it’s stated purpose when sold, but it’s been effectively useless for years and years now, as one very clear example of what’s going on overall.

Multicrew will NEVER BE FUN until they’re done milking their base, and they’ll never be done milking their base.

100% selling hopes and dreams. I understand there’s a playable alpha, I was a backer for over a decade. There is no cohesive vision, just endless theory crafting and half baked implementations to maintain the illusion of progress, but every time they add something, they seemingly need to break something else for their 8 ticks-per-second system to be able to handle it…

I’d add to this that it’s the case for at least some of these folks that the reason they can’t see Trump for the evil POS that he is, is because they’re actually too good to conceive of it. They’ve never imagined that level of shittiness existing in someone and for them some things are too big to lie about, but not for Trump.

I’ll put you down.