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Does CIG know how to WIPE?! feat. ‪@TheAstroPubLIVE‬ · Open Comms Radio | A Star Citizen call-in show

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  Murphy, Jack. How do you feel about Insta
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  travel? Oh fuck it.
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  phone got wet. I don't know if that was me, I
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  think you might have just been crossing streams again.
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  Well, Speaking of crossing streams, we have a very special
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  guest here today. Sometimes here in Open Comms
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  Radio we do have special guests. And tonight's guest is indeed
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  someone you may know, host of The Captain's Table, the Astro
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  Historian Paul Shelley of the Astropub.
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  Astropub, thanks for coming on open dot coms radio.
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  I don't know how I feel about being being introduced as the
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  crossing of streams. I've heard that there's that's
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  when bad things happen, especially when splashback.
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  Yeah, but sometimes you have to cross the streams in order to to
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  defeat the big the big bad. Yeah, I mean, but I mean, isn't,
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  isn't that kind of like like a like a very unhygienic way of
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  defeating the big bad, you having to cross the streams?
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  I mean, Oh my God, guys. Get tested it's it's free.
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  There we go. Wow, is the robot recording?
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  Yeah. Is he?
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  We're fine. It's.
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  Cool. You're sure?
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  You're sure he's recording? Yeah, I'm here.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  We got it. We got it this time.
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  We got meme dogs in chat. He's his very professional
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  black, Wicked says Class act. This is the behind the scenes,
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  OK, a lot of a lot of big Youtubers, they would, they
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  would, you'd have to be you'd have to be like a double, triple
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  Patreon in order to get like the, you know, the, the, the
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  cutting room floor stuff. You have no idea how many things
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  have gone wrong in the captain's table in like 10 years of me
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  doing the captain's table like this is nothing I have.
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  I've had computers literally light on fire in the in the
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  waiting room or so it's like you have active fire in your room.
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  Get off the stream or get off the prepare and get them and
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  take care of the fire please. Yeah, honestly, our, our
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  listeners, they don't care, you know?
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  These are These are the. People who would stay bleed at
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  night. 2:00 AM watching cartoon. Network.
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  Oh man, those were the days. These.
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  Were the days, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Anyway, this is Open Comms Radio, your star assistant
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  calling show, and I'm here with the Astropub, The Astropub of
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  Astro Historian, host of the Captain's Table Astropub.
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  How you? Doing I'm good, thank good I my,
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  my day job as a teacher. And so we've got, I've got about
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  two weeks until school's over with.
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  So I'm in that, that stage of like the, the good students are
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  all like, yeah, I'm done, I'm good.
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  I've got all my things done and my bad students are like, I am
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  very far behind. So I, I have a combination of
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  some classes, I'm just doing nothing.
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  And some classes are like, like, Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr.
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  Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. like, yeah, 'cause I teach seniors.
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  So a lot of them are like, I gotta go to college.
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  I'm like, well, you gotta do your work.
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  They'll go to college. Last two weeks of school,
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  they're not done yet. They have senioritis.
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  Hardcore senioritis. Yeah, I didn't do shit my last
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  two weeks of high school. Less.
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  Problems that they've been. In your first four years, so.
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  That's fair. That's a good point.
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  With them is they haven't done any.
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  A lot of them haven't done anything in the last month of
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  school, which is why they're currently panicking about not
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  passing their senior year. That'll happen.
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  You know who else hasn't done Jack shit recently?
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  CIG. CIT all day today, hanging out
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  waiting for the patch 4.80. Here it comes.
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  Oh Gee whiz, look at these. Look at this big old new ship
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  and here we are at 9:00 nine O 9:00 PM on Wednesday night.
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  Nothing. Crickets.
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  And it's got to be out tomorrow, right?
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  Today. Today this is the.
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  Day, but I mean it, you know, it could come out at like 11:59
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  today and it'd still. Be good.
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  It'll it'll it'll come out at 11:59 central time because they
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  go by central time. So do that because their their
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  head office or the the office that is all the pushing and
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  publishing is Austin, TX where I am.
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  So that's why they. That's good to know.
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  So everything is done by their time.
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  So it's like why All Star Citizen live and as inside Star
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  Citizens release it like around noon Eastern between noon and
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  one because all of it is in in the UK.
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  So it's like 5 hours ahead. Like they're usually finishing
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  up work. Right.
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  Right, right. You know, these guys live in all
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  over the world, all all this breadth of experience, you know,
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  and everything they're doing it and it seems like they can't do
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  anything, right? The community here starts in the
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  community. I don't know if you've been on
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  spectrum Astro. I try to avoid it.
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  Try to avoid it. Well, here we live in spectrum.
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  How can you yeah, this show this, this, this feels, this
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  feels like a, a, a trap. I've been trapped inside the
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  dumpster with the dumpster monsters.
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  Hey, true powers only get in to those who are willing to lower
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  themselves to pick it up, and you can't get much lower than
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  spectrum. Go Reddit.
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  Can't get much lower. Than but I mean, that's probably
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  about the that's that was about the same, same, same the same
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  level there for for my experience.
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  Yeah, well, when this patch does finally release, supposedly it's
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  coming with a big old wipe. That's right, big old wipe of
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  everything. It's very hygienic.
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  They're going to. I found it.
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  They're going to wipe your money.
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  Thank God. They're going to wipe your
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  cruise locks. That one hurts.
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  They're going to even wipe your reputation, who you were.
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  That wasn't nobody anywhere. Listen, I had 1.5 billion
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  credits. This is, this is communism, all
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  right? That's all I'm going to say.
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  This is this is, this is horrible.
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  It's taking from the rich. The white.
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  Yeah, no, I, I, I I am of the the the opinion that like wipes
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  are important, especially in Alpha and we needed one for a
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  while that CI GS been super like careful about it.
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  Yeah, which I understand why, because they don't want to like
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  I, I don't, I don't know how long either of you, you you've
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  been in the game, but I, I remember back in the day when
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  like they would wipe every patch.
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  So it would be like like 2 months of play and then like
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  it's all gone. So like, now it's back to about
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  a year or so, which isn't, it's not awful, you know, a year of
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  gameplay. Yeah, I I hope they just keep
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  wiping it all the time. I'm going to be honest.
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  And I hope when they do wipe, they wipe everything.
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  I mean, I I hope they wipe it every time there's a big
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  exploit. Definitely because it it ruins
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  my gameplay when someone get, you know, gifts me like a random
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  billion. You lose the motivation.
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  You know and. That's yeah.
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  Oh, yeah. As much as as much as folks love
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  to spend, you know, thousands of dollars in Internet jpegs, like
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  my most, my most cherished memories of Star Citizen are
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  like starting off with them roaring a dream and just doing
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  what I can on a, on a zero to zero.
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  I'm not. I'm not even joking.
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  It's it is. There's something there's
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  something about like getting a bounty kill in a, in a, in a
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  Mustang alpha when all you have is a Mustang alpha starter pack
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  and you're like, I got 500 credits left because I keep
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  messing up this mission. I either succeed this or I go
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  broke and, you know, limping home after after have
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  successfully getting that bounty and I'm like, I'm going to be
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  plus 50 credits on this this bounty, but I could go from
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  here. Like there's a something,
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  something about that feeling about, about doing that this.
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  Is all about it's about the risk and it's about the growth,
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  right? I mean, I, I barely even played
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  last patch very much because I just, I had all the ships, I had
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  tons of money. The grind for blueprints was
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  just kind of so I, you know, I took a back seat, but I'm
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  excited again. Yeah, but you knew.
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  You sensed this coming. I did know, yeah.
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  I had. I had knowledge, foreknowledge.
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  You felt it in your bones, but what a lot of people didn't see
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  coming was you get to keep your Wicklow ships and Spectrum and
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  Reddit for the first time in a long.
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  Time agreed. I'm 100% on board with the rage
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  is justified your your long long posts are are.
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  I didn't read them but I assume they're brilliant pros of of
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  perfectly defined answers. Wicklow.
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  Didn't they go back? Should be gone.
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  Didn't they come back? I said.
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  Didn't they come back and say that they're gonna wipe
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  everything but but? Everything but blueprints now,
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  Yeah. Because I I think once they saw
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  that Reddit and Spectrum were aligned, I mean, alarm bells
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  probably went off at CIG. They were like, whoa, I don't
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  know what's going on here, guys, but you got to hold on.
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  I don't even think it's the same person posting.
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  Something's wrong here. There's not a mob we need.
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  Yeah. Yeah, yeah, right on.
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  And look, the guys, civic action works.
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  This is proof. Yeah, but only, only as long as
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  we're asking to be hurt more. You know, CIG was like, they're
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  going to be upset we're taking all their stuff.
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  And we were like, no. Hurt me more do you do you and
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  your viewers want to know a secret, a deep a deep held
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  secret about how to actually get CIG to do stuff.
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  Here's here's a secret, though. No, they don't want you to know.
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  I I talk about this every so often, which is if you want to
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  change something, you have to make something a meme because
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  Chris Roberts is allergic to memes.
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  So if he if if you make a meme that's like funny, but is also
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  dog in on them specifically they they get it, gets them very
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  annoyed until they change it. That's kind of how we we got the
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  MPUV to become best in show. They tried, they tried real hard
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  to stop it, but it's like, Nope, it's too funny.
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  It's too funny. It's not going to you can't
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  we're going to do it. And unfortunately they learned a
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  long lesson because they got the UTV out the next year.
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  They're like, no, you can't do the UTV.
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  But like, you know, it's, it was one of those things where it was
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  a glorious moment, but it also made she actually go, yeah, we
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  need to change this 'cause this is broken.
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  And we're like, yeah, we've been telling you it's been broken for
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  years now. You should should have changed
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  it a while ago. Yes, yeah, I think that was my
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  first Best in Show event or whatever.
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  And I remember being like, what's everyone's voting for
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  this time 'cause I came from elite.
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  So I came to like 2021 or something after that, and I just
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  remember laughing hysterically at that, at that just idea that
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  this little, teeny, tiny nothing ship and it just kept winning
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  and winning. And I was like, this is exactly
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  the kind of people I want to hang.
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  Out with so part of it is my fault because another content
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  creator, Red Lear, who's no longer with us, I think he's
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  still alive, but he doesn't play Star Citizen anymore.
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  Stuff we need good content wanted to do with you before.
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  And I thought it was funny. So I started telling people on
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  the captain's table who came on. I'm like, hey, this is what I
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  want to do. I want to make the the MPUV best
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  in show. And they were like, that's
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  hilarious. And so they started talking to
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  their communities about it. And so it ended up on Spectrum
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  and read it and more and more people like the idea because he
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  already had like his own community readily home community
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  was doing it. So it just sort of kept creeping
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  out and more and more people began to pay attention to it to
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  the point where like the top content creators and Star
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  Citizen were like, yeah, this is funny.
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  We should do this. And good Lord, the amount of
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  complaining on Reddit about it. Oh, oh, the tears that killed
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  me. It was like, and it's and, and
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  in the immediate aftermath, people found out that I was the
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  one who helped organize it. And they're like, well, then I'm
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  like, yes, blame me. Yes, blame me as I darn myself
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  in my in my. Orange, my my orange.
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  This week's question Does CIG know how to wipe?
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  And our guest right now is Lord Anubis.
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  Lord Anubis, does CIG know how to wipe?
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  I certainly hope so because you, you know, when times get shitty,
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  you have to wipe. And, you know, unfortunately all
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  the great things that they've been introducing into the game
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  kind of don't mean anything because of the hyperinflation
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  and, and the exploits. So yeah, I, I, I think they know
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  how to wipe, but can it get shitty again I guess is the
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  question. Can't escape the inflation.
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  Do you do you think this is a good time for them to be wiping?
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  Oh, this is the best. This is the best time to be
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  wiping because, you know, introducing the new, you know,
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  ship component engineering, for lack of a better term, crafting.
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  I think is is, is going to change the game on a on a
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  completely different level, just the way item crafting has.
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  And I'm really excited for it. And I'd rather start that on a
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  good foot rather than tell myself, well, they're going to
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  do it eventually. So, you know, I'll just wait
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  until they do it. They could do it now.
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  And now I get to enjoy it all. Right.
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  I, I think I've seen some people talking about the crafting ship
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  components in particular in that it's an interesting economy that
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  CIG is setting up, right? They're setting it up where the
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  top tier components are now going to be player built.
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  Because if you've got someone who has, you know, they've done
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  the research, they've got the blueprints for, you know, some
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  military grade quantum drive and then they've gone out or they've
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  sourced, you know, the top quality resources.
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  That's now the best drive you can get.
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  And you're only going to get that from a player.
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  And that's and that is exactly the type of economy we need, as
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  evidenced by Star Wars Galaxies. Precinct.
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  Oh, here we. Go fuck dude.
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  Dude, you ain't like the Fed then.
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  You up for that? That's for probably.
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  I apologize. Every week I try to pick a
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  question where you can't bring up that ridiculous game.
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  If it was such a good game, we would all be playing it. 23
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  years ago, it's dead. It's.
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  Just let it. Go man, people are still
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  playing. It I've had pets.
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  But the the the thing that killed it, the ironic thing that
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  killed it was agreed you're. Agreed.
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  Oh, don't get them started on that.
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  Yeah, no, I there's that's a deep, deep seated, deep seated
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  wound in most the most players of of Star Wars galaxies is the
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  is the freaking stupid Jedi thing.
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  That stupid Jedi thing killed all the hype for it.
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  Or just like done. So Yep.
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  Have you guys considered talking to a professional?
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  About that, yes, but I'm also a Titanfall fan so that that that
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  doesn't happen. I would, I would, I would go, I
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  would go bankrupt. The amount of therapy I need
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  from all the games that have burned me so.
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  Grief and loss. CNG is going to start offering
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  actual. Insurance.
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  Just for like like last they said they were going to release
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  the patch. I stayed up until 2:00 AM and
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  then at 2:05 they released it. How's that make you feel
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  distrustful? Yeah, yeah.
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  I mean, they, it, they, they, it really hurt when they said that
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  they were going to change everything on a fundamental
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  level to match, you know, World of Warcraft, because it's a
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  completely different game. And it it it, it killed
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  everything. I, I do, I do think there is
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  some, some level for CIG to look at that.
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  And it's clearly they are looking at that with a lot of
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  the things that deal with Star Citizen, because it is honestly
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  the closest thing we have to a Star Citizen experience.
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  Because most of all the other Mmos that are popular out there
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  are sandboxes and they're like wow and and so on and so forth.
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  There's not a lot of or not sandboxes.
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  I'm sorry, parks, theme parks. Whereas whereas Star Wars
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  Galaxies was like one of the only successful sandboxes that
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  existed in, in my experience in terms of Mmos.
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  So and the fact that it's space themed is well helped, but I'm
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  not going to give you more fodder because I also have been
• 19:56
  burned and will not let it die. Yeah, yeah, no.
• 20:03
  And and I don't want to bring up everybody's trauma here.
• 20:07
  You know, I think that's why we're having the wipe.
• 20:09
  Yes, we can. We can wipe away the past in
• 20:13
  more than one way here. I, I, we can start it.
• 20:15
  In I have a hard hitting question for Lord Nubis.
• 20:19
  So do you think that this is going to be a good thing for
• 20:22
  people who just recently got on or do you think this might drive
• 20:25
  some people away because you also have the typical like I
• 20:28
  just got on 2 months ago now all my stuff has been all my
• 20:31
  progress has been wired. Do you think this is because
• 20:35
  because they just kind of went, hey, by the way, we're wiping
• 20:37
  Like it was just, it was just a sudden announcement rather than
• 20:39
  like a like a announcement well ahead of time.
• 20:44
  I mean, I've seen people that have, you know, that have
• 20:48
  complained about it on YouTube. Oh, they said they weren't going
• 20:51
  to wipe. And no, this is this is
• 20:52
  horrible. And, and I did all this and I
• 20:54
  did all that. It'll be painful, but they'll,
• 20:59
  they'll, they'll stay. I mean, you don't abandoned
• 21:02
  something as, as as fast as this and knowing that you're going
• 21:06
  into something where it is now also growing, you know, I don't
• 21:12
  think we're going to really lose anybody.
• 21:14
  I think we just need to get out in front of it and tell those
• 21:16
  people how to think. Yeah, I.
• 21:21
  Don't. Think a bunch of.
• 21:23
  A bunch of a bunch of wimps. Stop getting gear fear.
• 21:26
  Yeah, yeah. There you go.
• 21:27
  Oh, no. Yeah.
• 21:28
  Oh no, my, my, my major shit just got kids there.
• 21:31
  Something a baby bro up. Space is tough, all right.
• 21:35
  Yeah, Bob. That's what this community
• 21:37
  really needs is more more toxic. Down talking, Yeah, talk, talk
• 21:41
  down to to to the after the person.
• 21:44
  I completely disenfranchise their experience.
• 21:46
  There's been lacking. Considering it's the community
• 21:49
  of mostly fathers, it is interesting how little down.
• 21:51
  Talking, Hey, that's because that's old school, OK?
• 21:53
  We don't do that anymore. What are you calling the the,
• 21:59
  the, the Star Citizen population at large, mainly millennials in
• 22:02
  their, you know, mid 30s to 40s. CIG.
• 22:05
  Is all of all of our stats are saying that my stats are like
• 22:10
  the the youngest person who watches my my show is my shows
• 22:13
  are 25 and that's probably just people living in denial of their
• 22:17
  of their coming 30s. That's that's someone someone's
• 22:21
  algorithm went away with the auto, the auto run feature or.
• 22:24
  Something like they an accidental click.
• 22:26
  You know what? What the heck is this, you know?
• 22:29
  Whereas me, I, I'll take this opportunity to fanboy, I mean
• 22:33
  you, you have joined me in many showers over the years.
• 22:38
  We've we've showered together numerous times.
• 22:41
  I'm glad my voice, I mean, usually people say my voice
• 22:44
  loves them to sleep, so I I don't know.
• 22:45
  No, they're excellent, you know. I've, I have, I have been in
• 22:52
  many people's beds and apparently many people's
• 22:53
  showers. So that's that's, that's a
• 22:56
  compliment, I'm sure. But it very, very confident.
• 22:58
  I always enjoy it. I, I got to meet you very
• 23:01
  briefly in LA. You won't remember, but I I
• 23:04
  remember. Your voice when when you were
• 23:06
  talking, I'm like this guy sounds freaking familiar.
• 23:08
  I don't know why he sounds familiar.
• 23:09
  And I'm like, no, So we met before, that's why.
• 23:13
  Yeah, saw you on the street in LA and I, I geeked out, I
• 23:15
  fanboyed. I love history.
• 23:17
  I, I also, I also was a teacher for a while.
• 23:19
  I taught some history. And so you're love listening to
• 23:23
  your podcast? Thank you.
• 23:25
  Yeah. Yeah, yeah, it is really good
• 23:27
  and and I made sure to thank you for the two hour long videos
• 23:32
  that like you can completely nerd out too.
• 23:34
  Thank you. Yeah.
• 23:36
  My wife calls you Space Tomato. That's so wrong, guy.
• 23:42
  You're with us the. Funny, the funniest part is that
• 23:45
  I have, I have actually been on Space Tomatoes podcast probably
• 23:49
  more than anybody else, so that's completely
• 23:51
  understandable. That's fine.
• 23:53
  There you go. There you go.
• 23:57
  Yeah, well enough. Ugin and and Oglin and and
• 24:00
  Googlin and Zhang. Hey, back-to-back to the
• 24:02
  question. I think that it's going to be
• 24:04
  really good for the new people because it's going to layer
• 24:08
  level the playing pool field for a little while.
• 24:11
  So instead of coming in and like, you know, everyone you run
• 24:13
  into has billions of space bucks and they've got all the ships
• 24:17
  they could possibly have. Everyone's, everyone's starting
• 24:21
  fresh. You know, we all got work to do.
• 24:23
  We all have things to earn and I I think that'll help them just
• 24:28
  in terms of like feeling like they're part of the community
• 24:33
  and also just their interactions with some of the other players
• 24:37
  out there will be less 1 sided. Yeah, like, like during the
• 24:42
  region crisis, everybody helped each other out.
• 24:44
  I I gotta think that's gonna happen again.
• 24:47
  They're, you know. Well, Speaking of somebody who's
• 24:50
  always helping out, he's our our first caller.
• 24:53
  Been here the longest. It is Wicket.
• 24:56
  Wicket, Thank you for calling to open Comms Radio, your Star
• 24:59
  Citizen call and show you're here live.
• 25:01
  Of course, I'm George Roger Brownie.
• 25:02
  You're here with Duke. Later the second Lord Anubis and
• 25:06
  our special guest this week, the Astro Pub.
• 25:08
  Wicket, the CIG know how to wipe.
• 25:14
  Citizens, long time listener, occasional caller, and I love
• 25:23
  the double entendre. Obviously they better know how
• 25:28
  to wipe with some of the shit that they put out.
• 25:33
  Second thing, of course it's a good thing that we wipe and it's
• 25:38
  they do know how to wipe, and they finally figured out how to
• 25:42
  wipe effectively by getting rid of Wiccolo too.
• 25:46
  Well, they didn't get rid of them.
• 25:47
  They just took away his his toys.
• 25:49
  They took back his presence for these.
• 25:51
  Yeah. I think we, I think you
• 25:53
  understand what I mean. He stands with xeno threat.
• 25:55
  That's what he said he means in. Any event, in any event, the the
• 26:03
  good thing about the wipe is that things like now that we're
• 26:06
  going to be able to craft ship components the way duping and
• 26:14
  crafting .5 used to work with duping ship components.
• 26:19
  Of course we had to get rid of that.
• 26:20
  Or why even craft new new gear when you can just dupe it.
• 26:25
  So and then to dupe the money dupes and all that stuff.
• 26:29
  My bigger, my bigger focus would have been, it's great that
• 26:33
  you're wiping CIG, but have you figured out how to catch and fix
• 26:37
  exploits? Because, you know, don't wait
• 26:41
  until the game releases to figure out exploits and exploits
• 26:44
  squashing. We need to figure that out now
• 26:47
  during the development cycle. And the sooner the better.
• 26:50
  Because, you know, learning these tools and these these
• 26:56
  methods to catch the scammers and the dupers and the cheaters
• 27:00
  now before the game goes live is vastly more important than
• 27:04
  figuring it out after the game goes live.
• 27:06
  Because once those dupes are in the in the final product,
• 27:10
  they're going to be hard as hell to get rid of probably.
• 27:12
  And it's going to just ruin everybody's experience.
• 27:15
  I'm going to make everything meaningless.
• 27:17
  So I'm all for wipes but I'm more for figuring out catching
• 27:22
  all these exploits and dupes and and things that break the
• 27:26
  economy and the need to play the game really.
• 27:29
  Yeah. I mean, will we be in the same
• 27:31
  situation in two weeks? Really, we don't know yet.
• 27:36
  Patch. Though I hope.
• 27:37
  I hope not, but I hope not. But who knows, I mean they're
• 27:43
  struggling to get this patch out it seems like, and I guess maybe
• 27:48
  the struggle is good because they know they have an inferior
• 27:52
  product and they want to release it.
• 27:54
  If they have to wait a day I'm I'd be fine with it.
• 27:56
  Yeah, yeah, I'd be OK too if they were like, hey, it didn't
• 27:59
  work out. But if this isn't just any
• 28:01
  patch, this shit is the money making patch right here.
• 28:06
  Do you think that had anything to do with CI GS session for the
• 28:09
  wife? They'd be like, hey, we're going
• 28:10
  to get rid of all your money and now here's some chips you can
• 28:12
  buy. Or do you think it was
• 28:14
  ultimately like to to stop because they they have been
• 28:17
  trying to chase down some of these X boys.
• 28:18
  We know that they've talked about that in the past.
• 28:20
  They've had posts on spectrum and stuff like that where
• 28:22
  they're being, that was the last one where everyone freaked out.
• 28:25
  It was like there's going to be a Wolf control 7 or not to just
• 28:28
  enough, right? But like, do you think they
• 28:30
  actually copied it or they just went, yeah, we could wipe it and
• 28:33
  then they make force them to buy some chips?
• 28:35
  I don't know if forcing people to buy chips, I think, I think
• 28:39
  the the the audience that CIG has are going to buy chips
• 28:43
  whether they need them or not. I mean that's been proven time
• 28:46
  and time again. You put up something shiny and
• 28:49
  then and just even semi cool people will buy it.
• 28:53
  You know. It could be garbage as long as
• 28:55
  you slapping else and go in there.
• 28:57
  Well, OK, to my point here. Thank you for the Segway Duke.
• 29:02
  We're talking about ships. The the big ship sales coming
• 29:05
  up. They offer these 10 year
• 29:07
  warranty war bonds. I have my ship package that has
• 29:12
  Squadron 42, Star Citizen and an Aurora.
• 29:16
  I don't like the Aurora but I don't want to upgrade it and not
• 29:20
  have insurance on it. It has like 3 month insurance or
• 29:22
  whatever it has on it. I know I can't upgrade to an
• 29:25
  LTI. Can I upgrade to a 10 year war
• 29:30
  bond? And can I stack them?
• 29:32
  Because I remember seeing accounts that had like stacked
• 29:34
  insurance, they had like 5-10 year war bonds or insurance or
• 29:40
  whatever. And am I hallucinating?
• 29:42
  I don't think you lose your insurance when you upgrade.
• 29:45
  No, that's so the, the, the rule of thumb is whatever you start
• 29:49
  off with is what you have. So I I recently did this because
• 29:54
  I went through and I applied ACCU chain to my to get my my
• 30:01
  ironclad assault and that process I had a LTIMPUV referral
• 30:10
  bonus that I got and I used that as the the base of it.
• 30:14
  But I also had a bunch of other like ones that I purchased that
• 30:17
  had like 10 year insurance on them.
• 30:19
  So my full CCU chain has like 710 year insurance plus LTI.
• 30:27
  Wait, hold on. Yeah, Wait.
• 30:28
  Go back. So how do you how do you Add all
• 30:31
  those insurance packages together?
• 30:32
  I. Don't get so every ship you have
• 30:35
  has insurance but you can't upgrade from to LTI from another
• 30:40
  package like LTI is like it's it's the base.
• 30:43
  So if you try to do upgrade something that was not LTI to
• 30:47
  LTI, it won't work because you can't cross chassis into an LTI.
• 30:51
  But right. But I can't.
• 30:52
  I can't upgrade to anything with any insurance.
• 30:55
  Every time I upgrade it says you'll retain.
• 30:57
  Your first level of insurance, Yeah, but on my account it says.
• 31:00
  So how do you have different? Insurance it just says 10 years
• 31:02
  insurance because it was it was calculating all of the upgrades.
• 31:07
  So it's not actually 10 years insurance.
• 31:10
  It just it's a bug effectively in the UI where like you'll see
• 31:14
  someone who says it has like 10 year insurance, 10 year
• 31:16
  insurance, 10 year insurance, 10 year insurance.
• 31:18
  It's like that's just because it was one of the things that was
• 31:21
  part of the package that you or part of the the the ship that
• 31:23
  you upgraded to. So it's it's always.
• 31:28
  So it's not 50. It's not 50 years.
• 31:30
  You're like, you're just getting whatever your base package was.
• 31:33
  The rest of the stuff isn't doesn't count, so.
• 31:37
  There is one exception to this suppose and that's the the the
• 31:42
  nomad. There was ACCU upgrade that you
• 31:47
  could upgrade to an LTI Nomad back in the day.
• 31:54
  I am not familiar with this now. This sounds made-up.
• 31:57
  OK, it's on star hanger, it's an upgrade so I could upgrade.
• 32:01
  It's like the common 1 is like from a reliant to a nomad and it
• 32:07
  says CCULTI upgrade and supposedly if you have a package
• 32:12
  that doesn't have the insurance you can buy upgrade it to a
• 32:15
  Reliant and then buy this chain and you get the LTI with it
• 32:20
  that. That that'd be used to me did
• 32:23
  this one. Sounds like sounds like scam
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  Well wicket, wicket here buddy. Anything else you want to say
• 33:19
  before I bring up our next guest here?
• 33:22
  Well, I'm, I'm, I'm looking forward to the new patch.
• 33:26
  I'm looking forward to have a reason to play the game again,
• 33:29
  to answer the earlier question about these new players that
• 33:32
  came on board. And you know, one way of looking
• 33:35
  at it would be, yeah, I'm pissed off.
• 33:37
  I lost all this progress that I just I just recently enjoyed.
• 33:41
  But for most people, I think that if, if, if you play Star
• 33:45
  Citizen, like out of free fly and you stick around past the
• 33:48
  free fly, they're they've already hooked you.
• 33:51
  OK, you're going to, you're coming back and you're going to
• 33:53
  keep coming back. Because sometimes, you know,
• 33:57
  especially during the free fly, there's going to be so many, so
• 33:59
  much garbage and, and bugs and, and other nonsense you have to
• 34:04
  deal with that most people don't have the patience for.
• 34:07
  So if you stick around past that and that you if, if, if you're
• 34:11
  smart, you're going to look at this this wipe as, Oh well,
• 34:14
  they've even the playing field sort of except for like if
• 34:18
  you're some kind of whale who has all these extra ships.
• 34:20
  But otherwise they've kind of even played in the field, even
• 34:24
  the playing field. So I think that's a good thing
• 34:27
  or how I would look at it if you know, But of course, we're not
• 34:31
  dealing with rational people. This is Internet spaceships
• 34:34
  after all. Hey, man, don't don't go name
• 34:40
  calling, OK? And Speaking of someone who
• 34:43
  really enjoys Internet spaceships, we have with us on
• 34:45
  the couch. If you guys can scoot down.
• 34:47
  Broccoli Rob, Broccoli Rob, Rob. Broccoli Rob, welcome to Open
• 34:51
  Comms Radio, your Star Citizen call in show you're on the couch
• 34:54
  with Wicket Lord Anubis Duke later the second.
• 34:58
  I'm George Jabroni and we have a very special guest today, the
• 35:00
  Astro Pub. Our question for you, Broccoli
• 35:03
  Rob, does CIG know how to wipe? How's it going, everybody?
• 35:10
  Do they know how to wipe? I I think so.
• 35:13
  Seems like they're kind of learning as they go.
• 35:15
  But they haven't, you know, hasn't happened too often.
• 35:19
  The Wiccolo is a little goofy. I kind of don't care either way.
• 35:27
  I'm excited. I'm excited for the wipe.
• 35:29
  You're just saying that cuz you have a lot of wiccolo stuff.
• 35:33
  I don't really. Actually, I was.
• 35:35
  I was doing my damnedest to get something the between when they
• 35:40
  announced the wipe and then when they announced the Wickle.
• 35:42
  No, I'd like, I like a gun from there, I think.
• 35:47
  Well then what do you? What do you needing fangs and
• 35:50
  eyeballs and and ronta poop for? But those man has a hobby, what
• 35:55
  are you going to show him? Broccoli for having a hobby.
• 35:58
  What do you do? What do you do with these piles
• 36:00
  of Ronta poop man? Honestly, getting it for other
• 36:03
  people, I want everyone else to try it out because I know I'm
• 36:09
  just going to be really, really disappointed when I try it and
• 36:12
  it fails. So I was like, I don't need
• 36:15
  that. Everyone has fifty.
• 36:17
  Well, everyone had $50 million, I guess.
• 36:20
  Still do. Still do, yeah.
• 36:24
  But as far as the, the new player question goes, I
• 36:29
  honestly, I think, you know, first hits free, I think they're
• 36:32
  going to, for better or for worse, this game, when you play
• 36:35
  it, it's taste that you're not going to be able to get out of
• 36:37
  your mouth. And they, they get into the 890
• 36:41
  jump for the first time. I'm sure we all remember doing
• 36:43
  that. And we're like, holy shit, this
• 36:45
  is incredible. Yeah.
• 36:46
  They buy one, they fly it around, they get an idea for
• 36:49
  what the game is. And then they take it all away.
• 36:51
  They're like, OK, got to come back.
• 36:53
  I got to come back. Yeah, the 890 is not going to be
• 36:56
  the thing anymore. Too small, you have bigger and
• 37:01
  better. Ships way too small?
• 37:02
  Yeah, not enough. Turrets.
• 37:05
  Now you. I know for a fact, Brock and
• 37:07
  Rob, you've been hanging out in that Kraken, Not that crack.
• 37:09
  What is it? That ironclad?
• 37:12
  Yeah. What do you think?
• 37:13
  How do you feel? Oh, it's great.
• 37:16
  It's they're really, they're improving with each new ship
• 37:22
  that they have made. I mean, Polaris was like kind of
• 37:26
  a, you know, it's, it's Spartan because it's military, right?
• 37:31
  But then after that, I feel like each new large ship they've
• 37:35
  brought in has brought in cooler and cooler features.
• 37:39
  Design, design languages for each manufacturer get better.
• 37:43
  I really think the Ironclad nailed it and I have very high
• 37:47
  hopes of cracking because of it. I'm can I be a little
• 37:54
  controversial here? And I know I'm, I'm going to be
• 37:56
  tuned up on. That's nothing like you, but all
• 38:00
  right. I'm not I don't the Kraken like
• 38:03
  cool, neat. You know, everyone's talking
• 38:07
  about how it's going to be game changing and this and that and
• 38:10
  I'm like, we already have ships that can hold other ships.
• 38:12
  I agree I I don't see what the big excitement is about the
• 38:16
  Kraken. I get that you like it.
• 38:20
  You can like it for sure. But what's it be certified for
• 38:24
  the rest of us? What's it Can I be a Can I be a
• 38:27
  certified Drake fanboy? Go for it.
• 38:29
  And back up broccoli I. Didn't I didn't fucking know
• 38:32
  this before I brought. You on the show, dude?
• 38:34
  I'm really wearing a Drake Trucker cap right now as I had
• 38:37
  to put it on to to do the ramp. Unbelievable, I know.
• 38:41
  I bet you paid Stig money to have your name on the door that
• 38:44
  says owner. Like actually the texture put in
• 38:47
  the game. I would.
• 38:48
  I would you gave him. 50 I would absolutely love that, but no, I
• 38:50
  I don't actually own a a Kraken, but I can't defend the Kraken in
• 38:56
  that. Up to now there has been no real
• 39:00
  carrier. Like you can argue that the,
• 39:03
  the, the, the Idris is a carrier, but it's really more a
• 39:06
  carrier for like 2 small ships. You can put some, you can cram
• 39:10
  stuff in there like it's like it's a sardine can, but you
• 39:13
  can't really use it as a carrier.
• 39:16
  Where is the flat top nature of the Kraken means you can put a
• 39:19
  lot of ships, and not just a lot of ships put them in there, but
• 39:22
  you also can bring them down, prepare them all while you have
• 39:26
  cargo Bay access. It's much more utilitarian than
• 39:30
  anything we have and of its size.
• 39:32
  It is going to feel more like a flying space station than
• 39:36
  anything. And because it's Drake and not a
• 39:39
  military, it's going to feel a lot less military themed and a
• 39:42
  lot more of a just sort of like an industrial.
• 39:45
  So I think it's both a aesthetic but also practical because like
• 39:50
  you can land A at least one if not multiple median ships on
• 39:56
  that thing. Like the the the Cutlass, I can
• 40:00
  hold like 2 cutlasses. And I think people measured us.
• 40:03
  You can put like a constellation on the large pad.
• 40:06
  So I thought I saw. Somebody had a Corsair on there
• 40:09
  too? Yeah, you can put some like very
• 40:11
  big ships on that thing, which means that you can effectively
• 40:15
  double the range of those larger ships as well, as well as not
• 40:19
  just putting those on there but also repairing and refueling and
• 40:21
  rearming. So it starts to look a lot more,
• 40:25
  it'll be a lot more game changing.
• 40:26
  The sense of just fundamentally you will have something that you
• 40:30
  don't have to spend 400 years to to build and maintain because
• 40:36
  you can just fly it around. Rather than having to go build a
• 40:38
  base and then figure building it out and then building a space
• 40:41
  station and taking the forever time to build a space station.
• 40:44
  You can basically have that in one go and not be stuck to one
• 40:47
  place. So the Kraken could be sort of
• 40:51
  the beginning of player bases. Yeah.
• 40:55
  Even if we had player bases, the time it would sort of be, it
• 40:58
  depends on when we have it, but it'll be the beginning of player
• 41:00
  space stations for sure. You'll begin to see like a taste
• 41:02
  of what it's like to have a space station.
• 41:05
  My worry with the Kraken is if it's, you know, they're laying
• 41:10
  it out so that it functions more like an action carrier, right?
• 41:16
  But I wonder how much of that will end up being Larping and
• 41:22
  versus like the interest. It just sort of works because
• 41:26
  gameplay is different from real life, right?
• 41:28
  A lot of times, you know, gameplay is so much simpler than
• 41:32
  real life. People skip a lot of the things
• 41:34
  that they would have to do in real life.
• 41:38
  So if they're designing the cracking around how an actual
• 41:41
  carrier would work, how much of that is going to end up being
• 41:44
  useful and how much is just going to be, you know, for
• 41:48
  looks? Yeah, I, I think that's what the
• 41:56
  what the ironclad is for. Sorry to to poop all on
• 41:59
  Broccoli's and Rob's answer because I'm sure Broccoli Rob
• 42:02
  had a similar answer being a certified trade fan.
• 42:08
  That's right. It's a.
• 42:09
  He's he's also an origin I think though, so he's not, he's not
• 42:12
  loyal. That's fine.
• 42:14
  Yeah, you know, nice things are nice.
• 42:16
  What? What can I say?
• 42:17
  At least he's not a Misk fan, says the Mist fan.
• 42:20
  You know what? I'm feeling ganged up on.
• 42:23
  I am a Mist fan. Yeah, actually, actually,
• 42:25
  actually, you could tell him, Brock and Rob.
• 42:29
  Yeah, I did. I actually got a tattoo of a.
• 42:32
  Freelancer. That's OK because it's a
• 42:33
  freelancer. It's the best.
• 42:36
  Exactly. It's the best person.
• 42:38
  So it's the Yeah. That's right.
• 42:41
  It's what got me into the game, the commercial I've had.
• 42:44
  My freelancer for so long I'm I am waiting for the freelancer
• 42:48
  rework for mark 2. I'll even take the mark 2.
• 42:51
  I usually complain about the the whole mark two thing, but.
• 42:55
  See how they've eased you into that?
• 42:57
  Feeling well, that's that's how their time relationship works.
• 43:01
  Yeah, yeah. Well, they can.
• 43:03
  They can remake. I'll buy them again.
• 43:07
  This time will be different. Anyway, Brock and Rob, Yeah,
• 43:10
  tell us about the ironclad broccoli, Rob.
• 43:15
  I'm just excited and kind of to speak to the Kraken and the hype
• 43:18
  that comes around it. I think it's it's matching up
• 43:22
  with timeline for other things that I'm expecting or hoping to
• 43:27
  be in the future, like improved ATC.
• 43:31
  There's a lot of stuff that I think gameplay wise will come
• 43:35
  with the Kraken. So it's not this just the ship
• 43:37
  itself, it's how the game is going to evolve by the time the
• 43:40
  Kraken is out that I think will. So I'm kind of looking as at the
• 43:44
  Kraken. It's like a vehicle, no, no pun
• 43:47
  intended, for the future of the game and how the game will be
• 43:51
  functioning when the Kraken comes out.
• 43:56
  OK, I'm honestly guys, I'm still not there.
• 44:00
  I hear you. Well, we'll get you.
• 44:01
  We'll get you. I hear you, Ironclad, as you've
• 44:04
  been exploring in the PTU where you're like, you know, this is
• 44:07
  going to be game changing or this is the seed of something
• 44:11
  big that's coming in the future. When I saw the assault at the
• 44:18
  fabrication bench, like it's on, it's on the Clipper, which is
• 44:21
  cool, but having that much cargo space just to sort of put some
• 44:27
  stuff on there. I guess it depends on if it's
• 44:30
  going to craft components or not.
• 44:33
  It looks like it could be big enough, but just to be, you
• 44:38
  know, out in the world and have someone have supplies to craft,
• 44:44
  like a new shield or something. Someone lands real quick, you
• 44:47
  craft it, you slap it in there, they get going.
• 44:50
  It is a little bit, you know, pie in the sky dreaming, like,
• 44:52
  how much of that is going to be practical?
• 44:54
  But I'm hoping for a situation where it is.
• 45:00
  Now I think, and correct me if I'm wrong, the only ships with
• 45:06
  crafting tables in them are those Drake ships, the Clipper
• 45:09
  and. See, this is the reason why
• 45:11
  Drake is so good. Yeah, so far.
• 45:13
  This is why why Drake is is so great.
• 45:15
  Favoritism. I mean, yeah, I I'll take the
• 45:18
  After years of John Crew pooping on my brand, I will.
• 45:22
  I will. I'll take the the West doesn't.
• 45:26
  The Carrick also have a. Craft it does technically, yeah.
• 45:29
  It's got the the the like the bench, the workbench.
• 45:32
  It's got like a like a tool, but it's just not in in game yet.
• 45:38
  Yeah. Well, did they make the the ones
• 45:42
  that are on the Clipper and the and the?
• 45:48
  We don't know that, right? This is.
• 45:51
  This is CIG, no? We know it's.
• 45:56
  Not working yet because it barely works in on station.
• 45:58
  But the the problem is it is the inventory.
• 46:01
  It pulls from inventory and pulls 2 inventory.
• 46:03
  So I think right now it's still. Oh, here we go.
• 46:05
  It still, it still ends up in the like station inventory
• 46:09
  stuff, so. The bane of CIG, of the Star
• 46:13
  Citizen's existence, is the those.
• 46:15
  Damn inventory in their I thought you were stupid
• 46:17
  elevators. It'd be great if the players I.
• 46:21
  Would never if it weren't for the players in there discovering
• 46:24
  all these damn bugs. Yeah, the.
• 46:26
  Game would be perfect. Now, I told you I'm in.
• 46:31
  I'm in accord with Reddit and Spectrum this week, so whatever
• 46:35
  they think, I think, yeah. Speaking of someone who doesn't
• 46:39
  follow the crowd, actually, we do have another guest down in
• 46:42
  the waiting room. Brock and Rob.
• 46:43
  Anything you want to say before you bring this guy up?
• 46:50
  No. All right.
• 46:52
  All right, well, here he is, our leader.
• 46:56
  Like Guild master. Not a Guild.
• 46:58
  Fellow guildy man who dresses like a cat.
• 47:02
  It is Murphy Jack. Murphy Jack, welcome to open
• 47:04
  Comms Radio. Your Star Citizen call in show
• 47:07
  you are on the couch. Familiar smell.
• 47:10
  You're here with Wicket Lord Anubis Duke.
• 47:13
  Later the second broccoli. Rob, I'm Jar Jar Jabroni and our
• 47:16
  special guest this week is the Astro Pub of the Astro Historian
• 47:20
  and Captain's Table. Murphy Jack.
• 47:24
  Does CIG know how to wipe? Well, I mean, we're going to,
• 47:28
  we're going to find out. Just think about all the other
• 47:31
  wipes and how many times they went exactly the way they said
• 47:34
  they were going to go, right. So I just, I'm going to laugh.
• 47:38
  We log in and we still have everything.
• 47:41
  I think it's possible. SharePoint.
• 47:42
  That's a pretty. Bad point.
• 47:43
  I mean, looking back, you know, every time they talked about
• 47:46
  doing this, that and everything and it was always janky.
• 47:50
  And then they how they announce it like a couple days beforehand
• 47:53
  and stuff. They're still still learning and
• 47:57
  I think blueprint should be wiped too, but we'll leave that,
• 48:01
  you know, we'll leave that one there.
• 48:06
  Well, I just you know, you think about I think it was really
• 48:10
  needed, really, really needed now, especially with this with
• 48:15
  the component crafting and what vehicle weapon crafting, because
• 48:18
  now that that, you know, like you guys were saying, you're not
• 48:23
  going to be able to do the dupe that everybody was doing dupe or
• 48:26
  insurance fraud, whatever the hell you want to call it.
• 48:29
  Now there's the drive right to get out there and mine.
• 48:33
  But also on top of that, all those all every new big event
• 48:40
  from the worm, the radiation worm, Hyperion, the Vanduol tech
• 48:49
  smuggler, and now TSG, we we were already like pretty well
• 48:55
  set up when those came in, right for the first time.
• 48:58
  But now like, yeah, I specifically think of Rock
• 49:02
  breaker and like how the contested one was cheaper and
• 49:06
  then the the exclusive one was more expensive.
• 49:11
  We were just we the money didn't matter to us at all.
• 49:14
  We were just like, screw it. Does this get the exclusive?
• 49:17
  We want to try it out or let's do the contestants see if we get
• 49:19
  any combat. But now like it's going to
• 49:23
  matter as long as there's no ABC dupe, but it's going to matter
• 49:27
  like hey, we got to like do the contested one, but are we set up
• 49:32
  enough? We got to do the worm, we got to
• 49:35
  get fangs. But are we, you know, are we in
• 49:39
  a good spot? And just thinking of all the
• 49:43
  prep leading up to taking on like a, a big event like that
• 49:49
  worm, you know what I'm saying? All the prep and everything
• 49:54
  that's going to go into that, it's like exciting because now
• 49:58
  like we have in the org, we got the two recurring events that
• 50:03
  are geared towards getting us set up.
• 50:05
  So like on the weekend, we can, when everybody's around, we can
• 50:08
  get people set up, go out and do these things.
• 50:11
  Whereas before it was just kind of like, meh, let's go.
• 50:14
  You know, we just what we we sat in ruined for hours fighting
• 50:19
  Now, like there's a drive to go mine.
• 50:21
  There's a drive to get these better things and always be
• 50:25
  chasing a little bit better quality, a little bit a little
• 50:29
  bit more of this. And you know, everybody's going
• 50:33
  to need stuff and we can't just sit in a hanger and RIP it off
• 50:36
  and do and hit a button and there's another one.
• 50:39
  RIP it off, give it to somebody. There's actually got to go out
• 50:44
  and a lot of time is put into this, this stuff, but I think
• 50:50
  it's. Good.
• 50:50
  Now, yeah. Murphy Jack, do you feel like
• 50:54
  you've come around on the quality?
• 50:58
  Remember. A couple of weeks ago, a few
• 51:00
  weeks ago, every week. Quality I only because they
• 51:03
  what? It's down to 8 now right?
• 51:05
  This is 8 different things, not 1000.
• 51:08
  Yeah, yeah. Well, it's so they they
• 51:11
  downsized it and you still need it to to build the everything
• 51:16
  you feel like that's in a good spot.
• 51:20
  I don't know, it's definitely better, I feel like, but I, you
• 51:29
  know, you really don't. I, I, I'm fine with the way
• 51:32
  they're doing it because we got to just get in there and play
• 51:34
  with it right and figure out, and they got to figure out how
• 51:37
  what works and everything. And the thousand thing was a bit
• 51:42
  much, but it was good to start I think because it showed like,
• 51:49
  you know, we don't want to go out and 8's more manageable than
• 51:54
  well, I got 950 now I want 960, right?
• 51:59
  Yeah. Do you, do you see the, have you
• 52:02
  been mining? Do you, does it pop up on the
• 52:04
  scanner? Because I know it was just like
• 52:06
  it would pop up as 856 or whatever and then it would just
• 52:09
  round to 9 or. Whatever I think Rob, you did
• 52:12
  right. You said it was like 325 and 664
• 52:14
  and then these rent like 8 numbers.
• 52:17
  I haven't personally looked I'm I'm just going off of what I've
• 52:21
  seen other people reporting on. So hopefully there's a bunch of
• 52:26
  people that aren't wrong, but we'll, we'll find out.
• 52:28
  Soon. Is it in the scanner now or is
• 52:30
  it still just in the mining head when you put your mining head on
• 52:32
  it? My understanding is that it
• 52:37
  randomizes a like group of numbers, like somewhere between
• 52:42
  1 and 1000. It picks that and then the
• 52:45
  number it picks it re, it changes it to the correct number
• 52:49
  in that band. So it say it picks between it
• 52:54
  picks, I don't know, 3:40 And then in that band 340 turns into
• 53:01
  like 400 even just cuz that's all of those in that like and
• 53:11
  are going to be 400. I think I understand that part
• 53:14
  of it. My broader question maybe I'll
• 53:16
  I'll try to rephrase. It is currently in 4.7.
• 53:22
  The only way you could find out what the quality of the ore
• 53:25
  contained in the rock that you were about to mine was to turn
• 53:29
  on your mining head and let the mining head scan the rock and
• 53:33
  then the quality would be presented to you.
• 53:36
  My question is, is that the long range scanner that you know when
• 53:40
  you're in your ship and you're pinging and you're you're
• 53:42
  getting the Rs signature? Or if you do a full directional
• 53:48
  scan on a rock that's very distant from you, multiple
• 53:51
  kilometers away, is that giving the quality or is it still just
• 53:55
  the mining? Oh no, no, nothing.
• 53:57
  Nothing's changed, only the the amount of quality.
• 54:04
  It is not no longer 1000, it's just 8 now.
• 54:06
  Everything else is exactly the same.
• 54:09
  So it's getting there, but I wanted to touch on you guys were
• 54:14
  talking about the cracking and everything and like we Paul or
• 54:18
  Astro pubs take on it. I also feel like when that when
• 54:24
  they bring that online and the Liberator is hopefully like not
• 54:29
  far behind or whatever, they really, I would really want them
• 54:34
  to put Pyro and other places back to their original what they
• 54:40
  were supposed to be. It was like no fuel.
• 54:42
  Well, not no fuel, but very limited fuel.
• 54:45
  So you really got to think about your jumps and like the, the
• 54:51
  social tools and everything are online for it where you have to
• 54:57
  interact with people to get like if I want to take my Hornet to
• 55:02
  so and so or whatever, it'd be worth it to hire a player or,
• 55:08
  you know, book transit on their carrier.
• 55:14
  I know it's, you know. I like, I like this.
• 55:16
  Go on, Murphy. Jacks, like everybody was
• 55:19
  saying, but well it just we need more interaction and like that
• 55:25
  that like this refueling thing. They hopefully I kind of missed
• 55:31
  the mark, I guess to what MP when you put out a beacon and
• 55:34
  MPC comes to refuel, it's not like a Med beacon, but hopefully
• 55:40
  they get that like a player. You know, think about the fuel
• 55:45
  rats and everything, right? Come over there and oh.
• 55:47
  Murphy Jack, you actually you bring me to the the second
• 55:51
  question of the evening here in Astropub.
• 55:54
  I don't know if you know this, but our second question,
• 55:56
  sometimes it's a fun one, Sometimes it's a goofy one,
• 56:00
  sometimes is a rage baiting question.
• 56:03
  And this week I opted for the rage bait.
• 56:06
  And I know someone here is going to want to give a long monologue
• 56:09
  about it. And Murphy Jack let us right
• 56:11
  into it. It has been brought to the
• 56:13
  attention of many of of the fandom and and I think maybe to
• 56:17
  Jared himself in the moment, maybe even that Star Citizen may
• 56:22
  be considering fast travel adds a mechanic in the game.
• 56:27
  Here, Oh man, do we I. I am a fan.
• 56:31
  I, I I. Hold on.
• 56:33
  Wait, wait, wait, wait. Line up, everybody.
• 56:35
  No, I was going to say I am AI am a fan of what I like to call
• 56:39
  touching the third the third rail Star Citizen whenever you
• 56:42
  want to when you want to like really rile people up.
• 56:45
  You want to touch that third rail, one of those third rails.
• 56:48
  I always I always like to touch is NPC crew sucks and I'm I'm
• 56:52
  tired of prevent pretending it doesn't because that just that
• 56:56
  just gets unreasonable angry comments in your in your in your
• 57:00
  anywhere. So this is.
• 57:02
  Yeah, fuck NPC crew. Exactly.
• 57:04
  Say that with you with your whole chest and see how many
• 57:07
  people get mad at you with the comments.
• 57:12
  I have a slightly nuanced take to this in the sense that I
• 57:17
  think fast travel is bad, but I think you can still accomplish
• 57:23
  the same thing without losing the sense of scale in the star
• 57:27
  scissors the universe. And we already have an example
• 57:29
  of that, which was the the public transit systems of Wow.
• 57:34
  And I remember there was, I can't remember the name of it
• 57:36
  specifically, but where you could get on like Griffin and it
• 57:38
  would like take you to different locations, but you'd have to
• 57:41
  like literally fly on those those Griffins.
• 57:46
  Skyrim had something similar where like with the with the
• 57:50
  the. Dragon well Skyrim you could you
• 57:53
  fast travel. From your you could, but you
• 57:54
  could also take the the like the wagon like you go pay, pay some
• 58:00
  money and go take the wagon and it would take you originally
• 58:03
  that was supposed to be a 1 to 1.
• 58:05
  You get into the wagon and it would just walk you through the
• 58:08
  entire thing. So you would have to like stay
• 58:10
  in the wagon. As it moved, they found it was a
• 58:11
  little bit too slow. So I could see something like
• 58:16
  that, you know, even if the early implementation is just
• 58:18
  like, hey, you got a timer 510 minutes you'll be you'll be to
• 58:23
  the location, but you don't have to worry about it.
• 58:25
  You can just go use the bathroom.
• 58:27
  You can go, you know, grab some E you just have a timer counting
• 58:31
  down until you arrive at the location, which works just like
• 58:34
  a teleportation, but it adds the whole, well, now you have to
• 58:37
  sacrifice some time, maybe some money to to get to that
• 58:40
  location. You're still there.
• 58:42
  You can still link up, but you can't just go instantly snap
• 58:45
  your fingers and be like, oh, I'm across the universe.
• 58:47
  It's like, Nah, you got to have some time waiting while also
• 58:52
  allowing for people to ease your link up and, you know, not be
• 58:55
  able to take your ships with you.
• 58:56
  Especially as the game gets bigger and they start doing what
• 58:59
  they already done with like ships where you have to pay
• 59:01
  money to get them back. I can see that starting to
• 59:07
  something like that could work. But I, I'm not a big fan of the
• 59:10
  whole just show up in the hangar kind of thing because that seems
• 59:13
  like it ruins a lot of the point of travel because, you know,
• 59:18
  that's time and energy and the risk of doing so.
• 59:25
  So, so you're saying this is like, this is like something
• 59:28
  where you you can go to a Kelto, you select your respawn point
• 59:32
  and then they humanely put your clone down and then you wake up
• 59:35
  somewhere else? More, more, more like you show
• 59:37
  up at like you go to like the, the like the the hanger section
• 59:41
  and there's like a a kiosk. It's like get Bojor Genesis
• 59:44
  Starliner today and you just click the hanger and and it'll
• 59:47
  just for early on you just trade to black.
• 59:50
  But otherwise you can just let go onto a onto a Genesis
• 59:54
  Starliner and just sit there while the thing flies, Even if
• 59:57
  it's like in a an instant zone or you don't or you don't even
• 59:59
  see anything. You just sitting there kind of
• 1:00:01
  like in the in Wow when you want to take the Griffin or the the
• 1:00:05
  flying creatures to to the different locations, you can
• 1:00:07
  actually look down and see the whole map as you're flying kind
• 1:00:10
  of thing. Space wave O.
• 1:00:12
  Yeah. Murphy, Jack.
• 1:00:13
  How do you feel about instant travel?
• 1:00:16
  Oh fuck it, monetize it $5 a piece, get our second billion.
• 1:00:19
  Fuck off man, get out. Of here.
• 1:00:22
  I like it. That's the best take I've heard
• 1:00:23
  so far. That is, that is amazing hyper
• 1:00:27
  capitalist go. Yeah, I mean, they can't wait.
• 1:00:31
  They just solve everyone's fears about how CID is going to
• 1:00:34
  monetize the game, right? Everyone's like, they're going
• 1:00:37
  to charge your subscription fee or oh, they're going to make it
• 1:00:40
  pay to win. Nope, it's just pay to travel
• 1:00:43
  folks. Ironically, that's not, that's
• 1:00:45
  my biggest problem is just it's, there's no punishment to it.
• 1:00:48
  If there's no punishment or there's nothing you have to give
• 1:00:50
  up in order to do it, then it feels weird.
• 1:00:52
  But like, yeah, pay $5 to move. Yeah, I'm OK with that.
• 1:00:55
  You want to move fast, you're going to be paying paying the
• 1:00:57
  server fees, you know. I mean, out of serious, no, I
• 1:01:02
  and I know he's going to pipe up too, because I, I, I really feel
• 1:01:06
  that it's not a good idea. It's just, it's just stupid.
• 1:01:12
  It's it's and I and I really feel like that the dev when they
• 1:01:16
  were talking and everything, this was kind of just like a he,
• 1:01:19
  you know, wasn't really didn't get the whole thing out maybe or
• 1:01:23
  it was just. AI mean he did.
• 1:01:25
  He basically said like it's just one of those things where they
• 1:01:28
  they have to talk about these ideas, right?
• 1:01:32
  That was yeah. And I mean, that's like they
• 1:01:33
  have to look at everything, talk about it.
• 1:01:37
  On stream, yeah. Well, officially.
• 1:01:40
  I mean, look how many things they've said before, right?
• 1:01:42
  Any press I I really. Feel like it's it's not going to
• 1:01:45
  happen. I mean, it's just it died,
• 1:01:47
  right? There I can, I can see the
• 1:01:49
  point, though. I mean, how it's, it's tough for
• 1:01:52
  some people to get I, I'm, I'm one of those people, right?
• 1:01:55
  I, I've got too many kids. I didn't pay attention in sex
• 1:01:59
  and back in the day. So I, I, I don't have as much
• 1:02:02
  time to play as I'd like. Like even tonight it took a
• 1:02:04
  bribe for me to be here for this outing.
• 1:02:09
  Yeah, space stat argument. Right.
• 1:02:10
  So go on. Maybe I've got an hour, maybe 2
• 1:02:13
  hours to play like two or three times a week.
• 1:02:17
  And it, it's good. I mean, it's a space SIM, right?
• 1:02:23
  So like that travel time is part of it.
• 1:02:25
  And we, I do enjoy that. And most people who are into
• 1:02:28
  this game obviously enjoy that. But then it's tough, like, you
• 1:02:31
  know, you, you joined your org and it's like, hey guys, what
• 1:02:33
  are we doing? And they're like, oh, well,
• 1:02:34
  we're all in Stanton at micro tech, you know, doing this.
• 1:02:38
  And I'm like, cool, well, I'm at Levski, so I'll be there as soon
• 1:02:44
  as I can. And then obviously you get in
• 1:02:45
  the strip, right? Fight your way through.
• 1:02:47
  And I know what it's gonna say about this, so hold on.
• 1:02:49
  Like it you're gonna fight your way through three or four
• 1:02:52
  different bugs just to get out of your hanger, and then you
• 1:02:54
  gotta fight with the bug to get the navigation to work.
• 1:02:58
  And then you go to jump and then hopefully the jump point
• 1:03:02
  actually functions properly and you come out and stand and then
• 1:03:05
  you get over there. And once that's all done, it's
• 1:03:07
  been at least like 30-40 minutes of all that stuff.
• 1:03:13
  And now you're, and now you're there.
• 1:03:14
  And then you die and you forgot to set your spawn.
• 1:03:20
  You're back at Lenski. And, and many times the reaction
• 1:03:23
  to that is, well, I guess I got to go to bed.
• 1:03:29
  So it, it, it is punishing. And I think that's what the,
• 1:03:32
  what the dev was saying too, is that, you know, they're, they
• 1:03:34
  have to have these, these conversations because they're
• 1:03:38
  trying to, and I know it's a dirty word.
• 1:03:39
  They're trying to make the game more accessible, but that it's a
• 1:03:44
  very delicate balance. I mean, I, there are definitely
• 1:03:48
  games that have been destroyed by becoming more accessible.
• 1:03:52
  I, I was always, I, I've, I love home world.
• 1:03:55
  If anyone's played that series before, like I, I love playing
• 1:03:58
  those games when I was younger. Homo three finally came out
• 1:04:02
  recently, which was like, yes, it's, it's been so long.
• 1:04:05
  It's so exciting. And all throughout the
• 1:04:08
  development process, they kept mentioning we're going to make
• 1:04:09
  it more accessible and, and they did, which meant it was garbage.
• 1:04:13
  And you know, it didn't do all the things that the original
• 1:04:17
  did. And then it, it, it failed, it
• 1:04:20
  collapsed. And I think they could do that
• 1:04:23
  here too. I saw a quote recently, I forget
• 1:04:26
  where it was, but talking about the insta travel, someone said
• 1:04:29
  once you have insta travel the universe just becomes a lobby.
• 1:04:34
  Yeah, right. Yeah, and it and I, I feel that,
• 1:04:38
  but I also feel the pain of of not being able to easily join
• 1:04:44
  your org for certain things. So I don't I don't know what the
• 1:04:47
  answer is there. Maybe the answer is suck it up
• 1:04:50
  and then I'm fine with that too, honestly.
• 1:04:52
  But there's they've got to have the conversation.
• 1:04:55
  We've got to talk about it as a community and and see what we
• 1:04:59
  can come up with. And maybe it is just, you know,
• 1:05:01
  you go to the clinic voluntarily euthanize yourself, you know,
• 1:05:06
  and you can be. Transported to.
• 1:05:07
  The other clinic, but you don't have you don't have your stuff.
• 1:05:10
  You can't claim your ship over there.
• 1:05:13
  I I don't know, you know, there can be downsides to that as
• 1:05:16
  well. I like the idea of using public
• 1:05:18
  transit, but also that's supposed to be another game
• 1:05:21
  loop, right? Like I don't want to take that
• 1:05:24
  out. Like we're trying so hard to
• 1:05:27
  create this systemic open world with, with all of this emergent
• 1:05:32
  gameplay. And then we keep shooting it in
• 1:05:37
  the back of the head while it's holding a little Bunny.
• 1:05:39
  You know, it's like, oh, we're going to have we're going to
• 1:05:41
  have fuelling in the game finally, because lips he's
• 1:05:44
  coming in and you're you're going to be running out of fuel
• 1:05:46
  constantly. And then it was like, actually
• 1:05:48
  we're going to increase the fuel, you know, the fuel reserve
• 1:05:51
  of each ship by like 4, you know, four times.
• 1:05:53
  Then we're going to cut the system in half and now we're
• 1:05:56
  going to sprinkle space stations all over the place.
• 1:05:59
  So really, you know, don't worry about it.
• 1:06:02
  So yeah, just that's, we just got to talk about it.
• 1:06:05
  That's all I'm saying. I, I, I agree.
• 1:06:08
  One thing I'll just say real quickly is that I think but a
• 1:06:11
  lot of stuff you, you pointed out is more of ACIG fixture
• 1:06:15
  stupid game. And CIG you have, you have the
• 1:06:18
  buttons. Please, please push the buttons.
• 1:06:20
  Like is there a game? Is there a mission out there
• 1:06:23
  that CIG has made that is less than 20 minutes?
• 1:06:27
  That is one thing like I wanted to touch on is that the the fast
• 1:06:31
  travel thing and everything and everybody being upset, like
• 1:06:34
  Duke's saying dying and stuff. If we didn't run into as many
• 1:06:38
  bugs as we did trying to get somewhere, right, The jumpgate
• 1:06:40
  to just just take the jumpgate for one example, right?
• 1:06:44
  Being spit Outback and standing at three times if we didn't run
• 1:06:48
  into all these bugs. Would it be not my fault?
• 1:06:50
  Not my fault, by the way. It's the game the.
• 1:06:51
  Travelling bee that bad? Really, if it worked
• 1:06:55
  consistently. And then maybe like the Genesis
• 1:07:00
  Starliner, the Kraken, the all these big ships that the focus
• 1:07:05
  is transport, give them a wicked quantum drive that makes them go
• 1:07:09
  four times as fast as an XL1 or whatever, right?
• 1:07:12
  Yeah. Make it make it quick so I
• 1:07:17
  don't. Know game breaking.
• 1:07:19
  The the the point is, is that there are solutions other than
• 1:07:23
  go jumping straight to, you know, instant transmission that
• 1:07:27
  I think CIG is jumping over. Yeah, so it feel, it feels like
• 1:07:32
  a Scopeland CI GS finding a a solution to a problem that
• 1:07:36
  doesn't exist. Oh yeah, you know what way to
• 1:07:40
  rehash? The past, I've not let it go.
• 1:07:44
  It still burns in my heart. Well, like you said, Murphy, if
• 1:07:48
  you know a big part of the delay in in that whole story is the
• 1:07:52
  bugs, right. So if the if they do allow a
• 1:07:56
  fast travel and that fast travel was literally it was, oh,
• 1:07:59
  you're, you're getting in a star liner and it's going to take you
• 1:08:02
  there, I think that could work. Give it even the exact same
• 1:08:07
  amount of time, right as like let's say the fastest drive in
• 1:08:09
  the game, just give it that. But it's a, it's not
• 1:08:14
  physicalized. There's so there's no travel
• 1:08:17
  bugs opportunities along the way.
• 1:08:20
  So someone could just, you know, click that, you know, pay a fee
• 1:08:23
  for it, leave, go go use the potty and get something to eat
• 1:08:29
  and come back and then be ready to play with their org.
• 1:08:32
  You know, something like that might work if like, you know,
• 1:08:36
  like we said, if it's really just all those bugs, then it
• 1:08:40
  doesn't need to be instant. It just needs to be hassle free.
• 1:08:46
  Yeah, and fast. I do have a a a bit of an
• 1:08:50
  opposing viewpoint on this. Brock, the Rabblord and then
• 1:08:53
  Wicket will finish it. So it's, you know, a lot of like
• 1:09:00
  carpool citizen, it's a lot of catching up trying to get to
• 1:09:02
  people. I saw a morphologist had
• 1:09:05
  something where it's like treat the treat bed logging like Med
• 1:09:10
  beds how they should Med beds are going to work where there's
• 1:09:13
  like multiple Med beds because you know, everyone wants the
• 1:09:18
  team bed logging back. But to effectively do that,
• 1:09:22
  excuse me, everyone has to bed log at the same time and
• 1:09:26
  everyone has to log back on at the same time.
• 1:09:28
  And like if the owner of the ship is like, oh, actually, I
• 1:09:32
  have something else I got to do, it's like, OK, well shit.
• 1:09:33
  Do do we just not play tonight? Like do we wait for him?
• 1:09:38
  Do we like what do we do? Like we all prepared to like do
• 1:09:40
  this big fun adventure all on the same ship because we all
• 1:09:43
  grew bed logged. Now are we all just going to
• 1:09:47
  respond back at our home location?
• 1:09:49
  So I think having an easy way for everyone to spawn onto a
• 1:09:55
  ship together, kind of just like gets the gets the ball rolling
• 1:09:59
  it, it cuts out that like 20 minutes of like, oh, hey, I'm at
• 1:10:03
  the space station, I'm here, I'm there.
• 1:10:04
  Like I got to claim a ship. And I understand like preparing
• 1:10:08
  is part of it, but it feels like everyone needing to drive to get
• 1:10:15
  to the event instead of just waking up at the event doesn't
• 1:10:20
  feel like that drastic of a of an ask.
• 1:10:23
  You're like, you see how it's? Easily exploited though right?
• 1:10:29
  Like explain it to me. Well if I can, if you're my
• 1:10:33
  party leader and I can log on to you and be insta travelled
• 1:10:36
  somewhere else, I can just pay someone money to let to have
• 1:10:41
  them let me and their party when they're somewhere else and you
• 1:10:45
  affect. No, no, that's not.
• 1:10:46
  I'm not saying, I'm not saying party leader.
• 1:10:47
  I'm saying you get onto like I get onto a Kraken and I pick one
• 1:10:53
  of the beds and I say, OK, this is one of my spawn locations.
• 1:10:57
  Like one of three, one of five, one of However, I log out and
• 1:11:03
  then next time I'm on, when the captain of that of that Kraken
• 1:11:07
  is on, I'm like, hey man, what's going on?
• 1:11:09
  Like what are you up to? Nothing.
• 1:11:10
  I'm just like hanging out and like Levsky, think I might get
• 1:11:14
  up to something later. You want to join me?
• 1:11:16
  It's like, yeah, sure, I'll be there in a SEC when you pop on.
• 1:11:18
  Then you're just you're a screw like beds.
• 1:11:20
  Beds are going to have to do something.
• 1:11:22
  Yeah, the. Gamify on the bed a.
• 1:11:24
  Little bit yeah. And it's it feels like it's not
• 1:11:28
  like I don't, I don't know, I don't, I don't give a shit.
• 1:11:30
  Like sometimes like you just want to like get in there and
• 1:11:33
  like play. And I don't want to be chasing
• 1:11:35
  the, the, the team or the org to try to get the kind of like what
• 1:11:39
  Duke was saying, like you got to spend 10 minutes here.
• 1:11:42
  And I'm not going to like factor bugs into it, but like spend 10
• 1:11:46
  minutes here, spend 10 minutes there, like trying to catch up
• 1:11:48
  with everybody. Then you got to ditch your ship.
• 1:11:50
  And now that like when tier one insurance is in, like, do I
• 1:11:53
  like, where do I ditch it? Am I going to be able to get
• 1:11:55
  back to that station later? Like it's just, it's just like a
• 1:11:58
  lot of a lot of like clumsy logistics that I feel like we
• 1:12:04
  don't necessarily need. Lord Nubis, what do you feel
• 1:12:09
  about this? Yeah, it's got to be a mechanic
• 1:12:16
  that is an instant and it's got to cost something either by
• 1:12:21
  autopilot like the like the spaceway mode concept or by
• 1:12:27
  killing your clone. But I, I think if it's too easy,
• 1:12:31
  you're not going to see the grandeur that is, you know,
• 1:12:35
  traveling across the verse and that that's going to, it's going
• 1:12:38
  to miss something. Yeah, I like travelling across
• 1:12:44
  the verse wicket, last word here on Insta travel.
• 1:12:48
  Great idea or fantastic idea? Well, let me preface this I'm
• 1:12:54
  I'm going to read something that I wrote in in our Guild disc
• 1:13:00
  Guild slash org for those purists org discord.
• 1:13:04
  When we were talking about this, this topic back and forth, there
• 1:13:08
  were several people, you know, giving their feedback about,
• 1:13:12
  about this and this is what I had to say.
• 1:13:15
  So I wrote and I just want to read it basically verbatim for
• 1:13:20
  Save It for Prosper. For the court.
• 1:13:23
  Yeah, for the court of public opinion later on when they
• 1:13:26
  proved me correct. So I wrote no instant travel
• 1:13:31
  ever, please. Lots of arguments or
• 1:13:34
  justifications for fast travel or arguments about time.
• 1:13:38
  That's valid. But consider your metric.
• 1:13:41
  This is all gauged against the current game, including all the
• 1:13:44
  jank and bugs. Elevator eats your ship?
• 1:13:47
  Time waste. Elevator eats you time waste.
• 1:13:50
  Unable to quantum to fill in the blank.
• 1:13:52
  Can't find my team? Party markers are not working.
• 1:13:55
  I can go on but think everyone gets the idea.
• 1:13:58
  Everyone knows this. You all play the game.
• 1:14:01
  Now consider we live in a game world that these issues are
• 1:14:04
  solved. We no longer need fast travel.
• 1:14:08
  I go on to say I've been playing Mmos for a very long time.
• 1:14:12
  All the quality of life slash fast travel are world killers,
• 1:14:16
  community killers, vibe killers. If you make the world
• 1:14:20
  irrelevant, you no longer need it.
• 1:14:22
  In fact, if fast travel is implemented in any form, it will
• 1:14:26
  be abused once in the game. It's here forever and everyone
• 1:14:31
  will want more of it. There will be arguments for less
• 1:14:34
  cooldown on fast travel, more ways to use fast travel.
• 1:14:38
  Example I need to fast travel my ship and gear to X.
• 1:14:43
  The argument will be it's QOL quality of life.
• 1:14:47
  I don't have time to play. Please make it easier to play.
• 1:14:51
  This is a very stupid argument. If you don't have time to play,
• 1:14:55
  I. Feel personally.
• 1:14:56
  If you don't have time to if you if you don't have time to play,
• 1:15:02
  you don't have time to play. Simple play when?
• 1:15:07
  You have. Time.
• 1:15:10
  I've said it in the in in an earlier post, but planning and
• 1:15:13
  logistics in this game will become a major strength for the
• 1:15:17
  guilds that can pull it off successfully.
• 1:15:21
  The distance in SC is a feature and should not be spoiled by our
• 1:15:25
  current bugs and problems. With SC in its current state and
• 1:15:29
  looking for workarounds, I say fix the problems and the
• 1:15:32
  workarounds like fast travel become irrelevant.
• 1:15:35
  Thank you. You know what I liked about that
• 1:15:38
  wiki defense? Rest.
• 1:15:39
  Defense Rest I I like that you call it a feature.
• 1:15:46
  I think that I think distance. Is a feature.
• 1:15:48
  Yeah, you're right. Think about it.
• 1:15:49
  Look, look, look at this way. Listen, people would have been
• 1:15:52
  fighting to the nail to get to take away fast travel in
• 1:15:55
  Starfield, and Bethesda wouldn't have spent all that time and
• 1:15:58
  effort to actually add in travel between between planets if they
• 1:16:03
  didn't think it was an important feature that people want in
• 1:16:05
  space games. If we don't need.
• 1:16:09
  If we don't need the space that our game inhabits.
• 1:16:12
  If we don't need to get out of the bed and take the elevator to
• 1:16:15
  the hangar. If we don't need the hangar and
• 1:16:18
  ATC, if we don't need the warp Dr. slash quantum drive to from
• 1:16:23
  X to to Y, from A to B. If we don't need all that, then
• 1:16:28
  why don't we just have loading screens?
• 1:16:31
  We can just pop into our ship, You know, pop out of our ship
• 1:16:35
  when we need to. Why have they spent all this
• 1:16:37
  time and effort to animate, to create these spaces, these
• 1:16:43
  environments and all this tech to make it, to enable it, just
• 1:16:47
  to fast travel away from it? I think it would.
• 1:16:52
  I think fast travel in any form will be the death knell for Star
• 1:16:57
  Citizen in one way or another. It may happen gradually or it
• 1:17:01
  may happen very quickly. I hope to God they don't ever
• 1:17:04
  implement it. Go fuck yourself, Duke.
• 1:17:07
  I I wanted it. I was just having the
• 1:17:09
  conversation. I personally don't want it.
• 1:17:12
  Listen, Duke, we heard you. It's.
• 1:17:13
  Recording. I mean I.
• 1:17:15
  I don't. I want it.
• 1:17:16
  I don't like. I want it too, yeah.
• 1:17:18
  We know we we pegged you broccoli, right, I think.
• 1:17:23
  You what? Casual.
• 1:17:25
  I I I think the. We pegged.
• 1:17:27
  Me, we pegged. You quickly.
• 1:17:29
  We all pegged you. I pegged you.
• 1:17:30
  Anubis pegged you. Wicked pegged you.
• 1:17:32
  Astro Puppy. He's new.
• 1:17:34
  Boy. Listen, listen, listen.
• 1:17:36
  As long as it's consensual, it's OK.
• 1:17:38
  But you know, you got to ask. Ask Broccoli first if he if if
• 1:17:41
  he wants to get pegged. Yeah, you know, I'll get in
• 1:17:45
  here. All right, boom.
• 1:17:48
  It's Overcoms radio. We're having fun here, baby.
• 1:17:50
  We're having fun here tonight. No 111 more thing I will say
• 1:17:54
  about this like if you want, if you want unattended travel, you
• 1:17:59
  know if they want to bring the the the Galaxy space liner in or
• 1:18:04
  they want to have some kind of travel system as long as it
• 1:18:07
  happens in game in game time. Yeah, that makes.
• 1:18:11
  Sense that's fine, you know, and if something happened like, you
• 1:18:15
  know, there's a lot of Mmos that have travel mechanisms.
• 1:18:18
  World of Warcraft have the Griffins.
• 1:18:20
  I mean they have other animals that fly, they have the boats,
• 1:18:24
  they have the undersea tram that goes from Iron Forge to
• 1:18:27
  Stormwind. You know arc agent it's day it
• 1:18:31
  had the Stagecoach right? That all happened in real time
• 1:18:35
  in the game. Well, if I log out, I can take
• 1:18:38
  the taxi cab to a station and it can travel me as I log out and
• 1:18:44
  so I won't get killed or anything.
• 1:18:46
  But when I log back in then I can be at my other place.
• 1:18:48
  I think that's cool. Yeah, but it would.
• 1:18:51
  But if you log in right away, you'd log in on the taxi, yeah.
• 1:18:54
  100%. So you think you should be able
• 1:18:56
  to do it and log out? There's ways, so you would say.
• 1:18:59
  There's ways to initiate travel that isn't instant and that
• 1:19:03
  doesn't break the reason to have the space.
• 1:19:06
  Listen, if we're already we want we, we barely have three systems
• 1:19:11
  right now and they're talking fast travel.
• 1:19:14
  They want to release 5 systems and a. 100.
• 1:19:17
  The, the, the, the big pie in the sky dream is 100.
• 1:19:22
  You know, if, if, if, if you're going to fast travel from system
• 1:19:26
  one to system 100. You know, whatever that
• 1:19:29
  mechanism is, it's a, for me, the game is.
• 1:19:33
  Over. I want slow travel.
• 1:19:35
  That's not the game, that's on my ship.
• 1:19:37
  I signed up for Yeah, well, I think I here's I think I made
• 1:19:42
  my. Here's an edge case that like
• 1:19:44
  I've been thinking about that I, I don't know, like there's,
• 1:19:48
  there's certain cases where I like, I feel like it's needed
• 1:19:50
  say I wake up on an Idris, right?
• 1:19:54
  And I don't have the permissions to go.
• 1:19:57
  I'm alone. The owner of the Idris is in
• 1:20:01
  Europe for the week. I wake up on it and I don't have
• 1:20:05
  permission to go to the pilot's seat.
• 1:20:06
  Like I'm locked out of pretty much everything.
• 1:20:09
  Do I just not play the game for a week?
• 1:20:12
  Do I in that case, like punch the door open Like there's
• 1:20:16
  there's got to be. I don't think that.
• 1:20:18
  There's got to be problem. That's a problem that needs to
• 1:20:21
  be solved. OK, those are mechanics that can
• 1:20:23
  easily be solved by the developers, but for right now
• 1:20:27
  that's already a a solved issue. Back before meshing and when we
• 1:20:30
  had ships where you can bed log off of if you didn't bed log, if
• 1:20:35
  you bed logged on somebody's ship back when it used to work
• 1:20:38
  and that ship was no longer in the universe because guys off to
• 1:20:41
  Europe and his and his Idris has not spawned in.
• 1:20:43
  You're just going to spawn back either at your home location or
• 1:20:46
  at your your last port of call. That's easily fixed.
• 1:20:50
  But that's teleporting. That is teleporting, but that's
• 1:20:56
  that's I mean, what what at at some point you have to be able
• 1:20:59
  to to to continue to allow to play Now if you if you want to
• 1:21:03
  have. Absolute.
• 1:21:04
  If you if if you absolutely want to not have that because that
• 1:21:07
  that's an edge case like you said.
• 1:21:09
  And I think in an edge case like that, there should be some
• 1:21:13
  mechanic to solve it, unless you think that maybe you you spawn
• 1:21:18
  in and you spawn in space where that last, that interest was
• 1:21:21
  last at. And now it's up for you to call
• 1:21:24
  for rescue. I could see that happening.
• 1:21:26
  But I mean, at some point, you know, it's, it is a game, it's
• 1:21:29
  not real. But then where do?
• 1:21:32
  You go, I mean, but that's, that's why I think like there
• 1:21:35
  should be 4 spawn locations that you can use.
• 1:21:39
  Like, you know, I log on and someone's like actually I don't
• 1:21:43
  really want to do this. I got to log off and you're
• 1:21:46
  stuck out there and because like that's it.
• 1:21:49
  Like you're just like, OK, that's it.
• 1:21:50
  I have to, I have to. I think it's a simple home
• 1:21:53
  location now. I think it's a simple solve.
• 1:21:55
  You either they either force spawn you back at your home
• 1:21:58
  location or they force spawn you at your last port of call.
• 1:22:02
  Now do you call that Portland? I guess you could, but I call it
• 1:22:05
  spawning. I mean it is after all a game
• 1:22:07
  and you actually have to start from.
• 1:22:09
  Somewhere real quick. Real quick.
• 1:22:10
  Yeah, 100% agree. But say I don't know and the
• 1:22:15
  captain's like delayed an hour, like there's there's going to be
• 1:22:17
  like situations where you are locked out of the game because
• 1:22:21
  of that. And like Idris persists, like it
• 1:22:23
  doesn't go away. It spawns in with you and you
• 1:22:27
  say, hey, on my Mobi glass, I'm actually all done here taking
• 1:22:32
  back to Morrison. It just feels like, I don't
• 1:22:36
  know, like you're kind of you bed logged for a reason and now
• 1:22:39
  it's gone. And like the whole thing with
• 1:22:41
  like group bed logging is that everyone has to bed log at the
• 1:22:44
  same time and they have to jump back in at the same time.
• 1:22:47
  It just feels like an unnecessary limiting factor to
• 1:22:53
  in to gameplay. That is, I think this is a
• 1:22:57
  problem That's, that's not, this is a good idea.
• 1:23:01
  It's a good thing, but it's not the problem they're trying to
• 1:23:04
  solve because the problem they're trying to solve right
• 1:23:06
  now is grouping out and. And I feel like that's a good
• 1:23:10
  idea, but it's one of those things where it'll eventually
• 1:23:12
  have to happen down the road. But yeah.
• 1:23:18
  Yeah, gripping up is always the biggest barrier of entry to this
• 1:23:20
  game. Well, the first the the the the
• 1:23:22
  first part they have to fix is being able to bed log on on on
• 1:23:26
  on someone else's ship. The first thing you have to fix
• 1:23:29
  is social tools that work. Well, I mean, we're also think
• 1:23:32
  we're also going to think about things like persistence, being
• 1:23:34
  able to log back in where you last were.
• 1:23:36
  You know, those those are all things that like, and This is
• 1:23:38
  why, like I said, it's this is a problem, this is a non, this is
• 1:23:43
  a solution looking for a problem like that.
• 1:23:45
  There's so many other things that are broken like get those
• 1:23:47
  done 1st and then maybe talk about the teleportation you.
• 1:23:52
  Know they need to fix the flight model first.
• 1:23:54
  Yeah, well. Every time he humbles us.
• 1:24:01
  Today's any metric they need to learn how to release a patch.
• 1:24:04
  First release a patch, fix the flight model.
• 1:24:07
  Yeah. Speaking of things you know this
• 1:24:10
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  that. Yeah, that's.
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  Really good. Yeah, we're stuck in.
• 1:24:47
  Space. Oh no.
• 1:24:50
  Where's Atlantic? City let me gamble a little bit.
• 1:24:54
  This is. This is the reason give.
• 1:24:55
  Me some give me some loop. Back this is the reason why I I
• 1:24:58
  stay in Nick's 'cause it's the it's the, the, the Pine Barrens.
• 1:25:01
  So I'm I'm OK with living with the the Jersey Devil.
• 1:25:07
  There you go. There you go.
• 1:25:09
  Look, there's so this week is defense con we we haven't even
• 1:25:12
  touched. That's how large.
• 1:25:13
  This game is. The biggest event of the year.
• 1:25:15
  We haven't touched on Defense Con other than to shit on them
• 1:25:18
  for not releasing the patch in time, but we do have a Defence
• 1:25:21
  Con coming up. So I do like our episodes to be
• 1:25:25
  a little bit Evergreen, but sometimes you got to be timely.
• 1:25:28
  We have the Ironclad coming out, which we spoke a little bit
• 1:25:32
  about. What Is there another Drake ship
• 1:25:35
  coming? Out bulldog or bull Pitbull,
• 1:25:38
  what is it? Pitbull, Pitbull.
• 1:25:40
  That's what it is. I keep calling a pit bulldog and
• 1:25:42
  people got mad at me. I'm like, I'm glad somebody else
• 1:25:44
  got the the name wrong as well. Yeah, I'm here.
• 1:25:47
  I'm here. You've.
• 1:25:47
  Been you've been getting. You've been getting actually.
• 1:25:50
  I've been getting them actually. Actually, I'm used to it.
• 1:25:56
  Yeah, we're not going to spend time talking about that.
• 1:25:58
  Whatever. Snooze, Drake snub.
• 1:25:59
  Who cares, Whatever they they? Let's talk about the Starlight.
• 1:26:04
  Now there there aren't the Starlight we can talk about.
• 1:26:08
  It looks cool. We a little bit of refueling
• 1:26:10
  neither. Doesn't look like it's going to
• 1:26:12
  have that refueling stuff work. So it looks like it's going to
• 1:26:14
  be internal, it looks like. It kind of has its own big fuel
• 1:26:19
  pod, but it's sort of on its side in the middle of it.
• 1:26:22
  That's it. All right.
• 1:26:23
  I got to look at that again. Yeah, I, I, I maybe this is
• 1:26:28
  going to sound disrespectful, but it's such, it's such a.
• 1:26:31
  Oh, go for it. That's what we do here.
• 1:26:33
  That's a chubby little bastard. It's so, it's so fucking like
• 1:26:36
  big. It's not.
• 1:26:37
  It's not fat. I like.
• 1:26:39
  It because it's chewed, man. It's, it's a, it's like a puffer
• 1:26:42
  fish, you know, it's, it's just this, this big.
• 1:26:45
  He's a whole, oh Lord, he coming.
• 1:26:47
  It's just a very fat tea line, yeah.
• 1:26:50
  I like. You know, yeah, 'cause it's,
• 1:26:53
  it's deceptively big. It's like, oh, it looks pretty
• 1:26:55
  small. And then you, you look at the,
• 1:26:57
  the, where the, the seed is and it's like, holy shit, this thing
• 1:26:59
  is huge. It's not as big as you.
• 1:27:01
  It's not as big as you want it to be or hope it will be, but
• 1:27:03
  it's not as small as you think it would be.
• 1:27:05
  It's like AC2 or AC1 I should say.
• 1:27:07
  Well, it's like the front of the Star Lancer without, you know,
• 1:27:12
  just kind of squished in in the back.
• 1:27:14
  Yeah. And it it looks like it has two
• 1:27:16
  large fuel fuel pots that are mounted laterally in a line
• 1:27:23
  there. Interesting.
• 1:27:26
  Yeah, yeah. Now we also have an Origin
• 1:27:29
  fighter coming in. I miss.
• 1:27:33
  Mady, Mady and then the the. Tiburon.
• 1:27:37
  You're missing the Tiburon. The.
• 1:27:40
  Tiburon, Yeah, the the hammerhead shark.
• 1:27:43
  Freaking. Laser gunship, all look all
• 1:27:46
  really cool. Not really too many surprises
• 1:27:49
  here. I don't want to talk about the
• 1:27:50
  ships that are coming out. I want to talk about the ships
• 1:27:53
  that aren't coming out. I want to talk about
• 1:27:55
  particularly, as we mentioned last week, is our good friend
• 1:27:59
  Cosmic Kobo, who is not with us this week, unfortunately.
• 1:28:04
  I tried to get his mom on, but she's busy.
• 1:28:07
  But we were talking about Consolidated Outland and
• 1:28:12
  Consolidate Outland, a manufacturer that has been
• 1:28:15
  teased at with the Forge and gotten no love.
• 1:28:18
  Maybe they have some some Elon Musk remorse.
• 1:28:24
  Do you think he's that scared him away?
• 1:28:26
  They're like we. Can't they're like we went pull
• 1:28:27
  in on Elon and now? We put all our cards on.
• 1:28:32
  Put it all in and now? Now he's showing his true
• 1:28:34
  colors. Listen, listen.
• 1:28:39
  Matthew Musk there with Matthew McConaughey and Elon Musk having
• 1:28:44
  a baby is is a is a great with Silas Kroner.
• 1:28:46
  He's fantastic. But I can tell you, I can tell
• 1:28:49
  you why we don't have a CNOU ship.
• 1:28:51
  It's because all all the CNOU ships are either based off of
• 1:28:55
  the new ones are either based off of fabrication, ground
• 1:28:58
  extraction or base building. And we only have one of those
• 1:29:04
  three. Yeah, because we because we've
• 1:29:06
  got the what is it called the like there there's one that they
• 1:29:10
  showed off before. It's like the forge.
• 1:29:12
  The forge. I think it's what it is, the
• 1:29:14
  forge that right that. Kind of means seems.
• 1:29:16
  Like a dream. Yeah, that, that and that one,
• 1:29:19
  they need ground extraction, which I need Genesis, the new
• 1:29:22
  Genesis system in to to to actually work.
• 1:29:24
  And the other one's the pioneer. So it's like, it's kind of like
• 1:29:27
  how we have the, to a degree, the Kraken is sort of just the
• 1:29:33
  ironclad scaled up because a lot of the stuff that's in the
• 1:29:37
  Ironclad Assault and Ironclad are going to end up being in the
• 1:29:39
  Kraken. And how I'm pretty sure that the
• 1:29:42
  Liberator is sort of the precursor to the Odin that's
• 1:29:46
  coming out. It's just a lot of the stuff
• 1:29:48
  that they were planning with CNOU is all on things that just
• 1:29:51
  aren't available in game yet. So they're delaying until those
• 1:29:54
  are ready. And I and I got a.
• 1:29:57
  No, but they were cocky, yeah. They got, they got sorry.
• 1:29:59
  I just want to say they were arrogant.
• 1:30:02
  They got that swag, they got that swagger a little UN UN.
• 1:30:05
  We'll have this out by 2026. Christmas 2025 and then nothing.
• 1:30:12
  If only there were some. If only we had someone from CIG
• 1:30:15
  on the show that we could talk to.
• 1:30:17
  About that if you ask YouTube I'm I'm already the head of CIG
• 1:30:21
  so the amount of the amount of comments I get being being like
• 1:30:24
  stop stop doing lore and start losing the game.
• 1:30:27
  Yeah, get your shit together, man.
• 1:30:31
  I I like, I like, I like Consolidate Outland.
• 1:30:34
  Oh, who's this? What's what's going on here?
• 1:30:35
  We could. We could call Jens.
• 1:30:39
  You want to give yens a call. We can, yeah.
• 1:30:42
  You know, did you want to? Yeah, Duke, can you plug us in?
• 1:30:45
  See. If you we're, we're officially
• 1:30:47
  doing a bit now, but yeah, we'll do that.
• 1:30:50
  All right, All right, You don't. Wait, don't blow it.
• 1:30:54
  Yeah. What do you fuck Duke?
• 1:30:56
  You're fired. You just broke the 4th wall.
• 1:30:58
  I am. We have no walls anymore.
• 1:31:01
  Murphy, Jack, Hook hook us in. We're all couch.
• 1:31:05
  Well, unfortunately all our. All our lines are busy.
• 1:31:10
  All. Jesus Christ.
• 1:31:11
  OK, that's OK. We'll take a class later.
• 1:31:14
  Cofido. Bring, bring, bring, bring.
• 1:31:15
  I'll take care of it. They're all, they're all too
• 1:31:17
  busy trying to fix the 4A. That's why they're not here.
• 1:31:21
  Bring, bring. Yep, or advising against Hello
• 1:31:26
  scammers. Hello.
• 1:31:28
  Is this yen? Yeah.
• 1:31:29
  Is this yen from from Deutschland?
• 1:31:32
  Yes, yes, I am from Europe. Yen, I'm I'm here live.
• 1:31:38
  This is George Jabroni calling from open Comms radio and I'm
• 1:31:41
  here with some of the usual guys on the couch.
• 1:31:43
  We got wiki, we got Murphy, Jack, broccoli, Rob and Duke.
• 1:31:45
  Later we have a special guest with us at the Astro Pub Yens.
• 1:31:49
  We were wondering what this what's your problem?
• 1:31:52
  Why do you hate the Consolidated Outland?
• 1:31:56
  Well, they were designed by Dave, and no one likes Dave.
• 1:32:02
  Dave. Who's Dave?
• 1:32:04
  He's no longer here. What happened to Dave?
• 1:32:09
  You don't want to know all. Right, that was Jens fucking
• 1:32:14
  Flores from CIJ, everybody. Brilliant.
• 1:32:18
  Must have been he. Walked me into that one it.
• 1:32:20
  Was the same thing that happened to the guy who was designing the
• 1:32:23
  band of merchantmen, which so remember.
• 1:32:25
  So that guy left, right? And he took like, his whole team
• 1:32:28
  with them. Yeah, yeah, he took his fire.
• 1:32:30
  Where did they go? I didn't think they went to some
• 1:32:32
  game that already failed, I think.
• 1:32:36
  He went to Ubisoft. Oh yeah, so they.
• 1:32:41
  They went somewhere that's always failing I.
• 1:32:43
  Got Paul Jones. Paul Jones was promised his own
• 1:32:45
  game at Ubisoft and he brought a bunch of people with him and
• 1:32:49
  yeah, they they did. They jumped on on the exact
• 1:32:51
  wrong moment in Ubisoft's. Career.
• 1:32:54
  Ouch. Yeah.
• 1:32:56
  They just got immediately laid off.
• 1:32:58
  Is that what? Happened, I think, I think
• 1:33:00
  they've been working for a couple years and they got they
• 1:33:02
  got hoisted. I don't know what they were,
• 1:33:05
  what they were working on, but I assumed it was something that's
• 1:33:08
  similar to Star Citizen, but we've never heard anything.
• 1:33:10
  I didn't heard any rumors from it.
• 1:33:12
  I got my ear to the ground because I'm like, I'd love to
• 1:33:13
  see what Paul Jones is doing but I, I'm last I heard Paul Jones
• 1:33:17
  is looking for work so and he's moving back to Manchester.
• 1:33:21
  He was he was working on a Star Wars video game starring BB8.
• 1:33:26
  Maybe. Yeah.
• 1:33:29
  Yeah. I mean, I wouldn't play that,
• 1:33:31
  but I'd play one star. Chopper.
• 1:33:34
  Was a platformer. It was a platformer with.
• 1:33:37
  PBA, Yeah. Give me pretty sounded pretty
• 1:33:41
  cool. Give me give me Chopper any day
• 1:33:43
  and I'll play it like PBA can go suck it but someone build that
• 1:33:47
  game. You just want to.
• 1:33:49
  You just want to commit some. Genocide you.
• 1:33:51
  Want to commit some war crimes? What you're looking for?
• 1:33:53
  I mean, I mean, yeah. And be able to to cuss on Disney
• 1:33:57
  Plus. Oh yeah, Fairpoint.
• 1:34:02
  Fairpoint yeah. So consolidate Outland, we're
• 1:34:06
  probably not going to get anything.
• 1:34:09
  I mean, maybe Christmas. When do we think they're going
• 1:34:12
  to have Genesis in the game? 4/9 right?
• 1:34:15
  Hasn't been in 4-9. Is that the idea?
• 1:34:18
  Love it. If, if if if 48 releases the
• 1:34:21
  day, you know, maybe the latest tomorrow, as soon as 4/8
• 1:34:29
  releases, the talk for 4-9 will start so the 48 will be old and
• 1:34:34
  everybody will be wondering when the first evil cadi of four 9
• 1:34:38
  will come out so we'll. Probably next week, this
• 1:34:42
  Wednesday, Really. It's like a what, a week?
• 1:34:45
  Well, they said the next road map roundup is going to be first
• 1:34:48
  taste of 49. That's going to be the next. 1.
• 1:34:53
  I, I guess there's something to be said for rapid development
• 1:34:56
  now, because they seem to be really ramping it up and it to
• 1:35:00
  me. It.
• 1:35:01
  Makes me kind of hopeful. It makes me hopeful that that
• 1:35:04
  they, that they, that they're ramping up so quickly because a,
• 1:35:09
  that means there's more assets coming to, to, to the SC
• 1:35:14
  hopefully leaving squadron and then B, that means we're getting
• 1:35:19
  closer and closer to 1. Possibly, possibly.
• 1:35:25
  I mean, I am one of those guys who thinks they're just going to
• 1:35:27
  shadow drop Squadron 42 because at this point.
• 1:35:30
  Why the fuck now? They doubled down on.
• 1:35:32
  It just punch me in the Dick right now, all right, like like
• 1:35:35
  I've already I already I already I'm already a Titanfall fan.
• 1:35:40
  You don't have to like like just run over me with a car twice in
• 1:35:44
  a row. I.
• 1:35:47
  Why would that drop? Why?
• 1:35:50
  So Titanfalls tight shadow drops are great for companies that
• 1:35:54
  actually have games that have released and have fan fan base
• 1:35:57
  live. Hey, hey, hold on.
• 1:36:01
  Not so good for a brand new IP, a brand new IP that's coming out
• 1:36:05
  for the first time because you want to like actually like
• 1:36:09
  release something to you. You want to get like people who
• 1:36:12
  know to know your game exists. According to Chris Roberts,
• 1:36:16
  everyone knows. Chris Roberts, that was his
• 1:36:19
  point. When it comes to that, that's
• 1:36:20
  that's like the the last, what was the last marketing push for
• 1:36:24
  Squadron? It was 2023 I.
• 1:36:27
  Was there? I was there.
• 1:36:29
  I held the line. Yep.
• 1:36:31
  Fucking young fools. Dude.
• 1:36:32
  Yep. Yeah.
• 1:36:34
  Fucking eating that shit out so. Hyped.
• 1:36:37
  I was there. In the wrong, I left, I left my
• 1:36:38
  wife. I just say go do something,
• 1:36:41
  lady. And I went there with you guys.
• 1:36:43
  It smelled like sweat, smelled like gym shoes in that place.
• 1:36:47
  You know, it was, it was the. Duke spent money for the first
• 1:36:51
  time in. 10 years at that. Time, it was the most It was a
• 1:36:54
  very, very weird experience because I was there and I was
• 1:36:58
  talking with another content creator and someone stopped,
• 1:37:01
  turned around, they looked at me and said, wait, are you the
• 1:37:04
  Astro historian? They didn't see me because I was
• 1:37:06
  my back was facing them. They just heard me talk and,
• 1:37:09
  and, and recognized me by their voice, by my voice.
• 1:37:12
  And I was like, if I got to the point where people know me just
• 1:37:15
  by my voice, that is terrifying that someone can identify me
• 1:37:20
  just by my voice. And I realized that probably
• 1:37:22
  that person probably listened to me in the shower.
• 1:37:25
  That's you and Amaranth. But but I mean, the last time
• 1:37:31
  was was wasn't even was it 2024 that they did the the big like
• 1:37:35
  playthrough they did in Manchester?
• 1:37:37
  So like 2023 and 2024, the last time they did any advertising
• 1:37:42
  for squadron at citizen Con and it's been nothing since there's
• 1:37:46
  been so they need to to just at least release something to be
• 1:37:51
  like, Hey, remember this thing exists.
• 1:37:54
  So people go, oh, right, that thing exists.
• 1:37:57
  That's why I'm I'm so because because here's the thing, I
• 1:38:01
  absolutely do not want to the shadow drop.
• 1:38:03
  But knowing Chris Roberts, he absolutely would shadow drop.
• 1:38:07
  He'd just be like, oh, by the way, it's coming out two weeks.
• 1:38:10
  Enjoy. Yeah, I think they should.
• 1:38:14
  Now this show here we had some predictions, pretty much
• 1:38:19
  everyone had at this point had similar predictions.
• 1:38:23
  Wiki I remember you saying if they don't do something by March
• 1:38:26
  or at the latest April, it's not coming out.
• 1:38:29
  This year everybody had a very similar April ish May ish
• 1:38:33
  timeline. Here we are the night before
• 1:38:35
  defence gone. They can't even get the paths
• 1:38:37
  out. The Squadron 42 website is down
• 1:38:41
  and last time I checked at least, meaning there's probably
• 1:38:46
  an update coming for that. This would be the final moment.
• 1:38:52
  Yeah. And this is this show.
• 1:38:53
  Hopefully by the time this recording gets put on the on the
• 1:38:57
  tubes there, there's a patch out.
• 1:38:59
  If there's if by this point, if you're listening to this and
• 1:39:02
  there's not a 4.8 patch out and we do not have defense kind of
• 1:39:06
  happening, go outside. Touch.
• 1:39:09
  Grass and if you're you've waited long.
• 1:39:11
  And if you're in the future, still can can you call in right
• 1:39:14
  now and give us lottery numbers? And give us lottery numbers.
• 1:39:18
  Yeah, but do we think Squadro 42 is going to come out this year
• 1:39:25
  still? Just very quick one word
• 1:39:26
  answers. We'll start with Astropub.
• 1:39:28
  Astropub is Squadro 42 coming out in 2020. 6 yes.
• 1:39:33
  Whoa, Lord knew. This I will reiterate because
• 1:39:36
  you said one word answers potato.
• 1:39:41
  OK, that's his answer. That's his answer.
• 1:39:45
  It doesn't matter what you feel about it.
• 1:39:47
  You said one hard answer. He's he's switched the.
• 1:39:50
  Answer well the. The answer is the same, it's
• 1:39:52
  just I I would say to to. I can't say the full
• 1:39:56
  explanation, so I just have to say potato.
• 1:40:01
  Interesting, Lord Nubis. Potato, Potato, potato.
• 1:40:06
  I will say yes, it comes out in 2026.
• 1:40:09
  I will play it for approximately a month and a half and I'll go
• 1:40:13
  back to Star Citizen. Wow, Wicked 2026 Squadron 42,
• 1:40:18
  definitely, definitely. But you, I remember you saying
• 1:40:22
  if it's not up by April, it's not coming out.
• 1:40:26
  I'm flexible. Yeah, you are.
• 1:40:30
  Movie Jack Squadron 422026 No Yeah, boy.
• 1:40:37
  Naysayer. Broccoli, Rob.
• 1:40:41
  Go. Yup.
• 1:40:42
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  So it's just I'm going to join Murphy Jack because I can't, I
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  potato. You want that kind of hard
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  hitting journalism? You've come.
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  should like, comment and subscribe.
• 1:41:07
  Oh, Oh yeah, all that stuff. If you made it this far, yeah,
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  yeah. Give us give us one of those
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  like comments subscribes. This is open comms radio.
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  You start to see us in Colin show every What do we mean
• 1:41:17
  Wednesdays? Wednesday night. 9:00 PM Eastern
• 1:41:20
  Time, Aster Pub. What time do we meet at Central
• 1:41:23
  Time? 8 Central. 8:00 Central Time
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  which? Is 7 correct?
• 1:41:30
  Time zone, it's 6:00 PM. Yeah, nobody could get out of
• 1:41:35
  here. Go go watch a sunset.
• 1:41:38
  Go go, go. Enjoy moderate temperatures year
• 1:41:41
  round, goddamn it. Yeah.
• 1:41:45
  You know, you know, it was, it was like 71 with a little bit of
• 1:41:48
  drizzle in the morning. You know, it's been nice, yeah.
• 1:41:52
  Happens that old. You're gonna.
• 1:41:53
  Would you say you had a golden shower this morning?
• 1:41:58
  Yeah, look, come, come back to me when it's when in the burning
• 1:42:00
  hot summer of of in in August when it's 73.
• 1:42:05
  Oh, that's why I've got solar panels.
• 1:42:09
  Good for you, Lord Nubis, good for you.
• 1:42:13
  Did you put those together? Do you have a whole like system
• 1:42:15
  there like a Nas setup? Or are you are you paying rent
• 1:42:19
  for the solar panels? No, no, no, no, no, I'm I'm
• 1:42:21
  buying them post market and putting them up myself.
• 1:42:26
  I kind of, that sounds like you kind of an electronics guy now,
• 1:42:30
  so you know. Yeah.
• 1:42:33
  How's it working out for you? You got old solar panels.
• 1:42:38
  Yeah, yeah. I mean, you could, you know, if
• 1:42:40
  you, if you put it together, you know how to swap it out.
• 1:42:42
  I mean, their ones are a little bit degraded, but it's fine.
• 1:42:46
  It still lowers my bills, you know, pay it.
• 1:42:49
  It pays for electricity for the car.
• 1:42:52
  New solar panels used to be like 10s of thousands of.
• 1:42:54
  Dollars, yeah. I mean, you can get stuff for
• 1:42:56
  like 100 bucks like per panel. Really from China?
• 1:43:00
  No, no, no, no, from like locally.
• 1:43:03
  Locally you got a lot of vendors who are no longer like
• 1:43:05
  Chinatown, a lot of installations, they're from
• 1:43:07
  China and they have a lot of stuff leftover.
• 1:43:10
  But you know, we're talking like LG panels and stuff too.
• 1:43:14
  So it's not just China. What?
• 1:43:18
  What country is LG? Korea.
• 1:43:20
  Is that Korea? Made in China.
• 1:43:23
  Yeah, I, I, I'm, I'm going to read.
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  I'm actually going to completely upon further review, my answer
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  It's not potato. It is, in fact, pumpkin.
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  Oh, oh, pumpkin. OK, now.
• 1:43:38
  That is. Thanks for.
• 1:43:39
  Clarifying. Yeah.
• 1:43:41
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. So what we're going to do on the
• 1:43:45
  show here, we're we're going to wrap things up very shortly.
• 1:43:47
  But before we do Duke Lado, you want to read some comments.
• 1:43:49
  Yeah, you know, occasionally we like to, but to give back to the
• 1:43:53
  community, give everyone a spotlight who might not have
• 1:43:55
  been able to actually join us on the show.
• 1:43:58
  We are on. Where?
• 1:44:00
  Where are we, George? We're on YouTube.
• 1:44:02
  We're on. Twitch, we're all over the.
• 1:44:03
  Place we're on some stuff that I still haven't even never even
• 1:44:06
  looked at before but it's. French it's the.
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  French one, Yeah, anyway. On Geocities.
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  And if you can't join us live, you know, leave, leave a.
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  Comment We're on Penguin Town. And we'll we'll read it out loud
• 1:44:17
  here and we'll make fun of you. We'll agree with you.
• 1:44:21
  We might even threaten you personally.
• 1:44:22
  But so we had it was some really good ones, which is so at at
• 1:44:28
  vile vile Blight says great podcast.
• 1:44:31
  No citizen con, no guarantee squadron this year.
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  But the Tiburon looks cool for money.
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  But you know the important part there was great podcast.
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  Yeah, I like that one. At ASOG 88, that baby Pitbull
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  better have a quantum drive. I don't I don't think it's I
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  don't think it's going to have one.
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  I'm pretty sure that's definitely not that's definitely
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  not happening. I don't think I don't think
• 1:45:03
  we're going to read that one. That's love this show.
• 1:45:07
  Thank you at Lethor. Oh, I know who that is.
• 1:45:12
  No, you don't at. He doesn't his comments.
• 1:45:14
  Barely now. Furious imp.
• 1:45:17
  What happened to the title? I think he's referring to the
• 1:45:22
  the intro. He's obviously a fan of the old
• 1:45:25
  intro. Oh yeah, we'll we'll edit that
• 1:45:30
  one out. Yeah, that's good.
• 1:45:34
  Bring back the old intro. Wicket.
• 1:45:36
  I'm sorry, do you want to say something?
• 1:45:37
  Wicket. Bring back the old intro, yeah.
• 1:45:41
  Get rid of the clown car song, yeah.
• 1:45:44
  You know, we're an episode like 14 or 15 or whatever we are now
• 1:45:48
  of the of the second season. I can't let it go.
• 1:45:52
  We'll never give up and never surrender this 'cause you got to
• 1:45:55
  understand that. OK.
• 1:45:57
  And. We got one more.
• 1:45:58
  This is. Very before wait, wait a minute,
• 1:46:02
  wait a minute, Astropub. When when we get done here, look
• 1:46:05
  at some of the earlier shows from last year just long enough
• 1:46:09
  to look at listen to the title, the intro title for on YouTube.
• 1:46:12
  You'll see what I'm talking. We're talking about the superior
• 1:46:15
  title intro. Yeah, I've I've I use my
• 1:46:18
  creative liberties as master of the show or whatever.
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  I don't know. I don't know what my title.
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  Master Blaster. Supreme.
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  Supreme show leader? Yeah.
• 1:46:28
  Master Blaster, you're. The first one debate everybody,
• 1:46:30
  so master. Master.
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  No, it's master. I don't know.
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  Master. Yeah, Masticator.
• 1:46:36
  Masticator. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:46:41
  Anyway, we we I made a new intro.
• 1:46:45
  Had to be done. All I can say because I'm I'm
• 1:46:48
  looking through your your your your YouTube channel and the
• 1:46:51
  first thing I thought is the YouTube in me is like God damn
• 1:46:53
  y'all need to fix your thumbnails.
• 1:46:57
  Hey, hey, hey. I'm proud of those I can't.
• 1:47:00
  Tell you something, don't know what you're getting better at
• 1:47:02
  it, I'll say that. But but yeah, now trust me, it's
• 1:47:06
  it's the the never ending search of fixing your thumbnail so that
• 1:47:11
  the the almighty AI that runs the YouTube algorithm goes, yes,
• 1:47:16
  I shall ordain you with a new views.
• 1:47:19
  Here you go. Does it look at the thumbnail?
• 1:47:23
  It does. Well, it's.
• 1:47:25
  Interesting. You'll have to share.
• 1:47:27
  You'll have to share your. Knowledge with them, the very
• 1:47:30
  the very brief brief thing is it's the thumbnail gets you
• 1:47:33
  clicks, and the amount of clicks you get early on determines how
• 1:47:37
  much they want to promote it. Yeah, but I don't know what's a
• 1:47:40
  good. I can't say something.
• 1:47:43
  It's a lot of. Time.
• 1:47:43
  It has a lot of time. It takes a lot of time.
• 1:47:46
  There's some people who don't even.
• 1:47:47
  The thumbnails people don't realize.
• 1:47:49
  Yeah, the work that can go into a fucking thumbnail.
• 1:47:53
  Yeah. But I will say you've gotten,
• 1:47:54
  you've gotten better. It's gotten a lot better.
• 1:47:58
  Oh yeah, I think the same thing of the intro.
• 1:48:02
  No, I'm not the, I got to say. Laughable, I got to say, The
• 1:48:05
  shorts work. Yeah, enough, enough.
• 1:48:11
  Of this. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:48:13
  Come on, move on. Well there, there was just one
• 1:48:16
  more. It was a a gentleman called RN
• 1:48:19
  1441. Is that the one for Cosmic Hobo?
• 1:48:23
  No, no, no, this is just someone just generally, you know,
• 1:48:27
  quality of life wish list type things.
• 1:48:30
  And he obviously this first, he he has a lot to a lot of
• 1:48:34
  feelings before even watching our podcast.
• 1:48:37
  He says, here are here are my top ten.
• 1:48:40
  One, fix the problems with the basic physics and hit detection
• 1:48:44
  2. Fix the ridiculous D sync and
• 1:48:47
  interaction delay problems 3. Actually implement the gameplay
• 1:48:52
  systems that were sold. 4. Actually implement the AI and
• 1:48:59
  PCs that were sold. This guy's going to actually the
• 1:49:01
  hell out of us 5. I'm going to actually, I'm going
• 1:49:05
  to interrupt you real quickly and say I know RN 11441.
• 1:49:09
  I recognize that name in the in the avatar.
• 1:49:12
  And the only way I can respond to him is the way I've always
• 1:49:14
  responded to all of his posts, which is Sir, this is a
• 1:49:17
  whammers. Fair enough, fair enough.
• 1:49:27
  All right, we'll, we, we won't give him any more any more time
• 1:49:29
  tonight then because. It's fine, it's he didn't even
• 1:49:32
  watch the freaking video give. Him time the whole time all
• 1:49:34
  right all right actually implement the social features
• 1:49:36
  that any so-called MMO should have number six actually deliver
• 1:49:43
  the dedicated servers and modding support that was sold
• 1:49:47
  they sold the modding manual up to October 2023 for the
• 1:49:51
  dedicated servers Seven stop pushing regressions of
• 1:49:56
  functionality to live test things then deploy #8 actually
• 1:50:04
  deliver chapter one of three or whatever squadron 42 is now so
• 1:50:10
  you have a prayer of finishing the game within our lifetime. 9
• 1:50:16
  this one does not start with actually remove Aaron Roberts
• 1:50:20
  and put in someone who oh shit who can actually create and
• 1:50:25
  follow a road to this guy he's like this this guy is the the
• 1:50:30
  final boss of actually 10 stop using our money to put out
• 1:50:36
  marketing videos claiming CIG is the best at everything when they
• 1:50:40
  can't deliver working basics in year 14.
• 1:50:44
  I feel like that was a really good place for another actually,
• 1:50:46
  but but that's it. OK, Well, thank you at RN 1441.
• 1:50:53
  Sounds like a CEO, Sir. Sir, this is a.
• 1:50:56
  This is a wammers, Yeah, now you understand.
• 1:51:00
  Now you understand like. I almost.
• 1:51:03
  That was a lot. I mean actually.
• 1:51:07
  Come on to the show, buddy. Come on.
• 1:51:09
  They have open comms. You can come on.
• 1:51:12
  We. We will.
• 1:51:12
  Give you a platform to come on here and yeah and tell CIG
• 1:51:17
  exactly how you feel. And there's there's.
• 1:51:20
  Because that's what we want. Yeah, that's what we want.
• 1:51:23
  We want commenters who actually call into the show.
• 1:51:29
  Well done, Lord Nubis, Well done.
• 1:51:31
  Well done. Every everybody here today,
• 1:51:32
  everybody who called in. I love having you guys.
• 1:51:36
  It's a great time. Brock and Robin probably not
• 1:51:39
  going to be coming up to New York City, so wow, why not?
• 1:51:44
  Plans change. I was going to go for three
• 1:51:46
  days. I guess he's busy those three
• 1:51:48
  days now for work, so he's just going to come down and visit me.
• 1:51:52
  Gotcha. Also yeah my brother-in-law is
• 1:51:54
  staying with us so you would have been out on your ass.
• 1:51:56
  Shit, sorry about that. Well that's that's what a Guild
• 1:52:01
  gets you folks. If you want to join a Guild or
• 1:52:03
  an Oregon and get friends, don't do it any money.
• 1:52:08
  Join a fraternity or a religious organization.
• 1:52:11
  I started a whole Star Trek group.
• 1:52:15
  There you go. There you go.
• 1:52:17
  Well, Astropub, I don't know if you've listened open Comms rated
• 1:52:22
  before, probably not because you agreed to come on the show, but
• 1:52:25
  at the end of it, you're a special guest.
• 1:52:26
  So I will give you the last word to to say anything you'd like to
• 1:52:30
  say. Thank you for having me on.
• 1:52:34
  And you are all Mad Men. But this is the thing about
• 1:52:39
  about Star Citizen is that it collects a bunch of crazies and
• 1:52:42
  it puts us all in one room together.
• 1:52:44
  So it's kind of like a civil service.
• 1:52:47
  So make sure if you're watching this or listen to this right
• 1:52:50
  now, you subscribe, you like you follow, you leave a comment and
• 1:52:56
  a rating, whatever to keep, to keep all of the crazies in the
• 1:53:01
  insane asylum tier together so we do not come to your
• 1:53:04
  communities and tell you how to play League.
• 1:53:09
  Or magic. Thank you for the Astropub.
• 1:53:12
  We appreciate it. We're looking for two stars.
• 1:53:14
  Anybody giving ratings? We're looking for two star
• 1:53:16
  ratings. I find that's where the that's
• 1:53:19
  where the good food lies. So Astropub, what we usually do
• 1:53:22
  here is at the end of show we go around backwards and we ask
• 1:53:27
  everybody if there's anything they'd like to say to CRG, Chris
• 1:53:30
  Roberts or the people on the Internet.
• 1:53:32
  Our last guest today was Broccoli Rob.
• 1:53:34
  Broccoli Rob, is there anything you'd like to say to CIG, Chris
• 1:53:37
  Roberts or the people on the Internet?
• 1:53:41
  Social tools please. Same thing I say every week.
• 1:53:45
  Long time, long time, or for Jack, anything you want to say
• 1:53:50
  to CIG, Chris Roberts or the people on?
• 1:53:52
  Internet, yeah, with Rob's social tools and we need more
• 1:53:57
  player interaction, so that's right in there with social
• 1:54:00
  tools, right Susan? More.
• 1:54:03
  Fast travel. No, no fast travel, just more
• 1:54:06
  relying on other players for things, which hey, this patch,
• 1:54:10
  you know, it's probably going to be maybe it'll be a lot of that,
• 1:54:13
  you know, UE X is going to be going crazy probably so.
• 1:54:17
  It's good. Yeah.
• 1:54:21
  Wicked, Wicked. Anything you want to say to CIG,
• 1:54:24
  Chris Roberts, or the people on the Internet?
• 1:54:25
  Here it comes. Well, well, well, it's Andy
• 1:54:29
  Ross. You're in charge of marketing.
• 1:54:33
  I think start marketing. We should start seeing some some
• 1:54:38
  kind of hype happening for the squadron to be released later
• 1:54:41
  this year. Bro, you just gave me the
• 1:54:43
  thought that like, what if Chris Roberts has been the entire time
• 1:54:47
  intending to be marketing Squadron 42 and Sandy is just so
• 1:54:52
  bad at her job, but because they're married?
• 1:54:56
  He can't do anything about. It he can't do anything about
• 1:54:58
  it. So there's just no marketing and
• 1:55:01
  so. Hey, Sandy, do you think we're
• 1:55:04
  going to release that marketing next week?
• 1:55:09
  Oh, Chris, you know we're going to my mother's this.
• 1:55:11
  Weekend. Oh right.
• 1:55:12
  Oh, right. Right.
• 1:55:13
  It's just, you know, it's kind of a big deal.
• 1:55:18
  Yeah. Is she English?
• 1:55:20
  Is she British? Australian we didn't.
• 1:55:21
  We did this cross episode. We talked about this.
• 1:55:24
  Tonight, Oh Chris, I did that. Yeah, you did.
• 1:55:26
  OK, Colby, let's not do it again.
• 1:55:31
  In two weeks. Wait a minute, wait a minute.
• 1:55:33
  One more thing. Yeah, two weeks from now is the
• 1:55:35
  27th of May. It's a Wednesday.
• 1:55:38
  It'll be a show day. We'll be celebrating our our
• 1:55:42
  Lord and Savior Chris Roberts birthday.
• 1:55:44
  Yeah. And and the announcement of
• 1:55:47
  Squadron's release date. You know what Chris is?
• 1:55:51
  Chris is is just egotistical enough that he might actually do
• 1:55:54
  that. Is it really his birthday?
• 1:55:57
  Yeah, yeah, it's two weeks from now.
• 1:56:02
  The Sunday before is Aaron Roberts birthday or.
• 1:56:08
  Not Aaron Julia Roberts. Julia Roberts and then Julia
• 1:56:13
  Roberts. Birthday is the week after,
• 1:56:15
  yeah. We're the third.
• 1:56:16
  The third Roberts, whose sibling is actually Julia Roberts, just
• 1:56:19
  doesn't want to. The dynasty and then John
• 1:56:22
  Roberts, Supreme Court Justice. His birthday is in a few weeks,
• 1:56:25
  but we're not going to do anything for that one.
• 1:56:28
  We're going to let that one pass.
• 1:56:29
  That's just to piss off the commenters that happened to
• 1:56:32
  comment. They don't like us getting
• 1:56:33
  political. They don't like, I don't like us
• 1:56:36
  getting political. Listen, I'm going to get
• 1:56:38
  political and just say that the curtain parroter is doing
• 1:56:41
  nothing wrong, all right? Anybody who thinks that the
• 1:56:43
  curtain parroter is is absolutely wrong.
• 1:56:45
  No idea. Shit, dude.
• 1:56:47
  Great. I just, I just want to say
• 1:56:50
  before we, before we, before we stop the show, I just want to
• 1:56:54
  say a comment in the Twitch channel Meme Dog, one of our
• 1:56:58
  guildies, he's, he's bemoaning the fact it's 4.
• 1:57:02
  AM in his part of the world, fuck.
• 1:57:08
  Meme. Dude meme go to bed bro man.
• 1:57:13
  It'll it will be, it'll be there later, OK?
• 1:57:17
  It'll be there later. You don't have to stay up.
• 1:57:19
  It's not like it's not like it's going to disappear just because
• 1:57:21
  you're asleep. He doesn't have a job, so
• 1:57:24
  whatever. Cool.
• 1:57:28
  I hate that out him. Laura Nubis.
• 1:57:31
  Anything you want to say to CIG, Chris Roberts, or the people on
• 1:57:33
  the Internet? I want to say to the people on
• 1:57:35
  the Internet and to Astro Astropub, Astro Historian, thank
• 1:57:43
  you for being such awesome people.
• 1:57:45
  Thank you for coming on and we hope to still, you know, have
• 1:57:52
  this show going on for years and years and years after this game
• 1:57:55
  becomes a success. Well, like it's looking like
• 1:57:57
  it's turning into being, you know, obviously Star Wars Galaxy
• 1:58:00
  style. And you know or keep listening
• 1:58:05
  to the only, as you said, public service that can result in a
• 1:58:10
  sentence of community service. So, Astropub, is there anything
• 1:58:17
  you'd like to suggest? COG Chris Roberts of the people
• 1:58:19
  on the. Internet, please, please return
• 1:58:22
  my calls. All right?
• 1:58:23
  Like I've been trying to call for the last 10 years and you've
• 1:58:26
  never picked up. Please, in all honesty, I'd love
• 1:58:31
  to, if very serious right now, please tell me something or
• 1:58:38
  tell, tell us something about Squadron 42 because the, the,
• 1:58:41
  the, the inmates are getting restless and I don't know how
• 1:58:43
  long we can all handle not knowing if it's going to even
• 1:58:46
  release this year. Hey Ben, data drop two weeks
• 1:58:53
  from today. Hope.
• 1:58:56
  Here's hoping and. Foreseen.
• 1:58:59
  Well, Duke, we did it. We did it all on our own, you
• 1:59:03
  and me. No help, all by our thousand
• 1:59:05
  years. Yep, that's the two of us. 1000
• 1:59:07
  years Duke Lato and. Jar and Duke together forever.
• 1:59:12
  On the radio waves. How many are you in your shower?
• 1:59:15
  Just the two of us. Well, Duke, you know what to do
• 1:59:20
  now. Yep.
• 1:59:22
  Duke, Duke, Duke, Duke, Duke, Duke, Duke, Duke, Duke, Duke,
• 1:59:25
  Duke, Duke, Duke, Duke, Duke, Duke, Duke, Duke, Duke, Duke.
• 1:59:31
  Duke, Duke, Duke, Duke.