Squadron 42/Star Citizen

[Power Play]

Anyone pledge for this game?

http://www.robertsspaceindustries.com/

I've got a couple ships reserved and full access to alpha (late 2013) and beta testing.

It looks (to borrow a term from the Browncoats) shiny!

You can find me on the forums as O'Donovan (Irish) and my "global" (account ID) is ODonovan.

[sl701]

Have made my pledge there for sure. And I hope it turns out as great as the people hope (myself included ;D)
Not especially active on heir forums, though.

[Harlequin565]

I've also made my pledge and haven't really been active in the forums. Just waiting to see what happens.

-H

[Novapulse]

I bought my first computer specifically to play Wing Commander, and I was very excited when I stumbled across the Star Citizen page in the middle of the crowdfunding campaign. My MISC Freelancer is bought and paid for and I'm looking forward to the game... for the most part.

The one huge disappointment so far is the active forums community. At this point I don't hold out much hope for the kind of community we had with CoH.

[Power Play]

Got to bump this with a funny story.  It seems the player community and dev team relationship is developing very much along the line of CoH.  Here's what happened just recently, posted by the devs.

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In case you're wondering: yes, we can be bought! Last week we received a letter addressed to Cloud Imperium Austin from the "Department of Bribery and Sycophancy." Inside was a kind letter from fan Samuel W., along with a gift card to Torchys , a local taco joint! The letter reads, in part: "The enclosed intergalactic credit chit should be sufficient to fill your place of business with queso. Please accept it with the best wishes of a fan and neighbor. Should this gesture inspire, say, an Imperial Queso Barge to make an appearance, I hereby relinquish all claims on the idea."
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Yeah...starting to sound familiar, that is.  They're bribing their devs with cheese...oh, and tacos of course.  :)

[Power Play]

Well, it's update time!

Yes, the forums are seriously starting to resemble the CoH.com boards.  The staff is present, frequently posting responses to players' questions and staying involved.  The devs are taking the players' suggestions very seriously and have indicated they're going to be putting in a number of features they hadn't thought of, which were suggested on the forums.  It's a heavily symbiotic relationship.  This is possible because the game was largely crowdfunded, so the players are being treated as the producer.

If anyone hasn't checked out Star Citizen yet, PLEASE do so.  It's going to be a sandbox game with no character levels and open-ended game play.  Players will be able to do almost anything they want, from being miners, to merchants, to pirates to business tycoons to military (mercenary/paramilitary) pilots.  They're even having a RACING league ingame, where pilots in souped up hot rod spaceships will be competing for The Murray Cup Championship in both unarmed and armed (seriously!) divisions.


See you in the black!

[Power Play]

Arena Commander, the Star Citizen arena/dogfighting module, is about to go live!

Anyone from CoH who's in the game, drop me a note over there.  My ID on the forums there is ODonovan.  I'd love to get ingame with some other CoH vets, even if it's only to fly around and pew pew a bit (for now).

http://www.robertsspaceindustries.com/