What even is the context of that? It doesn’t even seem like Star Citizen fanfiction, just weird worldbuilding from some 4chan incel.
It is lifted directly from an official Star Citizen forum post some years back, both legendary and notorious, back when there was a lot more speculation about what Star Citizen would be (and a lot of it expected more than one star system).
It’s not the only really gross fandom speculation post. One of the other more notorious ones involved multiple effort posts, over months, from a big spending (you get “ranks” on the forum just for paying money for the eternal alpha and they can be posted) user that wanted bounty hunting to include (CW: gore, torture)
spoiler
dismembering targets so they are more portable in cargo holds, castrating them so they get strength debuffs, and elaborate means to keep the mutilated bodies alive for “wanted alive” deliveries.
His posts weren’t just allowed; they got a lot of buzz and attention for “innovation” and “creativity” from the community.
It is lifted directly from an official Star Citizen forum post some years back, both legendary and notorious, back when there was a lot more speculation about what Star Citizen would be (and a lot of it expected more than one star system).
So somebody fantasizing about EVE style player empires and also the idea that SC would be literal magic enabling them to do things, then?
bounty hunting
Yeah I remember a lot of weird "I want the official, central server continuity to allow Ark private server style shenanigans where you can permanently hold another player’s character hostage if you feel like it. There’s a big overlap between that and the weird fantasies about people who blow up their spaceship getting sentenced to work thousands of real time hours doing hard labor in space prison.
It really is amazing how strongly SC has managed to capitalize on the dumb guys who have bad ideas but lots of money demographic just by virtue of CIG being run by a bunch of dumb guys with bad ideas who promise that someday their beleaguered software engineers will get around to implementing them, once they’re done procrastinating by doing literally anything other than touching those ideas with a ten foot pole.
So somebody fantasizing about EVE style player empires and also the idea that SC would be literal magic enabling them to do things, then?
I used to lurk those forums, and yes, many big spending fans did actually believe that they’d have EVE Online except first person and fully sandboxed accordingly.
There’s a big overlap between that and the weird fantasies about people who blow up their spaceship getting sentenced to work thousands of real time hours doing hard labor in space prison.
Star Citizen does have a laughably corrupt and fucked up privatized prison system that is meant to make players miserable for having the wrong kind of fun in game where you’re expected to do slave labor for a private corporation until you are allowed to leave, or you can try to escape in a scripted janky sloppy platform gamey way that has a giant assembly line of attemptees trying to survive the greatest challenge of it: lag and janky fall-through-the-world physics.
What even is the context of that? It doesn’t even seem like Star Citizen fanfiction, just weird worldbuilding from some 4chan incel.
It is lifted directly from an official Star Citizen forum post some years back, both legendary and notorious, back when there was a lot more speculation about what Star Citizen would be (and a lot of it expected more than one star system).
It’s not the only really gross fandom speculation post. One of the other more notorious ones involved multiple effort posts, over months, from a big spending (you get “ranks” on the forum just for paying money for the eternal alpha and they can be posted) user that wanted bounty hunting to include (CW: gore, torture)
spoiler
dismembering targets so they are more portable in cargo holds, castrating them so they get strength debuffs, and elaborate means to keep the mutilated bodies alive for “wanted alive” deliveries.
His posts weren’t just allowed; they got a lot of buzz and attention for “innovation” and “creativity” from the community.
So somebody fantasizing about EVE style player empires and also the idea that SC would be literal magic enabling them to do
things, then?
Yeah I remember a lot of weird "I want the official, central server continuity to allow Ark private server style shenanigans where you can permanently hold another player’s character hostage if you feel like it. There’s a big overlap between that and the weird fantasies about people who blow up their spaceship getting sentenced to work thousands of real time hours doing hard labor in space prison.
It really is amazing how strongly SC has managed to capitalize on the dumb guys who have bad ideas but lots of money demographic just by virtue of CIG being run by a bunch of dumb guys with bad ideas who promise that someday their beleaguered software engineers will get around to implementing them, once they’re done procrastinating by doing literally anything other than touching those ideas with a ten foot pole.
I used to lurk those forums, and yes, many big spending fans did actually believe that they’d have EVE Online except first person and fully sandboxed accordingly.
Star Citizen does have a laughably corrupt and fucked up privatized prison system that is meant to make players miserable for having the wrong kind of fun in game where you’re expected to do slave labor for a private corporation until you are allowed to leave, or you can try to escape in a scripted janky sloppy platform gamey way that has a giant assembly line of attemptees trying to survive the greatest challenge of it: lag and janky fall-through-the-world physics.