Reverse the Verse: February 5th 2016

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[Music] do we have sound looking for the thumbs up for Mr Hennessy Jesus yeah it should working the the Box wasn't detecting I plugged in a different USB port and now it's working so it should be okay so we have sound should be recording to all the visuals all right so it's a shame we could only share all that bad new information once oh my goodness maybe next yes we got s back just in time for you to hear me sneeze welcome to reverse the verse everybody it's Friday February 5th as we determined before 2016 I'm your host Community manager Jared Huckaby with me as always is director of community Engagement online strategy spaceships and master disaster Mr Benjamin Lesnik to raise raise the roof yo no to his
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immediate right is our subscription manager here at Cloud Imperium games Mrs Alexis Lesnik you do Mrs or Miz um I don't know's ever really M I thought Miz gave like an air of mystery but that's single that's no no Miz is you don't I think single Miss is married Miz is you don't really something new every day so if I want to hide my marriage from my husband I should go by Miz and Justin Chambers our editor hi Justin hey guys and the man behind the camera is in the booth fixing our sound issues is Mr Thomas Hennessy hi Tom hi whoa that was like the voice a loud Thomas Hennessy I've never heard such a loud noise from Thomas Hennessy before all right so if this is your
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first reverse the verse you've ever watched I apologize profusely if you've seen reverse the verse before I apologize just slightly less for our technical uh Endeavors uh reverse versus the cloud Imperium games Community teams weekly informal live stream with the fans we're going to talk a little bit about the week and review and then we'll start taking some questions from chat uh Ben why don't you to start us off uh you hosted last week without me it did how was that it was great everybody loved it we had like six producers who showed up um it was a regular Cavalcade of Happiness uh pretty much what I expected expected oh Jared's not here let's pull out all the stuff so so seems like it's better without him I think we had fireworks at one point ABC it felt like there were fireworks felt like there were fireworks well I was hanging out at pack South actually on that Friday I was
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hanging out in the the Austin office uh they were giving a tour to a a couple different groups of folks through the off Austin office but then that weekend I went to pack South it was a lot of fun I enjoyed it but we were talking about your week what is your week like oh my well uh what did I do this week you know you know this question comes up every single why don't why don't we ever write up a short list of the things we do this week and come to the show prepar wouldn't that be smarter no it was a normal week we did some um some interviews we have monthly report ready to go should be out later today um we had a lot of ship concepting talk um between me and uh the team in the UK with Chris's right now um shot ATV we we shot that thing you saw before this which was just basically sanday
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night screwing around um it was uh called it verse Busters oh yes yeah I don't know did they have sound for verse Busters it probably did cuz it didn't run through the mixer so yeah at the top of the show if you were watching you saw a little minute long bit of happiness we filmed yesterday just on two or three of those last night yeah don't you know there evely going to be like this is what you spend our subscriber money on I promise it took minimal effort yesterday it was like hey let's come in here let's do this thing I have an idea yeah you know I always see that on like Reddit like you're spending our subscriber money for an hour of RTV this doesn't cost any money we're not budget of RTV is0 yes yes uh anyway um he had a great Wing Commander week Sandy found all sorts of uh Wing Commander stuff and she kept bringing it
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in so I I got to explore old shooting schedules from the wi Commander movie and blueprints and so on you got new artwork hung in your office yes they took down my old artwork A put of new artwork yes they took down his wing Commander artwork and made him put up stars to this art that was just hung up a few weeks ago you had a few weeks of enjoyment there's there's all sorts of art changes happening in the office I know there's art all over the studio now it's cool yeah we just put we just put the uh the big wall wrap up in the Aegis uh conference room that looks really nice there constellation Phoenix prince in the ladi's room there's a Merlin in the men's room I think there there's a phoenix interior in the men's room as well oh is there I guess maybe not in my sty uh sounds like you've been in the women's room that the triangle thing is to show that it's a woman not a fat guy
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I've made the mistake before too no no actually we don't have signs on our bathroom that's right they just we just have triangles yeah I guess we have to know shapes Alexis what did you do this week uh I feel like there's been a lot of meetings this week there have been a lot of meetings this week we we had a lot of meetings this week uh I don't know if we can talk about the one meeting yet well we we're in the planning stage for the next great star Marine we've mentioned the next R star Mar coming and Gamescom starting to play Gamescom um we launched the new subscriber page in the store on Monday which was exciting it looks really good um thank you thank you I'm getting there I was going to say thank you to the team of turbulent for their nice work on that page um do we want to do war bonds now yes tell them all right we distributed
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the100 million uh war bonds to everybody so based on whatever year you backed uh you get a different variation of that so if you were 2012 you get a special color for that and so on uh so those went out this morning they should be in your hangers now and they look pretty cool oras we call them ortwin bucks Orwin bucks yes I don't know anybody actually calls them ortwin bucks though I do well yeah yeah by we I mean Ben by Ben yeah it's a collective wi but the I'm sorry SM stars is in news we can fill in I guess the free fly has been extended through the 14th um um so tell your pets and friends and so on U we'll go all the way up to the package split so give everybody the most
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possible chance to look at Star Citizen before deciding whether or not to buy chance to save 15 buckes actually and uh as far as the next great starmarine goes you'll learn more about that in the coming weeks slash months May a couple months from now it's not not not too soon but it'll be very much like the next great Starship just uh for a Titan suit of armor we've announced that we're going to I think it'll be a little bit less fancy than TS you more let's bandwidth let's band but yeah the preliminary round will be a helmet so if you're interested in competing you can start sketching up space helmets now and uh yeah so it'll be a it'll be a nice qualifying round with helmets and then the the teams that are picked to proceed will go into
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armors but again we'll have a lot more information on that in the coming months when that's ready to go um what did you do this week Justin um was a busy week this week um did you do some editing I did editing pretty much a story every week right it is I mean because that's what I do it's like your sole job responsibility exactly and to just you know bring the light to you guys and make you guys smile and give hugs you know other than that though it's been pretty busy you know did a lot of editing so and learned a lot about just a bunch of different things if we were quizzing Justin on the ships in the background before the show like point to point to the ship and he had to identify the ship he got almost half of them good I'm making my way I may have seemed like
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I've been here for a long time but it's only been like six seven months yeah has it been seven months yeah that makes me sad uh so last weekend I was at pack South that was exciting got to walk the Florida i' never been to a PA event before uh I really like them I think I like them more than uh Gamescom or definitely E3 E3 is a garbage event for corporations not for people um send me free stuff E3 uh but no P pack was a lot of fun got got a got got to meet a lot of fans um hung out with members from a couple different orgs uh redacted and uh uh test and some some Clifford Mikus and stuff like that uh there's only one
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Clifford is there only one yeah he he's he gets around I thought there were more than one all right well there's only one Clifford Miku guys um yeah and then the week uh yeah just putting together the show uh hope you guys liked ATV this week uh we were really proud of it we had two great segments I thought with the LOD stuff it's definitely not a sexy subject but uh but uh I think Patrick sleno did a great job making it interesting and and and and easy to grasp and of course Luke Presley the lead designer star seon live he's he's a hoot I like luk FR a lot you can also see that if you watch the hosting section it is the specific moment in time where I became a Southern California wuss and wore a jacket yes yes yes as you get to see Ben wearing a jacket this week um it's it was it was it was a thing to behold and and is Ben
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VP the Ben VP actually really like that box art I think it's cool that I know I I know we got fancy emboss box art for box I kind of hope we do a cheap version of our game with with boxart that's evocative of that I I really like that uh yeah then we did that verse Busters thing that you saw at the top of the show we'll probably play it again at the end in case somebody was wasn't there at the beginning and then it'll be available on YouTube for whatever the heck you guys want to do with it it was just a silly idea we had yesterday um which is a cool thing about working here we can just come up with idiotic things and then 52 minutes later we shoot them we measured yeah it actually yeah we discovered that we had tracking software track the amount of time we spent on it it's like yeah all right so that's fine uh so yeah so so we can announce that we
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are going to Gamescom the three of us not Justin will be holding down the Home Fort I know I'll be holding down the home now come find your spot so Hennessy doesn't freak out oh yeah henness going what did you do this week Thomas Hennessy let me tell you what on my knee you on my I did two awesome things this week uhhuh me and the writers hung out with them writers and I the writers and I that's why I'm a camera guy and not a writer beat Vandal swarm MH didn't die once I never that's my first time like going out what you were going on about yeah so now I get a glaive and uh and we filmed the one of the most
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entertaining 104s ever yesterday a marathon filming session with and a marathon editing session for me uh with uh two very uh knowledgeable guys who who with a lot of personality so there's good info sandwiched around a little bit of Wacker maybe between uh Mr Sean Tracy and and Steve Bender if you don't know Steve Bender well you will know yeah we uh we had the idea last week hey let's put Steve Bender and uh shant try together and the first instinct was that's a terrible idea and then immediately go that's an amazingly terrible idea so we had to do it so tune in Monday to see the fruits of that tremendous labor yes I hope you enjoy it it it may be long but uh I think there's
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good info in there too they're really really smart guys but they have a sense of humor about them together they have a good chemistry they they seem very similar when they're together like I I heard them coming out of a meeting together the other week and they sound like the same person right once Canadian oh my gosh it's so funny you say that they literally do sound like the same person when I was cutting it cuz sometimes I just cut with my ears and not watch the actual stuff I'm like listening I'm like who's talking right now Hennessy is literally rolling on the floor laughing right now in fact let me take a picture of this all right if somebody could uh cut that segment that that little section out and email it to me we'll use it in Justin's performance review in a in a 4 months hold on I'm
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going to Tweet this I just like to listen you know cuz that's what Lando said most people just listen on their headphones so I'll listen to it and then you know just use my hands and whatever and then I'll be like wait Who's Talking Now is it the other wait is it Sean or is it like they literally talk like the same person the one who says a boot is Sean Tracy that's all right also uh for those of you who track our uh our job postings on the cloud Imperium games website we are in the process of looking for another Community manager to help out here on the community team so you can see that job posting at Cloud Imperium games.com jobs uh there may be an editor position soon we we want know that's up there too that's that editor throwing me under the
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bus yes a copy editor I have a copy editor Community manager marketing coordinator marketing artist marketing artist yeah artist uh and Community M service no customer service person yeah we're we're currently in the process of looking for a CS agent here at the LA office so so if you live in Los Angeles understand Star Citizen aren't a creep um then you should definitely apply yes all these positions require working out of the LA office so uh we we appreciate that you might be a great candidate living in Maine but and fact we've already had some great candidates to live in other places in we yes including Canadians quite a few people that we really like that were Canadian it's like are good at stuff but yes I mean you know everywhere I go people people come up to me they tell me hey I could do your job and now
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is your chance to prove it all right so that's pretty much it for the weekend review let's go ahead and start taking questions from the chat uh we'll take questions from both both the RSI chat and the twitch chat please preface your question with the word question in capital letter surrounded by brackets it helps me pick it apart from the rest of the uh chat room DET tritus uh hey Ben which ship is most like the gremlin Pacer or Vega and why aora I guess aora got to be the aora yeah it's it's the little ship you're you have no reason to love but you will MH you got character and you know someday when you're 50 ships deep you're going to remember your first aara
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with its crmp little cockpit honestly that's easily the most important thing to me I want character more than ability I have no interest in being you know the Red Baron or you being the best pilot out there the best I want a ship that has character that's instantly recognizable that some a point to and say that's landos one one of the most difficult decisions certainly in my life and I assume in many people's lives was selling your Tarsus in the original Privateer because you can never get it back I mean it's it's a it's a piece of crap um to put it mildly uh but it's you know it was your grandfather's ship that was left to you and you're going to trade it him for a spiffy new Centurion it's it's a tough call why was the store and the ship dealership prioritized please silence the trolls with your answer thank you
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the store and the uh it's from at it's from at this week Jeff Ross talked about how a lot of the animators are getting are getting ready to put in NPCs to our court oh oh well obviously it wasn't prioritized because we released dark Court four months ago this is the part that wasn't prioritized yes CHS the the thing that always gets me is that there's this perception that everybody can do all things like oh if this person's doing this they're not doing something else it's like no that person's doing that because that's the job that that person does it's not taking away from work somewhere else so we have character animators whose job are to animate characters and you know you work with one skeleton for the player character and and slightly different skeletons for the for the big guys like a bishop and stuff and then a different skeleton for the NPCs and so the guys who work with the different
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skeletons work with the different AXS or the different uh tasks so populating art court and making it seem like it's a living breathing place is pretty darn important to making the persistent Universe a living breathing place so people like why are you working on that now it's because that's a very important aspect of making the precent universe is this really what people are trolling us about right now first of all this is the act of having us selling us less stuff we're going to the in-game the in-game economy instead of the one where you buy stuff on the website yes it's not something with prioriti I don't get it the thing about trolls like every single thing we do oh here's the bad version of it you're reducing Squad 42 why aren you focusing on this other one in the Luke in the Luke Presley luk Presley interview we we talked about how we were going to add
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voxal asteroids and they'd be used for mining and for the uh and for racing and some somebody sent me I got sent a PM that somebody very concerned that we were prioritizing racing at this point I'm like no in the interview we specifically say it's not tomorrow it's not anytime in the immediate future it's something we're going to do in the long term and I got PMS about how we were prioritizing this it's we can talk about things that aren't the very next thing that we do contrary to popular belief we do know what we're doing oh no no that's dangerous no no no the views of Alexus letic do not represent those nobody here's claiming we know what we're doing how here's one how can Choice matter when the only consistent only constant game development is
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change what they're talking about a post that I made earlier uh yes the only the only uh one of the things I'm I get I get quoted on most is that when I say the only constant in game development is that things change is that development is iterative it's like that that doesn't mean that can exist at the same time as having meaningful choices the two are not mutually exclusive we we want choice to matter but at the and at the same time we do many things to allow people to reconsider and re-evaluate their choices we allow them to melt their pledges we allow them to C to CCU into different ships and now with the buyback system we allow people to go back into their history all the way towards close to the beginning of time you know barring the physical items you know boxes and stuff and bring back those pledges we do many things to allow you to to to reconsider your choices because
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change we recognize that at the same time we're not Building Systems just for today we're building systems that will take us into tomorrow and the game release and we have to consider the choices matter so there are restrictions on the things that you can buy back there's and the way that you can buy back stuff absolutely I mean it's I'm thinking of the the high school class and Starship Troopers now you know you're what's the line oh you're on your own on oh God uh you figuring things out for yourself is the only uh only true right anyone has it's not the exact line but no I I I can't remember the exact L it's Michael iron side says yeah yes um but no noan you picking a ship should have a way to it it's supposed to you know be our equivalent of deciding on a car um the the ship system was never meant to be a
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oh let's switch to this one switch to this one switch to this one you know we we kind of cludge that in there as we gone along because there are a lot of people who want to but uh the ship should have value it shouldn't be something you you know throw away and you know melt and get a new one instantly yeah so we're looking for a compromise a thing an area between the two opposing views that you know best serve both ends a compromise is never going to be 100% a compromise is never going to be perfect that's why it's a compromise and not everybody gets everything they want so that's what this is with the with the quarterly uh buyback tokens and you know there are folks that are like you know but we've always been able to buy back with st creddit he goes yeah that wasn't an official system that was the fine folks in CS yeah that was really bending yes the rules that that is truly what that was yes that that that that was that was
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us making exceptions to things because a system wasn't in place that you know to help you with with automated BuyBacks oh this is for the buyback tokens um so one other thing I'll say is yeah what did you think we were talking about all right fair you got it no one other thing I'll say about the buyback tokens is it's not the permanent last last decision we'll ever make um there may be plenty of SES in the future where we want to say okay here's an extra token or um especially I mean it seems like the use case we're running into that is a legitimate problem is people who melt all their ships to buy a capital ship uh when we have a limited sale and you know that that is something that comes out of our system so we're looking at ways to uh counteract that maybe you know have a a free day after we do a capital ship or issue couple tokens afterwards I think this doesn't
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actually let you let you issue multiple tokens but you know we're we're talking about you know next time we have an IT sale or something like that if if there is a next time we don't have anyone on the books but uh even the decisions on how we deal with things are iterative just like game development there be some people's responses and you know that's that's the big legitimate issue I've seen from those threats is uh We've we've we've had a lot of internal discussions about it this week yeah I mean yeah no it's there there were a lot of people that that melted a good quantity of their ships to to try to get a shot at buying the address and they the Jaelin the javelin or whatever they didn't they didn't make it in for whatever reason and now they're left with a bunch of store credit we want to do something about that it's we're still discussing it it's it's in the process great you know we try not to make decisions you know we try not to make decisions day of
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otherwise we get things like burst Busters and if you saw that this morning that's what happens when you when you make decisions too quickly without considering all the all the repercussions hey toast looks like toast is coming to us let's see let's look for some more C everybody let's see some more questions from is the 890 jump shiny pretty shiny there's one over there yeah a lot of our materials work lately has been rather shiny I think when the time comes to build the 90 there's a good chance it'll probably be shiny oh wait till you see the wait till you see the silver Reliance there the metal work that uh our guy who rides in car with us does Daniel K Daniel Kaminsky I really like the reant the ReliOn is fast becoming one of my favorite ships I will say now that I look at the 890 CH it does look
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sort of like a bathroom fixture it's like something that would be sitting by your sink and you press it and it releases like a pleasant smell or soap or something oh the air fresh it does kind of look like one of those or fancy dehumidifier for rich people humid it kind of looks like the thing that's in the men's bathroom the blue thing that's too and make that thought again the referral program then we uh what about the referral program we're going to we're going to we're going to have a meeting soon to discuss rewards post 4 yes we're going to have more rewards um the referral program is uh we definitely want to have more rewards but we also want to make them good so it's a Time versus you know if we want to do
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something quick we can say oh everybody gets an A R or something but we want to do some more unique content which takes production time and you know takes an artist and a designer so it's it's all about scheduling making sure we can do everything else we've promised so more rewards are coming keep your F folks uh if if you cross the and you have already if you cross the threshold for uh one we'll we'll give it to you later you would like to offer commentary of the 890 jump portrait again now we can properly she just dedicated an entire camera to the I took the time to so it's not that time is he took the time to make it so the time is not there to be like a mockumentary now so we'll just prend you guys you guys thought it was bad when I ran everything on the show now it's all in Hennessy's hands it's and and so this is the 890 jump It's luxury
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at its finest has all the amenities you can want in a ship from toilets to Spas to gyms athletic centers as well as guns Blazing Saddles from toilets to guns it's got it all it doesn't where are you pulling that it has a gem from I well I saw some some um early blueprints yeah it does have a gym it's in the blueprint I'm just giving him right poking at to see how I was trying to add my you know add to the conversation for once cuz I kind of knew a little bit of what I was talking about yeah question when will we we be able to move for furniture and other items around the hanger uh that comes after the Advent of persistence I believe persistence and grabby hands are both
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coming and we'll have more on that when they're close y uh if if you watch ATV uh if you want to follow the development of persistence pay special attention to the Jake Ross segments the Austin segments of around the verse that's where you're going to learn most about the progress on persistence and grabby hands I imagine you'll probably hear about in either the UK or the LA segments you know this week I have my performance review turns out I'm doing okay um no it's actually kind of interesting for the whole history of the company it just seems amazing that we've gone from a bunch of guys in a basement three years ago to to a bunch of guys to a bunch of guys in a Pur pancake big fancy building no uh you know we've got like know performance evaluations and sign up for your 401k and health
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insurance and all this it's so it's so amazing how far this company has come did you get your first 401K deded from yes I did I forgot to check I don't I need to check to see if I did or not so Ben does Chris do your performance review is theoretically but he he was away so Sandy did it okay you've had artn do your review before last say did he give you orn bucks he did give me orn Buck where are the orn bucks by the way remake this B they over there I mean it's not just any B um so in 11 days uh we have we have the splitting of Star Citizen and Squadron 42 yes why don't we talk about that for a little bit oh right um so by the way in fact five minutes before this I wrote up a little fact
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we're going to post tonight um I shot it over to ortn and Sandy to review it'll have all the details about how much things cost and what this play actually means a big concern I've seen out there is people saying what do you taking Squad 42 wait from me why are you doing this is the cash grab none of that is true uh it it does not apply to any current package it is only packages purchased after February 14th 2016 so what we're doing now is telling you oh the price will go up at this future time we've done a fly free so everybody can get in and see that we're making progress back before then um so you don't have to pay that extra for the other campaign yes it is a perk for our early adopters early adopters being those who those who backed in the first three years now uh you know when you're back in the first three years you get both games at a ridiculous cost of $45
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after February 14th you know for new people coming in they will have to choose between starmarine or St citizen for $45 or sp42 for $45 or a special um so how this is working is it's it's not quite literally these are separate things now it's more of an allart so you're is going to be $45 same as right now for the and you'll choose one or the other Squad 42 or uh persistent universe and then it will be a $15 add-on for the other one so if if you buy Squadron 42 15 bucks gets you the persistant Universe if you buy persist Universe 15 bucks gets you Squad 42 um so you get both games for 60 bucks s yeah just just like a modern game um and that that'll go up down the line again but uh shouldn't be too much of a change right
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now as we approach standard pricing for video games you know as we get closer at least the pricing will increase to to to market Standard whatnot so all you guys that that believed in us and backed in us early congratulations you get both games for 45 bucks and any anybody watching this likely doesn't have to worry about this at all in any way NOP if you already backer you got it it's locked in yeah you're you're you're good good to go why is Hennessy looking at me sorry I don't I don't need to interrupt the show but this is this is breaking news they just tweeted out the magic cheese day truck is in the area for lunch today oh you kidding me really yes they are still 3 p.m. stop I had I had interrup the show for that news wait I think you should should
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come here and explain the cheesec explain explain you have to the che do they accept these I don't know if the magic cheese steak truck accepts ortwin Buck but basically when we first started working here we were looking around for place to the lunch and me and the guy who the construction guy who helped me build uh the the framework for all these sets found a row of food trucks and had a Philly cheese steak truck with these amazing Philly cheese steaks and bacon cheddar fries and it was the greatest thing in the world and we had lunch there a few times over the last couple months and then they disappeared in December and they were nowhere to be found and I made a trip a number of times to find this cuz we all decided we wanted lunch there I was going to pick up lunch and it was never return and we started doing more investigating their website got hacked and replaced with porn they fell off the
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face of social media eventually tracked down a phone number and called somebody to find the PO what was up with the truck they said the owner had gone to Philly and had never been heard from again and they didn't know what was going on so yesterday they resurfaced on social media that they were back and they were somewhere way across town and so we we knew that they were alive and then today just 5 minutes ago they tweeted out that they're here in the on the West Side by our studio selling cheese steaks till 3 p.m. so it's kind of been a built up here around the office soon it's a sweet victory as you can see everybody's reaction I just like the part where the the owner apparently made like a pilgrimage to Philadelphia for their cheese steak yes yeah so you may now resume with your normal uh Star Citizen ask questions so the question is is he going to use cheese or proone in
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chees cheese whz can cheese but cheese whz is the correct Philly Way absolutely I do American in wiiz myself American is better as you learned in uh cherries no I they didn't have cheese whz there so does that mean we're all getting cheesecakes or cheese cheeses chees Where Have You Been for this whole conversation I'm going to fall you know what I meant you know I have a problem with words oh my god let's take a star seing question should in words is very important says you lawyer one of my favorite things introducing toast as my lawyer yeah uh when questions are usually going to be avoided guys when questions are always
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generally when they're ready by the way it was Illuminating getting to actually watch that and see what people are actually saying yeah you appreciated me just a little bit more didn't you well I don't appreciate you in any way but but it is impressive the dedication some people go through who's driving you to a random Taco Bell tomorrow to get a mystery box of of pre-order food yes we pre-ordered the mystery box at Taco Bell have you found out which Taco Bell we have to go to yet no haven't set the instructions yet um I like how that we got that from let's take a St to as in question yes how about uh how about it design documents mining salvaging anything like that they are coming um in fact I was talking to top papy about that uh just this week as we look at some additional ship Concepts uh to go with them um so expect more about
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I think mining is probably going to be the next big one so I'm just going to sit here and wait wait for the chat to blow up here real quick yes Ben confirmed that additional ship concepts are being worked on we looking got some additional ship contests beyond the three that we have talked about before um and there's some cool options uh we can't talk about them yet but uh we're looking at the schedule as some of our artists free up is the herald still in limbo while the asset is working on other s 42 step uh yes the the guy who's working on the heral is not on it right now so it's just kind of floating there um it it has been it's slotted back in the schedule it's just a little bit further back than we originally intended well there's no real game playay for it right now so it became didn't become we realized it wasn't a priority or I don't think we realize it wasn't prior no this
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is purely a Manpower uh Staffing thing either way if they had it out now all it would fly around yeah um I don't think it's the worst thing to be waiting on it let's see will there be will we see more gam play with Chris in the future yes absolutely think so next time we do a live stream it's not like we have plans for it but yeah it's kind of thing that comes up the Press gets to see Chris play a lot more because whenever there's one of these big conventions you know there there's the public show floor and then there's the uh business booth and uh Chris is always back there showing it to journalists and so on so he gets a lot of that uh oh I I've got a ship bit of ship potential I can throw out there uh as you know we're
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working on the uh the next Drake Interceptor the one that's going to be sort of the ship the cutless people sometimes want the cutless to be you know the the pair for the cutless um and the one of the names the writer the name the writers are pushing right now I want to see you guys think is the Drake Monarch let us know what you think King of Fighters remember that's marketing um uh if you have questions about the cutless rework you uh check out the shipyard post that we put up just a couple months ago if someone wants to link that in the chat uh talks a lot about the design of the cutless how it went what it went through and and a little bit about looking ahead of when we can expect the re the rework basically what it went through it sounds like what it went through it it it had a
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bit of a it had a bit of a a time show me where they hurt the cutless show yeah show show show us on the cut list where they Hur where the designers hurt you now it's just there's a wheel everything comes up on the wheel at at its time right now we're really focused on getting all the base ships in the game so that we can start you know balancing and taking what we learn from each each ship and applying it to the other ships by the way not to make your job much harder but I'd really like to do another one of those Shipyard posts not just the cutless yep no uh already talked to um what was his name John crew and the next one should be the freelancer cool so uh was the name Monarch Matt Sherman's idea no he just said it was the writer's idea yeah it was had and uh that other one the Drake parrot um uh no update on the Carri just
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yet um I know GM's anxious to get back to it yeah gmach uh he's slotted for the Carri after he finishes the caterpillar work and that changes but that's the current schedule right now yeah lots of love going into the caterpillar right now looks cool it shall the Marge as a beautiful still a caterpillar nope and uh we really need a live studio audience so people can and and to anticipate the next question when when will you show us the the the new caterpillar work we want to let it get fleshed out a bit before we show you because they're still experimenting what changes it's we don't want to keep playing with your emotions when we have a a solid a solid lead on where it's going it's not changing dramatically or anything we just we we just want to know that what we show you is what we're
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going to use but scheduling words should be a matter of weeks rather than yeah months or years should be F until somebody's like oh we need gach to work on the bangal they take them off for two weeks or something yeah so well the problem is gmm's good every time something important comes up they like gmach on this so if you're a second gmach if you were also a gmach and wish to work at Cloud Imperium gamesound apply on the website many jobs many many jobs on the website we are we are ramping up we need good solid creative people let's see question for Ben can you create a ship called the troll killer uh no no I can't no now the best thing to do with trolls is just forget
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they exist not dedicated an entire ship to them it's not worth the effort well what do you mean we already have the cutless please address all your letters and concerns to care of Ben Lesnik very sorry uh can you name a feature in the Pu that is actually finished no no think we're still building the game nothing's finished Y is there something in PE right now that you want to stay this way forever yeah that's yeah it's a question for you what do you want to be finished yeah I mean you we are barely on the second true you know 2.1 iteration of the uh of the of the baby pu or pu light or whatever we people want to call it Tony zerik keeps trying to call it the protoe I know not
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keep pushing that it's like we love you Tony I mean seriously here but we're not calling it The protoe protoe I'm curious what what could we do could could we make protoe happen if we start if we all started right now no no no no when does the Gary Oldman air horn go on sale I don't know what that means but I like the question I would buy by a Gary Oldman air horn y I think what would you use it she has a crush on Gary Oldman by way crush on Gary Oldman before he we before I even knew he was know what he talking about but I'm not going to dignify yeah no I know who said it I still thought it was funny I'm allowed to think dumb people are funny usually do actually um make Studio
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tickets while filming RTV ATV available to subscribers make Studio tickets oh they mean like we said have an audience oh studio audience oh that would be cool we could kind of we should do a live experience we should do a live RTV with an audience we do do the tours on Fridays on Friday so instead of having it at two we bring them in a little early all right we're going to do an RTV with a live stud amazing I have trouble setting this getting you guys in place all right it won't it won't be soon it probably given the schedule of our tours it probably won't be until about Midway through the year but uh we're going to do it h I'm going to need a home's new file cabinet for those Nas we get ask a lot of questions I suppose that could be kind of wait when's the anniversary we can put a
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coupon for a great cat underneath every chair oh you don't know you get a you got a great cat you got a great cat you know what maybe I like this maybe I'm getting more of this idea I think it's a great idea I like it yeah live from Studio 42 it's reverse the verse as somebody asked if we're if people will be able to Super Le each other in the Precision Universe if you're a glaive you can suplex other ships there's plenty of videos out there of glaive suplexing ships I actually hav an answer that question Believe It or Not tune in Monday to 10 for the directors where Sean Tracy and Steve Bender will actually address that almost that exact question that's called a teas yeah you sound like me now instead instead of giving answers just plug the shows well I could give the answer but no no you you did the right thing I plugged the show you did
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the right thing they they talk about the that very you know that kind of thing going on and how that's going to work in in the vi yeah I love watching Steve Bender talk about anything physical all right uh starf far update Ben please starf far update oh starf update um still coming we know Chris said January and uh back little whatever do Christmas live stream holiday live no it was a 10 for the chairman that we recorded in December oh okay um so it's still coming the the way these 2.x patches work is everything that's ready at a particular time goes into so let let's say we have a date let's say January 15 is the close date for content for that month's patch so everybody everything that's in and working January 15th goes to the PTU and
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then they test in the PTU and then goes live if something is not ready at that specific time it goes to the next month um I can't say the star is ready today I think they're still doing some uh work on it uh but it will be in one of the upcoming patches yeah uh talking to the to the uh artist that I've talked to everybody's really thrilled with the the stare they just want to make it as awesome as possible because it is it is massive it's a it's a next step I mean it's practically a mini capital ship that's that's what Aaron Robert's talking about he's like it's it's almost a capital ship because of the size of it Stu it's a floating FPS level in space and they're just really excited about they really want to put every Pizza of polish on it they can before they before they get it out to you guys so it's just a first impression thing they're really proud of it they want to make they want to put their best foot forward so
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they're going to take the time to make it everything they wanted to be did we do the uh yeah it was the uh sneak peek this week wasn't it yes we showed we showed three images of the starf two from the internals one of cool damage stuff yeah one it's it's a concept of proposed damage stuff so it's no guarantee that that's going to end up being what's what's in the game but it was a guy designing what he thought the damage States might look like so we thought it was very cool we saw it we're like oh I think I got a couple more shots we stick them in the vault for next week we to see them for next one nobody wants to see more of the nobody wants to see more of the starf well they want to see their Wednesday Thursday in the Squadron 42 Jillian
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Anderson piece it sounds like Gary oldman's ship is called the Gary is that true no that'd be awesome though there should be an entirely Gary Oldman Focus sci-fi game where he flies around in face in the Gary and I would play it all the characters are representations of some part of Gary alin's psyche or perhaps I'm giving away too much about Squad 42 uh somebody asked if we can get if they can have gray cats in the hanger to drive around gray cats have been available in the hanger for some time now you just have to buy them on the Voyager direct store although somebody new may experience great cats for the first time in AR Corp and not realize that they're available for sale so yes the gray cats are available for sale in the Voyager direct store I think they're about five
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bucks something like that it's been a long time since I bought 5,000 or 10,000 UAC yeah it's been a long time since I bought our great cat I'd have to look it up I believe we priced them intentionally so that they were less than the amount of free U we've given away I think they're 5,000 okay uh not asking what is there a new mechanic PTU ready already besides fixes oh for uh 2.2 uh yeah I think he's looking for info maybe on the uh physicalized evva oh so we physicalized evva is our you know obvious we have not hit our day in February that locks everything down but the the big hope as Sean tracei said last week was having the new Eva system um in
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2 two yeah and it seems like a like a trival trivial thing I I didn't quite get what how important it was until I walked into Shan trace's office and saw it oh it's incredibly just what you do with your hands in zero gravity yeah it is it is it is so it is such a night and day difference you know between having that Center of of of of mass go from your feet to going uh uh to the center of your mass to and and having it be uh uh changeable it Alters depending on on the contortion of your body and stuff so it it looks so much more immersive and great and and uh honestly the word is beautiful it looks beautiful so I'm excited to see it in yeah all lies the great cat's 15,000 oh is it 15 so we should have a gray cat sale maybe I was thinking we should have
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a gray cat sale okay of course now we have to spend two weeks talking about it no no we we'll talk about it we we'll see what we can do uh we have 5 minutes left looking for some good maybe we should go in extra 5 minutes cuz we had all that time at the start where we didn't make sounds yeah okay maybe uh can Justin Chambers and Ben answer questions through interpretive dance you want to do another 10 minutes now yeah yes that's the question uh I hate this s there was no question they didn't ask a question they said can you answer a question ask the next question and we'll do it we do interpretive dance let's see let's go good good question for um good question for interpretive dance good question for interpret interpretive
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dance look for question for inter dance um is the Argo going on sale at some point I hate this H short answer that it that almost certainly the AR will be on sale at some point if you couldn't tell yeah it's a it's a it's a ultral light it's ultral light spacecraft like the uh Merlin or the aredes it won't have jump capabilities it won't have Quantum Drive but uh I'm sure there are plenty of uses for it um I know they even talked about possible variants I know there's discussion about it but oh there's a whole slew of variants yeah oh slew of
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them a literal slew I didn't want it it's messy uh yes all I'm thinking about is Philly cheese scks now out of a truck can you edit a like a thot bubble above his head with a Philly cheese steak in it so everybody realizes not not take the entire stream down don't don't don't touch it don't touch nothing one of my favorite things is when like Hennessy thinks something is funny and we can see him laughing in the office while we're doing this that is one of my favorite things Tom did the camera die when we did our interpretive dance yes I killed it he killed the camera that was Tom who did that he was afraid that our interpretive dance might bring joy to his soul you know what I care about
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r i want to keep this show on the air that was a raing spike what are you about uh big Benny's V machines uh yes if you watched around the verse yesterday uh you will have seen me put Luke Presley designer of star s and live on the spot and forc him to agree to add big Benny big Benny's vending machines as hanger flare that you'll eventually be able to purchase so no timetable on that cuz we just got him to say yes to it and it's probably not a huge priority so but he said yes we'll hold him to it uh cheese steak updates do you have an update on cheese steak tennessy he's coming out if we ever finish this show and
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we'll clean up all of this stuff we will then I will go get them for us that's the update concern social module update while you're going to want to watch around the verse that aired just yesterday specifically the Austin segment where Jake Ross talks about all kinds of stuff they're doing for the social module including persistence uh adding NPC adding NPCs and recording all the new animations they need to make the NPCs look like they actually live and breathe in our cour so lots of lots of updates coming to the social module and then of course eventually Nicks Nick Nick um any chance casabo will open with 2.2 chance I don't think 2.2 for cassaba not a very good chance yeah yeah we're going to go a little bit
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longer yeah let's get some good start seing questions um with procedural planets coming you have plans for some sort of firefighter F in ship we've talked about a firefighting ship um you and I did once yeah it's not not on the schedule um because something that you have to have more of a uh elaborate game designed to go with it I think our Focus right now is going to be finishing up the already off um but firefighting is one of those shifts where we you know whenever we sit down we're like okay let's have a bll session of what what cool ships we could expand to in the future firefighting always comes up um cuz firefighting is awesome um in fact Dave hobbins did some cool did a cool firefighting robot at one point I think while he was working here it was for something else but uh you look up Dave H's portfolio he did a cool
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firefighting neck thing that inspired us all at one point um and of course the episode three where for some reason there there are firefighting ships that fly up alongside uh uh we should consider a food truck ship that sells Philly cheese Steck in yeah see that made Hennessy laugh that made Hennessy laugh that's what the B verman was for you couldn't stock it with band new Delights and jump drives on starter ships now the star lot lot oh English a lot of the starter ships don't come with jump drives but they can all equip them I think pretty much everything's going to have a jump drive they may not come with it though I think this was a robber ring thing that we're just not going to think
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about again so I touching that one not impossible I Ain touching that one I I we'll talk more about jpes but uh either way every ship can every can mount a jump drive yes so whether it comes with one or not you'll be able to pick one up in a in a what's what's the ship store I can't remember the ship store now shipco shipco what's the ship store in our AST Astro arada I mean i' I've seen this question all over the place about jump drives and stuff I think the general rule is if a ship has been offered as a companionship to something else it's it doesn't have a so the Argo Idis it it supports the ad doesn't have a jump drive Merlin supports the constellation jump drivex comes with 890 jump doesn't need a jump
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drive so if it was sold you know pledgeable scalone first by itself it probably does or maybe even get a used jump drive at dumpers Depot maybe and of course you have to upgrade your jump foot drive over time you know you may have like a double use and then you want to go to a qu jump drive or something or one that's stealthy or more efficient so there's all sorts of upgrades in the future I I mean I know what people are thinking I know what Rob was thinking back then there's it it is a fantastic moment in the original private tier where you have finally saved up 10,000 credits you make your first jump out of the Troy system and you get your ass beaten down because the rest of the universe is very very harsh um our universe is not necessarily buil exactly the same way so it may not be as much of a moment to earn that first jump I think it is going to be a moment you know the first jump during the build out of Crusader is going Crusader and pu is
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going to be a huge huge event but I I don't know about that you know scraping by to earn your jump drive yeah all regular size ships will have a Quantum Drive yes anything that's not a stman and not a stubble a qura y uh let's see what's Privateer Privateer um it's it's really in the chat guys I didn't I didn't just set Ben up to talk about win Commander again um no private tier was uh Chris's first game like Star season back in 1993 it was a spin-off of wing Commander Wing Commander was Essen s thing Squad 42 it's a single player story you follow it from you know mission to Mission to Mission and then there's a tree so you lose a mission you go to a different one you win one you go to a different one Privateer was free form you you basically you you had inherited your
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grandfather's uh Old Ship you were stuck on a plan it had you know a single Laser cannon a single missile um no upgrades and you you had to make your way in the universe uh and it's very much the prototype for Star Citizen um Chris did a second game along those lines Circa 200000 called freelancer um and Star Citizen is kind of the the game he wished he could make the whole time uh uh darkest mind your your qu your technical questions about the cutless would probably probably be better served in the cutless sub fors as we're Community team and not physics programmers but I know that uh John pritchet uh frequen the sub forms he was very happy when when we created them so I can't guarantee you an answer but at
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least I I can pretty much guarantee he'll see it uh that's a that's a funny question but not a legitimate one uh was about star Marine no that wouldn't been funny no I think it's possible to make a funny starmine question not easy but um merchantmen it's on the list it's again the wheel hasn't the wheel hasn't hit merchantmen yet not not an active do right now but on the schedule no we're not confirming grabby hands for any patch we're not confirming anything for any patch yes I think the closest we'll say is that most likely Eva for 22 but it it's all going to come down to that one day in February where we sit down and we say okay here's
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everything that's done and ready for the passion here's what's not uh which includes you know Eva or not X ship or not y ship or not and we will let you know when we know essentially you know a lot of people I've seen on the forums people like why don't you tell us what's coming there's two reasons one is um when we don't when it's not certain people get mad um that that has been a constant for all of time and the second is we don't know um you know it's it's we have you know 300 people working on 70 different things at once some will be in some will be in 22 23 24 um so we there's a specific day where we know more and when that happens we'll tell you guys I mean it's not really always easy to predict whether or not something like this is going to be done computer
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science is a very young discipline compared to almost everything else Humanity has done for centuries we haven't done this for even one century yet so knowing exactly how long something is going to take when your discipline keeps changing every day is very very difficult it's not like bricklaying it's not like farming it's just it changes all the time especially depending on uh what part of the game it is like physicalized Eva is just such a huge it's it's not you know it's not a factory line it's it's not it's not a factory where you do you know you say okay it's going to take six days to do this it it involves a lot of experimentation breaking things getting it right so while we say okay we want it done at this point it's quite possible it will be done much later or something sometimes much earlier like the procedural planets um for other things such as ships it's a little bit easier
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to predict you know we we've made five dog fighters now so the sixth one we can get a pretty good estimate but even then there are plenty of times where you you know you artist hands it off to the designer and they're like wait a minute you need to redo this and this and this cuz they don't work and that changes the timeline so about the only time something was easy to predicting programming is if you've done the exact same thing before but there's a lot in this game that no one has ever done before yeah how do you predict how long it takes to do something that that's never been done before in a way that's never been done before and presented in a way that's never been done before nine man hours nine man hours so all things are done we're changing the joke it's not two weeks anymore it's nine man hours now actually there's another really great game development internal joke that I heard one somewhere else where is that we are now in the ninth
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month of our final hour there's a great quote quote from Tim Sweeney from epic games it's the first 90 % of of the game the first 90% of game development is a lot easier than the last 90% of game development I really like that quote all right guys and with that we wrap up reverse the verse for Friday February 5th 2016 uh thanks for watching we hope uh we didn't waste too much of your time and that you you got some of the answers you were looking for why we wasted exactly one hour of their time yes uh coming up next week be sure you tune in on Monday for special 10 for the directors uh it with uh with Sean Tracy and Steve Bender it will be unlike any other 104 you've ever seen I promise uh and full of information 10 it's almost bug Smashers returns next week uh
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on on Wednesday uh and then around the verse we'll have uh I don't know what we're doing we we have some we have some cool stuff planned I don't know what's going to make it for for the Sur a goodie we have a good interview and uh we have a couple segment bees that are in the work let's see which one gets done first uh yeah and uh we'll leave you with another look at verse Busters the very worst idea we had yesterday so thanks a lot guys I'm Jared that's Ben that's Alexis that's Justin that's toast and Thomas is behind the camera see you oh wait is it still on uh I remembered an actual thing we're supposed to say um so one one thing is congratulations to the Cs team in the UK they have cleared the queue yes the the general csq is now clear yes so
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fantastic work over there that's a huge achievement in Saturn news um we are sorry to report that our lead moderator Patrick Prost is leaving us um he is uh he gave me a message to to share if you all he just he he wanted everybody to know that he's leaving on the best of terms he will still remain as a volunteer moderator with our staffs are still going to see him in chat on the forums and whatnot he just uh he has a very very long commute to work and it it just weighed on him after so many months and he's got some personal issues back home that he that just need his attention a bit more so he had to take some time off we're happy with him he's got a standing invite from Ray to come back and join the Cs team when he's ready to do it uh and you'll still see
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him around the the forums in the chat he also promised me he would be at Gamescom to help us out so we'll we'll see him I'll believe that when I see it we ran Patrick into the around last year thank you so much Patrick for last year the absolute best employee is someone who when they they they quit their job and then they say and by the way I'll still volunteer to do it every time so we love you Patrick yeah thank you Patrick all right guys that's it bye guys welcome to verse Busters where we set your mind at ease by answering madeup letters about star citizens Sandy what's in the mailbag today well B Mrs pretend
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name of potato New York wres I'm interested in Star Citizen but I don't want to spend money on fish and ships can't I just buy a video game yes you can all anyone ever needs to play Star Citizen is the basic aara package available through the fly now button at the Robert space industry's website that's right every ship and item will be available to earn or collect in the finished game many backers provide extra support for development with Concept ships Voyage direct items and more but all of these are entirely optional and none of them will ever let players pay to win observe developer come here could you whip me up some sort of amazing super ship that will let me win every dog fight I can make it worth your
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while no thank you what about two or t bucks no there you have it for

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