Wingman's Hangar Ep031 . July 26th, 2013

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   hey everybody Welcome Back wingman's Hangar episode 31 we keep marching on thanks to you guys for having a great time here at Cloud Imperium we're bringing you along for the for the ride in case you're new to the 30,000 plus new people this is kind of an inside look at what goes on each week at Cloud Imperium with a focus on the community because frankly without you there's no us and we appreciate that so coming up today we got the weekend review we have Forum feedback with lead designer Rob Irving we have wide world news with our um special guest reader Michael Morland and we have an interview with Ted Bean otherwise known as Bean you want to watch for that alone trust me let's get right to it we have entered crunch mode this is the weekend review baby we've

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   entered crunch mode that's right we're going to push towards uh the first release of hanger One the the very first release and so the actual last day where we locked down the code is August 2nd so we are now all working long long hours to get the hanger to a level which you guys are going to enjoy uh get some things in there for you to play with and do and check your ships out get the ships ready there's just a lot to do I mean this is really a Smalls siiz game release for you and it's our first one so we want to make sure it's a doozy um planning for Gamescom continues man Sandy is leading the charge and she is Biz nizzy we are doing a the big live event there's you know a 1,100 people coming to that thing um it's going to be a really exciting time Chris is going to reveal the hanger it's going to be ready

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   for download at that point I think you guys are going to really like that there's a lot of machinations going on behind the scenes and if you want to support that that thing in the party get you a a trophy for your hanger you know there's a Gamescom trophy you can purchase for a couple bucks that'll help defay the cost of the of the event the amazing space what's the amazing space well we thought we would take a look around and maybe have a trivia challenge based on geocaching the Friday before the big event so we're going to get a we're going to put that up in the forums and see how many of you guys might be interested in doing that with us and kind of outline exactly how that's going to work but essentially you'd get a UE passport You' go you'd go up to five locations and you'd get a stamp or signature at each location and answer a trivia question and at the end we put all the people that that survived the

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   amazing space into a hopper at the fifth location which might just be a beer garden and we will draw for the winner what are you gonna win I don't know perhaps a vanuel something we have to figure that out but it's going to be really fun we think it'll be fun we just want to make sure that there's enough people out there that want to do it uh today jump Point comes out that's right for the subscribers the new edition of jump Point comes out it's a massive amount of images and text I know you guys really enjoy seeing that I mean we honestly like seeing it too David lman which we're going to have on this show at some point in the future coming up is brilliant at doing that and and um our little six to eight pages ends up being about 40 to 50 every month and we love doing it we don't like doing anything half measure and obviously uh you guys seem to like it too if you if you want

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   to get to see all the jump points well you need to become a subscriber uh and then you get access to all kinds of cool little stuff that uh other people do not get um wow where are we now the weight well as we know I started out at ah yes 236 PBS now after my vacation I you know and getting back on it last week I'd made it all the way down to 214 so where am I this week well uh yeah that's right 213 we're back marching the right way my goal is to be under two bills by the time we get to games because there might be a little uh beverages consumed there which might push me a little bit back up but we're still going the right direction and now

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   since jump points out you guys know what that means it's our own Master thespian alist fit Smithy alist that's not easy to say everybody try it with me at home Alistair Fitz Smithy he's here giving another reading from jumpo take it away Alistair [Music] good afternoon or depending on your worldview good evening good morning

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   today's except is from a new story by Robert E Wat the cup hpaa darring loved her origin M50 turbo more than life it was banged up scratched red and white paint slopped all over but the plant was sound the thrusters new and topnotch in a pinch she doubted any racer anywhere could match it certainly none of the other 24 Racers behind her could beat her in a straight away but the mry cup had very few straightaways the race Stars voice crackled over the cing racers prepare to laun daring turned off her nav strapped herself in and gave a small prayer the carrier's bay doors opened to space she could see Ellis 3 floating Beyond it was

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   beautiful green it's orbert peppered with Corvettes and pleasurecraft of the well-to-do who had come to view the race first hand she focused on the words of the old Taran racer zat ghou remember hypa daring speed is life or death if you're going the wrong way daring looked back to get a glimpse of the taran's upgraded Hornet but he was too far back yand risk's M50 was too close to her by rule there was a specified distance between Racers at the start she cursed beneath her breath someone was already breaking the rule daring didn't even wait for the spokesman to finish she burst out of the carador at top legal speed the story continues in Issue Number Eight of jump point I'm Alistair

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   Sinclair fit Smithy good evening good afternoon good morning and good night man he gets better and better every time I love I love those readings um impressed do you know what time it is what time is it it's time for feed wow the voice of the Forum feedback you know you had something you wanted to say before we get started you you uh I was think we're reading the Forum feedback feedback so now we need to do some Forum feedback feedback feedback feedback okay yeah what do we got to do so we may have slightly misinterpreted a question last week no it happen sometimes I guess it does but we were talking about players teleporting into

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    ships you know being able to man guns drop in man guns right um and there is a lot of concern out in the community that that may lead to some cheating right okay um so we just want to reassure everyone that we really are thinking about that that's not that's not off our radar we understand that there are possible cheats there possible advantages there exploits we will we will make sure there are rules for that we don't know the rules yet so we can't really answer them but but that so that is that was the question so that's clarifying the question okay good well so there you go we read the feedback about the feedback and we give feedback to that feedb and we give feedback to the feedback that we certainly like the feed anyway let's get right to the question shall we yeah no carbs right from Tom he says can you explain a little about fuel efficiency how far will specific ships be able to fly or travel without refueling will ships be

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    able to carry fuel for other ships that's a lot of questions it is but so question number one fuel efficiency efficiency easier for me to say is based essentially on what Thruster you're carrying okay now there's a lot more detailed than that but we can't give it all out yet stats are going to start coming out soonish so you'll you'll got to balance though it's going to be Balan there will yes there's going to be a lot of balancing to do over over the years and they'll help us with that they will definitely help us with that uh as far as how far you can go we're still working out exactly how far any ship can travel on a tank of fuel but yes you can refuel in space so if you've got your tanker out there and you've got the right attachments to it you can just pull right up or maybe some fuel there you go what about a belly tank like World War II where you one belly T okay there you go so you know fuel's a commodity you know probably need to be transported as well there be missions

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    for that so of course all right great good answer from Wild Thing he says will crew in your ship be able to be killed via explosions or ship damage for example if a crew member is operating a turret and that turret gets taken out will that injure or kill the crew member as well additionally where there'll be internal explosions such as ammunition explosions in the missile room of the Idis that affect crew Vitality well I would think so I mean if you're on a ship you're at risk right just flying it so if you if you're gun turret explodes and you're in there it's going to hurt it's it's going to hurt so yes is that was a really that was a short answer and you know a good one too internal explosions we don't know about that one oh that's a good point right right internal explosions ammunition explosions I mean that would be kind of cool I mean it's I it's kind of like

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    you're envisioning the battleship where you the torpedo hits the ammunition room and the whole thing just kind of explodes all the way down and or just yeah yeah sinks how we not sure how we sink in space but okay yeah maybe I don't know well let's get to the next question then from orex one how will equipment durability work in Star Citizen so equipment does wear out we've already talked about this a lot of times over time with a lot of use especially if you're overclocking and you're doing it poorly equipment wears out and uh you'll see some effects as if as its functionality from the wear and then you'll also see that over time you're going to have to replace parts right you think would you get some sort of warning or you notice that the lasers are getting less effective shle tell you your shle tell you yes it's like how you really need new lasers Hal I'm tired of

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    these crappy lasers I can't even Dent aluminum my apology yeah maybe not exact it won't be how it'll be closer be closer be actually much more Talent involved in that probably especially if it's Nathan fillian you guys need to bang his Twitter uh from omon he says how will colonizing other planets work wow big big question in a very small number of words so we talked about this a little in the economy talk it's come up that you know over time we're going to colonize so what's going to happen is as the explorers in our universe go out there and find new systems and find new planets then somebody's going to take an interest and say let's drop a colony here and we'll have this big in-game event that goes around that where first you're bringing out the equipment for terraforming and then you're bringing out equipment to build the colony generate missions right exactly tons of missions and then bringing out the first

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    colonist and they set up shop there and start building the shops and stuff they need to to live and then you know they set up mines and all that and then more missions cool and that sounds pretty fun actually rinse and repeat yeah rinse and repeat and then there'll be different types of planets that have different types of colonies and you know all that kind of stuff plays into it so a very good question by the way from Amorphis Bob will there be more than one hanger module revealed before the dog fight Alpha like more ship customization elements decorations sounds and general additional awesomeness heck yeah the awesomeness just won't stop coming cig is awesomeness we're committed to awesomeness that's right sucking not allowed awesomeness don't suck suck but be awesome everybody awesome so but there will be more than one hanger right even even in the first iteration yeah I mean even in the first one we've got

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    three types of hangers mhm so it says module reveal before the dog fight Alpha so yeah I mean keep launching additions of it over and over and over right right but during the first reveal there's what how what are the different three hangers there's the discount hanger discount hanger business hanger the bus and the deluxe hanger and the deluxe hanger which is very very fancy indeed which is more than one yeah awesome very very cool and we'll always be adding decorations and things to do in your hanger as as you go forward you can bling Up ab and at some point we'll have a hanger of the week on The wingman's Hanger show yeah that'll be fun it's like Inception it's it's Inception except way better uh from from filer he says can you give us hints about Stealth gameplay

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    will we be able to spy on players fleets and guilds well I mean spying I don't know about spying but as far as stealth it's it's just like we were talking about the fuel efficiency some parts are designed to have a less of a signature some parts designed to just max out their output so they are going to show up right on the radar so stealth isn't really about hiding and cloaking it's about keeping your signature down all right okay that makes sense so you you're sort of less um noticeable by others now will we handle that in the server side like if you're you know on the PE if you're more stealthy or you're more um what was the word you were using just now that you mean your your profile your profile is lower um will that be less chance for you to be into a PVP event because of that I wonder maybe maybe sorry to hit you with

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    a question I don't know I mean it sort of makes sense doesn't it but we'll see I guess we'll have to figure that out maybe they just don't see you for longer so you can sneak up yeah sneak up I like that okay cool uh from emry my question is on story elements I've read a bunch of places that the uee is kind of like Rome just before the fall I'm truly pumped about living in that world but I wonder will it be possible to save the uee to try to clean up the corruption repel the Invaders or will the uee like Rome slowly come apart no matter what we do you may be able to have some effect on what happens but we're still juggling around lots of different story arcs we believe me we're not locked into just one answer there's going to be a lot of stuff going on in that Universe right and and it's not going to Rome didn't crumble it took you know decades centuries for Rome to actual crumble so

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    you know we're even spread out further so you you know it could be uh could be a while Rome split in too right West East might crack a little yeah you know every Everybody cracks a little from ctis for those of us that play primarily solo will be able to activate a distress call so nearby PCS are NPCs can assist yes yes you can call for a space taxi or triaa to come out and fix your ship or the fuel guy to come out and bring you fuel right or you know and that's another reason to play with friends too or you you don't necessarily have to be playing as a group like you do in some other MMOs but you know you could have friends that have jobs or you're in a guild or whatever that that you can call out to in times of need for whatever that need may be and it may be other players it may just be random Good Samaritans who come to help you or it

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    may be NPCs who come to help you yeah I wonder if you could set you know we only want good you know lawful good people to come help or something like that and that way you say lawful good I did say lawful good well I'm a meter yeah well you know danger danger Will Robinson danger um oh from jamanda he says will there be a stock market probably not you know I know one other person that wants to know the answer I know I know a lot of people who want to know the answer for that one of our chat rans really wants to Idol onius was and I'm looking at you Idol onius yeah he really wants to know this too right now no plans for it uh as anything we ever say it's subject to change if someone decides that maybe a stock market should be there yeah so for now no for now we'll have to see I mean because that affects the economy and how we're gonna how it's all going to work and if uh and it might be neat but it

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    might be one of those things we really have to think about how to model correctly to where doesn't doesn't blow everybody up or blow the blow the things um out of the water all right we have a video today only one video so you know that's all right but it's a really good one it's a power powerful one from M palman and saru they sent in this we are Colonial mover and we move anywhere my finger really hurts really yeah never mind how's the ship total loss but our lifetime insurance covers it and we're getting a new one as we speak deliver to our hanger also I went by the RSI Museum and we got this artifact to deliver an artifact what is it it's something that is not present in nature but made by artificial means but

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    that's not important right now how are you a bit in pain dear wingman will there be a health care or health insurance that will extend the amount of injuries a character can sustain before they permanently die because as you can see I need it what kind of artifact that I don't get it put me down this instant sorry pretty cool video huh not bad so

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    what do you think are you going to be able to get insurance to allow you to sustain a little more damage sure there will be ways of handling that yeah we're just not going to tell them right away what it's going to be we don't know all the answers yet true we don't know all the answers to that but that is a good question I look for that uh look for that coming up thanks a lot Rob for joining us on form feedback and guess what is back on the show this week what most valuable post with our own Ben Lesnik take it away hey everybody most valuable post is back back I'm Ben Lesnik Community manager and I'm here to tell you what the best post at the stares in forms was this week this week the award has to go to protection for his comic Chris Roberts has returned to save all PC

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    gaming you guys have to check this out here's the URL that uh Cartoon Chris Roberts just melts your heart here's the hoping that he has Further Adventures now on another topic there have been some uh conflict of the forums recently so I'm here to warn you if you cause problems with the moderators you're going to get the Ben Hammer Ben Lesnik signing off thanks Ben and now let's take a look back in time in this week in space August 3rd 2004 and NASA's messenger probe launches into space at top its Delta 2 launch vehicle

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    destination Mercury but no Express train for this little spacecraft Mercury is deep within the Sun's gravity well instead Messenger will perform several gravity assist Maneuvers to manage its descent towards the sun harnessing the planets Earth Venus and Mercury itself in a 4.9 billion mile trip around the solar system almost 8 years after its launch Messenger will once again fire its Thruster rockets and began its historic orbit around the Solar System's innermost Planet messenger extending man's under understanding of its Mercurial neighbor in space I I love those segments and now the video You Don't Want to Miss Sandy Gardner interviews her own Ted beon

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    unbelievable hi everybody I'm here with Ted Bon our senior concept artist one of two all right teda tell us what you do here at Star Citizen uh concept art okay and spaceships bit more of an elaboration would be good science fiction okay detailed realism okay what this I'm like I'm a little bit stuck done right now uh what about your background then come on let's let's go there uh this is third Studio I've worked at um game industry for over eight years

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    now that's about it okay and how did you come to us uh I found out I saw the uh the demo the the video and uh I was I was excited about it so I started stalking everyone on LinkedIn trying to connect with people connected with Eli on uh Facebook okay pestered you until you let me in all right and you heard of you'd obviously heard of Chris Roberts before yes oh this is the question another bit that I've been dreading yes I've heard of uh Chris Roberts but I have not played that's any of the games that's all right just between you and me I have sh not tell anybody but I will I will I'll get around to it all right everybody this is this well wait wait wait but we haven't talked

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    about what you're looking forward to with star C um more concept art drawing lots of ships sci-fi for a long time I've been working on fantasy for a long time so so you're back to sci-fi that's your that's your that's your thing yeah well yeah kind of tired of elves and stuff so okay nothing against elves elves are fine Tad be joh on everybody all right edit that really tiny keep it brief [Laughter] oh God I hate that yes you see you see this should not be on YouTube channel good so we're coming out of that that was amazing man you're one of the all-time favorite interviews I think on the

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    site yeah it's one of your your favorite things to do is be interviewed on camera right it's the camera interviews I don't mind cameras I'm not thrilled about or microphones well if you don't like being taped what are we talking about Ted bertron he loves being here there's

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    a reason Ted's here though he just doesn't like the cameras um we we're GNA show you a little bit of his artworks and give you a reason as to why we we hired Ted as you can see right here this is a this is a gun he made a game they were making when he was a vigil uh it was kind of a steampunk where you find a lot of parts and pieces build your own BFG and and you have a big battle I I don't think it ever got green liit you know THQ obviously went ell up but that doesn't mean the team wasn't talented and certainly you can see by that that Ted was as well the second piece of artwork there is is a symbol from the Warhammer game it's a race symbol called The Vampire counts no not the one from not count chocula but the one from the Warhammer which a lot of people know and play out there and actually I believe Warhammer is being made up in Behavior right now too so 4 40K I think so um but this is you can also again see the level

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    of detail there you see the I see how beautifully done that is this is all Ted's artwork he is amazingly talented even even if he's not a big fan of the camera um and of course no discussion would be complete about what Ted's doing here without a look at some of the stuff he's doing we were struggling for a while with the starf far and trying to figure out exactly what we're going to do for it and how it was going to look and he nailed it on the first try the space trucker this is Ted's render or rendition of a starf far um he is constantly making new bits and pieces concept in the game he also does 3D we're very lucky to have Ted I wouldn't suspect you're going to see him on camera much again in the future I had to almost pull his teeth to get him here but uh he is an unbelievably talented artist and you know we could probably hide uh we use his beard as a bank we

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    can hide plenty of the money in there so Ted beardon is no longer here he's back working on the game which is where he wants to be and honestly it's better for all of us so I want to thank Ted for G joining us today thanks a lot to Rob for his answer on Forum feedback and of course to our Master thespian aliser fit Smithy who I think gets better every time we do this again thanks a lot to subscribers and pledgers um without subscribers we would not have a show here which allows us to tell you kind of an inside look at what goes on each week um and coming up next week Mike is on vacation where are you going Mike I'm going to New York City New York City he's going to have a good time up there he's he's going up to see uh um his

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    girlfriend's son and they're going to have a good time and I think he's a violinist or something right yep that is correct y so cool so he's going have correct sir yes all right as usual I am correct sometimes we have some new hires coming on uh and the search for the new office let me give you an update we did get the favorite spot usurped out from under us so we're back looking for something with amenities to walk to something that uh is relatively Central for folks um something that is relatively inexpensive has parking so pretty much I'm looking for unobtanium so if you know of anywhere with 10,000 ft of unobtanium here in the Austin with a big wide open space let me know because I've looked at about 50 spaces and we'll continue to look until we find just the right one it's got to be the right fit you guys have seen how we roll all right thanks join the YouTube channel so you get updates on whenever

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    might use it see you in the verse data is there any record anywhere of any occurrence even vaguely similar to this there is no record of any Federation vessel encountering anything remotely

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    like this inde I believe we have time to take a closer look number one Con on solo I'm captain of the Millennium Falcon tells me councelor his emotions suggest he's mischievous irreverent and somewhat Brazen the word that seems to best describe him is Rogue yeso as a matter of another glob fly glob Fly Don't a cling on fly half the size of an earth mosquito with no sting and a buzzing sound like this data you were on it's like a hole in

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    space what do your sensors indicate nothing sir nothing this hardly a scientific observation Commander the beginning of wisdom is I do not know I do not know what that is sir it's gone data what happened unknown sir recommend we go to Yellow alert sir why my thoughts were of an old Klingon legend of a gigantic black space creature which was said to devour entire vessels basic early design capable of

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    sublight travel only they are accelerating to warp five they're going to make a break for it standard evasive maneuver Commander a fulltone torpedo May penetrate their Shield use the falce loop intensified scan shows their guidance system to be perfectly intact his computer's on L computer what's WR we all are C blowing that hydrogen exhaust Through The Bard collector sure put on a nice light show you wanted to show us that we were inadequate but for the

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    moment I grant that set course for the nearest star base course laid in for Starbase 83 sir engaged