Star Citizen: Citizens of the Stars - Spencer Johnson & Jimi Croker

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   [Music] hello there welcome to another edition of citizens of the stars our weekly look at the amazing content creations made by you the star citizen community I'm your host this week community content manager Jared Huckaby here and yet another office in our CI a gla Studios after being unceremoniously evicted from my last one but the get things started this week we're going to throw it over to UM it's me it's me we're to throw it over to me and this week's citizen spotlight news hey

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   everybody welcome to citizen spotlight where we take a look at the amazing content creations made by you the star citizen community and joining us on the show this week is master of quantum drive mr. Jimmy Crocker Jimmy how you doing man I'm doing good how you doing I'm doing well now you're part of several star citizen's fan created podcasts you know content things out there once you give us the rundown on everything that you're involved in sure I am a part of the those guys with SHIVs community I co-host overs cast and I absolutely love doing that with that crew and then I also do for the base base radio I do a serial radio serial called autumn dress okay now I know you're not supposed to pick favorites but we both know your favorite is quantum drive so tell us more about that what's quantum drive so I absolutely

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   love first cast those guys are fantastic but really my passion project is quantum drives the shows on its fourth season right now it's placed on the base Thursday 9:00 to 9:00 p.m. is when I live stream and then it's played again in repeat on Saturdays at 1:00 p.m. Pacific Standard Time and then it's also rebroadcast the Thursday morning before the new show on 6 a.m. the long and the short is that basically my character is telling you about his life as a data runner and smuggler and the music that I play is all over the map predominantly rocks but anything from the Rolling Stones to Queens the Stone Age arctic monkeys Portishead and everything in between and of course this isn't like a

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   podcast folks can't download it they have to tune in live to catch it when it airs how does that work correct it's it's lunch it like an old timey radio show because the music's copy written there is no place to download it you have to tune in to catch the show but again there's always repeats and occasionally I do Sunday marathons so there's always a number of ways to catch the show well Jimmy thanks for being on the show with that guys let's throw it over to this week in star citizen hey everyone and welcome to another

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   round of quantum questions let's jump right to it and see who's in the quantum questions hot seat hey how do you think you're going to do today this alright do you think you'll be able to beat Mike Jones who Mike Joan Joan how many questions did he get he got 20 no but Maya's are going to be better all right well let's go ahead and see by putting Timnath on the clock and go what is your name and what do you do I'm Spencer Johnson I'm a gameplay engineer here in LA how did you get to work today I rode a unicycle because my bike tire is flat what are you working on 43.0 I've been working on shops kiosks the whole buying process as well as things like insurance basically if you spend money on it like

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   in-game money probably goes to my code what have been the most challenging thing while working on a shop here there's there's been a bunch of things I would say that asynchronous events there's a lot of communication that happens between UI and then the shop itself and everything is asynchronous communicating a lot of information from the cargo manager down to the shop to the UI back to the shop all these asynchronous messages what can you tell us about shipping strength so insurance is a pretty cool process that gets break broken down to a few steps if your ship is destroyed or you lose it or maybe get lots of money you get a single scratch and you're like I need to replace that you file claim on your insurance which will remove the previous ships from your

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   persistence you get a brand new entity entitled to you whole new entity ID and then once you do that you can pay your deductible you will wait a processing time and then you could pawn your ship again in addition to that you could also pay for expedited processing all using in-game money so that you can get your ship back to you quicker than that is a player's deductible ship specific so every ship does have a deductible based off the cost of that ship but what's really cool is if you go and crash your hornet and then later on you you know you file a claim for it and then you crash akane later the deductible on your connie is going to be more because you you're clearly crashing a lot of ships you can't be trusted the insurance does not like you and one bonus question what happens if you don't have insurance so in 300 all ships will

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   have insurance there's no concept of premiums and different plans but in the future when we roll out different aspects of the insurance system there's going to be several options you probably want to talk to designer about that because I haven't coded it yet so I don't think I could give you a good answer well that's all the time we have thank you so much for joining us today all right well Spencer goes on the board with seven questions answered correctly he was right he didn't beat my Jones but he had some cool answers about ship insurance and he may be the only CID developer who can ride a unicycle let's throw it over to Alexis for this week's subconscious hey everyone I'm Alexis and it's time for another edition of subconscious the mini show that's just for development subscribers first up let's talk Flair last week we introduced

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   a brand new Flair series schematics the forest barrier produced working recreations of historic and alien ships its founders Jovi and Theo angstrom obsessively collected ship blueprints and now you can too thanks to a spurious digital archives the original schematics for the hurricane and Terrapin are now available for you to display in your hangar each month we'll introduce a new pair of schematics so let me know what ships you'd like to see explored down the line jumping to my next point it's time for another issue of jump point the August edition is packed full of good stuff including a portfolio on tumbrel a work-in-progress look at the Ursa a brand new lore piece exploring the moons of Crusader and some very cool new fiction keep an eye on the sub section of your account on Friday for this month's issue finally just another reminder that the August tip of the month is the Gion car - all I've seen some great footage and

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    screenshots of subscribers scouting around the verse check out this beautiful shot of the car - all submitted by this with his friends Buccaneer the distance remember to post your footage in the sticky posts and the subscribers den and we'll show off our favourites all month long that wraps it up for this week I'll see you all in the den hey everyone tyler witkin here to bring you excuse me quantum champion coming through this week's top five and MVP number 5 goes to nari on for some absolutely stunning 4k screenshots from area 18 these seriously blew me away

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    number 4 goes to glacier for creating some epic and hilarious operation pitchfork posters down with the vanduul number 3 goes to schnitzel for his gallery of screenshots highlighting the extreme nature of ship surfing now I hope your character has LTI number 2 monk for his awesome star citizen no sorry sous citizen video titled one ship to ship two words well done number one in this week's MVP goes to traz ion and friends who worked together to present star citizen at the let's play gaming expo it looked like a lot of work went into planning such a fun booth and we were thrilled to see that you all had such a good time so congratulations again y'all are this week's MVP well that's all for this week's show a

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    big thanks to Jimmy Crocker and Spencer Johnson for joining us this week and remember if you want a chance of having your own content being featured on the show you can do so by submitting it on our community hub well that's all for this week's show and we'll see you next week I made it I made it put Klingon it's already done man see you later thank you for watching so if you want to keep it with the latest and greatest in the star citizen and squadron 42 development please follow us on our social media channels see you soon