Tag: star citizen

I’ve been obsessing with Star Citizen delivery missions. Video 1 and Video 2.

I thought maybe I could take two of them, and optimize my route. I was assuming that time spent going between planets was the longest. It might be, but just barely.

Upon examining video 2 in more detail (I didn’t have a recording of my own), I logged timestamps and made a pivot chart:

So even if a bunch of packages are at the same location, the effort of walking them to the ship may not be that much worse than doing a extra flight. But theoretically, what would the sort be?

• Well, DESTINATION port MUST come after SOURCE port.
• Put the same port together if you can (sometimes you have to visit it twice)
• Group the planets together? One less QT hop

So I tried it – Here’s my work in progress –

However, the game crashed on me, and I lost all the packages. So there’s a good reason to get done with a simple mission first without thinking too hard about it. Oh, and Planetary maps at this link: https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/i3xhxr/3100ptu_sunrisesunset_triangulation_tool_and/

Ok, I might be off to try Mining thanks to Intergalactic Lan Party’s awesome playlist!

I got a hankering to play Star Citizen and decided to jump in with $55. I very quickly upped my pledge to .. i don’t even know where I’m at so far. Probably $80. And its awesome.

Quick Myth: If you destroy your ship you are out real $. Reality: currently everybody has insurance until they release, and when they release, there will be in-game insurance per ship that you can buy. Just like Elite: don’t fly without insurance!

Quick Myth: Need a kick ass computer. Reality: My i7/gtx1070 from 3-4 years ago with 16G ram total, runs it about okay.

Quick Myth: Its full of bugs because its alpha. Reality: yes; but if you call an elevator and you see a black emptiness, DONT STEP IN IT.

What I’ve done so far:

• Participate in a server-wide event which netted me almost 1/2 of a entry-level ship’s worth of in game money, while doing almost nothing other than fly around not knowing what to do. (The xenothreat thing over labor day weekend)
• Try to land my ship at a settlement on the dark side of a planet. The light I saw was the door light not a city light, i rammed into the settlement instead. Boom + Tresspassing = Crimestat.
• Served time in the penitentiary (14 minutes) for my crimestat. I did not try to escape.
• Almost run out of fuel flying a ship rental to join some action. Luckily I checked before I got past the halfway mark and could jump back to get some gas.
• Decide to trade in my first pledge ship for a better one (which has cargo space! And a bunk bed!)
• Trying to take out my first bounty, got there too late and somebody else got him.
• Trying to take out my first bounty, got jumped by a second bad guy. Ran away.
• Try to descend upon a bounty target at full speed in an asteroid field. I could not dodge the asteroid that showed up in front of me. Boom.
• Actually destroy a bounty myself with my gimpy hands.
• Do my first cargo mission, turns out I picked the one where I visit an abandoned powered off station, float around debris in zero G, somebody destroys my ship while I’m in the station and I have to stash the box and suicide and come back and get it after I respawn.
• EVA across a space station to get to the correct strut where I could turn in a delivery box to the right place.
• Do a “pick up recycle waste from 3 stations” mission. Turns out I need to land closer, because I have to hoof it on foot to get into the buildings to pick up the salvage WITH MY BARE HANDS. 2nd and 3rd station, i got a bit closer in my landing.
• Decide to upgrade my ship, find the websites which guide me to where the components can be bought, and try to go to Area 18 the big industrial complex plant … and could not find the space port. Had to go back up to look for it from afar, it was hidden behind some skyscrapers.
• Forget to look at trade routes and missed some great trading opportunities.

This game is amazing. Its everything I dreamed Elite could be. And the ship power management and all that stuff.. its like, “super realistic” + “computer control to make it seem more like a game”, but if you want you can switch off the “Coupled” mode and go raw. Just like Elite.

3 play sessions in, cannot wait for the next one. I need to investigate using a joystick and learn more about gimballed weapons and power distribution.