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Vegetablemann

What a Fantastic Community

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So... I'm pretty new to streaming (2-3 weeks in) and have never played Star Citizen before. I've been keeping an eye on SC for a while now and decided to give it a crack during fleet week.

Finally got around to it last night, I normally have 1-2 viewers on stream. Pretty much as soon as I went live, I had a couple of people jump into the chat asking if I'd like some help, specifically because they saw that I hadn't played before. Then people kept coming in, offering more help and advice.

They were an absolute life saver, the game is many things, but a good tutorial is not one of them. They pointed me in the right direction, showed me down to the tech show and how to get to the hangar etc etc. My game bricked my PC three times and I had to start my stream again, they were still there and keen to help me further. I ended up with about 6 people showing me the ropes, doing a delivery mission etc. I'm pretty sure I would've spent the same amount of time just finding my way to the hangar.

My night finally came to an end when I got "Star Citizened" and stepped out the back of my ship, to be instantly teleported back inside and smashed against the interior to die.

The game looks... amazing. There is no other word for it. I'm not convinced yet that the gameplay loop will keep my interested at this stage (at least until more is added) but the helpfulness and friendly nature of the community has pretty much convinced me the game is worth buying. For that experience alone, I look forward to more.

Posted May 30, 2021, 7:37 PM UTC

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fotonboxx5x BMM > 3x Carrack•

Glad you liked it ))

In here, we are more testers than players - SC is still in alpha and every new patch brings tons of bugs along with the new content.

So, most of us have learnt to deal with constant development loop and helping each other is also a great way of having fun - CIG is actively trying to encourage player interaction, not limiting it to PvP.

Hope we'll see you in the Verse after the end of Invictus!

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VegetablemannOP•

Pretty much every little glitch had been seen before apparently. The bricking didn't seem to be a common problem but I think it was Streamlabs OBS causing the issue, as it's very CPU heavy. When I switched to OBS it got a lot better and my frame rate got heeeeaps better.

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OcbardUnofficial Drake Interplanetary rep.•

For recording the game I use Nvidia Experience, it doesn't seem to weigh heavy on the system.

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VegetablemannOP•

I never thought of that. I'll give that a go. Recording without the overlays etc while streaming as well is a bit of a pain. 2 PCs would make the load pretty light but that's a slightly unnecessary expense right now.

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wolfgeistDrake Corsair•

Things to do in SC:

Just some examples off of the top of my head, there's tons of content to stream here!

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VegetablemannOP•

Great, thanks for that! I'm definitely keen to explore some more. The ships alone are pretty damn cool.

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wolfgeistDrake Corsair•

For real. Each ship is an incredible achievement in itself. Can't imagine trying to create an ever evolving engine with new features and such and then having to go back through and alter every ship to be up to date.

I guess there's a reason why there's no other games quite like this.

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VegetablemannOP•

And why it's not close to release yet... Are all the ships a similar level of detail?

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wolfgeistDrake Corsair•

What ship are you using as a reference? For example the Gladius is the most up to date ship because it's one of the primary ships in Squadron 42, so it generally has the most up to date UI, flight systems, details, etc.

There are some really incredible ships such as the Reclaimer which exist for purposes not yet built into the game (salvaging).

But yes in general every ship has really interesting features and is very unique. The Anvil Hawk for example is a small bounty hunting ship with an EMP to disable targets but it also has a sort of prisoner storage area which players can go into, think of Boba Fett's slave 1.

That's really one of the most incredible things about this game is how much detail and work goes into every ship.

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wolfpup118Colonel•

Absolutely are. DM me your stream or Discord and I'll see if I can hop in and show you some bigger ships when you're next available!

Edit: Found your stream and see you also had Ghost in there helping out. He's a good guy!

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TheKingStrangerworm•

Get some people to play with as well; join an active org (/r/starcitizen_guilds) or just see if any randos in the server want to play. The fun factor goes up exponentially when you play with others, cuz they can show you stuff you didn't know or realize you could do, and even make you start thinking about what else you can get up to.

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VegetablemannOP•

I've heard that, will look to join some others as well.

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Noble2000new user/low karma•

"Mine for merits in prison and sell them to criminals"

Evil genius.

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wolfgeistDrake Corsair•

People will pay incredible amounts for merits from what i've seen in game!

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Thats_pretty_Wild2misc lancer max•

It’s called ahem ESCAPE

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VegetablemannOP•

What are merits? Like time off for good behavior type things?

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picatdim•

Merits are basically "prison points" to spend, allowing you to get released faster. You earn them by mining in the prison tunnels or completing various tasks while in prison. The merits can be traded to other players, which is why criminals pay aUEC for them so they can spend less/no time in prison.

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SenatorMittens•

lol literally a prison industry.

I can actually see this potentially being a fairly profitable trade of time for money.

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EasyRiderOnTheStorm•

SC has a particular crop of asshats inhabiting it. Everybody else though tends to be very, very friendly...

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VegetablemannOP•

I didn't meet any of them last night thankfully, can only say good things so far.

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Myc0n1khornet•

I personally believe it's the best community of gamers out there. I've played a lot of ED and hung around their forums. Many are helpful there but the players in game are toxic AF.

I play a lot of Heroes of the Storm too and that community is as toxic as you can possibly get. SC is truly a dream come true.

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VegetablemannOP•

I found No Mans Sky to be great as well generally. Pretty much could load into the nexus without someone giving me something insanely valuable.

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LucasLightbanemisc•

Best thing you can do when streaming sc and you're new is title your stream a saying so. Some of us will show up and help out.

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VegetablemannOP•

I'm not sure any other game would be like that. Maybe Tarkov?

One of the people who dropped by said "we're toxic towards the game, but never to each other". I like that.

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wolfgeistDrake Corsair•

This game attracts an older crowd who is very understanding about the reality of developing a game like this considering it's unprecedented, and that crowd is also very patient (the impatient ones will be weeded out very quickly lmao)

Then of course you have the ones who complain constantly but are still playing

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VegetablemannOP•

Then of course you have the ones who complain constantly but are still playing

Ah yes, like the guy who gives a negative steam review after playing 1000 hours then plays for 1000 hours more.

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2TonStreamadrake•

That's great to hear. I've never streamed before and have been getting myself set up to give it a go and am probably a week away from trying. I've enjoyed the community on social media so figured this was the next logical step. Hope to see ya around! 😁

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VegetablemannOP•

You too, best of luck! Don't give up if you don't have anyone watching, just keep talking and they'll drop by eventually. Drop me your twitch name in DM and I'll come watch for a while if the times work (I'm in upside down NZ so it can be tricky).

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PaganLinuxGeektwitch•

Welcome to the verse fellow citizen! There are many many helpful peeps out there. Glad you had fun and got some guidance. If ya see me in global chat reach out and I'll be happy to put you in a c2 for cargo runs, or a mole turrent for some mining, or whatever. Same name here as in the verse.

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ryzenguy111free playing pleb•

OMG I just got “Star Citizened” yesterday the exact same way. And it was my last drop off for a delivery mission. FML

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S1rmunchalot:redditgold:Munchin-since-the-60's:redditgold:•

Welcome to the verse Citizen, the learning curve can be steep but there are always friendly people around to help.

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ghost_of_xbox_pastnew user/low karma•

Glad I could help you out!

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awardsurfer•

You’ll want to keep a lookout for the Dynamic Events.

Lookup Xenothreat on YouTube.

Next one is the NineTails event. No date but believed to be mid-year.

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GodwinWUniversalist•

Nice man, glad they were there for you. Welcome to the Verse! :)

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VaedianVanguard <3•

Just keep the chat closed. Its like playing League and CIG doesn't give a crap about it.

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VegetablemannOP•

I did notice there was some... interesting stuff going on in the global chat.

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Myc0n1khornet•

Some of my fondest adventures came from responding to people in global chat lol

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chand6688origin•

Same there have been a few annoying people in global but usually it's cool. I've received a ton of help from global chat.

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