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Star Citizen Alpha 4.5.0 PTU: Engineering Design Doc (Updated)

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Star Citizen Alpha 4.5.0 PTU: Engineering Design Doc - Star Citizen Spectrum

Edit: Updated mirror copy to include Spectrum post edits.

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Haven't read it yet but I have to say one thing: they posted this in the stupidest way possible. Med gameplay changes? Proper article on the site. Engineering? Spread over multiple posts on Spectrum.
Why?
Edit: Well, I read through the whole thing. Sounds alright though I'm not a fan of some of the ideas (their approach to redundancy for example). It's just text so I'm not going to cast my judgement until I try it out myself.
Other than that, I hope this leads to finally having some proper money sinks - not huge ones considering tuning it for constant replacements would be extremely annoying but it's a start. Also provides something to do with the ship beyond using it as a transport.
Now if only they could do something about losing ships when the game crashes.
- Wear will be tricky. Why would i want to play like that if i can just file a claim on my lifetime pledge ship... i can see the appeal, but that might have to be reworked
  
  Keep in mind claim timers will be increased a lot in the future, especially for larger ships. In the past there were also talks about variable timers depending on the economy (some ships might take longer than usual for reason X) and other effects when claiming too often. No idea if/what will make it into the game but they'll most likely tune it so dropping a few k UEC will be a faster option.
  Plus, we'll hopefully be able to bully them enough to make the rate of wear reasonable enough not to be annoying.
These are some cool concepts and will change the game quite a bit, especially for big ships. Can't wait to offer my services as freelance engineer.
Oh, and there will be lots of imbalance and complaining.
- To be fair, a lot of complaining stems from the fact each time we're told "this system isn't finished but will be iterated upon quickly" only to for things to be left with minimal changes for months or years - see Master Modes, T0 of item recovery etc. That and designing features with a mistaken expectation that people in an online environment will play "properly" and not abuse them in ways anyone who played online games for a few years can point out immediately, only to be surprised when that exactly thing happens.
  It's not all people complain about, obviously, but it certainly doesn't help.
  
  100 percent. I kind of line sc currently but I can also see myself taking a break of a few months or years if things get too annoying.
  But I really enjoy the golem ox, such a cool ship

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