Mystic Worlds

Star Citizen - Please Stop Destroying My Stuff

Grrr, I have an on-going pet peeve with Star Citizen's so-called persistent universe. They have a wonky way of deciding when to store a record of what was aboard your ship. It requires that you certain checkpoints successfully. Namely, landing at a location that can store the ship. Until then the game can and does disappear your assets if you crash, DC or are forced to restart the game. As you can imagine it being an alpha, having to restart the game because of an unrecoverable state is quite common. So why are they waiting to retain a manifest of items aboard the ship, especially assets that only the game can place or remove? Your guess is as good as mine.

I discuss my frustration with this mechanic on Aly's World.

ArcCorp Area 18 - It's Like Coming Home

The second planet and its moons have arrived in the Star Citizen Alpha. Yet, I only had eyes for Area 18. The first time we saw the area it was a small testbed called the social module. Visiting it now, as part of the 3.5 release of the full planet, ArcCorp, felt like coming home.

Read more on Aly's World.

Trains Belong to Civilian Activity

Trains in and of themselves are cool. However, when interjected into transportation like professions, they’re bad. I mean, really bad. There isn’t a courier or transportation service in the world, that would have a driver disembark their utility vehicle to hop on public transportation in order to complete a delivery. NONE. 

Read more on Aly's World.

Finally, Female Avatars

It's been a long time coming. Star Citizen Alpha 3.5 introduces the female avatar. Combined with the first iteration of the DNA it's pretty darn fabulous. We lack hairstyle variety. They only added a couple explicitly for women until they tackle how to dynamically handle the hair based on headgear - helmets, hats, and accessories. Even so, it's a great first outing. 

You can read more and see screenshots on Alys World.