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Casual Citizen Season 2 Episode 4 - The Long Goodbye

It's been a minute since the last episode of Casual Citizen and Night Bus, even though most of the content was completed when I started. The game commentary is no longer relevant but I do want to release the fiction so that it stops sitting on my mind, and I can either continue it immediately or pick up other stories I've since started. I have to compose new commentary which there are things that easily come to mind given that I've been playing a bit of Star Citizen lately.

Episode 4 discusses the recently release Origin 400i and the next installment for Pod City, The Long Goodbye. You can take your pick of listening on SoundCloud, iTunes, or YouTube to see in-game visuals. Whatever you choose, I hope you enjoy the show.

SHOW LINKS

• Jenn's GoFundMe Page
  
• YouTube Video version
  
• SoundCloud Audio Only
• iTunes Playlist
• Amazon Music Playlist

Medical Game Play in Alpha 3.16

Medical gameplay is one of the professions I'm interested in doing in Star Citizen. At least, I thought it was but I'm not so sure now. I'm realizing that my vision of it was more like how it plays out in The Sims, where patients arrive for treatment and I engage in a mini-game to deduce the malady based on symptoms and attempt to determine the right treatment. What we have in Star Citizen, as it stands today, is that the game detects the illness and applies the correct remedy.

When a character materializes into the game for the first time, they choose a home city. Unless you state otherwise, that's also the city you're returned to when you die. The hospitals, of course, look really nice. The facilities have actual treatment rooms with beds and all the accouterments of a doctor's office. There's a reception area that looks plausible, gurneys in the hallways, and NPC staff meandering about. There's a pharmacy where players can purchase portable medical devices such as the Medpen, as well as the ParaMed from CureLife, a professional-grade emergency medical device designed to stabilize patients until they can be taken to a hospital or ship with a Medbay.

When you die, you wake up in a hospital room, laying on the bed in a dressing gown. Anything you were wearing or carrying is gone, as it remains with your corpse. You can attempt to retrieve your items using the map marker provided but that's only if someone else doesn't loot it all first.

Yep, Star Citizen has full corpse looting now.

Depending on the extent of your injuries, party members can stabilize you - bring you back to consciousness using the ParaMed gun or transport you to the hospital or a MedBay. In this way, you don't lose any of your items. Since the ParaMed only stabilizes you, you must visit a hospital or MedBay at some point to have the actual injury cured, and as a result, remove whatever debuffs it applies.

The Return to Star Citizen

A combination of winter, work stresses, the family spread across 3 states now, and Jenn's health crisis has left me feeling rather blue at times. We were all anxious to kick 2021 in the butt. However, nothing could have prepared us for the crisis mode we'd be in entering 2022. While always endeavoring to remain hopeful and manage what's within our control, I'm in desperate need of my time away from it all.

Nothing removes me from the present pressure-cooker like gaming, specifically, MMOs. And not one to game hop, I'm returning to Star Citizen, the game I hope to call home for years to come.

Can Star Citizen Alpha 3.16 deliver enough variety and entertainment in the current alpha state? I'm about to find out.

The ability to escape into my own brand of fun is why I mostly solo MMOs. It's a time when I don't want to care about what anyone else wants. Where, what, when, and how of others is mostly off the table, especially during the week. And I definitely, without exception, am not interested in hearing some random player's voice coming out of my speakers. I enjoy being among but not with other gamers when I'm decompressing. Social gaming is what weekends are for in my world. Of the game-play that Star Citizen has to offer at the moment, I'm most inclined to mine, do FedEx-type deliveries, and NPC bounties. The latter two offer opportunities to gain reputation standing with the various NPC factions.

I'll likely rotate among the content as the mood strikes me. For now, I'm starting in ArcCorp, the planet-sized mega-city so that I can do the rooftop deliveries that seem to be more readily available there. Setting up your base of operations immediately requires that you consider the physicalized inventory and medical system available in 3.16. It also adds a lot of roleplay/depth to your decisions.

Given that you're character is limited to the inventory, including the ships, you have stored in a given area, planning ahead is a good idea.

After selecting ArcCorp as my home planet, I elected to establish my base of operation at the orbital station. Baijini Point is a Trade Hub Space Station in geostationary orbit around ArcCorp, located above Area18. I elected to start looking for missions, which are regional, from that location. Additionally, I decided to mine on Arial, a moon of ArcCorp, with refining operations at ARC-L1. Officially named Wide Forest Station, ARC-L1, is a Rest & Relax owned Rest Stop located in ArcCorp's L1 Lagrangian point.