The free-fly event is starting today at 8am PST / 11am EST
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link//16849-Anniversary-Promotion-Free-Fly-DetailsIn the case of SC, it's about numbers. They claim to have 2m accounts (which some interpret to be backers - which is obviously incorrect), but the
engagement is in the shitter. According to our metrics, it's the 200 or so whales who keep buying everything and thus keeping them afloat awhile longer each time. e.g. it was one guy,
Algared, who spent $7K to
push them over the $200m mark a few days ago. Just like that. And he did it for specifically that reason.
He appears @ 0:53
And like all the other free-fly events before this, they will get a lot of flak, a lot will be written about it, gamers (who are notoriously finicky bastards to begin with) will either praise or attack it for being a mess after 7 yrs and $200m. But it won't matter because the dedicated whales aren't going anywhere, and the Star Citizen Defense Force will always be on hand with the "It's only alpha!" mantra being shouted at the roof tops.
Also, in 3.3.6 which they released a few days ago ahead of today's event, they moved the starting spawn point from Lorville back to Port Olisar. I couldn't believe that they did that. but it makes sense because Lorville is a massive performance nightmare and glitch fest. They're hoping that new players aren't going to stick around to find out that Lorville exists, let alone how to get there.
So with this move, to get to the Lorville location and shopping area, n00bs - in a badly broken game with horrid documentation, have to do the following:
- spawn at Port Olisar
- figure out how to get a ship
- take-off
- fly about 15 mins to Hurston
- figure out how to stay outside the no-fly-zones without dying, land etc
