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[quote quote=2324]EDIT: This post was meant to be a quote/reply to #2317 The new features I noticed are:
- Notify me of follow-up replies via email – have not used
- Quote reply button – does not work, tried it for this post
- Go to first unread post – does not work on first login, sometimes works after edit
- Recent and older posts are still out of order by date
The forum plugin just doesn’t want to behave. Still, thank you for spending your weekend trying to fix the forums. On the unintentional side of this specific reply, recent posts now are at the top. Hopefully things work going forward. [/quote]
Quoting works fine for me. I am using Chrome though.
Will keep plugging at it. I don’t want to use a separate forum that’s not part of the site or I’d switch to IP.Board which we use on our company forums.
[quote quote=2287]@ Derek Something today, broke the date or chronological sorting of forum posts. You might want to find out the issue because reading stuff is extra difficult now. If your forum software can implement a “recent posts” feature, that would help too. [/quote]
I have rebuilt the forum db and also enabled a few new features via plugins.
Yeah, they apparently killed the thread and put the poster on probation. Several people have pointed out to me that it is in fact true that the ship was already in the 2.1 build as part of the .pak files.
Yeah, it looks something’s off. We use the bbpress plugin for the forums because the other plugins which added comments to posts were rubbish. I will see if I need to rebuild the post counts and such. Hopefully that will fix it.
I don’t believe that the plugin has a “recent posts” option; but I will check.
@J How: yeah, that’s a very interesting analysis and is part of the issues I’ve been lamenting about for months now. The thing is that, as has been pointed out many times, this game was never billed to be an MMO. However, based on how the features in the stretch goal were described, coupled with the architecture required to make it happen as promised, they had no choice but to go the MMO route. I believe that they’ve been refactoring for over a year now which is what led to the 2.0 release. However, doing that while still trying to implement 64-Bit positioning, is a pure nightmare.
I don’t believe that this game, as promised, will ever see the light of day.
Since a bunch of morons are spreading all sorts of false information on the Internet, yesterday I wrote a Twitter post related to the issues with Sandi. I already discussed the Beer email exchange over here.
Since everyone keeps bringing this up, let me address it in clear detail for the record and archiving purposes.
My issue with Sandi boils down to this:
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1. she led the charge against me in July based on my blog and for which I was banned, my account refunded etc. I know this to be a fact.
twitlonger.com/show/n_1sniofq
2. The way she treats contractors/employees on the project. this was also on clear display in the email exchange with Beer. aside from what was mentioned in The Escapist articles.
3. The fact that she continues to distort the facts about this project, while taking credit for it’s “success” (so far, it’s only financially successful, the project is a mess and in shambles) at every opportunity.
4. The fact that, as head of management, she has the authority to grant no-questions-asked refunds to those who ask for it and who want OUT of this project due to the FAILED promises and LIES they have been telling. Instead, they have refused to do this, despite the fact that they have FAILED to deliver the project on Nov 2014 as promised.
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That’s the gist of it and I have made it clear on numerous occasions.
She is an exec (credited as co-founder) of a $105M crowd-funded project and as a PUBLIC FIGURE is 100% held to the same standards of accountability as Chris Roberts, and their partner Ortwin. If she were a guy, not married to Chris etc, NONE of this would have changed my actions.
Beer’s email exchange with her opened up the issue of her credentials again due to her claiming to be the most formerly qualified than anyone else at the company.
http://imgur.com/a/BIlWu
I was very vocal about this in a recent Open House stream because I was pissed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znR3JvQJPMc&feature=youtu.be&t=3h5m
As far as we now know, not only does she NOT possess one MBA, let alone two, it’s highly unlikely that she even has an undergraduate degree in business management. Prior to Star Citizen, she was an aspiring actress and intern at Chris’s failed Ascendant Pictures studio where they met, married, divorced, re-married. Nothing to do with business management, let alone the videogame business. There are NO records of her ANYWHERE on planet Earth, as having held ANY management position, let alone one in business that is befitting someone with an MBA.
And when someone else decided to confirm that she was in fact married to Chris Roberts – something they not only actively denied but kept hidden until I made it public, Chris wrote a lengthy diatribe that they had been doxed. Which was just another attempt at obfuscating the truth and drawing attention away from on-going questions about their handling of this project.
http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1snimul
As I noted in my blogs, since my investigations into the project started in July, she has been caught posting bogus credentials in LinkedIn. Leading to her subsequently removing no less than FOUR such profiles. Each time she updated it and added lies, I write about it. She then removes it. We have all the archived images. As of today, she still doesn’t have a LinkedIn profile. But she still has Facebook, Twitter and IMDb profile pages.
In August, she posted this image purported to be from her graduation. Problem is, neither of the two Australian colleges have any records of her. So the speculation is that, since she is a model/actress, that these may very well be stock images. Nobody has seen it fit to actually ask her for details (name of university, date of graduation etc – all the contentious issues).
https://archive.is/ercCU
Prior to that she posted this Dean’s letter and also claims to have an MBA. Suspiciously enough, the whole thing wasn’t posted. So there is no way to see the header section of the top in order to determine authenticity.
http://archive.is/lvyUS
None of the Shitizens saw it fit to question any of this.
In this interview, she claims to have gone to graduate school. Again, not mentioning which one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbF8cWOLwEI&feature=youtu.be&t=1m32s
Here, she claims that she a) went to UCLA and got a degree there b) she has two business degrees (one from UCLA and the other from Australia – both proven to be false.
FF to 18:45
http://goo.gl/gSL9Rx
They since removed the original link above when it appeared in my blog. But like everything else, we archived it. Here is a copy.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4497650/Sunnys_Diner_Show_3k13.mp3
Here she claimed to have a Masters degree. The video has since been pulled. We have it saved somewhere as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRJzUkj5ItQ&feature=youtu.be&t=51
Here is another UCLA claim to an MBA. It’s bollocks. We checked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRE2BBQR4tc&feature=youtu.be&t=30m23s
Here, even before my campaign started in July, people were already questioning her credentials.
https://m.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/22r2g5/a_letter_to_chris_roberts/?sort=controversial
So that’s basically the gist of it, in a nutshell.The discussion of the Star Citizen ToS first appeared in my Interstellar Pirates and The Long Con blogs. I needed a link directly to this, hence this post.
Everyone knows by now that since the release of the shoddy v2.0, they’re now claiming that it is substantial update, so they’re refusing refunds.
Below are all the different ToS revisions since the start of this project.
12-09-13 // Original from RSI website pre-Kickstarter
12-10-18 // Kickstarter ToS which would be active from 12-10-18 to 12-11-19
13-08-13 // v1.0
13-08-29 // v1.1
15-02-01 // v1.2
NOTE: If you pledged on Kickstart, then you are subject to their ToS, as well as the RSI ToS which was active after the campaign ended and you had to access their site to create your citizen account.
According to their ToS v1.1 of 08/29/13 they said if they failed to deliver within 12 months of Nov 2014 (the original Kickstarter estimated delivery date), they would issue refunds. At the time, this non-delivery period would kick in during Nov 2015.
IV. Charges & Billing
“RSI agrees to use its good faith business efforts to deliver to you the pledge items and the Game on or before the estimated delivery date. However, you acknowledge and agree that delivery as of such date is not a promise by RSI since unforeseen events may extend the development and/or production time. Accordingly, you agree that any unearned portion of the deposit shall not be refundable until and unless RSI has failed to deliver the pledge items and/or the Game to you within 12 months after the estimated delivery date.”Since that time, having already i) missed the Nov 2014 delivery date and ii) embarked on the increased scope (aka “vision 2.0”), thus extending the delivery date for the project, they surreptitiously made another changed in ToS v1.2 of 02/01/15(which remains the current one). The previous section was moved; and now reads:
VII. Fundraising & Pledges
“RSI agrees to use its good faith business efforts to deliver to you the pledge items and the Game on or before the estimated delivery date communicated to you on the Website. However, you acknowledge and agree that delivery as of such date is not a firm promise and may be extended by RSI since unforeseen events may extend the development and/or production time. Accordingly, you agree that any unearned portion of your Pledge shall not be refundable until and unless RSI has failed to deliver the relevant pledge items and/or the Game to you withineighteen (18) months after the estimated delivery date.“And in the current ToS, here is a key section that ties into the above:
VII. Fundraising & Pledges
“For the avoidance of doubt, in consideration of RSI’s good faith efforts to develop, produce, and deliver the Game with the funds raised, you agree that any Pledge amounts applied against the Pledge Item Cost and the Game Cost shall be non-refundable regardless of whether or not RSI is able to complete and deliver the Game and/or the pledge items. In the unlikely event that RSI is not able to deliver the Game and/or the pledge items, RSI agrees to post an audited cost accounting on the Website to fully explain the use of the amounts paid for Pledge Item Cost and the Game Cost. In consideration of the promises by RSI hereunder, you agree that you shall irrevocably waive any claim for refund of any Pledge that has been used for the Game Cost and Pledge Item Cost in accordance with the above.”
