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Scopique September 17, 2021

You know, when it’s been long enough between posts that many low-level topics are vying for attention in my head, the best I can do is write one of these grab-bag posts and give them each a short turn at the microphone.…

Squealin’ Over Healin’

Scopique September 9, 2021

I don’t usually like to require someone read a previous post of mine in order to understand a current post, but I feel that this time it’s warranted. So please take a few moments and cast your eyes towards the “Death of…

Palpable Tension

Scopique July 20, 2021

I’m just writing to report that I am still mired in that weird space between not caring much about any new game that is scheduled to drop, and being faced with several cases where new games or updates to games are scheduled…

Star Citizen – A Bounty-ful Harvest

Scopique May 5, 2021

For all of the time I have been playing in the Star Citizen Alpha, actual space-based dogfighting has been one of the top three activities I have been avoiding (the other two being general FPS and, of course, random PvP, when I…

IAE 2950 #StarCitizen

Scopique November 25, 2020

The Intergalactic Aerospace Expo (IAE) is an end-of-year event that CIG puts on to sell more pledges. It also allows Star Citizen backers and folks who have decided to put hearsay aside to check out pretty much all of the ships that…

Death of a Spaceman Addresses the Wrong Problem

Scopique November 2, 2020

Last week’s Star Citizen’s “Calling All Devs” video chatted with Richard Tyrer of the core gameplay group and Chris Roberts of Chris Roberts fame about a concept called “Death of a Spaceman“. Published way back in 2013 — which should show how…

Neck and Neck: Elite Dangerous Odyssey and Star Citizen Development

Scopique October 2, 2020

Obsidian Ant is to Elite Dangerous what BoredGamer is to Star Citizen. His videos are always on the leading edge of what’s going on with Elite, so I was very happy to see this update on Frontier’s upcoming “walking in stations” expansion,…

Goodbye, Armistice Zones

Scopique September 18, 2020

In Star Citizen, CIG has instituted “armistice zones” around important places where players spawn or otherwise visit for mission, trading, or mining purposes. These places include Port Olisar (the original spawn point for the game), stations in various orbits, several outposts on…

The Anvil Carrack as a Commodity Mule

Scopique August 10, 2020

Now that Star Citizen’s 3.10 update has hit, a lot of folks are hoping to leave the horrors of 3.9 behind them and get back into the game. Enforzer and I logged on and partied up to take advantage of the new…

Weekend Update, 2020 Leap Day Edition

Scopique March 2, 2020

Construction Zone During the reconstruction of our first-floor, the bulk of items that needed to be “out of the way” went to one of three places: the garage, the supposed “three season porch”, or the basement. Being in the Northeast, anything that…