If people have bet their livelihoods on fleeting hobbies on platforms that actively fuck them over, repeatedly, then frankly I can't be too upset about it.
People will make stuff for free because they enjoy it. Most people don't have much free time to chase their creative hobbies; I wish we didn't live in a world where artists have to justify their existence by monetary means, but let's not pretend that ads are paying for the creative underclass.
You can plop a youtube channel URL into an RSS reader and it's a valid RSS. You don't need a Google account in that case, but of course Google could just stop supporting RSS at any point.
Are there any self-contained solutions? Ideally I'd like to just throw something into a container and get a web UI. I don't need it to sync with anything else or on-the-go or whatever else.
SC has been working on this problem since before 2021, but no they didn't invent the concept. They are attempting to implement it at a scale that nobody has been able to do as flawlessly as SC requires. If they pull it off, it'll be an incredible leap.
There are no game engines that do completely seamless server meshing at the moment. SC is trying to do that.
I can't discount that the state of my network is somehow responsible for putting me in near-empty servers (it's complicated), but your second paragraph is exactly spot on.
I'd like to meet those 50000 average daily players, because they sure aren't on any of the server I play on.
I'm glad you're having fun. This is not a reasonable response to criticism of your favorite space toy simulator. I have invested money into this, too. I also want it to thrive. I hope you have a lovely day.
Those are excellent points if the game wasn't a broken mess where your ship will blow up on the pad for no reason. It's a tech demo, they even say as much, so I don't understand why you have to insist that it's a real game that people totally play for realsies. There are like 14 people who play the current iteration seriously, everyone else are just trying to keep up to date on the status of SC.
I would be a much bigger fan of SC if I didn't have to grind for days to experience half of what this tech demo wants to demo me. Are we alpha testers or are we suckers? Also the game ate my money, anyway.
The time restriction will make sense when there is a game to play, not while it's a tech demo.
In the case of SC, if the game literally makes you sit and do nothing for 10m, that’s one thing. But my guess is it doesn’t. My guess is you can do other things in the meantime
What do you mean by 'guess'? Have you not played it?
Doctors are expensive in most parts of the world and don't care in the rest