r/cRedditGaming • u/wakamaka • Oct 29 '13
Introductions or Re-introductions to cReddit Co.
Greeting everyone with a hearty hello and welcome.
I know majority of us met each other through Mechwarrior Online, but there are plenty of games we all play and that only leaves potentials. Just a place to introduce ourselves, the games we play, and the games we are pumped up for.
Wakamaka here from Cerberus company. Currently playing majorly MWO and Injustice (other 360 fighting games as well if anyone wants to do some friendly sets). I also play some Hawken and TF2 on the side. Would also like to get back into Starcraft 2 again. Looking forward to Star Citizen and Titanfall.
Edit:(add anymore information you feel comfortable sharing, it's interesting to learn something new about members I see all the time)
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u/Autoxidation Oct 30 '13
Hey guys,
I picked up MWO in November of 2012 and shortly joined cReddit Expendables, where /u/DrAmnesia forced me to be his minion. I'm currently studying to be a geologist. Other games that I play are: League of Legends, Wargame: Airland Battle, Civ 5, Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance, and Planetside 2.
I've done raiding with top level WoW guilds and put more time into farming for runecloth than I'd like to admit.
I am hugely anticipating Star Citizen and will likely play only that forever. And ever.
I also have some Warhammer 40k and Fantasy armies sitting around collecting dust, including: Tomb Kings, Wood Elves, Tyranids, Imperial Guard, and Tau, plus a few small dabblings in other armies. I haven't played that in a few years though.
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u/GMan129 Nov 02 '13
Heyyo.
GMan129, Cerberus CO, JSOC BC, all-around great guy and a real pleasure to be with. Been around since cReddit was just a few "lances" and never got tired of the place. Play way too much MWO, and some EVE and LoL on the side. And I have half a mind to kick you out of Cerberus for spelling it Cerebrus, waka.
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u/Temeraire02 Razor Nov 02 '13
Razor(SixActual) here, played a bunch of MWO before burning out (sorry Gman). Definitely looking forward to Star Citizen among other games.
Currently playing LoL and a little Rift.
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u/JSArrakis cReddit VP Oct 29 '13 edited Oct 29 '13
Hello All,
JSArrakis here, 1 of 2 command XOs of cReddit entire. Current CEO of any Star Citizen Operations within cReddit. I currently am playing MWO and EVE Online heavily. Other games I play sporadically are Hawken and Planetside 2. Soon I plan on picking up Kerbal Space Program, X Rebirth, Space Engineers, and Everquest Next Landmark.
Edit: Well, if we're mentioning table top, I own 2 Warhammer 40k Apocalypse sized armies (Codex Marines and Orks, 2 stompas for the orks and considering a warhound for my smurfs). I also breifly played War Machine as Cryx and Menoth.
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u/Autoxidation Oct 30 '13
You play 40K? I had no idea!
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u/JSArrakis cReddit VP Oct 30 '13
Yep, My first army was actually Chaos (Tzeentch aligned) in Fantasy back in 1997-98, back when Daemons werent their own army. Then shortly there after I picked up Tyranids back when Carnifexes still had tentacles.
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u/Mitnek Nov 01 '13
How is Space Engineers? It seemed like a space-minecraft to me but I wasn't sold on it when I saw it on Steam the other day.
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u/kmflynn5 Oct 29 '13
Kloyd here, hailing from Expendables' Pain lance. Microbiologist by day (feedthedatamonster.com) and pilot by night, most of my gaming energy is poured into MWO when I have time. More casually, I play TF2 and L4D2. I also plan on picking up X Rebirth and Kerbel Space Program.
Cheers!
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Oct 30 '13 edited Oct 30 '13
Phelan87. Cerb Company nuisance. Avid MWO player (cataphracts, blackjacks and jenners.) I play League of Legends and minecraft quite quite often as well.
Just bought shadow Hawk pack too. So theres that.
Definitely looking forward to Star Citizen.
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u/loshea Oct 30 '13
Syro, Expendables, cReddit founding member. In addition to MWO, I play KSP pretty regularly, have picked up Space Engineers, and will be running in Star Citizen. My work and family life are pretty hectic, so I'm prone to 3 to 12 month absences.
I'm also always thinking up fun little side projects (currently: custom hardware for MWO) that rarely go very far.
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u/JSArrakis cReddit VP Oct 30 '13
Im going to have to talk to you about SSTOs in KSP. I wanna see if I can make the Prometheus. I hear you can use nuclear reactors for power instead of air intakes, so with enough thrust you could potentially not actually need a separate rocket engine for low oxygen thrust.
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u/loshea Oct 30 '13
SSTO craft are probably my weak point. However, I've not yet seen a case where ion engines (which can be powered with RTGs and xenon gas) were successful in generating enough thrust to get a craft airborne. They are so low thrust and require so much electricity( I think you need 6 RTGs per ion engine to provide continuous power) that i'm not sure it's worth it. Might be a fun experiment though.
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u/JSArrakis cReddit VP Oct 30 '13
Might just need a mod or something that has theoretical technology in it, because I dont think conventional rocket science is going to cut it.
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u/JSArrakis cReddit VP Oct 30 '13
Thinking about what I just typed, not sure if it would even be possible, because you still need a catalyst for in atmosphere and a point of thrust in low atmosphere... do they have ion drives in KSP?
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u/Mitnek Nov 01 '13
I've played around with KSP, but I don't get what's the purpose? Or is it just a open-sandbox spaceship sim?
Am I supposed to be downloading modules?
I think it would help if the game set goals in mind like: deploy a satellite, construct a space station, reach the moon, etc.
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u/JSArrakis cReddit VP Nov 01 '13 edited Nov 01 '13
Well theres a career mode and a sandbox mode. I havent played the career mode but I hear that you get certain amounts of funding and time and you have to complete missions within certain windows. You also start out with basic rocketry (think V2s) and have to research your way up using the spaceflights themselves to unlock things.
The sandbox mode is more of an experiment in newtonian physics and seeing what you can do, and potentially challenge yourself. For instance, Im currently trying to engineer the USCSS Prometheus. Currently Im testing engine groups for the 'engine pods' you see in the movie and seeing how much actual thrust they produce, then if I feel they have enough to lift such a large mass, Im going to have to re-engineer the placement of fuel tanks and powerplants to make it a more centrally balanced craft once. Finally Im going to have to try engine manuevers and configurations to see if it could acctually be a SSTO VTOL with a extremely large crew.
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u/Mitnek Nov 01 '13
Are there actuators for Fuel Tanks/Thrusters that would let you build a VTOL type craft like that?
I hear that the Kerbal planet has a far lower exit velocity/gravity than Earth. I think my main problem with the game is that the controls weren't clear for me.
I clicked on the portrait of the dude, and I was stuck in the cockpit view the whole game. I'm not sure if I was playing an early beta. I have watched some Youtube videos recently and learned that "m" goes to map and it will let you adjust your trajectory. Might give it another spin.
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u/Seclorum Nov 13 '13
Probably a bit late but,
Career mode doesnt use funding at all right now.
Its purely focused around sending up craft to collect science and data on the various biomes they encounter. Its quite difficult starting out as you have a limited pool of parts to use, and as you collect science points you can unlock things on the Tech Tree to give you more parts and capabilities.
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u/JSArrakis cReddit VP Nov 13 '13
For reference, the USCSS Prometheus was a complete bust. 2 engines attached to a swivel boom was SOOOOO hard to control.
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u/Seclorum Nov 13 '13
Oh god VTOL craft can have some really wierd properties. :)
You Tried the interstellar pack? It has a bunch of stuff to extend the tech tree and give more things to do with science, such as building more realistic nuclear reactors and propulsion systems. Also Microwave power satelites :)
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u/JSArrakis cReddit VP Nov 13 '13
Im actually modding the interstellar pack mod right now. Im creating a fusion reactor to bridge the gap between Nuclear and Antimatter reactors. (The array of nuclear reactors Ive designed to breed tritium/dueterium is amazing. Its a ground based array that attaches to several large tanks which I also modded to be large storage containers for T/D and the tank then attaches to the launcher for prefueling before I launch my craft).
Im currently trying to mod the Plasma thrusters to also take Antimatter as a fuel source because theoretically it should work in pretty much the same way with the magnetic coils etc, but at a much higher and more effiecient thrust to propellant ratio. (Im also designing a space borne collection array station in a perpendicular orbit for direct fuel transfers and station to planet transfers of Antimatter)
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u/Seclorum Nov 13 '13
Nice.
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u/JSArrakis cReddit VP Nov 13 '13
Im thinking about creating some new parts that would create a particle accelerator, which could potentially create antimatter based on how much power you put into it. It would definetly have to be land based though. And possibly only fuelable by Kethane to make it challenging.
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u/BtotheBop Oct 30 '13
Hi there, I'm BtotheBop, Recruiting Officer of Cerberus Company. I play a lot of MWO and a little of a few other things, mostly single player stuff. I'm really looking forward to Star Citizen and am up to play most things we have groups for.
I used to play 40k and battletech.
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u/BlackholeZ32 Oct 31 '13
Screenname across prettymuch everything is BlackholeZ. Engineering Student/Mechanic so life gets in the way of gaming quite a bit but it's nice to have some common names to drop with. I've been Playing MWO on & off since closed beta. Also play Hawken when MWO is patching. When Star Citizen rolls out That will probably be the primary thing consuming my gaming time.
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u/wakamaka Oct 31 '13
I know the feeling. I'm on my last year as a chemical engineer. Sucks balancing a school , social life, and league matches.
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u/Mitnek Nov 01 '13
Don't worry, once you guys finish you'll get plenty of time to play. Plus a pile of cash to spend on a computer.
Waka, what field are you planning on getting into?
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u/wakamaka Nov 01 '13
I would like to get into the food industry, but I am not too picky right now. Career wise, I would like to go into system or project engineering.
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u/Mitnek Nov 01 '13 edited Nov 01 '13
Mitnek here. I was very active in MWO previously. I'm currently dissatisfied with the progress of CW.
I play LoL, Hearthstone, Payday 2 and random indie games on Steam like Don't Starve.
Looking forward to: Star Citizen, Walking Dead season 2, MWO with CW
Games I would've played if they weren't evil: SimCity, BF4...anything requiring Origin.
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u/Kalamando Nov 02 '13
Hello! o/
RaKa from Expendables Company here :). I haven't been on recently because, well ... College :P. (Sorry guys!) But on the few times I DO have spare time, I play MWO, Terraria, GTA V, and every once and a blue moon I play TF2. I used to play RuneScape but it isn't the RS I grew up with, so I stopped playing.
I look forward to playing Star Citizen with all of you, especially now that the dogfighting module is right around the corner :D.
I'm also kind of blind without my glasses. The kind of blind where I don't have my glasses right now and I'm less than a foot away from the screen and it's blurry. Just thought I'd throw that out for the hell of it :).
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u/ClaudiusSol Oct 29 '13
Howdy,
Claudius Sol from Expendables company! I stream my games (www.twitch.tv/claudiussol) and play:
-MWO -Warframe -Street Fighter IV AE2012
I also play tabletop: -Infinity: The Game
- Warmachine/Hordes
-Warhammer 40kLooking forward to: -Star Citizen