Main Thing
Two hosts from now own (or at least today) because Ben isn't an actress, but he is a Rockstar (since you are what you drink).
Sandi isn't. She's probably a Vitamin Water.
Racing sale went great. It's hard to get on the scoreboard. Chris is the best crasher in the universe.
New campaign video tomorrow, because a lot of people come to the forums and can't tell what SC is.
$54 mil reached.
Guinness Book of World Records reached (most crowdfunded project overall). Ben has no faith in himself as a world record achiever. Apparently Guinness has two "n"s.
LEGO Hornet CUUSOO model reached 10k votes.
Networking (backend, not business) conference right now in LA. They're getting stuff done.
PAX Australia tickets on sale. Half of them are still left. Please, Aussies, buy them or you won't get to meet Sandi and they will give the remaining tickets to kangaroos. There's a BBQ and Ben will share a hotel room with you.
CitizenCon soon! Demos and videos being readied. CIG has influenced the weather so it won't be as hot as last time. NO SINGING FOR CHELSEA'S BIRTHDAY OR ELSE YOU LOSE YOUR ALL ALPHA ACCESS.
Wing Commander's bday is soon (tomorrow?). NO SINGING FOR WING COMMANDER'S BIRTHDAY OR ELSE YOU LOSE ALL ALPHA ACCESS.
LTI is back, but only for concept sales for Wave 3 ships (which weren't available before). Concept sales last a week. LTI is, again, not a big deal and just a minor convenience.
"THIS GAME WILL BE AROUND FOR CENTURIES" - SANDI
Someone who isn't Dagger won the Mustang commercial (involving a mountain lion and a horse). Oh, NotDagger.
 
News From Around the Verse
Broken Moon size being increased and currently being tested. Hopefully other maps, too.
CIG LA working on Mustang Variants.
Aurora and 300i variants close to in the game (probably means AC).
S42 landing system polished. Bugs fixed.
Art for Shubin Graybox completed. We won't hear about it EVER AGAIN. EVER.
Scripting functions working in the game. FPS+S42 being put together. Works in episode 1.
VFX finished for atmo entrance in the PU.
Concept art for turrets have begun.
Textures for cargo boxes begun
Damage states for base Mustang completed.
Carrack undergoing additional concept stage work. Apparently it's pronounced like "carrot" but with a "k" sound ending? Can anyone confirm? Didn't know this was even a word until SC.
Component concepts for Gladius finished. It's getting close.
 
UK Environmental Artists @ Foundry 42
New Horizon! Talking about the process of making it. The idea for the map came from Capture the Core. People looked at those rings and thought, "Man, I wanna fly through it." And on Day 7, God let us fly through it. Yep. Yep. How's it going? Good. Yep. Yep.
Yep. Yep.
They wanted something bright and clean and wanted to bring it closer to a planet's surface. Yep. Yep.
"You say PBR. I say PBS." "Yep." "Yep."
"We didn't really understand PBR and what it could do to the game." And then they realized how cheap PBRs are and how many you can drink in a night. And New Horizon was born.
"I'd say it was sexy." (referring to ships in PBR and the new iPhones curves)
Apparently, in New Horizons, there's a dude on his balcony watching the race. "Did he have a martini?" "No, he had a PBR." "Yep." "Yep."
Rent a vehicle, go watch the race, stay at a hotel, there'd be a place to get a bar, a massage. All in the buildings around New Horizon. Not necessarily in the game, but that's how they fleshed out the lore behind the buildings.
Took them 8 weeks to build New Horizon.
 
woo Bughunterssmashers
This week is animations and modeling.
M50 engine bug: flares. No lens flare when boosting. Flare archetype is a Lua entity and needs to be setup correctly. It wasn't setting up property tables. I can't believe not everyone uses Solarized. But, anyways, this is fixed! No, wait, it's not! This is a two part bug!
Bugsmashers Reloaded! The Lost Flare: Bugsmashers! Bugsmashers Episode II: Attack of the No Lens Flare When Boosting! Spawning flare archetype through game code needs to have flare shader material setup and used; it isn't by default. Just need to set that by default unless someone overrides it. This worked, sparing us the horrors of a second sequel.
M50 engine bug: flairs. Not enough pieces of flair on engine. 10 pieces minimum, 37 pieces preferred. CURRENTLY NOT FIXED.
Kelix (sp?) is dead.
 
MVP
Lead moderator Will
This week's MVP (or MVC? Most Valuable Citizen?) is Nez, for his thread of "Funny things to find in your locker."
None of the things were dildos.
Questions for Ricky Bobby
Ricky Bobby is too busy.
Questions for David Ladyman
Talking about publications, which is what he does best.
Ben has a show. Is it called Big Ben Theory? tehehe
Working on brochures/publications earlier this time. Six or seven planned, three complete. Planning on finishing one or two today, and a couple more tomorrow. So far so good, so let's take a long vacation, guys.
David also does Jump Point.
He's working with people on having the three alien languages put together. The other people are getting things done, but David's been busy with the numerous publications, so he's a bit behind on the languages.
Three linguists on the team, each working on a language. They're very good, very smart, very cunning. Very cunning. Guys, they're cunning.
How will the languages be used in the game, you may ask. Good question. The main point is how much of the languages the player should know in the game. Obviously, we can't force them to learn the language. So we won't. Hear that, mom? You can't force me to learn Banu, no matter how much it'll help me find a job, given their rapidly growing economy.
Talked to people about what they're looking for in a fiction writer. It's completely open. (What are they looking for, though? For real. I want to be a writer!)
Aaron Austin did Clawmarks, not David Ladyman.
Published guide to the game for S42 (if not SC itself) is a possibility. Probably won't be 220 printed pages. But 221 is totally possible. Right? Right?
They use Adobe InDesign for desktop publishing.
David's favorite thing to work on are the stories. They're a lot of fun, especially when they're well-written.
Stories cancelled.
Sandi thinks David looks like George R. R. Martin.
Back to the main thing
Reclaimer (formerly the Salvager. Other WIP names: Wyvern, Dragon, Magpie) concept sale tomorrow.
This thing is huge. There will be more art and info tomorrow.
Next week's interview is with a 3D artist.

They will not allow the constellation to carry the M50 - that is going to be one of the whole points of owning an 890 Jump. Its major feature is the ability to carry the M50 from race to race.