Big Friday: Jump Point, Engineering, CIG Web Plan and More! - [Comm-Links](https://api.star-citizen.wiki/comm-links) - Big Friday: Jump Point, Engineering, CIG Web Plan and More! Big Friday: Jump Point, Engineering, CIG Web Plan and More! =========================================================== Undefined Undefined None [Previous](https://api.star-citizen.wiki/comm-links/12900) [Next](https://api.star-citizen.wiki/comm-links/12902) Content ------- English Greeting Citizens, It’s the last Friday of the month and we’re happy to announce that the latest issue of Jump Point is now available to subscribers! Check your subscriber area to access a PDF copy of issue #3. You’ll learn all about the development of the Hornet, visit the Cathcart System, meet Chief Technology Officer Jason Spangler and get even more exclusive fiction from Star Citizen writer David Haddock. And as we have promised, some of the older content Jump Point allowed us to put together is being made available to the general public. The massive Bengal carrier article from the January issue is now available through the RSI site’s Engineering area. This extensive piece is just a small sample of the kind of things we put together each and every month using the subscription fees… so sign up if you’re interested in supporting more of this kind of material! New Website Update At the tail-end of the campaign, we had outlined a plan to wall off the website to only allow backers access to some of the deeper features. Unfortunately, we had to delay it in order to allow the thousands of Kickstarter backers time to link their accounts. Kickstarter integration happened a lot slower than we had anticipated, and thus the site remains in the same configuration since the campaign, leaving many of you to wonder what’s going on with the Galactapedia, Engineering, and other such sections? The answer to this is that, in short, we’re tearing everything down and reworking the entire site from scratch. We went into the project without the necessary funding to build a truly dedicated website, and did not expect the sheer amount of interest Star Citizen ultimately garnered, causing our host to overload whenever we experienced a spike in traffic. The current website is, to aptly describe, basically being held together by duct tape, spit, and glue. It’s quite a kludgy system as it is built on WordPress, which we have been modifying over-time. While WordPress is a decent platform for blogs and smaller sites due to its popularity and ease of installation / maintenance… it’s ultimately not designed to support what we need it to do. At the moment, we continually find ourselves furiously fighting our way around its inherent limitations and poorly designed architecture in order to implement our ever-growing needs and requirements, and that is simply unacceptable. The choice was, continue down that path or replace it with something entirely new and custom built to our specifications. Given that choice, the answer was clear. Star Citizen is going to be a world class game and so likewise it deserves a world class website. We now have the funds and the knowledge to build what the community truly deserves: a clean, scalable, robust, and visually stunning site that not only does proper justice in representing the Star Citizen vision, but also elevates the standard in end-user interaction on the web by bringing innovative concepts and techniques in user-experience design to the front. We’ve partnered with Turbulent, an excellent large-scale web development team in Montreal to develop a new, much more elegant back-end architecture that can easily flex to accommodate our comprehensive requirements. Every process is going to be redesigned to work the way it should in order for the site to seamlessly intertwine with Star Citizen exactly the way we envision, rather than hacking our way around a pre-packaged solution. For starters: on the front-end, The layout will no longer hide past Comm-Links and Spectrum Dispatches while preserving other older updates. There will be an actual e-commerce core with a proper shopping cart system. We’re also integrating social features in ways that better support: more dynamic polls, Reddit-style upvoting for comments and a host of other interactive features that will help us better learn what you want to see in Star Citizen. We’re currently working to integrate IRC and make the RSI forums more customizable. We’re building a better experience for everyone, our dedicated fans, as well as the CIG staff currently tasked with maintaining the current website. Our user interface designer, Zane Bien, who you met on today’s Wingman’s Hangar, is designing a snappier, more attractive UI that’s going to transition from the website into the upcoming Hangar Module and then to the finished game. In short, what you see in the coming months at Roberts Space Industries is going to be the vanguard of what you’re going to see in Star Citizen itself. We promise you it’s not going to launch until it’s up to Chris Roberts’ exacting standards… and until it’s something the Star Citizen community deserves. The tradeoff is that it’s going to take a little more time. We’re currently shooting to launch the new website towards the end of May… given that it’s up to standards by that point. Many of you are eager to spend your Kickstarter credits, access services like the Galactapedia, and reconfigure your pledges. We know it’s a bit of a long time, but we feel that the new site is going to be more than worth the wait! Zane’s Interface Demo Interactive UI demo coming soon! Stay tuned! Grüße an die Bürger, Es ist der letzte Freitag im Monat und wir freuen uns, Ihnen mitteilen zu können, dass die neueste Ausgabe von Jump Point jetzt für Abonnenten verfügbar ist! Überprüfen Sie Ihren Abonnentenbereich, um auf eine PDF-Kopie der Ausgabe #3 zuzugreifen. Sie erfahren alles über die Entwicklung der Hornet, besuchen das Cathcart-System, treffen den Chief Technology Officer Jason Spangler und erhalten noch mehr exklusive Fiktion vom Star Citizen-Autor David Haddock. Und wie versprochen, wird ein Teil der älteren Inhalte, die wir mit Jump Point zusammenstellen konnten, der Öffentlichkeit zur Verfügung gestellt. Der massive bengalische Trägerartikel aus der Januar-Ausgabe ist nun über den Engineering-Bereich des RSI-Standorts erhältlich. Dieses umfangreiche Stück ist nur eine kleine Auswahl der Dinge, die wir jeden Monat mit den Abonnementgebühren zusammenstellen.... also melden Sie sich an, wenn Sie daran interessiert sind, mehr von dieser Art von Material zu unterstützen! Neues Website-Update Am Ende der Kampagne hatten wir einen Plan entworfen, die Website abzuschotten, um den Geldgebern nur den Zugang zu einigen der tieferen Funktionen zu ermöglichen. Leider mussten wir es verschieben, um den Tausenden von Kickstarter-Backern Zeit zu geben, ihre Konten zu verknüpfen. Die Kickstarter-Integration verlief viel langsamer, als wir erwartet hatten, und so bleibt die Website seit der Kampagne in der gleichen Konfiguration, so dass viele von Ihnen sich fragen müssen, was mit der Galactapedia, dem Engineering und anderen Abschnitten passiert ist? Die Antwort darauf lautet: Kurz gesagt, wir reißen alles nieder und überarbeiten die gesamte Website von Grund auf. Wir gingen in das Projekt ohne die notwendige Finanzierung, um eine wirklich dedizierte Website zu erstellen, und erwarteten nicht, dass das große Interesse, das Star Citizen letztendlich erregte, unseren Gastgeber überforderte, wenn wir einen Anstieg des Traffic erlebten. Die aktuelle Website ist, um es treffend zu beschreiben, im Grunde genommen durch Klebeband, Spieß und Kleber zusammengehalten. Es ist ein ziemlich klobiges System, da es auf WordPress basiert, das wir über die Zeit geändert haben. Während WordPress aufgrund seiner Popularität und der einfachen Installation / Wartung eine anständige Plattform für Blogs und kleinere Websites ist.... ist es letztendlich nicht darauf ausgelegt, das zu unterstützen, was wir von ihm erwarten. Im Moment kämpfen wir uns immer wieder heftig um seine inhärenten Grenzen und seine schlecht gestaltete Architektur, um unsere ständig wachsenden Bedürfnisse und Anforderungen umzusetzen, und das ist einfach inakzeptabel. Die Wahl war, diesen Weg weiterzugehen oder ihn durch etwas völlig Neues und Maßgeschneidertes nach unseren Vorgaben zu ersetzen. Angesichts dieser Wahl war die Antwort klar. Star Citizen wird ein Weltklasse-Spiel sein und so verdient es auch eine Weltklasse-Website. Wir haben jetzt die Mittel und das Wissen, um das aufzubauen, was die Community wirklich verdient: eine saubere, skalierbare, robuste und visuell ansprechende Website, die nicht nur der Vision von Star Citizen gerecht wird, sondern auch den Standard in der Endbenutzerinteraktion im Web anhebt, indem sie innovative Konzepte und Techniken im User Experience Design in den Vordergrund stellt. Wir haben mit Turbulent, einem exzellenten großen Webentwicklungsteam in Montreal, zusammengearbeitet, um eine neue, viel elegantere Backend-Architektur zu entwickeln, die sich leicht anpassen lässt, um unseren umfassenden Anforderungen gerecht zu werden. Jeder Prozess wird neu gestaltet, um so zu funktionieren, wie es sein sollte, damit die Website nahtlos mit Star Citizen genau so zusammenarbeitet, wie wir es uns vorstellen, anstatt sich um eine vorgefertigte Lösung zu kümmern. Für den Anfang: Auf dem Frontend verbirgt sich das Layout nicht mehr hinter Comm-Links und Spectrum Dispatches, während andere ältere Updates erhalten bleiben. Es wird einen echten E-Commerce-Kern mit einem geeigneten Warenkorbsystem geben. Wir integrieren auch soziale Funktionen auf eine Weise, die eine bessere Unterstützung bietet: dynamischere Umfragen, Reddit-ähnliche Upvotings für Kommentare und eine Vielzahl anderer interaktiver Funktionen, die uns helfen werden, besser zu lernen, was Sie in Star Citizen sehen möchten. Wir arbeiten derzeit daran, IRC zu integrieren und die RSI-Foren anpassungsfähiger zu machen. Wir bauen ein besseres Erlebnis für alle, unsere engagierten Fans sowie die CIG-Mitarbeiter, die derzeit mit der Pflege der aktuellen Website betraut sind. Unser User Interface Designer Zane Bien, den Sie im heutigen Wingman's Hangar getroffen haben, entwirft eine schärfere, attraktivere Benutzeroberfläche, die von der Website über das kommende Hangarmodul bis hin zum fertigen Spiel reichen wird. Kurz gesagt, was Sie in den kommenden Monaten bei Roberts Space Industries sehen, wird die Vorhut dessen sein, was Sie in Star Citizen selbst sehen werden. Wir versprechen Ihnen, dass es nicht gestartet wird, bis es den hohen Standards von Chris Roberts entspricht.... und bis es etwas ist, das die Star Citizen Community verdient. Der Kompromiss ist, dass es etwas länger dauern wird. Wir arbeiten derzeit daran, die neue Website gegen Ende Mai zu starten.... da sie zu diesem Zeitpunkt den Standards entspricht. Viele von euch sind begierig darauf, ihre Kickstarter-Credits auszugeben, auf Dienste wie die Galactapedia zuzugreifen und ihre Zusagen neu zu konfigurieren. Wir wissen, dass es eine etwas lange Zeit ist, aber wir glauben, dass die neue Website mehr als das Warten wert sein wird! Zane's Interface Demo Interaktive UI-Demo folgt in Kürze! Bleiben Sie dran! Greeting Citizens, It’s the last Friday of the month and we’re happy to announce that the latest issue of Jump Point is now available to subscribers! Check your subscriber area to access a PDF copy of issue #3. You’ll learn all about the development of the Hornet, visit the Cathcart System, meet Chief Technology Officer Jason Spangler and get even more exclusive fiction from Star Citizen writer David Haddock. And as we have promised, some of the older content Jump Point allowed us to put together is being made available to the general public. The massive Bengal carrier article from the January issue is now available through the RSI site’s Engineering area. This extensive piece is just a small sample of the kind of things we put together each and every month using the subscription fees… so sign up if you’re interested in supporting more of this kind of material! New Website Update At the tail-end of the campaign, we had outlined a plan to wall off the website to only allow backers access to some of the deeper features. Unfortunately, we had to delay it in order to allow the thousands of Kickstarter backers time to link their accounts. Kickstarter integration happened a lot slower than we had anticipated, and thus the site remains in the same configuration since the campaign, leaving many of you to wonder what’s going on with the Galactapedia, Engineering, and other such sections? The answer to this is that, in short, we’re tearing everything down and reworking the entire site from scratch. We went into the project without the necessary funding to build a truly dedicated website, and did not expect the sheer amount of interest Star Citizen ultimately garnered, causing our host to overload whenever we experienced a spike in traffic. The current website is, to aptly describe, basically being held together by duct tape, spit, and glue. It’s quite a kludgy system as it is built on WordPress, which we have been modifying over-time. While WordPress is a decent platform for blogs and smaller sites due to its popularity and ease of installation / maintenance… it’s ultimately not designed to support what we need it to do. At the moment, we continually find ourselves furiously fighting our way around its inherent limitations and poorly designed architecture in order to implement our ever-growing needs and requirements, and that is simply unacceptable. The choice was, continue down that path or replace it with something entirely new and custom built to our specifications. Given that choice, the answer was clear. Star Citizen is going to be a world class game and so likewise it deserves a world class website. We now have the funds and the knowledge to build what the community truly deserves: a clean, scalable, robust, and visually stunning site that not only does proper justice in representing the Star Citizen vision, but also elevates the standard in end-user interaction on the web by bringing innovative concepts and techniques in user-experience design to the front. We’ve partnered with Turbulent, an excellent large-scale web development team in Montreal to develop a new, much more elegant back-end architecture that can easily flex to accommodate our comprehensive requirements. Every process is going to be redesigned to work the way it should in order for the site to seamlessly intertwine with Star Citizen exactly the way we envision, rather than hacking our way around a pre-packaged solution. For starters: on the front-end, The layout will no longer hide past Comm-Links and Spectrum Dispatches while preserving other older updates. There will be an actual e-commerce core with a proper shopping cart system. We’re also integrating social features in ways that better support: more dynamic polls, Reddit-style upvoting for comments and a host of other interactive features that will help us better learn what you want to see in Star Citizen. We’re currently working to integrate IRC and make the RSI forums more customizable. We’re building a better experience for everyone, our dedicated fans, as well as the CIG staff currently tasked with maintaining the current website. Our user interface designer, Zane Bien, who you met on today’s Wingman’s Hangar, is designing a snappier, more attractive UI that’s going to transition from the website into the upcoming Hangar Module and then to the finished game. In short, what you see in the coming months at Roberts Space Industries is going to be the vanguard of what you’re going to see in Star Citizen itself. We promise you it’s not going to launch until it’s up to Chris Roberts’ exacting standards… and until it’s something the Star Citizen community deserves. The tradeoff is that it’s going to take a little more time. We’re currently shooting to launch the new website towards the end of May… given that it’s up to standards by that point. Many of you are eager to spend your Kickstarter credits, access services like the Galactapedia, and reconfigure your pledges. We know it’s a bit of a long time, but we feel that the new site is going to be more than worth the wait! Zane’s Interface Demo Interactive UI demo coming soon! Stay tuned! Links ----- No links available. 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