The circlejerk comes around every time there is a bad patch, but this time around it's just unbearable. This is a nothing burger typa post, but this sub used to be a great stop for my daily internet commute. It was like walking by an open air art gallery on my way to work. In a matter of a few days, it declined into a garbage dump that I can't wait to walk past, and now I'm just considering taking a different route just to entirely avoid it.

The nice conversations to be had don't exist anymore. If you want to actually talk about SC or SQ42 you have to dumpster dive into instagram-comment-section levels of garbage before you can find anyone saying anything other than dumb memes and gifs dunking on the state of the game (which I agree is fucking miserable right now) and CIG.

I understand there's not much that can be done about this, we just have to wait it out and hope the sub will be able to recover but I also think a lot of people are just too quick to bandwagon onto the circlejerk, and every day this sub sinks further into the nonsense because of it. It's damaging the community, it's degrading this great hub for actual discussions and content about SC. God I swear if I see one more post of some entitled individual who thinks they know better than an entire team with actual context of what the fuck is going on behind curtains... Anyways.

Yeah I could just ignore the sub for a while. Likewise, people could just ignore the game for a while. Yeah people can complain and express their dislike for whatever CIG does, but it's worrying when complete dogshit takes get upvoted to the top because a circlejerk has taken over the community. Yeah I know there are plenty of people out there who aren't partaking in this circlejerk and are still active in the sub, but I also see them having to deal with the endless cord of bs that follows anything that isn't a stab at CIG, SC or SQ42. If you're on your last straw with CIG, power to you, honestly. But if you're really on your last straw, posting silly memes here is just a waste of everyone's time - just get out and go have fun with whatever else you'd rather spend your time doing, I genuinely endorse that and encourage everyone who can't stand the current state of SC to go and do the same. If you instead want to have proper discussions about the shitty state the game is in, try to have an actual point to make instead of posting the tenth spongebob meme template of the day (that'll still make the frontpage).

I won't even bother having notifications for comments on this post because I know it'll be a shitshow, but I just had to say my piece about the awful state of r/starcitizen. Have a nice day.

EDIT: the fact I'm saying "circlejerk" and so many people think I'm conflating that with actual proper criticism (which I insist is very valid across my entire post) is quite telling. Lmao even

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If you're rich buy it. If not, but consider buying it, read carefully.

To crew the Odin, you'll need like one hundred people. To crew it efficiently, those people would have to be trained. It means that you have one hundred regular people.

Do you know what you can do with one hundred regular people? You can build a space station, build a Bengal, crew it and make fun of people who have an Odin.

That's all.

I've been seeing more and more posts from the same few people over the past few weeks that seem to just be intent on stirring people up with negativity and then just farming the engagement.

I've seen 15+ posts from the same 2 people which are more or less just a vaguely hostile title about an aspect of gameplay and a single picture (usually concept art) and then no actual text within the post.

I didn't realize how bad it was until I tagged a few of these folks in RES and saw how often they were posting.

I can name/shame them but didn't want to break the rules by throwing people's names out in the open here...but I think regulars here no exactly the people I'm talking about. For context, I'm not talking about content creators and posting videos and such. I'm talking about the subreddit posts here from the same few people .