Most us have already pledged, I believe. You need to take this to large gaming forums/communities, social media and youtube if you want your word-spreading efforts to have any effect.

Space gaming genre isn't dead at all, since 2008 when I brought SSC online. I have been seeing an up-tick every year in the amount of games being created in this area of gaming. Of course having some big developers will help with reviving this genre quicker. But Chris is right, we haven't had the developer willing to spend money to back a game of real quality/depth until now. Star Citizen/Squadron 42 I hope will live up to the hype that is being generated, and with these games being far off still I think just seeing kickstarter efforts raising hundreds of thousands of dollars really help the causes.

I think if you were ever a fan of the WC/Privateer games you will back this project almost immediately, I will be getting the Bounty Hunter package myself.

I for one, won't be backing this project.

I've never backed anything, and from what Ive seen, nothing about this project is going to make me start now. Its extremely ambitious, and that alone makes me worry. Also. 3. YEARS. No way. If he had said a year, i'd be all over it. 3 years from now? No thanks. I'll support you with a pre-order or something, when I have a firm release date, and its not more then 6 months away. In a life where nothing goes as planned, I really can't back some guy's dream.

best of luck to him tho!

did they offer "small-time" private equity / venture capital shares / or even capital stock maybe with fixed interests (can be even very low the first years) - you know the almost old-school way to fund business ?

there are big institutions who just paying instead of receiving interests in some "safe" state-bonds - so i guess parking a few double-digit-millions venture capital style cant be that bad...

i hope they have one crack financial guy

So they are running a recruitment contest so im gonna just leave this here if you haven't pledged and would like to and give me a hand in the contest @ the same time I apreciate it. Thanks <img src="' http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//icon_e_smile.gi f"' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />

http://www.robertsspaceindustries.com/star-citizen/?rid=36374

I haven't pledged yet, but I do plan to. I'd be happy to participate.

Seen the email this morning, got to say that Roberts and his team have done an outstanding job in promoting their game some thing Frontier could learn from.

I just got an email from Chris Roberts this morning. He made $3,000,000 on his own site and $1,000,000 on kickstarter and still some time to go too. Looks like all systems are go for Star Citizen.

The website has it at $3 mil for both sites... He says on there that he hopes to hit the $4 mil mark combined before the funding ends.

The game a definite go as they have already hit the two mil target along with the ten mil they have from there investors.

I sure hope this game gets released as soon as possible and more than that I do hope that it delivers exactly what I expect from it. Just thinking of it makes me remember all the great scifi games I played throughout the years and gives me a feeling that I'd better play them all again once more otherwise my life wont be complete <img src="' http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//icon_e_smile.gi f"' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />

He still has to set up the company and recruit staff to make the game.

At least the engine is already finished. <img src="' http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//mail1.gi f"' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':mail:' />

With the sort of backing he's got that shouldn't be a problem. He must still have loads of contacts in the industry left over from when he was last making games. I already pledged but will say though I am mainly doing it for the single player game, however if Darkone wants to hook up with me when the game is released and go hunt some perps (I went for the Bounty Hunter package too), yea why not! <img src="' http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//girl_crazy.gi f"' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':girlcrazy:' />

I expect you guys to form a SSC guild/squadron as soon as the game is released, with all these people from around the world we could manage to have at least a few persons online throughout the day.

However, I have no clue if Star Citizen even supports clans/guilds/whatever they are called.

The final push one week left

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His vids are so cool and funny, this guy sure knows how to attract people to his cause. Gotta give him credit for that.

The $3.5 million goal is unlocked, and ship boarding is detailed. Sounds frickin awesome!

http://www.robertsspaceindustries.com/3-5-million-unlock/

Very nice <img src="' http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//biggrin.gi f"' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':biggrin:' />

Best quote

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"we’re not building Grand Theft Starship"

What a shame, a game like that could have been a lot of fun. Rockstar are you out there? Looking at that vid kind of re-minded me of the old Amiga game intro for Alien Breed Tower Assault. Remember that one Pinback? <img src="' http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//girl_crazy.gi f"' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':girlcrazy:' />

I think he means more in the sense that you're not just running jacking vehicles all the time; this ship boarding mechanic seems to be high risk/high reward, and requires teamwork.

For the record Mr. Roberts your salute was wrong <img src="' http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//wink3.gi f"' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' />

I think this could actually hit 4mil mark and just take a look at the 4mil stretch goals they are awesome.

Yeah, Chris is really pushing for it as well, and there is a campaign on the main site for all pledgers to kick in an additional $5 to help reach the goal. If we hit $4.2, it'll be the highest crowd funding ever raised, passing Project Eternity.

What was wrong about it? I don't understand.

Won't stop douchebag parties from abusing those mechanics.

I was referring, and I think Chris was as well, more about the frequency of taking a ship from another player in space... and if you read his description, it should indeed stop douche bad parties from abusing it. At the very least, they will need one ship dedicated just to boarding.