Chris Roberts Star Citizen

[Pinback]

You think they would keep it going longer than a month.Vid here showing a walk through for any one who not seen it yet.

[vamperium]

I have to wait until pay day to pledge, and I'm sure other people are still on the fence or haven't heard about it yet. He's gotten 40% of the minimum goal in about 6 days, that isn't too shabby imo.

[True]

So, it is done!I pledged using their Kickstarter page. [url]http://www.kickstart...ig/star-citizen[/url] Join the club! <img src="'[url]http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//drinks.gif[/url] class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':drinks:' />Fun fact: the average supporter on Chris Roberts page pledges about 90$ whereas on Kickstarter it is just 40$.

[LadynightShade]

Chris all ready has my money a long time ago. (and yes i did ring him) lolhes Raised: $1,224,768 on his site + $337,608 on kickstarter <img src="'[url]http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//icon_e_smile.gif[/url] class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />so in total he has $1,562,376 all most there.

[vamperium]

'LadynightShade' wrote:
Chris all ready has my money a long time ago. (and yes i did ring him) lolhes Raised: $1,224,768 on his site + $337,608 on kickstarter <img src="'[url]http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//icon_e_smile.gif[/url] class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />so in total he has $1,562,376 all most there.

Yes, in only a little over a week. I am going to pledge later today. Now, the real conundrum, how do I contain my excitement for two years??

[True]

A few more details about the ships in the game have just been released.[url]http://www.robertssp...com/ships-plan/[/url] to read it now... ^^Done reading. Everything seems thought through and reasonable. According to the information given the RSI COnstellation will be smaller than expected.

[DiabloTigerSix]

The Origin 300i seems to be the best value for money there if you can look at it that way.

[Pinback]

Just been looking at the pledges again and I was wondering if anyone can clarify if they intent to ship the game out on a USB stick or is it all Digital download.

[True]

I never read anything about the game being on that USB stick.If you have a limited bandwith i could send you an USB stick with the necessary data. as long as you live in the EU.

[Pinback]

It's probably just the way they have worded it, if you look from the Wingnut package onwards it has the following.
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Wingnut Package containing;
Spaceship shaped USB stick of game and all digital elements
CD of game soundtrack
Fold up glossy full color map of the game universe
Hardback bound 42-page Squadron 42 Manual

Just wondered if they might be putting the game on a USB stick as the packages before it all say digital.

[True]

I see.Well, it would make sense for a game that is advertised as a single player game. I think you are right, we should expect the game arriving on a spaceship shaped USB stick <img src="'[url]http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//icon_e_biggrin.gif[/url] class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':D' />

[Pinback]

Maybe maybe not could just be the way they have worded it but we can hope it will <img src="'[url]http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//biggrin.gif[/url] class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':biggrin:' />

[Darkwalker]

I just wanted to drop by here and make a few comments myself.I'm sure most of you already know this, but I'll post it anyway.As of 11.32 AM GMT (6.32 AM EST), the game has officially reached its initial goal of 2$.000.000(Kickstarter and main site combined) for this project.As of this post the project is at $2.3 million totalNext I want to quote a post made on the RSI forums about this game.Its something every space sim fans should really consider.
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I posted this as a reply on another thread, as it suddenly dawned on me what the success or failure of this game actually means.I thought it might be good to give it its own thread…I have a simple question for you lot: Do you like space sims? Yes or no?If the answer is yes, be that the Wing Commander style or the Freelancer/Privateer style, then you MUST back this game.Why?Remember this…Short Trailer for Star CitizenLook at the words at the beginning of that trailer and remind yourself how long it has been since the last AAA space sim.Remember how many industry ‘experts’ said it was a dead genre. Remember how many times you’ve said to yourself, friends or forums that you’d kill for a new AAA space sim.This game is a challenge to those experts. It’s a blatant ‘prove you wrong’ piece and if it fails, a thousand developers, publishers and ‘experts’ will shake their heads and smugly say ‘We told you so’, and then the space sim WILL truly be dead.If you don’t back this now (and remember that a pledge of just $30 gets you the finished game. How cheap is that???) for whatever reason you choose to dig up, if you don’t back it because the Wing Commander element comes before the Freelancer element or because the game might not be 100% exactly containing everything you exactly want, if you just let everyone else do it, then you lose the right to complain about no more space sims.If Squadron 42 is a massive success, then Star Citizen will be a success like the PC has never seen. If this happens, there will be new space sims springing up all over the place. So even if Star Citizen ends up not quite doing what you wanted, the chances of someone else doing it increase exponentially.IF THIS IS A SUCCESS THERE MOST PROBABLY WILL BE THE FABLED FREESPACE 3 (A point which I am about to make to the SCP forums).This is not 23 days to make this game viable, this is 23 days to save our genre.If you don’t help to do it, you have nobody else to blame.If we don’t do it, who will?
Source: [url]http://www.robertssp...s-to-read-this/[/url] on folks, show your support and lets revive this genre before it dies completely.Let us show those close minded console fixated publisher that PC games in general, and Space sims in particular, are still worth investing in, and not just their crappy console ports.Show Chris Roberts that he is right in trusting the community and bypassing those stupid publishers.

[True]

They already have 265$ from me. Which is in fact way more that I should spent for a video game.On the other hand the last online space opera is now 9 years old (freelancer) and if star citizen keeps me entertained for more than 2 years the money is well spent.

[Pinback]

'Darkwalker' wrote:
Come on folks, show your support and lets revive this genre before it dies completely.
Well I would disagree with on that point this genre is in rude health and while it's true that none of the so called triple A developers are doing anything I am sure that Roberts game will change that and we will see the big guns return.

[DiabloTigerSix]

'Darkwalker' wrote:
Come on folks, show your support and lets revive this genre before it dies completely.
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.

[sscadmin]

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.

[IronHound]

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!

[DARI]

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

[Markov]

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="'[url]http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//icon_e_smile.gif[/url] class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> [url]http://www.robertsspaceindustries.com/star-citizen/?rid=36374[/url]