On the other hand those stats mean that the average pledge is just shy of $100. Apparently other space sim fans are just as crazy as I am.
Doesn't look like they will hit the target - Crowdfunding ends in 26 days
Goal: $2,000,000
Raised: $655,204
32.76%
They do have an option to refund the money if the goal isn't hit.
I doubt Kickstarter would have made much of a difference beyond forcing them to raise another 250K to cover the costs of using Kickstarter. If by the end of 30 days you haven't heard of Star Citizen, whether it was on Kickstarter or not would be irrelevant.They should maybe have gone with kickstarter, but are the rules different?
Can't say that I have heard much about crowdfunding or much advertisment of Star citizen.
And I already have my Golden Ticket...
You guys are slow The website was posted on AT PCG a few weeks ago with a countdown for the reveal (which was obviously today)
Cap ship battles are difficult to do right and resource intensive (it's a lot of art). Of all the space sims I played, I'm not sure how you could pull it off without ripping off Freespace 2. Giant colored beams is the only way to make it look so exciting on that scale.We can only hope for something like a modern Freespace. I don't know why other space sims are so disinterested with capship battles. Besides being a spectacular game in terms of fundamentals, Freespace's titanic capship battles were a thing of beauty. I doubt there will ever be anything quite like it again.
Cap ship battles are difficult to do right and resource intensive (it's a lot of art). Of all the space sims I played, I'm not sure how you could pull it off without ripping off Freespace 2. Giant colored beams is the only way to make it look so exciting on that scale.
Missiles only work if you're on the receiving end. For cap-to-cap you'll never even see them since they're so far away.Missiles work as well. Fire your AMS missiles and see waves of explosions as waves of enemy missiles explode boefore reaching you, and see the readout of the ones that made it through comming at you.
Cap ship battles are difficult to do right and resource intensive (it's a lot of art). Of all the space sims I played, I'm not sure how you could pull it off without ripping off Freespace 2. Giant colored beams is the only way to make it look so exciting on that scale.
I wonder how far he's going to take this because I read at PC gamer that he was demoing what's made so far and he flew in landed on a capital ship and got out in a space suit and walked around on the cap ship which sounds AMAZING.
http://www.pcgamer.com/previews/star-citizen-preview-the-open-world-space-sim-of-our-dreams/
There's a bit more variation in the ships in Wing Commander and there's a bit more storytelling in the Wing Commander universe than what they did with Xwing/Tie fighter. Don't get me wrong Xwing/TIE Fighter are awesome games as well but there's just a bit more to Wing Commander. I came across my Wing Commander III discs while doing a bit of cleanup today, going to have to see if I can get them working under Windows 7 somehow, probably will end up using DOSBox or some such.
They're combined. As for why: http://www.robertsspaceindustries.com/a-letter-from-chris-roberts/is the kickstarter fund drive separate from their own website or are they combining the totals for the various goals?
I thought they weren't going to kickstarter because it didn't offer everything they wanted..
wonder why they changed their minds?