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So we can start a list of shady kickstarter practices? Because Harebrained revealing that their promise for a DRM free game.... eh, well, let's nitpick about the letter of the promise and not the spirit, just after making a drive for pre-orders. that doesn't put them in my list of most honest developers. Not that I am all that keen on hearing that one of the mos successfull kickstarters did not have the cash to implement proper savegames or lootable corpses. It may not have been as badly missmanaged as Double Fine, but it sure as hell wasn't managed well. Makes you wonder (or makes me wonder) if there isn't a reason that some "big" names end up using crowd funding. Sometimes serial entrepeneurs have the "serial" part not just because they have loads of ideas, but because those ideas can only survive if the person who had the idea leaves it alone

Then at least someone knows my password. I sure don't. Password: m1lfluv3r So I have the same password as Mike? Awesome!

Says so in the top right of the screenshots with tiny letters: Firefall Open Beta

I didn't get any mail. Maybe someone hacked it to fix it? UPlay is a bloody mess.

Then at least someone knows my password. I sure don't.

Hehe. I keep telling people to do that in the kickstarter comment section but completly forgot to add a note of the links here Also, the dev video chat in update #5:

Where does Angel come up with this ****?

Other than them saying that you'd abduct researchers to... research for example?

+adjusting taxation to tread the fine line between high income and a revolting population ?

Played some Endless Space. Got fairly lucky with the races that showed up. Imperials were the only evil race. Made for a very dreamy, calm early game. Ended up with two powerful alliance at peace with each other: Horatio and the Sophons on one side and the Imperials, Amoeba and Automatons on the other, with the Sowers stuck right in the middle. As the Sowers were about to be wiped out, I offered them to join us, which my two allies accepted and we split the territory held by Horatio and the Sophons pretty much three ways. And suddenly I got an alert that Amoeba were close to winning the game. Doh. A wonder victory, but only 0% complete, while I was 30% towards the economic victory. no worrie I thought, I'll just continue making cash and if need be, race my research for a wonder victory as well and buy the wonders. Then came the alert that the Amoeba were close to an economic victory: 55% while I was at 35%. Huh? Where did that come from? They must have maxed their taxes. When I was at 72% towards the economic victory they were at 96%. Ended up with me at 97% and them 99% before I clicked "End turn" hoping that I'd get 3% without them getting the final 1%... We both hit 100% at the same time, but the game was kind enough as to count it as a victory for me.

It wasn't all that bad. I got my money's worth out of it fun wise. Far more than I did out of some of the games others here would deem "good" games

Over 1/3 off the funding now. 125k pounds out of 350k With the increasing press coverage more backers may show up.

Hope this gets some more funding soon. I'm very interested in seeing stretch goals

Did you unlock the secret achievements: "muscle ache the next morning" and "why did I think working out would be a good idea?"

Yes and no. You can set up a LAN game (Yay! LAN support!!!!!) and only add AI opponents. That way you roam around the strategic map and attack and defend against AI opponents. And if they are easy AI opponents you can take your time and learn the game. The normal AI beat me into a pulp the first battle. But I am still a bit overwhelmed by the game and haven't figured everything out yet - especially strengths and weaknesses of units.

Be prepared to be insulted

A bit of this and a bit of that. No game holding me for long at the moment.

The moment ShadySands backed the project, YouTube stopped working for me. edit: forgot: the GoG request thread is open for votes http://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/satellite_reign_5_lives_studios

Ok here's the youtube link for the pitch video:

Funny detail: at least one of the devs from that new "syndicate" game is a backer of Satellite Reign

I'm on there, spamming the comments section

Percentages (read: the 1-100 range) is not a problem though. There are enough systems which use exactly that. There are after all more ways to run a pen and paper game than the d20 system. If a pen and paper version is made, and I feel its too early to be certain of it or to rule it out entirely, then most likely a small team will addapt one of the prelevant concepts of pen and paper rules to fit the spirit of the game. The important thing will be to create a ruleset that do the setting and its unique ideas justice, not to simulate every calculation the computer may be doing.

That game is way too complicated...

You probably were lying to him. But I got a better reward you can offer him: A night out on the town with the master himself: Rosbjerg Even if arranging that doesn't work out, you can always get him so drunk that he doesn't remember anything and then pretend