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Only if you register on the Order website. I will, but I don't think I have any more... "forum attention" to distribute in my brain, because I'm already active on three forums. Given that I'm generally not very good at multitasking, whenever there's a discussion going on at one of the forums I completely ignore the rest of them. I will join but I may have to not be active simply because my foruming abilities are already spread out a bit too thin.

Just wanted to re-post this just in case.

Forsooth.

Ummm... guys... Any way the initial "the" could be dropped from my title? Pwetty pwease? :3 I just suddenly realised it makes it a bit clunky...

I support this for morbid curiosity's sake. Projekt: Věčnost FTW! I don't see how that's so radically different from Проект Вечность.

Good lord you like to write... A meta-dungeon (abiding by the standard meaning of the prefix "meta-") can be either a) a dungeon composed of dungeons, or b) a dungeon inside a dungeon. It seems to me that b) is just... continuation of the same dungeon, so it obviously needs to be a), however the hell you'd actually make "a dungeon composed of dungeon" without it just being a dungeon. But I feel the OP will want me to go derper than that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLV08-uhm9Y

Ah, so what you're saying is that DRM is a sort of stupidity tax? I like it quite a bit more when you put it like that! :D

Seriously though, I really can't understand the "logic" behind DRM. I'm pretty sure that's because there simply isn't one. Pirates just bypass DRM. No matter what sort of DRM you implement, it's possible to crack it. So basically, DRM is a way of making pirates the privileged players of the game. It tries to say "piracy is bad" but instead all it says is "piracy pays off because you don't have to bother with this crap if you get the pirated version of the game", and on top of that it actually costs money to implement DRM. There just is no logic behind it whatsoever.

Now that I think about it, a better title for this thread would be "The feedback loop of crowdfunding". Because that's what it is - there's a very successful project, it draws more people to crowdfunding which enables more projects to be successful which draws more people into it, etc.

So you have to back out of backing the campaign.

Very wisely spoken. And I really like the Kicking It Forward idea. Its impact, though, depends greatly on how much pure profit these games manage to achieve. But regardless of that, I think it's a great way of... "recycling" the Kickstarter energy, for lack of a better wording.

It really depends on how yummy of a tuna sandwich you can make.

Say whatever you want, but his hair is simply fabulous in that picture.

No I don't get it what was I trying to say... D: Is purple orange...?

Yeah, the point is that DFA didn't just gather a lot of money from the fans for itself, it also caused a huge influx of gamers to Kickstarter, which resulted in all other video game projects getting much more pledges per week. Hence, "ripple effect".

Uh, you clearly didn't read this very carefully. That graph shows pledges per week to all other video game projects, not to DFA.

So I came upon this. While some info is a bit outdated ("Double Fine Adventure is the largest project in Kickstarter history by pretty much every metric, including dollars pledged and number of backers."), it's impossible to deny the incredible "ripple" effect DFA had on Kickstarter: (The green line marks the beginning of DFA Kickstarter campaign.) I was thinking, it would be interesting to see the same graph done for Project Eternity. It must've brought some new gamer crowd to Kickstarter, but what I'm more curious about is how Project Eternity's "ripple" would compare with DFA's. Because, let's be honest, shooting the pledges from what appears to be less than thousand per week up into tens of thousands is quite a colossal success for just a single Kickstarter campaign.

Indeed. And that is exactly my point - you can't judge similarity of genotype from the similarity of phenotype. Well, you can, but not very well. African and Indian elephants, for example, look incredibly similar (which is why they're both called "elephants"). Yet any attempts of cross-breeding have resulted in offspring which couldn't even survive after being born, let alone reproduce further. So they're actually two separate species. Various dog breeds, on the other hand, look incredibly different from one another and from their ancestor, grey wolf. Yet they all produce offspring that can reproduce when they mate, so they're all one species.

That's just speculation. It's up to the writers of the game universe to determine how much the different races/species in the game differ genetically. You can't tell much about genetic similarity from appearance alone.

Ah, it's the wannabe-cool-totally-uninterested-semi-troll guy. Yeah, Internet's full of them.

Well theoretically, I don't see why there couldn't realistically be an elf-like human race (i.e. homo sapiens by all genetics, but elfish in appearance). Being members of the same species would make "interbreeding" perfectly viable. But I guess in PE universe they really are separate species, not just races.

You were supposed to add (at least) 8$ on top of your tier + any additional money for add-ons (and post about doing that here) in order to get into the Order. You could've also donated 8$ via PayPal after the Kickstarter campaign ended (and, again, post about it here). But now the doors are closed, so to say, and at the moment no new members are being accepted.

Nobody ever gets it, my friend.

Damn. Well, back to my sarcasm chamber.