Get in now before you're locked out......

[TeaLeaf]

Keep in mind the hangar is alpha quality at best, so it is not yet fully optimised.    Performance will likely improve as it is tweaked and the game is not due out for a while, so your hardware will likely have been updated anyway by then!

[suicidal_monkey]

My hardware will definitely be upgraded by then :-D ... the hard part is holding off as long as possible while it's still in development!

[smilodon]

I guess if you want this game to be made a pledge would be a sensible idea, although buy now the game is a certainty. If you might decide to buy and play the game when it gets released and after reading a few reviews then that's also an option. You just won't get access to the Alpha and Beta.

I'm enthusiastic about this game because it's being made by someone who is passionate about PC games (Chris Roberts), hasn't sat in development doldrums for years like Elite: Dangerous and there's no big bloated greedy publisher who is going to screw everyone over with a rushed to market, half baked, bug ridden mess and then continue to extort money from players every chance they get. Also being a pledger gives a fascinating insight into how a Space Sim and MMO is conceived and developed which pledger's can also be a part of. We're already voting on which star systems, ships and worlds we want to see next, we're getting the Developers to tweak ships with our feedback (Freelancer cockpit) and even design ships ourselves if we have the skills.

Horses for courses.

[Milli]

God damn yous - pledging when home from work

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[TeaLeaf]

Remaing slots for Alpha Access = 12,761 and falling.......

Funds raised for the game development so far:  $36,745,630


Amazing what gamers can do when they really get behind something!

[TeaLeaf]

12,175 slots left

and

the $37,000,000 stretch goal has been reached.   Well done everyone! :clap::worship::dmw:

Greetings Citizens,

You’ve pushed Star Citizen to $37 million in crowd funding! And that amount is only one of the numbers I’m having trouble believing today. Let me share another one with you: 4,924. That’s the number of Organizations that have been created since the new system went online less than twelve hours ago. The breadth of the Star Citizen community continues to astonish: you’ve taken up our charge and are creating something truly unique.

At $37 million, you’ve unlocked a new star system at the center of a nebula:

   Tanga System â€" At the heart of an unusual rectangular planetary nebula, lies Tanga System. The inner planets were engulfed as the star entered the red giant phase. The expanded habitable zone unfroze a small world on the former outer ring and for several hundred million years made it habitable. Life began to emerge and was just reaching a primitive state when the star collapsed into a white dwarf, throwing the planet back into a deep freeze, then blasting the atmosphere away with the resulting planetary nebula. That’s how the system was found: Only two worlds (speculation that there could have been three to four more) but both are dead planets with no atmosphere.

The last poll was a hard-fought contest, but it looks like the explorers continue to have an advantage: the winning selection is an “unexplored natural wonder.” As a result, we’re adding a new system (based on a recent, real-world discovery) for you to discover. We intend to stock it with some impressive surprises for the explorers who manage to locate it! Here’s the description:

   UDS-2943-01-22 System â€" Breaking news: UEE astrophysicists based at the famed Klavs observatory station have utilized advanced telescopy and other remote sensing technologies to identified a truly unusual star system on the fringes of know space. The object, once thought to be a single massive star, is actually a trinary star consisting of two white dwarfs and an active pulsar orbiting one another. Because of the complex gravitic factors at work, it is now believed that a jump point leading to the system likely exists in or near explored human space. Beyond the bizarre stellar makeup, the composition of the system is all but unknown. Could planets exist in this carefully balanced web? What else might have been drawn there? One thing is certain: the first Citizen to travel to UDS-2943-01-22 will have one hell of a view!

Now it’s time to vote for the final system stretch goal, which will be unlocked at $39 million. If past polls are an indication, it should be a close race between the three options. We have some interesting ideas for developing each one, so you can rest assured that whatever you select it will add a cool new facet to the Star Citizen world!

Thank you for your continued support. Whether you’re part of a thousand-person Organization or planning to explore the galaxy on your own, 2014 is going to be the biggest year yet for Star Citizen.

â€" Chris Roberts

You can find the vote here:
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/13490-Letter-From-The-Chairman-37-Million

I voted for a Xi'an Science Outpost, but the voting really is neck and neck for the $39m stretch goal feature with the voting split 34%-36%-31% between the three options. (yeah I noticed that adds up to 101% too, but that's what the website says!)

[TeaLeaf]

Less than 11,000 slots left now and over $37.5m raised! :thumbsup:

[smilodon]

$38,000,000 here we come

[Gorion]

Any hints on what the 40+ mil tiers will implement?  Is it just more systems or are there some new mechanics or other stuff that might be implemented?

[smilodon]

As far as I know they only went up to about $37-38 million for stretch goals. I don't think anyone expected they'd get more than that. I think they are adding some new stuff, although they might be wiser to just employ more people and get existing work done quicker. I know Chris Roberts hates deadlines but a 3rd quarter 2014 release might be a welcome announcement.

[TeaLeaf]

I believe that the $40m stretch goal is another system but there is some confusion which I am presuming will be clarified shortly after we pass the $38m stretch goal (which should be tonight).    The last 'chairman's letter' talked of the next $39m stretch goal (the 'final' goal) but a couple of hours after release they edited the statement to refer to a final $40m stretch goal.   The list of goals on the website still refers to a $39m goal (which is the UDS-2943-01-22 system), but it is not clear if this will be deferred to $40m or if there will be a new goal added.   Indeed, whether or not $40m is the 'final' goal is still yet to be decided, I'm guessing not.

In terms of ships If you look back through there stretch goals you'll see a significant number of ships which were promised and are still to be released.

[TeaLeaf]

$38m crowd-funding now achieved!

Greetings Citizens,

We’ve hit the incredible $38 million mark in our crowd funding campaign. It’s exciting seeing the Organizations feature flourish: backers are inviting more and more people into this world, and in the process they’re making even more possible for Star Citizen’s development. The $38 million unlock is the Cano System, home to a fully aquatic planet:

   Cano System is home to a G-Type Main Sequence Star that’s almost identical to Earth’s. Of the four planets in the system, only one is inhabited: Carteyna. Located on the edge of habitable zone, Carteyna is a classic waterworld. Fortunately, its planetary axis constantly keeps the northern hemisphere away from the sun, which allowed for the water to freeze into the landmasses used as the initial landing zones in 2587. Multiple attempts have been made to try to convert the thick atmosphere into something breathable, but the process never seemed to stick. In fact, over the years, every time there’s a new technological development in geo-engineering, they test it out here on Carteyna only to yield the same result. Almost fifty years ago, scientists discovered microscopic organisms in the very early phases of life in the depths of the oceans. This caused a massive uproar throughout the UEE at the prospect that they had been attempting to terraform a developing world. Carteyna was immediately placed under the Fair Chance Act. Unfortunately, Humans had been living here for almost over three hundred years and the families that had been here for generations felt that they had earned rights as residents. After years of debate in the political and scientific community, the population was allowed to stay, but only under certain conditions: future terraforming attempts have been outlawed and the Human population has been consolidated to a single arcology to minimize their impact on their environment and the development of whatever species is growing in the deep.


Our final star system poll was the closest we’ve ever run, with only a few votes separating the Tevarin Ghost World and the Lost Human Colony. Since it sounds like Star Citizen’s backers are equally excited about both concepts, we’ve decided to break the rules and include both concepts!

   Kabal System â€" The discovery of a new system is always an exciting time. Even the most jaded NavJumpers can’t help entertaining the possibilities for scientific understanding or new species or even a new home that could await them on the other side of a new jump point. The discovery of Kabal was certainly something new. By all outward appearances, the system seemed empty. It was only during when a UEE Surveying team began to assess Kabal III, did they find something disturbing; old uninhabited Tevarin cities. How could an entire Tevarin system escape detection all these years? Did the Tevarin that were assimilated into the UEE know about it? How was it kept a secret? The questions multiplied when a detachment of Marines, sent to secure the planet ended up discovering a cache of old Tevarin war machines. Among the rows and rows of weapons, they made an even more disturbing discovery; some of the technology was made in the last ten years…


   Oretani System â€" Oretani was just one of many systems that were being discovered during the rapid Expansion era of the 25th century. The surveyors noticed nothing in the system’s six worlds of immediate importance. Only one planet seemed to be a viable candidate for terraforming. The terraforming Corp that won the bid sent a mid-level team (and their families) into the system to start processing when the only jump point into the system collapsed. Scientists scrambled to figure out a solution, but it was the first time an incident like this had occurred. As years stretched into decades, people studied the area around the former jump point, hoping for a sign that it had reopened, but after time they gave up. After all this time, Oretani is only ever debated among select number of historians. Most believe that without support, the initial terraformers probably died out, but no one really knows what to expect on the other side if that jump point ever reopens.

That’s it for the additional star system stretch goals. At $39 million, we’ll announce a new goal that will help chart the course for the future of Star Citizen in a different way… and it’s one I’m personally very excited about, so be sure to check back then and learn more!

As always, thank you for your continued support of Star Citizen. It’s hard to properly express how grateful we are to the community for letting us pursue this dream. I know that everyone is eager to see more of Star Citizen as quickly as possibleâ€"more ships, more systems, more gameplayâ€"and I promise you that we’re just as eager to get that out there. Stay tuned: big things are happening in the ‘verse!

â€" Chris Roberts

P.S. â€" Everyone curious about how the Banu Merchantman will land should check out the attached concept art. Please remember that this is an early WIP and shape, form and function can change as we drill down on the inner workings of the Banu Merchantman!

That Banu MM looks awesome, can't wait to see later artwork and its release to the hangar!

[TeaLeaf]

This is definitely my favourite ship artwork so far, it looks stunning!

[OldBloke]

This is definitely my favourite ship artwork so far, it looks stunning!

Agreed. I'm guessing that's a fighter slung underneath it but confused by the way it's angled down in flight mode:g:

[TeaLeaf]

No it's not a fighter. It's a part of the ship that swings down for flight mode. Think of it as a spine hanging down under the ship.  Do a google for banu merchantman and you'll see the original artwork of it fully extended.

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