Posts made by DrQuick

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Same for me but Oceanic and Europa; I had the exact same reaction seeing that the game has some old school cold unforgiving systems in it.

Good to have you here @Firebat !

I think this would work if there were a massive drawback such as it taking a long time to perform uninterrupted, 15 - 20 minutes and just touching, attacking, or breathing on the player or the pentagram could backlash it onto the caster in damage or a stun.

It would feel more like a commitment with risk, and less like an exploit.

@Belligero said in Forums not tracking some quests between profile for older members:

@DrQuick Did that fix retroactively give you all the points you were missing?

Hey sorry just noticed this, it gave me credit for many things simultaneously yes thank you!

I received about 2 days worth of daily postings but that's fine I'm sure I'll make up for it

Gaming group I am a part of for Star citizen with just over 1,100 members, pretty tight nit we are all scandalously invested in our online gaming

@Specter Ok, just tested with non modified hosts file and the same issue occurred, made a test post and yet I still show as having not visited the forums, posting daily or updating a profile picture.

Account was made last year JUN 21 or so.

@Specter While I am not blocking cookies I have my hosts file set to block some specific ad and ad related tracking services.

To highlight this I do not have any issues when visiting the newest development news articles, it tracks immediately with that.

I'll disable that hosts file and check but a friend made their account from my system yesterday and had no issues being tracked so I do not believe it's systemic to my browser.

Ah and apparently I have never received credit for any of my daily posts:

I have recently had some friends join the game and they confirmed that for at least newer accounts, these 3 achievements do track properly, but for mine they do not, I've been on the forums made a profile, posted a topic, added a picture etc, but still these do not seem to trip for me.

Quick question, something I hadn't thought about before was, NPCs, will they be out there, and if so will humanoid NPCs be tamable (either as a Companion or a Pet), solid examples of this are squires, porters, minstrels, and slaves. 2 of those can fight and 2 really should not but cosmetically fill out the world and it's travelers.

Ya have to corrupt something.

Animal: Shape Shifter
Planet: Asteroids
Spell(s): Passively acquire the ability to shift into the form/model of any creature it helps to kill. Of course you can always have it revert to the base "family" model.
Description:

A "family" , more specifically a shape shifter that has evolved to gain the ability to shift into the the creatures it has eaten, the base form when you first run into them would be that of a peasant family holding hands(too dark?), they walk together and even produce idle chatter in the chat channel but when prey draws near they pull in close and a great maw opens up near their center of mass.

Would be super creepy, can you imagine running into that on an asteroid at 2 am?
As the created creatures are tamable it doubles as a hell of a conversation starter when your flesh colored bear/wolf/lion kills a player in PVP and then walks away with you on 2 legs...

Walk a path with me, one stained so deeply with the blood of mortal kind that it causes even the least compassionate angels to turn away in utter horror.

Why do we walk it sons and daughters?

• This is the natural order, and the laws of nature out rank the laws of mortal kind.

This is why we dance the black spiral until the 3 realms collide, why we balance the scales of life and death and measure our success in cold corpses of those that have left the balance.

This might sound like I'm playing a role here, I am not.

In any ecosystem balance must be maintained, so I am recruiting those that would help maintain it.

Race? Why would the balance care about such things, I am not inviting you to a guild, but to a fraternity, a brotherhood.

Who knows when you might need a trusted hand to help you hide a body, or balance the scales of justice, or summon a horde of demon assassins with reasonable rates and no overtime.

Just saying...

S.R.

@deusex2 said in Funding:

1)No immedient gain. Even if I'm getting the most expensive pledge there is, fact of a matter is devs can promise anything and everything in the future(stars and planets, included), but right ..

Hi ya, been following for around a year, just picked up my pledge pack and read this last comment (er now the last before the last) before me.
As a long time backer of many game products (and just about every other product) I felt the need to walk through these because it's 3am and I haven't kicked anything else in the teeth today, yet.

1. This is both a common thing with crowd funding and any/all in progress products, if you were pledging for a condo in a new development you would be waiting for it to be built, again without any reward ahead of time (except maybe the use of the development facilities eyeballs the forums) this is no different.

2. in early to mid development this is common, I imagine both alpha 2 or/and the beta rounds will include longer up time as they start to stress test in truth, but funny enough technology has advanced to the point where you can perform a virtual stress test, so alpha rounds of testing are more about player ui/ux experience and over all impressions to calibrate with. A mountain of data can cause these to be lost so I can see why you wouldn't run it for more than a week, then give yourself the next month and change to comb through the results.

3. Small team (labor makes up the largest portion of red in the ledger) with attainable goals, and additional investors always comprise the background of a project, investors bring more than just money to the table if they have experience and contacts in marketing, publishing, or just business savvy. I was talking to a friend about the amazing legal sense the site has, the terms of service and use policy are some of the best I have ever seen laid out, especially for a smaller scope project, I would imagine that this is either some solid paid legal assistance, ordered thinking, suggestions from the background investor/s, or just a combination of the 3. All and all, you will also need to check out the news articles on Spacial OS, the Fractured team will be taking advantage (they have said) of the 100% discounted server hosting for the game used as an incentive for adopting Spatial OS, server fees are no joke, and so if those were the funding goals (pre-announcement from the Spatial team), then I'm sure they have quite a bit more wiggle room with their funds now.

4. I'm just going to start with a shrug here, you are stating your personal feelings and not your analysis, ew. Additionally your number 4 conflicts with your number 3, are they asking for too little money while having attainable goals, how fishy.

When I see a list of features for expansion like this, and that's the key word, expansion, I assume that when they say "expanded character creation" they mean "options that we wouldn't have added to the game for character creation because it would have doubled/tripled our art costs for what we had budgeted for character creation". When I see "Fishing" and "Animal Taming" I think, oh good, they will have additional elements to the economy and the possibility for game play expansion through "finding things". UO (Ultima Online for you wee pups out there) had a fishing system that all at once both rewarded new players with a salable good, and veteran players with treasure maps, and sea monsters to fight, a chest full of booty is not as boring as you would imagine. Additionally everyone I've talked to has been excited about the animal taming, the animals can cast spells and help you in combat, they can be animals that you added the game with the higher limited pledge packs, who have you been talking to about this (maybe you should get out more)?

1. There is less to show that would be salable (see your own comment 1 and 2), without their unique features and races implemented they are missing vital "this sets us apart from other isometrics" power, from a purely sadistic standpoint I enjoy your long post being about "why don't they put an emphasis in advertising to sell more of their things I am not more impressed by", this seems like an uncomfortable position for you.

All and all, I enjoy reading posts like these on backed projects, how about we flip the script and ask ourselves:

"Do we feel like these goals do not match the funding and team size?"

"Would we be more or less ornery if we saw the monies by the principle non crowd funding investors added to the funding goals?"

Would that make sense to most people visually without adding a milestone feature creep item as we are over 180k euro now, if this number is double or even 3-5 times that then what would the reaction be when the milestone is "this game gets made.", I think this falls into the category as underwhelming, so in my review it would be bad form to add it to the crowdfunded goals no matter the perceptible increase, this way they can say "Look we made this game with Only XXX,XXX thousand Euros crowdfunded." and stay impressive.

Technically a lifetime contract (as was announced with the kickstarter immortal package) is awfully close to slavery of a carpenter =D , I will name him Worm and he/she will warm my toes when not building my barns.

Now if only I could get a lifetime musician contract...

#firstworldDemonproblems

Thank you!

Hello everyone, just found out about fractured and I'm excited to see the kickstarter hit!

Hey Welcome!