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@basileus
Atm it seems to heavily relay on skills of the user, combat that is.

And if you get bored or not, is more of a User based thing. You cant make everyone happy.

Who will you feed:
-gankers?
-wannabe Noob Shmashers?
-PvP arena style?
-Open World Siegelers
-etc etc.

Atm it looks to be a good mix. With focus on Open World PvP, where sieges of castles/towns for priviliges or control of areas might be key.

@kagero Yeah, same for me.

Probably gonna be a beatmen here.
We still can "join" the humans on their server, to repel the demons.

Which will most likely be the main PvP event for us.
But we won't be "well a demon just pooped up there and ganked me" like the humans, even outside these invasions.

I fear. That PvPers will be demons, but the demon planet will be quite live less.
Pvpers want to kill "weak prey" not fight with other bloodthirsty guys over scraps xD.
We will see.

@salamanderham

Then either Arabeos the beat planet or the human one are something for you. The beast one is mainly about corporation.

Nothing for nme atm ... yay.

I hate KS and their creditcard only approach xD.

@specter

Good things are. There's nice publishers out there too.
Don't buy into a death trap. Self publishing in EU would work well or you could look for Travian Games.

Personally i wouldn't mind any other publisher perse, just don't let them dictate the terms and twist your promises.
No P2W or regardless of where that happens, people will feel that any other version is just a skip away from the creeping enhanced P2W effects.

@jetah Well if you karma is rock bottom. You will be a target for any decent good guy and for all other bad guys.

So i guess, it's freedom ^^.

@jetah If you call hunted by angels and anyone not evil and ANYONE evil, freedom.

Then yes, Evil is the best freedom.
^^

Sadly no ...

seems like you can add a bank account to KS. But you still need a creditcard to actually back an game.
Haha ... well i guess i will buy the package i wanted when the KS ends on your page.

Hopefully you reconsiderd not giving early backer package chances to us, sad sad non-creditcard owners.
Feeling bummed atm. Would have gotten the 150 € Early tier right now ... not gonna get a creditcard i will rarely use just for KS. Yay for Paypal ...

@Prometheus

Let's hope you make it big enough :3.
Or add continents if the userbase grows.

But dont make it too big from the start.
Often games have large spikes that overcrowd an area .... so don't listen to the whining and wait it out a bit xD.

PS: Have you tested how many players you can support per "zone" of your spatialos? That would be interesting, even if it's a rough number. Cause it's something really important. Set it as stresstest goal :3.

You wont get my house keys stranger ...

but yeah, you get keys to Alpha ~Beta if you buy in the most tiers. Except the very lowest i think.
YOu can check that on the NEWS page, it's called KS Pledge info.

Mostly chatting with each other i guess.

Alot of these guilds will be ghost towns till realese.
Even more will disband or just never make a piep again.

Don't bother with joining one, if you don't want to chat with people.
But do join a talkative guild, it can alleviate the strees of waiting for the game xD.

And often be quite fun, if it's a guild that plays other things too.

@kralith So true .... how often do i read "this game sucks!" when they bought into a early acess, of an 3 man studio.

Something like factorio or rimworld, needed time to grow organically. I can still remember people badmouthing about it for months after the "realese" of early acess.

Sometimes early acess is a cash grab ... sometimes.
KS are sometimes a cash grab too.
I have been around with:
-Firefall
-Landmark
-Albion
-Tree of Savior

and a few others that failed. But i got my worth of fun out of these, before it went downhill.

• Alot of the early acess titles really became great.

It's a gamble on a promise of an idea, that will be done if possible.
People need to get that into their heads ... or wait for the real realese.

But alot of big companys use Alphas/ Betas and "Early Acess" just as a means to promote their already mostly finished game ... or get away with delteing players stuff or changeing the game in a way that makes it harder or less likeable.

Welll .. NDA are often only up there, to prevent these "WHY NO PLAY?!" and bad-mouthing guys to spam negative PR.
No Man Sky wasn't good at launch, but it was by no mean finished ... nor fair to spam that negative PR train.
But youtubers and bloggers life from that ... it's easyer to rally people if they can have an enemy. As to talking about how great certain things are.

Yeah.

I get that.

But having a written test "i understand what this is" is something i always wish for .. and never get :3.

I really HATE people that spam the ever constant:
"WHy nO can PlAy?"
"Is it P2w!?!"

And all the other obvious answers one would get through, by typeing a simple search or reading a faq.
But these kind of people are to lazy xD and to spoiled :3.

I have seen people ask how they could move in a game, that has a madatory tuturial with that information ahead of it ... they just pushed the fast forward button constantly. Then get stuck and blame the game ... which leads to bad pr.

I guess 1~500 will get a pre-alpha key, on the leaderboards.
And about 10~20% of the guys from the weekly drawings too.

They don't want to have them just to look around and do positive pr, they need people stresstesting. Simulatiosn only do so much and pc generated users are completly different from real users with their totaly different pc setups and connection speeds.

• we tend to brake stuff better then bots.

@jetah I have been around in alot of alphas ... and the newer generations of gamers are just to spoiled.

Search functions generally don't get used or wrongly.
And it's faster to write 1 sentence down with a vague question, then to search for info.

It's a problem i seee in trainees at my workplace too ... people got this whole mass of information avaible to them and they can't use it.

Well i fail sometimes too, but information is a worthfull thing.
Devs should post a large FAQ everyone needs to read and answer some questions at the end .. before getting an forum acc. xD But then these forums would be quite empty...

@jetah Just for anyone in need :

https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/

This is my favorite site for timezone shifts. Just remember to add daylight saveing times too.

^^ Meep meep meeeeep

@vitols666 AMEN! To that.

@basileus Yeah.

Netcode is the lifeblood of a MMORPG .. if they mess that up or not focus on it first. Anything build onto that will be a painfull hell. Albion was like that, battles above 20 people felt stupidly laggy. And the server sat right behind my back geographicaly speaking ...

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I still have hopes for an site located shop .. which overs KS pledges too. It is really unfair to the people who don't or can't own a creditcard. I never understood ks policy on that. Creditcards are so easy to steal and misuse, that's the problem alot of games face with gold sellers ... who use stolen credit cards for accounts. Then refund the money to the card owner ... A vicious cycle ... of "stolen interactions".

I doubt that all of the pledges placed, will be fullfilled too. But i guess, paypal cost a bit more then KS alone ... oh wait, no it doesn't xD.

PS: Haha ... i just checked, they added a girokonto option since the last time i looked at KS. Problem solved for the highest amount of possible buyers, i guess?