Re: Elite: Dangerous - and the return
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Re: David Braben's Elite: Dangerous - Kickstarter!
Damn - I promised I wouldn't - and there was still 15 minutes left and I've gone and Jonty'd!
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Its over folks. One heck of a ride.
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Re: David Braben's Elite: Dangerous - Kickstarter!
Time's up guys and girls with a grand total of £1.578,316 plus PayPal contributions.
What a fantastic last few days (At one stage I was seriously worried that we wouldn't make the minimum pledge level).
Lots for us to look forward to now though.
What a fantastic last few days (At one stage I was seriously worried that we wouldn't make the minimum pledge level).
Lots for us to look forward to now though.
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Re: David Braben's Elite: Dangerous - Kickstarter!
History is officially made. Despite recession, broken promises, 20 years of waiting and rumours of newtonian physics, ELITE IV IS COMING!!
To all who pledged, thank you. I'm an excited forumite today.
To all who pledged, thank you. I'm an excited forumite today.
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Hopefully by the time it comes out I'll own a (no-work) machine capable of running it!
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Re: David Braben's Elite: Dangerous - Kickstarter!
Well, that was fun. Now we wait.
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My machine will be (mostly) three years old by then - here's hoping!DaddyHoggy wrote:Hopefully by the time it comes out I'll own a (no-work) machine capable of running it!
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Re: David Braben's Elite: Dangerous - Kickstarter!
I need to nag my employer for a new developer laptop. (Even though the one I have is just 6 months old).
They don't pay us that well, but they do give us some nice toys.
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Re: David Braben's Elite: Dangerous - Kickstarter!
That was excellent.. the parting comment in the video, "See you all at Lave" triggered a thought..Griff wrote:the comments on the kickstarter move so fast, so in case it gets lost forever in the noise here's a link to a kris Avery's fan made film - basically a love letter to the cobra III, it's ace!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewC4ov9H ... e=youtu.be
Picture the following scene.
Date/time: Release day of Elite:Dangerous
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Event: Tens of thousands of Jamesons, all trying to launch simultaneously, and head off to a mere handful of destinations.
Pandemonium doesn't even begin to describe it..
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Re: David Braben's Elite: Dangerous - Kickstarter!
Given that the name Jameson cost £1500 in the Kickstarter, there will be at most 37 of them at Lave.Diziet Sma wrote:Picture the following scene.
Date/time: Release day of Elite:Dangerous
Location: The online Lave Station
Event: Tens of thousands of Jamesons, all trying to launch simultaneously, and head off to a mere handful of destinations.
Pandemonium doesn't even begin to describe it..
But, in any case, it is done now! I never thought that it would fail, but I admit I was nervous.
Now, I'll just hope they will not make the space flight feel like we were flying airplanes - I have flight simulators for that and I'd like Elite to be something different.
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You know what I meant.. players just beginning their careers..Wolfwood wrote:Given that the name Jameson cost £1500 in the Kickstarter, there will be at most 37 of them at Lave.
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Sorry about the cheeky humour...Diziet Sma wrote:You know what I meant.. players just beginning their careers..Wolfwood wrote:Given that the name Jameson cost £1500 in the Kickstarter, there will be at most 37 of them at Lave.
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Re: David Braben's Elite: Dangerous - Kickstarter!
Perhaps I can start a Kickstarter to fund a new PC? <ducks>
Cheers,
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Cheers,
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You need to be careful about throwing such ideas around you know...drew wrote:Perhaps I can start a Kickstarter to fund a new PC? <ducks>
Cheers,
Drew.
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Re: David Braben's Elite: Dangerous - Kickstarter!
Didn't someone over at the KS comment thread already suggest that someone should start a Kickstarter to build and sell gaming systems designed to run Elite: Dangerous...
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