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I understand that. I just feel it's wrong to utilize that logic for the people who willingly gave more money to Goldhawk without any sort of promised reward.
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No, because Kickstarter backers paid upwards of $100.00 for that, so it's not fair to those people who gave that much if all of a sudden you only need to spend $30.00 on it.
My humble opinion is that some things are worth far more than their monetary value. The people who preordered supported the game at a time when most people didn't even know it existed. Not only that but they actively helped spread the word. When Chris said that the base game will be cheaper and gave these people the option to get some of their money back, most of them refused because they believed in the project and wanted to support an independent developer. What isn't fair is saying to these people, who already proved that they don't put money first, "yeah you're less valuable to us because you paid less".
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He's entitled to his opinion. Ideas about what we can do to improve things would be helpful though.
How about our real names added to the Xenonauts soldier roster? It should be easy enough to implement and I'm sure it would be more than enough reward for the extra 10$.
Also, I have the game preordered but I never registered it or played through Desura. Will I still get the email or do I have to do something else?
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So now Steam allows the sale of "early access" games, ie games that are still a work in progress:
http://store.steampowered.com/genre/Early%20Access/
How about putting Xenonauts up there, Chris? You already have a deal with Steam if I remember correctly, so you could distribute updates to the game through the robust Steam system and give out Steam keys early to those who preordered. I say give it a look, it's bound to be a lot better than Desura. It would also be a great way of getting some more sales.
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I think the Xcom fanbase is big enough for both games to be a commercial success
That said, I am much more fond of Xenonauts because it stays true to the original formula. -
Yeah it's not really a problem, more like a mild annoyance.
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Just a bit more information, the url that appears when I get the message is this:
http://www.goldhawkinteractive.com/forums/forum.php?
If I just refresh I get the same "Forbidden" message. If I remove the "?" at the end and load the page, the forums appear.
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Every time I visit the forums, I get greeted with the following message right after I successfully log in and while the message "thank you for logging in" is on screen. It gives me the message right after it tries to redirect me to the actual forums:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /forums/forum.php on this server.
Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
If I refresh the actual page then I can see the forums normally, I just don't know why this message keeps appearing.
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Fully funded, excellent! Chris, get to work on those stretch goals!
My personal favorite is more tile types. I would really love city tiles, if that's at all possible.
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I contacted Total Biscuit with a Kickstarter-related question for the mailbox, told him about the Xenonauts Kickstarter and suggested a new Kicksmarter video feature for Xenonauts and Carmageddon: Reincarnation. Fingers crossed
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First previews are popping up, news sites are reporting the start of the Kickstarter. We need to get Total Biscuit in on this, he's a pc gamer after all with a fondness for indie games and a huge following.
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Yes, the crashed UFO looks great (and the same goes for the dropship art but we've seen that before). High-res 2D looks great, I wish more developers would use it over 3D.
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I love the fact that these forums are every bit as multinational as X-Com was
It truly feels like people from all over the world are rallying to support this promising game. -
I was thinking on pre-ordering
Do it, my fellow compatriot!Every pre-order helps in building a better game for us!
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I love the interception screen, it looks nice and it has all the information you need. Just one little thing that I'd like to propose, maybe change the title of the screen? "Interception successful" is a message that I would expect to see after I've downed or destroyed the UFOs. Wouldn't the title be more fitting if it read "Target in Sight!", or "Enemy within visual range!"? Just a thought, other than that, brilliant job!
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There's another solution to all this: Make the more powerful aircraft weapons (the late-game weapons) completely destroy the smaller UFOs. That way, in the late game you won't have to deal with pointless missions. If one wishes to have the option of playing these missions they can equip a plane with weaker weapons.
Alternatively (and I think this is the optimal solution), maybe the late-game weapons could have two different firing modes, "Disable" and "Destroy", so the player can freely choose at any time to down the UFO or obliterate it. I think it would be easy enough to implement.
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I have a couple of suggestions on that subject:
a) Base-terror missions: When the number of live aliens drop below a certain threshold, they stop trying to fight the Xenonauts and start heading for the exit, ie they are attempting to escape a hopeless situation. If the player doesn't manage to find them within, let's say, five turns, the last remaining aliens escape and the mission is successfuly concluded (maybe with a penalty, "x aliens escaped" so as to provide an incentive to hunt them and not wait for the time to run out).
b) UFO missions: When your team manages to hold the UFO for x amount of time, let's say five turns as it is planned to be, the mission doesn't end automatically. Instead, holding down the UFO for those turns reveals the location of the remaining survivors. Story-wise it can easily be explained, maybe the Xenonauts manage to activate the UFO's systems that record and monitor the crew's lifesigns. You can see this all the time in Star Trek, the ship can always pin-point the location of the crew.
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Indeed, I think it would be best if there was a "Near-fatally wounded" or something in the mission result.
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I believe in the Golden Hawk.
That sounds positively majestic, doesn't it?
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I actually own retail versions of all the x-com games (except enforcer of course) as well as two digital complete packs of the entire series, one on Steam and one on Direct2drive. I'm a bit of a fan
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I am happy that I get two different takes on my favorite game of all time.
Eh, I'm very happy to see a new turn-based Xcom game and I will surely buy it, but honestly I would like it to be a bit closer to the original. I'm pretty sure it will be a fun game though, so yay for us turn-based fans!
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Oh man, after having a look at an early alpha build I went into a total Xenonauts media blackout to avoid spoiling my fun, but I couldn't resist clicking that screenshot. I really can't believe how much progress has been made in these last months, the map looks absolutely beautiful!
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Hey Chris I suggest you create cyberdisc-like aliens and call them "The Streamliners".
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For me the attachment to my soldiers came through the gameplay experience. One soldier would make it alive from the beginning until the end of the game, earning ranks and being the tough old "sarge" who would show rookies how it's done. Another guy would be easily panicked and/or a lousy shot but somehow he would pull through and land an impossible shot to win the mission. Another guy would be the "lucky son of a b*tch" who at first you would use as a meat shield/scout but miraculously he would survive with the alien shots whizzing inches past his face. It's these kinds of events that make you care about your soldiers.
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Fair enough, but as I said earlier it's not about money but about loyalty and faith. The Kickstarter crowd paid money with a specific reward in mind, the people who preordered at full price back then did so because they believed in the project.
Edit: Just to be clear, I only care about the game and not any rewards. Chris asked if we have any ideas and I just thought it would be a cool gesture. I think the Xenonauts community would be mature enough to accept this small token of appreciation but if not, that's ok. I just want to play the finished game, everything else is unimportant.