Did you see the new gameplay video? I'm stoked. I hope we reach $4 million so that they can give us 80 star systems. It's going to be ridiculous. Did you upgrade your pledge? I think I will stay Green Citizen for now.

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I went for Lancer Pledge when the campaign kicked off, so that would be Bronze(?) Citizen. Later pledged the $5 on Kickstarter to get extra ship skin, and upgraded that pledge with $25 to get a hardback "Making of Star Citizen" book. Don't think I'll pledge more than that, but I might throw in a small amount on the last day.

Which gives me an idea...how cool wouldn't it be if the next SSX was crowd-funded with all these physical and digital goodies offered to the fans?! Not gonna happen with EA alas, but the thought of being involved in the development on a scale like this...it would've been awesome.

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Say what? Making of book?! I want! Is that Kickstarter only? I can't find it on the original website.

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I think the book is only included in the "Come Fly With Me" ($250) pledge and onwards. So with the Lancer pledge I got a hardback "Engineering manual for modders", respectively a "Squadron 42 manual" for the Wingnut pledge (Lancer and Wingnut are on the same price, $125). Other than that it's one of the physical addons on Kickstarter, don't think that I've seen nothing but digital addons on RSI. Fling them a mail and ask, if you're not using Kickstarter.

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Ah! Now I see. Damn, I think I won't have enough money to get the Lancer package before the fundraiser ends.

Apparently there is some surprise IGN event at 3pm PST (less than 3 hours from now). I'll keep my eyes open. I'm stoked by the huge support.

And yeah, I think SSX could have done a kickstarter thing, but in the end they would probably have the same budget they had for 2012. But, SSX would have gone past $6 million by now. I think it has a huge fanbase.

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The Constellation info was definitely worth staying awake! Details galore. Can't wait to see my MISC Freelancer.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/11/15/star-citizen-ship-design-and-star-wars-fantasies
http://www.ign.com/images/albums/constellation-images/50a56baaf4918925b219d367

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Wow! That thing is ridiculous. Like the Millenium Falcon.

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I really had a hard time deciding. I went for option 2, but the more I look at #1 the more I like it. It really has that freelancer vibe, and looks a bit Firefly-esque.

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#1 looks like something from Kusari. But, I would also go with option 2.

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Wtf.. Can you reach the official website? It has been down for 3 hours now. Man, they need to get their shit together. That's a lot of money lost.

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Available for me, even if it's slow. Tried clearing the cache? Also, as I'm having an addon which forces https, I sometimes have to turn it off.

Edit: It certainly gives me a 500 now and then, but the site is definitely not nuked.

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Tricky: You asked about physical add-on for the RSI pledge, the hardback "Making of Star Citizen". Check this out if you haven't already: http://www.robertsspaceindustries.com/add-ons/ Seems like it's available for you.

And yeah...$4 million! Pledge rate seems to pick up, $4.5 is definitely within reach.

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You're awesome, bro. A real bro. I need that engineering manual! I think the concept art of Constellation helped boost the crowdfunding. Or maybe people want to join in last minute. I love the systems we unlock every time. If we get to $4.2 million they will add super earths.

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Livestream action right now and for the rest of the campaign (less than 19 hours atm!) http://www.ustream.tv/channel/croberts68 http://www.ustream.tv/channel/mci66 Almost at $5 million, this is crazy!

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I think we could even hit $5.5 million. Man, I didn't even thought we could go past $3 million.

$5 million!!!!

Looks like this campaign could reach a whooping $6 million.
$6 million

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Maan, we actually hit 6 million! Insane! When the campaign started I seriously hoped we would hit 2 million...space sim DEFINITELY is alive. These 24 months will be awesome.

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Sonnergard, pm your email address you use for your pledges, plz. I want to add you to original referrers. That's the least I can do. Maybe you get something.

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D'aaaw, you.

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So... did you get your Citizen card yet? You should get a metal card, right? Nothing here yet. Checking the mailbox every day.

Also: Close to $10 million!!

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Yep! Got my card couple of weeks back, bronze style. Didn't go for a metal card though, almost regret it a bit now. Plastic looks quite nice anyway!

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http://www.polygon.com/2013/6/21/4453530/first-look-at-star-citizens-bmw-spaceship-the-300i


and a 300i brochure.

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BLAAAARRRRGHH HANGAR MODULE!!!!

It's everything I hoped it would be! The production value of the game at this early stage is cah-ray-zee, even the patcher window is gorgeous to look at!

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Does it work on your PC? The requirements are a bit too much for my PC but I ran it anyway and wow, that's all I can say.

Keep your eye out for a planet. ;-)

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Well, I can barely handle it on my computer (i7, 12GB, GTX460), at least not getting any good framerate. But I'm holding out for getting a new graphics card for now, waiting for price drops. Hopefully I can make-do with what I have for the dogfighting alpha.

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What a day, man! They shut down the livestream because they sang Happy birthday and the YouTube bots said it's a copyright violation. Really? lol

I bought the Avenger package so that I can has a Business Hangar. I want to get a Hornet package because I want my game as a physical copy. I'm just the kind of guy who needs to hold it.

Oh about this pic. That's Cassel in the Goss system. Definitely going to live there.

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