Elite / Frontier What Else to Do?

[NextGame]

Hi All

Like everyone else here, I'm going to be utterly gutted if the kickstarter doesn't meet its target.

I've recently upped my pledge to £500 (even though i couldnt really care less about the space station name), but thats the limit of what I can afford unfortunately.

Ive posted about the kickstarter on my companys internal forums, and forums for various games that I currently play.

I've told my friends and gaming family members about the kickstarter

Short of plodding around the streets with a traffic cone on my head, ringing a bell and waving around a giant poster of a cobra mk3, there isnt really much more that I can think off to try and help the target get reached in time.

Anyone got any suggestions as to what more can be done?

 

[Susimetsa]

If you have the time, I'd suggest visiting gaming magazine sites and commenting on their articles (if any) that concern Elite: Dangerous. That will tell the owners that it is an interesting topic and they may decide to write more about it.

 

[Kipper]

Support the authors! Not just the anthology, but everyone who is trying to raise money to produce a book.

If you're not fussed about the space station name, put the money into the books - because every one that succeeds is a £4,500 pledge to the main project.

If the books don't come off (all of the funding ends before the E one) then you have time to put your pledge back into E: D so it doesn't miss out on your generosity.

If they do, you get some great reading to whet your appetite for the game!

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Books Set in the Elite: Dangerous world:

"Elite - Reclamation" by Drew Wagar.

"The Cost of Exploration" by Commander Boz.

"Elite: Dangerous - The Novel" (working title) by Vasileios Kalampakas.

"...And Here the Wheel" by John Harper.

"Elite: Dangerous - Out of the Darkness" by T. James.

"Elite Anthology: Tales from the Frontier" by the Elite Community.

"Survivor - An Elite: Dangerous Gamebook" by Nathanael Page.

"The Space Farer's Tale" by Sean A Curtin.

 

[Aewarin Jameson]

Support the authors! Not just the anthology, but everyone who is trying to raise money to produce a book.

With all due respect to Drew and Commander Boz, pledging more money into their books does NOT help ED in the slightest ... they already pledged their book money so adding to their campaigns hurts more than it helps.

That's one reason why I disliked the whole KS backing a KS ... full of ethical problems. I only pledged to Boz's book as he was actually putting some of his own money into the campaign.

 

[Susimetsa]

With all due respect to Drew and Commander Boz, pledging more money into their books does NOT help ED in the slightest ... they already pledged their book money so adding to their campaigns hurts more than it helps.

There are more books out there than those two and most of them still under-funded, such as this:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects...y-tales-from-the-frontier-working-ti?ref=live

If you read the forum discussions discussing this project, for example, you'll know that it is run by poor authors who don't have £4500 in their back pocket. Furthermore, each of them paid £50 to the campaign themselves. It is basically a crowd-funded, crowd-written anthology.

By backing these projects and pushing them over their goals, you will be directly backing the Elite: Dangerous campaign (I helped one of them to reach its target with a miniscule pledge, knowing that my £3 would turn into £4500 with the help of others).

Granted, it does the E: D no further good to help these projects reach their reach goals, but you COULD see it as helping the Elite community as a whole.

 

[Zak Gordon]

And don't bankrupt yourselves, it's just a game (even one we all want to see made!). If this kickstarter won't make it, they can re-kick it and use all the info they have received to do a better job next time.

 

[Kipper]

Just to be clear on the anthology - once the KS/transaction fees are taken out, £4500, + £50 for my story slot will go to Elite D.

If there is money left over after that, and demand for printed copies, we will do that.

If there isn't enough to do that, then any extra will be pledged into Elite: Dangerous. Perhaps to buy physical goodies, which will be awarded to the author of the best story (as determined by those who read it) once the book is done.

If we can release/sell the book later and there is demand for it, money will go back into the further development of Elite: Dangerous.

Each author has paid to be a part of it, no author is being paid to be part of it.

 

[NextGame]

Thanks for the ideas so far, but if I somehow had any extra money to spent I would put it directly on to the elite KS, as I feel that doing otherwise would be taking my eyes off the prize.

I'm sure there are a lot of people interested in the book stuff though and I hope they all work out.

I wonder if theres a way to extend the visibility across gaming news sites for the kickstarter, but I figure that this is something that frontier would have to do to get a last big push for pledges in these remaining few days

 

[The Space Pirate]

My PC Gamer subscription arrived today, and just like last month, I was staggered to see that there doesn't appear to be any mention of Elite Dangerous whatsoever! You're supposed to be the flagship of PC Gaming magazines, for God's sake!

 

[The Space Pirate]

And don't bankrupt yourselves, it's just a game (even one we all want to see made!). If this kickstarter won't make it, they can re-kick it and use all the info they have received to do a better job next time.

Do you think that's likely though? You're right about not bankrupting yourself though; no game is worth that, not even Elite D.

 

[cassius]

With all due respect to Drew and Commander Boz, pledging more money into their books does NOT help ED in the slightest ... they already pledged their book money so adding to their campaigns hurts more than it helps.

That's one reason why I disliked the whole KS backing a KS ... full of ethical problems. I only pledged to Boz's book as he was actually putting some of his own money into the campaign.

I have to agree with Liqua here. While i was behind the meta-KS campaigns for the book pledges (and still am for those still in progress), i do agree that once those additional kickstarters have met their goals and if your primary concern is Elite Dangerous then any additional pledges should go to ED.

Don't get me wrong, i don't want to discourage anyone pledging to them, and if your choice is to support the authors to meet their goal and any stretch goals they may have laid out, then absolutely go for it. But like i said, if your primary motivation is for ED then it should go to that first and foremost.

As for the book kickerstarters that are still running (such as the anthology by Kipper etc) then i do encourage people to pledge. The money will go back into ED as well as further expand on the Elite universe outside the game.