Closing in on 50K

[Herik]

It's because Frontier haven't been making starship ****, and selling gilded dreams. They've been making a game instead, and marketing will follow later.

Wait... pron is a dirty word?

Adept; did you hear?...SC's 'dog fighting' module has been delayed (2 months).
According to "PC Gamer"; Chris Roberts reports critical bugs.

 

[Tinman]

8 to go...

 

[Adept]

Adept; did you hear?...SC's 'dog fighting' module has been delayed (2 months).
According to "PC Gamer"; Chris Roberts reports critical bugs.

I saw the tweet and I saw the news item about show stopper bugs they couln't squish. I thought they were talking about just a few days though.

In order to keep our backers as informed as possible, I’m asking the production team to provide DAILY updates for the community until Arena Commander V0.8 ships. This will be the raw stuff: lists of bugs and other information to tell you the current health of the build. You will see the same information I do, and you will be able to follow as we resolve each “blocker” preventing the build’s release.

I want you to know that we’re very close… just not close enough to launch tomorrow. Stay tuned!

— Chris Roberts

 

[Mobius]

an interesting mile stone for the eve of the Beta.

Raised: £2,937,216 Backers: 49,992

 

[Kris]

Raised: £2,937,216 Backers: 49,992

That´s something like ~£20k and ~200 backers today. Not bad, not bad.

 

[Bumvelcrow]

an interesting mile stone for the eve of the Beta.

Raised: £2,937,216 Backers: 49,992

I wonder if the 50,000th backer will get some kind of award, a t-shirt maybe?

'49,999 people backed the game before I could get round to it'?

Maybe something more ceremonial than that.

B

 

[Mobius]

I wonder if the 50,000th backer will get some kind of award, a t-shirt maybe?

'49,999 people backed the game before I could get round to it'?

Maybe something more ceremonial than that.

B

well if they get a star system named after them ill be mighty annoyed.

 

[insanephoton]

I wonder if the 50,000th backer will get some kind of award, a t-shirt maybe?

'49,999 people backed the game before I could get round to it'?

Maybe something more ceremonial than that.

B

Maybe a big bullseye target decal on their ship

 

[Patrick_68000]

I've actually got it in front of me as I type - been reading the manual, looking at the star chart and reading the stories from the Frontier gazetteer to get me in the mood for tomorrow

This is a good preparation

 

[Bumvelcrow]

well if they get a star system named after them ill be mighty annoyed.

The planet Tardy, major exports: sloths, dilettants, and relaxation-inducing music.

B

 

[Flavio]

an interesting mile stone for the eve of the Beta.

Raised: £2,937,216 Backers: 49,992

Maybe I ought to buy another 8 games, just to get past the 50k barrier - maybe not
A bigger milestone is when £3 million is reached - thats only £7848 for each of those eight backers and we will hit both milestones at the same time !

 

[Patrick_68000]

49998

 

[Toumal]

49998 now!
EDIT: Ninja-ed!

Also:

 

[Bumvelcrow]

49998 now!

I feel the desperate urge to back it again just so I can be number 50k (and get a t-shirt)

B

 

[Perseus]

well if they get a star system named after them ill be mighty annoyed.

I don't know - Bhaker-Phiftee-Kay isn't too bad as a star system name.

 

[Ulysses_W]

Only 2 to go!

 

[Praevarus]

The raised amount has gone up another 330, so we just wait for the number of backers to be increased to 50,000 now. Give it a couple of minutes.

50,009! Only 949,991 to go.

 

[Ulysses_W]

Lordy Lordy, Bootis is gonna full up tomorrow

 

[jan]

Raised: £2,938,346 Backers: 50,009

Seem like it whent from 49 998 to 50 009 in a min must been hard hover over that Enter key to snatch that 50 000 number btw any got the screen shot that they are backer number 50 000?

 

[veep]

Congratulations, FD! See you on Saturday! (I'm out of town tomorrow and kind of glad to be forced to skip the anxious wait and inevitable launch day hiccups. )