Oddly enough I went down the exactly same route, for the same amount only to a different end destination country (sunny Ireland)
Great minds, and all that.
Elite: Dangerous pledges
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Great minds, and all that.
Agreed.
I also figured why be an ass when it wins you nothing, which was why I edited it
Done the same many times myself
I started off at £200 as I would like to be in the Alpha's and Beta's for this. I do a lot of Beta testing anyway and it'd be great to help out on a game i played way back when!
I then Upped it to £300 as I was debating this originally but not quite sure but I felt that if I could watch and monitor and maybe give some feedback on what is happening in the design forums as well it might be even more helpful.
It's probably the largest sum of cash I have thrown at a Kickstarter and believe me I have contemplated doing higher amounts of £500 & £750
I then Upped it to £300 as I was debating this originally but not quite sure but I felt that if I could watch and monitor and maybe give some feedback on what is happening in the design forums as well it might be even more helpful.
It's probably the largest sum of cash I have thrown at a Kickstarter and believe me I have contemplated doing higher amounts of £500 & £750
Well, after pledging ca. $3,500 on Star Citizen (SC), I didn't have more than £200 to back Elite Dangerous (ED) with. I really hope ED will succeed with its campaign and I'd pledge more if I had the money.
I'm one of the old timers who played Wing Commander and Star Wars space simulators in "the old days" and didn't like the route games took in the last decade and more. So I've waited for SC and ED a long time.
What brought me to ED was simply a coincidence. I was first brought to SC by an article in an online game magazine, then I heard about ED after pledging for SC. But even my visit at SC was a coincidence, because I gave up reading game magazines years and yeas ago, and it was only because that this game article was part of a collection of articles on a portal page that I saw it. I'd never seen it otherwise.
So, coincidence inside coinsidences is how I ended up here. But now that I'm here, I'm very excited about ED!
Viking
I'm one of the old timers who played Wing Commander and Star Wars space simulators in "the old days" and didn't like the route games took in the last decade and more. So I've waited for SC and ED a long time.
What brought me to ED was simply a coincidence. I was first brought to SC by an article in an online game magazine, then I heard about ED after pledging for SC. But even my visit at SC was a coincidence, because I gave up reading game magazines years and yeas ago, and it was only because that this game article was part of a collection of articles on a portal page that I saw it. I'd never seen it otherwise.
So, coincidence inside coinsidences is how I ended up here. But now that I'm here, I'm very excited about ED!
Viking
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Hello, first post, just joined although I have posted a few times in the KS comments.
I actually just joined KS to make this one pledge too
I started by pledging £20, to get the game. I've got a little boy (1 yr old) and I thought it would be cool to have his name out there in the Galaxy somewhere, so one Friday when you were all doing +£1 Elite Friday I ended up bumping up to the £40 tier.
I'm getting more and more excited about the game though, so I keep thinking I'd like to pledge more! I can see myself playing this for years and years (hopefully we all can) and enjoying Multiplayer. I can see myself thinking "I was here from the start, funded on KS, I should be a founder member". It's really the only chance we have, is to do that now. So I'm seriously considering bumping up to £150. But like I said I have a tiny son, and I feel bad spending what little money we have on myself. And as has been mentioned, Christmas is right here and there's lots of things which need paying for.... Car needs Tax and MOT in January too...
Do I sound like I'm trying to talk myself into it, or out of it?!
I actually just joined KS to make this one pledge too
I started by pledging £20, to get the game. I've got a little boy (1 yr old) and I thought it would be cool to have his name out there in the Galaxy somewhere, so one Friday when you were all doing +£1 Elite Friday I ended up bumping up to the £40 tier.
I'm getting more and more excited about the game though, so I keep thinking I'd like to pledge more! I can see myself playing this for years and years (hopefully we all can) and enjoying Multiplayer. I can see myself thinking "I was here from the start, funded on KS, I should be a founder member". It's really the only chance we have, is to do that now. So I'm seriously considering bumping up to £150. But like I said I have a tiny son, and I feel bad spending what little money we have on myself. And as has been mentioned, Christmas is right here and there's lots of things which need paying for.... Car needs Tax and MOT in January too...
Do I sound like I'm trying to talk myself into it, or out of it?!
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Hello, first post, just joined although I have posted a few times in the KS comments.
I actually just joined KS to make this one pledge too
I started by pledging £20, to get the game. I've got a little boy (1 yr old) and I thought it would be cool to have his name out there in the Galaxy somewhere, so one Friday when you were all doing +£1 Elite Friday I ended up bumping up to the £40 tier.
I'm getting more and more excited about the game though, so I keep thinking I'd like to pledge more! I can see myself playing this for years and years (hopefully we all can) and enjoying Multiplayer. I can see myself thinking "I was here from the start, funded on KS, I should be a founder member". It's really the only chance we have, is to do that now. So I'm seriously considering bumping up to £150. But like I said I have a tiny son, and I feel bad spending what little money we have on him. And as has been mentioned, Christmas is right here and there's lots of things which need paying for.... Car needs Tax and MOT in January too...
Do I sound like I'm trying to talk myself into it, or out of it?!
Welcome Laton! If like many of us you have been waiting for this game for years, try to talk yourself into it as it will be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
And, hey, the queen only got a bit of Antarctica and some place mats, you can get a whole galaxy!
Indeed chaps, welcome aboard. Always great to see new bods joining the forums.
Hello, first post, just joined although I have posted a few times in the KS comments.
I actually just joined KS to make this one pledge too
I started by pledging £20, to get the game. I've got a little boy (1 yr old) and I thought it would be cool to have his name out there in the Galaxy somewhere, so one Friday when you were all doing +£1 Elite Friday I ended up bumping up to the £40 tier.
I'm getting more and more excited about the game though, so I keep thinking I'd like to pledge more! I can see myself playing this for years and years (hopefully we all can) and enjoying Multiplayer. I can see myself thinking "I was here from the start, funded on KS, I should be a founder member". It's really the only chance we have, is to do that now. So I'm seriously considering bumping up to £150. But like I said I have a tiny son, and I feel bad spending what little money we have on myself. And as has been mentioned, Christmas is right here and there's lots of things which need paying for.... Car needs Tax and MOT in January too...
Do I sound like I'm trying to talk myself into it, or out of it?!
Firstly, welcome to the forum.
Secondly, I think you are in exactly the same situation as a few posters on here. I 've got 2 of the little terrors at home although they're not so little now, the boys nearly as tall as me now
Don't feel guilty though as us Dad's usually only tend to get socks/hankies etc...etc...etc...
at Christmas anyway, it'll make up for that dodgy cardigan you'll probably get from great auntie Ethel as well.
Hey Laton
Firstly welcome to the forum, secondly I have a suggestion for you with regards to your son. When he is older and you introduce Elite Dangerous to him for the first time, don't tell him he is in the game. Wait until he has the hang of things and is comfortable flying about, trading ect THEN tell him
Mind you, at that point you may never get another chance to play the game yourself!
Firstly welcome to the forum, secondly I have a suggestion for you with regards to your son. When he is older and you introduce Elite Dangerous to him for the first time, don't tell him he is in the game. Wait until he has the hang of things and is comfortable flying about, trading ect THEN tell him
Mind you, at that point you may never get another chance to play the game yourself!
Yeah I'm sure I'll still be playing in 6 or 7 years when he's old enough. But how many hundreds of thousands of names are going to be on this database? I bet I'll never find him. And what if the mission is "Alert Bounty Hunters, Notorious Criminal xxxx xxxxx is wanted for murder and cruelty to animals, terminate with extreme prejudice!"??
I should also say that in addition to my pledge level I also have to actually buy a PC! I've got an ancient macbook at home that would stand no chance of running E
I should also say that in addition to my pledge level I also have to actually buy a PC! I've got an ancient macbook at home that would stand no chance of running E
Yes, but I imagine they will be in the form of first and surname, not name as a whole. So let's say you put in your name as "Kipper Fish" ... so the NPC's may be called:
- Kipper Jameson
- Harold Fish
- Etc
And not that your full name is selected. Least ways that's how I would do it.