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It was certainly very exciting and the next year is going to be rather a long wait. I got so excited that I participated in one of the novel projects as well (Elite Anthology) and backed several others... Rather expensive, all in all.

If you can point me towards a few cases where established companies or "old hands" have put up Kickstarters and then betrayed the pledgers, I might take your words more seriously. As it is, the only Kickstarters that have failed / been delayed after being funded that I know of have been from...

They are an old company and have been in business for a long time. The Elite games were big in their time and the developer diaries clearly show that they have even bigger things in mind for the fourth iteration. I would not call it risky at all - less risky, in fact, than most other things...

And Frontier Dev just published a devdiary on Youtube. Looks good! http://www.youtube.com/user/FrontierDevelopments

For me, personally, nothing can replace the feeling of flying a Cobra Mk III or any of the other ships familiar from the original series. Thus, the various Elite clones have never really appealed to me, with the exception of Oolite which is basically the original with many additional spices (not...

I agree that the list of features should at least contain one additional item: - career-specific story lines which would add story lines (gasp!) to each of the career choices that you can make in the game (explorer, pirate, privateer, trader, assassin, bounty hunter etc. etc.).

They have been adding content to the Kickstarter page since the launch, but I do admit that it is way less than we saw with Star Citizen (which I also backed). But Frontier Enterprises still has time to up the content, so I will not lose hope and start damning them until I've given them that time.

Don't jinx it! :D Well, at least they are trying it this time. If only enough people back it up, we might finally see something come out of it as well.

Since Star Citizen was discussed here, I thought it worthy to post news of even a bigger deal: David Braben finally trying to kickstart Elite 4 almost after 20 years since the last installment in the series. Elite: Dangerous is the name and you can find the Kickstarter page here...

Ah, they are finally attempting to finish the game! The next step will be the victory movies. After those are added, I might actually try playing the game again...

Just popping in... Have they added victory movies etc. yet? I haven't played the game since 2 or 3 weeks after the release... Waiting for them to complete the game...

I agree with this as well.

Yup, I agree that the basic mechanics need the most work. I'll not return to CiV before that has been fixed or at least improved.

What are the prerequisites? We don't have religions in Civ5 yet, but if we did we'd prolly need either Christianity or you'd have to play as the Romans to celebrate Saturnalia, which started the whole "bring a three inside, decorate it and give gifts to each other" business. Any other cultures...

One of the most important things to fix are the civics. The current system forces you to start aiming for a particular victory condition from the very start of the game. This, along with the other AIs blatantly talking about "winning a game" destroys every bit of immersion that one might have...