Rough draft for our Kickstarter reward tiers

[INovaeGene]

Otherwise, why would I back that tier if I could just get it in game normally?

That’s how I feel about Star Citizen ships…

[DirkLarien]

Are you planing any sort of ship decal customization ?
[War thunder style ?][1]
Exclusive logos ?
hmm… I can already see the ad for it:

Slow flyby of a ship, camera at front, ship passes camera.
Shot from the back bellow the ship.

Revealing ship flying into the atmosphere.
Announcer or text saying:

"Get your exclusive logo today!
LIMITED stock !

Only now during Kickstarter"
Fly by of that ship during reentry… ship engulfed in plasma.

After a while ship lands and camera reveals for the first time top part of now landed ship
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“Exclusive kickstarter logo, for only xx.99 (or your regional equivalent)”

(this is just a joke !!!)

ps: Keith pretty please we could use https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-you-spoiler-an-image-or-onebox/55
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVw1FT4DAM8

[INovaeHutchings]

It took me a moment to realize that was a Photoshop operation… for a moment I assumed someone leaked our Braben and Roberts ship decals somehow… good thing it’s not legit

(Also a Joke !!!) Leaving the thread he murmurs to himself… that was a close one, I hope they never find this thread…

[Kreydis]

I would literally drop a thousand just to be able to make 1 random asteroid of my choosing a googly eye asteroid.

Edit: Hell, sell asteroid painter, With semi-limited/unlimited choice on what you paint onto it. Although beware the porn that will inevitably happen if you don’t force a selection of stuff to be painted.

[Skyentist]

I’ll pool in resources for that

[INovaeHutchings]

I would literally drop a thousand just to be able to make 1 random asteroid of my choosing a googly eye asteroid.

Or perhaps a googly eyed asteroid plushy, that hangs on a string in your cockpit

[Skyentist]

Or perhaps a googly eyed asteroid plushy, that hangs on a string in your cockpit

like times 50! Make it so Hutch!

[Kreydis]

Or perhaps a googly eyed asteroid plushy

You want my bank account now or later?

[Skyentist]

This sudden turn of events has me even more excited for the kickstarter.

[Japa]

Now I’m very sad that you aren’t offering physical rewards.

[thelazyjaguar]

Along with the concept of unique weapon particle effects, perhaps a unique re-entry effect. For example, your ship resembles a giant flaming phoenix while transiting the atmosphere.

[Kichae]

I would literally drop a thousand just to be able to make 1 random asteroid of my choosing a googly eye asteroid.

Holy crap, someone start working on merchandising deals.

Or perhaps a googly eyed asteroid plushy, that hangs on a string in your cockpit

You joke, but if the game ever launches with a googly eyed asteroid in it, I’d buy a real-life plushy, and shirts, and start wondering “There’s a googly eyed poop emoji, so where’s my googly eyed asteroid emoji?”

[Kichae]

So, just throwing this up here, because reasons.
@Kreydis @Hutchings

[Skyentist]

250$? You got it!

[frag971]

Here’s a few ideas i took from other games. Planetside 2 has some good examples for KS-only rewards.

• Instead of offering entire exclusive ships as rewards why not special “armor” or “skins”? Lets say you have a Cruiser you get in game. You can also get a Fancy Cruiser in game by winning really well. The KS exclusive will have a variation on the Fancy Cruiser that has golden plating instead of the normal one. It would be very shiny and obvious that this guy is “awesome!” and bought the KS exclusive noone else can get now. You would be changing a single shader on a ship to match a gold material (i guess it might be more complicated than that).

• Similar to the above, there could be weapon categories (all lasers for example) that could have a KS-exclusive visual and sonic variation. For example it could be a white-colour laser with a unique distinct sound (white lasers only available to NPCs and KS-backers).

• Ship trails. Unique trails for all your ships. Make them look like a waterfall or simply glowy plasma.

• In-game pets just like in WoW. Might sound stupid but A LOT of people are obsessed with these kinds of things. This would be a cute little bot following your ship and doesn’t interact with anything. They would sometimes fly in front of your ship when you’re not in combat and do something funny like wiping your cockpit glass with a napkin. Here’s a few examples:

1 http://orig08.deviantart.net/a440/f/2013/222/a/5/cat_spaceship_by_hoozuki-d6hjplj.png
2 http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-u_o9pDhxz2s/VVrQETAy-OI/AAAAAAAACmA/oVmZzzVaUZk/s1600/turntable.gif
3 http://i1.wp.com/static.tooncharacters.com/uploads/2014/01/Flying_Robot_with_Wrench_Hands_Cartoon_Character2.jpg
4 http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/flying-angry-round-robot-vector-26656194.jpg
5 http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/x/flying-round-robot-26694107.jpg
6 http://us.123rf.com/450wm/b14ckminus/b14ckminus1208/b14ckminus120800012/14814513-robotic.jpg?ver=6
7 http://thumb7.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/735856/190767281/stock-photo-futuristic-flying-robot-isolated-on-white-background-190767281.jpg
8 http://thumb101.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/863875/250608493/stock-photo-cute-android-robot-flying-in-the-sky-250608493.jpg
9 https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/04/5e/51/045e516e5644724138bde38ed2f8cef7.jpg

• Engine sounds. Simply a different set of “awesome” sounds for your spaceships. Maybe something resembling a Formula 1 car engine sound, a helicopter or a steam engine or something silly or cool.

• Decals. Pretty easy one, exclusive KS-only decals for your ships.

• PTS access. Access to the test server after the game launches for a sneakpeak at new features and help test/feedback. Not sure how useful this would be but it’s something.

• Merchandising deal for battlescape-themed clothing offered as a reward for backers only such as shirts, hats, coats, etc…

[Parisbre56]

I do kind of like the idea of a led panel on backer ships where you can make either a rolling text (imagine a ‘you can’t touch this’ blinking on the rear end of a ship that flies away from it’s pursuer) or a custom picture (like a huge crosshair)… Probably a terrible idea but oh well, fun to think about it…

That could work, if you had some sort of kill replay, showing how you died from the enemy’s perspective while you wait to respawn. Then again, that has the potential to induce RAGE! if someone starts being an idiot with what he writes. So it might be better to keep it limited to preset things (don’t give players the ability to change it to whatever they want or paint their ships however they want (on official servers, at least), but do give them the ability to ask a dev to change their custom decorations or to buy approved skins or something similar).

[dekaku]

quote=“Parisbre56, post:265, topic:849” Then again, that has the potential to induce RAGE! (…)
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Hence me calling it a terrible idea (even though I personally like it) ^^

asking for approval might cause a lot of extra work for the devs who then can’t work on the game. Maybe later they could hire someone who’s sole purpose is to deal with the community, including such approvals.

[hrobertson]

If customisable messages on ships are going to be added, it will probably be in the vein of nose art on planes and any filtering will most likely just be a profanity blacklist and the ability for people to flag others for review by a moderator.

[SpaceDonki]

I haven’t seen this mentioned yet, but maybe add a ‘free cam’-mode to a tier. I’ve seen @Hutchings utilizing a free cam mode in this video, which would be an unique feature to pledge for in my opinion.

[JB47394]

I would argue against a free-roving camera. The sense of awe instilled by the vast scale of the planetary system around the star would be either seriously compromised or lost.