Well, we could say that the advert has to be approved by the devteam and the ad itself has to fall within the confines of the lore, but then ofc that makes the whole idea very unattractive for $10k. Unless there was a way to make the in-game advert tongue-in-cheek lore-wise hinting at the real life corporation, this lore-friendly ad would then lead players (if they so choose) to the real web for the advert. However, if I was in a marketing team of a prospective backer corporation looking at that $10k reward, Iād balk at not being able to have my actual real life ad directly displayed, visually, in the game.
1 Like
I think you should be very careful with wording of such limitation and that it should be included somewhere on the KS page. You really canāt decide who pledges for that tier and it might open up a huge can of worms with the pledging company, you also canāt expect some marketing guy that wants his $10k banner for a sausages website to be as logical and reasonable as you when it comes to āconfines of the loreā game content. I donāt even wanna mention pr0n.
Orā¦ you could make the billboards destructible (after all, they are in the game) and allow private servers to pick and choose what to display (so the lore-friendly āCoca Spacolaā ads would likely get more views than āenlargeyourmanhood.czā). Realistically youād have a very hard time stopping people from stripping out the ads they canāt be bothered watching anyway.
This would, of course, lead to instant emergent gameplay where Something Awful and 4chan has a competition destroying respectively āenlargeyourmanhood.czā and āherbalpillshere.tkā ads.
Also: please donāt turn ads into links that open up in 3rd party browsers. If you want to make an in-game browser for the ads, cool, go for it, but I do NOT want to get tabbed out to firefox because I accidently clicked an ad in-game.
I think a big thing for me is, I donāt want to put Ā£350 in for Battlescape, then a year down the line have to put another Ā£350 in for a potential full MM.
Would you be able to put a tier on to secure like Alpha/Beta access on for potential future developments? Maybe not full access to the game, but maybe an early bird special?
We have discussed this yes, some kind of access to future Infinity related projects.
2 Likes
I personally donāt like real ads in games, it was just an idea on our rough draft etc. I have all the same concerns as you guys do about it.
2 Likes
The billboards can be on a rotating basis, perhaps, so theres a billboard next to every station and it constantly rotates between everyoneās ads. This could also let you lower the price on them but offer more, and make them more believable in-game.
1 Like
I want three copies of the game and one beta, not the extra āall of the aboveā. (Depending on finances, three copies for sure.)
I would think Lynex would be a tier offer.
You can be certain that itāll be a lot more than a year down the line. Maybe 5 at the earliest if this KS goes totally amazingly?
1 Like
Pretty key point there, and a reason Iāll be enlisting minions in the near future. Although, Iām sure many of you will be advocates of the project anyways 
1 Like
Yeah, Iād like to do that, but that would more be courtesy when the time comes, and wouldnāt be mentionned during Battlescapeās KS. If I remember well, KS rules state that you canāt have rewards that arenāt directly tied to the project and that may eventually not happen in the future, thereās too much of a legal risk.
1 Like
The backer ship skins will be non-compulsory, right? Not going to be linking my forum account up with a badge either.
Hope my fears are completely unfounded with this community, but Iām not changing my standard policy on anything that has a chance of splitting one.
So what youāre saying is if your pledge qualifies for the skins and forum badge you donāt actually want them?
2 Likes
Yep, Iām odd. 
1 Like
To be honest, I only want to give money as wellā¦ I donāt even have a descent pc to play this game on. I am just very interested in how Battlescape might develop, and eventually leading to a real infinite universe generator where we need to find earth. I have no interest in fighting, only exploring, but I see the need for an interim project before making that happen.
3 Likes
You can pledge without selecting a reward. Or pledge more then the minimim ammount of the reward selected. So if you donāt wanāt it ā¦ you donāt need to ger it.
1 Like
I donāt see what youāre fearing about the vanity fair: this is not the root cause of a community split. Certainly not a simple badge or a ship skin that you get as well-defined reward.
But well, youāre odd, Iāll give you that 
While I donāt believe badges and/or skins cause community split, Iām still unsure as to whether Iāll want to āactivateā them if I had them.
If theyāre purely for vanity and bragging then Iām not interested.
Iād use a forum badge if it informed other forum members of something useful regarding their interaction with me. Eg if I answer a question about gameplay or control scheme etc, and they can see by my badge that I have access to the nightlies, then they can infer that I have more knowledge about the current direction of development than someone without that badge.
Regarding skins, Iād choose from those available to me based on their aesthetics alone. If one essentially said āLook at me! Iām special (because I paid to be).ā then Iād be less inclined to use it.
3 Likes
So, which kickstarter tier will unlock the dark theme for this forum?
5 Likes
There is a bit of infighting about the dark theme. I would like it dark, others on the team want it light. We will likely go with a medium grey
4 Likes