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Yeah, to be honest I think spending $3k on a trip to the US is a bit of a waste too (I'd rather hold it for future server costs) but it was suggested by a couple of people and it looks like we'll hit the $10k "party option" easily. We now have the issue of who we're going to send (if we send anyone at all). Ideally, we need someone on staff who can and is willing to attend (and do all the interviewing / videoing as necessary) and they're going to have to pay airfares / transportation costs and accommodation (unless they're very close to inXile). Spending a few hundred on that, sure, fine, but when that starts costing a few thousand for a volunteer website... I mean, it's not like the staff here are loaded millionaires who are happy to throw a few extra thousand of their own to spend on the silly endeavours of the local forum-ites. So whomever goes is going to ask "How am I paying for this?". Hell, even SMA did a porn shoot to raise a couple of hundred bucks¹. If she has to spend $500 on fuel driving there or needs a taxi fare or something... My point is, I think it's only fair we pay some of the expenses giving we're sending them to the party on our behalf.
Plus if you don't like it, you can still donate to the KickStarter directly.
I agree with Metro re: In-game presence. Fargo has already said he's willing to negotiate something with us, so we'll work on that. I don't think throwing them an extra couple of bucks when they have $1.3M is necessarily going to make them want to build us a giant area with quests and everyone who has an account named as an NPC / whatever. Plus there is the "keeping it contextual within the game" issue - and not going down the Fallout 2 path of not only having silly references everywhere - or overdoing it with multiple references (like the 2 they made to Silence of the Lambs in FO2. I mean 2? Really?).
As for copies of the game, we have 153 who have donated (on average about $50 each). Around 10 have said they don't need a digital copy, most of which aren't even in the top 30. Others have put their $50 in saying they specifically didn't donate to KickStarter or in some cases, took their money out of KickStarter. So that's at least 140 copies if we want to give everyone something. The competition is open for another 28 days (and we'll keep our drive open for 28 days) so assuming we do get to $10k, that could potentially be another 50+ people fairly easily. I only think it's fair to give them something if we can. Whether that's precisely X copies with a few spare or just enough copies for everyone, I don't really care. The point is $5k is 333 copies @ $15 each and if no-one's going to the party (because no-one on staff is nearby and it costs too much) than we may as well stick with the statue option and go for something we'll actually use (every competition on the Codex for the next 10 years will be a free copy of Wasteland 2!).
I've made a poll here.
¹That seems both a strange thing to say and yet seems oddly correct for the Codex.
Plus if you don't like it, you can still donate to the KickStarter directly.
I agree with Metro re: In-game presence. Fargo has already said he's willing to negotiate something with us, so we'll work on that. I don't think throwing them an extra couple of bucks when they have $1.3M is necessarily going to make them want to build us a giant area with quests and everyone who has an account named as an NPC / whatever. Plus there is the "keeping it contextual within the game" issue - and not going down the Fallout 2 path of not only having silly references everywhere - or overdoing it with multiple references (like the 2 they made to Silence of the Lambs in FO2. I mean 2? Really?).
As for copies of the game, we have 153 who have donated (on average about $50 each). Around 10 have said they don't need a digital copy, most of which aren't even in the top 30. Others have put their $50 in saying they specifically didn't donate to KickStarter or in some cases, took their money out of KickStarter. So that's at least 140 copies if we want to give everyone something. The competition is open for another 28 days (and we'll keep our drive open for 28 days) so assuming we do get to $10k, that could potentially be another 50+ people fairly easily. I only think it's fair to give them something if we can. Whether that's precisely X copies with a few spare or just enough copies for everyone, I don't really care. The point is $5k is 333 copies @ $15 each and if no-one's going to the party (because no-one on staff is nearby and it costs too much) than we may as well stick with the statue option and go for something we'll actually use (every competition on the Codex for the next 10 years will be a free copy of Wasteland 2!).
I've made a poll here.
¹That seems both a strange thing to say and yet seems oddly correct for the Codex.
The shrine donation campaign is still ongoing.
