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Originally Posted by cDnStealth
The original game they pitched, that was 100% doable. But the game has ballooned into a monstrosity that has zero chance of being released. Why the hell are they wasting time and resources making an FPS module? People backed the game for a space combat sim. Make that game first, release it and then plan expansions.
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That is exactly what was supposed to happen, but then the money train started rolling and they started building everything at once and everytime someone had an idea they just started rolling with it without anyone asking the question if they should. Here's an example from the SC sub-reddit, this actually happened
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An example for you - how a simple NPC taxi service idea blew out of proportion into the latest concept sale...
"Ok, so we've identified a potential gap to close: if a player's ship is destroyed or otherwise inaccessible and they need to get from one place or another, we need some way for them to do that, so let's make a public transit system so that players can ride along in passenger transport ships."
"Oh, so we're going to need to design some passenger transport ships then, okay we'll get on that. We might as well throw it up as an option for the backer-decided ship polls; if it does well then we can make it player-flyable."
"Well the ship got voted in, so now we are working on it. We are going to have to fully flesh it out for flight now rather than it just being an NPC ship, so it will take some time. We'll call it the Genesis Starliner. It will be used to move people around!"
"Who would have thought that carrying passengers around from point A to point B would be boring? Looks like we need to design some stuff to make this gameplay actually fun. How about a bartender mini-game? Yeah, that totally belongs in a space sim. Build it! That won't be enough though, let's also throw in a mechanic where you have to repeatedly replace spare parts that look like servers. We're in this mini-game thing deep enough already, why not go whole hog right?"
"You know, what if there are people who don't want to do that mini-game stuff? Maybe we should make some variants of the Starliner for other purposes, I mean it isn't like we have tons of other features we already need to be working on. Let's get thinking on those variants! Clearly we need a military variant of this ship because reasons. What else could we sell people?"
"How about a 'Luxury' one? I mean like more 'Luxury'. Better get to work on that too..."
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Ridiculous