Kickstarter

Creator db on December 27

Even though we won't have the ability to seamlessly fly toward a planet and land on it; if we fly toward the rings of saturn, will they appear as rocks/asteroids?

Creator Thomas Larsen on December 27

30 years of Elite

Elite 1984

Elite Dangerous 2014

Creator Herr Antony Murray on December 27

come on guy and girls we CAN do it ,COME on mac People be part of the best game every to be released on the Mac,may be will get an up date tomz about a unix version to the ever one bangs on about not me through i like shitty windows lol

Creator MonkeyMan (Happy New Elite to everyone!) on December 27

@ captain - I withdraw my overly cautious comment :)

Creator James Jones on December 27

Rings of saturn
http://www.youtube.com/watch…

Creator Bloocheez on December 27

my neighbours will wonder what is going on when we hit £1m :D

Creator Penguin - Weresheep of the Antarctic on December 27

@Frontier X-Plane maybe worth examining as it has Windows/Mac/Linux native clients now, and uses advanced controllers: http://www.x-plane.com/

Creator Cmdr Elvis Brandenburg - Kremmen on December 27

@Michael..thanks for the heads up.......1 million tonght !! ...... i bet your chuffed ?

Creator SpacialKatana[Kate's Ninja Squad] on December 27

Hello all, not been on for a week or so. That figure to the right is beginning to flex its muscles now I see, nice!!
My vid stunt (some may remember) means I have to currently ??Jonty?? £143 before the end :D

Creator Tech, R. Sheep Curator/Last Cipher (EiT) on December 27

Any idea what the decals look like for the £5 addon pledges?

Creator Andrew Dickson [Smug mode 'ON' :o)] on December 27

Under 5k to go... COME ON!!!

Creator Philip Turner [AKA PianoPhil @ FD Forum] on December 27

£5K to go.

Creator Thomas Larsen on December 27

if the 10,000 who pledged 20 or less doubled their pleged, we would be there now :)

Creator MonkeyMan (Happy New Elite to everyone!) on December 27

Haha! Under 5k to go... Come on my fellow pilots... Lets hit the 1 million tonight...

Creator izzy on December 27

5k to £1M :-)

Welcome to all new backers !!

Creator Cmdr Elvis Brandenburg - Kremmen on December 27

We also need some more goodies between the pledge tiers £100 - £500....to temp people up !!

Creator PaulB on December 27

@Joerg - apparently there is a new Dev Diary scheduled for tomorrow.

Creator Associat0r [Space is Blue] on December 27

@Paul Maunders - also check out http://www.eliteforever.co.uk/games.html

Creator Philip Turner [AKA PianoPhil @ FD Forum] on December 27

@ James - when I watch the opening credits for voyager I imagine myself flying on top off the asteroid rings around the planet.

Creator Mobius on December 27

@ paul Maunders, never knew that they had been packaged up, im off now to play Encounters as that was the one i never got to play. nice one for bringing it to my attention.

Creator Joerg Starkmuth on December 27

Yep! 5000 to go!

Creator KIlvenny on December 27

Been flicking through the comments while debugging some code so apologies if I am picking up on a long lost thread - re developing galaxy and what should be there. in the extremes of the galaxy.
I see a number of elements
1) Parts should never be inhabited - so there is no guarantee of life in any form
2) New races/factions should appear during the life span of the game to create interest
3) Player based factions should be able to create pockets of evolving life.
4) SPL should create a library of objects for buildings/fields/space station parts which should be available for player/faction utilisation in some fashion. Players could then exploit natural resources of the planet they develop and maybe at some point that resource runs out.

I understand the purists dont want this last aspect but to me this guarantees an evolving galaxy.

Creator Joerg Starkmuth on December 27

I hope that once the current boost starts to weaken, FD will come up with another cool in-game video. Maybe we'll finally see close-ups of a space station? Or even a docking sequence?

Creator James Jones on December 27

How about some wow factor? Imagine flying through the rings of Saturn!

Creator Cmdr Elvis Brandenburg - Kremmen on December 27

@Monkeyman..err very well ty at the moment would suffice :)

Creator Alexander R on December 27

I am hoping we see some significant variety in ship types; in addition to capitol ships can you imagine giant lumbering transports covered along the length of their structural spine in inflated bags of gas / chemicals. They would make a rich target for pirates but could also be tempting to traders due to their low initial construction / purchase cost and massive cargo capacity.

Think of the ship from 2001 but with inflated storage attached to the superstructure.

Creator Alex Korbey on December 27

just over £5k to go. awesome.

Creator Lee Cotterill on December 27

*over*

Creator Lee Cotterill on December 27

@ All cheers people, hopefully this will get made, nearly of the 1 million line, lets push it over now, ill provoke the wrath of my twitter/facebook followers by info bombing them into pledge submission! :)

Creator Paul Maunders on December 27

@Associat0r cool thanks :)

Creator MonkeyMan (Happy New Elite to everyone!) on December 27

@captain - it may be worthwhile letting them keep that under their hat for now...

Creator Jeremy Curtis on December 27

Only having Macs here the stretch goal for Mac support is nice. Having been on the £500 tier since the first day or so of the campaign, I was wondering how well ED would run in the likes of VMware Fusion - maybe I don't have to worry too much about that now? In any case, being a few minutes walk from the Frontier office if they want a tame alpha / beta tester now and then on-site for an objective view of things, just drop me line!

Creator Cmdr Elvis Brandenburg - Kremmen on December 27

@Michael..Hi any idea yet how the paypal donations are going ?

Creator MonkeyMan (Happy New Elite to everyone!) on December 27

All welcome @Lee - well done.

As much as we all love the game, only pledge what you're comfortable with.

Creator Harbinger [god-like] on December 27

Associat0r 2 minutes ago
@Paul Maunders - http://www.eliteforever.co.uk/downloads.html
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Nice, the PC versions are preconfigured for Dosbox.

Creator Steve Jeyes on December 27

Can anyone recommend a headset that works with Xbox, PS3 and PC?

Creator Jason S on December 27

What i am hoping for is to be able to play this one day on a tablet and then to continue the same game on the PC or Mac and then continue the game on the ipad or Android tablet. For when on the sofa or train etc....

From what has been said I am hopeful for that.

Creator Cmdr. Bond [DDF Member + Ship ID & Mug] on December 27

Michael was going to look into the PayPal funding stretch goals - but *if* the KS doesn't make it by itself, ALL PayPal monies HAVE to be refunded.

Creator PaulB on December 27

@Lee - Thanks, much appreciated :)

Creator Andrew Dickson [Smug mode 'ON' :o)] on December 27

@ Lee - Nice one matey. Every contribution is a decent one.

Creator Steven Moore on December 27

@Stephen Usher... It looks like I'll be spending tonight looking at joysticks then!!

Creator Tors on December 27

Would be cool if you could deploy some kind of space probes with messages (text/audio/credits) in space and/or on planets.
Then you could arrange in-game treasure hunts and stuff :)

Creator Harbinger [god-like] on December 27

@Philip Konczak: You can get the originals for free as shareware (http://www.eliteclub.org.uk/) or maybe try OOlite (http://www.oolite.org/) or Pioneer (http://pioneerspacesim.net/)

Creator Davey Boy Wonder on December 27

@Lee - very decent. N1

Creator Associat0r [Space is Blue] on December 27

@Paul Maunders - http://www.eliteforever.co.uk/downloads.html