A Note To Planetary Annihilation Fans About Human Resources

Awesome!!! I am a bit less hyped than with the PA kickstarter trailer, but I am going to back this for sure!!

Also any engine additions made for Human resources might also be used by Planetary Annihilation, so this is good for both games
And even though the PA team has halved, it was already doubled during the process of building PA, so I bet new stuff will keep coming!!

And yes, will you guys support paypal again, or only after the initial funding has finished?

Look im happy that Uber is wanting to iterate on the RTS genre more, we certainly need more modern RTS games.

im worried about the backlash people with have on this game, its certainly going to piss alot of people off

and quietly im worried if the team is going to be split to make both games, PA isnt even finished yet

I dont even beleive what i am reading. How do you expect any of us to back this when you didnt even deliver on PA?

Edit: 'Planetary Annihilation’s vision has been achieved or else we wouldn’t have launched it, but that was just one journey. We embarked on a more adventurous one the second we updated it to 1.0.'

This.. WHAT THE **** IS THIS? ITS VISION HAS BEEN ACHIEVED? BY WHOS STANDARDS? CERTAINLY NOT THE KICKSTARTERS?

They might have halved the team working on PA, but you can't have too many people working on the same game anyways. As they say, more cooks makes worse soup (or something like that, direct translation from swedish, basically means that a LOT of people are just gonna get in the way of each other). The game looks really good aswell, and hopefully it will be awesome.

Personally, I think this could turn out better than expected, because once PA's cashflow starts decreasing, other games can support it. Plus, more money is better for development. (And they've learned a bunch from PA, I imagine)

i don't know, but i think i would be better if they announced this KS campaign alittle later, and made the campaign time a little longer.

question: how much time was the KS campaign for PA?

wow, the funding period of PA was 30 days!, this game just might workout

"...we had a huge Kickstarter on [Planetary Annihilation] and we have delivered on it"
Really?

Technically yes, they did have a product to deliver.

It's a bit vague to say "Team".

Teams are made up of a certain number of people, and just saying "Team" does not ensure us that the same amount of people are working on one product as the other.

I'm likely correct in assuming that some of the people who worked on PA are now on HR.

It's reasonably to have doubts about things we don't know anything about.

So, to ask a question directly.

"Are the same number of people working on PA now as there were before HR came up?".

This is not an accusation, I do not say this as a claim that you're abandoning the product, simply taking interest in the continued development.

Are you guys singlehandedly reviving the RTS genre ?

are those robots eating people... I'M IN

Sorian already posted that more than half the company is still on PA. I'm sure they will shift people around over time, but it sounds like they definitely have many more months of work planned.

That's still vague.

I'm not saying that they don't have work planned or anything like that.

But, "more than half" is meaningless if we won't know how many before hand.

If before HR, 75% of Uber was working on PA, and now it's 50%, how can they claim to be confident development won't be affected, after losing 50% of the people working on a project?

If you do the math, they lost 33% of people from the PA team, according to your model. And those are probably people specialized in graphics, artstyle etc., so people who they do not need in the PA team.

You are correct.

However, It's still speculation.

I'm not arguing to be convinced, I'm arguing to be informed.

Let's hope for information and answers then.

Seems interesting, but i'll wait until the next big PA update to see its progress to decide if I can kickstarter this. I Love PA so much and I wish all success for Uber, but as a customer i have to admit i'm a bit disappointed with the way PA launch was taken.

Why should I back HR kickstarter Project when Uber have not delivered upon previous kickstarter Project commitments in full? E.g. half finished stretch goals like galactic war, etc.

Well they are not telling you to do it, but they are telling us that there is the possibility. If you don't like it or trust it don't back it. Your choice.

This recent announcement about Human Resources makes me glad I didn't become an early supporter of PA and pay $100+ dollars for it.

With that said, I wish Uber all the luck in the world on their Kickstarter campaign for Human Resources. They're going to need it....