Planetary Annihilation Alpha Information

You already are bent out of shape. If you get more bent you're gonna snap man. SNAP

Free content updates add value to a game. It increases trust in a company in which to buy future products from.

Team Fortress 2 'hats' are the harbinger of the destruction of value.

What about, instead of hats, they sell custom idle animations for your ACU?

Is there any counter of alpha/beta/final release backers available?

you mean the amount of players?
You can check out the number of alpha/beta backers on KS.
Nobody knows however, how many of those will active.

Yes, i mean the amount of players.
But there are backers, like me, who buyed the game over the
UberEnt after Kickstarter. Is there any current count of alpha
players? Did the official developers ever said anything about
the amount of players?

Just look at the different reward levels, add up the number of people in each level that has Alpha Access and you get a good baseline number.

We have no info on people who have pre-ordered, and even then it doesn't mean that everything who has Alpha/Beta access will take part, or if they do will actually "properly" contribute to the Alpha/Beta as well, only time will tell to be honest.

Mike

I think for moderators it depends on join date and post count.

So the kinds of things that will show up in the Uber Lab are hopefully cooler than hats. For example single player missions, custom units, new biome types, new game modes or even things like AI code.

I never saw bits of code for any game be worthwhile enough to make me want to turn over money for it. My only interest is in buying games.
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If the traditional model(of just buying games) is so dead, how can Nintendo continue to sell full games and not depend on pay to download trinkets?

And Kickstarter 'is' the traditional business model; it is developers looking for investors to fund their projects. The only difference is the faces funding them.

I kind of assumed it would be a place where users could create content and upload it to a central site. And if they think their stuff is worth some money, they have the option of charging for their stuff.

What it does not look like is the glut of AAA games where they leave features out of the final game so that they can hit you with day 1 DLC.

I do think you'll see a few people trying to make a quick buck off of very little effort. But I am willing to bet most rational people will treat it like any other mod repository. And if their work is worth while it would be nice to give them a bit of cash for it.

That being said I would like to see the inclusion of a donation system. I feel a bit uncomfortable dropping $5 on "Big Jim's Big Bucket o' Biomes!" and getting a zip file of questionable content. But if I try a good mod, and I enjoy it, I'd feel much better about giving them a donation for the quality of their work.

I can see where you guys are trying to go with this, and how it can benefit the community, but I also think that monetizing the mod scene is a rocky prospect. I've always felt that the mod scene for games flourishes under open and free access, mirroring the open source community in many ways. If fewer modders are willing to contribute things in a free and open manner, I wonder how effective the modding community will be in the end.

Of course, I can't really judge before I know the details, or see the implementation, so I'll wait and observe for now.

This.

And new Commanders

I must have the Unusual Strange Chicken Dance Simulator Compartment for my Commander!

I'm not sure but from what I understand Uber Lab is going to be free content. The business model for PA and SMNC (which uses micro transitions) are totally different. So modders and modellers will probably have to do their things for free (possibly add a donation link if they feel like it). I'm thinking PA will be more like SC when it comes to modding and custom maps.

I can't wait for alpha best info ever whoo

A question I keep forgetting to ask:
If we run a server on a Linux machine, can Macs or PCs play on it? Or viceversa?

It would be insane if this were not possible. Most dedicated servers can be expected to run on linux I guess.

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