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Originally posted by Wildfire View PostBeing able to donate funds is not the point. That is already possible with Amazon Payments (see here: http://www.kickstarter.com/blog/amaz...ts-and-us-only). The point is being able to start campaigns to receive funding. As long as non-US citizens cannot do this, the whole system seems a bit unfair. We're allowed to give, but only a priviledged few are allowed to receive.
That said, it would be nice if anyone could start projects there - but then there is nothing stopping people from creating local kickstarter-like services. Set up a company, create a webpage offering the same services in your continent, and there you go, problem solved.
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Originally posted by hiryu View PostI've never played TA, but I love Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance which is apparently somewhat of a spiritual sequel to TA. If that's even slightly true, I'll be putting my money into this kickstarter.
On a semi related note: I'm soooo sick of all the FPS games in Linux... I'm far more of an RTS man. There are some FPS's I like a lot, and fortunately L4D2 is one of them.
I'm sick of FPSs too, Linux needs the best FPSs (like L4D2, Serious Sam, etc), some more RTSs like this one to join Oil Rush, and some goddamn RPGs. I know FPSs are easier to jump into because there is basically no complex gameplay involved, but I like deep, complex, and involved games, if done right.
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Originally posted by Yfrwlf View PostYes, Total Annihilation and the Supreme Commander series are basically the same games. TA is essentially SupCom 0. AFAIK, what happened is some or at least one of the developers working on Total Annihilation transferred over to making SupCom 1. You can tell because they used the exact same AI code, I'm sure modified a bit. If you played both games as much as I have, you can easily tell.
History lesson time!
Cavedog created Total Annihilation, designed by Chris Taylor. Chris later formed Gas Powered Games and brought some other folks from Cavedog. As the rights to TA were not held by GPG, they made Supreme Commander. The rights to SC were sold off to Square Enix some time back, hence why SC2 was published by Square. A very large portion of the folks at Uber are ex-GPG employees, some of them having been at Cavedog as well. It's worth noting that a lot of the Cavedog folks were also ex-Square employees from back before they closed their Seattle offices.
SC was a completely from the ground up new engine. SC2 also used a completely different AI engine than SC. The lead AI engineer for SC (who was not part of the AI team for TA) is currently at Uber, although he's still working on Super Monday Night Combat rather than on Planetary Annihilation, last I heard. PA will of course share zero code with TA, SC, or SC2, as Uber does not own rights to any of those games or codebases.
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Very excited to see how this game will turn out.
If they can make the interface simple and fun enough to use even with all the functions they're building into the game then this might just become my new favourite RTS!
Oh and I love how seriously Linux users are considered as an audience for gaming projects on kickstarter. So awesome
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