Star Citizen - Did you pledge & what do you expect?

[Leo]

I, myself, have spent far too much money on Star Citizen (on ships and then on my HOTAS setup, and then on buying the guns for my ship off their market, AND THEN ON THE SUBSCRIPTION FOR A YEAR). Although, I'd have to say spending all that money is worth it because Freelancer was really the last true Space Sim for a long time. After FL came out (2001 if I remember correctly?) there weren't really any after it besides the X series and EvE Online--even though EvE Online isn't ACTUALLY a Space Sim.

I've got a lot of ships, and even an Organization that I started up as a group wanting to destroy the UEE through terrorist plots and sabotage after putting together a 100 post story about the character I plan on playing in Roleplay.

Moving on, the Freelancer community will shrink even further than what it already has. I've been around since the beginning and I can tell you that it's significantly shrunk already (I blame that on the graphics starting to become more and more archaic compared to newer games). Sadly, it's the truth about any game that is a predecessor to a newer more graphically beautiful game--and Star Citizen is friggin' gorgeous. I don't believe that people will up and leave FL completely because people who love the story, me included, will continue to play it, if not just for the single player story.

It will be a LONG time until mods like Discovery come out for Star Citizen. Freelancer has become incredibly easy to modify because of how long it's been out. Long time modders, like myself and others, have become so familiar with Freelancer that we know how to control just about anything in the ini's and other files. Star Citizen, however, is a mammoth of a game (some people are saying the completed game will be well in excess of 100 GB) and there is Planetside, FPS, Racing, ship interiors, amongst other things in Star Citizen that Freelancer doesn't have that modders will have to contend with as well. That translates to more time required to mod and craft everything.

I'm looking forward to seeing the mods that Star Citizen spawns though. I'm certain that Freelancer mods for Star Citizen will exist in some form and I hope that they're everything that we've dreamed of for so many years as a Freelancer 2.

~Leo

P.S. There is actually a modding guide for Star Citizen in their store (digital version) that you can preorder for $10. It won't be released until the game is, but I'm guessing it will have all the information that you need to know to modify the game files to create your own mods.

P.P.S. Sorry for the small grave dig.

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