Starkiller

Let hear KI about that.

They repeatedly said that if they do not reach min goal, they will find the other mean of funding to complete the project, so it is not a donation as you said.

No, your hardcoreness, there is nothing dictate that KI have to put their money to make the minimum goal reached. So it is not a fact, just one of the possibilities.

I bow down to your majestic high and mighty hardcoreness. Can your majesty leave us lowly softcore simmers alone?

Don't quote my name with his word. lol :pilotfly:You got the wrong guy.

Then almost all (if not all) flight sims in the past are amateur things. At least ALL flight models are the approximation.

I hope it's true! :)

From my PC, it shows up-to-date information, $21,752. Maybe it stuck in your internet cache?

Yesterday things get a little bit better. Same number of pledgers per day as the last few days, but higher $ per pledger.

I am not a very good virtual-pilot, but would love to participate, not leadership role though. :) PM sent

I would say we should start worrying... If nothing change, this will not even reach $25,000.

It would be great.

Can you see it now? If not, what is your browser? I use IE 10.

I tried refresh 10 times, but the picture is still there. May be the problem is your link have wrong address "http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3739/9...503535c3_b.jpg" instead of "http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3739/9154996093_21503535c3_b.jpg"

I can see the posted link through my browser just fine, sir.

What do you suspect cause the problem then? Definitely not the server side as many others can see it.

I can see the pic in that link just fine, probably your connection or firewall policy... :)

Nothing would be charged.

I can see the picture fine. May be it is your pc have bad radar, Sven.

X52 pro fc3 profile please.

You can maximize profit in many ways, not only through sales but also through a wise choice of how to get funded. By using leverage (i.e. using others' money) you increase ROI. For example if a project use $100 investment to get 20% profit. If you invest 100%, your ROI is 20%. If you only invest your own money 50% and others' 50% ignoring the cost of fund, your ROI will be 40%. KS is a new platform that mixing funding with preordering and sales. You cannot use old Industrial Age paradigm to categorize it to be only for funding. That is not what it is. Of course KS have its own inherent problem of scamming, but it is normal in any business activities. That is why people need to use their best judgement in business transaction. However, many independent game developers successfully get funded to create their dream games that will be otherwise fail to get funded through normal publishers. Nowadays publishers gone mass and niche market games like RPG or flight sims are largely ignored by them. As this is way off-topic, I will stop this conversation now. Just agree to disagree.

Hi eagle, I gonna be frank with you, and you know that I am support your project strongly. However, I am not sure how that trend was calculated, but I don't think it will be accurate at all. The 2nd 24 hours pledging number is much lower than the 1st one indicating that the initial wave have died down. If a new wave from PR through other gaming sites won't come or come but not strong enough you will have trouble reaching the minimum goal. Some strong PR act is much needed. And I think you should communicate more to relieve some worries from the skeptics which might translate some of them into higher pledging.

I don't deny Kickstarter reducing risks, but it is also increase the Return on Investment because you get the same amount of profit with less of your money. And if they cannot get funded enough and have to inject their own money, their risk will actually be higher than when they get fully funded in which risks is almost zero. You can disagree with the concept of raising fund through KS but that not making it bad. People have to know what the condition they invest in and what benefit they expect. In this case, they don't expect any profit sharing, only incentives KI provides. They know what they will get before hand, so that's fair. I don't see it as scam in anyway if they gonna do it that way, as long as they deliver what they promise.

It is not so in the real business world. Using 100% one's own money have less Return on Investment (ROI) than using others'. They need to maximize profit, especially in a niche market such as flight sim. This is not charity. Welcome to capitalism.