Yesterday, 03:57 PM
Yoshiyoshigraf covers it pretty well.
I will note that I am only permanently pausing FBS/bounties after 2nd Gear. I will lift that pause when the war in Ukraine is over and if Serhey is back working full time. The main stipulation is that the war in Ukraine ends. I have had too many false starts from Serhey over the last 4 years. Something war related always screws stuff up.
When the war is over and he can work again the bounties will likely resume. Prices will may go up, but not as much as if I had to continue alone. (10-25% or so.) And likely the first 10-20 milestones will be artwork only to catch everything back up.
If I were to continue the FBS/bounties alone, prices will need to go up 500-1000% to fully justify the work. I'm not sure many people will be happy with that. Even a 100-300% increase would help, but I would still be losing money on the system. And without artwork, there is minimum prospects of recouping losses with new sales. (Artwork is the main thing to draw new blood to the game.)
At the same time, I understand there are some contributors here for AeroMogul. And there are many of you here to support me regardless of new things for GC. I am contemplating keeping fund raising open after GC:2G ships to accommodate that. I would heavily discourage people from contributing then. I don't think I provide enough value with devblogs and prototype builds to justify contributions. If that were to happen, contributors would still gather votes. They could use the votes when bounties resume. Or if AeroMogul has persistent online games, use those votes to buy subscriptions.
Anyway, it's still fluid. We've got 2 milestones and an Alpha and Beta build remaining with 2nd Gear. (2.6.0.0 has one more pending bug and a few play tests.) So, these decisions are ~2 years away. Let's hope everything gets cleaned up by then.
I will note that I am only permanently pausing FBS/bounties after 2nd Gear. I will lift that pause when the war in Ukraine is over and if Serhey is back working full time. The main stipulation is that the war in Ukraine ends. I have had too many false starts from Serhey over the last 4 years. Something war related always screws stuff up.
When the war is over and he can work again the bounties will likely resume. Prices will may go up, but not as much as if I had to continue alone. (10-25% or so.) And likely the first 10-20 milestones will be artwork only to catch everything back up.
If I were to continue the FBS/bounties alone, prices will need to go up 500-1000% to fully justify the work. I'm not sure many people will be happy with that. Even a 100-300% increase would help, but I would still be losing money on the system. And without artwork, there is minimum prospects of recouping losses with new sales. (Artwork is the main thing to draw new blood to the game.)
At the same time, I understand there are some contributors here for AeroMogul. And there are many of you here to support me regardless of new things for GC. I am contemplating keeping fund raising open after GC:2G ships to accommodate that. I would heavily discourage people from contributing then. I don't think I provide enough value with devblogs and prototype builds to justify contributions. If that were to happen, contributors would still gather votes. They could use the votes when bounties resume. Or if AeroMogul has persistent online games, use those votes to buy subscriptions.
Anyway, it's still fluid. We've got 2 milestones and an Alpha and Beta build remaining with 2nd Gear. (2.6.0.0 has one more pending bug and a few play tests.) So, these decisions are ~2 years away. Let's hope everything gets cleaned up by then.
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good human beings save the world, so that bastards like me can keep creating art, become immortal.
if you read this after I am dead it means I made it." ― Charles Bukowski