You must be mistaken, I’ve been told by the critics that no one is interested in this pack!?

The funny thing is this; the people most interested in this pack, are the whales who have bought a ton of ships, who want to consolidate all their stuff into one single pack with everything.

And here is the clincher… they can only use one ship at a time.

These are not trolls who buys ships to kill beginners when they first log in, these are guys who just want to pitch in.

This is grown adults, who paid their dues playing the old games, we understand what patience is; believe me.

We are the people who as kids sat way beyond our bedtime, playing the same missions, over and over and over again for weeks, months sometimes, because we were so enthralled and engaged in these games. We have paid our gaming worth in time; we know what patience means.

We are people who want this game to happen and are willing to put some of our available funds towards the game, because we realize that without CIG; this game is never going to happen.

You think EA is going to make this? Nope.

When the game, far into the future, hopefully goes gold, the only thing I at least want, is to stand tall and say, I helped make my dream game become a reality; that is it.

We are of the generation who bought and played a game and stuck with it, we don’t suffer from gamer ADHD, which is so easy these times with steam sales and a new game coming out every day.

Here is the thing, myself, as a whale, think of myself, just the same, as the people who paid 45 bucks for a base package. Dare I say, in my eyes, there is no difference. We all have an equal voice. Me spending more money than you have NO difference in input to CIG.

We put in what we feel comfortable putting in, be it 45USD or 27k USD. We all, have an equal voice.

I don’t know if I count as a whale or not, I’ve put in about 13,000 USD into the game over these years.

Let me state, that I am an adult, I have a proper budget as most adults do, where most of our expenses go to where they belong, and I have my personal money that I can spend myself. Sometimes some of that goes to CIG.

And let me say, and I think I speak for most of the whales out there, big or small, if a situation occurs where regular players can not advance, because we bought ships, I will personally send a complaint to CIG. I will stop buying them. And CIG will change their tune accordingly. I can only speak for myself, but from what I know of other whales, and I know a few. Their goal isn’t to get ahead of you, we don’t keep spending our play money on this game in order to troll you.

If there are any other whales out there who feel the same, please speak up.

I didn’t spend all this money to troll you, I spent it to make this game a reality. I don’t buy into the whole ordeal of Chris, his brother and his wife trying to scam us. He is on camera, the guy is exposing himself, promising to make the game he always dreamt of. Do you honestly think he’s trying to shell away the money for himself and his brother, this guy who’s whole career basically has been making space games. Use your intelligence, think about it. CIG will soon have over FIVE HUNDRED employees. It’s late, sure. It didn’t go as fast as Chris thought it would, fine. But they are doing their very best to deliver it as fast as they can. Of this there can be no doubt.

And it’s not a Stockholm syndrome. I don’t throw money into this game because I’ve already thrown in so much so I’m afraid it will fail. If this game fails, and let’s be honest, it might. I will be sad; not angry. Because I know it can fail, I back this game despite that knowledge. I know it can fail. If i lose the money I spent, it will not matter for me financially, only emotionally; because I sooo want to play it.

Never, ever, spend more money than you are willing to lose, on a kickstarter. Never.

If it fails, I won’t be sad because my money is gone, because I spent well within what I could afford. I will be sad because I can’t experience it. My childhood dream come true will be gone, and no one else will ever attempt this endavure.

A long time ago, I realized that this game can’t become everything I thought it would be, and believe me, I am critical. The last 24 hours I have received two CIG replies on reddit. One that satisfied my critique, and one has not yet satisfied my critique.

I don’t face a different answer than I expected with anger, because the firesure way to NOT change someones mind; is with anger.

I realize that behind this functionality, there are humans, doing the best of their ability. I try to meet them with questions, logic.

I realize that even if I make an impression, it might take a long time before that change is incorporated. Because it’s not just a question of doing it at CIG, it’s a question of putting it into a backlog; that means taking it up with a main designer, if its a big change it will have to go higher up the chain and so forth.

;I have realized a long time ago, I cannot win every fight. This game is not made for me, it is made for all of us. And I will have to give some of my pet peeves away. This is how it has to be, because if this game was made exactly to my expectations; I bet 99% of you would hate it 😉

Just know this, you guys who have invested 45USD for the base game:

I will fight for your right to advance without having to play too long; I will fight for your right to advance at a steady pace; I believe I speak for the vast majority of the whales, may they be 1k supporters or 30k supporters. We don’t want an advantage! We want the game to happen.

I specifically bought a second account without any ships, that I plan to play on when the game launches. Now of course I don’t expect most whales to do this, but I guarantee you, most whales aren’t putting in the money to win anything.

We didn’t throw this much money into it to get ahead, we did it to make the game happen. And I think CIG is aware of this.

I love <3 all gamers, be it console players or PC players, Elite or SC, Fortnite or PUBG… the whales are not your enemy, we’re a resource playing on your team, we want the same game you want.