{"data":{"id":12738,"title":"A Letter from Chris Roberts","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/comm-link\/transmission\/12738-A-Letter-From-Chris-Roberts","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-links\/12738","api_public_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/comm-links\/12738","channel":"Undefined","category":"Undefined","series":"None","images":[{"id":107,"name":"Pilotsrunning.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/media\/ro1080ml3f26xr\/source\/Pilotsrunning.jpg","alt":"","size":220453,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2013-07-19T05:28:43+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/107","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/107\/similar"}],"images_count":2,"translations":{"en_EN":"Hi everyone!\n\nChris Roberts here. We have some pretty big news today.\n\nFirst we hit $1M this morning! Congratulations and thanks to everyone for achieving this goal. Its amazing what we accomplished in just over seven days.\n\nBut that\u2019s not all!\n\nI am serious about listening to the opinion of this community, so when we asked whether you wanted a Kickstarter option on Facebook and had over 1000 affirmative responses we realized that we needed to provide that choice.\n\nI\u2019m a big fan of Kickstarter and have backed quite a few projects on it \u2013 including the Oculus Rift \u2013 and I think the core gaming community owes them a huge debt of gratitude for providing a mechanism to get games funded in genres that the modern day publishers aren\u2019t interested in anymore.\n\nNot using Kickstarter was never about saving 5%, as in the greater scheme that is a very reasonable fee for the service they provide. It was about making the experience frictionless for the existing 30,000 RSI members at the time of launch. I wanted a seamless experience in the fiction of the Star Citizen world where you could interact on the forums, check out development posts and back the project all from the same site and with the same login details.\n\nBut that\u2019s only good if the RSI site can handle both the community features and the strain of thousands of people wanting to pledge. As you already know, we famously failed in that task upon launch. As of today we have got things mostly under control. We are working 24\/7 in order to get all the intended functionality up, link back up orders to RSI memberships, provide an upgrade option, improve the community experience by moving to a more full featured forum system and speeding up the performance of the site. But doing all this always creates a risk that the site may go down briefly if one of our upgrades breaks the complicated beast that is a community site intertwined with a crowd funding platform.\n\nThe kind folks at Kickstarter have generously offered to help out. Not only are they happy for us to have a Star Citizen campaign but they are fine running in parallel with the crowd funding platform on this site. This is great news, as it allows us to provide all the Space Sim fans out there multiple options to back Star Citizen. Nervous about pledging in a custom solution on a site that has had some hick-ups? Use Kickstarter! If you can\u2019t as you don\u2019t have an Amazon account and don\u2019t want to open one, use the RSI site, where we take Paypal and credit cards. It\u2019s all about user choice and in this adding Kickstarter is a very good thing.\n\nFor fun, we\u2019ve created a small Kickstarter pledge for existing backers. It\u2019s called the \u201cKickstarter\u201d and it\u2019s an Electro Skin Hull Enhancement module. This is an upgrade package that players will be able to buy in game that allows ship owners to switch their hull appearance at a flick of a switch. The idea is that we will make skins available and allow players to make their own (within rules) once the game fully goes live. So for the $5 \u201cKickstarter\u201d pledge we will add it to your current ship package, along with a custom skin that will tell the world that you backed twice! We added it to Kickstarter to allow fans to show their support in both places without breaking the bank.\n\nOf course if you\u2019ve already backed there is no obligation to do this. We are already eternally grateful to the existing backers for believing in the vision and helping us get half way to our goal after only 7 days!\n\nThe Kickstarter number will be combined with the RSI counter when we hit our minimum and stretch goals, so a pledge in either place counts towards our goal of reaching $2mill or more. We will link all Kickstarter pledges to their RSI account in the same way we intend to do with all the members that used the backed up site when our main one was down. We will have to get the data from Kickstarter so be patient as it won\u2019t be instant, but we promise we will link everything up and nothing will get lost!\n\nSo if you\u2019ve been holding back because you prefer Kickstarter or if you just want to show your support again please go to http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/cig\/star-citizen\n\nIn addition to offering you more choices, we\u2019re focused on getting back to the business of immersing you in this universe, so we\u2019ve started a new section up called \u201cSpectrum Dispatches\u201d that will be in game fiction \u2013 news from what\u2019s happening in the Star Citizen universe along with a couple of serialized story threads. We want to involve you in this universe from day one and not just wait until we release the multiplayer alpha!\n\nFinally we have you heard you loud and clear about the ships. We will be releasing details on the various ships on over the coming days, and you should know that Conceptual Artist superstars Ryan Church and Jim Martin are hard at work visualizing them, which we will share when ready (this won\u2019t be in the next few days though \u2013 it takes time to do things right!)\n\nI hope you liked my mega update!\n\nLet\u2019s show the world that Space Sims are back!\n\nChris Roberts","de_DE":"Hallo zusammen!\n\nChris Roberts hier. Wir haben heute einige ziemlich gro\u00dfe Neuigkeiten.\n\nZuerst haben wir heute Morgen 1 Million Dollar erreicht! Herzlichen Gl\u00fcckwunsch und Dank an alle, die dieses Ziel erreicht haben. Es ist erstaunlich, was wir in etwas mehr als sieben Tagen erreicht haben.\n\nAber das ist noch nicht alles!\n\nIch meine es ernst, die Meinung dieser Community zu h\u00f6ren, also als wir fragten, ob Sie eine Kickstarter-Option auf Facebook w\u00fcnschen und \u00fcber 1000 positive Antworten hatten, stellten wir fest, dass wir diese Wahl treffen mussten.\n\nIch bin ein gro\u00dfer Fan von Kickstarter und habe einige Projekte darauf unterst\u00fctzt - einschlie\u00dflich des Oculus Rift - und ich denke, die Kern-Gaming-Community schuldet ihnen eine gro\u00dfe Dankbarkeit daf\u00fcr, dass sie einen Mechanismus bereitgestellt hat, um Spiele in Genres zu finanzieren, an denen die modernen Publisher nicht mehr interessiert sind.\n\nNicht mit Kickstarter zu arbeiten, war nie eine Einsparung von 5%, da im gr\u00f6\u00dferen System eine sehr angemessene Geb\u00fchr f\u00fcr den Service, den sie bieten, anf\u00e4llt. Es ging darum, die Erfahrung f\u00fcr die zum Zeitpunkt der Einf\u00fchrung bestehenden 30.000 RSI-Mitglieder reibungslos zu machen. Ich wollte ein nahtloses Erlebnis in der Fiktion der Star Citizen-Welt, in der man in den Foren interagieren, Entwicklungsbeitr\u00e4ge lesen und das Projekt von der gleichen Seite und mit den gleichen Zugangsdaten unterst\u00fctzen konnte.\n\nAber das ist nur gut, wenn die RSI-Site sowohl die Community-Features als auch die Belastung durch Tausende von Menschen, die sich verpflichten wollen, bew\u00e4ltigen kann. Wie Sie bereits wissen, sind wir bei der Einf\u00fchrung dieser Aufgabe bekanntlich gescheitert. Seit heute haben wir die Dinge meist unter Kontrolle. Wir arbeiten rund um die Uhr, um die gew\u00fcnschte Funktionalit\u00e4t zu erhalten, Back-up-Bestellungen mit RSI-Mitgliedschaften zu verkn\u00fcpfen, eine Upgrade-Option anzubieten, die Community-Erfahrung zu verbessern, indem wir zu einem umfassenderen Forensystem wechseln und die Leistung der Website beschleunigen. Aber all dies birgt immer das Risiko, dass die Seite kurzzeitig untergeht, wenn eines unserer Upgrades das komplizierte Tier zerbricht, das eine Community-Site ist, die mit einer Plattform zur Finanzierung von Menschenmassen verbunden ist.\n\nDie freundlichen Leute von Kickstarter haben gro\u00dfz\u00fcgig angeboten zu helfen. Sie sind nicht nur froh, dass wir eine Star Citizen-Kampagne haben, sondern sie laufen auch parallel zur Plattform f\u00fcr die Finanzierung von Menschenmassen auf dieser Website. Dies ist eine gro\u00dfartige Nachricht, da es uns erm\u00f6glicht, allen Space Sim-Fans da drau\u00dfen mehrere M\u00f6glichkeiten zu bieten, Star Citizen zu unterst\u00fctzen. Sind Sie nerv\u00f6s, wenn Sie eine individuelle L\u00f6sung auf einer Website versprechen, die einige Probleme hatte? Verwenden Sie Kickstarter! Wenn du kein Amazon-Konto hast und kein Konto er\u00f6ffnen willst, benutze die RSI-Seite, wo wir Paypal und Kreditkarten verwenden. Es dreht sich alles um die Wahl des Benutzers und in diesem Hinzuf\u00fcgen ist Kickstarter eine sehr gute Sache.\n\nAus Spa\u00df haben wir ein kleines Kickstarter-Versprechen f\u00fcr bestehende Geldgeber erstellt. Es hei\u00dft \"Kickstarter\" und ist ein Electro Skin Hull Enhancement Modul. Dies ist ein Upgrade-Paket, das die Spieler im Spiel kaufen k\u00f6nnen, das es Reedern erm\u00f6glicht, ihr Rumpfbild mit einem Handgriff zu wechseln. Die Idee ist, dass wir Skins zur Verf\u00fcgung stellen und es den Spielern erm\u00f6glichen, ihre eigenen (innerhalb der Regeln) zu erstellen, sobald das Spiel vollst\u00e4ndig live geht. Also f\u00fcr das $5 \"Kickstarter\" Versprechen werden wir es zu Ihrem aktuellen Schiffspaket hinzuf\u00fcgen, zusammen mit einem benutzerdefinierten Skin, der der Welt sagt, dass Sie zweimal unterst\u00fctzt haben! Wir haben es zu Kickstarter hinzugef\u00fcgt, damit die Fans an beiden Orten ihre Unterst\u00fctzung zeigen k\u00f6nnen, ohne die Bank zu knacken.\n\nNat\u00fcrlich, wenn du bereits unterst\u00fctzt hast, gibt es keine Verpflichtung, dies zu tun. Wir sind den bestehenden Geldgebern bereits ewig dankbar, dass sie an die Vision glauben und uns helfen, nach nur 7 Tagen auf halbem Weg zum Ziel zu kommen!\n\nDie Kickstarter-Nummer wird mit dem RSI-Z\u00e4hler kombiniert, wenn wir unsere Minimal- und Stretch-Ziele erreichen, so dass ein Versprechen an beiden Orten f\u00fcr unser Ziel, 2 Millionen Dollar oder mehr zu erreichen, z\u00e4hlt. Wir werden alle Kickstarter-Versprechen mit ihrem RSI-Konto in der gleichen Weise verkn\u00fcpfen, wie wir es mit allen Mitgliedern tun wollen, die die gesicherte Website genutzt haben, als unsere Hauptseite offline war. Wir m\u00fcssen die Daten von Kickstarter bekommen, also seien Sie geduldig, denn es wird nicht sofort sein, aber wir versprechen, dass wir alles miteinander verbinden werden und nichts verloren geht!\n\nWenn Sie sich also zur\u00fcckgehalten haben, weil Sie Kickstarter bevorzugen oder einfach nur Ihre Unterst\u00fctzung zeigen wollen, besuchen Sie bitte http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/cig\/star-citizen\n\nZus\u00e4tzlich zu den M\u00f6glichkeiten, die wir Ihnen bieten, konzentrieren wir uns darauf, wieder auf das Gesch\u00e4ft zur\u00fcck zu kehren, Sie in dieses Universum einzutauchen. Deshalb haben wir eine neue Rubrik namens \"Spectrum Dispatches\" eingerichtet, die in der Spielfiktion sein wird - Neuigkeiten \u00fcber das, was im Star Citizen Universum passiert, zusammen mit ein paar serialisierten Story-Threads. Wir wollen dich vom ersten Tag an in dieses Universum einbeziehen und nicht nur warten, bis wir den Multiplayer alpha ver\u00f6ffentlichen!\n\nEndlich haben wir dich laut und deutlich \u00fcber die Schiffe geh\u00f6rt. Wir werden in den n\u00e4chsten Tagen Details zu den verschiedenen Schiffen ver\u00f6ffentlichen, und ihr solltet wissen, dass die Superstars der Konzeptk\u00fcnstler Ryan Church und Jim Martin hart daran arbeiten, sie zu visualisieren, die wir teilen werden, wenn wir fertig sind (das wird aber nicht in den n\u00e4chsten Tagen sein - es braucht Zeit, um die Dinge richtig zu machen!).\n\nIch hoffe, mein Mega-Update hat dir gefallen!\n\nLasst uns der Welt zeigen, dass Space Sims zur\u00fcck sind!\n\nChris Roberts","zh_CN":"Hi everyone!\n\nChris Roberts here. We have some pretty big news today.\n\nFirst we hit $1M this morning! Congratulations and thanks to everyone for achieving this goal. Its amazing what we accomplished in just over seven days.\n\nBut that\u2019s not all!\n\nI am serious about listening to the opinion of this community, so when we asked whether you wanted a Kickstarter option on Facebook and had over 1000 affirmative responses we realized that we needed to provide that choice.\n\nI\u2019m a big fan of Kickstarter and have backed quite a few projects on it \u2013 including the Oculus Rift \u2013 and I think the core gaming community owes them a huge debt of gratitude for providing a mechanism to get games funded in genres that the modern day publishers aren\u2019t interested in anymore.\n\nNot using Kickstarter was never about saving 5%, as in the greater scheme that is a very reasonable fee for the service they provide. It was about making the experience frictionless for the existing 30,000 RSI members at the time of launch. I wanted a seamless experience in the fiction of the Star Citizen world where you could interact on the forums, check out development posts and back the project all from the same site and with the same login details.\n\nBut that\u2019s only good if the RSI site can handle both the community features and the strain of thousands of people wanting to pledge. As you already know, we famously failed in that task upon launch. As of today we have got things mostly under control. We are working 24\/7 in order to get all the intended functionality up, link back up orders to RSI memberships, provide an upgrade option, improve the community experience by moving to a more full featured forum system and speeding up the performance of the site. But doing all this always creates a risk that the site may go down briefly if one of our upgrades breaks the complicated beast that is a community site intertwined with a crowd funding platform.\n\nThe kind folks at Kickstarter have generously offered to help out. Not only are they happy for us to have a Star Citizen campaign but they are fine running in parallel with the crowd funding platform on this site. This is great news, as it allows us to provide all the Space Sim fans out there multiple options to back Star Citizen. Nervous about pledging in a custom solution on a site that has had some hick-ups? Use Kickstarter! If you can\u2019t as you don\u2019t have an Amazon account and don\u2019t want to open one, use the RSI site, where we take Paypal and credit cards. It\u2019s all about user choice and in this adding Kickstarter is a very good thing.\n\nFor fun, we\u2019ve created a small Kickstarter pledge for existing backers. It\u2019s called the \u201cKickstarter\u201d and it\u2019s an Electro Skin Hull Enhancement module. This is an upgrade package that players will be able to buy in game that allows ship owners to switch their hull appearance at a flick of a switch. The idea is that we will make skins available and allow players to make their own (within rules) once the game fully goes live. So for the $5 \u201cKickstarter\u201d pledge we will add it to your current ship package, along with a custom skin that will tell the world that you backed twice! We added it to Kickstarter to allow fans to show their support in both places without breaking the bank.\n\nOf course if you\u2019ve already backed there is no obligation to do this. We are already eternally grateful to the existing backers for believing in the vision and helping us get half way to our goal after only 7 days!\n\nThe Kickstarter number will be combined with the RSI counter when we hit our minimum and stretch goals, so a pledge in either place counts towards our goal of reaching $2mill or more. We will link all Kickstarter pledges to their RSI account in the same way we intend to do with all the members that used the backed up site when our main one was down. We will have to get the data from Kickstarter so be patient as it won\u2019t be instant, but we promise we will link everything up and nothing will get lost!\n\nSo if you\u2019ve been holding back because you prefer Kickstarter or if you just want to show your support again please go to http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/cig\/star-citizen\n\nIn addition to offering you more choices, we\u2019re focused on getting back to the business of immersing you in this universe, so we\u2019ve started a new section up called \u201cSpectrum Dispatches\u201d that will be in game fiction \u2013 news from what\u2019s happening in the Star Citizen universe along with a couple of serialized story threads. We want to involve you in this universe from day one and not just wait until we release the multiplayer alpha!\n\nFinally we have you heard you loud and clear about the ships. We will be releasing details on the various ships on over the coming days, and you should know that Conceptual Artist superstars Ryan Church and Jim Martin are hard at work visualizing them, which we will share when ready (this won\u2019t be in the next few days though \u2013 it takes time to do things right!)\n\nI hope you liked my mega update!\n\nLet\u2019s show the world that Space Sims are back!\n\nChris Roberts"},"links_count":2,"comment_count":108,"created_at":"2012-10-18T00:00:00+00:00","created_at_human":"13 years ago"},"meta":{"processed_at":"2026-04-30 00:00:04","valid_relations":["images","links","translations"],"prev_id":12737,"next_id":12739}}