Hey Chris, in my pledge I have a 3-inch model of a spaceship. My questions are:Will we be able to choose with ship the model will be of and will we be able to buy more models without a pledge?asked by Toti
TL;DRRoberts believes the model is just the Constellation, with no choice; making physical models of other ships is only being researched as a possibility, is costly and low-profit, and has no promises yet.
I don't think you choose, because I think the model of the space ship came with all the packages that have the Constellation as the base ship, so I believe the model is actually of the Constellation. I know we've been seeing some early prototypes of the models, and they look very cool, so I think your model of the space ship will be just the Constellation.We are talking about the potential of maybe making some physical model versions of other space ships, and we're researching that as a possibility, although that requires a lot of work and isn't actually necessarily very cost effective, so if we did something like that, they probably would be...They'd cost some money and they would require a lot of work from our side, and not necessarily really have any profit in it. Which, for us the profit's all extra money we put towards the game, so we like to have some things that, if we even sell physical goods, there's a bit of a profit in it so we can make a bigger, better game.We try to avoid to do physical items that are basically break even, because that requires a lot of man power and a lot of thought and a lot of juggling, and also customer service headaches 'cause, you know, did you get your package, did it get through customs, all the rest of the stuff.We have staff that do just deal with that, and obviously that's stuff that we could be spending money working on the game instead. So I don't know, but we're all geeks, and we all like the idea of cool spaceships, so we're kind of partial to potentially may trying to make some.So we'll see what happens there, but no promises yet.