I would also be interested to know more up-to-date official information about this (Morrus' last post on that second thread was in October). If memory serves when the "very basic character builder" was announced it was as a side project and not the actual character builder that was part of the stretch goal. If that's now the WIP solution that will one day be the official character builder I find that extremely disappointing news. No offense to Morrus intended, it's great as a side project to learn web dev or something like that and I understand it's early days, but I don't see how even the bones of that system can become something usable for what the character builder should be after it was a 50k stretch goal.
That's just my two cents, but after 15 months and since it was such a large cost stretch goal I feel like the feedback is appropriate at this point.
We already have somebody in line to coordinate this immense project, and we have a budget. It's now a case of getting your feedback, planning the project, and then we can get coding. But it will take months -- there are lots of intricate parts of the game which interact with each other!
Oh, I know, but it was a 50k cost from the previous 200k stretch goal so presumably, at least some of that 50k was included in the budget for this project.That matches my recollection as well, except that it was the 250k goal, not the 50k goal.
Oh, I know, but it was a 50k cost from the previous 200k stretch goal so presumably, at least some of that 50k was included in the budget for this project.
yeah, an official character builder that was part of a stretch goal is really the sort of thing that should get at least a dedicated programmer.I would also be interested to know more up-to-date official information about this (Morrus' last post on that second thread was in October). If memory serves when the "very basic character builder" was announced it was as a side project and not the actual character builder that was part of the stretch goal. If that's now the WIP solution that will one day be the official character builder I find that extremely disappointing news. No offense to Morrus intended, it's great as a side project to learn web dev or something like that and I understand it's early days, but I don't see how even the bones of that system can become something usable for what the character builder should be after it was a 50k stretch goal.
That's just my two cents, but after 15 months and since it was such a large cost stretch goal I feel like the feedback is appropriate at this point.
Well most of the extra 50K is spent printing and shipping an extra 50K of books to an extra 50K worth of Kickstarter backers. Stretch goals aren’t profit and the number is largely irrelevant — it’s the margins which matter.Oh, I know, but it was a 50k cost from the previous 200k stretch goal so presumably, at least some of that 50k was included in the budget for this project.
I don't think Morrus was saying the stretch goal was irrelevant, but the amount the goal is set at is irrelevant to how much funding goes into completing the stretch goal. So he was clarifying that just because it was a 50k increase from the previous stretch goal, he didn't have 50k to budget towards accomplishing the stretch goal.I'm confused. Are you saying the stretch goal was irrelevant? It didn't matter that we all bought more books, and pleaded on Facebook, to reach that stretch goal of a character builder?
You are onto your next Kickstarter, right? Does it have stretch goals that don't matter if we reach them too?