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Message: <blockquote data-quote="D_Sinclair" data-source="post: 2514081" data-attributes="member: 21823">As I was telling my boss a few days ago, I think failure will be due to the bad sales pitch. Offering no more details than a title and promise of an ambiguous bonus really aren't going to draw in any investment. With that sales pitch, you're not really testing the overall d20 market or even the overall d20 Future market. It only tests the market segment consisting of buyers of your previous starship cargo books. And that's probably a horribly small target market for the amount you seek to raise.Personally, if I were doing it, I'd have at least poked fun at the distribution model and called it "Future: 6 Ransomed Starship Cargos" and tossed in a couple extra pages involving a scenario of interstellar piracy. And I'd present my sales pitch of the ransom product with at least 2-3 paragraphs of details. If you want to revise your project with that idea, feel free to do so.One thing the ransom model really needs is an analysis of unique visitors vs. # of donations received. What is the ratio, anyway? 1 donation per every ten visitors or one for every hundred? What if its horribly bad, say something like one donation per every 8,000 visitors? The fundables model also has a downside, since it fails to allow continued donations. Inevitably, the ransom projects will underperform in the long run compared to most for-profit projects. Maybe placing a paypal donation link in the finished project would be a smart idea, allowing those who still want to pony up some cash long after the ransom is met to do so. IIRC, Meatbot Massacre actually managed to exceed the ransom with several late donations.</blockquote>

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