Congrats on the producer role.  Good luck to you and the rest of the team.  it looks like it'll be a fun ride.

His is mittens!

Anyway, I'm glad to finally see what you guys have been working on. I haven't had the opportunity to beta test Gal Civ 2 or its expansions, so this will be my first time with your dev team (and the third major SD-run beta test, wee!).

I already preordered

This is not false.

Female + game coder = gamer geek following.  Sorry Boogie, but I don't see how you'll be able to beat that, except for free copies of E:WoM

Woohoo!!! Finally!

Good luck, guys! Can't wait!

Great! Looking forward to it.

It's OK, no one ever posts on that thread anymore.

That was everything I needed to know about it.

Oh, and to prove my fanboy credentials, I've also allready preordered.

He'd better... I bet money on your success (=pre-order).

Here's hoping for a Tectonics map-script for Elemental.

Sorry for the double posts but I couldn't get two quotes in one post to work.

I gotta say - I love this business model.  You pre-pay for the privilege of beta testing, thus ensuring at least some cashflow for the developer (and maybe publisher, if that's the distribution model).  In return, you get some say in how the game turns out, plus the geeky benefit of playing a game before-hand.  The lack of NDAs is nice, too.  Contrast this with the usual industry approach of closed betas with the winners determined by lottery.  The quality of beta feedback in the latter must be a real crapshoot.  The quality of beta feedback with Stardock's system is probably fairly decent: no one wants to have doled out $50 for a game not to turn out good (even though economically it's a sunk cost).  It's almost an open-source development model, at least as far as testing is concerned...

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It is good. It is not probably good. Combine people who want the game enough to put their money where their mouth is and stardock fanboys, and the feedback is great.

This looks awesome. Thank you Stardock for resurrecting MOM.

I wish the dev team the best of success in all their endeavors with this project. I'm sure I can speak for many of us within the collective community, when I state that we expect great things to materialize for this title given its pedigree and the commitment to cause fostered by SD.

Poor Cari. Maybe we'll consider starting you a new one - but only if Elemental turns out to be good!

- Ash