Holy sh*t, their kickstarter's been up for less than three days and already $25000. I have a fairly confident feeling this will get funded and then some.

Shweet.

o.o WOW, 

 

This game is amazing....

 

Better than GTA? LOL.

I have a few concerns;

1. Is tonic is on the dev team

2.How close to the placeholder art will the game look 

3. Will the make it more in depth and complected than altis life with maybe an economy system and more in depth hunting and policing systems

4. Will there be proper modding support if the game does make it

So...it's a life simulator? 

The concept seems nice and if their servers are reeeaaaalllly good and always full of people I can see it being kind of fun.

 

But sadly I can see this being a complete flop in which your money is taken and the project dies. Heres why:

 

1) Online only, so it relies on the servers being stable and there being enough people. If there isn't enough people you'll be bored for 90% of the time and the remaining 10% will be very fast paced and over within seconds.

2) Unless you get a decent position (like a cop) you're gonna have a shit time. I mean, you own a business so what you stand still for 6 hours, earn money. Drive home then repeat the next day? That isn't fun, no matter how much you roleplay cleaning the floor and counters.

3) Relies on a decent balance of players, it's no good having a server of 100 cops, 2 criminals a 1 store clerk. further, if someone desperately wants to be a cop, they won't stay with a server until they can be one.

4) This is the big one. After a few weeks all the young children who have apparently fucked my mum will be playing, screaming down their £2.99 budget headset they got from a dodgy electrical store in town. whining they got banned/kicked by a shitty admin and failing to roleplay. As will the script kiddies who ruin everyones day.

 

I hate to be the negative guy, cause this does "look" very good. But they're claiming a huge amount of stuff with so far nothing to show for it and people have given money.

 

they seem to have the community... for now. My concerns are same as yours with trolling and all that. I think community run servers would better appeal than dev run servers since time and time again has shown that dev run servers typically have terrible administration. The business system does not quite work the way you think id expect. Id hope they make it so you stock your shop and there is a whole great big economy that is player based and guns are decently hard to get and have major repercussions for misuse. The main factor that will make or break it will be the police/emergency services. A player based economy would require plays to get basic resources, sell them to a manufacturer and the manufacturer to sell the product direct from factory or sell to someone who would be a supplier for said product. I wish i could have a moment to sit down with the devs to discuss the idea. Sadly I am not an economist and described an economy in it's more primitive form. Another aspect of the economy would have to be that there is only X amount of currency in the economy at one time, otherwise it would turn into the same situation as post world war one Germany. An economy systems would also make it harder to earn i living (in a good way). The currency limit would have to be based on productions of goods, food, ect. as well as the amount of players in game. To much money for too little people would create a recession, maybe even a full blown depression. It would have to be an equilibrium constantly kept by the in game government and would appeal more to political people into economics. The policing side would have to be kept in check (on servers put up by the devs) by people appointed by the studio as a police commander. its just one of the many ideas I have for this. 

As many have pointed out there are ALOT of factors that could result in the downfall of this game, but I am at least excited for someone attempting it. Maybe I'm alone in this, but I am really drawn to the idea of having absolute freedom in a game while the game being as close to real as possible to simulate cool stuff that simply isnt possible (or legal) in real life, while managing to skip most the more annoying parts of life.

 

Hopefully even if this game fails another one can pick up on it's mistakes, it really is an awesome idea that I've been hoping for.

I see potential but I just don't know if it will end up working they way they intend it to.

Looks and sounds interesting but I see this being like that mod for Arma 3 where only Admins and his buddies will be the only people to role play as cops.

I am very skeptical about this. 

I am very skeptical about this. 

You and me both. I honestly don't think this will get anywhere, TBH. Out of all the past high profile Kickstarter campaigns, only a handful have actually been successful once it was time for launch...if it even launched to begin with. Broken Age, for example, looked very promising and raised a lot of money via Kickstarter...but the development and launch was plagued with problems. My prediction is that this will either become vaporware, or be a complete flop.

You and me both. I honestly don't think this will get anywhere, TBH. Out of all the past high profile Kickstarter campaigns, only a handful have actually been successful once it was time for launch...if it even launched to begin with. Broken Age, for example, looked very promising and raised a lot of money via Kickstarter...but the development and launch was plagued with problems. My prediction is that this will either become vaporware, or be a complete flop.

Their trying something even big AAA companies don't try, and I've never heard of them. Doesn't sound good.

While skeptical I am always curious about games such as this so I have been and will be keeping tabs on this game.

 

Below is an interview with one of the developers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQWMP7KQvU0

Wow! That is epic!They can definitely have my money!

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Edited August 3, 201510 yr by AlconH

I know there are many sceptics of this, but what about the possibility of being able to run your own server?

In the interview video I posted above, the developer said there will be the ability to rent your own servers and they will be run alongside the official servers. 

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Edited August 3, 201510 yr by AlconH

So, they need to magic up another hundred grand to get this thing funded... In all seriousness, I wonder if they'd allow users to host their own 'historical' servers with custom cars and assets? I wouldn't mind a game of this set in the '50's or 70's.