$3.6 million, and the systems are unlocking faster than ever! You’ll get another one at $3.7M and then a new ship added to the game at $3.75M. Keep up the pledges!
Ellis System
Ownership: UEE (corporate)
Planets: 13
Planetary Rotation: Ellis IV (200 SED), Ellis IX (8,922 SED)
Import: Mechanical Goods, Luxury
Export: Fuel
Crime Status: Medium (Gambling)
Black Market: None
UEE Strategic Value: Purple
Description: Ellis is most famously home of the Murray Cup, the jewel in in-system star racing’s triple crown. The Ellis route runs through the densely packed inner worlds, through the twin asteroid belts and stops at one of Ellis VIII’s Lagrange points. A series of thousands of orbital monitoring buoys has been deployed throughout the system to monitor and broadcast race progress. During the off-season, aspiring racers and engine customization fans are allowed to run the track themselves for a small fee.
Ellis IV (Seahorse) is an entirely ordinary green-band planet save for an unusually high gravity for a settled world: over twice Earth standard. As such, Ellisians tend to be stocky and muscular and the planet’s fauna takes on a variety of interesting shapes (the best example being the aptly named flatcats.) Seahorse boasts a shining A+3 colonization rating from UEE Colonization Command.
Ellis IX (Walleye) is a gas giant which has been patterned for use as a refueling world. Large freighters and warships form visually impressive queues to take on much needed fuel, and a service industry has formed for long-haul transport crews making layovers in the system during the lengthy Earth-Pinecone run. Nearby refineries dot the planet’s skyline and cheaply convert the raw fuel for mass export.
Next, at $3.7 million: “Pirate System. Galactic Junkyard. One sun, there for light and a massive garbage disposal. “
Citizens Card
Here’s the gold “Vice Admiral” Citizens Card, which you can get by pledging $500 or more to the project. How cool would it be to have one of these in your wallet?
Account Issues
Thanks to your incredible patience we believe we have every known “backup” account linked. If you’re still having trouble with an account or an upgrade not showing in your My Account area, please contact Sandi and she will sort everything out!
And again thanks to your support after our last post, we’ve crossed the “10,000 likes” barrier with the Facebook page. So… mission control says: go for 15,000!
Congrats to Chris and the team Well done! Everyone should be proud of what we have accomplished. Less than 10,000 to get the Secret Hidden Asteroid base.
So don’t stop now!
Indeed, it’s getting close to the base. But one could hope that the team could remove one of the two ships unlocking at 1.5 million, and place it at 1.375 million, so that it may have a similar effect as the unlocking a system each 100k has.
WolvenX, maybe you know the answer: do you happen to know whether Kickstarter stretch goals (i.e. repair bot) are going to apply to RSI donators as well?
yes all rewards will apply to all pledgers. Bot,credits
All stretchgoal rewards are rewarded to all pledgers (with $30,- or more pledged i would guess), no matter where you pledge.
Doing great guys ! Home stretch!
YAY! Go community!
Not into racing but I’ll give it a go, system looks inviting.
Nice card ! I want one, haha
Can anyone tell me if this card will be metal or not? If yes, I’ll pledge more, if not, well, then I am sticking with my current pledge.
I am not really sure, but I think since the $250.00 donation all cards are made of metal.
Mine will be the next one and it will definatly be metal
.
Nice!
So far only 1k+ are confirmed as metal. the Gold Card is still up in the air. Yay or nay should come out today or tomorrow. Sandi is checking on cost and feasibility.
250 and less is a definite nay so far.
All hail to the Hypnoroberts
*clap clap*
Keep it up everyone! Great Job.
Can’t wait to try my hand at the Murray Cup =D
Johnny B. Goode.
I see what you did there, Roberts.
Woot Seahorses and gambling got too love it
Keep up those pledges! We’re getting there!
Congrats everyone at CIG! Now…where is mah STELLLAAA?!?!
Loving the new systems. There is going to be lots and lots of exploring to do!!
Nice work with this one! I love the gravity idea on Ellis IV – reminds me of a few science fiction stories I’ve read. Can’t wait to see it, and find out how it messes with our ships ;P
Love the gold card design! Now…. will it be metal?
I would like to know this as well.
Yeah, I want to know this too.
I’d to would like to know which cards are metal and which aren’t
See my reply above
.
Confirmed as metal: 1k+
Confirmed as non-metal: 250-
up in the air: Gold Card at 500. Sandi is looking into cost. Should be today or tomorrow that yay or nay comes out.
Thanks for correcting me, like I said I didn’t really know about this.
I just wrote down my thoughts.
awesomeness keeps building! gratz all!
Ppl really need to stop using RSI for pledges and put everything on kickstarter!
More bonus stuff!
No, kickstarter takes 5%!
Yeah, if it’s at all possible, don’t pledge on Kickstarter.
Chris has said at the end of the day pledging here on RSI will get the KS Goals just as much as pledging on KS.
They will re-tally things at the end
The Goals are all mainly a motivational thing and would be kinda off if he left KS out in the cold as that site Has brought this project a lot of extra pledges ^^
Looks very promising.
Can’t wait to take cargoes of fuel for mad money from this place and then race my 300I. Thanks Chris!
Binary system, Lagrange points, high gravity, and racing. All things eagerly suggested by the community
. Whether RSI had these in the works independently or community props were taken into account, I think everyone’s happy about this one!
I can not wait to play this game
(Almost) everything I wanted in Freelancer is going to be here.
I like every card so far except the silver…and of course I get the silver
Hey, its in your Hands (ok, in your bank account) to change that issue
Same here and my bank account doesnt allow more. I pledged a total of 350 euros! Should have a choice to make it metal!!
By providing some extra money i meen;) say 10 euros fabrication costs
Can wait for racing and flat cats… i wonder if you take one and keep it as a pet in your ship lol, or…. if there will be flatcat racing!!!!
flatcat as cockpit decor!
Don’t see mission achieved in front of the 3.5 mil goal on the streched goals page :p.
I guess someone forgot to update that
.
They changed it.
All up to date now.
I come to think of the tv show Andromeda.
Where the main character comes from a high gravity world and is stronger than most, and also a race such as this appeared in one of the episodes.
It’s always great to see nods and references to other SF classics (shamelessly assuming that Star Citizen will be a classic one day..), like Robert Heinlein’s flatcat here. Dave, I like your scope. What will we do next, revive the space graveyard concept we last saw in The Dark Wheel?
Mh,I’d like to see a flatcat…
Space graveyard. Would love to see that in the game
It’s going great but with other pledge ships concept art/in-game models the pledges will grow exponentially instead of linearly. Think about that CIG.
well done all we can do it; A space junk system i wounder what you could find in there; let’s go guys we can do it.
Maybe I’m going a bit off the deep end here, but “flatcat” made me think of Dralthi.
Cat + flying pancake –> Dralthi.
oh wait, no. Heinlein. Not Dralthi. heh, oh well…
Glad I wasn’t the only one to catch a classic heinlein reference. Lets hope they don’t breed as successfully as his did.
Earth-Pinecone run
wooooot,just found my first run,
This sounds like a system everone in going to like
Another day, another 100K, eh? Great work, pilots!
Oh, don’t look now (but please do!), but we’re about to hit $1,250,000 on Kickstarter. Asteroid bases coming up!
Amazon outage cock-blocked the efforts on KS. Saw the counter reach 1,249,444 and then it froze, followed by a drop of 110. Now it’s stuck there until Amazon gets it sorted. The funny thing is that they take a cut from the total amount and if they keep this up, the downtime will completely eat up their cut and then some.
heh
Knew I would get to turn my P52 into my own little pocket rocket racer ^_^
This is going to be a whole lot of fun. I’m hoping they have leaderboards broken down into class of ships for us all to keep trying to keep our names Top Ranked!
they have to, to keep it interessting and competitive id say….
New-age space race! I know where I’ll be spending a lot of money
meh i personally like the bronze card over the gold one
That’s my card right there!
I wish I could change the name though. I’m no Vice Admiral!
Can someone explain to me what those “UEE Strategic Values” are and what each of them means?
.
Looks like i missed that information
Oh, I like these additional systems (though I miss the jump point info… there must be at least one publicly known JP after all). And who else has the conflicting images of a Soldier-link junkyard planet and a Korlus-like one, in his (or her) mind? I really can’t decide which I’d like more – ca I get both, please?