We’ve reached the $3.4 million unlock: the Goss System! At $3.5 million you’ll earn another system and learn more about the games’ docking mechanics. Let’s get there soon!
Goss System
Ownership: UEE
Planets: 3
Planetary Rotation: Goss I 50 SED, Cassel (Goss II) 244 SED, Goss III 309 SED
Import: Food, Energy supplies
Export: Elements.
Crime Status: Low-Med.
Black Market: Kidnapping, Theft.
UEE Strategic Value: Blue
Description: Generally regarded as one of the most visually stunning systems in the Empire, the Goss System is a binary star system situated in the forefront of a massive emission nebula. Permanent bands of turqouise, gold and deep orange paint the sky from any location in the system.
All three of Goss’ planets are inhabitable. The bulk of the system’s economy comes from tourism, but Gossians pride themselves on being self sufficient. Long-haul traders will find few bargains here, as the system produces little worthy of export and gathers its raw materials internally, mining and harvesting resources from the inner planets as needed.
The main destination is the lush, thriving resort world of Cassel (Goss II.) The surface is largely tropical rain forests dotted with stately pleasure domes constructed to support tourists and dozens of launch arcologies that house the descendants of the original Goss settlers. Goss I is a low-atmosphere world with abundant heavy metals. Scattered pockets of well-paid miners are a reasonable market for luxury goods and black market items, although the systems’ strict export policies prevent shipping raw materials out-system.
The Olympus Pool has dark side, too: the same nebula that delights tourists also acts as an effective curtain for several deep space pirate clans. Pirates are generally careful not to interfere in the tourism on Cassel… but the brilliantly colored sky is believed to hide multiple clan operations facilities and supply chain master points.
WARNING: gravity effects of the binary star have rendered portions of the system untenable to starships not carrying Level 7 shields or above. Consult current gravity maps before attempting transit!
Next, at $3.5 million: “Formerly the most distant UEE colony it grew to notoriety as the first contact point with the Vanduul. The attacks became so frequent that the settlers ultimately abandoned it.”
Kellog System
As a bonus, here’s concept art of yesterday’s locked system, Kellog, showing the jungle planet Xis:
Citizen Card
Here’s the Silver Citizen Card, which is included with pledges at the $250 level!
Linking / Upgrading Pledges
We’re confident that most pledges from the backup site are now linked. However, we’ve also heard reports that a small number of pledgers have had issues with their upgrades not appearing correctly. Please contact Sandi if you are seeing either of these issues and she will update our database manually.
Looks great! Silver and white cards seem quite simmilar though. And still can’t wait for the constellation art!
Yeah, but afaik the silver card is actually made out of metal. The white card though is a plastic one.
Is it actually going to be made out of metal?
As far as what has been said… with 100% certainty the 1000$+ cards will be metal.. sandi is checking the budget to see if the 500$ card can be made from metal as well.
So silver ones are still plastic?
“So silver ones are still plastic?”
Looks that way, yep. We can hope for a last minute stretch goal to change that, though! But, probably not.
Actually I’m a bit dissapointed with the looks of the silver card. As you’ve pointed out it does look similar to the cheapest pledge card there is: the white card.
I was expecting it to look like the bronze design which I consider better: the silver/grey looking part being black and the writings, logo & upper/lower border being silver. Just take a look at the bronze card and you know what I mean…
This way RSI would get some kind of continuity into the “metal” color sceme layout, which is in my opinion not visible at the moment…
I agree there, much prefer the look of the bronze card. I was hoping the silver would look at least as good.
I agree also!
White and this Silver (I ordered look the same):)
Guys, keep in mind this is just a mock-up to give an idea of the looks when they ship. As such, they don’t have any metallic filter but I’m pretty sure that your actual silver cards will look… silver.
^ This. In all likelihood the real card will look way more shiny.
Agree
Perhaps, but still seems less impressive than the bronze card to me. Not that i’m overwhelmingly upset, I mean, I’m paying for a game I want to happen, not fake space- business card design :p
I too am slightly dissapointed, i do hope the card is made out of metal otherwise i might as well just get a white card…
Another star system
Cooool
Great again!!!
I´d like to see pledge ship´s concept art , just to increase the amount of pledges in the last days!!!!
wednesday or thursday maybe, you’ll get to drool over the constellation.
Awesome news!
Thx
Good Read.
Waiting for the shipart too.. I would really like to see my BMW
Oh, you too?
Although I wouldn’t mind a look at the Freelancer either…
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/462551_428698360505525_665440787_o.jpg
The ship next to the Hornet on picture above (main Facebook picture of RSI) should be the Freelancer, going by size and descriptions of the available pledge ships. It’s not much, but at least something.
Here and there I read some people thought it to be the Aurora, but when looking at tonnage of the ships and cargo-capacities, I seriously doubt that.
We will get the Constelation art in about a day or two i think. But i doubt we will get to see any other ship art before the pledging is over. It takes a lot of time to produce, look at how long they have been working on the Constelation art.
this is making me drool. RSI needs to stop teasing us XD
just 2 more years
28 hours, 36 minutes to go until the next system, and docking mechanics explained! and possibly constellation artwork!
Kidnapping as a commodity, smuggler paradise?
Level 7 shields or above required, now that could become interesting too
Yeah, but I hate the term “Level 7 shields”…seems immersion-breaking to me. Why not something less ‘gamey’ like “Phase-Inverted Shields or better”?
Why does 7 levels of shielding break your immersion more then 70mm of armor does?
Why? Would it be less immersion-breaking for you if they call it “classes” instead of “level”?
If you look at Freelancer, there they had shield-classes/levels too, and within the clases you had different types of shields, with the same strength (more or less) but different pros/cons against different weapons. Might be same system for SC.
Groovy baby.
Now I really want to visit this system just for the visuals.
Always nice to see more concept art, but as mentioned above, concept art of 1 or 2 ships would be greatly appreciated. Concept art of the i300 or Constellation was mentioned earlier by the developers, and showing it could possibly aid in reaching the 4 million dollar mark better.
I definitely need to agree here. Even 1 or two rough sketches of each pledge ship would probably boost the pledging immensely. People (like me) do not pledge on high-level pledges also out of fear, that they will totally dislike their ship. I know pledging is not “buying” but rahter supporting, but as there are rewards pledging will always be seen as a little bit of buying. And current situation with all pledge ships (maybe apart from Hornet) is like buying a cat in a bag.
At least there is a vague piece of concept art of the Freelancer available. It’s in the picture they also use as default on Facebook, a landing dock with a Hornet and a Freelancer on it. At least, I consider that ship to be the freelancer, as it would seem too small for a constellation class ship.
Anyhow, more, more, more
100% acknowledgement! I already wrote a topic about it on the forum a few days ago:
http://www.robertsspaceindustries.com/forums/topic/ship-concept-art-open-letter-to-chris-roberts/
still waiting for physical add-ons!
Okay – I’ve just decided not to read the description of the unlocked star systems… why? I just grade up to the Lancer-pledge – a ship for exploration… and so I will explore the system by myself… in two years
Sexy!
Looking forward to see more Systems coming! And i hope we get the 4mio!
Would invest some more money if the SC-Novel would finally show up here on the RSI site!
also, i definitely like the bronze card a lot more than the silver card. i wonder if it would look better with the black background (instead of gray) with brushed silver borders and type? i don’t think there’s enough contrast with this one.
not just you, I think the bronze card looks alot better that the silver one, though, unless this is going to be metal (which would explain why they did not do a black printed background seen on the bronze card)
@Cyco
The bronze card certainly feels better IMO, but I wonder if that’s just because of contrast alone. If you look close enough you will notice that bronze looks like brushed metal, where silver doesn’t. Also, the circuitry does not look all that convincing on the silver card, same as on the lower pledges. Gold or copper colored etchings would fix that for good, bronze is close by the looks of it.
Now if the silver card would reflect light like a mirror, that would make me forget all of the above immediately. This might work out okay with a proper metal card as it would for gold and higher. Looks and feeling would go hand in hand on here, which I think is not unimportant, given the pledge levels.
Just my humble opinion. I would welcome a metal upgrade option with etchings and a proper finish after the campaign goals are met. It’s not terribly important atm.
I would rather have dogtags than the creditcard tbh
Something like a “Metalize your Citizen Card” option for 10 or 20 dollars more. Or maybe that could be a funding option for after the pledging is over. I’d be all over that!
Docking mechanics…cool
Yes Sir! Nice Sir!
No export laws. This is a highly oppressed system it seams. Does this open a revolution aspect to the game? Or is it a Fixed/Static/Persistant oppression.
Great update again!
They need to give silver card and the ones after that some shaders. That doesn’t really look like a silver card tbh. But maybe we shouldn’t be so picky
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The Kellog System, setting that as my desktop background…
…now.
“untenable to starships not carrying Level 7 shields or above”
well that answers my question from a week or so ago
Note self:pirate sector and profits here,STAY AWAY
I am sure specialist printers could use a “metallic ink”
My Uncle is into this kinda thing and uses a printer with about 6+ inks to specially get Good metallic looking effects.
He is the head of a famous London Museums restoration department and has great experience making repairs look like the original article, I will ask him if he has any ideas
great a new system to visit. I hope we get to the 4 Mill soon
Level 7+ shileds
Can I mount them on Aurora? 300i/Hornet/Freelancer/Constellation? What I did not like about Freelancer was that there were Level 10 shields for Freighter or Light Fighter yet there were no ships to which you could mount them.
Didnt they say all three planets are inhabitable?`Whats the lush then? And what about the tropical forest there Oo
The width of the div surrounding the silver card is way to oversized…
Except that, I approve with the others, it looks astonishing and I can’t wait to get to the Alpha (:
I noticed there’s no gravity info for the planet. I hope they’re not all default to Earth gravity. Even though we don’t have any activities atm on the planet. Would still be nice to have.
Dunno if someone already said this:
BIG THX to Sandi for fixing my problem (pledge not connected to account) and the really really friendly and courteus contact!
Thats all
…waiting for the docking mechanics
Greetings
I hope that thing in orbit is a huge statation or capital ship because if it is a player’s ships the scale is completely wrong compare to the planet.
Just pledged another $5 in hopes to see the 4M milestone and waaaay more solar systems:)
Can’t pledge more before pay day and that’s way after croudfunding ends…
Good luck, guys, let’s try to get there
Gravity maps?!? Cooool!
Dog Tags will be cool
I have to admit, I’m really disappointed with the way the silver card looks. It’s kind of bland… And I was expecting brushed metal effect like with the bronze and gold cards at the very least. I expected more for a card that’s limited to a $250 bracket. Especially when the bronze card looks better than the silver card.
In Xanadu did Kublai Khan a “stately pleasure dome” decree! Nice reference, came to the comments for it but don’t see that many caught on!