Star Citizen

[Proteus_MST]

Well, it sounds to me like Elite/Frontier or Privateer, just bigger ... which definitely sounds like something that´s worth the money (if it grabs the spirit of these games) ...
what makes it a difficult decision is, that David Braben, the creator of Frontier and Elite also has started crowdfunding for a sequel in his Elite series (named Elite-Dangerous)

http://www.frontier.co.uk/

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1461411552/elite-dangerous

[regexcellent]

Freelancer was nothing like Elite except that there was some space trading and spaceships and stuff. There was no giant procedural universe with realistic scales and stuff. It was a solid single player campaign with dynamically generated side missions and some fixed-price trade routes. There was multiplayer where you could do the side missions and trading with other people, and then gank people you didn't like, roleplay, etc.

[self biased]

so, this is basically dwarf fortress IN SPACE! SPACE...Space...space..ce...

[Proteus_MST]

Nope ... this is Dwarf Fortress in Space:
Aurora 6.2

[Guynemer]

Already pledged a couple weeks ago.

Re: EVE Online... this one will actually let you, you know, FLY YOUR GODDAMNED SHIP.

Point and click to destination, no joystick suppor, turn based ship combat... really, EVE Online, I could not possibly be more disappointed in you.

[regexcellent]

I played EVE for 3 weeks with my roommate, it was kind of fun but not in a lasting way. I got ganked a lot.

[Hauldren Collider]

Already pledged a couple weeks ago.

Not sure how this one slipped past my radar for so long.

So far, it looks like this game will have everything Freelancer should have had if computers had been capable of handling it. Very excited.

[DaShi]

I played Freelancer one time then quickly gave it away.

[N35t0r]

I loved Privateer.

Freelancer was good, although a bit too railroady. Never played MP for that though.

This game does look interesting though.

[Guynemer]

I played Freelancer one time then quickly gave it away.

Big mistake. It is an excellent game.

[Nikolai]

This worries me because the only reason Freelancer was ever finished is because of pressure from the publisher (microsoft) to release. Now he has no publisher.

$7 million seems like it's probably enough capital to fund most of the game.

A private investor has promised another 10 million when the kickstarter goal was reached, so he's got some money there.

I pledged a month or so ago, it really looks good. His team will not do XPs, but add content each week. Content which has to be, you know, DISCOVERED by the players. First who discovers a system can sell the information to some kind of carthography organization or something, and can NAME the place after themselves.