To clarify: $21 million is the budget needed to make the game go without VC. A million dollar stretch goal is a reward for approaching that... but it can not cost a million dollars on its own since that all goes to planned features anyway.
We can expand stuff we've planned, move up post-launch goals to an extent (space stations!) but if it's something that takes lots of extra money for us then we end up back where we started.
The PDF is going to be insanely cool, though. It is something I tried for years to do through EA... and now we have the guy behind the Wing Commander manuals doing these... if you know Victory Streak or Voices of War, you will know what I'm talking about. Just a great polished "in universe" book for everyone that expands the lore AND is good for gameplay at once. I can't wait to write for it.
RSI Museum is my baby and I'm excited to have a real schedule for it. If you guys saw the pilot we did for Strike Commander, it'll only get better from there, Lots to talk about for anyone who loved the old Origin games! I'll start a thread about it once I'm back from Atlanta.
And running your own space stations... I don't know how that couldn't be awesome. That was the number one requested feature from Privateer fans back in the day - an endgame scenario for trader players who want to go on to become tycoons or merchant kings...
