A new
Letter from the Chairman on the Roberts Space Industries website celebrates
the news that the crowd-sourced funding for
Star Citizen has passed the
$39 million plateau, unlocking the next stretch goal of "the penultimate
user-chosen star system" (thanks 88fingers). When the game hit $38 million,
Chairman Roberts teased "a new goal that will help chart the course for the
future of Star Citizen in a different way," which he now reveals to be a
Procedural Generation R&D Team, saying "If we can develop a truly great
procedural generation system, one that lets us create entire planets for you to
populate, then we can expand the game to add these features (and more) in the
future." Here's more on their $40 million stretch goal:
Procedural
Generation R&D Team – This stretch goal will allocate funding for Cloud
Imperium to develop procedural generation technology for future iterations of
Star Citizen. Advanced procedural generation will be necessary for creating
entire planets worth of exploration and development content. A special strike
team of procedural generation-oriented developers will be assembled to make this
technology a reality.