Right, I just looked at a few random kickstarters and those were the most common things

Also, what program is being used to code the game and where can you download it?

Ill try to think of something...

I liked PTs idea for in-game stuff with lower donations. How about there is something in-game along with concept art posters and/or soundtracks for every donation? Like a golden biome?

We also need exact donation amounts, except for above-a-certain-point donations. (you know, $100+)

I thought of a tonne of In-game donation rewards.

Here they are:

- Exclusive special textures and parts (parts are optional)
- Golden and Silver textures
- (expansion on PTs Idea) Ability to make creatures Solid gold, Silver, Platinum etc, as well as making allowing you to color parts that way, or actually MAKE the parts gold/silver/platinum/etc, along with exclusive new parts corresponding with precious metals like those.
- Same as before, only with birthstones.
- Thrive-labelled parts, TOs, and a special t-shirt in-game.
- Secret/unlockable editor of some sort. (ghost/spirit editor? I dunno.)
- Special god tool. (I didn't see a weather tool discussed, but that seems like it should be included in game... We need something that isn't as should-be-in-the-core-game. Maybe a fear-inducing tool?)
- Special material biomes. (Gold, Silver, Lapis Lazuli, Platinum, Ruby...)
- Infinite amount of one type of resource.
- Access to something from the beta (something REALLY early on in development)

I'm prone to think of something else.

Just to let people know, if they haven't noticed, I've moved discussion about donations to a new thread, since it seems to have outgrown this one.

Now I can ask some questions that have been wanting to get out the moment I joined the forums.

1. When playing in strategy mode, exactly what are you playing as? For the Space and Industrial stages it's acceptable to play as a commander of sorts, but what about the more "Tribal" stages? Or, if you have a pack in Aware and possibly multicellular, what would be?

2. How will the Tech Tree and creators come into the game? The stage-to-stage progression is supposed to be really smooth, so you wouldn't realize you're in awakening stage after finishing aware, but the FP creator can't just "appear", players would know when they are in awakening stage, and it just wouldn't look good.

3. Will the OE still be available in awakening and beyond? If it isn't, we would have to figure out how to make it fade out of the game.

4. How will the transfer to ascension work? Will your entire species instantly become gods, or is it just you? Ascension is the one weirdest issue we have, because we know exactly how most of it is going to go, but we still have a tonne of problems involving gameplay.

I also had a few questions if anyone has the time to answer.
1) Will the kardashev scale be present? I thought it would be neat if we could work Carl Sagan's version in and you could browse your rating from any stage in the game, perhaps in the top left corner of the menu.
2) could we have any majorly evil race like a type 2.5 race similar to daleks, or borg, or the empire? I have a very interesting empire in mind based off the borg, but I don't know if we want any type of storyline at all.
3) Will the galaxy be static, or will stars be born and die. If we're going for realism, we wouldn't want a static galaxy, but at the rate the milky way produces stars, we would end up with way too many eventually. Will it be sort of static, like every star that dies, another is born?
4) Will we work the Drake equation into code with blanks filled in to generate solar systems and planets?

I have a few questions:
1) Will there be a sporepedia-like encyclopedia of all pre-made and dowloaded creations?
2) Will we be able to "share" our creations?
3)Will we have non-ingame editors like in Spore?

Just curious. Any answer would be greatly appreciated.

I hope you guys can reply with an open mind to this, but have you ever considered using kick starter? It could help with getting more programmers getting the things you might need like development funds I would say, and i feel it could help. I also feel you need to use youtube make an account because if you promote the game more, and more the more it gets looked into by more people and finally you'll get someone like ign to talk about it. Finally you need to look into ouya it's an open console that if you wanted to could help with getting it out there a lot easier since they said it's meant for developers who can't get there games out there. You guys have been at this for 3.5 years it's time to push this into a beta development as fast as you can, and you need a lot of support for it I want to help, but I think you need to consider these ideas and I am dead serious about doing them I don't want this game to fail please reply with what you think.