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Worth mentioning that the major content of the Planetary Annihilation page was their simulation/rendering - completely concept-art.

It's not a hardware project so the new rules don't apply.

Well - the major content (in my mind) was Jon Mavor/Steve Thompson.

If all they do is port some small portion of Planetary Annihilation forward, then I'll be happy.

If they actually deliver on 50% of what they've promised + Orchestral Score - I'll be beyond happy.

I spent a good portion of 1997/1998 playing Total Annihilation.

Good point. This restriction should only apply to products with a marginal cost to produce / ship / what have you.

They could easily set up a bullpen of 5 projects to soak up extra funding. It is completely pointless to fund a project over its budget. The project can change its budget and plan/promise of they want to raise more.

I think the extra $200K was well worth the Orchestral Score. I'm happy they got overfunded.