Yes it makes it real!

Pre-alpha will be launching in December we hope but latest in Q1 2020
You can buy it now yes

It's a direct screencap from Unity engine, it's only the game environment but nothing fixated though, the controller isn't already built properly because we are still creating the skill system and the animations and everything and we need to adapt it better, although we are using a great framework to help us streamline that process and simplify it.
We have not sold a total of 500 spots yet only a portion of it and we are now allowing affiliates to help us out and we just edited the campaign now we are going to be able to have more CCU power so we are now not limiting us to 500 spots anymore, it was mainly because we were limiting us because of our CCU limit and server load before we would be splitting the server-based logic and data into segments so that it could be easily split between servers for heavy load and we didn't want to overload the game servers before we could increase our CCU to over 1000 at least to keep the servers stable when we would launch, so that was the main thought behind that but now we have created 3 tiers and are pre-selling with a higher limit as our networking will allow it.

The link above yes is only an environmental video of what you can expect graphics-wise and we don't really want to market that as the product or the end product because it will change a lot and we don't want people to buy the game with the idea that it will look exactly like this video, but yeah maybe it would be right to put the link to it as well.

YES, exactly the market is actually partly inspired by Eve online, it is really brilliant and want to have this dynamic system where you need materials to make things, but we want to do it a little bit different as well, I was actually working with some people that worked for CCP in the past since I come from Iceland and it's not that big of a country.

So we are not going to have it like that you can steal land from others because it will be hardcoded on the blockchain it will surely be a sell/buy product and there will be resource nodes that spawn on it that you can harvest and then sell on the marketplace and it varies what resources come at which land, building this system is not harder than usual its basically just a database built using blockchain technology instead of a standard SQL database.

The banks are also pretty easily made via vesting in smart contracts, businesses will drain resources and earn crypto, most resources will be gathered from no man's land, and there it will depend on what land you have what valuable resources you will be able to harvest without trouble.

Now the smart contracts built for the stocks will be simple x owns x much of x much equals x much payout of profits in x time it's pretty simple if you think of it and the smart contracts need not be very complex.

So for example, if the casino has 100 shares and you own 1 share, then players come in daily gamble a bit and the provable fair algorithm is 90% and the 10% is put to the casino profits, then at the end of x time period it will spread evenly between shareholders of the casino.

The shares of the company will also be stored on the blockchain, linking you and x many shares in that company and then a smart contract to calculate the dividends after the time period and recurring.

Times have changed a lot in-game development and it has gotten much cheaper to make games today and accessible for indie studios like ours to get a lot of the material that has been made which a huge amount of money doesn't have to go into and we are taking full advantage of that to cut down on costs.

The colonize planets thing does not have to be very complex because we want to try to keep it simple and focus on other aspects then we will alow graphics procedural generated universe that will have simple texture based planets and resource nodes on them and people will be able to land on them and claim land there same as in no man's land, in reality, but when the difference will be that one planet will be calculated as 1 land so you will claim the planet and that adds a deed to your inventory that is stored on the blockchain this isn't that complex to do because you only have to generate a set amount of pre-determined prefixes for the planets and then have it procedurally generate a vast amount of planets, suns etc and then planting 1 in x many planets to be landable on and habitable, the habitable places will basically be a different zone generated inside the universe with the same logic as you will be able to use in no man's land, building, getting materials, etc, so the core is already there but it will need to be built upon as new zones for every planet, and this will be a reason why we will not be releasing that soon but it will probably be the last addition that will be added to the game after Future city, while No man's land will be coming first.

We are around 6 people at the moment involved but we are getting funded and going to set up a remote developer team in Ukraine.

Also, my personal abilities are not in creating the game itself by hand since I am not an indie developer, but I am creating the company and putting together the team and developing the vision of the game and doing most of the creative design as well as software architecture and project management for this project, my position at The coolest company in the world LTD is CEO and COO / and the same goes for Future City INC.
There are people that are more capable than me in doing the actual hand on things, for example, level design and coding the game and its systems, and creating the artwork, music and other aspects, I am mediocre personally at best in level design and coding, so if you mean by that "testing your abilities" then i could not possibly show abilities I do not possess at high levels and are not within my role of the company.

We are not bumping any thread, and we don't own any newbie accounts, also we are not having an ICO, ICO stands for an Initial Coin Offering, I doubt that you even read through the thread and checked what we are selling or read anything about our company before posting this reply.

But as for me, I have held an ICO in the past and it went pretty well, no scam reports so far since I started in the industry in 2010.

Hey, guys get your free tokens by signing up to the mail list on www.futurecitythegame.com

I have a few domains that I purchased at some point but have no use for

an overall directory listing site for lawyers that are in the crypto business, the lawyers would pay a fee to be listed
cryptolawyers.club

good for an app or social something
cryptofriends.world


blockchainnetwork.online


good as a standard chat that will get people chatting because not anyone has the mind to go to telegram or discord, this could be a one big general chat room allowing people to connect there, and you could run ads on it as well promoting your own crypto projects or others for a fee.
thecryptochat.online

good for a directory listing site for crypto/blockchain events or even ticket sales site
blockchainevents.online


Good for a social network using crypto
cryptofriends.network

offer me reasonable $ and you can have them

I had a drive that I lost also that had some bitcoins, haha, i also had like a lot of aurora coins which disappeared

Hey there so we need some salespeople to help us promote our pre-sales / crowdfunding of the video game we are making at www.futurecitythegame.com
you can read all the details on there and you can also check our ann thread on here and see the core team and such.

payment is in Fiat or Crypto, but Fiat payments are automatic but crypto payments would have to be specifically asked for.

We are offering 10$ per sale of tier 1 or tier 2 and you get a 10% discount coupon to send to your friends.

I can do this for you easily and you can have it sent ASAP no problemo

Hey, mate just use Jarvee, it's already made and doesn't cost much...
No problem, merry me

Hey guys, how are ya, I just came from the BEF a few days ago and am going to Blockchain Live also, where are you going to be in the coming months?
let me know where you are headed to what summits and forums and we can maybe meet up and you can tell me about your project.
Feel free to add me on LinkedIn as well.

Oh I will also be in Dubai again at the investor summit

Yeah it's no problem, we are on board with that and we also accept cryptocurrencies

You can start earning right now through our referral program

A good question, we won't have the full-on cost and earning potential fully calculated until the IEO has been held and we see how much is sold in the IEO and all of the economical functions have been calculated and smart contracts have been made, but we want to make it so that people won't be playing for scraps or a few coins, but will actually be able to earn some money.

Everyone is tight on funds these days, you gotta make do with what you get, some are only projects that made it so far and some made it to be companies, I mean sure I have some connections but why to go to big players begging for funds when you don't need them that urgently?, also I don't like that whole "corporate" atmosphere, I'm more laid back work remotely in your pajamas kinda person or at the beach or whatever, my favorite place in the world is in Thailand and without any tech near me, and now this is a pure joy and something that interests me as a project I always wanted to make a game that would change MMORPG's and that's why I am making with my own funding and not trying to rush it in a way, I mean would i slap my hand away if someone would come begging me to take large amounts of cash to forward the developement of the game, sure i would not refuse it but it is not the main drive here, also I would take it with a grain of salt because i have a particular vision for this, I want to create a great atmosphere and place where people can get together and make a game and have fun while doing it, it's not going to be all about deadlines and salaries, I used to work super hard on so many projects before, sometimes I wouldn't even sleep for day's because I was working without sleep and that kinda pressure is just unhealthy, and the main focus was that I was working on projects that I lacked true passion, right now I don't care that much about money anymore or fame, i kinda grew out of it as a person, i mean sure it's good to have enough, but you don't really need anything that is extremely overboard, I just want to make a video game that is good and everything that I always envisioned would be great and add all the aspects that I felt that was missing from games in the past, and bring a whole lot of people on board with me and make this happen and taint my vision with their vision as well :-)
I also want to make a "society" in the game and create a viable economy, in a few years from now a huge amount of jobs will be gone and what is going to replace these jobs? what about disabled people who could be living their dream inside the game and reaping benefits from that in real life, imagine if you could become a big shot in the game and earn your salary through the game, you could own a shop or a business or be a warlord in no man's land, whatever you decide, and you can then earn income from that in-game, it doesn't matter what you are or do in real life, this will allow you to be your virtual self and have an actual income, this gives everyone equal access to a one-world economy that exists virtually.

Anyways the pre-alpha sales are pretty much the additional funding that we need and want to get for some additional need-to-pay at the moment
and we will have additional funding rounds later but right now this is just to gather the support and a strong community around the game, as we want those who buy the pre-alpha to get invested with us and not be "buying the game" that's why the price is 100$ which is a little bit steep, it shows dedication from both ends, but on the other end then the pre-alpha buyers will be able to claim the lands that have the best resources spots so thats a win-win as resources will be worth crypto, so in the end you are buying land that is worth more crypto-wise, so you could call it an investment if you look at it that way, but I can't really call it an investment for legal reasons.

Sure thing, To explain this a little bit then we have some "shell" companies that are responsible for the funding and one intellectual holding company
it makes sense business-wise to have it set up that way to simplify things financially, you can see on the front page that there is a direct link to our U.k registered company Company No. 12171106 in the house of companies registry.
Then we have Future city INC registered in Bulgaria
and then we are forming another company responsible for the late IEO we will be holding when the time comes. that company will be formed in Estonia.

The core team right now consists of
Kristinn Spence https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristinnspence/ (Founder, started multiple projects, creative, developer, music producer, story, gamer, marketing etc)
Daníel Óskarsson https://icorating.com/people/daniel-oskarsson/ (Developer and artist and co-founder and knows his way around games a lot)
Sigurður Benediktsson  https://www.linkedin.com/in/sigur%C3%B0ur-benediktsson-01b96561/ (advisor, has been CEO for more than 10 years)
Robert Stone (not official, but he has been providing some good advisor services to us) https://icorating.com/people/robert-stone-29944/
then we have some interviews set up next week for level designers and other team members as we put out an advertisement.

then we have a bunch of freelancers and pay-per-job people that work for us that are not listed who are micromanaged until we can set up our own office which I believe will be next month.

We will provide long term support without a doubt!

Aha this is so true, but i guess you can never be perfect or spot on with anything, someone always has something to say, our team is pretty small here but i have experience in setting up remote teams and non-remote teams in countries where workforce is cheaper so that is super good for our game studio, I used to do so micromanaging a few years back that it made me want to puke out my intestines almost, at a time I was micromanaging 30 people or even 40 at a time and that got extremely tiring, but that experience and connections come in super handy now when we are hiring in our studio, we can expand at the same time as our funds which is great, I mean we don't need a huge team or studio, we can do anything with our current team but we want to make things better and faster and have professionals for every aspect would be great.

I think people will get much more sucked into this kinda games because it has real stakes you know, it also gives great opportunities for people to become something great in the game and transfer that to real life.

The end-game in our game will be more free-decision based, I mean you could run your empire from No-man's land or from Future city, be a simple mercenary who knows, it's going to be a free choice.

Yeah if you are going to do that then i agree, or releasing a DLC that will be almost like a new game, but it can be troublesome if you are always working with the core codebase and you want to add a lot of new functions and things like that, but it all depends on what kinda game you are making though, i mean if it is a single-player or multiplayer etc

In case this is a scam then you could, of course, go to the police or report it to the SEC, and sue us, either way, we are a registered company so that there would be no troubles in retrieving your money and having a solid case against our company, we are getting our business account in the Uk right now so we will be redirecting payments through that and adding the game to steam in the coming weeks :-)
Also, pre-sales and crowdfunding are very very common these days in the gaming industry and those roll on screenshots and videos, it sounds like you don't purchase many games or game a lot, but this might be educational for you to know and maybe you should look it up a little bit before shouting scam.
Also, you must be pretty far-off to believe that I would put my own personal reputation on the line to scam people and my studio's reputation
I'm not sure if you are familiar with our studio but we are an Icelandic team with experience in business, games, blockchain and a reputation in all
of these, also Iceland is the most peaceful country in the world and one of the richest countries in the world as well, and with the highest income in the world and Icelanders don't generally scam people, we barely have crime, for one thing we have enough money to have a comfortable life and we don't need to scam people to get a comfortable life, we are actually ranked the 3rd of highest Income in the world, you  can see it here https://www.careeraddict.com/top-10-countries-with-the-highest-average-salaries , but these have up since 2017 though as to inflation, also never in my life did I hear about an Icelandic scammer on the internet, I really should not have to be battling over people if our studio is a scam or not, it is ridiculous to say the least, if people want to support the game and help us build it, fine, if not then don't, its really simple, but it's logical that the people who arrive first in-game will be able to claim the best land near resource nodes as a "goodwill" gesture for the support.

And somehow you assume that just because I posted this thread on here on this tiny bit of the internet that you think I am working alone on this project and this whole thing is a scam, your logic seems to be flawed, to say the least, the back end system of the game is the most troublesome part of the game it is not the front end that is troublesome or the level design, that is easy compared to all of the back end functions that need to be made and created and assigned etc, the level design is not hard if you have some good people that know their way around level design and have a keen eye on architecture, so you say show us this and that, what is there to show? a backend demo the new inventory system? we don't have anything presentable right now marketing-wise and we will release something when it will be presentable marketing-wise.

Also, these newbie accounts have nothing to do with us as far as i know.

also here you can see the biggest scams in Iceland targeting foreigners that have happened in the last decade
https://www.reddit.com/r/VisitingIceland/comments/4xluxz/are_there_any_scams_in_iceland/
Yeah as you can see we are real hardcore heartless gangbangers down in Reykjavík just trying everything to get a buck or 2.