If these ships are super easy to get ingame I will laugh at all the people who wasted their money.
If these ships are impossible to get ingame I will not play the game, and likely no one else will. So people will have wasted their money on a p2w game.
If these ships are reasonable to get ingame I will enjoying my version of the game with more content than the backers who have wasted money opting out of said content.
Either scenario backing is a terrible idea, and thats excluding all sorts of scenarios like the game is terrible etc. but thanks for funding the game for me.
edit: tempted to post this on official forums just to enjoy lots of death threats.
You aren't skipping any content, so I don't know where you got that idea.
Here is a fact of life. Some people have more time than money and some people have more money than time. Life's struggle is a constant effort to balance that equation.
From your thoughts, it appears that you are a more time than money type of guy and that is great. But others, we have more money than time, at least on a relative basis and so are more than happy to throw our money at a company that promises to make the gaming universe we want to be in. If cash gets us the ability to have a capitol ship without "grinding" then great. Which leads to another point. The universe.
If you want to walk right into the universe as it is imagined, you need people already at the different levels of politics, navies, economics, piracy, etc. If you don't, you end up with a world or a server that "grows up" organically as so many MMO's do as start out with nothing and then has to go through a birthing process for player politics and economy and other structures that arise in a gaming community. That is fine for some games not to be full grown at launch, but not this one.
In this case, capitol ships wouldn't even exist until much later in the life of the universe of they are sufficiently difficult to obtain. That just isn't acceptable. You have to both make them available from the start and make them difficult to obtain at the same time. Money is a perfect way to obtain that balance. They need it to even come close to their ambition for this project, and people have varying amounts of it to spend and the more expensive something is, the fewer people can afford it. Perfect solution even if the 'more time than money' people aren't ever going to be happy with it.
