So with such a great currency conversion I found an impressive looking escort service website servicing the Budapest area.  For $5 U.S. I can have a stripper sent over for 4 hours.  Also they go full nude in your country, interesting.  For an additional $5 they will provide "special services".  Services upto 5 guests, . It looks like for $15 you can get two.  For $25 they both spend the night and cook dinner and breakfast, food not included.  Brunettes, red head or blondes.  There's also a no hair option...  BTW this is not a troll.  A prepaid Visa and this is happening.

At this point the steam launch is an all in situation.  If more people don't sub, the game dies.  if they do, it will succeed.  From a business standpoint, they have to develop the mechanics for a larger audience.  Interference, gamma bases, etc etc.  All of this must be developed and directed towards a large number of people.

According to valve, in may 2010, there were 20 million unique active accounts on steam (This number has only gotten bigger in the last 3 years, I just couldn't find the statistics for the current year) .  Hypothetically, lets say .1% try perp,  and lets say 25% of those who try it, sub.  .001 x 20,000,000 is 20K people.  25% of those people sub.  That's an influx of 5000 players.  Now, those numbers are hypothetical.  But they are also very reasonable.  This game needs to be designed with those kind of numbers in mind.  Because if its not, and those players do come, they game will be far more broken when the players show up, then it is now.  And if the players don't come, well you all know what will happen then.  We are currently in an "All or nothing" situation.  Because of that, the design of the game has to be towards larger numbers of players.

@homer

10K players is a stupidly large number of players?  I think you are grossly underestimating the number of people that play games.  There are currently 250K people playing Dota 2 RIGHT NOW (thats not total players, thats players currently playing, at this very moment).  There are 45K players playing TF2 RIGHT NOW.  I understand this game is not a AAA title, but 10K players is not a stupidly large number of players.  And this game is going to get a HUGE jump start in the advertising sector when it launches on steam (seeing how there was no advertising to begin with).  Think about how many people came into the game when RPS started to do its articles.

Will everything spent on terraforming be reimbursed?

"We dropped over 50 Proximity probes that got blown up today. I don't know why we didn't stop after the first 15 died, but instead of smartening up, we're going to rage about it on the forums.