If GURPS did a Kickstarter what would you want it to be?

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Originally Posted by Hrothgar

I would agree a kickstarter going towards either the ability to update GCA 4 or start on GCA 5. Maybe enough to hire a few people for Armin to supervise.

An excellent way to spend a lot of money on slowing down a software project is to add more people. On a rough estimate, VB.NET programmers for short contracts are going to cost $250/day or more each, and getting ones that know GURPS is very unlikely. Unless Armin has been writing specifications as he goes along in a way that would be astounding for a project of this kind, he'd have to spend months writing those before hired programmers could do any good.

Originally Posted by ciaran_skye

GCA 5 has already been started and he's even posted a few screenshots and discussed the internal changes. It's just that he has a day job and paying side jobs that takes up most of his time.

Now, raising money to let Armin spend more time on GCA and less on his side jobs could do some good, assuming he can spend less time on them without them going away. That assumption is by no means guaranteed, nor is there a reliable way to ensure that X amount of money will get the job done by date Y. If he needed a fancier version of Visual Studio, or other programming tools, that would be simple. But time seems to be the requirement.