Telethon of the Avatar/Summer Telethon 2017 Part 1



Avatars! Get ready to soak up the summer sun with us. Today, we’re announcing the Summer Telethon 2017 Part 1! Telethons are livestreamed on Twitch and include a complete schedule of developer Deep Dives, answers to your gameplay questions, community activities, prize giveaways, sales on items, and more! See what’s all included below…

Summer “Hot Air” Expirations Sale Begins!

In honor of the waves of hot air that will be blowing over us this summer we are expiring all of our hot air Aeronaut items. At Midnight CDT, May 31, 2017 (5:00 UTC, June 1, 2017), we are expiring the following content from the Add On Store (and the in-game Crown Merchants). This means that these items will no longer be available at all after this date.

* Before the following items expire for good, we have put them on sale at approx. 20% off. Check out what’s now on sale:


 * Ornate Black Leather Aeronaut Helmet Pattern Pack (digital)
 * Black & Chrome Ornate Aeronaut Outfit Pattern Pack (digital)
 * Black & Chrome Ornate Aeronaut Outfit (digital)
 * Ornate Black Leather Aeronaut Helmet (digital)
 * Aeronaut Wearable Pack (digital)
 * Aeronaut Hot Air Balloon Pack (digital)
 * Hot Air Balloon (digital)
 * Airship City Home (digital)
 * Star Citizen Aeronaut Helmet Starter Bundle (digital)
 * Star Citizen Airship City Home (digital)

Help us to achieve the following goals during this next event!

As a special bonus, we are offering Telethon Funding Stretch Goal Rewards to any backer that pledges a minimum of $5 from the start of the telethon, until Midnight (Spending Store Credit to make $5 minimum purchase does not apply). The Summer Telethon 2017 Part 1 Funding Stretch Goal Rewards are:

and more to be revealed if we hit these goals…
 *  ACHIEVED!  $10,000: /smokevirtue: blow the virtue symbol in smoke from a pipe
 *  ACHIEVED!  $25,000: Balloons: a small cluster of balloons held in your hand. These particular balloons are black with a silver virtue symbol.
 *  ACHIEVED!  $35,000: Miner’s Helmet with flame on top (generates light)
 *  ACHIEVED!  $50,000: Flame Pattern Stained Glass Oil Table Lamp (3 Pack)
 *  ACHIEVED!  $65,000: Fire Elemental Statue with flame effects
 *  ACHIEVED!  $80,000: Flame Shaped Shield and Scimitar
 *  ACHIEVED!  $100,000: Flame Leather Armor
 * $120,000: Flame Plate Armor

Did you see what was unlocked in the last telethon? This one might be even bigger!

Cheer on the Devs!

For every $2,500 donated, all developers on camera have to either dance, sing, or drink a shot of alcohol.

Additionally, we will be spinning the Wheel of Fortune! The wheel will have 14 items at any given time, but dozens of sales will happen! Each time an item comes up it will go on sale for 20% off for 1 hour.

As the wheel is spun, what is selected will be replaced by something else. Items already selected will be removed for a time (some may not come back onto the wheel for the rest of the telethon). Keep in mind that some of these may never come up, so cross your fingers for your preferred item!

Telethon Schedule
 * 12:00 PM: Welcome to the Summer Telethon!
 * 12:30 PM: R42 Postmortem (Chris, Richard, Starr)
 * 2:00 PM: Player Housing & Player Owned Towns Deep Dive (Starr, Hutch, Bob Cooksey)
 * 3:00 PM: World Building Tours (Esteben, C-Wolf, Keith, Dan)
 * 4:30 PM: Story Deep Dive (Lum, Richard)
 * 5:30 PM: ONBE Awards & Community Hour
 * 7:00 PM: Crafting & Economy Deep Dive (Chris, Starr, Richard, Brandon)
 * 8:00 PM: Boss Fight! (Chris, Richard, Starr)
 * 8:30 PM: Combat & PVP Deep Dive (Chris, Starr, B, Richard)
 * 10:00 PM: Artifice Tour and Lore discussion (Scottie, Lum, Richard)
 * 11:00 PM: Q&A / Wrap-up (Chris, Starr, Richard)


 * Announcing the Summer Telethon 2017 Part 1!