OK back from Develop and Rezzed. Time to answer some questions!
One of the things I'm hoping for is an organic matter that grows and expands and the player will have to hold that off.
Space Colony had the weed stuff and it was fun to send your colonists out to burn the weeds. It also meant that if you weren't careful, the weeds could encroach inside your walls as well which meant trouble as they excruded poisonous gas.
There were also curious aliens which tried to steal stuff from your colony.
I've already planned on the surface areas to have a rainforest full of dangerous and intrusive plants. Part of the game play will be maintaining rooms and equipment on the surface. Solar stills and green houses will be very useful for food and water so the colonists will need to regularly go out and clear the ground to stop the plants damaging buildings and equipment.
I really love the magpie idea. Maybe they can steal fusion cells and precious ores from the store room. Or even the shiniest IMP bots!
You could probably (much much later) ask TotalBiscuit if he could do a WTF is... of it once you think its good enough to be considered 1.0, to get some interest later on from people who hadn't heard of it yet.
From what I understand, he doesnt do requests. But I've got a massive feature coming up on a big games site that should get a load of interest.
I'm going to be doing something very awesome with the crowd funding that should get a lot of interest too.
oh also question, i plan on kickstarting for $60, will we also still get to add a named character to the game ? and could we use our forum names ? 
, can we also pick what art we wanted for the poster ?.
and this invite to the launch party... tell me more .
andddd these creatures we see in the screenshots, i take it this is one type of robot you can build ? and we are still going to have human colonists ?, also how many levels up/down can we go ?
also ever hear of this game ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Colony_%28video_game%29 yours is really reminding me of this as well.
I'm sure I can find a way to fit in forum tags. Perhaps the robots can be named with forum tags and real names for human characters?
Not 100% on the poster prints, I'll try to do a mix or perhaps a vote for peoples favorites.
Currently I hope for 5 levels to start with for testing. By the time the game goes into beta I want 50.
I've heard of space colony. I should check it out after having a good go with Startopia!
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