Pardon, the outside funding is around $10M, not the total funding goal, crowd-sourcing included. I think there is enough funding to extend the goals beyond the original scope (which I agree would have been impossible to meet, even in the $4-5M range).

Oh, how do you figure? The traditional investment portion was to be some $8M (to bring the budget up to ~$10M), and is supposedly already lined up, modulo the initial funding goal (I believe Chris stated as much during one of the Reddit AMA's).

Moreover, of all the extended goal possibilities in the poll, which do you seriously believe would go toward bringing in new backers? More missions than before? More NPCs? I suspect that the lion's share of backers who would be swayed by those (and the "improved FPS mode"...) have already pledged. Also, are you Seumas on Kickstarter as well? If so, then of all people, you should realize that Linux support has a greatly different level of importance on a crowd-funding campaign (where the Linux community is heavily active) than the wider gaming world.

I love the concepts in this project; in particular, I've been waiting nearly 20 years for sci-fi satire this good in playable form. Recent reboots of Hitchhikers Guide and other sci-fi comedy have been largely disappointing. Here comes a project with fresh ideas populated within a classic milieu; the adventure game. The fan base for this genre is surprisingly broad, but distributed, and it's terribly frustrating to continually (nearly each day in the campaign) find interested parties who were completely unaware of even the most basic of campaign details (i.e., the game creators recent reunion, as reported, finally, by Gamasutra).

This recently came to a head when one of our backers discovered a Google+ hangout in progress with a group of classic adventure game fans were replaying classic Space Quest , blissfully unaware that simultaneously, the very creators of the franchise were running a public live steam of commentary on the very same games!! It was the first head-through-keyboard moment of frustration I've had in years...