Perdition wrote:

I think doing any YOU BETTER PLEDGE NOW OR THERE ARE EXCLUSIVE ITEMS YOU WILL NEVER EVER GET AGAIN is in bad form. It's done on a lot of these KS ones and it turns it into a upjumped 1-2 year old preorder instead of a true crowdfunding drive.

All I can personally say is that we had this issue very much in mind while hammering on the list of rewards to get them into shape to be submitted. Please do not take any of these as hard promises, because I do not have the authority to make any of those, but rather as examples of *some* of the things that might be done to mitigate this issue:

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[*]A number of things are specifically [b]not[/b] marked as KS-exclusives. How or when they might be offered outside of that is an open question, and there are [i]absolutely[/i] no promises made that any given thing will ever be offered again -- but where it is not marked as exclusive, there is no guarantee that it is.
[*]Several items are marked as being exclusive only for a limited time after their first introduction; these are most definitely intended to be offered as non-exclusives once that expires.
[*]There will probably be some set of items where the KS-specific reward is a variation on something normally available, with the difference being that the KS-specific one has a visible "tweak" to show that it was from the KS. An [b]example[/b] of this -- and please note, so far as I know this isn't actually a reward anywhere, but always check the final posted list at the KS site -- would be something like a "flip a coin" emote where the KS-specific variant had "KS" visible on the coin in some fashion.
[*]The potential for pre-order items was raised as well. I can't say anything more than "so far as I know it is still on the table as an option for various things" (and even that could be out of date).
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But at least one sheep that was involved in (some of) the discussion around the list is a die-hard "gotta catch 'em all" collector (of badges, costumes, in fact darn near everything that has a finite set to collect) and who really, really dislikes the notion of stuff that is *fundamentally* "never again, and not even an equivalent through some other means". Heck, even anniversary stuff; I much preferred the Xmas badges that could be earned in later years for a nominal effort to collect candy canes.

Now, that said:

Several of the items listed are unlikely to be offered again, at the very least any time soon, if they sell out during the KS, because we put as many as we could *in* the KS pool. To take the example of buildings: there are a (very) finite number of buildings available *of any particular type*, because unlike some movie cities, the grid will not consist solely of tattoo shops and strip joints. So unlike many of the other items, they *aren't* something we can simply make an infinite number of meaningfully, and the scarcity is not artificial -- the numbers were calculated based on some assumptions about zone layouts and other details, but we actually pushed the number *upward* from the initial calculation, to make the pool larger and reduce the risk of locking folks out. That said, if they prove to be incredibly popular, we may find ourselves needing to take another look at some assumptions and reconsider them.

Bear in mind that these are also *specific* and recognizable buildings. Also, while I would have to check, I don't [i]think[/i] any of them are actually marked as KS-exclusive. They just have a very limited available pool; if that pool expands in the future (for example, as new zones open), it is conceivable that they might become available again at some point.

Most of the rest of the limited items fall into the category of "extremely time-intensive for staff" because they have one or more aspects that are basically customized work for every one that sells, and that usually isn't practical as a long-term business practice. But the word 'usually' there is important.