Hello, unfortunate person who stumbled upon these ramblings.
I'm university student who lives in Syberian part of one specific slavic country, which basically means that I'm broke, constantly sleep deprived, suffering from cold (except summer) and hungry af.
And I'm in love with this game, it's like more mature and developed space rangers which I loved to play as a kid. I'm so much in love with this game that I'm unironically feel guilty for pirating this masterpiece, especially because I have some friends who are into gamedev which makes me truly appreciate THE WORK devs are putting into Starsector. And as said above, I can't pay for it because 15$ in RUB are around 1500RUB and it is like my monthly stipend which I spend on food.
I know that devs have a very chill attitude towards piracy and don't really care about these 15 bucks, but I still feel guilty for not paying for something that was made not just for greed like most of AAA games, but something that have soul.
So, finally, my questions are: do they have a patreon or something so I can donate the summ of money I can spare? And will they add this game on steam so I can buy it for reasonable price? I know that they are thinking about adding it on steam, looking at current version 0.95 which is very close to 1 which means I have enough time to witness it to be "Finished", but will they add it to steam for sure?