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I'm assuming one of every pack offered as part of the Kickstarter, including the add-ons like Sommerset Strikers, Proliferation and Urbie-Lance, plus the Retaliation Packs. Plus the exclusive Lance Packs as well.
'It is a source of constant consternation that my opponents cannot correlate their innate inferiority with their inevitable defeat. It would seem that stupidity is as eternal as war.'
- Nemesor Zahndrekh of the Sautekh Dynasty Overlord of the Crownworld of Gidrim
Edit: The first set was offered to IWM to help with it's owner's fight agains cancer, and it's apparently all sold out. Good for Catalyst, and for fans.
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Jenkins: You don't have jurisdiction here!
Smith Jamison: We aren't here, which means when we open up on you and shred your bodies with automatic fire then this will never have happened.
About the Clans: "Those brief outbursts of sense can't hold back the wave of sibko bred, over hormoned sociopaths that they crank out though."
Flinty wrote: I don’t understand CGL’s communication strategy. It pops up on the forum, but they haven’t sent out an update on Kickstarter.
It’s a holiday weekend in the U.S. (Memorial Day).
'It is a source of constant consternation that my opponents cannot correlate their innate inferiority with their inevitable defeat. It would seem that stupidity is as eternal as war.'
- Nemesor Zahndrekh of the Sautekh Dynasty Overlord of the Crownworld of Gidrim
I finalized my order in Backerkit but it didn’t charge me for shipping. I’m a late backer so I’m not getting the updates. Did they mention when they’re charging for shipping? I assume closer to when manufacturing is complete?
Ghool wrote: I finalized my order in Backerkit but it didn’t charge me for shipping. I’m a late backer so I’m not getting the updates. Did they mention when they’re charging for shipping? I assume closer to when manufacturing is complete?
Backerkit works like Kickstarter. Whilst the Backerkit is open you can edit and modify anything. However like KS it will only "lock in" and charge you once the Backerkit period is over.
Flinty wrote: I don’t understand CGL’s communication strategy. It pops up on the forum, but they haven’t sent out an update on Kickstarter.
It’s a holiday weekend in the U.S. (Memorial Day).
If they had organised it to the point that it gets added to the backerkit thing, how/why not just drop a wee update on Kickstarter to match. Even if the message went up early, surely that’s better than a random addition to the pledge manager with no context.
Give that every second comment just now is asking how to unlock pledges…
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Please excuse any spelling errors. I use a tablet frequently and software keyboards are a pain!
Ghool wrote: I finalized my order in Backerkit but it didn’t charge me for shipping. I’m a late backer so I’m not getting the updates. Did they mention when they’re charging for shipping? I assume closer to when manufacturing is complete?
Shipping is not final yet.
M.
Jenkins: You don't have jurisdiction here!
Smith Jamison: We aren't here, which means when we open up on you and shred your bodies with automatic fire then this will never have happened.
About the Clans: "Those brief outbursts of sense can't hold back the wave of sibko bred, over hormoned sociopaths that they crank out though."
So there's an E-mail going out that takes you to the backer results, which has a bunch of stats on pledge levels, popular items, and bits of trivial like who took the longest to finish the pledge manager, who was the first to pledge in the campaign, and so on.
There's the average backer pledge vs what you pledged. Mine... was a bit higher. *cough*
And it has a full list of everything you're getting, which is a good way of checking everything.
It also shows popular items, and that they'll be making over 22 thousand Blood Asp minis. With that many out there floating around the world my chances of getting at least one of the two I ordered have to be good!
Ghool wrote: I finalized my order in Backerkit but it didn’t charge me for shipping. I’m a late backer so I’m not getting the updates. Did they mention when they’re charging for shipping? I assume closer to when manufacturing is complete?
Backerkit works like Kickstarter. Whilst the Backerkit is open you can edit and modify anything. However like KS it will only "lock in" and charge you once the Backerkit period is over.
Actually, not this time, nor with any CMON project.
My pledge has already been locked and I can’t modify it at all.
I’ve already been charged as well. Just not the shipping.
Ghool wrote: I finalized my order in Backerkit but it didn’t charge me for shipping. I’m a late backer so I’m not getting the updates. Did they mention when they’re charging for shipping? I assume closer to when manufacturing is complete?
Backerkit works like Kickstarter. Whilst the Backerkit is open you can edit and modify anything. However like KS it will only "lock in" and charge you once the Backerkit period is over.
Actually, not this time, nor with any CMON project.
My pledge has already been locked and I can’t modify it at all.
I’ve already been charged as well. Just not the shipping.
From the 'Catalsyt Guide to the Mercenaries Pledge Manager Final' document that can be found in the Google Drive link in Update #50:
So that’s it? One and done? Not necessarily. A few weeks before the Pledge Manager closes, when we send an email to announce the final deadline, we will also re-open all surveys for any changes/additional shopping. This way you can budget for some items now, and some later.
You can also contact Catalyst by using the 'Contact me' by clicking on 'Catalyst Games' at the top of the Kickstarter where it says 'Created by'. Note however it may take some time as a lot of backers have been needing their pledge unlocked.
'It is a source of constant consternation that my opponents cannot correlate their innate inferiority with their inevitable defeat. It would seem that stupidity is as eternal as war.'
- Nemesor Zahndrekh of the Sautekh Dynasty Overlord of the Crownworld of Gidrim
Any guesses as to how complex things will be after they reopen pledges, or what that will look like?
Liiike... if you don't want to make any changes will you still need to log in and hit "finalize" again, or can you just ignore the notice? Will you be able to change, say, one item, or will any change require you to go through the whole reward assignment system again?
I don't really need to make any changes, but there's one minor one I've been thinking about. I chose a challenge coin and a Sea Fox pin (to give to my gf, because it's vaguely kawaii) but now I'm contemplating just switching to multiple coins so I can use them as objectives and get some practical use out of the useless swag. But I absolutely do not want to do the whole survey/assignment again.
It should keep your current pledge listings and you can modify from there, rather than resetting everything. If people make changes then submit, then they get charged any excess there and then, so they can't easily go back and reset everything while maintaining all that info.
Please excuse any spelling errors. I use a tablet frequently and software keyboards are a pain!
Ghool wrote: I finalized my order in Backerkit but it didn’t charge me for shipping. I’m a late backer so I’m not getting the updates. Did they mention when they’re charging for shipping? I assume closer to when manufacturing is complete?
Backerkit works like Kickstarter. Whilst the Backerkit is open you can edit and modify anything. However like KS it will only "lock in" and charge you once the Backerkit period is over.
Actually, not this time, nor with any CMON project.
My pledge has already been locked and I can’t modify it at all.
I’ve already been charged as well. Just not the shipping.
From the 'Catalsyt Guide to the Mercenaries Pledge Manager Final' document that can be found in the Google Drive link in Update #50:
So that’s it? One and done? Not necessarily. A few weeks before the Pledge Manager closes, when we send an email to announce the final deadline, we will also re-open all surveys for any changes/additional shopping. This way you can budget for some items now, and some later.
You can also contact Catalyst by using the 'Contact me' by clicking on 'Catalyst Games' at the top of the Kickstarter where it says 'Created by'. Note however it may take some time as a lot of backers have been needing their pledge unlocked.
Good to know, thanks!
I’ll just wait as I may want to adjust some things later.
We have some fantastic news to share! The pledge manager will be unlocking over the next few days and you will have until the end of July to lock in your final choices for your pledges. We'll send another announcement as soon as the unlocks go through. Don't forget that once you confirm your order, it will lock again, so be super sure of your choices!
'It is a source of constant consternation that my opponents cannot correlate their innate inferiority with their inevitable defeat. It would seem that stupidity is as eternal as war.'
- Nemesor Zahndrekh of the Sautekh Dynasty Overlord of the Crownworld of Gidrim
Jenkins: You don't have jurisdiction here!
Smith Jamison: We aren't here, which means when we open up on you and shred your bodies with automatic fire then this will never have happened.
About the Clans: "Those brief outbursts of sense can't hold back the wave of sibko bred, over hormoned sociopaths that they crank out though."
Emails are going out now for the reopening of the pledge manager.
'It is a source of constant consternation that my opponents cannot correlate their innate inferiority with their inevitable defeat. It would seem that stupidity is as eternal as war.'
- Nemesor Zahndrekh of the Sautekh Dynasty Overlord of the Crownworld of Gidrim
And apparently I had $20 credit? Ok. Got a JF Dice Tray!
And despite being unlocked, you can't change anything you added previously. Friend of mine added an Urbie Company because he got mixed up between that and the Urbie Lance (not as ingrained in BTech fluff as the rest of us might be), but he can't remove the Urbie Company, only add the Urbie Lance.
So he did.
He's going to be inundated in Urbies now (he has a few from the first KS).
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Latest update has dropped. Backerkit is not allowing the adjustments to previous selections in the pledge manager as they cause code issues (i.e., we broke the pledge manager again ). Catalyst is working with them to find a fix that.
Good news is that the plastic map-scale DropShips will remain in production after the Kickstarter with them being produced under the Catalyst flag. However if you can buy them during the Kickstarter please do so as the profits go to Melissa Noe of IWM as she fights cancer.
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'It is a source of constant consternation that my opponents cannot correlate their innate inferiority with their inevitable defeat. It would seem that stupidity is as eternal as war.'
- Nemesor Zahndrekh of the Sautekh Dynasty Overlord of the Crownworld of Gidrim
2023/07/16 20:54:13
Subject: BattleTech 'Mercenaries' Kickstarter - GLITCHES AND NEWS (UPDATE #56)
Ancestral Hamster wrote: While I was able to make changes, since they did not charge for shipping at that time, I assume they will unlock it again at some point.
From the Google Drive document in Update #50, posted May 19th:
How much will shipping cost? We continue to work hard to bring shipping costs down around the world. In order to do that, we won’t charge shipping until we are much closer to our delivery date. However, Catalyst has already committed to worldwide freight and import duties to get to our hubs. That means most of our backers will only have to pay “local” shipping rates for their country or territory, and of course local taxes/VAT. Future updates will publish likely shipping costs.
It will only be unlocked for shipping, not for adding to your pledge.
'It is a source of constant consternation that my opponents cannot correlate their innate inferiority with their inevitable defeat. It would seem that stupidity is as eternal as war.'
- Nemesor Zahndrekh of the Sautekh Dynasty Overlord of the Crownworld of Gidrim
2023/07/17 05:26:41
Subject: BattleTech 'Mercenaries' Kickstarter - GLITCHES AND NEWS! (UPDATE #56)
I saved the best news for last. We understand the frustration about the Salvage Boxes being unavailable for selection with the Pledge Bundle Add-ons - we're frustrated too. The challenge for a solution outside of Backerkit is complexity. The spreadsheet of backer surveys and total orders for fulfillment is MASSIVE, and we don't want to risk messing with the formatting, which could ultimately impact the distributor's fulfillment process and cause mistakes.
We've had a lot of conversations about how to work around Backerkit or the spreadsheet and what we can do, and we have an idea, but we need your help:
* As mentioned in the previous update, please use your Pledge Reward ForcePack options to choose as many of the Inner Sphere and Objectives ForcePacks that come with the Salvage Boxes as possible.
* After we reopen orders near the end of the pledge manager timeline, if you still need additional Inner Sphere or Objectives ForcePacks through your add-on bundle, go ahead and choose them . Once you submit your order and close it again, send us a message and we can add a free Salvage Box for you for your selections. This is a manual process, so please prioritize your choices to the main reward as much as possible.
We will continue to look for an easier solution in the meantime, but we have a plan!
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'It is a source of constant consternation that my opponents cannot correlate their innate inferiority with their inevitable defeat. It would seem that stupidity is as eternal as war.'
- Nemesor Zahndrekh of the Sautekh Dynasty Overlord of the Crownworld of Gidrim
2023/07/17 20:51:14
Subject: BattleTech 'Mercenaries' Kickstarter - GLITCHES AND NEWS! (UPDATE #56)
We wanted to provide an important update for those who pre-ordered through BackerKit and did not pledge through Kickstarter. We understand that you may not be able to see the backer-only updates and content on Kickstarter. We will be able to obtain a complete email list from of all backers once the pledge manager closes, and will be sending out all of that content as emails after the final close date.
Thank you for your continued support and understanding. We appreciate your patience, and we look forward to sharing exciting updates with you soon!
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