Raging Heroes [official] Toughest Girls of the Galaxy Kickstarter - $698,548 Finish!

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**Hulksmash**

@-Ipaint

We obviously see things differently but you can't honestly feel like this company is communicating well with it's public can you?

**Buzzsaw**

And an update is up! (one sec, putting in images...)

First freebie unlocked, and What happens when a Kickstarter launches to such overwhelming numbers?
Update #4 · Jun 6, 2013 · comment

After 50 hours from the launch of the Toughest Girls of the Galaxy Kickstarter, we passed the $300,000 mark! We can only say it again: THANK YOU!! You, TGG backers, are awesome!

You've now unlocked the Heavy Troops for the Kurganova Shock Troops:

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And at the 300,000 mark you unlocked the 1st Freebie, Ash, the Tank Gunner, who will be added for free to all pledgers at LIEUTENANT BOX and above.

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What's next?

The next Stretch Goal is set at $310,000 and is already nearly upon us: Major Severina Madsen from the Iron Empire.

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After that, at $330,000, you will be able to unlock Tank Stopper Katerina Zerga from the Kurganova Shock Troops.

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And after that, at the $350,000, you're looking at unlocking the already very popular Mad Nurse Bernadette from the Jailbird Division also featured in our opening video.

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But that's not all! We've also planned to unlock the 2nd Freebie at the same time, at $350,000!

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What happens when a Kickstarter launches to such overwhelming numbers?

First, you go numb. You stare at the screen, halfway between manic hysteria and stunned silence. Friends from neighbouring offices roll in to congratulate you and ask you “what's a Kickstarter?”. The phone rings off the hook. SMS messages pile up. Skype rings non-stop too. The ding-ding-ding of Facebook messages makes a constant background noise.

There are so many things demanding your attention all at once, you just don't know what to do first. Since you just got the link of the campaign (there was no way to have it before launching), you want to repost it where people can find it. But while you're doing that, you notice that all the Early Bird Specials are already gone. You've got messages flashing all over your screen clamoring for attention: email, FB, Raging Heralds (bless them one more time!), Kickstarter emails and comments... And then you've got your stretch goals... Which you don't even have time to output from locked to unlocked, as the KS locomotive is rolling over you...

Your friends and neighbors kindly realize that you're white as a sheet and leave you to it. You start plugging away at the keyboard, but you're still in a daze. As you try to focus, questions keep popping up that were not anticipated, and which require quick pow-wows between us 3 to answer. Focus gone. Start over. Re-interruption.s. Re-discussions. Re decisions. Re-back to “what was I doing?”. And so on...

Honestly, what an amazing ride!
And after 54 hours, the madness continues :-)
Can we have more Heroines-only pledges?

Yes! We're still working on that, and you will be notified via an update.
Some images from your previous updates are not working...

Yes, we noticed that. That is because we linked them to images that were on the main project page. But we did not realize that when you remove an image from that page, the link goes dead! Kickstarter does not keep the links alive! So, now we know. We're now uploading to a permanent server, so the images for the Updates will no longer go missing. But we can't fix the previous updates, as the Kickstarter platform does not allow edits on updates once they're posted, so we'll add them back in future updates.
Can we have larger images of the unlocked minis?

Yes indeed! See below.

Meanwhile, please have a great day, and thank you again! Your support is incredible! More soon!!!

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**Widdershinz**

All I want to know is how high does it have to go before we hit plastics? I would spend a bucket load if it meant getting a sprue of decent female heads for conversions.

**Minx**

Kroothawk wrote:
Does anyone have the pic with the 12k-200k unlocks still saved somewhere? It was deleted from the kickstarter page, but would be helpful for a full summary.

I've stored a copy of the kickstarter page every now and then and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. That's where i found the missing image and uploaded it to my gallery:

Spoiler:

btw thanks for all your updates in this and countless other threads. Always a pleasure to see your summaries.

**HisDivineShadow**

Its been 2 days. Out of a 32 Day campaign.

I'd rather then be working on logistics, minis, and etc then answering every whine and cry from Joe Blow Internet on Every forum on the Interwebz.

constant communication doesn't make an ugly mini worth buying.

**BrookM**

More heroine only pledge levels are always good.

**Alpharius**

HisDivineShadow wrote:
Its been 2 days. Out of a 32 Day campaign.

I'd rather then be working on logistics, minis, and etc then answering every whine and cry from Joe Blow Internet on Every forum on the Interwebz.

constant communication doesn't make an ugly mini worth buying.

Yeah, that's not quite what the issue was, but... OK.

Anyway, I hope they eventually add the faction name to all the heroines - some aren't as obvious to me as maybe they're supposed to be?

And "Tank Stopper" is a cool nickname!

**Azazelx**

Heh. How about those stretched-out stretch goals? Check out the prices on the graphics for Katerina and the Mad Nurse in your email. I'm sure they'll probably fix the ones on the KS update page quickly...

**KalashnikovMarine**

Jeez guys, I go to sleep and then you pull this off! I'm thinking we unlock the major by the end of the day easy.

**Azazelx**

-iPaint- wrote:

It's day 2 and it's already starting to seem like people (especially over in the KS comments section) are chomping at the bit for this KS to be over with everything completely unlocked.

It's pretty clear that a lot more of the stuff would already be unlocked if they weren't going back and further stretching the stretches between the stretch goals.

**Buzzsaw**

You see? It was all a misunderstanding: when they said that the updates would be like "spam", we thought they were using the American version, which is to say "frequent and common".

Well you know how spam is a delicacy in Hawaii? Well it's hard to get spam in France, so what they really meant was "rare and hard-to-find".

Right? Back me up here Euros...

**PsychoticStorm**

Indeed its 330 and 350 with freebie 2 still at 350, not bad.

**Azazelx**

HisDivineShadow wrote:
Its been 2 days. Out of a 32 Day campaign.
I'd rather then be working on logistics, minis, and etc then answering every whine and cry from Joe Blow Internet on Every forum on the Interwebz.

That's what they've said they were doing in the 4 months between when this KS was supposed to start and now. I assume they would (should?) have also been working on it pre-Feb as well.

**Hulksmash**

So they are sticking with the 20k between single models.......Interesting....

**Buzzsaw**

Azazelx wrote:
Heh. How about those stretched-out stretch goals? Check out the prices on the graphics for Katerina and the Mad Nurse in your email. I'm sure they'll probably fix the ones on the KS update page quickly...

Wait... you're right, I hadn't noticed in copying over, in the e-mail the Nurse and Tank-Stopper are both $330,000, in the update proper the Nurse is $350,000. WTF?

So, I guess we're back to needing to break a million to unlock just what they have shadowed on the front. Greeeeeeeeeeeeat.

**Azazelx**

What's twenty grand between friends?

**Alpharius**

Azazelx wrote:
What's twenty grand between friends?

A lot of money!

At the risk of sounding like a whiny cry baby Joe Blow on the Interwebz, $20K to unlock a single model that is then a $10 add-on...

The plan so far certainly looks as if $1M will be necessary to unlock it all - as someone already alluded to/did the math for...

**Minx**

Buzzsaw wrote:
So, I guess we're back to needing to break a million to unlock just what they have shadowed on the front. Greeeeeeeeeeeeat.

Only if the intervals stay constant and we only unlock one item at a time.

**Eggs**

If they aren't careful, and get a little too greedy, I'll be yanking my pledge, and I suspect many others will too.

Still, very early days yet, and the complete opposite of my only other Kickstarter experience (Gates of Antares).

**Azazelx**

Alpharius wrote:
Azazelx wrote:
What's twenty grand between friends?

A lot of money!
At the risk of sounding like a whiny cry baby Joe Blow on the Interwebz, $20K to unlock a single model that is then a $10 add-on...
The plan so far certainly looks as if $1M will be necessary to unlock it all - as someone already alluded to/did the math for...

My point is that they let one slip through their stretch goal graphic modification program.

or, to quote myself:

Azazelx wrote:

It's pretty clear that a lot more of the stuff would already be unlocked if they weren't going back and further stretching the stretches between the stretch goals.

**pretre**

Alpharius wrote:
At the risk of sounding like a whiny cry baby Joe Blow on the Interwebz, $20K to unlock a single model that is then a $10 add-on...

The plan so far certainly looks as if $1M will be necessary to unlock it all - as someone already alluded to/did the math for...

Wow. That is crazy. It seems like they would want the unlocks to be smaller so that more people would add the $10 model... I just don't get it.

**Azazelx**

Extending the stretches out extends the campaign in that it takes longer to get to the end/more to "shoot for" if you're the type who likes to add-on endless add-ons.

It also puts more space (and money) between the "freebies".

...

Erm, if you're at the $165 + $20 price point where you become eligible for any of the freebies, anyway.

**-iPaint-**

Hulksmash wrote:
@-Ipaint

We obviously see things differently but you can't honestly feel like this company is communicating well with it's public can you?

I guess I'm patient enough to not worry about the communication issues people are discussing. A bunch of questions have been answered in the past 24 hours, and I think everyone forgets that we are dealing with a company that's not on US time (a good majority of KS backers are from the US, which is several hours behind France), so updates will seem oddly timed. I can also empathize a bit and understand that RH is overwhelmed by the KS response they've seen so far, and are scrambling to do as much as they can, as quickly as they can, given the limited human resources at their disposal.

There's a whole month left on this project. I have plenty of time to decide if I want to continue supporting the KS, or drop, and so far, nothing has made me change my mind that RH is doing their best with what they have, and the models (which is ultimately what I'm getting with my pledge) will be worth the wait.

With regards to the update, freaking Katarina Zerga may be the tipping point in my getting some Kurganova stuff, when I'd almost finalized my decision to get just Iron Empire and Jailbirds stuff to start.

Ugh, decisions, decisions...but it's a good thing.

~iPaint

**Azazelx**

delete

**Alpharius**

Azazelx wrote:
Alpharius wrote:
Azazelx wrote:
What's twenty grand between friends?

A lot of money!
At the risk of sounding like a whiny cry baby Joe Blow on the Interwebz, $20K to unlock a single model that is then a $10 add-on...
The plan so far certainly looks as if $1M will be necessary to unlock it all - as someone already alluded to/did the math for...

My point is that they let one slip through their stretch goal graphic modification program.

or, to quote myself:

Azazelx wrote:

It's pretty clear that a lot more of the stuff would already be unlocked if they weren't going back and further stretching the stretches between the stretch goals.

I admit, I missed it.

So the graphic had a lower unlock price and then was quickly changed?

**Azazelx**

Correctamundo. Your email should (probably) have the original version in it.

**Buzzsaw**

Azazelx wrote:
Correctamundo. Your email should (probably) have the original version in it.

Yup (email/update);

**Minx**

Alpharius wrote:
I admit, I missed it.

So the graphic had a lower unlock price and then was quickly changed?

Yeah, they made a mistake or changed their mind about which miniature should be unlocked at $330k: "(oops, image had the wrong number, we switched them around with the previous lady)". no big deal

**WolfStark**

I personally don't like the 20k gaps. It's a lot of money that doesn't come that fast together and 1.000.000 as a goal is even though it's running good still very optimistic. I don't really care for gifts but the variety. I want to see what I can get and that I can get it, either with an achievable SG like in 5k or 10k or 12.5k or or an SG that is hit which is less likely with 20k. Also 20k for Bernadette which so many people embrace is.. strange in my eyes. 350.000$ is a long way to go. A million is more likely with smaller gaps or something between the gaps.

Well, at least RH is starting to make updates at a time everyone is awake it seems.

**Minx**

WolfStark wrote:
Well, at least RH is starting to make updates at a time everyone is awake it seems.

Are they working on a proper update for the main RH kickstarter page? The new SGs only appear on the update page; the main page shows nothing past $310k.