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 Alpharius wrote:

 CptJake wrote:
If not saving $10 means I get a few more hours of needed sleep, I can handle not saving $10...

Good point!

And once you have kids, that sleep is worth even more!

Got kids. And horses and dogs. I get up at 0445 every day to get everything fed and the daughter to her bus stop on time. Tomorrow I drive from her bus stop 2.5 hours to Ft Gordon for a briefing and need to make it back to pick her up at the bus stop when she gest dropped off... Waking up at Zero Dark Thirty to save $10 just isn't worth it to me at this stage in my life.

I may still be up at 5am simply because of my awesome, rocking, off-beat circadian rhythm. If so I will stop in and have a look. If the gods are kind, I will have been asleep for a few hours by then and won't be waking up for several more.

But if not, see all you Other-side-of-the-oceanians and insomniacs there.

Since my daughter will be dropping off my grandson at 0630 even though I will be getting to bed at 0130, since I am up I will see what is happening, good thing is he naps at 1000 so I nap too

I'm getting up more for the limited high dollar pledges to see if I like any. Some just give you non-sense, others a super deal, others a special character. Just wanna make sure I at least have a chance. The EB I couldn't care less about.

Just set your alarm, swear multiple times when it goes off, make your pledge, set your alarm again and go back to sleep for a couple of hours. :p

...and then KS lags with the actual activation for anywhere from 10 to 90 minutes

 Bolognesus wrote:
...and then KS lags with the actual activation for anywhere from 10 to 90 minutes

I hate you so, so much

Hopefully they got everything cleared earlier in the week and it will be pretty close to the dot.

Im really interested in the scenery in this, looks like it would be perfect for Necro and Infinity. Hopefully the game is different enough to be worthwhile...

Earth Dragon wrote:

 Bolognesus wrote:
...and then KS lags with the actual activation for anywhere from 10 to 90 minutes

I hate you so, so much

Hopefully they got everything cleared earlier in the week and it will be pretty close to the dot.

...My work here is done, I see

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
Yeah, I don't get the rage and bile that seems to seep out of people when they aren't able to save a whopping ten units of whatever currency they wheel and deal in.

Plus there always seem to be a few spots open and close over the course of a campaign. If you're that butthurt over not saving a bit (that most likely will get spent on the Kickstarter anyway) watch the backer amounts like a hawk like the rest of us poor plebs do.

For me at least, it's not rage. I'm rally at the point where I'm only likely to look at a KS in the final days, as they change so much in the 30 days they are up. I'm waiting on product from 16 different projects worth thousands of dollars (including all of Mantic's existing projects). Only 1 product has actually come to full fruition and is "finished". Quite a few are many months overdue. So no, no rage or bile. But the KS shiny has worn off, so I'll only jump in early if I get an early bird. After all, no-one involved with gaming in any way is "entitled" to my money.

Really looking forward to getting in on this action!
I missed the Dreadball KS as I was not lucky enough to notice Kickstarter until the last day of the Rivet Wars project, which was to sweet to pass up on the Blitzkrieg pledge.
Then Wild West Exodus got a huge chunk of my money, as those models are just so sweet and it has a great community imho.

So lets hope this is a great KS by the boys just down the road from me.

Anyone going to the open day? A bit far for some people I guess.

Mick

So.. what happened?

Is this up yet or is kickstarter holding it up? I can't seem to find it.

 Alpharius wrote:
So.. what happened?

Yeah, I was wondering the same.... I suppose Kickstarter just didn't go? I'll be watching today to see if it pops up.

Countdown clock now says about 38 minutes to go.

I guess they reset it?

I could've sworn that is was due to already have been launched?

 Alpharius wrote:
Countdown clock now says about 38 minutes to go.

I guess they reset it?

I could've sworn that is was due to already have been launched?

Yeah, pretty sure it was supposed to launch at 7:30 eastern time... oh well.

If they reset it then they did it a good long while back. I had calculated that it would be going off at around 5:30am (my time) before I had even gotten in to work yesterday (so at least 12 hours ago). But I wasn't going off the rumoured time, just what the countdown showed.

When does the reset clock say its supposed to start?

In 24 minutes from.... NOW!

(8:30AM EST, I guess?)

Mine says 25 minutes from now. So it should be going off at 12:30pm GMT (which is what scarletsquig said earlier in the thread). But the clock has been reading with that as the assumed end-point since I have been looking at it. So I don't think it was a reset, probably just a miscalculation on someone's part at some point. It was starting up at 12:30pm GMT and that is what the counter shows and (to my knowledge) has shown all along.

Edit - 22 minutes now.

**checks in after having had a good eight or so hours of sleep**
Ahh, nothing like feeling well-rested and wide awake for a KS kickoff at a nice, convenient time for your local time zone
**prods damn yanks again**
Makes for a nice change vs. all the US centered stuff usually going on

It does make more sense to have the start point include the East Coast of the US in a 'reasonable' time, as well as having the UK and Europe be 'mid-day'.

Though I guess the ending point is probably a bit more important!


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 Bolognesus wrote:
**checks in after having had a good eight or so hours of sleep**
Ahh, nothing like feeling well-rested and wide awake for a KS kickoff at a nice, convenient time for your local time zone
**prods damn yanks again**
Makes for a nice change vs. all the US centered stuff usually going on

When you're the biggest market for this kind of stuff, it does actually make sense to tailor it a bit for that market.

And yes, green does look good on you Bologney!

 Bolognesus wrote:
**checks in after having had a good eight or so hours of sleep**
Ahh, nothing like feeling well-rested and wide awake for a KS kickoff at a nice, convenient time for your local time zone
**prods damn yanks again**
Makes for a nice change vs. all the US centered stuff usually going on

Hah! Sleep who nee...*zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz*...ds that!

Where am I?

Something is definitely going on with the clock there.

Maybe they got an update from Kickstarter, sometimes they can drag their heels a little, dreadball was also later than the countdown predicted as a result of this.

http://www.deadzonethegame.com/

Previously it was set to 12:30 GMT, it's been bumped forward by 45 minutes to 1:15 GMT.

It's clear that the clock has changed, since people would have been off by an hour if if was wrong, not 45 minutes.

Not long now, anyway.

Shenanigans!!!

Hurry up - I have a work meeting that's due to start soon!!!

Clock was always set for 13:30 BST for me it's currently 13:19 BST BST is an hour ahead of GMT thus GMT being 12:30 remember the UK is currently on BST not GMT

 Alpharius wrote:
Shenanigans!!!

Hurry up - I have a work meeting that's due to start soon!!!

Atleast i know someone's in the same boat as me...

 DaveC wrote:
Clock was always set for 13:30 BST for me it's currently 13:19 BST BST is an hour ahead of GMT thus GMT being 12:30 remember the UK is currently on BST not GMT

Pst, even when America is on Daylight savings time and it should switch from (in my case) EST to EDT... I still call it EST, so

But seriously, can it be 8 minutes from now?

Deadzones, much like Bermuda Triangles, have an adverse effect on linear time.

 Catyrpelius wrote:

 Alpharius wrote:
Shenanigans!!!

Hurry up - I have a work meeting that's due to start soon!!!

Atleast i know someone's in the same boat as me...

Same :( Though my meeting is at 9am