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 Mike1975 wrote:

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I'd like to apologize. I didn't realize that you suffered from that often unreported allergy to putting notes at the beginning of files explaining what the card colors mean. I realize that it can be a life threatening condition, and all, that can be uncomfortable to talk about in public.

I myself labor under chronic signature blindness.

I'll just say, once again, that's it's a really nice gift horse that you're providing.

Joyboozer wrote:
when Kevin can completely rewrite everything you've done and take credit.

Huh... other than an Executive Producer and Additional Game Concepts (I'm assuming things like MDC), Kevin is remarkably absent from the credit-taking for the project. (Credits, page 02)
Plenty of other names taking up the Creative Director, Lead Game Designer, Game Design, Game Concepts, etc., positions.

Are there names along the side of the cover? It's pretty rare for his not to be there, usually solo or shared with someone else.

It famously came up during the 'Bill Coffin Talks About Working With Palladium Thread' on rpg.net

Not that I subscribe to it mattering, just pointing out that if you lined up a hundred PB books, his name is probably on 90+ of them, and to hear it be told, how that comes to be can be a frustrating experience for some of the other writing staff/freelancers/etc.

 judgedoug wrote:

Joyboozer wrote:
when Kevin can completely rewrite everything you've done and take credit.

Huh... other than an Executive Producer and Additional Game Concepts (I'm assuming things like MDC), Kevin is remarkably absent from the credit-taking for the project. (Credits, page 02)
Plenty of other names taking up the Creative Director, Lead Game Designer, Game Design, Game Concepts, etc., positions.

Eventually I hope to be able to find that out for myself.

From PB.

Quick Mini-Update – November 6, 2014

Yikes, been so crazy busy I have not had time to post as often as I would like. Things are starting to move fast now. The Rifter® #68 and Bizantium and the Northern Islands™ (for Palladium Fantasy®) are both in final production.

Robotech® RPG Tactics™ Container #4 finally arrived today! Container #5 arrives on tomorrow!! Container’s #6 & 7 are en route! Woohoo. About freakin’ time! We plan to work all weekend and ship out to another 1,000 Kickstarter backers on Monday. Meanwhile, a few hundred went out this week (we could not send many until we received the containers with new product to ship.) Looking for volunteers.

Christmas Surprise Packages shipping out by the ton too.

So much going on. Make sure you checkout Friday’s Weekly Update. More to follow. Game on!

Sincerely,
Kevin Siembieda
Publisher, Writer and a very tired Game Designer

You'd think he would STOP looking for volunteers and just hire people -_-

 judgedoug wrote:

Joyboozer wrote:
when Kevin can completely rewrite everything you've done and take credit.

Huh... other than an Executive Producer and Additional Game Concepts (I'm assuming things like MDC), Kevin is remarkably absent from the credit-taking for the project. (Credits, page 02)
Plenty of other names taking up the Creative Director, Lead Game Designer, Game Design, Game Concepts, etc., positions.

Sadly as a PB book, that likely means he heavy handedly rewrote the book.

He had a small hand in it, but very little, he's not a minis gamer and the few times I asked him about rules he was not in the know.

Noir wrote:

 judgedoug wrote:

Joyboozer wrote:
when Kevin can completely rewrite everything you've done and take credit.

Huh... other than an Executive Producer and Additional Game Concepts (I'm assuming things like MDC), Kevin is remarkably absent from the credit-taking for the project. (Credits, page 02)
Plenty of other names taking up the Creative Director, Lead Game Designer, Game Design, Game Concepts, etc., positions.

Sadly as a PB book, that likely means he heavy handedly rewrote the book.

He wrote the introduction which is pretty goddamn awful. The rules themselves are very easy to read, almost conversational in tone, which makes the concepts relatively easy to pick up. Again, I'm going to guess that's all Ninja Division. Since all the game design credits are for people other than Kevin S.

still no ship notice :(

chaos0xomega wrote:
still no ship notice :(

Check the mini update above. They just got a new container in, which was necessary because they'd pretty much run out of stuff to ship. Hopefully another big wave will go out this weekend. If we're really lucky, that might even take care of the US backers (there's only 1,3000 Showdowns, give or take, sending out 1k on top of the others they've sent really should be getting close).

Apparently they're supposed to get another container tomorrow, putting them up to 5 out of the 6 they apparently need (at least part of) to fulfill backer allotment entirely, which means no more excuses; ship hard and everyone gets their stuff in the mail soon.

Or "Soon®™".

There's a light at the end of the tunnel, but I'm wary of getting my hopes up. Having it in hand by December may be a tall order at this rate, especially as the holidays start to clog up the mail.

Forar...you forgot the (C)

Yeah, I know, just gettin antsy. Its my stuff and I want it nao!!

These containers only cover wave 1 product though right? Im assuming wave 2 is going to be another year long wait?

 Mike1975 wrote:
Forar...you forgot the (C)

I actually originally just had (tm)(r)(c), but that didn't seem right, so I copy/pasted the TM and R from the RRT KS page.

And was too lazy to go find the ascii code for c.


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chaos0xomega wrote:
Yeah, I know, just gettin antsy. Its my stuff and I want it nao!!

These containers only cover wave 1 product though right? Im assuming wave 2 is going to be another year long wait?

Correct that they will only cover wave one. Apparently there are 9 containers total, and 1-5 (plus a small part of 6) will cover the Backers. Then it's pre-orders, then it's retail. So even if they do get backers and pre-orders covered, they'll probably have less than 2 containers to begin shipping out to retail, and 2 more en route.

Wave 2 was last spoken about in any real detail a few weeks ago, where they were "looking at 3Ds" or something. Renders, I presume, but given how long it took to get final final ultra final super duper final approval on wave one and begin punching plastic sprues en masse, I doubt it's going to take less than half a year to approve and begin punching/shipping W2. Q1 is right out, Q2 is a maybe (but Chinese New Year will crop up again at the end of 1), Q3 in time for Gencon is probably their target, at my estimate. Otherwise they go through that rigmarole all over again.

I believe Wayne commented on the facebook page that some Wave 2 was already in tooling. Of course I'll never be able to find the quote since it's a FB group.

If that's the case then hopefully they can show us some test sprues in the near future, unless they're waiting for all the molds to be done before they punch even the test plastic.

Not to be a source of 'ongoing negativity', but I'm afraid "pics or it didn't happen" is where I think we're at. I'm totally happy to hear that they're doing stuff, but I'll believe it when they show they're doing stuff. Y'know? Talk is cheap, but test sprues speak volumes.

The best thing to cushion the blow of bad news is but look at theses awesome pics. Like Forar I think it's a real worry that wave 2 is a long way off as there is no progress to show.

im inclined to agree with those that were of the opinion that they ran out of money for wave 2, seems more and more likely...

Hell, im skeptical as to whether or not wave 1 has even shipped out yet, doesnt seem to br much in the way of people posting pics or reviews out there kt seems, just a couple here and there that say stuff without evidence to back the claims.

They're out there. Hell, some are up on ebay right now.

Keep in mind they've only shipped out about 1,200 boxes until early last week, and even know that number is probably around 3k or less, with many of those probably still in the mail, or sitting on dining room tables, or in various states of assembly. Even getting another 1k out the door early next week might still leave them with thousands to ship, depending on how many late backers joined and how fast and loose they've been with their shipping number estimates.

Wave Two, however... well I'll believe they're making steps towards actual production when I see pics of stuff from actual production like test sprues. Hell, even 3D printed prototypes of stuff from sprue layouts would be a start. Having the renders? That could mean almost anything, from what we saw with Wave One.


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From the Weekly Update:

Container #4 arrived yesterday (Thursday) and Container #5 arrived today, Friday, November 7. Meanwhile, Containers #6 and #7 are on a train and we should get them next week – provided they are not held up by Customs or other delays. Woohoo! About time. Of course, we started shipping immediately.

Bolded: lawl.

Robotech Expetiionary Marines The Long Name Means It's Important Right?: Delayed to Jan 2015. Oh, so apparently it's finally no longer totally a 2014 release. (not that I care, but having to scour these things for the last year and a half means certain names keep popping up and get noticed)

Apparently they have 50 extra Battlefoam bags left over, which can be 'pre-ordered' for $120. Only a $20 markup from the original cost, though I'm betting shipping on something that size (plus anything else ordered) will be spicy.

UPDATE: Robotech® RPG Tactics™ – shipping like crazy

Container #4 arrived on Thursday. Container #5 just arrived as I was finishing writing this Update! Containers #6 and #7 should arrive next week or early the following week. And as you might expect, we will be shipping like lunatics all weekend long. We have already started shipping as soon as Container #4 arrived yesterday morning. Showdown is what’s being shipped to USA customers. Reckless will follow. Then shipments go out to Canada and overseas. We are shooting to have another 1,000 packages ready to ship by Monday. The staff is on-board and Mark Dudley and Chuck Walton will be available to help as well.

HELP Wanted: Volunteers wanted the weekend of November 8-9 and November 14-16

We are going to be shipping like mad for the next few weeks.

Are they sure one person wrote this? If so, they keep repeating themselves. Did you hear that the containers arrived and they're planning to ship like mad demons?

*jazzhands*

*snip* Please pick up your stuff! Please!

*snip* Please update your shipping address! Please!

Fin.

The status of wave two worries me as well. I feel like PB needs to sell wave one at retail and for it to be a success to pay for wave two. Even if by some chance RRT makes it to retail before Christmas it's still no guarantee it'll be a success.

In other news I got an email letting me know my showdown was sent.

Do the Battlefoam bags come with foam, and if so is it enough to hold a showdown plus extras?

Are you talking about the robotech specific battlefoam bag or just "battlefoam" in general? If the former, it supposedly has enough space for a battlecry pledge which frankly seems a bit optimistic given how spread out some of the robotech models are with their wide stances and various antenna. It definitely won't hold a showdown. For that you'd need at least a 720 bag from them assuming that number still holds true. When you select a bag on their website, you choose whether it comes empty, with precut foam, or with custom foam in order of ascending $$$.

Yeah Ive bought from their website before (I own two 1520XLs), just wasnt sure what the deal was with the special Robotech bag.

Ah, in that case it's basically precut foam made to fit a battlecry $140 pledge.

 Cypher-xv wrote:
The status of wave two worries me as well. I feel like PB needs to sell wave one at retail and for it to be a success to pay for wave two. Even if by some chance RRT makes it to retail before Christmas it's still no guarantee it'll be a success.

In other news I got an email letting me know my showdown was sent.

What is your backerkit number/pledge number? I have not gotten an email for shipping yet, and was around 500 for my backer kit number. I've read someone with a higher number than mine that has a shipping notice.

They originally said they were going by Backerkit number.

From reading people's numbers as they got orders, that seems to be entirely incorrect, and are instead going by Country -> Order size -> KS Backer#, if anything.

I'm sure it's not a perfect setup, but that seems to be at least vaguely the direction they're going in.

 Forar wrote:
They originally said they were going by Backerkit number.

From reading people's numbers as they got orders, that seems to be entirely incorrect, and are instead going by Country -> Order size -> KS Backer#, if anything.

I'm sure it's not a perfect setup, but that seems to be at least vaguely the direction they're going in.

Well, crap. As this kickstarter is the only reason I joined kickstarter. I will then be the last US order shipped as I am like 3000+ on the kickstarter numbers. Paid real quick and was pledge number 523. If I had the gas, they are only 6 hours away from me........

 megatrons2nd wrote:

 Forar wrote:
They originally said they were going by Backerkit number.

From reading people's numbers as they got orders, that seems to be entirely incorrect, and are instead going by Country -> Order size -> KS Backer#, if anything.

I'm sure it's not a perfect setup, but that seems to be at least vaguely the direction they're going in.

Well, crap. As this kickstarter is the only reason I joined kickstarter. I will then be the last US order shipped as I am like 3000+ on the kickstarter numbers. Paid real quick and was pledge number 523. If I had the gas, they are only 6 hours away from me........

You shouldn't be too far out. I was backer 2865 and mine shipped toward the end of the last container. I had no add-ins though.

If they actually ship out around 1,000 backer boxes this weekend, they should at the very minimum be getting close to completing US distribution. Your stuff really should at least be in the mail in the next week and a half.

Again, if they've been up front with us, which is NOT something one can take for granted, but for now that's all we have to go on.

They said they needed 5 containers (and a bit) to ship out to backers, they have 5 containers on hand. Either they proceed to deliver to everyone, or they get to walk those goalposts back further, but we SHOULD, basically, be coming to the end of wave one for US delivers.

International shipping, I'm not very confident on. Oh, I still believe they SHOULD have the materials, but how long it'll take? Not confident at all.

 megatrons2nd wrote:

 Cypher-xv wrote:
The status of wave two worries me as well. I feel like PB needs to sell wave one at retail and for it to be a success to pay for wave two. Even if by some chance RRT makes it to retail before Christmas it's still no guarantee it'll be a success.

In other news I got an email letting me know my showdown was sent.

What is your backerkit number/pledge number? I have not gotten an email for shipping yet, and was around 500 for my backer kit number. I've read someone with a higher number than mine that has a shipping notice.

I'm in the mid 200's for backerkit and mid 500's for backer. My SD should be here in a few days.

Anyone here going to burn a sprue to test for toxicity?lol