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I'm pretty pissed off at Hawk by now.

I've pledged Commodore with a Space Station and 2 Launch Assets with plans to pick up a few PHR and UCM Battleships plus a 2nd PHR Starter Fleet. I got the PHR Starter Fleet at Spiel for 41€ which is 4 cent CHEAPER than the Starter Bolt-on of the Kickstarter is. And that's with a weakened GBP right now. The Battleships have been delayed until further notice and my pledge is nowhere to be seen. I wasn't a late pledger, I got in fairly early in the KS and I completed my Pledge Manager on January 20.

Remind me - when did this game hit retail again?

Well they only have like 200 orders to finish according to their email last week. So you should have your order soon, I only received mine last week. Sucks we were at the end, but somebody had to be.

That many orders to pack, but I think there are more than that left to ship (they mentioned the number of packages shipped last week included some packed the prior week). I've received mine, my local opponents haven't.

That said, the quality of the components is really high! Hopefully they'll be done packing this week and have them all shipped by next - which given the crazy fast 4-day ship time to the US would get them all delivered by the holidays. The weekly updates are a really good sign now, too.

I got mine in October, but I didn't really dig into it until a couple of days ago because I'm ill and off work.

Very impressed with component quality. Having read the rules I want to go with UCM and PHR.

I have the Kickstarter Shaltari freebies and Scourge fleet to swap for UCM/PHR. Anyone interested?

Finally put together the basic UCM starter fleet from my pledge that arrived a couple weeks ago.

Holy crap these models are fantastic. Once I had my little fleet assembled, the months-delay annoyances all melted away. Totally worth it.

Apparently the battleships will be arriving at some retailers later this week.

I preordered the space stations from the Warstore, hope they come soon. Great looking kit, I can see myself getting a few even at $50~60 a pop.

Ben2 wrote:
I have the Kickstarter Shaltari freebies and Scourge fleet to swap for UCM/PHR. Anyone interested?

That's exactly what we're doing locally - win win!

Still waiting for my commodore + bolt ons, hoping it comes soon as ill be away for a bit later this month...

Had a chance to assemble some UCM frigates this morning and they are quite easy to assemble; they barely feel like they need gluing at all. I won't go so far as to say my annoyance with Hawk is completely gone, but I am satisfied with the final product. Going to tackle a cruiser and some PHR tonight in all likelihood, and if they go as well as the frigates I'll likely be picking up a few BBs when they're available.

For all of the nobody who cares, I did eventually find the 4th Battlecruiser; Commodores pay close attention to the bags that have resin (I assume; haven't opened them yet) bits when checking your stuff!

Yeah what I did with my UCM Frigates is magnetise the bridge sections and just pushfit the sides of them

I wish I could do ANYTHING to SOMETHING ... still waiting. I just can't believe how unlucky I have to be... I mean I have to be one of the remaining 1% or something.

I dont have mine either, no shipping notification or anything. I am waiting on the smallest pledge too.

Doesn't help the folks waiting but I got mine shortly after shipping notification. They're moving along.

RoninXiC wrote:
I wish I could do ANYTHING to SOMETHING ... still waiting. I just can't believe how unlucky I have to be... I mean I have to be one of the remaining 1% or something.

I l8ve like 45min drive from their head office and still not received mine! I actually offerd to pop round there and pick it up, but apparently they are assembling and posting the pledges from a different part of the country!

I'm still waiting. After seeing on the kickstarter comments that some pledges didn't get moved form the pledge manager to the packing list and they had no clue they were missing I emailed them yesterday and again today. Still nothing. I guess the promise that all backers pledges would be shipped befor wave 2 battleships from update 60 will just be another lie for Hawk.

According to the War Store the space stations were in stock and will be shipping shortly...

We will see.

Several uk stores said yesterday evening battleships are in today , no mention of other stuff though.

Warstore is shipping battleships. Mine should be to me the third, roommates is scheduled to arrive today.

Awesome. Still no notification or anything on my pledge. Loving it.

I'm supposedly getting mine on tuesday.

i recently got an email that mine still isnt shipped. Probly wont be able to build it till after Christmas. ;-(

The battleships are now out, not a great sign that there are still people waiting on their pledges despite the 'wave 2' stuff hitting retail.

That does indeed seem to be another fumble from Hawk,

to postpone shipping the battleships to stores and tell everybody they won't go until the KS stuff is done

(both to respect the backers who they've had to let down and because the staff making them have been sent off to pack KS orders)

and now to have battleships appearing in stores with KS backers still without shipping notices or a general announcement that everything is out of the door (I wouldn't expect them to wait until everything had arrived with KS backers, but sent yes)

I do feel sorry for them a bit, because they're going to piss off someone regardless. If they keep delaying battleships, all the people who preordered battleships are going to moan, and if they keep delaying, all the people who kickstarted will complain (all very validly)

Hawk isn't a bit company, they may not really be able to afford not to have this stuff on the shelves. The problem is this has largely been a learning experience for a company that's usually been pretty good to their community and customers. Just become an issue when that learning experience is this big of a scale unfortunately.

Just a reminder that Kickstarter isn't a pre order service. Please desist from using it in future if this is your expectation.

You paid to get a game made, and in return you have been given content at a reduced rate. Enjoy.

Thebiggesthat wrote:
Just a reminder that Kickstarter isn't a pre order service. Please desist from using it in future if this is your expectation.

You paid to get a game made, and in return you have been given content at a reduced rate. Enjoy.

Except plenty of companies use it as such . It's like a Q-tip, it says not to be used in ones ear, but what most people use them for is cleaning ones ear. They can say what they want, but if you are ordering what you want before it hits retail shelves to buy, then isn't that the definition of pre-ordering?

Thebiggesthat wrote:
Just a reminder that Kickstarter isn't a pre order service. Please desist from using it in future if this is your expectation.

You paid to get a game made, and in return you have been given content at a reduced rate. Enjoy.

Can we please kill this meme? When the company promises you will get the product before launch if you support the Kickstarter, they are claiming to be a pre-order service. I realize in our nerd subcultures there's all kinds of tendency to blindly support the company that sells what we buy, but you are allowed to think Dropfleet is a good game without telling everyone who is unhappy with their service that it's somehow the customers' fault.

 JOHIRA wrote:

Thebiggesthat wrote:
Just a reminder that Kickstarter isn't a pre order service. Please desist from using it in future if this is your expectation.

You paid to get a game made, and in return you have been given content at a reduced rate. Enjoy.

Can we please kill this meme? When the company promises you will get the product before launch if you support the Kickstarter, they are claiming to be a pre-order service. I realize in our nerd subcultures there's all kinds of tendency to blindly support the company that sells what we buy, but you are allowed to think Dropfleet is a good game without telling everyone who is unhappy with their service that it's somehow the customers' fault.

I think it is worth saying that there is a bit of leeway a KS deserves to accomplish these goals. It is just Hawk has already passed theirs. It was crap when they hit retail before all the backers stuff was shipped out. However, we have had like 3 message saying "guys we are almost ready for weeks now". And now we are at "wave 2", which is obviously there to ensure they make some Christmas sales, while they continue to blunder their way through shipping the last of the KS orders. It brings up the question how many KS orders were postponed to pack these ships and assets?

Its pretty gakky situation. They really need to finish this already.

They really do need to finish with this KS. I had my Commodore pledge placed on hold because of a glitch and it's been "processing" for a week and a half. Meanwhile, a friend just down the road has had his Commodore pledge for weeks and we've played games with it. It's safe to say I'm a little peeved with Hawk right about now.