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If they were to pursue further novels, I certainly hope they splurge on quality editors. I bought and chewed through all three of the original novels, and they were... okay they were bad. Excuses can be made for whatever was going on at the time (and one not dig very deeply to find them being shared...

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Answering seems like a no-win situation. If a lot of backers took them up, then the argument of 'why not at least try to pay back the backers that remain' gains strength. If it was a small portion of the backers, then it gives credence to the notion that this 'in kind' deal was a flop. Everything in...

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The lies are were (personally) I hit a larger snag. Even IF I believed that PB had done their full faith best effort to get this done (I don't, but let's go with that for the sake of discussion), and perhaps even threw piles of their own money into this (again, purely for debate's sake), that doesn'...

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They lied to the backers for years. Strung us along with statements about how "201_ will be the year of Robotech!" that it'd totally deliver in 2015, I mean 2016, I mean 2017, oh... never mind it's a flop. That's not acting in good faith, no matter how you slice it. One can quibble over wh...

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Yeah, Morgan and I used to keep an idle eye on the stock at CoolStuffInc, and Spartan/Phalanx and Artillery Pod packs seemed to be just about the only things that would run low or out with any frequency. Likely for the reason expressed. If you wanted ~3+ of any combination of packs of VT's, Defender...

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It is indeed a sad post. However, while I understand needing to occasionally separate the work from the creator (example: Orson Scott Card has some rather bigoted views, which is complicated due to my love of Ender's Game), this isn't nearly as detached. If a group *personally* feels screwed over by...

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The rule of thumb I've always heard was that you have your base price (manufacturing, shipping from the production facility to you, at least some design stuff, etc), then you double it for wholesale, and then double it again for full MSRP. If they were paying $45 per box, their margins would have to...

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Not to promote piracy by any means, but given that the pdfs are... pdfs, I imagine PB probably has copies of them that they could email over or some other arrangement, even past the point that DTRPG has them up? Doesn't seem like it'd be any different than fulfilling physical orders past the 'loss o...

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Oh, I've joked for years that the Robotech live action movie (if it were to actually exist) would barely resemble the cartoon that we grew up with. There'd probably be a dog character/plot, and a love triangle interjected for no reason, Minmei's songs would be modern pop, the Veritechs wouldn't look...

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I can't see Sony handing over a dime, at least not to Palladium. If Tatsunoko doesn't work with HG when the deadline comes up, presumably those who have the license through working with HG are also up the creek, and Tatsunoko/Sony can sort things out however they like. Obviously licensing rights wou...

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Bi-weekly would make sense if they actually had a ton of things happening in rapid succession. For a project with signs of life, it might make sense. If we're just going to get empty non-updates that don't share us a scrap of info worth having, just go to monthly 'we're totally still here, you guys!...

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I can already see the updates/newsletters; 'don't worry, we're working like demons to get the license back, we've got quotes being traded back and forth with Tatsunoko and are sure they'll work with us because we're such big fans'. They will ride this into the ground until their legal representation...

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I think you want square brackets there.

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There's a Savage Worlds section of this forum. Seems like it'd open the door to people who are new to Palladium and have a different preferred style of playing one of their settings. I have no horse in this race, as I won't be attending personally, but I see no reason to not at least be open to the ...

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I'm having trouble parsing that. Are you asking that as a hypothetical? It was $20 in the KS. I imagine if it was $25-30 there wouldn't be too much complaining, and it'd be a tiny positive in them actually completing one of the resin pieces that have been left unattended for so long. However, it'd a...

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Shadows of Brimstone is a game that a similar number of backers followed for a similar amount of money (overall and per backer) in a similar time frame (Nov 2013 rather than April/May) that ended up with hundreds of elements between dice and rule books and missions and figures (well over 100 of thos...

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It has been about 2-3 years since we saw substantial progress; 2014 for wave one delivery, I don't consider a half dozen sprue breakdown renders in 2015 and another half dozen prototypes in 2016 to be 'substantial progress' considering how much is left to do here. But I assume the 'half year' commen...

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A few further thoughts then; - Will Palladium have another run of the Miriya FPA coming? If not, those are out of stock on the webstore (or at least appear to be, in that they're not even showing). As an addendum; even if the FPA is available at Palladium's booth, it'd be above and beyond the call o...

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Regarding the warning: if one were to give the benefit of the doubt, the newsletters have been repeating some variation on 'waiting for quotes' for something like half a year, possibly more. They were supposed to tell us more back in January, and then that moved to February, and now we're in mid May...

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I am a Super Backer whatever that means. I have backed 85 projects to date, ranging from $1 to well over a grand. It means nothing other than that 'you backed a specific number of projects within a specific period of time'. It's an 'achievement unlocked' for crowd funding, and carries just as much ...

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Allowing the 'limited edition' figures does seem like an interesting question. I believe a trio of FPA is 100 points? Committing 1/2 ones point allotment to just 3 models seems risky, but I've heard people say that they're tough and hit plenty hard. So if people can't use them, they're expensive pap...

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The reality of the situation is that RRT has made Palladium Books so toxic that it will attract plenty of untoward attention, and that goes double for any type of crowdfunding. And yes, before anyone bothers saying it, I'm aware that Rogue Heroes has proclaimed at length that they are not affiliated...

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It's sometimes hard to remember that KS started out as a place for new ideas and products to find support and funding that they need or they wouldn't exist. Now, it's just a pre-order site. I think this is being a bit uncharitable. While there are certainly some people and companies that use it as ...

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Unfair as it may be, a minis board game Kickstarter campaign is going to be compared and contrasted to the dozens of other successful ones that have been run, and the dozens more that will be active or looming whenever they plan to relaunch it. For $100-150, people expect X minis of a given level of...

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Another reason to avoid cost factors is that Palladium (in general) and Kevin (in specific) have been quite clear about progress being made, despite having little to show off other than a now yearly'ish ritual of providing a new prototype or sprue breakdown render. If this project were actually in d...

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The games popularity seems to have been waning for quite some time. I remember discussing the notion of possibly going with credit on RRT/PB products to make good on what is owed (at a pro-rated level of course) a good 2 years ago. While I can't say I'm enthusiastic about the idea of PB books (I sol...

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No, the PB forums have never been particularly active, but one would hope that these would have become the natural meeting grounds for enthusiastic players, had this project not gone so completely sideways. (Editor's Note: until wave 2 delivers, I feel this is an uncontroversial statement, even if i...

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Rather than taking it personally, a little reflection about how insular and toxic to critique the forums can be might be worth investigating. Feel free to see the 'why are posts being deleted without warning or explanation?' thread in the Bugs and Suggestions subforum (of all places) for a little mo...

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Ah. When my group moved from Rifts to D&D 3E in 2004 or so, I have to admit that having premade adventure modules was a part of it. Between that and the balance in the system (not perfect of course, but it was a far cry better than Rifts, not that this was a high bar to clear) it made the GM's j...

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It has been a decade or more since I bought my last Rifter, but I recall them having adventure hook ideas included pretty commonly early on. Is that something they're not really doing anymore? Also, I wonder how the ongoing drive for Rifter subscriptions might be putting a dent in Retail availabilit...

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Morgan Vening wrote:
Spinachcat wrote:Absolutely! Expect delivery in early April 3017!

A bit optimistic there. I think PB will still be looking at quotes. Or possibly an alternate way of manufacturing.

Gotta reduce that parts count!

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With wave 1, it took them nearly a full year to go from existing designs to production to shipping. If they're starting in on RRT in the second half of this year, nobody is likely to be seeing any wave 2 until 2018. Furthermore, what happened to 'having more to report to us in January, I mean Februa...

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Ugly?

That's us having a pleasant conversation over Sunday brunch.

Man, if you think that's bad, you haven't seen us at our worst.

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I would hope that palladium will simply drop the ques for simplification and simply get on with complelrtion, despite the potential howls from what aI suspect will be a number of backers. Personally,just give me the models and ley me get on with it. I don't think there'd be much howling, assuming t...

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sadly i say probably not. RT is an old tired property that relies too much on the nostalgia of a 40+ year old aging fanbase by and large, well that old tired property had a 1 million dollar kickstarter. (not that it gained palladium any net good will i suspect, considering the massive delays in act...

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but if they admit Wave 2 isn't going to happen doesn't that mean they have to start issuing refunds for failing to deliver backer rewards? Ehhhh, not really. Yes, the Kickstarter Terms of Use for Creators state that said Creators are expected to deliver on their project and...

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It would be interesting to see what happened. I imagine some small number of people might find that to be the final straw and try to challenge PB legally for refunds, but aside from those already living in Michigan, I imagine this would be incredibly cost prohibitive. It would probably stir up the h...

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@Carmen: in case you're interested, I found the time to respond to your comments in the Bugs/Wishlist thread.

And should that disappear, I'd be happy to private message you a copy.

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If you do find a store here that handles a reasonable amount of book-and-paper gaming, Palladium's representation on their shelves has one heck of an uphill battle, and it's not Palladium the company's fault or anything; the 'bandwidth' for local gaming per books and supplies is very limited, and i...

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I will not be backing this project.

I can only assume Carmen knows why, but if he'd like to discuss the matter in depth, I would be happy to do so over private messages.

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An Update on Kickstarter would also reach a lot of the community. Actually, an update on Kickstarter to bring us up to speed in general would be just peachy. It has been nearly 20 weeks since the last update, and the last substantial information was provided back in April with the SDF-1, Armored Bat...

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-The creator plays with his own houseruled system at conventions not RAW and that's never a good endorsement of the system as a whole imo. I've been pretty critical of Palladium over the years, but this part has never really seemed like that big an incongruity to me. A convention, where a group of ...

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Thers Too much focus on Dead Reign and they are ingoring other setting like Heroes unlimited,Phase world and BtS. I'd tie that to the massive swell in popularity for zombie fiction over the last decade (various movies, World War Z (the book, not the god awful movie), The Walking Dead, Left4Dead, et...

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And as I've pointed out in the past, the 'angry backers' represent a positive in a way. Those are people who are passionate, they are engaged, they WANT the product, they want it badly enough to complain and check in for months and years. Yes, some are just 'trolls', some are muckrakers, some just w...

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If anything, it appears to be a standard parabola of opinion. Some expressing extreme displeasure, some expressing unwavering support, but the majority seems to have given into apathy. Where are the battle reports? The requests for rules clarification? The pics of painted minis and epic conflicts in...

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And 2007 is just the most recent movie deal. There's been murmurs in fan magazines (oh god, so old) dating back into the 90's, and of course people have been dreaming of it happening longer than that. But it was getting nods from information sources that predate the internet (for widespread civilian...

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I agree with Alpharius. If they don't want to build our hopes up on what is being worked on, show us what has been tried and didn't work out. How about some detail on those quotes that they've presumably gotten? Too high? Too far out? Maybe show off some of the sprue breakdowns, because after a coup...

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I would be fascinated to know what HAS happened to date. The newsletters and updates keep saying that they don't want to share what is in the works in case it falls through, but how about giving us insight into what they HAVE done that did end up falling through? Show some of the Work In Progress ef...

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I'm gonna be frank here. There's a stickied thread about how difficult it is to find stores that sell PB stuff. Why on Earth would anyone who is a fan of PB's works want to cut them out of a revenue stream? If I'm not mistaken, NG-1 came out in late 2013, meaning that the 'exclusivity period' is app...

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Why the hostility? Presumably Disney is paying for the license/option/whatever, PB is currently making money for doing literally nothing. If they didn't include something in the contract about having a finite time limit or an option not to renew, that'd be on them. Why do you think shoddy Fantastic ...

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