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Dammit, I went to class and by the time I came back the Start of Darkness prize was gone. Ah well, $96 is a bit much for me anyway. I thought it would be Start of Darkness by itself...
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CigarPete
Is adding an additional book to an existing pledge a problem? I nabbed a $92 two signed book pledge and will be taking War and XPs or No Cure as my second book, but will want a copy of the other.
Should I try to include it in the pledge, or just wait until they are available at Ookoodook? Either is fine by me, but I figure I'm probably not the only one with this question. I assume it will be easier to keep track of if I just order it separately.
I pledged for the original $65 DStP & the Giant advised me to message him through Kickstarter about adding books, which I have since done with W&XP and Snips.
So send the Giant a message through Kickstarter. I can't say for certain obviously but as long as a book isn't out of stock you should be able to add more to your order by paying more & topping up the postage from envelope to big 3-10 book box.
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CoffeeIncluded
Dammit, I went to class and by the time I came back the Start of Darkness prize was gone. Ah well, $96 is a bit much for me anyway. I thought it would be Start of Darkness by itself...
You never know. We might get to the point where SoD gets it's own reprint too. The Giant has hinted at a potential All-Book-Bonanza pledge before we see the end of this.
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I own all the books, so when the initial offer for autographed books came up I jumped on it. Then today I was lucky enough to be online to jump on the new offer for two autographed books. I'm even willing to up my current pledge if there's a new pledge for more autographed books in one pledge amount. I just hope I'm online if it does happen.
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I love the Mystery Prize, challenge and all !
Also I love it that Rich found a way to respond to those like me who don't want to add to their already complete book collection. What with the new Mystery Prize on top of the already unexpected 3 extra stories, $10 was such a ridiculously good deal, it was embarrassing :smallwink:
So, looking forward to the new non-book rewards ...
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jmucchiello
WOOT!!!!! So it was the $120,000 bonus prize, still. WOOT!!!!
Oh gods, the Scoundrél is coming back in pdf! :smallamused:
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Gwynfrid
I love the Mystery Prize, challenge and all !
Also I love it that Rich found a way to respond to those like me who don't want to add to their already complete book collection. What with the new Mystery Prize on top of the already unexpected 3 extra stories, $10 was such a ridiculously good deal, it was embarrassing :smallwink:
So, looking forward to the new non-book rewards ...
Of course, with 20 pages for O'Chul, 30 pages for 3 8-12 page stories, and now a Julio story, there are almost too many pages for a book K exclusive story. :)
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More fun with Math!
Once we reach $136,000
If all current backers bumped up their donation by just $5
We would be past the $150K level.
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AGGG! again I'm in class when the good updates happen!
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I miss the graph it was cool to see it taking off like a rocket in zero gravity
edit: never mind found it again, nice to see rich getting cheered up seeing the support he's getting
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I go to work, come back, and it was almost at $140,000! I got excited thinking that meant No Cure for the Paladin Blues. Then I read the update... yeesh. Mixed bag. Still, unless the rate of pledges plummets, we should break the $150,00 mark before the next update.
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Wow, is it just me or this project's goal was met on the same day it started?
Anyway, I've been hearing people saying that there's going to be a Julio story included somewhere, but I couldn't find it in the project page. Someone point it out for me please
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M.A.D
Anyway, I've been hearing people saying that there's going to be a Julio story included somewhere, but I couldn't find it in the project page. Someone point it out for me please
Check update #4.
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CloakedDancer
I go to work, come back, and it was almost at $140,000! I got excited thinking that meant No Cure for the Paladin Blues. Then I read the update... yeesh. Mixed bag. Still, unless the rate of pledges plummets, we should break the $150,00 mark before the next update.
The rate is starting to decrease.
We've had a drop of about 5% for the hourly average over the last 7 hours, compared to the previous 24.
There is still hope to cross the $150K mark before tomorrow's usual update time, but I'm betting that it will be very close.
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I also pledged!
Now back to lurking!
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Well, figured I could probably just about afford to kick in $45 so I could get a copy of the book, but I was going to wait until nearer to the end so I could have a couple more paychecks before then (I realize I won't be charged until it's over, but I don't like pledging away money I don't actually have).
But, y'know, for just another $23, I could get a copy of SSaDT, and that's really quite a bonus. Plus, it's only $68 for WaXPs, SSaDT, five bonus stories, and a magnet . . . and I should get my tax return sometime in February, and taking $70 out of it isn't exactly gonna bankrupt me . . .
Well, there's a limited amount of that reward, and while it's not selling out too terribly quickly, I ain't takin' any chances. My mom was not thrilled to hear that I spent so much money on comic books, but $68 has been pledged. :smallbiggrin:
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I've been reloading the kick starter page continuously for the past three minutes. And every time I do, the amount of money raised goes up. About five seconds between reloads. This is rediculous. How many more people even know about OOTS?
I bet we get to 150k in the next ten hours.
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Dragon Star
How many more people even know about OOTS?
Well, considering that the members list shows that there are 39,885 members of this forum, and a fair number of people read without ever registering, I'm going to go with "over 37,000 more people" :smallwink: (Of course, not all the listed members are still active, some don't read the comic, some can't afford/don't want the books, etc, so I'm not expecting 37,000 more pledges.)
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Savannah
Well, considering that the members list shows that there are 39,885 members of this forum, and a fair number of people read without ever registering, I'm going to go with "over 37,000 more people" :smallwink: (Of course, not all the listed members are still active, some don't read the comic, some can't afford/don't want the books, etc, so I'm not expecting 37,000 more pledges.)
Hmm...
If the forum members each gave the currant average ($47.8somethinsomethingsomething, based on the number of backers and amount of $$$ as of this post), then Rich would be $1,771,608.27 richer.
That is a lot of money.
I had no idea there were that many people on the forums. Now I understand how things like Childs Play can raise so much.
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Dragon Star
Hmm...
If the forum members each gave the currant average ($47.8somethinsomethingsomething, based on the number of backers and amount of $$$ as of this post), then Rich would be $1,771,608.27 richer.
That is a lot of money.
I had no idea there were that many people on the forums. Now I understand how things like Childs Play can raise so much.
I'm almost certain that the readership of OotS in in the hundreds of thousands. But before you say anything about that, this is about when the "1% guideline" comes in to play. That's the general guideline that one should only expect 1 percent or so of your readership to actively help contribute to your project. It's by no means a hard and fast rule, or even anything based in any sort of statistical analysis, as far as I know. Instead it is more a warning of, "Only expect a sliver of your audience to actively back you". Whether it really is 1%, 5%, or .1% is kinda irrelevant to the general advice.
That being said, I would also point out the following: Many people, by and large, have more "pocket money" on the first and/or fifteenth of the month (for what should be obvious reasons, I would think). So, even with the initial bar set at $10, it is entirely possible that many people are waiting until they get their next paycheck before making sure that they have the spare money to contribute. Or, hike up their pledge to a different amount. Especially since we just came off the holiday season and people also have to worry about paying off some of the holiday debts that were incurred (or replenish savings that were depleted).
So I wouldn't at all be surprised to see a spike at the beginning of February and another one in the middle of the month.
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WampaX
More fun with Math!
Once we reach $136,000
If all current backers bumped up their donation by just $5
We would be past the $150K level.
Done, upped by $10. :smallamused:
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If anyone was still wondering, I asked Rich if there might be potential stock issues for SSaDT, since when it first showed up it was limited, but there's a few unlimited bundles with them. His reply:
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It's unlikely; it turns out my information on the stock levels was based on an out-of-date report at the time I put that up. I can't "unlimit" that reward now that it's up, though. But we have over 1000 copies of SSaDT left, I'm told, which makes it highly unlikely we will sell out.
It is very possible that this entire pledge drive might represent the functional end of the stock, however, because if we get to less than 200 copies, I'll probably pull it off Ookoodook and save the remaining to use as future prizes for stuff like Kickstarter drives.
Thanks for asking!
--Rich
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Well, look at that. There was a new reward up for $35, which just added the SSaDT book.
Since I have all the books except NCftPB and SSaDT, and I was planning on buying SSaDT anyway, I figured why not, and upped my pledge from $10 to $35! I effectively just added the book, plus shipping and handling, for about the same price I would have spent actually "buying" it.
And when I looked on the page, there were 0 people who'd picked that one, out of 200. And when I was done, there was 1... which means, as of this moment, I am the first person to choose that specific limited award! It's also the first limited award I didn't miss entirely.
Now I wonder if, after tomorrow morning when we go over 150k, there will be a way to add NCftPB to that specific bundle (like the one with only SSaDT and War and XP), since I purchased all the rest of the books already when they were in print... (I never could find NCftPB. Every place I looked was out of stock, even when they had the others!)
On another note: As others may have said... the amount of content the Giant is already producing for those who've pledged (FIVE stories so far?!) is, while not enough for a new book, certainly a start! If I were to consider a book that had those stories in print, one should keep in mind that I've purchased books with much less new content, such as Dungeon Crawlin Fools! It would be a neat book to see exist, though, with this content plus others. I wouldn't expect anything like that to come out anytime soon, but hey, might as well put the suggestion out there... depending on the page count, the five may already come out to about half the size of the prequel books. Double it and you've got something I'd totally buy!
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WampaX
The rate is starting to decrease.
We've had a drop of about 5% for the hourly average over the last 7 hours, compared to the previous 24.
There is still hope to cross the $150K mark before tomorrow's usual update time, but I'm betting that it will be very close.
Well, with about 7 hours to get less than $5,500; I see breaking that barrier, but barely.
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So, after the drive to reprint these books is over, chances are all the OTHER books will be out of stock for some time :P
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fuelstaind
Well, with about 7 hours to get less than $5,500; I see breaking that barrier, but barely.
There will most likely be another surge in pledges when NCftPB gets added to the rewards.
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Now I wonder if, after tomorrow morning when we go over 150k, there will be a way to add NCftPB to that specific bundle (like the one with only SSaDT and War and XP) [..]
There will. First, NCftPB will presumably be added in all kinds of packages, see if one qualifies to satisfy your specific need. Secondly, as NCftPB is freshly printed the only limiting factor is how much copies of SSaDT are on stock -and you already pledged for one of those. If you can't find a reward package to your liking, just message the Giant via kickstarter and negotiate the price to be added to your pledge for him to add a copy of NCftPB.
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The Giant
At least one of the "non-book" rewards I mentioned in today's update will be under $30, as long as you don't then add a book to it. It's really the high cost of the books in the first place that keeps the rewards so much higher.
--Rich
So Rich, I wonder if you are starting to understand how much your fans love your work yet? :smallbiggrin: Personally speaking you've provided me with hours of quality entertainment over the last 8 or so years I've been reading OOTS, and that's why I bought the books - to pay you for those quality reading hours. Little did I know at the time that OOTS only gets more awesome when read in print! I have no idea how you achieve the flow doing one strip at a time, but you do. (I suspect talent & hard work..) It does make me a little sad that the reward PDFs will never see print though, or will they? Dun dun dunhhh! :smalltongue:
So, I shall definitely be pledging, although unfortunately I cannot be as generous as I would like (and you deserve) due to financial constraints. I'm definitely also interested in non-book (unless you do find more Don't Split books - that's the only one I don't have yet) rewards, at sub-$50 if possible. Fridge magnets / xmas tree ornaments that may be kicking around. Stuff like that would be nice, I've never been one for autographed stuff and they sell out instantly anyhow.
Thanks for all the OOTS strips, the recent ones have been fantastic and I look forward to the next book coming out.
EDIT: Pledge made, look forward to seeing if any fresh rewards tempt me higher.
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OK, I have just created a second account on kickstarter ready for when the Giant releases the next round of pledge options, since I don't want to miss out on the signed books I pledged for yesterday. :smallsmile:
Time to crack open the piggy bank methinks :smallwink:
Just 3K short of 150, simply amazing!
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Oh, I'm excited that we're almost at $150k. No Cure for the Paladin Blue is the only book I don't have, so that's getting ordered as soon as it comes up.
Following the kickstarter has been oddly addictive as well.
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Dragon Star
If the forum members each gave the currant average
We all have a good raisin to do so! Those who don't pledge will suffer from sour grapes, whereas I have a date with some good Oots stuff! With all these great deals we will all feel like sultans or sultanas!
:smalltongue:
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I don't give a fig who you think you are, you'd be plum crazy not to!
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fuelstaind
Well, with about 7 hours to get less than $5,500; I see breaking that barrier, but barely.
We're limping towards it. The question is how much of an explosion of demand there will be when we get there.
I have not yet ordered a book in this drive as I have the three print only ones and DCF. If I am going to buy another book, then I am going to go for NCftPB. If DStP gets reprinted, then I am going to fork up the extra cost to get all three books I don't already have. I have a lousy income and the cost of postage will influence my decision on what to buy now. I can always pick up W&XPs at the lower postage rate in a couple of months' time. I think it. I wonder how many other people are delaying going for W&XPs because of this.
As DCF is going to be including in an "everything to the end of the war" deal, there are going to be some big purchase coming online. Even if there are only 200 left, that would be a package that will reach three figures, so $20K+ would be brought in with those.
A lot depends on when NCftPB became unavailable and therefore how much pent-up demand there is. As DStP has only just run out, it won't have any pent up demand apart from those people who will only buy the books in order.
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Xapi
So, after the drive to reprint these books is over, chances are all the OTHER books will be out of stock for some time :P
With the total at $148,031, my counts of orders so far are as follows:
OtOoPC: 674
SoD: 267
SS&DT: 667
W&XPs: 1121
DStP: 15
There are 35 more items to be shipped with SS&DT and are likely to be one of the big books plus a fair number of possibilities for extras in boxes.
SoD doesn't look at particular risk of running out. If it were, I think the numbers would have been restricted on the offers including it.
The Giant has already told us that SS&DT is likely to be withdrawn at the end of this drive. DStP was probably already withdrawn.
That leaves DCF. I do wonder if it is fairly low on stock as it has not yet been mentioned in any of the deals. We'll get a hint at the numbers in stock when we see if it appears only in restricted deals when in comes on with NCftPB.
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Woah! who is the dude who pleged 5k$?
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I bumped my order from 290 to 351 for the extra signed books and to help get us over the blue line. If anyone plans on raising their pledge at some point, remember that if you do so now we hit the next tier sooner!
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Well, shoot. I can't delay going to class any longer. Looks like I'm going to barely miss the 150k mark. And then miss any limited rewards that come after that. That's a shame, I would have loved a chance to nab a signed NCftPB (there will be some, right?)
Well, good luck to everyone who's going to try! And be sure to spread the word. If everyone who has already contributed convinces one friend or acquaintance to contribute ten dollars, it would be huge.
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super dark33
Woah! who is the dude who pleged 5k$?
Tis a mystery.
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$500 to go until the $150k line.
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We're about $500 short of NCftPB right now, so I'd have to imagine Rich would just wait for us to hit it before updating. Then we see how big a boost it gives us when people start adding that book to their pledges.
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Since the $150,000 goal is a "soft" goal like the $89,450 was (lo those many days ago), I imagine that Rich won't need to delay the update but will take it as attained even if we don't quite get there by noon. ...Though it looks like we will. :smallsmile:
Also, $150,000 is $53,000 over our last book-printing goal; do we think that's already going to be enough for a limited print run of NCftPB? So our next goal would be some $20,000 beyond that for a full print run...?
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I'm almost certain that the NCftPB run is a full run. So, the next goal should be around $200k to reprint DStP.
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Either way, the Playground clearly wins at pledge drives. :smallamused:
I wonder what percentage of the $150k collected comes from forum regulars...
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And we hit the 150k - waiting for the next update and the following rush at the new rewards.
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And it's over 150k! :smallsmile:
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And we hit the 150K mark!
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Okay, before NCftPB drops in to the rewards and messes with the averages again.
30 hours to raise $57,750
48 hours to raise $91,000
72 hours to raise $127,000
95 hours to raise $150,000
So the last 23 hours saw $23,000 raised.
with an effective drop of 33% from the last average of $1500, I'd say we are close to hitting saturation . . . but then the update has the potential to blow the roof off again.
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Ahh now the $67 one is tempting me i didnt notice it before. Carnt resist upped pledge to $77
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I notice that we have passed the running total for this project which I missed on my search for current projects that are larger than ours.
The audience isn't identical to the Giant's (gay documentary fans v gamer and comics nerds) but I spotted in the comments someone who was watching the numbers go up and the LoTR films did give name checks. So, perhaps some of the award ideas could be borrowed? There isn't a premiere to go but limited edition t-shirts or a Skype chat could be applicable to OOTS people.
For future OOTS fundraising projects involving new books, perhaps people would pay for name checks. (Although too many would be a negative for other punters who read the book.) Limited run numbered editions also have an appeal to certain book collectors.
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No Cure is now going to be added to the rewards.
Now to break my F5 key in the course of the next few hours.
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keldorn
I notice that we have passed the running total for
this project which I missed on my search for current projects that are larger than ours.
The audience isn't identical to the Giant's (gays v gamer and comics nerds) but I spotted in the comments someone who was watching the numbers go up and the LoTR films did give name checks. So, perhaps some of the award ideas could be borrowed? There isn't a premiere to go but limited edition t-shirts or a Skype chat could be applicable to OOTS people.
For future OOTS fundraising projects involving new books, perhaps people would pay for name checks. (Although too many would be a negative for other punters who read the book.) Limited run numbered editions also have an appeal to certain book collectors.
I would definitely increase my pledge for a t-shirt reward, probably two if it is a limited run. That is an awesome idea.
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keldorn
I notice that we have passed the running total for
this project which I missed on my search for current projects that are larger than ours.
The audience isn't identical to the Giant's (gay documentary fans v gamer and comics nerds) but I spotted in the comments someone who was watching the numbers go up and the LoTR films did give name checks. So, perhaps some of the award ideas could be borrowed? There isn't a premiere to go but limited edition t-shirts or a Skype chat could be applicable to OOTS people.
For future OOTS fundraising projects involving new books, perhaps people would pay for name checks. (Although too many would be a negative for other punters who read the book.) Limited run numbered editions also have an appeal to certain book collectors.
That would be kind of neat. Mostly the name checks, but the Skype chat made me think about a large reward that I personally would love, and also involves less time and effort for The Giant:
Maybe a large reward could be a chance for a text based interview of sorts? I really enjoy reading the commentary for the books, and I've really been enjoying these rare occasions where the Giant posts in a forum thread, and I think a chance to ask a few questions would be fascinating. To ask about themes, or inspiration, or background details that will never realistically come up again but you always wondered (obviously no spoilers). I dunno, just brainstorming/fantasizing here (and I apologize if that's already been suggested).
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Hm, that's a whole lot of extra comic pages in he pot for this one now. I shall have to pledge some.
I'm thinking the $68(+10) pledge looks neat.
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This is simply amazing ! :D
*Longs for his SSDT, SOD and OTOPCS* :D
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Woot 150K! now just waiting for Rich to add a reward for No Cure and WaXP so I can complete my collection.
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@Rich, as this is at 150+k and as the goals set so far were basically taken with a breeze... may I ask what you expected/hoped from the kickstarter for the 30 days?
Were you holding your thumbs I'd somehow crawl over the 97k- or even the 75k-line after 30 days or was it more like you had been happy if it even made the 60k for the small batch after 30 days?
Or did you (in very much secret hope/dream) this would give you after the 30 days the means to re-print everything that was missing in full batches from the very start?
"No" (or none at all) is a perfectly valid answer, I'm just curious how your end of this kickstarter-rocket looks.
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F5....F5....F5....
Hoping for more original art or limited edition swag.
F5....F5....F5....
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Can't you just set the page's update-rate to something like 5 seconds? That was what I did when I needed to. Saves your keyboard if nothing else.
(in opera, right click -> Reload every -> custom)
(Although you have to right click and reset it to get anything done afterwards though)
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Ancalagon
@Rich, as this is at 150+k and as the goals set so far were basically taken with a breeze... may I ask what you expected/hoped from the kickstarter for the 30 days?
Were you holding your thumbs I'd somehow crawl over the 97k- or even the 75k-line after 30 days or was it more like you had been happy if it even made the 60k for the small batch after 30 days?
Or did you (in very much secret hope/dream) this would give you after the 30 days the means to re-print everything that was missing in full batches from the very start?
"No" (or none at all) is a perfectly valid answer, I'm just curious how your end of this kickstarter-rocket looks.
I, for one, am actually not very surprised. I've seen a number of authors of popular webcomics run fundraisers, and the result (provided the webcomic is in fact popular) has always been an enormous outpouring of funds, typically reaching several times the author's goal in a small fraction of the planned time span. The author being completely blind-sided by this is, amusingly, also typical. Webcomic authors as a group seem to consistently underestimate how much support their readers are willing to give them by a large margin, and all it takes to trigger the avalanche of money is a little prompting by the author and an unlimited-supply reason, preferably with a goal amount specified.
An unobtrusive donate button? It'll bring in some money, but not terribly much. An online store? Same. Drawing attention to either of the above with a public news post? That helps, but it's still relatively small. Public post of "hey guys, money would be nice" or "I'm selling X now"? Meh. Public post of "I need $X so I can do Y", possibly accompanied by "you'll get Z if you help"? Open the flood gates, drive up the money truck, call Fort Knox, buy an oxygen tank and shovel, you're about to be buried alive in money - provided that both Y and Z (if Z exists) are in some way of interest to the general readership. An absent Z is better than a Z few people want, which I think is why the forum ads are performing as poorly (relative to the initially hoped for goal, at least, whatever that was) as they are.
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I am also not surprised (at least not in general and we have known that OotS was among the most successful webcomics). Thunt from goblins usually does something like this ("I draw something out of the line and you give me money for it") and OotS seems to be a lot bigger.
But my view on that has neither been the question nor is it of any interest (for anyone, including actually myself). ;)
As I said before (which is also not the question), I'm (as I already have the books) seeing this as "I buy some online pdf-extras and can determine myself how much they are worth to me"-offer.
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Someone said something about adding T-shirts to the rewards as a possible idea?
Now that's something I definitely could get behind.
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Update! New Rewards!
Upgraded to the No Cure + skinny autographed bundle. (No Cure and Origin signed, that's good enough for me and I'll pick up War another time when it won't hurt my wallet so much)
Just in time, too. My class starts in 10 minutes.
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Hooray! I managed to be here for the reward update! :smallbiggrin: I switched from signed War and XPs to signed NCftPB, and I'll add a signed OtOoPCs to that. I saw I wasn't the only one to switch, too.
Everyone hurry and stampede over the available rewards!