Thirdway Industries - The new brand by Giovanni Meroni

[Thirdway Industries]

@supernova - That might be a good idea.
Looks like that EPCC new decks (the ones they are producing with Jackson) looks awesome and delivered relatively fast.

[bdawg923]

+1 for both reprinted with USPCC

[supernova]

@supernova - That might be a good idea.
Looks like that EPCC new decks (the ones they are producing with Jackson) looks awesome and delivered relatively fast.

I’m thinking how nice a foiled version of the evil deck will look

[brownsl]

I would be in for a brick.

[Thirdway Industries]

@brownsl - wow thank you. Supporting with brick would help a lot

@supernova - I never thought about a foiled Evil Deck hehe - however, probably I would prefer use foil on a more intricate design.

There are good vibes about this project, so I should evaluate to prioritize it. I may have a slot for a "self-funded" project for late fall/winter... it may be this one.
Not a promise since those times are crazy, I am waiting that our beloved factories will complete Apocalisse and Italia Divina for unleash a lot of new stuff already

[Thirdway Industries]

I have just published a survey for Patreon - if you are interested in it - even if you're not currently a Patron-, here is the link > https://forms.gle/XaJqVMKEriHHikN47

If you are not a Patron, please identify yourself as "non-Patron" in the first question (survey is anonymous).
There will be another "general" survey in December, as usual.

Thank you in advance for your feedback!

[portcullis]

Survey = done and done.

Pantheon 2 still on track to be fulfilled by the end of the month, Gio?

[Thirdway Industries]

@portcullis - I really hope so - Pantheon had a monster delay caused by gilding of Pantheon Caelum, I am pushing for ship before Black Friday. Fingers crossed!

[Harvonsgard]

Post no.69 in this thread - nice!

For the love of the gods - fix your store Gio! I was going to browse it. I left after waiting for two minutes, just to see the main page loaded at 50%...

[Strag]

Pretty much snap loading for me, might be a local issue to you?

[Harvonsgard]

Would be strange, everything else works fine and loads as usual.

[Strag]

Sometimes can be a caching issue depending on your location, his server location and CMS.

[bdawg923]

Loads super slow for me too, just stuck on this for 2min. After that, pages load quickly

[Timmargh]

It loads okay for me but it could be better: Lighthouse (under Google Chrome developer tools) reports a performance score of 81% for desktop and 42% for mobile.

Keeping such an image-heavy site running at a high performance takes a hell of a lot of work.

[Harvonsgard]

42% for mobile.

[Thirdway Industries]

I was working on the website today (uploading a lot of images of Tales and Egoism) - maybe this affected the performances.
Unfortunately I am not sure about how to fix this "properly" - I am not very good at the "technology" part.
I will try to find a solution (or hire a programmer haha) - Thanks for the heads up!

[portcullis]

Just throwing in my $0.02 here Gio, your website's always been ridiculously slow for me. A 'proper' fix would be great to see.

[Entaro]

It used to be completely unusable for me until the latest update Gio did and then it was working fine lol still works well for me now just a little slow

[Timmargh]

Having a quick look the biggest issue looks to be image file size and loading; for example the biggest image, a Delirium tuck box PNG, is 1.4MB and is 1024x1024 but is displayed as a thumbnail of much smaller dimensions. Also, a huge help would be "lazy loading" - there should be a Wordpress plugin for it.

There are plenty of other suggestions from Google Lighthouse that can save time and server bills, I know because I'm forever checking my sites for similar issues, but this probably isn't the best place to discuss them.

You have my email address, Gio; feel free to get in touch if I can be assistance.

[Thirdway Industries]

Thank you Tim - those hints are very useful --- I am planning to remove or reduce some images to make the website quicker.
When I am ready to start, I may write you

[portcullis]

C’mon Gio push that launch button, some of us wanna go to sleep!

[Thirdway Industries]

I'm having a *small* Black Friday sale on TWI website > https://www.thirdwayindustries.com/black-week-2021/

the usual "consumerism storm" with several deals, mystery bricks, ultra bundles and also a little freebie.

[hsbc]

Gio has a new page on his website with Patreon info, check it out

https://www.thirdwayindustries.com/patreon/

[Thirdway Industries]

An ugly pic of the 2023 Patreon Rewards

[Bradius]

It looks great to me, especially when you compare it to what I can manage. I just picked up my fifth Pink Heaven and Black Blood decks. What was nice was that my Black Blood was 101, which is way cool

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Thanks for a great 2023 Gio.

[CCwonder]

It looks great to me, especially when you compare it to what I can manage. I just picked up my fifth Pink Heaven and Black Blood decks. What was nice was that my Black Blood was 101, which is way cool


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Thanks for a great 2023 Gio.

5 of each , wow do you play a lot of cards or do you use them for something else?

[GandalfPC]

do you use them

I wasn’t familiar with the term, don’t think that Bradius is either - I looked it up to help those in the same boat…

[CCwonder]

Thank you for being of great use. You're the boat Happy holidays to you and your family

[Bradius]

Use and consume in a very broad term. Squirrels like to hoard and store things up. Maybe there will be a vast solar flare that will throw us back into the stone age. Then I will be able to enjoy many card games with some amazing decks of cards...it could happen.

Since Gio is now offering a Dragonslayer Option, I decided to combine my two Patreon accounts into one account (my second Patreon account by happenstance, but oh well). 4x and a bit of a discount. Paying for that one year at a time though is a big hit. At least I don't have to deal with it for another year.

Addition: Just to let folks know, the sword tier I dropped was actually a early sword membership, which is actually $5 per month less than the normal one. I don't know if it is still available, but if interested, you might check to see if it is still out there and save a little money on a sword tier.