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Bradius wrote: ↑Tue Jun 20, 2023 12:57 pm EB Compete Set. That seems to be by far the most popular reward tier so far.

• All Black Edition decks purchased through the campaign will now be gold gilded for no extra cost.

• Cold foil will be added to the cards if we can reach the goal of €30,000 by the end of the campaign.

• All black decks currently purchased through the Kickstarter will be gilded and limited to around 375. These will be KS-only. This means ONDA V2 Black Gilded will be the KS-Exclusive variant for everyone reading this.

• Due to print run limits and to maintain the top quality offset printing we require, standard versions of the black deck will after all need to be released on the aftermarket. The black edition therefore will not be limited to 1000 as previously advertised, but instead have a 375-limited gilded edition as a KS-exclusive included as a free instant upgrade to all current backers of black decks.

• All rewards advertising a KS-Exclusive Black Edition will now refer to this gilded deck /375, and not the previously promoted 1000-deck standard"

kevork wrote: ↑Thu Oct 05, 2023 1:02 pm Things in the survey store that are not in the campaign:

ONDA V1 Azure Blue (New variant of V1)
ONDA V2 Black Standard (All black versions in the campaign were upgraded to x/375 gilded for free, so if you're a completionist, grab a standard)
ONDA V2 Coral Standard
ONDA V2 Coral Gilded (x/100) (Meant to be an IC exclusive but the aforementioned comment explains the situation)

Your IC discount code will work in the survey, but only for the Coral Gilded deck.

GandalfPC wrote: ↑Thu Oct 05, 2023 6:29 pm Didn’t get the email with the survey link

Jykwei wrote: ↑Thu Oct 05, 2023 6:48 pm

kevork wrote: ↑Thu Oct 05, 2023 1:02 pm Things in the survey store that are not in the campaign:

ONDA V1 Azure Blue (New variant of V1)
ONDA V2 Black Standard (All black versions in the campaign were upgraded to x/375 gilded for free, so if you're a completionist, grab a standard)
ONDA V2 Coral Standard
ONDA V2 Coral Gilded (x/100) (Meant to be an IC exclusive but the aforementioned comment explains the situation)

Your IC discount code will work in the survey, but only for the Coral Gilded deck.

Arrrgh, thank you for making it easy. I don't know why but many of the designers cannot just list items like you to prevent the pain of reading through emails and then still miss stuff. In my case, I missed the Coral Standard.
I am relatively new to Jocu IC and KS. Is it common where his KS survey is actually another round to sell stuff? This seems really overboard when the campaign comes with 4 variants - but hey, here're 4 more variants to buy...?

• They aren't limited, so you can grab them anytime

• I didn't want people panicking to get the gilded decks, losing time adding non-limited standards and then missing out on the gilded ones because they spent more time shopping

Jocu wrote: ↑Fri Oct 06, 2023 12:43 am

Jykwei wrote: ↑Thu Oct 05, 2023 6:48 pm

kevork wrote: ↑Thu Oct 05, 2023 1:02 pm Things in the survey store that are not in the campaign:

ONDA V1 Azure Blue (New variant of V1)
ONDA V2 Black Standard (All black versions in the campaign were upgraded to x/375 gilded for free, so if you're a completionist, grab a standard)
ONDA V2 Coral Standard
ONDA V2 Coral Gilded (x/100) (Meant to be an IC exclusive but the aforementioned comment explains the situation)

Your IC discount code will work in the survey, but only for the Coral Gilded deck.

Arrrgh, thank you for making it easy. I don't know why but many of the designers cannot just list items like you to prevent the pain of reading through emails and then still miss stuff. In my case, I missed the Coral Standard.
I am relatively new to Jocu IC and KS. Is it common where his KS survey is actually another round to sell stuff? This seems really overboard when the campaign comes with 4 variants - but hey, here're 4 more variants to buy...?

Not common, but I would really recommend reading campaign updates or you're bound to be completely lost

Cartamundi shut down, project delayed for months, discussions about extra variants etc. The info is all there.

When it comes to the 'why' I'll just say that as you implied, putting too many variants on the campaign itself is confusing for the campaign. But the realities of printing mean it makes a lot more sense to print new versions of the same decks that share artwork at the same time as the original decks due to the manufacturing of printing plates etc. So for example with ONDA v1 Acquamarine was a special variant held back for our subscribers later.

The original plan would've been to release these over a few months or more in 2024. As ONDA V2 was originally destined to be shipping to backers around now, that made more sense. But things don't always go to plan.

Due to the shutdown everything will be a lot later than planned, so we decided to release them for pre-order now for our backers rather than arbitrarily hold them back later.

EDIT - If you missed anything, feel free to do the survey a second time. Many have done this. The reasoning for downplaying the availability of the two standard decks is twofold:

• They aren't limited, so you can grab them anytime

• I didn't want people panicking to get the gilded decks, losing time adding non-limited standards and then missing out on the gilded ones because they spent more time shopping

I've done this enough times and received enough panicked emails after a drop to try and deal with these things in advance. I might not always have the most crystal clear messaging, but I'm sure many here can tell you that I in the heat of a drop I have solved problems for a lot of members and subscribers after the fact

Jykwei wrote: ↑Fri Oct 06, 2023 1:28 am
Jocu, I did read the emails. The bottom line is I want to know what decks to buy, and not feeling like I have to do my homework and search for answers between hundreds of lines. Thanks.

By the way - I did do a second survey to add the missing deck. If you say many has done it… then perhaps your message needs to be clearer

Jykwei wrote: ↑Fri Oct 06, 2023 1:28 am
...I want to know what decks to buy, and not feeling like I have to do my homework and search for answers between hundreds of lines. Thanks....

Jocu wrote: ↑Fri Oct 06, 2023 2:40 am
I hear you but for now I can't help you with that mate.

KS wrote:Just a quick update that we've been in constant communication with Cartamundi and whilst we have no concrete dates yet (they're closed now for the holidays) everything so far has pointed to being on target for firing up production again in January.

The Fournier facility are working on sending us some sample decks of a new option for printing in the meantime (this won't be used for ONDA, but it's an interesting option for other projects) and we're receiving quotes for other projects that will go ahead at Cartamundi/Fournier this year so all is moving along as expected.

To boot, our customer contact won't even be changing and we'll still be dealing with Belgium for our projects so it seems like from the client side, little will change for now

We expect to have everything back into production in the new year as planned and will have some news to share in January.

Hello everyone!

Just a quick note that we received the first samples of cards printed at the Fournier facility through Cartamundi after their moving of production.

The samples are great - pretty much identical to what we're used to from Belgium and although there have been some behind the scenes tweaks to varnish etc you'd be hard pressed to notice any difference between the two.

We are now waiting on final pricing updated for the new facility and we will be able to press ahead. In the meantime the files have past prepress and we're good to go. This stage is taking a little longer than we expected, but I'm told it's a matter of days now that things are up and running.

Thanks for all your patience! We will send an update once we get things into print.

kevork wrote: ↑Thu Feb 08, 2024 9:02 am

Hello everyone!

Just a quick note that we received the first samples of cards printed at the Fournier facility through Cartamundi after their moving of production.

The samples are great - pretty much identical to what we're used to from Belgium and although there have been some behind the scenes tweaks to varnish etc you'd be hard pressed to notice any difference between the two.