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Hi,I want to chip in here, too. To be honest, we have been struggling a while to keep up with the production schedule, but so far we had always made the deadline, be it with the redesign of the miniatures, the moulds, printing files, shipping. But what broke our backs now is the overall situation in the market.For those who do not know, the games industry is taking a giant leap forward this year (and has done last year). Just to give you an example: Ludo Fact has made the biggest investment in machinery in its history in 2016, increasing our overal capacity by 30%. That means potentially between 4 million and 5 million more games! But on spite of that the factory is running at full capacity since July now, which has never been the case before. And from my talks with our competitors I know that we are not alone in this. So Ludo Fat Asia struggled with the miniature production because there are so many and the miniatures are so large, and now it has also hit us here in Germany. We just cannot manage to produce everything in time and we absolutely have to close a week before Christmas, stop all the machines and spend one week with maintenance. Half a year under full steam takes its toll on the factory, and Q1 is still high season. Also, our suppliers are closed as well, starting from paper suppliers and paper mills to printers. Since January 6th is a holiday in southern Germany, everything is closed until the 9th. We will start with pre-production again on January 4th.And we'll be back with a vengeance, because we cannot even produce everything that has been ordered this year, not only "Endure The Stars" but a 6-digit-number of games will be pushed to next year. It is crazy really. Good for us, good for the industry, but difficult to manage. More machines have been ordered, but those are custom made or at least customized, and nothing one can buy in the supermarket next door, some have delivery times of up to one year. It is going to be solved, but right now "Endure The Stars" is caught in the middle of this turmoil.I can tell you that the guys behind Grimlord have been extremely busy and did a great job! But we knew that every little stumble would be devastating to the timeline. It finally happened. I am very sorry for this - I will be at a gaming convention on the first weekend in January and I wanted to play the game there, too - but it was a gamble from the start. To let you all peek a little more behind the scenes: Ludo Fact Asia was running a little late, too, a mere 5 days late on a production that started in August. We only got a part of the miniatures on the container we had intended to use. We have paid an extra fee to get on the next ship, the one the miniatures are on right now, and if all goes well the miniatures will be in our warehouse around the 14th or 15th, but if customs decides to check the container more thoroughly - they make random checks - or if there is bad weather in the Chinese Sea or Indian Ocean and the ship is a day or two late, our card castle would crumble as well.Thank you all for your encouraging comments here. During the last days the people from Grimlord and I have been talking a lot, and we tried to speed everything up where we could, but in the end it makes no sense to rely on a series of chances and hopes. We had to make a decision, and I feel this was the right one. Rushing the production is not a godd idea, as with pressure come mistakes, and a game that has been in the making for what, two years now? should not be rushed and its quality potentially jeopardized in the final few weeks of production.We'll get you the games as quickly as possible. In January. I will not promise a day here, that makes little sense, but rest assured that we all have our eyes on this project and will not rest (well, except between December 19th and January 3rd 😉 ) before you can all play Endure The Stars with those creepy Icarus and the awesome Exo Loader! (You know, what I don't have yet are the rule book and the scenario book, those are the last files we need and work on a rule book is traditonally never done, but I will check which scenario requires the Exo Loader and play that one first!).CheersFrank JaegerLUDO FACT GmbH
¿Cómo que hater? ¡ Señor don hater para usted !Hombre, después de más de 3 años que lleva Mauro preparando el juego, buscando feedback en la comunidad y diciendo que no saldría hasta tener todo bien maquetado, choca cuanto menos, que no tubiesen claro el tema de la redacción, que como ya te digo, me parece una parte fundamental en un juego y más aún si cabe en este particular.Y no te confundas, no critico que busquen un redactor para encargarse de la parte narrativa, lo cual como bien dices, entiendo que es algo para quitarse el sombrero . Lo que critico, es el hecho de que lo hagan 8 meses después de la campaña. E imagino, que no seré al único que le provoca cierto malestar.A parte, y no digo que el tal Roni no sea bueno pero...."redactor experimentado de la hostia"..... si me puedes pasar algún enlace con trabajos suyos en el que basar esa afirmación, te lo agradezco. Porque por más que busco solo me aparece un futbolista.Dicho esto, lo que si me parece curioso, es que, por poner mi opinión en referencia a un aspecto de la campaña en particular, con el que no estoy de acuerdo o no me gusta, saltes llamándome "hater", al mismo tiempo que le das cera a FF, flying frog, Cool Mini y el Dioniquest, precisamente por lo mismo. Que ya te digo que, salvo por el Dioniquest del que no tenemos aún nada para poder juzgar la parte narrativa, los otros que nombras tienen un más que decente trabajo en ese apartado. Al menos de los trabajos que tengo de los mismos.Ya cómo apunte personal, te comento que desde el momento en el que has comparado este con el "Hq 25 aniversario", has perdido la discusión.....no hay nada comparable al "Dioniquest 2X aniversario edición retrainer forever". Enviado desde debajo de un montón de piedras.....gigoló alopecico lactante...
Yo paso de discutir desde el mismo momento en que escribir DIONISIO o HQ te quita autoridad en los argumentos.Bravo!Falto decir... Esto con franco no pasabaEnviado desde mi HTC One mediante Tapatalk
Why are you guys worrying about the writing I do not understand? He is far ahead of schedule with his work so far and writing did not begun when he started but it was almost finished about 3 years ago.What we have to worry is miniatures because the Chinese are extremely busy with lots of projects and then there is Chinese new year. THAT is something you can concern yourselves with, there was no way for us to predict they would be having the busiest year ever with producing miniatures.
Pues menuda se avecina, no?Esaba pensando pillar latepledge.
Jugamos por encima de nuestras posibilidades.....
[member=2603]chisteman[/member] y "Maestro" [member=1135]totustustous[/member] , ¿Y de la Ley de las "Cosplayers", que me decís de la ley de las "cosplayers"?(en cualquier hilo de este foro, la posibilidad de aparición/petición de una foto de cosplayer femenina tiende a 1)Porque en serio: ¡LAS COSPLAYERS!!! ¿ES QUE NADIE PIENSA EN LAS COSPLAYERS?
Lo que queda claro, es que quejarse es gratis y apoyar un proyecto de crowfunding (y por tanto asumir posibles retraso y cambios en lo proyectado) no lo es.
Jajajajajaja. No te enfades.Era por la comparación a la "ley de Godwin", en la que a medida que una discusión en línea se alarga, la probabilidad de que aparezca una comparación en la que se mencione a Hitler o a los nazis tiende a uno. Asi, en cuanto se mencione una determinada comparación similar al nazismo, el hilo se cierra y quienquiera que la usara pierde la discusión. Pues la gracia está en hacer el símil con lo que yo llamo, "la ley de Dioni". En la que en el ámbito de los crowdfoundings, según se alarga una conversación, la posibilidad de que salga a relucir el Hq25 aniversario, tiende a 1. Y por igualdad a la de Godwing, quien lo saca a relucir pierde la discusión.Enviado desde debajo de un montón de piedras.....gigoló alopecico lactante...
Y si no díselo al mecenas N°17 de este proyecto....
