Mercenaries Kickstarter Discussion 6: the 1st 3rd Star League conversation

[Brym]

I'm involved in another crowdfunding campaign right now with Cephalofair games where they have been giving great updates about what parts are still being designed, what's in production, what has moved onto ocean freight, and what is in fulfillment.  Although to be fair they are about 5 months behind schedule, so they have a greater need to keep people happy.

Nevertheless, I hope we get some kind of similar update here when stuff gets on a boat (if it's not already).

[Caesar Steiner for Archon]

I'm sure when they have everything on a boat, they're gonna blast it at everyone from every angle they can.

[I am Belch II]

June would be great.
July would be ok.
August would be ok.

January of 2025 or later would be a copy of the Clan Invasion

[Weirdo]

June would be great.
July would be ok.
August would be ok.

January of 2025 or later would be a copy of the Clan Invasion

The herald of a new age of Battletech all over store shelves? I can work with that.

[MoneyLovinOgre4Hire]

I'm sure when they have everything on a boat, they're gonna blast it at everyone from every angle they can.

That's the way they did it last time, right?

[SteelRaven]

It's not time to celebrate until it's off the boat. People keep forgetting all the problems international shipping faces until something hits the news.

[MoneyLovinOgre4Hire]

Oh come on.  What are the odds of a ship getting stuck sideways in a major canal and blocking up international shipping world-wide again?

[Hydrofoil Goat]

Oh come on.  What are the odds of a ship getting stuck sideways in a major canal and blocking up international shipping world-wide again?

Significantly higher now you've said it!

[Charistoph]

Oh come on.  What are the odds of a ship getting stuck sideways in a major canal and blocking up international shipping world-wide again?

Lower now than a fewer years ago, thanks to lower traffic.

[carne68]

Oh come on.  What are the odds of a ship getting stuck sideways in a major canal and blocking up international shipping world-wide again?

Let's not forget the Houthis attacking shipping through the Red Sea. Even if that is not the route that CGL's containers will be shipped on, the impact of rerouting so much of global shipping traffic can not be overstated.

There is also the reduction of traffic through the Panama Canal due to drought conditions. Again, that may not be the route that this shipment will take, but it will impact the availability of merchant shipping.

[I am Belch II]

Come on a Ship getting stuck in a canal, wars and stuff by that same canal, port strikes, that is just some of the things going on right now. Until I see a confirm on shipping price, I'm not holding my breath, and I'm asthmatic. 

[Ghaz]

Getting stuck in the Suez Canal is not the problem

https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/market-insights/latest-news/shipping/011524-more-ships-avoid-red-sea-as-houthis-hit-ship-carrying-steel-in-gulf-of-aden

[SteelRaven]

Lets just wait until the KS shipments are loaded on the trucks before we start counting the Days, that's all I'm saying.

[Wolf72]

the worst was seeing "everyone" else getting their shipments in while I still waited ... just so hard to see/read the comments and not check my email to see if was in the next round ... it did come, but man, it felt like torture.

[I am Belch II]

the worst was seeing "everyone" else getting their shipments in while I still waited ... just so hard to see/read the comments and not check my email to see if was in the next round ... it did come, but man, it felt like torture.

When I waited for the Clan Invasion, I saw everything on sale at the stores except the Strat Ops update book which pushed my order to wave 2.5 god that sucked.

[Jal Phoenix]

Oh yeah? FedEx marked mine as delivered at 9PM, in the rain. It wasn't on my porch. I walked around the neighborhood in the rain at night, seeing if they'd left it at the wrong house. Nope. I called FedEx screaming over my missing $450. It showed up the next day, with no explanation.

[MoneyLovinOgre4Hire]

Oh yeah? FedEx marked mine as delivered at 9PM, in the rain. It wasn't on my porch. I walked around the neighborhood in the rain at night, seeing if they'd left it at the wrong house. Nope. I called FedEx screaming over my missing $450. It showed up the next day, with no explanation.

Yeah, that sounds like FedEx all right.  They have a reputation.

One of many reasons I get all my mail delivered to a private mailbox service.

[Charistoph]

Oh yeah? FedEx marked mine as delivered at 9PM, in the rain. It wasn't on my porch. I walked around the neighborhood in the rain at night, seeing if they'd left it at the wrong house. Nope. I called FedEx screaming over my missing $450. It showed up the next day, with no explanation.

We ordered something from Amazon.  They marked it delivered.  All we had on our porch was a pouch that was slit on one side and otherwise empty of everything but air.

[Brigoon]

Oh come on.  What are the odds of a ship getting stuck sideways in a major canal and blocking up international shipping world-wide again?

A lot better then you think, Panama Cannel is backed up due to not enough water

https://fortune.com/2023/11/27/panama-canal-backed-up-water-shortage-ships-reroute/

and we know about the other major trade route having issues. So yeah....

[Ruger]

Oh yeah? FedEx marked mine as delivered at 9PM, in the rain. It wasn't on my porch. I walked around the neighborhood in the rain at night, seeing if they'd left it at the wrong house. Nope. I called FedEx screaming over my missing $450. It showed up the next day, with no explanation.

USPS claimed to have delivered an order of (non-BTech) minis to my mailbox.

Not there.

Talk with supervisor at USPS, who says they talked to one who delivered it. They know where they delivered it, will go get it and deliver it that afternoon.

Never arrived.

Go talk again. Delivery person on vacation. Will have substitute delivery person look for it and deliver it.

Never arrived.

Told to put in claim.

Claim rejected. System says package delivered to correct address.

Go back to USPS. Get manager to determine address to which package delivered, write it out and provide evidence to me. Send evidence on claim appeal.

Appeal rejected as system says package delivered to correct address.

Am told can appeal one more time.

Current status: going to discuss things with USPS one more time before filing next appeal.

Ruger

[klarg1]

I once had an entire laundry machine “go missing” in the freight warehouse. The freight company opened a ticket but it never went anywhere. The manufacturer wouldn’t even let me open a ticket because the carrier reported the shipment as “delivered”.

Otherwise my results have generally been good.

[DarkISI]

USPS claimed to have delivered an order of (non-BTech) minis to my mailbox.

Not there.

Talk with supervisor at USPS, who says they talked to one who delivered it. They know where they delivered it, will go get it and deliver it that afternoon.

Never arrived.

Go talk again. Delivery person on vacation. Will have substitute delivery person look for it and deliver it.

Never arrived.

Told to put in claim.

Claim rejected. System says package delivered to correct address.

Go back to USPS. Get manager to determine address to which package delivered, write it out and provide evidence to me. Send evidence on claim appeal.

Appeal rejected as system says package delivered to correct address.

Am told can appeal one more time.

Current status: going to discuss things with USPS one more time before filing next appeal.

Ruger

That sounds like the point were my lawyer would write the next message and send a bill with it.
Usually works like a charm.

[General308]

Catalyst said they were going to send the link out to late backers months ago, don't think they ever did.


Its a bummer they seem to have lost their optimism about fulfilling early.

DW

I mean did they ever say early?  They said spring alot.  But up untill june 21st it is still spring.  So a June delevery is technically that early spring delivery backers keep talking about which also happens to be the same month they have said since day one.  Either way it is nice things are going well so far

[glitterboy2098]

i've never had issues with the USPS. the amazon drives around here though.. oy. delivery to the wronghouses*, leaving stuff out in the rain, even had a few times where they didn't want to drive up our hill* so they chucked the package out at the curb. thankfully it wasn't garbage pickup day.

*there is a quirk on most of the online map apps that the row of houses we're in seems to be offset by half a block, so if you put in our address, it'll direct you to a spot down the road a bit near the firehouse. so the drivers end up having to guess which house is which. until we put up a sign at roadlevel with our house number, a lot of our amazon stuff would get delivered to our neighbor.)
**(we live at the top of a hill, and our driveway is a bit steep. experienced amazon drivers and the USPS people just go up our neighbor's driveway and walk over, since they have a shallower one. but amazon seems to have a lot of staff turnover around here.)

[General308]

Catalyst said they were going to send the link out to late backers months ago, don't think they ever did.


Its a bummer they seem to have lost their optimism about fulfilling early.

DW

I mean did they ever say early?  They said spring alot.  But up untill june 21st it is still spring.  So a June delevery is technically that early spring delivery backers keep talking about which also happens to be the same month they have said since day one.  Either way it is nice things are going well so far

[Ghaz]

i've never had issues with the USPS. the amazon drives around here though.. oy. delivery to the wronghouses...

Likewise.  The only problems I've had with the USPS is sending a package on a bit of a road trip (after arriving at the Cincinnati distribution center, instead of sending it to my local post office it took a three-day tour of Buffalo) and some of the distribution centers not understanding how to update the tracking status (I'm looking at you Memphis).  As for Amazon they've recently delivered our package to the neighbor's house, but fortunately with the pic they snap and include with the delivery message we knew where it was at.

[Charistoph]

I mean did they ever say early?  They said spring alot.  But up untill june 21st it is still spring.  So a June delevery is technically that early spring delivery backers keep talking about which also happens to be the same month they have said since day one.  Either way it is nice things are going well so far

June is NOT "early" spring.  End of March/early April is early spring.  Once you hit May, you're in mid-spring.  So, once you're in June is "late spring" (unless you live in a place like the Phoenix Valley where we're already hitting the century mark so it feels like summer).

Statements have been made about things going well enough that they were hoping to get it out in early spring.  Some other things developed in the last month or so which has delayed those expectations, such as the most relied upon canals not being rely useful which causes most shipping in the world to take longer, and thus more ships are devoted to account for the lost time.

[jimdigris]

According to the Kickstarter website, it has long been scheduled for June.

[General308]

June is NOT "early" spring.  End of March/early April is early spring.  Once you hit May, you're in mid-spring.  So, once you're in June is "late spring" (unless you live in a place like the Phoenix Valley where we're already hitting the century mark so it feels like summer).

Statements have been made about things going well enough that they were hoping to get it out in early spring.  Some other things developed in the last month or so which has delayed those expectations, such as the most relied upon canals not being rely useful which causes most shipping in the world to take longer, and thus more ships are devoted to account for the lost time.

I will be honest I have not seen one person offical say early spring.    I have seen a lot of people hear spring and assume early spring.  But personally I havent seen anyone offical say that.

[Colt Ward]

According to the Kickstarter website, it has long been scheduled for June.

Uh huh, guess it will be weird for 40th shirts not to be available at GenCon then.