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Re: The Life Of A C3G Design

Balantai, can you think of any other ways to achieve this level of excitement and envolvment with the community without having to dangle our units :lol: in their faces for a whole month before we release them? :rofl:

I am trying to be serious though.. what do you think?
 
Re: The Life Of A C3G Design

Balantai said:
I could feasibly see us having a release every 3 months.

Imagine a pull of figures that have been officially C3G approved but not yet released. They would sit in the Googlewave thread until then. In the pool sits:

Wolverine
Green Lantern
Wonder Woman
Flash
Deadpool
Robin
Thor
Lex Luther
Kang
Vulture

But really close to being finished were:
Sabertooth
Sinestro
Riddler

We could wait two more weeks until the other three were finalized and vote on releasing a set that contained any 10 of the 13 already released figures. I would insist on a rule that states that the three that were passed over must be included in our next release though. That way a figure doesn't get stuck in the pool. Plus, this would influence what figure I chose. If Wonder Woman was left in the pool, I would be more likely to create a Cheetah.
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I really hate this idea. Hiding units in the wave for months is not how to get the community involved...
 
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Griffin said:
Balantai, can you think of any other ways to achieve this level of excitement and envolvment with the community without having to dangle our units :lol: in their faces for a whole month before we release them? :rofl:

I am trying to be serious though.. what do you think?
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Word of mouth is probably our next best asset. Bats is the best at that. He was able to bring up our release in a whole bunch of threads while remaining relevant to the topics.
 
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Griffin said:
I really hate this idea. Hiding units in the wave for months is not how to get the community involved...
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I'm sorry, I was unclear. I'm not suggesting we design them in the waves. After they're designed and finalized, they're moved to waves where they just sit until release. This might only be a week or so.
 
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Balantai said:
Griffin said:
Balantai, can you think of any other ways to achieve this level of excitement and envolvment with the community without having to dangle our units :lol: in their faces for a whole month before we release them? :rofl:

I am trying to be serious though.. what do you think?
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Word of mouth is probably our next best asset. Bats is the best at that. He was able to bring up our release in a whole bunch of threads while remaining relevant to the topics.
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Well then that plus some front page love ever few months should be more than enough. Plus this release put us on the map, now everyone has us on their radar. I don't think we need to worry about sets, unless we agree to pause on Ala Cart to do another Master Set, and that aint gonna happen for a long time.
 
Re: The Life Of A C3G Design

Balantai said:
Griffin said:
I really hate this idea. Hiding units in the wave for months is not how to get the community involved...
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I'm sorry, I was unclear. I'm not suggesting we design them in the waves. After they're designed and finalized, they're moved to waves where they just sit until release. This might only be a week or so.
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I understood you. But if the unit is hidden, then people wont be able to play it, and that is how you alienate them.

Balantai, lets just calm down, and not assume that the site will loose interest in what we are doing without this big set idea. Lets give our new Ala Cart way (that we haven't even started yet) a chance before we decide that we need sets to maintain excitement and attention.
 
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Griffin said:
Well then that plus some front page love ever few months should be more than enough. Plus this release put us on the map, now everyone has us on their radar. I don't think we need to worry about sets, unless we agree to pause on Ala Cart to do another Master Set, and that aint gonna happen for a long time.
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I guess we just disagree. I really don't think interest will stay if we're releasing figures every week or so. Afterall, this is Marketing 101. Why do you think Heroscape releases figures in Waves? It's to generate excitement.
 
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Balantai said:
Griffin said:
Well then that plus some front page love ever few months should be more than enough. Plus this release put us on the map, now everyone has us on their radar. I don't think we need to worry about sets, unless we agree to pause on Ala Cart to do another Master Set, and that aint gonna happen for a long time.
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I guess we just disagree. I really don't think interest will stay if we're releasing figures every week or so. Afterall, this is Marketing 101. Why do you think Heroscape releases figures in Waves? It's to generate excitement.
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There is something to be said about consistency though. For example: showcasing 1 unit per week, will keep people coming back to see the next new thing each week, instead of once every 3 months.
 
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Griffin said:
There is something to be said about consistency though. For example: showcasing 1 unit per week, will keep people coming back to see the next new thing each week, instead of once every 3 months.
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We shall see. I will drop the issue.
 
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I think we need to remember who it's most important to keep interested in this project - us.
If we stay interested and do good work, the community interest will come. And if it doesn't, but we're still interested, does it really matter?
Manufactured delays in releasing sounds like the kind of time waster that is apt to make people designing things a little less interested.
 
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Once a week deadlines sounds unnecessary to me. You certainly don't want to rush out a card and leave off a major power (not that it would actually ever happen).

I do think that a separate post of Finished Cards might be nice (kind of like the Hall of NM24) so that fans can always easily check in on what the C3G considers polished and print worthy. Every time there is 5 or 6 new cards added, we use Bat's connections to get a front page add for the new "C3G Wave".

That would be my plan if I were in the advertising department.
 
Re: The Life Of A C3G Design

Matt Helm said:
Once a week deadlines sounds unnecessary to me. You certainly don't want to rush out a card and leave off a major power (not that it would actually ever happen).

I do think that a separate post of Finished Cards might be nice (kind of like the Hall of NM24) so that fans can always easily check in on what the C3G considers polished and print worthy. Every time there is 5 or 6 new cards added, we use Bat's connections to get a front page add for the new "C3G Wave".

That would be my plan if I were in the advertising department.
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I don't think anyone is looking to implement deadlines, Matt. Also, there are no more "C3G Waves". Once the figure is completed, the thread turns into a book and the creator moves on to their next figure. I assume the figure is also linked to our C3G Master thread.
 
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I think it's best to do that on an "as needed" basis. For example, for the Fantastic Four, it makes sense to maybe hold them back and release them all together. For Deadpool, Elektra, Colossus, and Carnage, not so much.
 
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Yeah, the current "Release Party" thread is going to be converted into a "Books of the C3G Index" thread once the fervor dies down and we get all the books completed. :)
 
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GreyOwl said:
I think it's best to do that on an "as needed" basis. For example, for the Fantastic Four, it makes sense to maybe hold them back and release them all together. For Deadpool, Elektra, Colossus, and Carnage, not so much.
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This makes some sense - and maybe those would be the times where we'd try to generate extra buzz/get front page coverage/etc.
 
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GreyOwl said:
I think it's best to do that on an "as needed" basis. For example, for the Fantastic Four, it makes sense to maybe hold them back and release them all together. For Deadpool, Elektra, Colossus, and Carnage, not so much.
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I completely agree with this. :thumbsup:
 
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Griffin said:
GreyOwl said:
I think it's best to do that on an "as needed" basis. For example, for the Fantastic Four, it makes sense to maybe hold them back and release them all together. For Deadpool, Elektra, Colossus, and Carnage, not so much.
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I completely agree with this. :thumbsup:
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So what happens if the first figure I decide to create is Human Torch?
 
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I have to agree with Balantai on this. Perhaps maybe we should look onto releasing them in Boosters. Every 4 characters could be released together. It may be difficult to do sometimes but we can always go the "Heroes of New York" direction or something. Heroscape manages to market 4-5 completly unrelated Unique Heroes together in each Wave, can't we do that occasionally? I think often we can pair them together during the creation process. Pairs woudl be easy to market as "Gods and Minions" (Hercules, Thor, Doombots), etc. Just wanted to weigh in.
 
Re: The Life Of A C3G Design

Balantai said:
Griffin said:
GreyOwl said:
I think it's best to do that on an "as needed" basis. For example, for the Fantastic Four, it makes sense to maybe hold them back and release them all together. For Deadpool, Elektra, Colossus, and Carnage, not so much.
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I completely agree with this. :thumbsup:
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So what happens if the first figure I decide to create is Human Torch?
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Then as a group we would have to talk about what we want out of the Fan 4 Team. In fact, we have all discussed it several times that the "team" that we have to work on together very carefully is the Fan 4. that is a team that needs to be done at the same time so that their synergies are well thought out, planned, and completely intentional. I don't care which one makes it to the finalized-finish line first, as long as the team is done appropriate to each other.

Other than that, I don't care who works on what, or what gets released first.
 
Re: The Life Of A C3G Design

Griffin said:
GreyOwl said:
I think it's best to do that on an "as needed" basis. For example, for the Fantastic Four, it makes sense to maybe hold them back and release them all together. For Deadpool, Elektra, Colossus, and Carnage, not so much.
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I completely agree with this. :thumbsup:
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Yeah, I was looking for something a little more "dynamic". Plus I didn't want to get left out - all the cool people are changing their avatars recently, like Griffing, Bats, and Necro. :)

I wish I could read what IAmBatman's says on the bottom line, though.
 
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Yeah, doesn't show up well enough, but when I read that it just had me rolling. :p
 
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