[EAST] 2012 Challenge Coins - Orders Closed

Kiashien

ironysparkles wrote: »

Kiashien wrote: »

ironysparkles wrote: »

Kiashien wrote: »

ironysparkles wrote: »

I can no longer attend the con this year due to finances, but I'd still love the coins. How should we go about adding on the shipping costs, if that's possible?

I would suggest emailing Karma directly. You'll have to work it out with him, but at least you managed to realize it before shipping occured.

He messaged me. Thank you!

If you're coming to the post-pax protomen concert, I'm going to be there too, so that's also a possibility

Oh, good idea!

I just figured with your financial issues it might make sense, if you're doing it rather than pay for moar shipping

Kiashien

RSVPs for the coin lunch will close tomorrow (Friday 03/06/2012) sometime in the evening.

Kiashien

Coin lunch RSVPS are closed. I will entertain additions for 3 days with a commitment to donate $10 to child's play. Come Monday Night, well, that's all. End game.

Total is twenty. On Tuesday, I will b me making phone calls.

I'm honestly only allowing the extra days to be greedy for child's play. For once, I feel good about that

So, beg and plead, and it won't work. Honest problems like Ironysparkles contact us, and we'll all be reasonable.

Omeganauts, I think you have your schedule now, so please let me know ASAP what it looks like- same for enforcers, although enforcers may not have their schedules yet.

godmode

What's this cigar gathering I heard about? I didn't RSVP for the lunch because I'm not sure of my schedule yet.

KoalaBro2

godmode wrote: »

What's this cigar gathering I heard about? I didn't RSVP for the lunch because I'm not sure of my schedule yet.

The First Annual PAX Cigar Gathering is planned for 2 AM Friday night/Saturday morning, right outside the convention center, after the concerts end. The relevant thread is here, which I will be updating with a map very shortly.

Note that times/dates are subject to change based on weather reports, so I'd make sure to check the thread a couple days before PAX to make sure that's still the plan.

flatline

Will there be anyone with will-call coins at BYOC on Thursday night or Friday morning?

PeasantDave

Although I won't be able to make it, should I mention the Coin Lunch as something people should bring their Trading Cards to?

Khadour

flatline wrote: »

Will there be anyone with will-call coins at BYOC on Thursday night or Friday morning?

There are at least two of the will-call volunteers who are in BYOC, so we should be able to set something up for you.

Kiashien

flatline wrote: »

Will there be anyone with will-call coins at BYOC on Thursday night or Friday morning?

PAX does not open until friday, so absolutely not on thursday.

Friday morning I can not promise- I'm doing the pokecrawl, and that tends to be devastating to early-morning predictability.

Kiashien

PeasantDave wrote: »

Although I won't be able to make it, should I mention the Coin Lunch as something people should bring their Trading Cards to?

Yes. At the very least, I will have mine available at it.

Kiashien

Kiashien wrote: »

PeasantDave wrote: »

Although I won't be able to make it, should I mention the Coin Lunch as something people should bring their Trading Cards to?

Yes. At the very least, I will have mine available at it.

As a side note, after I talk to them on tuesday, if they sound okay with it, I will reopen RSVPs for the week then if they seem confident that they can handle more, if you'd like Dave

flatline

Kiashien wrote: »

flatline wrote: »

Will there be anyone with will-call coins at BYOC on Thursday night or Friday morning?

PAX does not open until friday, so absolutely not on thursday.

Friday morning I can not promise- I'm doing the pokecrawl, and that tends to be devastating to early-morning predictability.

I could have sworn Big Red said there would be an option to check-in to BYOC on Thursday night, but I suppose that could have been a delusional daydream....

edit - kind of: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/21805420#Comment_21805420 looks like we can get badges, maybe not check in our rigs. where it will be, I'm not sure about.

Khadour

Yeah, there's badge pickup in the lobby on Thursday, but that's about it - no loading in until Friday morning. That being said, I'll be downtown at some point on Thursday to pick up BYOC badges as well, so if you want them then, I can hook you up.

Oldmangloom315

Damn, I missed out this year. If one happens to become available or someone has an extra, let know. I love mine from last year.

karmacappa

I've assembled all the packages for mailing. I'm going to see if I can push them through the post office. I can guarantee you that my 50 packages (which all need me to pay for postage) will draw ire from everyone in a very small room. #awkward

laivindil

Got a tracking number, thanks for all the work karmacappa!

dalaamprince

As did I. Thank you again for putting all this effort in.

BinarySamurai

received tracking # thanks karma!

TopherRocks

Got my tracking number today! Thanks!

King of Mars

Tracking number GET! Thanks, everyone who made this happen again. 8-)

karmacappa

Will Call coins are all in the mail. This means I have no more coins. We'll be mailing all the Will Call people soon to give you the information on our volunteers that will be meeting up with you to hand you your coins.

Kiashien

Okay, now that all orders are closed, and last call has gone out, and all of that..

I have three coins available for direct proceed to Child's Play. I may end up with more- a few are being reserved to handle any.. issues.. that come up.

As I noted before, the price is inflated- $10 or more donation required. (I can donate that much myself if they aren't wanted.)

All donations will go through the cookie brigade. Donations of more are welcome, of course. I may throw in a vial of Black Blood of the Earth too... I haven't decided. BBoTE is cold-vacuum brewed coffee, and one vial is between 8 and 16 cups of coffee- and is roughly 50ml. (By haven't decided, I mean, I'm not sure it'll arrive in time )

If it comes in on time, Volunteers- if you'd like one (vial), I'll have one for you

karmacappa

Haha, oddly enough, I happened to see an exchange where commercial hipsters were trying to defend their business in a PAX related forum. Let me assure you, the PAX Community Coins will never be made by such people. Going into the future, I hope that every PAX Community Coin will be made by open minded people that despite having day jobs, will devote many hours to making sure you get a fantastic coin at a reasonable cost. Remember, those hipsters are about exclusion. PAX is about inclusion. PAX people are the people you want to hang out with.

Notes to future organizers:
Make sure you include time for people to order. If your cut off is 7 days, you need to be prepared to have orders a couple of weeks after you've closer ordering.
Prepare for people to exceed your expectations. I thought I could only handle paying for 250 coins to be made. 400 coins were made. Don't get too set in your production limits.
Be nice to people. You may think they don't appreciate your hard work. They do, so presume this FROM THE BEGINNING.
Try to minimize ambiguity. Give proper invoices and shipping expectations. It's more work, but clear communication prevents 99% of conflicts.
Don't be a dick (or a hipster). Numquam mentula es. Your ideas aren't better than theirs. If you're looking down on them, you don't belong anywhere near any kind of PAX forum.

Kiashien

karmacappa wrote: »

Haha, oddly enough, I happened to see an exchange where commercial hipsters were trying to defend their business in a PAX related forum. Let me assure you, the PAX Community Coins will never be made by such people. Going into the future, I hope that every PAX Community Coin will be made by open minded people that despite having day jobs, will devote many hours to making sure you get a fantastic coin at a reasonable cost. Remember, those hipsters are about exclusion. PAX is about inclusion. PAX people are the people you want to hang out with.

Notes to future organizers:
Make sure you include time for people to order. If your cut off is 7 days, you need to be prepared to have orders a couple of weeks after you've closer ordering.
Prepare for people to exceed your expectations. I thought I could only handle paying for 250 coins to be made. 400 coins were made. Don't get too set in your production limits.
Be nice to people. You may think they don't appreciate your hard work. They do, so presume this FROM THE BEGINNING.
Try to minimize ambiguity. Give proper invoices and shipping expectations. It's more work, but clear communication prevents 99% of conflicts.
Don't be a dick (or a hipster). Numquam mentula es. Your ideas aren't better than theirs. If you're looking down on them, you don't belong anywhere near any kind of PAX forum.

Extra note: Karma is awesome and needs cookies and luvs and a t-shirt and maybe a lump of gold electrically coated with platinum.

...or whatever is sane.

Seriously, us will call people will have a few days of effort merged with us having fun, mostly by delivering things to people having fun. Yes, we have some overhead trying to make you all get coins.

Karma -is not able to come- and has spent over three months making this happen.

He's right- we appreciate it. And it's warranted.

Khadour

Kiashien wrote: »

Karma -is not able to come- and has spent over three months making this happen.

He's right- we appreciate it. And it's warranted.

This. Karmacappa has done the community an awesome service by spearheading this entire effort, fronting his own cash to kick it off, and really pulling things together.

Khadour

Got my batch of coins in the mail today. Here's what 100 coins looks like:

Spoiler:

And here are some side-by-side shots with last year's coin:

Spoiler:

Can't wait to get these things to you guys!

KellyShepard087

What's that March 11-13 on the bottom right of the right hand coin? Last year's?

Khadour

KellyShepard087 wrote: »

What's that March 11-13 on the bottom right of the right hand coin? Last year's?

Yup - that's last year's coin, looking a little battered after a year of constantly being in my pocket.

karmacappa

As people get their coins, please feel free to include comments and pictures. It's a great way to judge satisfaction with the coin. Also, if anyone feels the need to be generous at PAX, remember everyone's favorite PAX charity, the Cookie Brigade.

Malgaras

My coin showed up! It looks great. Thanks!

(click for full size)

Oldmangloom315

Kiashien wrote: »

Okay, now that all orders are closed, and last call has gone out, and all of that..

I have three coins available for direct proceed to Child's Play. I may end up with more- a few are being reserved to handle any.. issues.. that come up.

As I noted before, the price is inflated- $10 or more donation required. (I can donate that much myself if they aren't wanted.)

All donations will go through the cookie brigade. Donations of more are welcome, of course. I may throw in a vial of Black Blood of the Earth too... I haven't decided. BBoTE is cold-vacuum brewed coffee, and one vial is between 8 and 16 cups of coffee- and is roughly 50ml. (By haven't decided, I mean, I'm not sure it'll arrive in time )

If it comes in on time, Volunteers- if you'd like one (vial), I'll have one for you

I'll donate the hell out of my monies for one of these.

Onmitsu

My coins arrived today, took some pictures to share with you guys! No adventurers loot is complete without these, and they're accepted currency throughout Hyrule!



And another for detail

King of Mars

Linked because the pic is from my phone and 1920x2560 is too big for the forum. The pic doesn't even do it justice, though. These are amazing. And they almost lay flat on both sides! lol Thanks again, karmacappa! You = AWESOME.

karmacappa

Onmitsu wrote: »

My coins arrived today, took some pictures to share with you guys! No adventurers loot is complete without these, and they're accepted currency throughout Hyrule!

Do these coins come out of the grass if you slice it with your sword? I was under the impression this was how most Hyrule currency worked, stored in grass, bushes, and pots.

Onmitsu

karmacappa wrote: »

Onmitsu wrote: »

My coins arrived today, took some pictures to share with you guys! No adventurers loot is complete without these, and they're accepted currency throughout Hyrule!

Do these coins come out of the grass if you slice it with your sword? I was under the impression this was how most Hyrule currency worked, stored in grass, bushes, and pots.

How'd you know how I found them? I thought I was so lucky, too.

Rachelkitten

Oldmangloom315 wrote: »

Kiashien wrote: »

Okay, now that all orders are closed, and last call has gone out, and all of that..

I have three coins available for direct proceed to Child's Play. I may end up with more- a few are being reserved to handle any.. issues.. that come up.

As I noted before, the price is inflated- $10 or more donation required. (I can donate that much myself if they aren't wanted.)

All donations will go through the cookie brigade. Donations of more are welcome, of course. I may throw in a vial of Black Blood of the Earth too... I haven't decided. BBoTE is cold-vacuum brewed coffee, and one vial is between 8 and 16 cups of coffee- and is roughly 50ml. (By haven't decided, I mean, I'm not sure it'll arrive in time )

If it comes in on time, Volunteers- if you'd like one (vial), I'll have one for you

I'll donate the hell out of my monies for one of these.

Me too!!!

Oldmangloom315

Rachelkitten wrote: »

Oldmangloom315 wrote: »

Kiashien wrote: »

Okay, now that all orders are closed, and last call has gone out, and all of that..

I have three coins available for direct proceed to Child's Play. I may end up with more- a few are being reserved to handle any.. issues.. that come up.

As I noted before, the price is inflated- $10 or more donation required. (I can donate that much myself if they aren't wanted.)

All donations will go through the cookie brigade. Donations of more are welcome, of course. I may throw in a vial of Black Blood of the Earth too... I haven't decided. BBoTE is cold-vacuum brewed coffee, and one vial is between 8 and 16 cups of coffee- and is roughly 50ml. (By haven't decided, I mean, I'm not sure it'll arrive in time )

If it comes in on time, Volunteers- if you'd like one (vial), I'll have one for you

I'll donate the hell out of my monies for one of these.

Me too!!!

shutupandtakeourmoney.jpg

Kiashien

Oldmangloom315 wrote: »

Rachelkitten wrote: »

Oldmangloom315 wrote: »

Kiashien wrote: »

Okay, now that all orders are closed, and last call has gone out, and all of that..

I have threeTwo coins available for direct proceed to Child's Play. I may end up with more- a few are being reserved to handle any.. issues.. that come up.

As I noted before, the price is inflated- $10 or more donation required. (I can donate that much myself if they aren't wanted.)

All donations will go through the cookie brigade. Donations of more are welcome, of course. I may throw in a vial of Black Blood of the Earth too... I haven't decided. BBoTE is cold-vacuum brewed coffee, and one vial is between 8 and 16 cups of coffee- and is roughly 50ml. (By haven't decided, I mean, I'm not sure it'll arrive in time )

If it comes in on time, Volunteers- if you'd like one (vial), I'll have one for you

I'll donate the hell out of my monies for one of these.

Me too!!!

shutupandtakeourmoney.jpg

Heh. They'll be available at East

Unfortunately there's only two available at this time unless I get more donated from people who bought extra due to a shipping accident.

karmacappa

Oldmangloom, Rachelkitten, please e-mail me (details should be in a post somewhere at the beginning of the thread). I make no promises, but I will try to scrounge more Will Call coins for you.

TopherRocks

Got mine in today! One has a small scratch on the sail but it actually looks like it's supposed to be there so I dig it! Thanks again to everyone involved. Your efforts are all fantastic!