For those of you who have been curious about how the "multi-sculpt" feature is going to work in our group buy - after gathering lots of feedback everywhere, recently I've been inclined to run the group buy with all of the child kits oriented to the 1-1-2-3-4-3 profile, which is the vanilla profile and everyone is already used to. What I mean is that 40s, 60s, TKLs and 100s users will have the option to place a modular order with their fundamental kits divided extremely similar like Pulse R2/Chocolatier.
But for the picky enthusiasts who really want to experience the unique flat setup I presented in OP, I'm going to add a "Terminal Kit" featuring flat alphas combined with interesting novelties, which is meant to be used on 40s (
given that you also order the 40s mods), 60s (standalone) and TKLs (standalone). By "standalone" I mean "GMK style", you'll be good with this kit on it's own.
Ergodox, 100s, Tsangan and International users are not covered with this kit, unless they want to ghetto and use 1-1-2-3-4-3 modifiers or 1-1-2-3-4-3 numpad or whatever other crazy combination you come up with.
In case you're wondering why I'm not making everything modular the answer is that because it's simply not viable. I could definitely offer FLAT ALPHAS, FLAT MODS, FLAT NOVELTIES, SCULPTED ALPHAS, SCULPTED MODS, SCULPTED NOVELTIES, etc. but can you imagine what a logistic nightmare it would be? Not many people would be funding these kits together, therefore they would be expensive for asbolutely everyone. We would be essentially having two different keycap sets being offered at the same time, both with terrible pricing. People would get confused when ordering (broken/non-intuitive kits) and the sorting guys would easily get overwhelmed and make mistakes. My initial idea was to make a
223333 Adapter Kit, (to transform a 112343 into it's flat counterpart) but then you'd end up with a lot of wasted keycaps, regardless of your layout (ANSI, Tsangan, whatever).
So I came up with the Terminal Kit:
And I have a couple questions for those who would use it:
- Would you like to see it trimmed down to 60% only?
- Or maybe expanded to 100%? (by adding a flat Numpad with it)
- Do you like the bottom row modifiers or would you prefer text only?
- Do you like the red cluster or would you prefer full blue/yellow/beige?
It's impossible to please everyone but given the interest for flat and your passion for sculpted I'm trying to make this work as best as I can. So let me know what you think!
RANDOM PRACTICAL EXAMPLE:Let's say you have a Planck, a Novatouch, you love SA and you'd like to try the flat setup. I'd recommend you to order
Alphas +
40s Mods (to complete your Planck) and either a
Terminal Kit or another pack of
Alphas +
Base Mods to properly cover your Novatouch.
ANOTHER EXAMPLE:You have a 40% and want to experience the flat setup then you'd need the
Terminal Kit +
40s Mods. Does that make sense?
TL;DR: Basically, at the end of the day, when it's all said and done, the set will be 1-1-2-3-4-3 but an unique kit for 40s/60s/TKLs with novelties will be provided on 2-2-3-3-3-3 (and it's called Terminal Kit). What do you think about said kit?