Hey Oblotzky,
I missed previous rounds of this beautiful keyset, I will definitely not miss this one!
Now as for the mod pipe hot topic ...
I do understand the cost reasoning behind it, not adding it in the base kit.
I personally only use mod pipe on my boards, the alpha version has never been of any use for me as it breaks color symmetry.
It is my preference and may not be what the vast majority of people do (and that I'd like to know from you people).
So one solution could be to remove the alpha colored pipe from the base kit and replace it by the mod colored pipe.
Please tell me if my proposal is stupid and why (so that I could learn in the process).
Greatings
I only saw GMK Oblivion v3.1 was a thing when I got the Discord notification from my local vendor so am only inputting now, but considering the number of people in the thread up until now that had been clamoring for mod colour tilde/pipe keycaps, how feasible would it have been to swap the base kit alpha colour tilde/pipe keycaps with the extension kit mod colour tilde/pipe keycaps?
That is not going to happen.
Understood, once the GB went live, things were set in stone. How about considering it for V4 though? I am curious whether there would be less vocal dissent then when announced compared to this V3.1 run. Or, present them as two options, like:
- Alpha coloured tilde/pipe
- Mod coloured tilde/pipe
Is there poll functionality available to determine preference in this way?
Ultimately, I did find it a shame that both alpha and mod coloured tilde/pipe keycaps couldn't be included in the base set but maybe V4 can include them both again?
In addition, personally I would really love to see text arrow keys (so "Left", "Right", etc) - I know the SA set has it but SA is just not the profile for me. Would you also consider adding those to a mod kit or have them as a novelty kit?
If there's no issue with kitting numbers with other manufacturers like ePBT (as I noticed SP SA sets offer many small kits e.g. separate alphas and mods for maximum customisation and compatibility in that way), perhaps many different types of alphas and mods can be offered in a future GB round? (Also would love to see PBT Oblivion if the colour wouldn't be compromised too much with PBT.)
e.g.
Alphas:
- Regular Latin alphas
- ASCII alphas
- Cadet alphas
- Regular Latin alphas (Hagoromo)
- ASCII alphas (Hagoromo)
- Cadet alphas (Hagoromo)
Mods: (these would all come with regular arrow keys)
- Regular text mods
- Git mods
- Monochrome mods
Novelties:
- Text arrow keys
- VIM
- Alternate function colours
Numpad kit
40s kit
International kit
Colevrak kit
Macros kit
Spacebar kit
Just because in the current V3.1 I wanted both regular mods and git mods and was thinking I'd have to buy an extra base set only to end up with duplicate alphas, but luckily the logistics of the V3 run overall means I can get a Hagoromo set in V3.2 and have different alphas as well! So things work out there, thankfully.
Highly looking forward to cadet alphas possibly being in V4 though!