Please see the order thread for the latest.
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The moogle train is rounding the bend and approaching the station folks. I hadn't planned on doing an interest check since there is obviously enough interest to support a buy. But there has been enough back and forth in the
RGBY and
R2 moogle threads that I want to see what options everyone desires and how realistic those options are.
First off, there will definitely be black, white, and Dolch sets available. Quarzac is also planning to do a sister group buy for WYSE moogles more or less simultaneously.
So the big question that we need to discuss is what variations will be available. Obviously we will include at least the "standard" moogle kit: 1.25x Ctrl/Alt/Win/Menu, left and right ANSI shifts, caps lock, and space bar.
A) The most obvious add-on is an ISO left shift. This will almost certainly happen.
B) The second most obvious variation is 1.5x modifiers, though I'm not clear on why this would benefit anyone.
C) Some have been pushing for a full modifier set that includes tab, backspace, and enter as well, in order to maintain a consistent look.
D) Others have asked for an ISO adapter kit that would allow doubleshot sets harvested from ISO keyboards to be used on ANSI keyboards. This would include enter, backslash, and maybe quote and/or others ... I'm not sure, someone familiar with ISO layouts help me out.
E) At least one person wants off-center, non-stepped caps locks
F) Other ideas?
So let's discuss. What do you want to see offered and why, and how many would you buy assuming reasonable prices?
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Below are pricing breakdowns from Melissa for the ideas that have been kicking around in the thread.
Bear in mind that these are
just the raw production costs. The final pricing will have other fixed costs factored in (legend fees, shipping from SP, supplies, etc.). I'm posting these breakdowns as a sanity check against sets that are not likely to succeed, and to give a feel for what kind of cost decreases we are likely to get as we gather orders.
Also bear in mind that I'm not sure yet what will be offered in the final buy. My current feelings are that the base kit will happen as it is shown below. Stepped caps lock, blank mods, ISO left shift, and extra space bars will likely be for sale individually rather than as kits. 1.5x Caps Lock will probably be dropped from the Anti-Caps kit as there doesn't seem to be much demand for it. The ISO Adapter and Full Modifier kits are dependent on new SVGs. If those don't pan out, they won't happen.
qty|
Base Kit - 2 Ctrl, 2 Alt, 2 Win, left Shift (ANSI), right Shift, Menu, Caps Lock, Universal space bar
|-
|25
|$25.62
|-
|50
|$17.47
|-
|75
|$14.75
|-
|100
|$13.39
|-
|150
|$12.03
|-
|200
|$11.35[/table]
qty|
Base Kit++ - Base Kit, 2 blank modifiers, stepped Caps Lock
|Delta from regular Base Kit
|-
|25
|$33.77
| +$8.15
|-
|50
|$23
| +$5.53
|-
|75
|$19.30
| +$4.55
|-
|100
|$17.28
| +$3.89
|-
|150
|$15.43
| +$3.40
|-
|200
|$14.47
| +$3.12[/table]
Anti-Caps - 1.75x Ctrl, 1.25x Caps Lock, 1.5x Caps Lock
|
ISO Adapter - Enter, Backslash/Pipe
|-
|25
|$14.59
|$9.58
|-
|50
|$8.71
|$5.66
|-
|75
|$6.75
|$4.36
|-
|100
|$5.77
|$3.70
|-
|150
|$4.78
|$3.04
|-
|200
|$4.30
|$2.72[/table]
qty|
Full Modifier Adapter Kit - Tab, Enter, Backspace
|-
|25
|$14.85
|-
|50
|$8.97
|-
|75
|$7.01
|-
|100
|$6.03
|-
|150
|$5.04
|-
|200
|$4.56[/table]
qty|
ISO left Shift|
Blank modifier|
Universal space bar|-
|25
|$1.31
|$2.43
|$3.65
|-
|50
|$1.03
|$1.45
|$2.56
|-
|75
|$0.94
|$1.12
|$2.20
|-
|100
|$0.89
|$0.96
|$2.02
|-
|150
|$0.89
|$0.79
|$1.84
|-
|200
|$0.82
|$0.71
|$1.75[/table]
