So it appears there will be extra badges sold by themselves, and not as a part of the weight/badge bundle?
We are only selling weight & badges as a bundle right now during the GB. We will be ordering a lot of extra badges only to stock in our S+R store incase any R1 or R2 owners are looking for just a badge.
Will the graphite color be exactly the same as the first iron165 round? From the renders it looks a bit different and more... grainy (love it!)? Looking forward to this! Must for me!
We will try to get it as close to possible as R1, but slight differences in ano baths is to be expected. Surface finish should be the same as the first round and iron180, just the renders are a little grainy.
I was dead set on Red one since I saw the first few pics on discord. But the Midnight Teal kinda growing on me as the GB's date getting closer.
Also would like to know if POM plate could be added to GB?
We will not be selling any plastic plates during the GB, however the iron165 plate file is available on our github if you wish to get one cut. There are plenty of inexpensive POM cutters
will there be a round 3? because if there won't be one im joining right now
Not for a while (1 year+) as we want to work on other designs and layouts. After this round we will have more than 2000 iron165s in circulation which we are happy with for now.
What is everyone's experience with the fcfs/raffle system? I understand the its purpose is to prevent scalping, but I also feel like it's preventing genuine buyers from being able to buy the board that they want. Any thoughts?
Personally I think it's a good system. Nothing is perfect; Pure raffle (having multiple entries) and pure FCFS (having bots and favoring lower ping), so a hybrid of the two, where you are raffled into a checkout and then becoming FCFS to check out as fast as possible I think is a wonderful combination of both. It neither favors bots (limiting their chances of entry) nor raffle with multiple entries.