So in going through the entire thread, I see what you mean. That is what happen when you have multiple posters linking pics. The original post if I am the one that made it will always be updated with the latest links and pics so that people do not have to look through the entire thread especially if there are many pages of posts. And of course i cannot update other people posts obviously so hope this clarifies it. The first post is the latest info
I find it preferable when people actually download the images and upload them to the site. When I was moving posts from the PCP to CFV, I can't tell you how many dead image links there were, but it was not a small number - meaning that data is now lost to the four corners of the interwebs, when it could easily have been saved here.
And the eggnog I drink has no alcohol in it. I take meds that prohibit alcohol use, as the combination could be lethal. :-P
Can't figure out why people are not interested in the deck. Is it the slightly oversized pips and undersized indexes? Is it because the indexes are to close together? Is it the large boarder on the courts cards? Is it because the court cards lost it's suit and now are hard to distinguish at a distance. Is it the grayish spades and clubs color? Is it the oversized design of the Aces? Is it the Uk dollars putting off American backers. Is it because they don't have a video nor have they connected to Facebook and have twitter listed as their website. Is it because the lack of updates and not engaging backers. Are they promoting their deck? I like the back of card and the box.
I think it's just that it's not USPCC and that the design is, quite frankly, kinda meh. It looks like something you'd find at a yard sale, which isn't to say it's not a nice design, it's just nothing special.
There have not been many UK decks that succeeded on KS yet, with Lee McKenzie's Empire deck being the major exception. Americans who will happily pay with Amazon Payments are less thrilled about handing over a credit card number directly. Some couldn't be bothered to convert the currency - they see that pound symbol and their eyes glaze over. Lack of a video or a Facebook page can't possibly be helping matters, either. Toss into that mix that it's not a USPC deck, and at that point the design barely matters - they've lost most of the playing card collecting community.
I actually like the appearance of the spot cards - it's those courts that look so blah to me. Filling in all that white space with the shrubbery of the same color scheme visually sucks the life out of the images. He should have gone big, as he did with the spot cards - tear out those frames, blow up those courts and restore the white space, then make the greenery patterns in the cloth the courts are wearing. It would have been far more imaginative.
The backs are a bit bland, but no more so than a pack of Bee Stingers or Diamond Backs. You can almost see the lines where he created a quarter of the design and kept flipping it from corner to corner to create the symmetry - but that does mean that yes, it's symmetrical, and I can forgive the blandness because it would look nice enough in spreads and be well-suited to gambling demonstrations. If he spiced up the design with more color and less dinginess in the background, now that would have been a more captivating card back. Dingy backs are so overused now, they're becoming boring, and there are more colors by far in nature than are depicted in this nature design. This would make a fine, inoffensive Congress back, as it is now.
