For a while now I've been looking at doing various challenge coins for the site. Over the past several months I've worked out several designs and reasons to have different coins made as well as ways to cover the costs of having them made. In the end I had to cut down on the type and number of coins in the initial offering. If these first coins are well received, I can look at producing the other coins we worked up (I'll show those later to give you an idea of what they were/are).
Lets start off with the Site Coin
The Site Coin will be available for purchase to any member of the site. These will be great to give out as prizes at conventions. Not only will they be a cool item for the person to keep, but they will help solidify the local games with our online community here. They can also be given out as recruitment coins for the game/site. They will also be great to see which one in your gaming group has to buy the round of drinks that night (hint: it's the chap that forgot to bring his or has not picked one up yet )
It should also be noted that this coin is not limited and the sales from it will go to help cover the cost of these initial and having future coins made up.
Next up we have the Wings of Glory Aerodrome Invitational Kill Coin
These coins will be given out during the Aerodrome Invitational Tournament (held at Origins every year) for each plane that a player shoots down. They can not be bought. When you manage to shoot down 5 planes, you will receive an Ace Kill coin (not yet designed). It does not matter if it takes you 3 or more years to get 5 kills, when you become an ACE, you will get the ACE coin.
I am hopeful that some of the other Wings will adapt this tourney for their major con and can hand out these coins as well.
Many of you will also recall that supporting the site at the Gold Membership level entitles you to a special Gold Membership Coin.
The only way to get this coin is to become a Gold member. Each Gold member will receive one gold coin in a life time. As you can see, while not a limited edition coin, these coins are going to be pretty rare.
Finally, I've got one more coin that is being printed up, but you will have to wait a little while longer for the details on that one. I will say that it is going to be a super cool coin most of you are going to want... and it will be a limited edition coin of only 50 made (ever.).
In the next post I'll go over the coins we hope to produce in the near future.
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