Manoah2u wrote:so let me get this right.
you want to invest € 100,000,000 in something is essentially something kids play with, scaled up,
have 33 days left, and have raised just € 9,00 euros.
You want digital control through internet on remote controlled rc cars [that run petrol] and 'race',
to gain a FAKE driving experience whilst controlling real fake f1 cars.
you expect there are going to be 'championships' about this or actual races [with prize money?],
suggesting you need a lot of transport costs to bring these 'simulators' from track to track.
which suggests you need 'teams' and sponsors and entry's with fees to make it a actual competition.
all along there are already simulators doing the same, with the same effect, without rc cars, but the exact
same effect. game competitions, from finalfantasy, dead or alive, to racing games.
in the meanwhile, this entire system is fake and you can invest quite simply by going REAL racing in a carting
competition, raceday on a track, or actually start your own driving career.
whilst there are lots of rc-races around already, so it's nothing new.
if you want any 'business success', i suggest you develop technology to implement a live screen into a rc controller,
and make it connect flawlessly to the rc device. anything else is uninteresting for the market.
to be honest, if i look at the vid and your claims and your 'generated' 'investment', with promises that everything will
be 'given back', it sounds more like a nigerian fraud mail with a western face on it, essentialy, it seems like a total con.
it would seem a little more trustworthy if you actually took the effort of doing a good video, instead of a household webcam recording mixed with some internet vids whereof i'm suspicious you hold no rights to thus copyrighting the material.
If you want to get 100 million investment, atleast invest some of your own and start buying a proper business suit, proper video background instead of some fence or rental appartment, and shoot some HD RC vids and cockpit simulator material,
and show why this investment would top out any game investment right now, keeping in mind next-gen consoles are just around the corner, with interactivity in mind.
i claim this is BS, and am highly suspicious, but let's show some actual effort put into the project outside of web browsing and copy-pasting and then provide some material that makes it in any way plausible it is commercially interesting.
I am afraid you got it all wrong.
To start with,
We do NOT want to invest 100,000,000 euros.
It will NOT be a toy.
We DO have raised 9 euros, but the project was never meant to succeed.
The 100,000,000 claim is an obscene figure we came up just adding a zero following the biggest amount ever reported been raised in crowd founding.
100,000,000 in our case equals to a zillion.
The reason of this first contact with its potential customers / supporter / founders, was to get them acquainted with the concept.
Coming from nowhere expecting 100,000,000 individuals to vote for you is insane.
But hearing a project asking 100,000,000 euros, not sure of this a joke or for real, one would definitely go and see at least what this is all about.
So the figure was the joke for the people to visit the page and watch the project.
From what you are saying I cannot tell which part of the concept is not clear to you, so I will reply on point by point.
The race car models:
Will be scaled down race cars running on benzene, that will be radio controlled from a cockpit simulator inside an on the spot control room. The user will drive the car using the visuals of an onboard camera broadcasting live footage that gets projected on a screen inside the control room positioned in frond of the cockpit. The system will employ TV broadcasting technology.
Along with audio/visual input, we will have data on the models road behaviour that we will replicate in the control room.
Experience:
I cannot but agree that anything other than the real thing is a fake. That is unless you are behind the actual steering wheel inside the actual race car, there is no way you can feel the rush of a race, or to rephrase it, the rush you get from inside an actual race car cannot be 100 percent simulated.
Never been a race car driver, but I think this is the reality.
Some points though.
Can you drive an F1 race car to its true limits?
Will you not be intimidated by fear of crash or that of personal injury?
Also,
Can you afford to have or to rent a real F1 race car?
Can you afford racing you real F1 race car?
Do you have people to race against with their F1 cars?
How “real” a cockpit simulator can get?
According to all F1 teams, them having their drivers practising in cockpit simulators as part of their regular preparation for a race, pretty much so.
Summing all above together would you prefer racing
We offer FAKE experience on non virtual race car models
In real races that will make them winners. And the joy of winning is always real.
Championships may be organized from the participants or between ARROWS racing clubs members. As with the prizes, this is something to be done in the manner the RC and kart races do it.
No transportation of equipment to take place. Each race track will be self sustainable.
Separate ARROWS race clubs may exist all over the world.
Simulations doing the same:
Check http://www.i-way.fr and you will understand the level of simulation we are considering.
Thereafter I cannot understand what you mean by:
“if you want any 'business success', I suggest you develop technology to implement a live screen into a RC controller, and make it connect flawlessly to the RC device. Anything else is uninteresting for the market.”
As with regards to your final two paragraphs, the contents of which we of course fully reject as to the suggestions made, I just want to clarify for the benefit of other reading us, that I am not asking you to finance us; I am asking you to consider our concept and evaluate it.
This project has nothing to do with money, its’ sole purpose is to register interest, to create a basic pool of followers and supporters for our campaigns to follow.
But most importantly to create trust with the people that choose to follow us.
That is why the target amount is so ridiculously high, so that anyone would understand that this is an impossible task to accomplish.
This coupled with the fact that the amount required voting is just 1 Euro, but most importantly that is why the campaign was made on Indiegogo an independent third party, evidences our true intentions.
The video is a funny way to visualize the concept of the project.
Indeed we never asked for permission to use either the footage or the music, but we have declared that, as we had to, in You Tube where the video was and still is posted.
We have never been reprimanded for doing so, while neither we ever tried to hide our sources.
As to my Western face the reason I put it in (apart of my good looks) was that you can have me talking to you in first person and check me out.
PS. I can appreciate you being cautious in the net, but at least make sure you got the facts right. It appears that you have neither read the written section of the campaign, nor you noticed that the campaign is fixed, i.e. that the amounts pledged will only get cashed out if the campaign matures that is if 100,000,000 euros are raised, an obvious impossibility.
