Hello to all my DogFight friends,

As many of you know I recently tried to pledge $50,000 to ELITE.
Kickstarter has a $10,000 limit (for each account).
I called my finance guru and advised him what I was trying to do. Within 20 minutes I was told that there was to be an emergency board meeting. Meeting was held and virtually all my money is put on hold. Because of my health concerns over the past year my lawyer has power of attorney. Now, they think I've lost my mind.
He put the hold on my funds as directed by the board.
These folks are friends of mine and I never considered they would question my sanity.

The way it stands now is that I have to be evaluated by 3 shrinks to prove differently.
I'm nuts, but not that way. I have appointments all next week to get this resolved.
I can't fault them. That's why this was all set up. In case my health got so bad that I need them to manage things. There are many levels and pies that I have my fingers in.

Video games to them are "games". They are now reading the forum to see where I'm coming from.
Our state recently loaned $78 million to former Boston Redsox pitcher Curt Schilling to set up a company to produce games and open the business here. He blew it big time. This is making my team gun shy.

As it stands now the pledge is on hold. Everyone knows the deadline is coming quickly and have promised to expedite everything.
I apologize to all of you for this delay. I will fight for DogFight Elite and you, because YOU are the ELITE of the gaming world.

I will keep you updated as often as possible.

Again I'm sorry for the delay.

Sincerely,
Paul

whether you pledge or not, You allready have everyone's respect here....
I can just imagine what went through you mind when you were told "HOLD ON THERE"....
and no matter how it turn's out..... Thanks....

The Dents

dentinhead wrote: whether you pledge or not, You allready have everyone's respect here....
I can just imagine what went through you mind when you were told "HOLD ON THERE"....
and no matter how it turn's out..... Thanks....

The Dents

You said it Dent.

Truly a case of, "It's the thought that counts." No worries, Paul, whatever happens. Like my wife says about me, "its OK to be nuts in a good way"" Thanks for bein' Paul.

You have my respect uncle paul.

Uncle Paul, i try to pm you but it won't let me.

Paul, you're good to go in my book as well, that means I respect you in my language.

Paul, are you crazy, no pun intended. Your heart and mind are in the right place, no apologies necessary. They will see from the forum and from your posts that it is sound! Your contribution in forum and your love for the game is all over this forum. No worries my friend!

Paul, my magic friend, everyone has said it so far. You my friend are still 'The Magic Man' whatever way it comes down, top man top gun.

Paul you are one awesome guy keep it up your one of the most liked on the forum

I've said it before and I will say it again you are AWESOME Paul! I hope it all works out...

Tex, Devil and Wig: with this kind of move, Paul is taking your place in my "favorite list"...


Just kidding. The list is huge, guys!

Paul if you're nuts than I'm in big trouble ,and I think so are half the people on this forum. Thanks for all u do here,much respect |111th| Maranatha .

Hi Paul, would like to adopt me. $50,000 and i would be most loyal son you ever had, plus we can share PYSCHS. UMMMM MAY WORK HUH.

Just think, Paul almost left us

Paul, it was reading one of your posts that drew my attention to forum life in the first place and you were the first one to drop me a thank you. I would like to say Thank You, to you Paul Mantz Jr, today. Its something I wanted to do a month ago but didn't. The most important thing, is what we are today. I hope your 'friends' regain their focus and join you in the crazy act of giving! P.s. Incase you are carted away in a straight jacket, would you mind just quickly posting all your magic secrets.

You're awesome, my friend! Thanks for all you do here!

Paul my friend.
I don't know what to say that hasn't already been said.
You are one of my best if not THE best friend here on the forum.
You are a big source of inspiration.
You are why I decided to walk that extra mile in the other little project I have.(I got a first answer. I'll send it to your mail)
And I can't agree more with Mara.
If you are nuts then they better send the men in white with the hugyourselfjackets for the rest of us.

You have a way to bring a smile to my face almost every day.
But it isn't just fun and laughter.
You care about people, and you have shown that in many ways, and I guess that Mrs Swain wouldn't disagree of that.

Whether they let you donate or not, you have showed this community your love.
Hats of for you Paul.

Do you think I can name the girl Paul?

Paula, Paulette, Pauline, or Paulina. Maybe on of those names? Lol good luck, I want to name our new daughter Matilda Josephine(Mattie Jo) but the wife wouldn't have it.

This is a difficult letter to write.

I have spent much of the weekend in meetings concerning my pledge.

The "gang" likes the game and thoroughly enjoyed reading much of the forum and they understand better where I am coming from.

A major concern is the "glitches" that continue to plague this version.
"Why help begin something new when the original is still broken?"
"Why wasn't at least month of "ice-breaking" done before setting up a 30-day deadline "sale"?

The know me and know that I don't "Trumpanize" my projects.
Meaning, I don't want/need my name on stuff.

Then, this appears in the NY TIMES....
nyti.ms/11To0VG
This helps to explain some of their feelings.

To immediately release most of my funds earmarked for other projects that are dear to my heart, I have agreed to rescind my pledge at this time.

Projects such as Spina Bifida, special kids, homeless VETS, elderly assistance, etc. Need their money as soon as they can get it. Every day on hold is another day of unneeded delay for the truly needy. To delay this funding for a selfish reason isn't feeling right and I have delayed a week so far on several long established dates of support.

There are many legal items to be considered when doing these things. I have received PMs & e-mails offering ideas & solutions to several of these and they are much appreciated.

I am extremely sorry to have to gotten your hopes up without having first consulted my team. I never imagined they would take the stance they did.
My friend Judy knows what you folks mean to me and has offered her support during all of this, but agrees with this decision.

I hope you will understand and forgive me.

Sincerely,
Paul

I completely understand Paul... Sound's like you have some pretty good people watching out for you........ People will hopefully get more out of the post's between you and Joaquin than they would from the Pledge....
Thanks Paul.....

The Dent's still think your a Silly Older man..... Have a good day Paul....

Edit: Ok, I came back.... I really wanted to put Geezer but didn't want to offend Paul.... I couldn't help my self...........GEEZER

WE LOVE YA MAN.........

another Edit: I think I got his Thank You before I put in the Geezer edit....lol

I know you meant "old fart"!
If I can put a "Jack-A-Donkey" in a dress...YOU can call me anything you want.

I think you made a very excellent decision Paul. As we all have said whether you had pledged or not you're awesome! I think all the groups you mentioned need help much more than we need a new version of Dogfight...(Did I just say that??) But joking aside Paul good choice in my opinion and the world is a better place because you are in it!

oh well, if it can't be it can't be. not much to say.
the main reason i couldn't tell with days in advance is because i had signed contracts for licenses and stuff that i couldn't make public until the project was announced by kickstarter... and you never know how long kickstarter would take to publish the project (i've never done a kickstarter before) and they recommend a 30 days thing.

Now I see it should be 60 days, but kickstarter kept suggesting 30, and they are the experts on the field.

Anyway, hopefully it will hit some kind of miracle at this point, because we are only 12% there
Kickstarter tells me usually the last week it grows faster, but still, it needs to reaaallly grow faster now. I know it will be published on some big media this week, we'll see how's the impact. I keep writing to all media and museums I find for now.

So does this confirm your sanity!

Chocks Away wrote: So does this confirm your sanity!

That's still the scary part......it doesn't.

FLY LIKE AN EAGLE!


PLEDGE TO DOGFIGHT ELITE NOW.
TIME IS SLIPPING.......

Ooohhh Paul, you need to follow your heart, I know this was an extremely difficult decision for you to make and you need to feel good about that. I was going to post a whole long diatribe, but I will keep it short. Follow your heart, the rest will follow.

Me

Born screaming small into this world-
Living I am.
Occupational therapy twixt birth and death-
What was I before?
What will I be next?
What am I now?
Cruel answer carried in the jesting mind
of a careless God
I will not bend and grovel
When I die. If He says my sins are myriad
I will ask why He made me so imperfect
And he will say 'My chisels were blunt'
I will say 'Then why did you make so
many of me'.
Spike Milligan

I will be upping my pledge as so as the funds come available to me, I'm working on a couple of personal sponsors to help me at least meet my goal.

zuperman wrote: oh well, if it can't be it can't be. not much to say.
the main reason i couldn't tell with days in advance is because i had signed contracts for licenses and stuff that i couldn't make public until the project was announced by kickstarter... and you never know how long kickstarter would take to publish the project (i've never done a kickstarter before) and they recommend a 30 days thing.

Now I see it should be 60 days, but kickstarter kept suggesting 30, and they are the experts on the field.

Anyway, hopefully it will hit some kind of miracle at this point, because we are only 12% there
Kickstarter tells me usually the last week it grows faster, but still, it needs to reaaallly grow faster now. I know it will be published on some big media this week, we'll see how's the impact. I keep writing to all media and museums I find for now.

Can you do another Kickstarter or anything like if this one doesn't pull through?
If you can let us know what your plan's are.
I'll keep my Pledge the same for what ever you do.
Thank you for explaining why you couldn't get an early start. I was wondering as were other's...

Another thing. There are some reputable Hobby dealer's online, Tower Hobbies, Hobby-Lobby, and HorizonHobby to name a few. Would It be worth contacting them? I don't really know what your plan's are for the game.......

yeah you can contact all of them. I tried contacting them myself but I'm afraid it goes to their spam because I don't get replies.

for future plans... for now we are focusing on this kickstarter. If it doesn't work out, we will think about options but I don't want to think about that until this is over. For what i've been told, the last week usually grows much better since kickstarter place it on its main page, right now only people that has been told the link, are arriving to the project.