Help me choose my Limit Set (2 Viewers)

[DrunkleWade]

I need some help to decide on which set I want to have made. I feel that I need a Fixed Limit Set in my collection so I've been working on a couple of Tina designs. I figure I need a $1/$20/$100 denom set with a 900/80/20 breakdown. Feel free to correct me on this.

If you've seen my other custom sets (ie. Drunkle Wades v Nevada Jacks or Lake Kawana Club v Dunes Hotel) you'll have noticed I like to take an existing chip design and just add my spin on it rather than reinvent the wheel. So, I've done it again this time and have two options that I'm tossing up between.

The first is a Golden Nugget X Casino Royale crossover. CR's have been done many times by other members here especially on CPC sets and of course there are the Cartamundi ones used in the 2006 Bond movie (and their many knockoffs).

What I like about the GN inlay is that it has some elements that easily transfer across like the flourishes around the name for instance. I've not copied those verbatim from either the GN or the movie logos but rather finding something a little more "Royal" looking. I also think the gold place name area lends itself nicely to allow me to use the fictional Royale-Les-Eaux from the novel.

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The second one is an Aria X Stardust crossover. This was something that I was just messing around with on the Chipmatic Studio but I figured I'd flesh it out with a proper inlay. I like the Aria chip colours but I'm not fussed on the inlay design and, on the flipside, I like the Stardust inlay but the chips are so-so (imo). Hence I came up with "Staria", a Stardust inlay on an Aria chip.

Getting the inlay colour matched to the chip will be the tricky here so I might have to live with it. Star and planets colour matched to the edge spots. Also, rather than Las Vegas, Nev as the location I am using Lyra Vega, Gal. Vega being a star in the Lyra constellation in the Galaxy...clever aren't I.

Go vote!

 

[btbmason]

I personally like Staria better and it gets my vote, however I’ll go on record saying that I don’t like the font below the denom.

 

[DrunkleWade]

I personally like Staria better and it gets my vote, however I’ll go on record saying that I don’t like the font below the denom.

Good call, I used good ol' Comic Sans. I'll find something a bit better.

 

[sethwanab]

This is what I did. I like your choices.

 

[GamingWithChips]

Staria for sure, love that idea and the chips. I would just make the triangles bigger on the $1 as it's hard to see the colours IMO. Right now it just looks like a blue chip (but maybe that's your intention). Also, customize those edges a tad

 

[QuietMaple]

Love the Staria. Agreed on all accounts: Stardust has great inlays, Aria has great chip bodies, so mashing those up was a wonderful choice!

I would try making some mockups where the inlay is a bit darker than the chip bodies (as you are aware, they aren't going to match perfectly due to the difference in the printing process for chips vs inlay stickers). With the darker inlay, you'll hopefully get a sense for if the color mismatch will bother you or not.

 

[TheOffalo]

I really like both! Surprisingly, given how much I love Stardust, I'm leaning toward the first mashup vs. the latter. I think the artwork for the GN X CR labels work super well together!

 

[DrunkleWade]

Replacement fonts for Comic Sans. I think I already know but 1 or 2?

 

[GamingWithChips]

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[warma]

Side note: For a limit set, you don’t need three values only two- a betting chip and a value chip, and they don’t need a value on them either. The value chip is usually equal to 20 betting chips and serves only as a store of value. There are lots of limit threads here that cover how many chips you need, with most usually shouting MOAR CHIPS. I would suggest in a 2 chip/4 chip game, the buy-in is one rack per player. How many racks and value chips you buy depends on how many people you have at the table and how aggressively they play (and lose).

My 310 Club limit set is 800 betting chips (+ 20 extras) with 60 value chips. I usually host 6-7 max and more often than not have all 8 racks on the table and one or two buy-ins in value chips. If I were ordering again, I would order 1,000 betting chips to reduce the value chips, but the value chips work and I suspect I’ll play with 800 as long as I play poker.

 

[DrunkleWade]

Staria’s have their nose in front. I know the hundo isn’t necessary but I kinda like the idea of having a single barrel.

Larger/longer spots on the 1 & 20, shade darker on the inlays to get feel for the colour mismatch and the comic sans replaced. I’m digging it.

 

[FordPickup92]

I think I'd get rid of the bottom font entirely, personally

 

[QuietMaple]

The larger/longer spots look excellent!

 

[DrunkleWade]

What about if I replace the location with a rocketship instead?

 

[Jers28]

What about if I replace the location with a rocketship instead?

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Better!

 

[FordPickup92]

Keep in mind size appropriation once it's shrunk to label size... you may want to discern the rocket ship from the exhaust "tail"
All the same color and very small may make it difficult to discern what it is at first glance

 

[DrunkleWade]

I've had at least one request to do a few more denominations for the STARIA's so here's the majority of the lineup. Feel free to correct the colours if you know them; I did them by eye.

$1 - Horizon Blue with Yellow / Moss / Metallic Silver
$5 - Red with Peach / Lavender
$10 - Blaze Orange with Black / Colon Orange
$20 - Arc Yellow with Sky Blue / Royal Blue / Red
$25 - Dark Green with Cherry / Arc Yellow
$100 - Black with Daisy / Sherbert Green
$500 - Lilac with Royal Red / Sunrise / Blaze Orange
$1000 - Canary Yellow with Black / Blood Red

 

[DrunkleWade]

Slight colour change on the $10. Instead of Colon Orange I think it should be Tan.

 

[QuietMaple]

Just want to say I think these all came out AMAZING. Great work!

 

[DrunkleWade]

Just want to say I think these all came out AMAZING. Great work!

Thanks man and thanks for the amazing tool. It's my new favourite toy!

 

[grahamplayscards]

Thanks man and thanks for the amazing tool. It's my new favourite toy!

Also wanted to say the “Staria” name is genius. Awesome design with the rocket. Might be one of my favorite chip designs I’ve seen here.

 

[grandmeme]

In for:
$1 x 100
$5 x 100
$10 x 460
$100 x 300
$1000 x 40

Or if Tina is still doing barrels of 25 I'll do 50 and 50

Thanks, Wade!

 

[DrunkleWade]

Now, I know colour matching the inlay to the chip is notoriously difficult if not impossible. As an alternate and to negate the off colouring, I'm thinking something more Aria-like with the dark grey inlay may be an option. The planet gets a colour change to the primary chip colour with a spot coloured ring.

Thoughts?

 

[chippitydoodah]

Blue rocket on the 20

 

[GamingWithChips]

I like that, and it's a much more predictable in what you get. Plus I think the dark grey might turn into almost black? So they should just look like black inlays which would look fitting anyway.

 

[QuietMaple]

My vote is to stick with a colored background. First off, I actually don't think it looks bad on this design if the inlay sticker background comes out dark. But, to mitigate that, you could go do something intentionally much lighter or much darker. I played around with a few options: https://chipmaticstudio.com/share/iVRWrD8KEQbjhHurteKK6

My favorite is probably the very light / low saturation option (third in this lineup). I think it makes the starburst pattern "pop" in a way that's visually appealing.

 

[DrunkleWade]

Yep, that was also something I was thinking. Lighten it up a couple of shades to mitigate the darker printing.

 

[chippitydoodah]

Go black

 

[QuietMaple]

Another idea: All black background, but give the starburst shape a stroke in the color of the chip? Since it won't be touching to the chip body, the color difference will probably not be very noticeable.

 

[DrunkleWade]

Another idea: All black background, but give the starburst shape a stroke in the color of the chip? Since it won't be touching to the chip body, the color difference will probably not be very noticeable.

Ok, that sounds interesting. Stay tuned.