Fantasy Couriers Live???

Here at Fantasy HQ we have had a very intense weekend working away in the background to make Fantasy Couriers the next craze on the World Wide Web.

We have finally set the stage for our BETA testers and have had a massive and overwhelming response rate from places as far afield as Australia and even America. It has been a great weekend and we are seeing FC really take off.

As a business we have now set a date for launch of the 1st September 2008 (subject to everything going seamlessly) We anticipate 3000 users in the first 9 weeks and have set up our marketing strategy for the year to achieve 30,000 users (yes you read that right 30,000).

We now also have a presence on at least 20% of the top gaming forums worldwide on the net and things are really heating up. Along with the fact that we have now set up our PR for the year we are in a very strong position to out perform our plans in a large scale way.

We are now in talks with all of the schools,colleges and universities about a roll out of our game nationally and this would really bring a number of users to the site. Just 2% would bring 27,000 users and that is without the rest of our target market.

Here at HQ we will also be having an official launch party where everyone that is involved will be invited to a fantastic event that will leave everyone leaving smiling and happy that they are a part of the Fantasy Couriers success.

We hope that you are enjoying the blog so far and look forward to seeing you post your comments and talk to us about what we are doing.

The FC Team of Directors.

Best van for a courier business?

Part 1 in the discussion – what is the best van for a courier?  And we’ll deal first with the King of the Road when it comes to white vans;

 

The Mercedes Sprinter!

The Mercedes Sprinter is seems to be the van of choice for most courier companies.  You can be pretty much guaranteed that the shiny new van charging around town delivering parcels all day will be a spanky new Mercedes.  But why is this?

On behalf of couriers, and fantasy couriers, around the world, we have been undertaking research into precisly this question.  Stopping and questioning every van driver that didn’t run away when we accosted them with our questions.

Now, we know that the Sprinter is not the cheapest of vans, in fact, if you compare all of the usual white van suspects, the Mercedes Sprinter is probably the one that will come out the most expensive.  So what does it offer that makes it worth it?

Well, it’s got that Street Cred, when you pull up in a Mercedes people take you seriously.  The badge is there for all to see, and everybody knows you have a Mercedes.  True enough, it’s not a S-Class, but it’s still a Mercedes, and it earns buckets more respect than a 10 year old LDV.  And this factor must not be underestimated.  Your average courier/van driver will be spending between 8 and 12 hours a day in his van, it is important to him or her what it looks like.

Next, SPEEEEEEEEEED!  Does the Mercedes Sprinter really sprint?  Or is it more of a long distance marathon runner.  Well, our guys on the road say YES, the Mercedes Sprinter will out sprint every other van on the road, and leave them standing.

However!!!!!!!

The Sprinter does this by using a lot of Fuel!  And Fuel is becoming more expensive daily.  How much more fuel?  We estimate that it uses approx 15% more fuel than most of it’s competitors.  Also, servicing and parts costs are high, and insurance too.

Maybe, all of the drivers we questioned were employed, and therefore they got all the benefits of looking cool, and driving fast, with none of the draw backs of shelling out for diesel and tyres.

So.  The conculsions of our research;

The Mercedes Van is definitely the Van for you is somebody else is buying it, and paying the running costs.  If however it’s you that needs to pay the bills you need to work out whether that extra respect that you will get for running a Fleet of Mercedes Sprinters (and being the envy of all your competitors) is worth the extra initial cost, the extra running costs, and the speeding tickets!

Fuel Prices in Fantasy Couriers

The game is an online sim game, set in the courier industry.  We’ve been planning and building now for a couple of months, and now we’re into the artwork and design phase, so we’re starting to see it growing fast.

Fantasy Couriers is a simulation game set in the courier industry.  This industry has been chosen as it it probably one of the most challengling markets in the world at present with ever increasing fuel prices.  So, to make the game as challenging as the real world, the prices of fuel in the game are pegged to the prices of fuel in the real world. If the oil companies increase the pump price, or if Gordon Brown puts a penny or two on fuel tax, YOUR PROFITS in the game suffer, you may end up running jobs at a loss, it could make you bankrupt.

Fuel prices are just one indication of the difficulties that the players in the game will have to overcome. Fantasy Couriers is a skill game, and you’ll need business acumen to succeed. 

London meeting was a big success

My meeting in london with our new partners was a big success.  They are a very large European company with lots ideas to make www.fantasycouriers.com more exciting &  challenging to play. We have lots of meetings in the next few weeks  with other companies that want to be involved with the game. But if any of you out thair have any ideas or would like to be involved in the game please email me.

Big meeting in London

Hi folks

www.fantasycouriers.com is making great progress and I can’t wait to be the first beta tester.

I’ve a big meeting with a software company in London this week who are very interested in being involved with the game.

Any one intrested in beta testing the game when its ready just email me.

Thanks

Alistair