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So, I was reading the rules and was intrigued by the math around main cannon damage. If you haven't read, your main cannon is typically the length of your ship and the longer it is the more damage it does. However, this also means it costs more energy to fire it, and without modification you ship can't hold more energy then it takes to fire the cannon. As your ship gets bigger it will produce more energy, but only as you move up a ship class size.
The math works out that at the lower end of each class you can fire a shot every 2 rounds and at the upper end you fire every 3. Since you can't fire with too little energy and typically can't save the extra energy, this leaves sour spots where getting a bigger gun actually causes you to lose damage. However I most note here that there are other things to spend energy on, so how much energy you expect to spend each round actually pushes these sour spots around (eg. if your ship charges in 2 rounds perfect with no excess, spending any energy pushes you into the 3 round sour spot where you have lots of excess energy).
So, I made some graphs to illustrate where these spots are. Both are functions of ship size in meters (the x axis), the first shows d6's of damage averaged across the rounds taken to charge and the second shows excess energy after firing assuming none was spent elsewhere. DO NOT BE SCARED OF THE GRAPHS, GRAPHS ARE OUR FRIENDS.
*Whistles innocently*
Also, Toby wont show up in episodes for a while, but he's basically in the same boat as you. It was a while before he really knew what dice he was supposed to be rolling but he did eventually get there and it was never a problem along the way, we just helped him along. We're pretty chill people and don't bite, promise.
Hey man, we don't judge. I ran the last thing and I was forgetting shit left and right. Character creation is typically the most complicated part, which is why everyone helps everyone else do it. If you think you'd have fun, don't be scared by the rules. This isn't supposed to be some complicated math problem, it's about telling a story and we don't let the math get in the way.
Tuesdays actually work very well for me right now, so that would be my preference, but Sundays still work too.
That intro gave me chills. Fuck yeah.
That's my vote then, very early civil war fighting for the Coalition. We can be early heroes like Garm Bel Ibis and General Dodonna.
Can we do early civil war? Or does that have to much potential to mess with canon?
Hurrah! I think that's everyone who was iffy, yeah?
Holy shit it's Vapes! Quick, someone catch it before it gets away!
Yup, he's good.
Consensus seems to be Tuesday. Are we good to go this Tuesday or should we wait?
I believe it originally was the seed of another idea I abandoned, but I may have retconed it to tie it on. That sounds like something I would do.
Tuesdays or Thursdays would probably be best for me as well.
Roughly 2075, I think. It's not something I have set in stone.
I'm good any evening but Friday and Saturday.
I was busy with a family reunion. I seem to recall other people not being able to make it as well.
Rolling with it is often a good plan, have fun. Are we on for next week?
Is that image from the porn parody?
It's sticky? Ew.
It was (I think) your buddy with the deeper voice? It may just be the nature of his voice needing some EQ tweaking, but the sound was very "noisy"
And hey. If you wanna third guy to add dynamics, let me know. It might be interesting to have two best friends and a guy who knows literally nothing about you
I'm the one with the deeper voice. I've got a pretty good mic but it does tend to pick up background noise so maybe that's what you're picking up on. Or maybe it's my voice. I'm not really a sound guy so I'm not sure what to do here.
I'm not sure about a third regular member, but that might be a good idea. Hmmm. I know we're planning to do guests so if you want a guest appearance you're welcome.
One thought might be to simply focus on being completely timeless with your conversation. When conversation is stripped of its time-triangulating content, there's no givens in the conversation or people being left out. It also means you're mostly telling stories about your life or your brain, and — almost as a rule — those are funner to listen to than conversations about the popular nouns of the moment. For me, anyway.
I'm sure we'll do some like this, but I know we do want to talk about currently going on stuff as well. By cutting down to one topic per episode it'll be easier for you to know which ones to skip though.
Also, did you have any issues with the audio or have any ideas how to fix what Writhyn is hearing? You have a lot more experience with this than I do.
I seem to recall that we're out again this week, that correct?
Ok, feedback.
I know this is why you had a hard time starting the podcast, but I would strongly recommend you add a little more structure to this. Hey, What's Up? could surely work as a concept, but listening to 50-odd minutes of rambling discussion was.....hard to do.
I'll make my suggestions, and please reject them if you wish1) Make a time limit. I believe there was a survey done a bit back that landed on 20 minutes as the optimal length for a podcast. Anecdotally, I agree. I strongly dislike podcasts that are 5 minutes or less. And unless there's a good reason (such as a movie commentary), I'd rather listen to three shorter episodes about three different things than listen to one hour episodes about three or more things. This depends on the conversation, of course, but I'd set the timer for 20 minutes and come with notes. If you have more than one or two things to talk about, just record a few episodes! Then you have something for when you can't record.
Yeah, we got way more rambly then I expected, and cutting things down to one topic per episode would help.
2) Audio quality. One of the voices sounded fine, the other didn't. Try to fix that. I realize there are limitations, but it's really, really hard to listen to anything with bad audio.
Can you tell me who has the bad audio? I thought we were both fine, but if there's a problem I want to fix it.
3) Even if the body of the cast is random, I'd recommend coming up with special content segments. Like, each of you bring an article to talk about for the last five minutes. Cool stuff going on in the nerd world. Give your conversation a little more of an anchor. Or maybe spend the last five minutes relating an article from the Odd News section of news sites, whatever. Do a Jimmy Fallon-style improv game. I dunno.
These are good ideas. We tossed around the idea of having set segments, but couldn't come up with anything we liked. We'll try things out and keep brainstorming.
Speaking personally, I listen to podcasts first to learn something, and second because I like the hosts. Whatever that something is, make it applicable or interesting to an audience.
If you haven't heard of it, I'd recommend checking out We Have Concerns. It's a two-man podcast that has a great vibe. There's loads of stuff to talk about in this world.That's all! These are just my thoughts.
I'll check that out. Thanks for the feedback!
Fancy. Much appreciated.
And it's not about movies. My buddy Toby and I have decided to try our hand at podcast. And since we couldn't decide what to podcast about, we're podcasting about everything. The podcast is titled "Hey, What's up?" and we basically just answer the question, what's up? We talk about whatever it that's going on that we have an interesting, try to have a discussion, and tend to get a little ramble-y. If you can bear to give us a listen, we'd appreciate feedback.
At some point I'm going to add intro/outro music, but I don't have that yet.
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