Guard Frequency Episode 016 | Mark Skelton and David Ladyman of Cloud Imperium Games

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5 responses to “Guard Frequency Episode 016 | Mark Skelton and David Ladyman of Cloud Imperium Games”

1. 

   Saoldian

   April 2, 2014

   Hey guys I’m a big fan of the show. I’ve been listening for a few weeks now and I really enjoy the professionalism you bring to the Verse. I especially enjoyed the achievement episode you guys had me rolling and when you put in that sound every now and then in your other episodes it’s a great laugh.

   The goat segment in this episode got me a little nervous but I’m glad you guys put it in there. Very funny and the song was awesome! Your klondike bars are in the mail.

   I gotta say I was disappointed on Tuesday to have to wait another day. Don’t let that happen again pls LOL. Regarding the Oculus, I agree with Tony, they will let it alone until they grab a decent market share and then spam it with Facebook evil and ruin it for everyone. But this will allow VR to become mainstream which will generate capital investment interest on other startups to make a headset that’s better and more for the hard core gamer, assuming Facecrook makes it another ad platform. I’m just glad I didn’t back it. The backers deserve their money back or equivalent in product. As CR, and Lennon alluded to, said in his LFTC, they needed the $ for supply and manufacturing not to mention tech qa and tweaks. VR is coming and no new tech is without its bumps and bruises.

   Keep up the great work guys…and Geoff, +1 on your fan list. Glad you got a better mic!

   Sao

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2. 

   Zeb

   April 2, 2014

   Do you have a post on the RSI forums about this show? I’d love to see what other avid listeners have to say. if only there were some convenient way for me to find where that post is located…hmmm.

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3. 

   Capt.Mitch

   April 3, 2014

   My response to “Is the Idris OP now that it is a frigate” The answer to this would be no, In fact it is less powerful compared to the original Idris.
   The Idris actually lost the rear missile turret, The ship will have a lot more mass making it less maneuverable and the ship is now a much larger target to hit.

   Honestly aside from getting a larger ship the performance and offensive firepower of the Idris has been hurt by the updates.
   We will have to wait and see if the defenses will be boosted to help balance the added mass and loss of weapons.

   PS. Love the show and my ONLY complaint is that there are not more shows.

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4. 

   Capt.Mitch

   April 3, 2014

   Also I heard you respond to my comment on episode 5 and thought I might try to clarify it a little better.

   This is how I would like to see being captured.

   If you are captured then you cannot simply teleport out of the situation. You have multiple choices on how to deal with this.

   1) You become captured and can try to talk your way out/escape or pay a ransom. This is nice if you would like the opportunity to try to keep your PC.
   2) If you choose to bypass the captured mechanic then you would have to forfeit that character and you can beam into your beneficiary (death of a spaceman style).
   If you choose to opt out to your beneficiary, your old character becomes a NPC and stays with the captures.

   Later at any point if you pay a ransom or are able to free your original character you can return to the character.

   For one this would give a really good reason to try and not be captured and to try to escape but would also introduce a hefty penalty (loosing PC) for just opting out and there would be no magic get out of free card.

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5. 

   Zambuk

   April 3, 2014

   The talk about the Idris makes sense, but it still should be EXTREMELY hard to get one, or at least require some sort of rank, or…something. It would be nice for everyone to be able to have one, sure, but that would be immersion-breaking as hell, if any Joe Schmo could get a capital ship. Like, imagine this scenario: “Hey dude you and me let’s get on our Idrises and race! Then later on we can cruise around and troll for chicks!” 🙂

   Also, if it was the “real world”, wouldn’t mostly orgs (or gov’t) be the only things to have enough resources, and reason, to run such a ship? It would be something great for an org to work towards, like, FINALLY we can afford an Idris now! Personally, I’m fine with not ever owning a capital ship, as my character would be a search and rescue WORKER and realistically should never be able to OWN an Idris. But if my org owned one, that’s great! Or if I was a mining/trading magnate with tons of properties, business and cash, that would also make sense.

   This is one of my problems with the purchasable ships during this pledge phase, but i think it’ll smooth over once the PU has been live for a while.

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