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[Peiper]

Summary of No Guts No Galaxy Podcast #113: Russ Bullock

Source: http://www.nogutsnog...hp?topic=2095.0

Aired 9 June 2014, recorded on or previous to 6 June.

Disclaimer: Everything in [brackets] are my words. The rest is a summary. Not much of any substance in this interview, that wasn't already posted in the command chair (post recording, pre airing of the podcast). Only half of the 66 minutes of the podcast included Russ as participant, and my purpose for writing up these summaries is to disseminate news to everyone, so I stopped summarizing then. Near the end of Russ's participation, I got a little angry. I admit, I'm having a very hard time being enthusiastic about this game lately. I do my best not to troll the forums, but this summary was a particular test of my patience. Peiper

The voice of Alexander Kerensky is finally heard!

3:45 New Clan Artwork: players will vote on whether to stay with the new or with a semi-altered old faction artworks. http://mwomercs.com/...an-logo-update/ Old news. [What about creating art for ALL the factions. After all, the way CW was described it was two buckets 'clan vs. inner sphere.' We could all be Magistracy of Canopus vs. Clan Sea Fox and it wouldn't mean anything. -Peiper]

8:00 zzzz... get on with the interview please.

9:28 Russ thinks the old Smoke Jaguar symbol looks like a grey potato coming at you. [Is that why it looks like a black panther drawn by a 4 year old now? -Peiper]

11:35 Matchmaker update: Says we should get a command chair post on it soon. This one? http://mwomercs.com/...chmaker-update/ Old news. (Should include trying to match clan mechs with clan mechs. So, if matchmaker has 3 Summoners in the queue, and 2 Orions, it will try to face off the Orions vs. Orions and Summoners vs. Summoners. That's my interpretation.)

17:12 The Buckton Fix to the SRM's is on its way! http://mwomercs.com/...440-srm-update/ Old news. I skipped ahead.

20:20 Clan mechs will have a new Heads Up Display (HUD). There won't be anything NEW, but it will look different. We will have the same 'bitching betty' computer voice, though. [We want BBWolfe! -Peiper]

22:16 New SOUNDS for Clan Mechs: I guess the steal groans differently when you twist the torso or something. (Maybe the pulse lasers will sound like 'wub wub wub' instead of 'pew pew pew?')

22:60 Is June 17^th the cut off date for clan packs? Russ won't answer. He CAN answer, but won't. Says there will be a new post soon. Not sure if it's this post: http://mwomercs.com/...ward-last-call/

23:54 Russ's thoughts on the official MWO tournament: A bunch of thank yous to those who made the tournament work, including someone named 'Farpen-noodle' and Brian Buckton for the spectator mode tools. All in all, a pretty great tournament. I guess all the people they mentioned in the thank yous got clan packs for helping out. [Guess it pays to be in good with NGNG? I don't think I will any time soon! I wonder, could I sell my cynical, critical soul for a clan pack? Or hell, at least a single Timber Wolf before Halloween. I know that having run several MWO tournaments with dozens, and sometimes over a hundred participants, it is a lot of work for little reward. I also know that... never mind, I'll just swallow that bitter pill. - (jealous) Peiper]

30:05 Oh! Russ goes on to say something about supporting community run tournaments? Did he read my mind? [The House Steiner Hub has been running OPEN tournaments for months, even before private lobbies. If PGI was going to support the community, I think they would have been doing it for the last couple years, you know? It's getting really, really hard to continue to listen to this bullshizzle. I'll believe it when I see it. - Peiper]

30:50 He talks about how we, the great people of MWO, can run clan vs. inner sphere matches or leagues via the private matchmaker. Maybe they'll even be able to program some options into the lobbies to make this easier for us to do. Maybe they will even add stuff into the private lobby program where we can gather the data, turn it into PGI, and they'll give us a prize or two for the winners of such leagues or tournaments. [And maybe monkeys can fly out of my butt. I wonder if they'll be a spectator mode for that? -Peiper]

32:45 Russ says the Stanley Cup is on soon and it's a good excuse to go to the bar end of official participation of Russ via the podcast. [I'm going to use that as my queue to shut it off before I throw my computer out the window. -Peiper]

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An afterthought. I am angry about a lot of things. Please do not take the above comments and frustrations as an indicator that I do not support NGNG. I AM a critic and can be very cynical. I'm fed up with many things revolving around this game, PGI, the community, etc... I don't begrudge NGNG for what they do, and if I sound angry with them, it is really more to do with the way PGI seems to favor and support NGNG and ignore the rest of the community - or at least the LARGE coalition of players that I am connected with. When Phil said that March madness was being supoorted with big MC packages from PGI, I practically lost it. But that is not really the right reaction. I should not be angry because some people are fortunate and others are not. I have the dignity that I've never sucked PGI's toes to accomplish what we on the Island have accomplished DESPITE every effort by PGI to prevent it from happening. [The rest of the rant has been redacted.] -Peiper

Edited by Peiper, 09 June 2014 - 05:23 PM.

[Green Mamba]

It is what it Is, I guess

[Vassago Rain]

The current smoke jaguar logo looks like a cat plushie to me.

[Sephlock]

I nominate 'Farpen-noodle' for the position of MW:O's sniperfrog.

[Dracol]

Thank you for the recap. I read faster then people talk, so I don't even consider listening to a NGNG podcast.

[Alex Wolfe]

This looks... painful to do. Thanks again for dredging the news up!

[Navid A1]

wait a minute... so clan vs IS is only through private lobby?...

why?
i mean...why?

[El Bandito]

Thanks for the thread.

[C E Dwyer]

Navid A1, on 10 June 2014 - 03:58 AM, said:

wait a minute... so clan vs IS is only through private lobby?...

why?
i mean...why?

Because the community that PGI largely ignore, apart from the toe suckers (read op's post fully), are capable of doing this and PGI either can't be bothered or haven't the ability perhaps ?

[Zanathan]

Thanks Pieper for once again summarising the podcast, it's extremely helpful.

I'm glad I don't actually have to waste 30+ minutes of my time listening to it these days as I find most of the information out of date and mad props to you for doing the dirty work.

[Ashaira]

Cathy, on 10 June 2014 - 04:10 AM, said:

Because the community that PGI largely ignore, apart from the toe suckers (read op's post fully), are capable of doing this and PGI either can't be bothered or haven't the ability perhaps ?

But it makes no sense. If Clan vs IS is only for private then why did they nerf everything the clans have?

[Silentium]

Thanks again for posting these, I much prefer text to video for these kinds of things, and I greatly appreciate the time and effort spent.

[N a p e s]

Ashaira, on 10 June 2014 - 04:25 AM, said:

But it makes no sense. If Clan vs IS is only for private then why did they nerf everything the clans have?

Especially since we could have done private matches with an uneven number of players per side to compensate just like it was in lore/fluff/tt.

[Alex Warden]

Ashaira, on 10 June 2014 - 04:25 AM, said:

But it makes no sense. If Clan vs IS is only for private then why did they nerf everything the clans have?

because if they didnt the IS mechs would go extincted in mixed open matches?

also we are still talking about public que here, not CW faction que... you guys still mix it up

Edited by Alex Warden, 10 June 2014 - 04:48 AM.

[Fishhawk]

Alex Warden, on 10 June 2014 - 04:46 AM, said:

because if they didnt the IS mechs would go extincted in mixed open matches?

also we are still talking about public que here, not CW faction que... you guys still mix it up

That's my guess too. However, how many months will it be until even the CW faction queue is created? It is going to be a very anti-climactic "Clan Invasion" on June 17th when you will see Clan fighting alongside I.S. mechs against another team with the same makeup.

In fact it'll be pretty sad when players have to create their own version of I.S. vs Clans.

Edited by Fishhawk, 10 June 2014 - 05:18 AM.

[Sable]

Clan vs IS will only be in private matches until community warfare. The public queue is free for everyone. Public queue will have no effect on community warfare. I think people just aren't understanding that when it comes to the current queue. It's not always going to be this way, there are other things coming down the line which will be faction dependent. Just not right now.

Edited by Sable, 10 June 2014 - 07:15 AM.

[Wolfways]

Sable, on 10 June 2014 - 07:13 AM, said:

Public queue will have no effect on community warfare.

Didn't Russ recently say that "everyone" will have an effect on CW?

[Trauglodyte]

Just when I think my hatred and angst for NGNG couldn't possibly get any greater...

[Thorqemada]

I have the feeling NGNG have reached a point where them need to reinvent themself and question whom their target audience is and if they can reach out farther or have to specialize into a niche.

I apeciate your work Guys - especially the first year when things were still in a flow.

[Bobzilla]

Sable, on 10 June 2014 - 07:13 AM, said:

Clan vs IS will only be in private matches until community warfare. The public queue is free for everyone. Public queue will have no effect on community warfare. I think people just aren't understanding that when it comes to the current queue. It's not always going to be this way, there are other things coming down the line which will be faction dependent. Just not right now.

Meh, I don't see them separting faction spacific mechs for CW, if so it will only affect clans. I'm guessing it's going to be exactly like a PUG, only blue team is all one faction, and red team is all another faction.