Thanks for the responses in general guys. I'm going to try and reply to all of them.
I'll reply in general first though. From what I'm seeing here, we generally need to tighten up a few things we do on the podcast. We need to do a fair bit more planning per episode, and we probably need to do the into together, rather than me just doing it by myself (as that doesn't lend itself to us introducing ourselves).
There are separate problems with the news section that I think is out of our control, but I'll get into that later.
Darsc,
Max and I will recheck that news section to see what you mean. I didn't think there was any misinformation, but perhaps structuring that section in a clearer manner will help (as we need to do with everything).
As to intros, you're absolutely right.
Hi Bert.
So far I've listened to parts 1&2 of episode 3. As always, enjoying for the most part but I have a concern.
Several times the conversation seems to simply break down and trail away, moving on to the next 'topic' without really either coming to a conclusion or making a solid statement on the previous piece. As a listener it becomes a bit frustrating when we hear: "well, yes, but I don't really have anything to say on that so we'll move on." I paraphrase there, but its happened a couple of times now and in previous episodes and could turn listeners off.
The 'Month In Mantic' should be what has happened in Mantic Games, not what the pair of you have been up to, especially when you both spend several minutes discussing non-Mantic related hobby activities. This would mean you don't need a 'news' section which basically states info we've all known for several weeks.
I liked the Corporation images, especially with the added speech bubbles - I laughed out loud on those and scared the cat!
You could use images from the Mantic site when you go over the Month In Mantic - show the models etc so people know what you're talking about - this may be in part 3, not listened to it yet.
Sorry if this comes across as harsh, I really don't mean it to as I thoroughly enjoy the podcast and am eagerly awaiting Episode 4 - A New Hope!
JP
JP, when you talk about the conversation breaking down is this in reference to the Main Topic section? We aimed for an overall discussion of the rules, but at times I noticed that we would bring a point up that there simply wasn't much to talk about. We didn't want to rehash the rule book, but perhaps we should have?
If we had briefly described the section and it's implications would that have worked better for people? Would it have been pallet-able for more seasoned players?
The Month in Mantic being about Mantic games is a good point. This is something we have been talking about ourselves, and we weren't sure which way to go.
I think I listen to the D6 Generation podcast a little to much, and as their month in gaming section is very very broad I tend to think along those lines.
In addition this past month was really a problem for me in terms of getting to game.
I'll talk to Max about this, and we can see how we'll do this. Perhaps another obstacle here is that we have not been able to play games together, which is something we'd really like to do. If there was a play by e-mail version of vassal it would be perfect for what we want to do.
The news section is something which Max puts a lot of effort into. Unfortunately due to the way we edit the show it takes me a few days from editing the show to you guys seeing. That means that any news is at least a few days old.
Now this was fine, as in the past someone has said that they want a wrap up of the past month's news. If more people could weigh in on this topic it would help.
Personally the best case scenario is if we were in contact with people in the know, who were willing to give us some info. We could then guarantee which date the podcast comes out, so that they know exactly when that info is coming out from us.
This would suit the fact that we are aiming to release each episode on the 1st/2nd of the month from now on.
Didn't think anyone would notice the hidden comic already. I just popped it in for fun last minute. Glad you liked it.
Lastly, I'm not sure what you mean by showing the models we are talking about.
Do you mean, for instance, if I paint a unit of Marauders, a picture of that painted marauder unit should be showing on the screen as we talk about them?
Overall Max and I will take a look at all this and see what we can do to improve things. In terms of organization it seems like this is more work than I expected. That's fine for me, but it just means we're going to have to work on it.
We'll also address some of this stuff on the podcast.
Thanks guys.
Keep giving that great feedback!
