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[Suggestions] Things I would like to see changed
Just giving a list of things which in my opinion needs to be adressed.
Enemy Ships
-Okkar Interceptor shield recharge rate is ridicilously high and overpowered, rendering this enemy not even worth to fight for a reward.
-Okkar Fighter MK2 Front Shield duration is too high, cooldown has to be increased by a big margin
-Okkar Corvette shield drone spawn rate incredible high and gamebreaking considering how early one is confronted with these. They are fairly common. Corvette MK2 is easy mode compared to a Corvette MK1. Even Okkar Frigattes are easier to fight due to lack of regeneration abilities while latter requires skills to manouver and shoot+aim.
-Okkar Fighter MK3 is OP as -BEEP-. Considering their shield charge rate, durability and homing attacks these are worse than a Colonial Warship (which one can escape from).
As a general rule of thump: The smaller the enemy the bigger their threat level.
Frigates are fine, Corvette MK2 (including Elite) are fine. Both lack shield regeneration abilities and making them a good challenge for every ship setup or equipment level. You can just outrun them if needed.
However, the smaller the enemy gets, the more tedious the fights become. Especially Corvettes due to their insanely high shield drone spawn rate vs. your own energy regeneration and ability to maintain constant damage dealt to them.
Next in line of boredom are Okkar Fighter MK3 and MK2 due to aforementioned reasons. Their shield reg is high, they have infinite energy to allow a constant stream of homing Thermo Gun fire while oneself lacks everything due to limited energy levels.
Furthermore, these enemies always come with the next worse enemy - Drones.
A single laser drone is able to melt down a shield in mere seconds without the playering noticing their approach (more to this in the next topic). Add a webber- or sensor drone and you are toast if you cannot escape and re-evaluate your options.
Yes, drones again. They are a reason why I am exploiting the game by now to actually enjoy it. This means, I intentionally make use of bugs to my advantage to bypass this rather silly design element. Sorry guys, not going to tell you about these bugs. Gotta keep the game entertaining for me
Keeping it short, their dodgy movement + ability level is too much. Tune them down please.
What bugs me most is that they are so hard to aim at. The indicator showing the direction is too small, often not even visible as the red indicator is at the same spot of some explosion or similar visually distracting area of the monitor. This also applies to loot crates and resources with the blue square on blue background..
Now, we have red squares covered by an explosion or a sun / planet.
I suggest to slow down the overall gameplay time much like Time Extender so the player has a chance to get rid of this annoying drone - instead of suddenly getting blasted into bits and pieces.
Or just remove webber and sensor drones ...
-Beeline: this is great. It renders enemy missiles worthless. However, the player cannot use them either. Not much of a big deal as (I think I am not the only one) is barely using homing missiles anyway. I keep mine for the big boys. A few Corrosion Missiles on a nasty, infinite shielded Corvette MK1 does its job. Save your ARC9000 for the case you are swarmed at the start of a map - 3 squads of Okkar Swarm Fighters, a few Fighter MK2 or some Outlaws with tons of webber drones. Just throw the ARC, done.
Plasma Torpedos for the Corvette MK2, done.
There is really no need to use homing missiles I think.
-Low Profile
I don't mind the Jump Surpressor as long as I have all time of the world to loot everything while killing for max. credits. An ideal start for the money grind. Not sure what others think, but I believe this has to be removed for balance reasons. Instead, Low Profile could reduce the range of enemies taking notice of you e.g. the aggro range is drastically reduced. Lets say, 1000m or so.
-Sensor Overload
Sounds good, easy running from every resource on the map to the other. After picking up everything you usually have enough time to participate in combat and pick up the credits - long before the Warship arrives. You only have to know roughly what your enemies are able to withstand. If in doubt activate some devices of your choice, Time Expander, use a Damage Booster and you are done. Taking into account that really hard enemies not drop anything good anyway you can just jump to the next sector.
The negative effect of this enhancement can be neglected imo.
Many of the enhancements are not even appealing to me as only a few of them make it into consideration. Might write more about them when I test them some day.
Crafting is nice.. for the normal item quality level, even MK2 items are ok to craft. But MK3 is almost always too expensive to affort. The amount of Dark Matter and Dark Energy is incredible high, especially Dark Matter is so rare that one might be able to craft a single Cloak MK3.
While the enhancement "Ancient Friend" allows for an increased farming of Dark Energy, the Dark Matter remains almost always outside of range for a normal run.
Speaking of this, I believe the 3 signature abilites for each ship should be much easier to craft.
Interceptor: Weapon Overload
Scout: Cloak
Gunship: Turrets or Front Shield Generator (cannot decide)
Maybe it is even ok to make them inate abilites to further enhance their feel and role within the Everspace universe. Having barely good devices to the end of the run, but wielding a good weapon almost feels the same for each ship. This is even more notiable when using the general devices Time Expander which is crucial to have when one is missing anything else good enough.
Hidden Tutorials
Yes, there are hidden tutorials. Super Metroid, an old SNES classic game and still run today by most skilled speedrunners, was famed for having hidden tutorials. By this, the game tought you the good stuff without giving direct hints or indicators.
Lets give some examples:
One of the first challenges is to destroy a couple of gas tanks during a single run: The player will notice that a few of them drop fuel which is hard to get when starting from scratch.
Another one is to destroy 20 missiles in a single run. In other games such minor things are often forgotten. Imagine the slow cumbersome Outlaw Bomber reading your way, shooting 2 missiles and the only ranged weapon you have is your Laser Beam which is easy to use to counter the missiles.
Make the G&B attack the Okkar! To do so you hide behind a freighter or a gas station, teaching that heading straight on is not always the way to deal with an overwhelming mass of enemies.
A few just do so out of curiosity, others need some helping hand to understand this "option".
Drone Hangar
Can we have a drone hanger to chose between drones? There is nothing more annoying that to fight a Drone Carrier while having 5 combat drones. And yes, the carrier is very common later on. He just takes away all the drones and you are left with re-crafting them
Sniper Sight
Hoping that you have read all the way down.
I would love to see some sort of sniper sight or zoom for the Shock Rifle for obvious reasons. A long range weapon needs such a feature.
Maybe make it so that the player is immobile while in "Sniper Mode".
While in Sniper Mode the player cannot move and has no visual cues for approaching enemies. However, the range is increased.
Kind regards,
ROCKFISH_HCK Posts: 562ModeratorThanks for your input. I read through it and took some notes to discuss with the team.2
Zoom on a Shock Rifle would be super handy - it could slowly zoom in while it charges up (the more charge the more zoom). Or there could just be a zoom upgrade for shock rifles. Also, it seems strange to me, that the PRO version has lower range than the standard version. I understand it must be some kind of balancing thing to counter the time slowing function. But I always end up using the standard because of it's range. This "PRO" naming thing seems counterintuitive also because Professionals should logically have better reaction/shoot better, without any slow down "help" and at a longer range.1
vedun-z Posts: 2MemberI vote for zoom too!1
Grendal27 Posts: 33MemberI really like the idea of a Zoom fucntion also, especially with the Ancient Weapon. As for your troubles with enemy ships, you might want to try different strategies or different equipment.
-I agree that Interceptors are difficult to fight in the beginning of the game. I had trouble too, but after a while it gets easier. The Fusion Blasters are very good for taking down interceptor shields, along with shield breaker missiles and shield disruptors. Just know that you have to hammer their hull (perhaps use missiles for this) within the brief time you have before the shields recharge. I consider it one of the challenges of the game, not an overpowered and unbalanced enemy.
-Consider keeping a drone override handy for corvettes - fly right up to it and use the override, which should give you enough support and time to destroy it.
-I've never had too much problem with drones, as they can be destroyed very quickly, but I do agree that sometimes it is difficult to see the little icons sometimes.
The drone hanger idea is really neat and I'd like to see where the devs can go with that idea too. Maybe part of the Gunship's drone perk?0
Stowing your drones would be a great feature! I get my sensor drone destroyed all the time. Enemies always target that defenseless little thing first. It's also pretty sad watching it stupidly flying around, burning up in solar flare's fires. I wish it was at least a little more smart, like when there's a bunch of pirates keep it's distance at 5 km until the area is clear, and hide behind the closest rock in solar storms, not fly after me into a minefield. Now I have to construct a new one in almost every new zone
Oh, about minefields - they are a big annoyance to shoot one by one - I wish we could use "missile defense system" to shoot all of them at once in a certain radius around the ship (this would also give it more value - I noticed I don't use it that much as it is).1
mirthilon Posts: 7MemberZoom on sniper yes please!
Also I am in partial agreement that the enemy markers for the drone, and for enemies in general, can be hard to see in red/orange systems. Perhaps adding a blue/black/purple outline would help solve this?
To answer some points of the original poster:
Dealing with Corvettes MK1 - Corvettes are the Okkar mini-bosses one encounters along the way, and as such should be deadlier than regular enemies. For MK1's a drone override swiftly turns the tide of battle in your favor; not only does the corvette lose the drones but you get them as distractions and healers (for a time).
Dealing with Okkar Fighters MK3 - These are powerful adversaries that you encounter in the late-late sectors. At this point you should have collected and crafted enough equipment of your choosing to be able to deal with them. If not, they make great target practice for missiles of the shield and light/heavy varieties (in that order). Secondary weapons are powerful, especially when used in conjunction with primaries, don't forget that.
Hidden tutorials: Everspace is a rougelike, and the very essence of the genre is "try this, try that". The game itself is a hidden tutorial. Nobody told you to hide behind a guarded GB transport from Okkar to get support fire, nobody told you you can shoot down missiles. Nobody told me that the best way to survive a warship was to fly into the nooks and crannies of one whilst the Okkar fighters dispatch that annoying suppressor-wielding drone carrier. It's all about learning from your attempts, successful or not, how to do things.
Personal opinion: figuring out how to deal with situations is part of what makes Everspace so fun and great.
Much of the above is my way of expressing that the game is fine as it is. There are multiple game difficulties if you want more or less challenge and many loadouts to suit varying play styles, so there should be something to fit everyone.1
ben1991 Posts: 9Member
I totally agree with this. It sounds like the OP is finding it hard to deal with some of the enemies, in which case I suggest trying some new tactics. For example, light missiles work excellently on drones, and are super cheap. If you run into an Okkar fighter that you can't comfortably kill off, hit it with a Corrosion missile - their hulls are weak, and they go down easy. Of course then you'll need homing missiles, so Beeline becomes less of a no-brainer . . .mirthilon said:
: figuring out how to deal with situations is part of what makes Everspace so fun and great.
There are things I would suggest changing in this game, but it's much more to do with UI and mechanics rather than the combat in the game.2
Mr. Magniloquent Posts: 20MemberAs towards the Shock Rifle Pro...it's like a shock rifle with training wheels. My only complaint about it is that the slow literally only occurs during charging. Once it's fully charged, time goes back to normal. Essentially, the weapon's gimmick only has value if you don't use the weapon to it's full potential. All of it's benefits over Shock Rifle I go out of the window once it's fully charged. No bueno.
Done hanger would be great. That's been a requested feature for some time. I have definitely wanted a zoom function for awhile now. The gunship needs shields though. All of it's gimmicks center around attempting to compensate for it's lack of shields, and still come up lacking. Even giving it exclusive access to the front shield generator was a kind of peace offering--that worked. I know it's not the dev.s's concept, but it needs shields. This game is about attrition, and the flying fridge fails in that regard largely because it has no ordinary shields. Other than those, I feel the game's balance is great. There are some enemies that are serious threats, but none which are inordinately disproportionate. With exception to the colonial warships (resentful), everything dies to proper piloting.0
Firebrand_81 Posts: 6MemberI think that Leech combined with Front Shield, Adaptive Armor MK3 and Laser Turret make the Gunship a pretty solid choice. I'm not missing shields...
Yes it's slow, but Energized Boost Mk3 make it manageable1
Eldragon Posts: 6Member
I strongly agree with this. The gunship is fun, but I feel any run I have with it entirely depends on how lucky I am getting nanobots. The game is about attrition, but is balanced around the assumption you have shields to absorb incidental hits.Mr. Magniloquent said:
...The gunship needs shields though. All of it's gimmicks center around attempting to compensate for it's lack of shields, and still come up lacking. Even giving it exclusive access to the front shield generator was a kind of peace offering--that worked. I know it's not the dev.s's concept, but it needs shields. This game is about attrition, and the flying fridge fails in that regard largely because it has no ordinary shields.
I suppose another option would be a nanobot synthesis module. e.g. A mechanism to covert materials into nanobots.
I would like the option to upgrade your existing equipment to Mk2 and 3.0
You and me both. Sounds like a really cool feature!
I would like the option to upgrade your existing equipment to Mk2 and 3.0
Do you want to keep the option to craft directly though? Also the required components of course get rarer, with top tier dark matter. Should we still keep basic component requirement for upgrade?Giraffasaur said:
You and me both. Sounds like a really cool feature!
I would like the option to upgrade your existing equipment to Mk2 and 3.0
Upgrading the Mark of an item could be a nice benefit to finding Throng, the scientist added in the DLC. But the services he offers are pretty nice as it is.
Do you want to keep the option to craft directly though? Also the required components of course get rarer, with top tier dark matter. Should we still keep basic component requirement for upgrade?0
Haven'y met him yet but perhaps this perk should be an enhancement? The downside of the enhancement is it prevent you from obtaining mk.2 and 3 devices via loot, or greatly reduce the chance. The upside also include not requiring more basic resources unless the recipe requires it.Giraffasaur said:
Upgrading the Mark of an item could be a nice benefit to finding Throng, the scientist added in the DLC. But the services he offers are pretty nice as it is.
Do you want to keep the option to craft directly though? Also the required components of course get rarer, with top tier dark matter. Should we still keep basic component requirement for upgrade?
By the way the backer background password is wrong.0
I am sorry to disappoint you. I only use missiles (Plasma Torps in my case) for the biggest of all enemies which is the Corvette MK2 .. and MK1 sometimes. Considering myself a skilled pilot I engage enemies a different way. There is no "weapon against drones" and "this here for the fighters". All I need is a simple weapon of choice and myself. No modules, no consumables, no missiles.ben1991 said:
It sounds like the OP is finding it hard to deal with some of the enemies, in which case I suggest trying some new tactics.
Not even the Frigate needs any special care. Just some dodging here, some evading there..
What bugs me most is that drones (Yes Giraf..) pretty much counter this play style but thankfull to the new OP item "Static Discharge" thats no issue anymore.
Still, I would like to see some changes made to drones and some enemies.
Make the Frigate threatening, to the point where Jump Stabilizer becomes very important all but the most experienced and skillfull of pilots.
The Corvette Drone spawn seems to be changed. Fine
Interceptors are annoying as early morning rain on the way to work.
Okkar Fighter MK3 alone is ok, but when there are more I just throw an ARC to not bug myself with this silly enemy.
In general the game has changed in a positive way since May, when I was writing this feedback thread.
However, I avoid the game in its current state for certain reason I cannot voice - or I get banned


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A big advantage with React is that it is really easy to get going with it, the learning curve is pretty low. Part of the reason for that is that React is just a front-end JavaScript library, rather than a fully-fledged framework the way Angular is: so it's more lightweight. This does mean that you need to use other complementary components alongside React: for example, a routing component and an implementation of Flux (which is the design pattern used for data flow in React applications). Arguably, this gives more flexibility in deciding what components to use for developing your web application: you aren't just tied to the components that come with a fully-fledged framework such as Angular.
React has markedly better performance than Angular 2+. Part of this is down to the fact that React is so lightweight, and partly down to the fact that React uses a virtual DOM to minimise the amount of information that it needs to update in the browser with every webpage refresh.
One of the things that disappointed me most when looking into React was the lack of definitive coding standards, the way can be found in Angular (for example, John Papa's excellent Angular style guides). But then again, React is still a developing framework, with new features and changes being made regularly, so perhaps a definitive set of coding standards for React is still to come.
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Khruangbin heads into the weekend with the Friday release of their latest album project in the form of a 12-track dub remix of the rock trio's 2018 Con Todo El Mundo LP.
Related: Khruangbin, Kikagaku Moyo Deliver Thrilling Live Debuts At NYC's SummerStage In Central Park
Titled Hasta El Cielo, the new album's arrival on Friday via Dead Oceans/Night Time Stories includes a pair of bonus dubs by Jamaican producer Scientist, who Khruangbin' Laura Lee has credited for inspiring her career as a bassist. The album also includes the previously-shared psychedelia remix of "Mary Always", now titled, "Maria También".
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The lofi rock trio continue their summer 2019 campaign with an appearance at Birmingham, England's Mostly Jazz Funk & Soul Festival on Friday. The band will return Stateside later this month for their scheduled performance at Chicago's Pitchfork Festival on July 19th, followed by their own headlining gig at The Republik in Honolulu, HI on July 31st.
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Since determinants of supply and demand other than the price of the goods in question are not explicitly represented in the supply-demand diagram, changes in the values of these variables are represented by moving the supply and demand curves often described as "shifts" in the curves.
These two new Supply demand analysis for astro have broken 9 years of monopoly by ASTRO as the sole provider of digital subscription television in Malaysia. As the number of household that can afford ASTRO will also increase, there will be an increase in demand. This can be done with simultaneous-equation methods of estimation in econometrics.
Pros and Cons table for Pay TV Government Regulations Within the Malaysian context, technology is seen by the Malaysian Government as one of the crucial elements for developing the country.
The following will shift the supply curve: The moral of the story: In this context, two things are assumed constant by definition of the short run: ASTRO focuses on a narrowly defined market. Photo Credits Figure 1. Supply economics When technological progress occurs, the supply curve shifts.
The law of supply states that producers will sell less of a good at lower prices and more of a good at higher prices. The monopolist would choose to sell at an output where marginal-revenue and marginal cost will intersect whereas the social planner would choose an output where the demand curve intersects with the marginal cost curve.
The demand curve and the supply curve can be manipulated by economists to experiment with different hypothetical situations, to find out the resulting price and quantity demanded. Product differentiation can make its products more competitive and maintain its advantage and justification for a high price.
Thus, a social planner would charge a price equal to marginal cost as this price would give customers an accurate signal of the cost of providing the service and customers would buy efficiently.
ASTRO then uses the demand curve to find the price that will induce customers to buy that quantity. Is monopoly profit a social cost? To measure the economic well-being, we use total surplus. The demand for money intersects with the money supply to determine the interest rate.
Other Demand Factors 1. An oligopoly market is a market with only a few sellers e. Supply and demand is a powerful concept because any time certain assumptions are met and prices are free to fluctuate, its effects can be seen.
In latethe government added another analogue transmission channel. But the concept of demand is a bit more complicated than the law of demand. The area of the triangle ABC in Figure 9 is the area of the deadweight loss caused by monopoly.
The law of demand states that consumers will purchase more of a good at lower prices and less of a good at higher prices. Location area and capacity forecast Organization required area and capacity forecast Facilities management standards Scope of analysis planning period range, geographies, organizations, space class types, locations Historical organization capacity requirements Historical location capacity data Outputs include the proposed location area and capacity changes, which might be to retire a location, to extend a lease, or to acquire or construct a location.
ASTRO is a subscription-based television and is still considered a luxury item that many households cannot afford. The law of supply says the higher the price, the more quantity of a product is supplied.
Eventually, economics tells us that the price will eventually come to be the point at which supply and demand cross, where there will be neither shortage nor surplus. This raises the equilibrium quantity from Q1 to the higher Q2.
The price of related goods is one of the other factors affecting demand. The width of the box DC is the number quantity sold. The Parameter identification problem is a common issue in "structural estimation.
Note in the diagram that the shift of the demand curve, by causing a new equilibrium price to emerge, resulted in movement along the supply curve from the point Q1, P1 to the point Q2, P2.
Furthermore, ASTRO needs to aggressively capture the remaining market share before competition starts gaining more room by revisiting its pricing models and enhancing its locally developed contents to keep costs low.
The supply curve, shown here in red, slopes upward because, at a generally higher price, suppliers will be induced to sell more. MiTV is leveraging on the low cost infrastructure of UHF and Internet technologies in developing a high-speed pay-tv service that allows optimal delivery of video, audio and data streams.
Monopoly profit is not necessarily a society issue. Price Privacy Pay TV can actually be fairly inexpensive, if we do not add too many options.Demand depends on the prices of related commodities, and buyers incomes and tastes.
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Print Reference this. Published: 23rd March, Supply and demand is a fundamental factor in shaping the character of the marketplace, for it is understood as the principal determinant in. On of the basic foundations in economics is supply and demand.
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Supply & Demand analysis by PhDs from Stanford, Harvard, Berkeley. Supply & Demand analysis dives into the meaning of key topics. 2 Reading 13 Demand and Supply Analysis: Introduction INTRODUCTION In a general sense, economics is the study of production, distribution, and con- sumption and can be divided into two broad areas of study: macroeconomics and microeconomics.
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This was inspired by user schlotzz Fridge Magnet On/Off Switch. I designed mine in Tinkercad and made slots to insert a HarborFreight magnet. This didn't require any glue as the magnet fits tight in the slot.
It works well to hold things to the fridge.
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I printed it on my MP Select Mini but its so small it can fit on any 3D printer.
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- SINK ACCESSORIES KIT: Keep your sink organized with magnetic accessories that adhere to the sidewalls of stainless steel or cast iron sinks.
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The true story of Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old black man on the last day of 2008, where his will to change is challenged by his past and the police. You've probably read and heard a lot about young black men's' encounters with the police, and for this reason, you might feel like skipping this film. Don't. Produced by Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker, it is compassionate and powerfully told, that it surpasses the sadness of its subject matter to be a celebration of life. It is an extraordinary film and important watch.
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A heart-breaking examination of a decaying shell of a once-bright marriage, this sad yet erotic-seeming story mixes happy flashbacks of attraction and desire with the grim reality of a dull life. It boosts an electrifying performance from Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling, who seamlessly combine tenderness, rage, lust and sadness. This is a guaranteed tear-jerker, so make sure you've brought your Kleenexes!
A dramatic take on the life and capture of Ted Kaczynski, popularly known as UNABOMBER(UNiversity and Airline BOMber) from the eyes of an FBI profiler. Kaczynski was responsible for 16 bombings, and it took 17 years for the FBI to catch him. To date, he's the target of the most expensive chase the FBI has ever launched. The show is not a mystery (facts are the matter of public domain) and doesn't even pretend to be one. Instead, it focuses on the complex motives of the UNABOMBER, as well as the bureaucracy that the FBI ran through trying to catch him. It's a really well-made, engrossing show that's hard not to watch in one take. It's 8 episodes of 40 minutes, so pick the time you start it wisely.


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So, I'm taking part in the 2019 Writers Cup because why not... and I thought I'd introduce you to Team B! Before I get started on the team members, let's first introduce you to our mighty leaders Vic aka nearly witches. and Molly aka youngblood.
As for my fellow Team B members! We have:
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◈ The Lost Prince
◈ Gods and Monsters
◈ The Earl and the Witch
◈ Time Bomb
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◈ A Siren
◈ Serendipity
Here's also some story recs for the leaders!
◈ Bloom by nearly witches.
◈ Tommy Guns by nearly witches.
◈ A Love Like War by youngblood.
◈ Olive Juice
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In the past two years, several new musicals have made their debuts on the Broadway stage, one of these new musicals being "Dear Evan Hansen." The Broadway phenomenon first appeared July 2015, eliciting an immediate reaction from the public. "Dear Evan Hansen" shares the story of a teenage boy with se...
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I am experimenting with some new lights for taking photographs. I am still figuring out the best positioning and intensity of the lights. But here is a knife you might like. Along with Fairbairns I have a strong attraction to big knives, choppers and Bowies. This Bowie has about a 10+ inch blade and was made by a skilled maker named Matt Lamey. I have a very nice collection of Lamey's knives which I have performed some test cutting and training with. Matt uses micarta (like in this knife) or nicely figured woods for handles. One of the things that sets off Matt's knives are the beautiful clay tempered hamons he creates on the blades. This hamon is actually fairly plain compared to some he has done. Terrific artistry. Maybe I'll post more photos of his work later.
The following Bowie is one I commissioned of a student who learned from Matt Lamey. Charlie Edmundsen made this to my specifications. He said it was the first Damascus knife he forged this big. I'd say he did a sweet job. It was also the first fighting style guard he had ever forged. It and the ferrule are also damascus, and formed to perfection for blade trapping. This photo was taken with my old lighting.


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If reading public speaking tips on blogs worked, we should all be fixed now. Just reading "how to" tips doesn't change us. So what does? Here is one public speaking tip that is really important.Read More
fear just got more interesting...
I have a wonderfully weird gig coming up in May. I'm talking to a group of women who are focussed on empowering women about public speaking and self-confidence. So it's an interesting challenge for me to tackle - mansplaining or what? So a part of me is a little scared, not of the public speaking, but of taking that space. I once appeared in front of a women's committee at my Student Union in the late Seventies. They were fairly radical feminists and it didn't go well. I should have been better prepared. I was only 19.
So this Bank holiday weekend I've got myself a pile of books on women and confidence and started to make notes.
Tara Mohr's "Playing Big, A Practical Guide for Brilliant Women Like You" is a great book. What I find compelling isn't just about women and confidence, because most of what she says also applies to men but she's really opened my eyes to a "new old" way of thinking about fear.
She writes about how the Hebrew Bible uses two different words for fear. The first is Pachad: this describes the fear of what might happen, the over-reactive irrational fear, which we know as anxiety. Our lizard brain is reacting. Most of us know this fear well. We want to avoid taking emotional risks. It's one of the main reasons why people come on my courses.
The second word is "Yirah"and we don't name this very often, if it all. And this is where it becomes really interesting.
"Yirahis defined in three ways:
1. The feeling that overcomes us when we inhabit a larger space than we are used to.
2. The feeling we experience when we suddenly come into possession of more energy than we had before.
3. What we feel in the presence of the divine."
So it's the fear of standing tall, of moving into a new space or way of being. The feeling of "OMG, am I really here to do this?" The fear of moving towards something you really want. The fear we experience when we step into our own power.
Tara writes "Yirah is the fear that shows up in those moments when we uncover a dream, access our real feelings about an important situation, or contemplate taking a big leap toward a more authentic life. We feel sacred awe, which has a kind of trembling in it."
Of course we often experience Pachad and Yirah together but it's worth unpacking them.
So how do you do that?
Tara writes
"1. Ask yourself: what part of this fear is pachad? Write down the imagined outcomes you fear, the lizard brain fears. Remember they are just imagined, and that pachad-type fears are irrational.
2. Savour yirah. Ask yourself: what part of this fear is yirah? You'll know yirahbecause it feels different. It has a tinge of exhilaration and awe –while pachad has a sense of threat and panic. You can savour it, knowing it's just a signal that tells you are touching sacred ground within. You can keep leaning into – even looking for – the callings and leaps that bring yirah."
There is a spiritual language here that I wouldn't normally use, but I think it is a really helpful way to re-think fear. I see this fear quite often on the second day of my courses.
A participant might say:
"Damn you, if I'm no longer scared of public speaking then I have no excuse, and there is nothing stopping me from doing what I want to do. That's differently scary!"
Now I can put a name to that fear.
It's Yirah and it's a fear we need to move towards. And I will be standing in Yirah for my speaking gig in May.
Wish me luck.
You don't have to live a life of fear… Your guide to avoiding avoidance
Are you one of those people who keeps avoiding facing up to difficult things?
If you're avoiding public speaking and presentations because they feel too scary then you might not be surprised to hear that avoidance actually grows the problem.
Dwelling in fear for any length of time isn't the answer.
Maybe if we could look at avoidance right between the eyes we could see that it is trying telling us something really useful.
My experience of teaching this over 18 years tells me is that if we face our fears in the right way, by taking the small steps outlined below, we CAN face that fear, we can liberate ourselves and we can live full, meaningful lives.
You probably know that by now that human beings are strange creatures. As a human being myself, I also do strange things. I'm not proud of myself. For years, I have actively avoided doing my tax return from September onwards. I say "active" as it's always lurking at the back of my brain, I know I should being do it.
Shortly after Jan 31st deadline I pay the £100 fine for a late return. Then on March 1st when the pressure is too much, I spend a week preparing to do my tax return. So I sort out my papers, tidy my desk, organise my music collection, and then on the 8th day of March I get down to doing it. Once I get started it's actually much easier than I thought it would be and two days later I've done it. It has only taken two days but I've been thinking about it for at least 9 months. And I also have to pay the late fine and any interest and possibly further penalities. I say to myself "next year will be different". And of course for years nothing changed.
So I know from both personal experience and from 18 years of teaching that avoiding things we find challenging really can really get in the way of our leading full and happy lives. It can affect our relationships and our self image. Take this kind of email that I get quite often:
"I have managed to avoid presentations most of my life but I have recently started a new job where I have to undertake presentations regularly. My first presentation is in two weeks and I already can't sleep and feel sick at the thought of it."
Or this from another client
"I have always had an intense fear of public speaking and have always made every effort to avoid it at all costs. I even struggle with less formal things like giving updates in team meetings.. This fear really hasn't served me well over the years in terms of work opportunities and job interviews, but I've just brushed it under the carpet, suffered in silence and tried to just accept that it's how I am.
However, a couple of weeks ago I completely fluffed a presentation at work and it really, really shook me. I've therefore decided to finally try and do something about my intense anxiety in the hope that I can one day no longer have the horrible, intense fear and physical symptoms I experience in the run-up to and during a speaking event."
Yet another client I worked with never attended university because of the fear of collecting her degree at the degree ceremony and being the centre of attention on stage.
Sometimes the strength of that avoidance can be brutal. Three different course participants are talking here about how strong their feelings are
"I'd rather have a snake thrown in my face than do public speaking"
" I'd rather be in the Congo, with armed guards than doing public speaking"
"I'd rather fight the Taliban than do public speaking"
So it's not just you that is struggling. We seem to want to avoid experiences that are difficult. Even when the avoidance is costly to ourselves. Ironically or perhaps tragically we are spending our lives dominated by the very anxiety, we are trying to avoid. How mad is that? The grim truth is that avoidance doesn't take the anxiety away, it just makes it bigger.
We avoid discomfort. And that has a profound effect on our lives
"the more we try to avoid discomfort, the more we base our actions on how we feel, rather than on what is most important in life. In other words, we avoid doing things that are important and life-enhancing because we are unwilling to make room for the uncomfortable thoughts and feelings that show up. And the more we choose action that gives us short-term relief from discomfort, rather than doing what enriches our lives in the long term, the smaller our lives tend to become."
Dr Russ Harris
What if we could change our relationship to avoidance?
What would happen if we became curious about the fear of public speaking rather than avoiding? Pema Chodron. a Buddhist teacher, has perhaps a surprising view on avoidance.
"Generally speaking, we regard discomfort in any form as bad news. But for people who have a certain hunger to know what is true - feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we're holding back. They teach us to perk up and lean in when we feel we'd rather collapse and back away. They're like messengers that show us, with terrifying clarity, exactly where we're stuck. This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it's with us wherever we are."
What if we moved from the idea that fear is a signal to stop everything to the idea that fear is the signal to start exploring. It's actually time to be curious rather than to hide! Fear then becomes a teacher. Telling us where we are stuck and where we need to do some work.
But to be clear I'm not suggesting we jump straight in at the deep end.
We need to tackle this in small steps, by breaking a complicated thing such as public speaking into small chunks. Then it's very possible to learn new ways of approaching it. The smaller the steps, the more possible it is to change something you have been worried about for years in a surprisingly short time.
We can move from threat to connection. From not wanting to be looked at to comfortable making eye connection with the audience. We can move from panic to ease.
A quick guide to avoding avoidance….
• that avoidance is normal. You are not unique. It's what humans do.
• anxiety makes us self-conscious and self focussed. And it distorts reality, not in our favour.
• the Evolutionary component of public speaking . We are evolutionary biased towards noticing threat. We needed that skill for survival. And we are very good at it.
• that is nothing wrong with you if you are fearful. 70% of population have fear around public speaking. Fear is normal
• that you really don't know what people are thinking, even if you think you do. You do not have that super-power.. They are as worried about themselves as you are about yourself. So you are special but NOT that important.
• that it's us holding us back. Me stopping Me. It's 97% about our own thinking and we have the power to change that.
• the idea that confident people don't feel fear is a myth. Confident people have a different relationship to fear but they still have fear. They may call it excitement or they know it's just part of the deal.
• confidence is something you need to practice rather than it just arrives. Confidence is really about trusting ourselves more.
See the bigger picture – take the focus away from being centred on you
• focus on how life could change if you could make these steps. What's more important than fear? I have had clients who took up dancing again, or became teachers, change their jobs, or ask their partners to marry them
• Move the focus away from yourself. Move your focus on to serving people. Be more interested in a cause or the issues than yourself.
Deeper Learning
• Learn about Mindfulness. Learn about how we are NOT our thoughts and that we don't need to get entangled with every single thought. That we can say "thank you but no thank you to our thoughts". Books and courses
• Learn about Public speaking. Find a course where the emphasis is on re-thinking the psychology around public speaking. That includes my courses, naturally but there are other people around the world. I can't be everywhere!
I've been running these courses for 18 years especially for people who have been avoiding public speaking.
We can do this in small steps too;
Read my website, Talk to me and ask me questions (that's why I run 30 minute free sessions). And then the whole course is broken down into small steps as you can read in these two bits of feedback.
"The course made me realise there are steps to achieving more confidence and the way they were broken down was really achievable and encouraging".
The course somehow seemed to challenge me without it feeling like much of a challenge. I had a brilliant group who were very supportive, which made me want to step outside my comfort zone. You are never pushed to do anything and it is hard to believe how such a gentle approach can be so effective. Sometimes small steps are massive...
I can't make you stop avoiding, that's completely down to you.
But I want you to know that it's very possible for anyone to change and take their place fully in the world. You really don't have to live in fear and avoidance.
Take a small step today.
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(Yes, I've sorted out my stuff about tax now. This year I didn't even pay the late fine! I'll never be an accountant but I'm on top of things now)
Most people know I'm not good enough to write this blog…..
"If people really knew what I was like they would find out that I'm fraud"
Ever had a similar feeling that you are going to be found out? That you don't really deserve your job or to be standing in front of an audience? Or even if you really know your subject somehow you know far less than the audience?
"Everyone else" we seem to think "is better than me"
In every group I run on public speaking these feelings are expressed by lots and lots of people
In her book Presence, Amy Cuddy expresses like this;
It's not simple stage fright or performance anxiety; rather it's the deep and sometimes paralysing belief that we have been given something that we didn't earn and don't deserve and at some point we'll be exposed"
When I was on a leadership course some years ago with 60 managers from the public, private and voluntary sector that I was amazed to find that every single manager talked about this feeling. They were going to be found out.
The trouble is with the impostor thinking is that it can undermine our confidence massively.
However the research quoted in Amy Cuddy's book shows that 70% of people experience this feeling. This impostor syndrome is incredibly common. It's so normal that it should be renamed as the "impostor experience" . And lots and lots of people have it. So relax, let go of that worry unless you really really truly are a fraud!
The fight/flight club...
About 10 years ago, I interrupted a burglary.
From my office window, I saw two men carrying things from a house in the distance and somehow I knew straight away that they were up to no good. I jumped out of my ground floor window (the door would have taken too long) and shouted as I ran towards the men 'Burglars, somebody help me" very loudly three times. I have a very loud voice for emergencies. And a neighbour joined me in pursuit. The house being robbed was occupied by two women, an elderly mum and adult daughter and they had been worried about security. I didn't sit back and think what happens if I confronted the burglars. I just ran towards them.By the time we had almost caught up with the burglars, we were chasing them into the church car park. The burglars got into a car and wildly accelerated their car towards us. We dived out of the way but my heart was racing out of my chest and it felt like a very surreal intense experience.We said to each other "remember their number plate" as the car left. I repeated it to myself two or three times.
But within minutes, I couldn't remember the number plate at all, we both had vastly differing accounts of how many men were involved and what had happened. We couldn't even remember what make the car was.
However for a couple of months I would remember the intensity of the chase and still be in shock. Unexpected tears would come. Not surprisingly we had gone through an extreme flight, fight, freeze reaction. The flight and fight reactions are instinctive, it's a set of survival responses that primes the body to respond to threat, so you go through neurological, behavioural and hormonal changes and its accompanied by negative emotions such as anxiety fear and anger.
I teach lots of scared people to face their fears and to change how they see public speaking. So I'm fascinated by how we as humans react to fear and threat. I think it's really worthwhile exploring how other groups of people deal with far more intense fear than public speaking so we can learn from them.
So let's just imagine guns being involved in that story. What would what would have been my body's reactions then. Last week I read about how American police react in a UOF (Use of force) situation and how the police can work better in high stress situations. (A Training Method to Improve Police Use of Force Decision Making, Judith P. Andersen, Harri Gustafsberg)
And I'm not talking a lot about the politics of their policing. How they react in extreme stress situations is of course very political, because of the amount of people that are killed by the police.
But here I'm just talking physiology.
When there is a real threat, or a perception of threat, our flight and fight reactions can start. Studies show that our perception gets massively affected as our heart rate increases.
We have changes in vision, sense of time changes and we hear less. Vision can be affected in three ways
- Reduced peripheral vision (tunnel vision).
- Distance only eyesight
- And forced binocular vision.
All three have dramatic consequences when you add guns. Tunnel vision is caused by restricted blood flow to the eyes and eye muscle contractions. The eye focuses on the source of threat with increased attention to detail while ignoring near objects.
Peripheral vision can decrease by 70%. And when that happens it takes 440% longer to react. That's scary. This starts to explain how the police (or anyone) start to make poor decisions when their flight and fight kicks in. The arousal also disrupts monocular vision, so a police person cannot close one eye to aim like they might do on the firing range. They can't focus on the gun sight because they can't do near vision. They can't aim properly. They have slower reaction times.
During fight or flight, heart rate increases, people either hyperventilate or hold their breath which affects the brain areas responsible for our fine motor skills. We lose dexterity, we get muscle tremors and loss of blood to our extremities. So aiming a gun becomes even harder. However the blood flows to the large muscle groups which means we get stronger - ready for the fight so we can kick, punch and run better.
The more you read about what happens at high heart rate the scarier it becomes. For the first time in my life I start to have some sympathy with American police! It's not surprising that the wrong things happen when we are operating at such intense heart rates and flight and fight reactions. "An officer may even look in the direction of the threat but not actually see what is going on or may repeatedly pull the trigger of an empty weapon, misidentify innocuous items as weapons or not see or hear innocent bystanders in the line of fire".
So we really need people like Professor Andersen who research approaches to calm the flight and fight reactions and train police in calming themselves down in a use of force situation.. I haven't been on her courses - I wouldn't be allowed! (I am in correspondence with Professor Andersen so I will be fascinated to hear more of what she has to say).
The training for the police consists of education about stress, biofeedback and breathing techniques, group instruction about how to use mental focus and visualisation to enhance situational awareness, practise in realistic scenarios, slowly to begin with and then becoming more realistic. I don't know her work in enough detail as yet but it makes a lot of sense when I compare how I train and what she does. But I don't hand out guns during my training, sorry if you are disappointed! (I did have a military participant in one group who said "I'd rather fight the Taliban than do public speaking")
What really struck me is their work on focus.
A small but important part of my coaching is to get people to move from a hard fear-based intense almost laser like focus (getting close to the tunnel vision) which is what happens to a lot of people whey they stand in front of an audience (or they can't even look at people) to a softer wider focus. So although you are still looking at people's faces you are also getting a wider focus so you are aware of the periphery around them. We've known this helps people relax in stressful situations for 17 years. What the police research seems to show is that it's counteracting what the brain instinctively wants to do which is to narrow focus when we are stressed. So part of the answer to public speaking stress is to relax our vision, with more peripheral looking you can help our natural flight and fight system to calm down.
I've just been reading another book called "Deep Survival - Who lives and who dies" by Laurence Gonzales. And that's all about how we react when things go wrong in the wilderness. He writes:
"Everyone begins with the same machinery, the same basic organism and when it's threatened whether in pursuit of pleasure, for duty, for honour or by accident, the organism reacts in predictable ways. It is only by managing and working with those predictable inborn reactions that you're going to survive. You can't fight them, because they are who you are"
So of course public speaking isn't as dangerous as police work or the wilderness (it might feel like it is). But we all need to manage, work with and accept our inbuilt reactions. We can think "it's just me who is broken" and that makes us feel smaller. But it's important and perhaps liberating for us to understand the big picture about fear. Fear is a human species story we all share. Fear is normal and we need to learn how to handle it better.
police shootings and public speaking?
What's the connection between shooting and speaking?. Well, Malcolm Gladwell in his book Blink, writes about the what happens to police officers in the USA under extreme stress. Tunnel vision, diminished sounds and the sense that time is slowing down. Under too much pressure "we get too aroused and past a certain point our bodies begin to shut down to many sources of information that we start to become useless"
After 145 heart beats per minute (bpm) complex motor skills begin to break down, after 175 bpm parts of the brain start shutting down, vision becomes restricted, we become clumsy, people even often fail to even dial 911 properly. Often people dial 411. So our thinking narrows.
Now in my public speaking workshops often people talk about blank minds and losing the ability to think clearly. Unlike being an American police officer this doesn't lead to the occasional wrongful shootings. Thank goodness. But it can lead to very unpleasant feelings - the feeling of being overwhelmed, or not being able to cope. Learning the right skills around public speaking and understanding more of what is going on helps us to reduce the stress levels massively so that the brain is not under stress and it doesn't give us a blank mind when we most need to be fully resourced and functioning.