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Posted at
5 minutes ago, jagsba said:

so you want some sort of comparison between two numbers... a sort of rate at which one A wing makes cut compared to others. A conversion rate, if you will.

sure, in the sense that i'd be interested to see if 5A lists made it more than 1A lists. But with 40% of the pre-cut data missing, and with such small sample sizes there are plenty of issues with the data.

Edited by powersink
Posted at
10 minutes ago, FlyingAnchors said:

It just keeps going round in circles...

It keeps being rolled without re-rolling... Should we start this conversation here too? I bet we could really get things rolling in this forum.

Posted at
42 minutes ago, Brunas said:

@Kieransi can you make travis bot work in the thread?

Do what you want man

Posted at
7 minutes ago, LagJanson said:

It keeps being rolled without re-rolling... Should we start this conversation here too? I bet we could really get things rolling in this forum.

Sure, I'll give it a roll.

Our house ruling is no, Magva cannot stop Han. She specifically works on rerolls and Han is specifically not a reroll for the purpose of other effects, which would include Magva; thus, Han can still trigger.

Posted at
4 minutes ago, Npmartian said:

Sure, I'll give it a roll.

Our house ruling is no, Magva cannot stop Han. She specifically works on rerolls and Han is specifically not a reroll for the purpose of other effects, which would include Magva; thus, Han can still trigger.

Midnight does work though since Han does not say his reroll is no longer treated as a dice mod. :)

Posted at
4 minutes ago, Hiemfire said:

Midnight does work though since Han does not say his reroll is no longer treated as a dice mod. :)

True, which is why I continue to live in fear. Speak softly and carry a Lothal Rebel to try and nuke the little bastard.

Posted at
12 minutes ago, Npmartian said:

Sure, I'll give it a roll.

Our house ruling is no, Magva cannot stop Han. She specifically works on rerolls and Han is specifically not a reroll for the purpose of other effects, which would include Magva; thus, Han can still trigger.

Agreed.

7 minutes ago, Hiemfire said:

Midnight does work though since Han does not say his reroll is no longer treated as a dice mod. :)

Agreed.

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Posted at

Fun counters to Midnight are Kagi and Juke. Kagi, of course, eats his lock away from his preferred target. As for Juke "Oh, I can't modify my dice. OK, I won't spend the evade. That's because I'm SAVING IT FOR YOUR DICE!!!!! AAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA! WHERE IN YOUR ABILITY TEXT DOES IT SAY I CAN'T TURN YOUR EVADE TO A FOCUS? My, the turntables, as just a few words completely change an ability's nuances!"

Aside from those two and a few other examples I can think of, I'm too scared of flying Midnight. Opponents nattying are not uncommon and rolling a single paint on 3 defense dice seems way too frequent.

Posted at
12 minutes ago, player3010587 said:

Fun counters to Midnight are Kagi and Juke.

having 4+ ships tends to work pretty well too, haha.

Poor midnight.

Posted at
2 minutes ago, Brunas said:

having 4+ ships tends to work pretty well too, haha.

Poor midnight.

Afterburners and a 2nd Upsilon can help that problem out. But if you're flying 2U, the only correct answer is with Quickdraw. Midnight works best as a pocket ace with QD, Scorch, and Tavson.

Posted at
5 minutes ago, player3010587 said:

Afterburners and a 2nd Upsilon can help that problem out. But if you're flying 2U, the only correct answer is with Quickdraw. Midnight works best as a pocket ace with QD, Scorch, and Tavson.

https://listfortress.com/tournaments/451

John Haines played:

Petty Officer Thanisson
Lieutenant Tavson
Kylo Ren

I kinda love it.

Posted at
1 hour ago, jagsba said:

God. I thought 1/cm was disrespectful because only chemists use it, but 1/furlongs is next level.

Your wavenumber disrespect is ... strong? I don’t know, man. I didn’t realize that my kind were the only ones using it, though.

At least we’re not working in Fahrenheit, like engineers apparently do.

Posted at
1 minute ago, Brunas said:

https://listfortress.com/tournaments/451

John Haines played:

Petty Officer Thanisson
Lieutenant Tavson
Kylo Ren

I kinda love it.

*Insert typical post about how non-US metas are strange or how he's just good and flexing with a silly list.*

In all seriousness, I stand corrected. This is why he made Top 4 in his regional and I did not.

Posted at
26 minutes ago, PaulRuddSays said:

Your wavenumber disrespect is ... strong? I don’t know, man. I didn’t realize that my kind were the only ones using it, though.

At least we’re not working in Fahrenheit, like engineers apparently do.

I only know wavenumbers from physical chemistry. I've never used it in the real world.

Posted at
28 minutes ago, PaulRuddSays said:

Your wavenumber disrespect is ... strong? I don’t know, man. I didn’t realize that my kind were the only ones using it, though.

At least we’re not working in Fahrenheit, like engineers apparently do.

#notallengineers

I use both, because I work in the US for a foreign company 😉

…but I’m also not that type of enigineer

Posted at

Kylo is good.

Are the people ready to believe yet?

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Posted at
29 minutes ago, PaulRuddSays said:

Your wavenumber disrespect is ... strong? I don’t know, man. I didn’t realize that my kind were the only ones using it, though.

At least we’re not working in Fahrenheit, like engineers apparently do.

2 minutes ago, Biophysical said:

I only know wavenumbers from physical chemistry. I've never used it in the real world.

Frequencies in Hz make some sort of sense as they're used all over the place, but the second you talk to a chemist it becomes wavenumbers and at least I don't have a reference for it.

Posted at
4 minutes ago, Biophysical said:

I only know wavenumbers from physical chemistry. I've never used it in the real world.

It’s not really a practical unit. I used them in grad school, but only because we worked with a computational group. We used nm for everything internally.

Also, strong science representation in this thread, apparently!

Posted at
2 minutes ago, jagsba said:

Frequencies in Hz make some sort of sense as they're used all over the place, but the second you talk to a chemist it becomes wavenumbers and at least I don't have a reference for it.

Wave numbers are basically good when you don’t have a starting point and need to provide an absolute energy. I don’t know who you’re talking to (outside universities) that would actually use them, though......

Posted at
5 hours ago, Chumbalaya said:

Bob Bob Bob

WAT WAT WAT

Posted at
12 minutes ago, Boom Owl said:

Kylo is good.

Are the people ready to believe yet?

Maybe

Posted at
19 minutes ago, PaulRuddSays said:

Wave numbers are basically good when you don’t have a starting point and need to provide an absolute energy. I don’t know who you’re talking to (outside universities) that would actually use them, though......

yup, that's pretty much my point.

Posted at
3 hours ago, jagsba said:

so you want some sort of comparison between two numbers... a sort of rate at which one A wing makes cut compared to others. A conversion rate, if you will.

The average list to make the cut with an rz2 had 2.4 of them in the list. So it seems like it's more than just lulo being really good.

Posted at
3 hours ago, powersink said:

sure, in the sense that i'd be interested to see if 5A lists made it more than 1A lists. But with 40% of the pre-cut data missing, and with such small sample sizes there are plenty of issues with the data.

What do you mean by "40% of precut data missing"?