VLOG: Battery Farming
January 4, 2019 by crew
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Thanks for sharing all these changes and plans with us. Quite interesting to see where you are going. The Visitor’s Center looks great!
Looking good guys. Look forward to seeing the final transformation. Have a great weekend ?
So is there no weekender this weekend then?
I don’t think so. It might be worth setting up a new forum topic to ask
Looks like you’re really making some improvements. Can’t wait until the new content starts coming out. Have you guys ever considered selling off some of the games, miniatures, books, etc in the studio? Looks like everything is really crammed in there. You could have a Backstage sale and use that money for even better equipment.
Looking forwards to spending 2019 with you also, and for keeping things fresh.
Looking at the battery farm makes me think that it’s great that you’ve created a business where you can do your own thing instead of being crammed into a small office and stuck in a featureless cubicle…wait…uhm…oh…dear.
If it is a “zoo” feel you’re going for with the “pens” and the viewing window in the door from the visitors centre while not take it further… you could sell little bags of Anzac biscuits by the tills to go round and feed them with, maybe an adoption board to help support their upkeep…
“Adopt a beastie today” …
“Please do not feed our Beasties anything other than proper Anzac biscuits”
😉
I’m not sure if this in line with labour protection law.
First no daylight.
There is no requirement under UK health and safety regulations to provide natural daylight in an office, though it would be awful to work in a place where there isn’t any
So BoW HQ is awful? Because there really isn’t a room with a window in the whole place.
I guess you just can’t have it all. 🙂
To be fair, mandating a minimum amount of sunlight in the UK would be as viable as mandating a maximum amount of rain. ?
LOL
I do know of people working in warehouses etc that only get to see the sun during their lunch break as they go to and from work in dark and there was a study that shows productivity goes up if there is natural sunlight getting into a building rather being stuck under fluorescent lighting all day
Well you wouldn’t want to work with me then!
I work, (USA) in an installation 650 ft underground. ‘Zero’ natural light. We go down under at 06:45 and come up at 15:30.
For those interested……..
We’ve transformed old salt caverns into storage Bays with 11ft high ceilings. Each Bay is about 50ft wide and 300ft long. Currently we have about 107 of these ‘Bays’ that stretched out over about 2 miles of corridors. We store a lot of Hollywood’s original film content in our constant climate of 68 deg fahrenheit and below 40% humidity.
So I ran across some video that the History Channel shot at our underground operations. This is just a short piece of their show but you get the idea of what its like down there. I hope this link works…
https://youtu.be/siqZpdPwGvA
Please tell me you own this place and I can move OTT in there lol 😉
Not the owner! Just an employee.
It is pretty cool working there.
Almost as cool as working for an Internet company that does anything and everything with tabletop gaming! ?
That looks badass!
It might be well enough solved with 5000k LED strips for the color range as well as showing off models. This is definitely a “You know what else you could do?” removed from the situation. Good work guys. We’ll standby for the reveal
Dunno why, but I was expecting the monitors to be hanging from the ceiling on arms rather that shelving, lol. ?
What minis were in front of @dracs? Looked to big to be hobbitsies.
Surely the sign on the battery farm door should say to keep it locked – you don’t want your editing chickens to flee the coop after all. ?
~5:15 was @warzan channeling Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life? ?
The remodeling looks interesting. I guess you have to do something to fit everything in while the team keeps growing.
Looking forward to the awesome content you will make with this new set-up.
One suggestion – a lick of paint on the “not-cages” to remove the industrial grey-look so its less demoralising on the “hens” 😉
Can’t wait to take a seat in my cage and lay some ‘content eggs’ for everybody 😀
Looks great guys, one question though. With all the equipment your packing into one or two smalls rooms what are you doing to make sure no circuits get blown from the power drawl? I didn’t see any UPS but they could have been hidden away. I worked on a Help Desk that had a similar workbench loaded with PCs, monitor and switches. We would lose half the buildings power if someone used the microwave without unplugging equipment first.
Oh you adopt the interior design of a forge world.
Cant wait to see how they change justin into a servitor. Maybe replace his hand with the angle grinder ?
Looking Great guys!
Looks great. Love it. ?
Those shelves are great, and as you say, they can take some weight! I helped set up that exact kind at work, but the edges can be sharp. You might want to do something about that if you want people working that close to them.
Looking forward to next weekend.
Yeah, another point. There are plate edge protective strips in u-form available for this.
Any plans to clean up the cabling coming down from the plenum? Maybe not immediately, but when you have some time.
Worried about Warren’s “…recession proof” comment, sounds like rent is getting too high at BoW HQ.
Lloyd was pretty close to walloping his head when he leapt out of his battery cage. OTT caps will need to be compulsory working attire going forward!!
But where is the Weekender?! XD
do not mention the Weekender 😉
If I say it three times in front of a mirror, will it appear?
God your work spaces specially Sam’s look awfully Familiar
you are fair getting things organised warzan.
toot-toot-toot-ta-toot… and no Hnunga!?
Either way, looks like a fun job and great on the BoW team for making what they felt was missing in your local area!