Grinding
No I’m not referring to grinding in terms of what they do in metalworks, or your pelvic actions, but grinding in games. Back in WoW (World of Warcraft) vanilla days, apart from going on raids at weekends with the online guilds, every other second spent in WoW was grinding. Be it grinding for online gold to buy an expensive piece of gear or faction reputation to get more online goodies. I have have spent several years of my life doing this. After finally deleting my WoW and Blizzard account at the beginning of last year, I thought my grinding days were over. Never did I expect that I would need to grind whist playing The Division on my PS4.
Let me tell you where I’m at in the game. I’ve reached the level cap of 30, done all the main missions, side missions, and the other simple mission task, got ALL the intel dotted around the map, and I’m are Dark Zone level 37. So where’s the grind? If I’m fortunate to get a group of friends together online, then we go into the higher levels of DZ to grind out higher level mobs to get the chance of high-end gear drops (rare), raise my DZ level up to at least 50 so I can purchase blueprints to craft high-end gear, or get extra Phoenix points to buy high-end gear. Playing solo is the same, but at lower levels of the DZ. Either way, you’re walking back and forth in the DZ just grinding out AI mobs. There’s an element of suspense as you don’t know if the other PvP players you encounter in the DZ will shoot you. Oh, and if you die in the DZ, your DZ level goes down. In 8 hours of solo gameplay I went from DZ level 35 to 37, whilst in the same period in a group (that’s if you can convince your friends to play that long) I’d probably hit 38-39.
Actually I should not be playing this game according the medical warning at the start of the game, informing you that due to lighting effects within the game, any player experiencing dizziness, nausea, prone to epileptic fits should stop playing and seek medical advice. I do get dizzy going back and forth, up and down stairs in the game, which is probably a good reason to stop grinding for a few days. Just a few days though as the first free DLC ‘Falcon Lost’ will be released on Tuesday, April 12.
DoggyTLK
I received an email a few days ago from DoggyTLK, that was in amongst the hundreds of spam emails I get every day.
Apparently, from further testing and listening to feedback from users, they have concluded that the current rubber holder in which the dog tracker is placed does not provide enough support, resulting in the tracker falling out. I never noticed this until the missus told me its happened once or twice already.
So, instead of releasing a new rubber holder for their next product update, they are going to ship a newly designed one to me! Now thats customer service!
The DoggyTLK tracker is still working perfectly, the original battery I put in still shows over 85% charge after several months use. After syncing with my smartphone, the app only confirms my suspicions of my dog, Mylo, being one of the laziest dogs on this planet by sleeping at least 16 hours per day, which explains why his photo album is primarily of him sleeping on the floor, sofa or bed, in various positions.
