Ctrl Alt WoW - The Podcast...: Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 831 - Super Charged Slots, What Art Though For

Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 831 - Super Charged Slots, What Art Though For

AprilPvd and Grand Nagus discuss Final Fantasy XIV, No Man’s Sky and Virtual Reality. Send an email to ctrlaltwow@gmail.com telling us how you play Virtual Reality and video games as an altoholic or dealing with it in your family life.

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Grand Nagus:

FFXIV:

I changed the character I mentioned last show that I transferred from EU to OCE, from Viera to Au ra and renamed her to Kranse Kage, a Danish marzipan based cake-like thing. And since its main ingredient is marzipan, I named her Chocobo Marcipan.

Glams:

Not sure about the shoes, either the first or the second. The first ones are the proper set shoes, the others are my alternate choice.

No Man’s Sky:

Finally figured out how to get Sentinel ships.

Looking forward to grinding some nice designs.

Guaranteed damage free frigate missions:

Make sure you stay TWO stars above the provided rating of the frigate mission.

Upgrades:

Make sure you supercharge the Reality De-threader and Expedition Speed module in your Freighter tech setup. The first adds 200ly to the range (+1000ly vs 800 uncharged) of your freighter’s range, and the second reduces your frigate’s mission duration by 44% (+15% uncharged)

Starship damage loadout with three supercharged slots (A-Class):

And after the upgrade to S-Class with four supercharged slots:

The Damage Potential stat didn’t change, but I got more than 7,000 DPS more out of the main weapon.

Got my base ship to S-Class.

AprilPvd in VR:

No Man’s Sky

I went through almost 1000 crystallized helium upgrading various businesses in my settlements. I figured it would be the fastest way to get them to make money and be profitable. My autophage settlement was losing money handover fist so I decided to jump my freighter to a purple system so I can also gather different gases. But when I went to drop my freighter I got this error: RESONANCE MATRIX REQUIRED! Which made me realize I hadn’t finished adding all the necessary materials to my resonance matrix so I had to go out and farm some more Atlantideum and Quartzite

Ships

I decided to archive some of my ships because I wanted to go looking for other ships to take apart. I did forget to take some things out of inventory before archived.

Then I decided that I wanted to get all of my S class ships ready to be used at any moment.

I bought a bunch of wiring looms and then I had to get out my starter dough of Emeril and Cadmium

and then go to an Atlantium planet to get that stuff and radiant shards. Some of it I did VR and some

I did on my laptop. I love that convenience of NMS.

Debriefing Bug in VR

I ended up losing a ship that I built because I tried to trade it to a pilot and then recruit the pilot. The pilot never went to the ship after I traded it and it was just there for me to buy. I was waiting for a pilot to take over but instead, it went up into the ceiling and I couldn’t reach it.

The next day I thought that maybe my Alt could buy the ship once I traded it so I tried it with the squid ship and the pilot went over to the ship after I traded it, and I was able to hire him to be in my squadron. It was a shame because the squid ship was really decked out with everything.