Tuesday, August 18, 2026

Ctrl Alt WoW AprilPvd Episode 876 - Multiplay Your Way

AprilPvd shares her retirement experience. Send an email to ctrlaltwow@gmail.com telling us how you manage life in retirement. Discord: https://discord.gg/5dtHtHCu

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No Man’s Sky

Wednesday

Still No No Man’s Sky

Palworld 1.0

Wednesday

I got so much done on Wednesday. The third tower quest started at the beach, but ended up way up in the mountains and there was some issues with intense heat. Both Aprillian and April Pvd got flying mounts and I learned how to use them. They aren’t a complete cure because they do suffer from stamina, but they helped a lot Aprillian even found coal up in the mountains which was good because they need it for the ingots they are going to need. April Pvd dismantled the first base and then went scouting for a resource base to get ore. At first the pals she put at the base weren’t mining the ore and then I realized I needed to get pals with higher ore rating. Then I started mult-boxing because I needed food at the resource base so while I was on one, I brought the other in on the flatscreen and had them and one of their party pals worked the cooking.

Thursday

I am really getting the hang of flying. I got to the third tower with April Pvd but of course it’s very tough and I died twice. I went looking for coal for the special ingots.

Friday

I had a blast playing Aprillian trying to get her up a little higher so I could do a box the third tower together. I was taking her into various dungeons to get COAL when I found the B garden which drops honey when you put it on the farm so I was able to get honey for the cakes to get the pals to mate.

Saturday

I decided to try a community server. The idea came to me while I was working out of course because when I work out, I think of a great idea. well, I gravitate towards multiplayer games. I do end up playing solo a lot even in No Man’s Sky, but there was the possibility of running into people and of course playing with my alts. So I looked for a server and found one that I thought would be good. Not busy and I logged in with both April Pvd and Aprillian and I added an X to the end of each of their names differentiate. I did make one mistake in that I had Aprillian join April Pvd guild and then April Pvd logged off, but I forgot to promote Aprillian and so for the first half an hour or so I could not put a pal box down because I wasn’t promoted in the guild. At first, I thought it was because there was a lot of bases around, but then I figured it out so I left the guild created another guild and then brought April Pvd in to join my guild. And that worked, although that means I went a little bit further out to make my first base. It was interesting because there was some text chatter. Next time I go in, I’m gonna turn on voice chat I don’t think I had that turned on. I love the mechanics of starting over but the whole time I was thinking of really should get back to my other. Which I did. My goal on that server is to level up, Aprillian she can join April Pvd in battling the third tower and also figuring out which pet to bring into power up. She went into a couple of dungeons and got some really good stuff and some really good pets and she found the pets that she need to complete some of the side missions. So that was good. She got some books in the dungeons to give her technology points, but she put it in a chest for April Pvd. Since she’s higher, she can use them.

Sunday

There is an oil rig near my main base and I never investigated it. I don’t know why I just thought it was something dangerous and then I saw something on. I think it must’ve been a YouTube channel about them or maybe it was on Facebook but anyways, it turns out that there is a lot of stuff to explore on the syndicate oil rig and there’s a lot of goodies to get. I thought it would’ve been harder, but I actually did pretty good and I had a lot of fun exploring it and there is one big chest that has a lot of good stuff and then there’s a whole bunch of small chest and I also captured some of the syndicate guys that I’m gonna use to compress into my main person that I have on my base, he’s a merchant guy so I like having him there because I can buy from him and then I’ll be able to use these guys to compress and I had a good time fighting it. It’s a really challenging battle because you do have to pay a lot of attention but at the same time it’s it’s so much goodies and I found out that they respond like every 24 hours or so so I’m gonna have to make a visit there more often and you’re leveling up your pets and you’re loving up a lot of things so it’s something I’m gonna do again in the future.

I joined a girls Facebook group for Pal world and it was really interesting. It’s all women and someone suggested doing a server and they wanted it to be 18+ and one of them really nice women volunteered to set up a paid server because we discussed other ways of doing it, and at one point I had mentioned that you know I had a dedicated server, but I wasn’t comfortable opening up the ports and then I was thinking about sharing the server that I had with Grand Nagus because we haven’t been on in a while, but one of them stepped up and found a server for six dollars a month, which isn’t bad. I’m paying $14 for the one that Grand Nagus and I are using so I joined them and I made a character and this was Sunday night. It was already past my bedtime, but I wanted to try this and it was interesting. There’s instead of voice chat we use discord I’m on discord and my headphones while running the quest line and we made some discussion. Some people wanted to do a guild, but my main concern with doing a guild and that I have found from running a guild with April Pvd and Aprillian is that you end up having to share the base and we don’t know if everybody’s gonna be on at the same time and some peoples ideas are different than other people plus the other problem is that you you will need to put your pals away if you’re not gonna be on if somebody’s not gonna be there to feed them because the Powers will starve I’ve learned that the hard way so there was some talk about different things in different ways to do things particularly one thing that somebody wanted to do was a mod which I don’t have any information on mods I haven’t even trying to do mods on on any power version that I’m playing so that would be interesting to try, but we’ll see what happens we played for over an hour and I went out and made my own base while listening to the different ideas some people had already gotten their couches up pretty high and I realize that I’ve been playing a very very slow version but it’s OK because I’m having fun and it was just interesting to be on a server with other people and talking to them on discord at the same time. I guess this is the equivalent of being on a shard on World of Warcraft but we’ll see how that goes. I got a little far enough to get my own base and level up for a little bit, but then it got late and I ended up logging off.

Monday

I am a little conflicted about playing with founders I really like having a certain goal, but I also like you know being around other people it would be nice to have a guild so on Monday I had did a lot of dual boxing. I kept one character doing one thing logging in while the other character went around to do some other things one of the things that I was doing was finding some more of the pets that the pal critics want you to show them and I had some pets That Aprillian had and some pets that April Pvd had so I was going through both of them while they were both on one on the flatscreen while I was in VR one of the things that Aprillian had done that I was really happy with was she had found something called quartz that April Pvd needed to make circuit boards the product Line. The quest line in this game is really intriguing because of course as you level up, you’re gonna need more things as you need more things you’re gonna have to go out further and what’s been interesting is each character has been exploring in a different place and so one of them has found things that the other one didn’t find and it’s working out Millie well for me and this quartz was something that April Pvd needed to make her next piece of equipment to level up the base and so that was kind of exciting because each time you level up the base you get more the number of pals that you can have on the base and then you also get the ability to have more Basis so as the as Sunday went along, I played a lot. I was on almost all day and it was so much fun and I got a lot of things done, including leveling up the base and getting more or from my resource base that is working out pretty well and yeah, I’m really loving that

Of course I also did my VR workout on Monday, but I ended up playing a lot of Pal world and it was really really good. I got very far. I got them April Pvd up to 41 which was really important because she got the guilt chest. she actually went out to fight a really hard boss and died a couple of times and killed some of her pals that she had with her and then what I did was, I came back to that same area where the boss was just one of the bosses that are in a circle and this time what she did was, she actually captured some of the pals around the boss and they seem to be of a level and a resource that can fight that particular boss and she went in and she was able to defeat the boss and that was that was really a lot of fun. She also got her base up to level 15, which meant at level 14 she got the maximum number of powers you can have out of base which you can set you can change in the settings if you want to, but I was just doing the regular setting and I’m also upgrading a lot of of my pals resource abilities by using the power upgrade base there’s so many different things to make. She also made a brand new electric kitchen, which is gonna allow her to make pizza which has a lot of bonuses on it and I’m learning how to delegate the different pals to where they need to be used the best and it has really been a good week for playing. It’s been a good week for me learning stuff. I think I may go back to that community server the one that the women from the Facebook group set up, but I’m not sure I kinda like doing my own thing and I’m also looking forward to playing with Grand Nagus again. This game is so good and there’s so much to it and I’m just at the middle and I’m only you know into the third tower I’m hoping this week that I can learn more about upgrading my abilities and being able to take out that boss, but it has been a lot of fun and I look forward to the rest of the week. Thanks for listening. You can email us at ctrlaltwow@gmail.com and follow us on Twitch. I sometimes stream on Twitch TV/that April Pvd and of course that Twitch.TV/controller wow and then you can find the show notes but this episode that controllerwow.com thanks for listening and I will talk to you next week.

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Wednesday, August 12, 2026

Ctrl Alt WoW AprilPvd Episode 875 - You Get a Server and You Get a Server

AprilPvd shares her retirement experience. Send an email to ctrlaltwow@gmail.com telling us how you manage life in retirement. Discord: https://discord.gg/5dtHtHCu

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AprilPvd in VR:

No Man’s Sky

Lots of speculation since 10 year anniversary is coming up on August 9. It’s weird that there hasn’t been an emoji. But they are announcing something called Cosmos.

Palworld 1.0

Wednesday

Play PW with Grand Nagus and it was so much fun. I was so excited when after we recorded last week episode of Ctrl Alt WoW Final Fantasy 14 Grand Nagus stated that he wanted to play with me and so I tried to get him to join my dedicated server. I thought I had set up everything so that he would be able to join. There’s a whole bunch of stuff about port forwarding and it didn’t work and so we weren’t able to play on Tuesday. I fool around and read some other things about it, but then I came upon something about a paid dedicated server and at first, I was like do I really want to get hooked up on this is gonna be a scam is it gonna really work but I tried it and for $14 a month and this was just a test I was able to get a server that on Wednesday we both joined and we were able to play together. It was really a lot of fun we played like and I think six hours I know we played three hours and then I took a break and then I came back and we played for a couple more hours. Grand Nagus kept on playing we got to I think level 12 at one point we set up a base we work together we leveled up the power box. It was Millie Millie, a lot of fun and it worked seamlessly everything we did together once we set up a guild I think it’s called Cal guild and Grand Nagus is the guild master and it just it was so much fun. We were actually talking on Zoom although I’m gonna try to figure out a way we can talk in the game because although I was streaming it, it was hard to hear Grand Nagus‘s voice in the in the stream, but I’m really glad I tried this like I said I was a little bit wary of it and in the long run $14 a month isn’t that much if it allows me to have a server that people can join us and I’m not exposing my system to my home system to outside forces plus this will allow me to keep my dedicated service from my gameplay and yeah, it’s kind of interesting. The thing is that you do you do have the option of turning it on pausing it and starting it and pausing it, which is nice because I was worried about that on my own dedicated server. I asked I talked about this last week that I accidentally left it running, and then I came back and all my pals were all upset. Someone depressed one of the humans had an ulcer so you know it’ll be nice to be able to pause it when I need to.

Thursday

Attempted to open up the port forwarding so I could use one of my computers for the dedicated server. But I always feel nervous about doing that and then I finally realized that the $14 a month to host a server was worth not having to stress out about changing the settings on my home Internet.

I did a bunch of exploring, opened up a new section of the map and caught some more pets plus went into a dungeon to get coal

Pictures from my base tour

I did some breeding and here’s my map of where I put this particular base.

Every day before I play PalWorld I like to go over what I did the next day in the Podcast. This way, the information that you’re getting is fresher in my mind what I was doing before was just taking notes and then trying to read through my notes all at once when I recorded the day, I would publish the podcast, but I think this works a lot better so I’m back in on Thursday and I’m looking at what the group of pals in my base can do and kind of checking off some of the things off of the pals that I need to do specific things it’s an interesting concept and it’s it’s a lot of things to learn in this game and some people might find it tedious but I find it very interesting. I learned a lot yesterday. One of the things I did was I have two cooking pots. One is an advanced one, and if I set it upright, then my pet will feed themselves so what I have to do is make sure that when I set up some food to be cooked that it says that it’s going to be carried can be carried by the pals back to the food chest, they’ll store it there and one of the things I had to do on the food test was to make sure that I only allowed it to store food because if I allowed it to store ingredients, they would eat the wrong ingredients now the problem with eating the more ingredients is that they will not get as much nutrients and that one little coat thing called SAN that gives them their sanity so you wanna make sure that the food has enough SAN to keep them from going crazy and to keep them working productively so I had one of the fire pit working to make food for me, and I had unchecked carry the food back, not realizing that it would somehow confuse them and they wouldn’t carry the food back from the next one so I came back after going into try fighting another fighting the original tower again to see if I got anything extra and when I got back, my pals were starving so I fixed that part and it’s it’s a learning experience and I had a lot of fun doing other things. I also did some. I went out and caught a lot of pets and I also fool around with the pet compression machine, which allows you to take a bunch of different pets and combine them to make your main pet even better and it’s really a cool system because you it makes you go out and capture more pets and while you’re capturing more pets, you’re also leveling up and that’s two of my focuses right now or to level up my character and level up my base. I’m at the point where my base cannot go another level because I have to level up enough to access the things I need to level my base up.

Friday

I got back on Aprillian and it’s so cool because she has access to the things on the base that April Pvd has built up. At one point I swapped back-and-forth so that April Pvd could make her a better shield and April Pvd had upgraded her outfit and so she put it in one of the chest so that Aprillian could retrieve it along with a good shield. April Pvd had put an egg in the hatcher and Aprillian got it out and it was a really cool electric zebra thing and she used some of her books to upgrade it so that I can provide electricity for the base. Now that April Pvd is putting in more equipment that will need electricity. The whole thing is so fascinating. Then a brilliant try to do that second tower three times and I decided to try dual boxing it. So I put a brilliant on my laptop and Apple Pvd in VR. I made the mistake of not moving a brilliant and she was actually killed during the fight, but April Pvd was able to revive her. Then I tried it again and this time I put a brilliant in a corner and after she released her pet April Pvd was doing most of the fighting and she was able to win. I could also see when the Aprillian’s pet died and then I could reach over and cycle through her pets and pull out another one. It was so much fun.

Saturday

Of course, since it was Saturday, I did my workout in VR.

It was my normal routine 2.7 miles with 6698 steps in one hour and 56 minutes. It was a little bit longer than usual because Holofit has these challenges where you have to complete these different activities for each month. It’s something different and it makes me stay on the elliptical a little bit longer and push a little bit longer. It’s another advantage to VR. I actually got a new hat for my avatar.

Zenith

It was the second Saturday of the month, which meant that I did the Zenith cosmetic craze. We had a nice turnout and it was a lot of fun. I try to play characters that don’t already have cosmetics. I ended up pulling out of mage that I hadn’t played in a while. There was another mage there and I was telling her how the mage in Zenith is my least favorite type mainly because it’s so hard to hold my arms to shoot. She said even harder than the Blade and I said oh I love the Blade because I’m moving around and I’m actually getting exercise. The mechanics in Zenith are so good.

But of course, my main focus was on PalWorld. the whole time I was working out I was thinking of different ideas. When I finally logged off of Zenith, I jumped on Aprillian because I wanted her to do some exploring like I had done with April Pvd. I ended up exploring even more with Aprillian but I still didn’t find the third tower. She did level quite a bit and ended up getting more pets and enough so that she could do the second expedition.

Sunday

On Sunday, Grand Nagus and I work together on my dedicated server that I pay $14 a month. It’s not that bad. It’ll be fun and you know I had I think I mentioned that I decided to use it instead of trying to open up a port into my home network and it worked really well. We had a lot of fun with working. We working on our bases. We started out with One and now we have two and going through all the different quest lines together is really nice. It’s just like being back in World of Warcraft. Grand Nagus I guess it was and so he had a lot of information and I learned things and he learned things and it was just really good to play with another person and I’m looking forward to the next time we get to play together we took down some bosses. We got some new pets. We learned how to set how to put the right piles into our bases and we got to a point where one base that we had made by Nagus picked the perfect area and we had to pull out the biggest pals because we were getting raided right after we put the base down or not long after we created the base so we just put in the best and biggest pals, and they were able to fight off the raid Raiders and yeah, we had a lot of fun, especially once we both got out and we were able to ride around and the best part is when either of us died in a battle we could be by each other so that was kind of neat.

Monday

Monday, I took Aprillian out because I wanted to get her a little bit more leveled up and she actually opened up some areas that April Pvd had not been to. she also went a little bit further, and I realized that the map was opening up for both her and April Pvd, and she also noticed that she was getting closer to the marker for the next quest line which was to find out more information about the next tower. Now we are done two towers. The towers are dungeons where you go in and fight one boss and then we have run into other dungeons which are more like dungeons in World of Warcraft where you run through when you gather stuff up and you fight things and there’s also a couple of places where there’s just a portal in the middle of the area and you go in and there’s just one boss fight in there. I just wanna apologize for my voice. I seem to be coming down with a cold and a nice sound awful but I just wanna talk about power world and how much I have been enjoying this game so I got a brilliant to that point where is she now has opened up the next quest line to get to the tower, but I logged off and then I brought in April Pvd so she could go out there and do the same thing so it’s kind of fun. It’s kind of you know I love doing class. I love following the breadcrumbs and I love, figuring this out and we also leveled up on both characters and opened up some more things on our bases you know because as you level up the base you get all these different things that you need to build for the base to level up your power box which right now I’m at level 13 and I’ve got to and I’ve got two bases and like a bunch of 12 pounds and I’m doing the expeditions as well which brings in a lot of good mats and I’m also leveling up my power learning which is really important the power learning gets you things like making faster for you to make things there’s also some things about it for the expedition and I have gotten to a point where I can make some different resources so I went back to my original base and I tore it down and now I’m going to try in next weeks episode to build a base specifically or as a resource base. I’m also upgrading all the beds and I’m doing some making cakes so I can mate my pals. I think I’m gonna close out now cause you can see I sound awful, but I’m loving power world and I hope you get to play it and enjoy it as much as I have. Oh my gosh, I’m so awful.