Ctrl Alt WoW - The Podcast...: Ctrl Alt WoW NMS Episode 870

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

AprilPvd in VR:

No Man’s Sky

Tuesday

I’ve decided to focus on doing three missions a day on Sebastian who is Royal and going to keep this save and Aprillian who is Sage in the underdog. Tuesday, I’m mostly did Sebastian and worked on his freighter. I also popped in on a couple of other freighters because I can’t resist. I also got him a couple of more frigates as well.

Wednesday

I found two guys with the unknown graves each time I would have each of my characters join me in game. I went to the grave first and it was cool because they could also see it.. April Pvd and Aprillian Had one each, but the other two didn’t have any, so Sebastian got his first glyph and then the second one with Aprillian. But that’s when a weird thing happened. Before I logged off character, I always have them get in and out of their spaceship In order to make a safe point. I had logged Sebastian off and I couldn’t remember if he had gotten in and out of his ship so I decided to go back and join Aprillian’s glyph keeping in mind that this was gonna be his second one. I’m really trying to get him set up because this is gonna be his main save from now on. He logged back in and went over to the unknown grave and pulled it and the dialogue comes up. So I’m thinking OK good thing I came back cause obviously I didn’t save it but that was when I noticed it said 3/16. It gave him the third glyph. I decided to try it again and see what would happen so he got in his ship got out of his ship logged out logged back into join Aprillian’s game and pulled the grave and got glyph number four! This was so exciting because that meant I didn’t have to wait or search for 15 more guys before he could get access to a portal. It was tedious, going back-and-forth and back-and-forth and this was right before I was supposed to be recording Ctrl Alt WoW Final Fantasy 14. I had 20 minutes and I managed to get all 16 glyphs. But then I wanted to get to a portal so I knew or I thought that April Pvd had put a base near a portal but when we got there, I couldn’t find the actual portal so then it was time to start recording. I usually play while I’m recording and since this wasn’t a complicated thing went to a space station and got some planetary maps for ruins. And I tried them for a while, but they never gave me what I needed. So then I went to the anomaly and purchase the plans for the Colossus Geo Bay. But then I had to go back to the anomaly because I hadn’t gotten all of the Tech modules for the scanners. Finally I got to a ancient woman that was going to give me the portal, but I needed a Vy’keen dagger. So I put down a base and At first, I thought I could just go to a space station and talk to one of the pilots that pulls in. But they just had regular resources so I did hire a pilot to be in my squadron. Then I went back to the planet and summoned the Colossus and scanned for a depot. And then talk to one of the pilots there and got the dagger I needed. Then I teleported back to the base and got the directions for the portal.. I actually had all the resources to activate the portal and lo and behold I had all the glyphs. It was very satisfying. When I finished, we still were recording so I ended up upgrading my sentinel ship that I had gotten with some more weapons. It’s very satisfying to figure out all the things you need and the interface is very intuitive.

Thursday

What am I doing? I need help! My first task for today was to level up Sebastian‘s multitool. He had the dire wasp multitool that you get as a reward for the expedition. Now the other characters are in the expedition from their main save, but he started from scratch so he didn’t have the ability to go back to his main, save and level up the multitool and then come back to the expedition and claim it. So I think we’re just gonna have to call this episode duping duping because that’s what I did today. First I do a bunch of the suspicious packages and then spent time on the flat screen, opening them up and selling them until I got enough nanites To upgrade from a class to S class. But while I was opening the packages, I noticed that my EXO soup had that annoying gap meaning I had to scroll down past blocks and blocks of empty spaces to get to some of the stuff in my inventory so I went to dupe XO arguments. And I came back and I expand. At the same time, I remembered seeing somebody post about A ball ship that was adorable. It was red see photo.

So I hopped into my portal and activated the glass I was very pleased that I had eve

So this was gonna be the first time Sebastian actually used the portal to go somewhere and I was very happy to find out that the portal was already charged up. I didn’t have to add any more of the resources and we got to the place that was indicated in the glyphs from in the picture that was on Facebook and I didn’t really pay enough attention to the instructions

glyphs To get to the space station. I was a little bit concerned sometimes they can be at a depot and I don’t remember the exact information about where to find it a lot of time just in the space and you just have to wait. I waited and in the meantime, I was expanding my and I found it and that was too make the ball one of my squadron which I did. But I knew that if I did that the guy would come back with the ship and he did. But he wanted 3 million units and I didn’t have 33 million units. So I had to restore my save so I could get the shit back but then I went looking at my other tunes to see what they had that I could sell a unit and Pvd had some of those AI something. So I brought her in and traded with her and then went back to my freighter and do some of those. And then I went back to the station and this cool Redd solar ship came in and I’m like I want that ship, but I also want that to be in my squadron. So that meant I had to go and open up a bunch more suspicious packets so I can get enough nanites to open up the other slots on my squadron. So that’s what I said. And then I Let go one of my squadron Because he wasn’t that fancy. And then I added one of the ball ships and one of the solar ships but then I wanted to add another ball ship because I had another solar ship so I would have two solar ships and two of the ball ships, but it wouldn’t not let me add another ball ship. I had this problem before so I didn’t end up with two ball ships so I’m gonna trade it with one of my other characters and while that was crazy and weird it was basically a lot of fun.

Friday

ipsom lorem Friday I logged into Aprillian and I was doing some missions but of course, I took one mission and then I saw a freighter and I can’t resist so I want to check out Alfredo. She has a B class one but the first one she saw was a C class, but she did hire some forgets and then she went to do the missions and of course, while she was at the missions, she saw some more freighters at one point she did get stuck in afraid and had to log out and log back in, which meant she had to retake that mission and then she just decided the first mission. She did the mission the one where you have to fight the you have to do a dog fight in space against the four swarm squadrons, and then she went to look at some more Alfredo’s and she found a freighter so she went ahead and traded it. She moved all the stuff from her old freighter it’s funny cause when I was first doing this, I used to do the mistake just taking apart the transmitter but if you store that that’s the transmitter is the one of the tools, one of the tech in the freighter inventory that allows you to actually trans be able to have access to your inventory from a distance and at the time I used to just break it apart, but I learned how to store it and then put it into my inventory and then she did she did the modification changed her ship to Green and she also did some freighter missions and upgraded this freighter because she’s gonna keep it. She also opened up her squadron because she had a brilliant had no squadrons and then she sent out her frigates on a mission. I love how beautiful her ship looks in Green. Her Freighter looks in green because you know she is sage and she went on to finish her missions and I felt really good about getting her missions done for her and getting some sage points even though they’re still way behind and the third mission she had to do was the one where you have to have the terrain manipulator on to find the swarm debris and then she logged off and I got on oh wait before she logged off she did go to and this is something I’ve got to do with all of my members now remember, Sebastian is the one that I’m focusing on the most cause he’s gonna keep this safe but one of the biggest problems I’m having is running out of having the launch fuel run out of the launch thing a techno thing run out of launch fuel and on the on the sentinel ships it’s I think it’s radiant shards and Puga, which is what you get when you process the Atlanta so I’ve had each one of them go to the anomaly and get the upgraded launcher lotto launch auto charger and the other one that helps. Keep the ship launched because you don’t want to get to the point where you are trying to summon your ship and your ship doesn’t come because it’s out of fuel

I was streaming and at one point Someone asked me in the stream chat about underwater VR games and I showed them one of the games which was subside and then I want to show them the underwater in No Man’s Sky, which is beautiful so I got on April Pvd and I went back to my main save so that I could show one of her really beautiful underwater basis, but we had a little problem because when I switched from the One VR game back to No Man’s Sky the video went a little bit laggy

so then I got on so then I got on Sebastian and he did some missions we ended up doing all three of the missions and at one point he actually found a an S class sentinel ship, but I wasn’t ready for him to get another sentinel ship so I logged in on Apple Pvd and had her join but because she was in her main save it actually started the expedition all over again for her. I wonder how that would’ve worked out, but I backed out and just went back in on Sebastian.

He ended up completing a few more missions and you know he’s royal so I’m rooting for the Royals and the sages because they’re the underdog. He did the same three missions that Aprillian did and he also went aboard his freighter. I’m loving the freighters, though I’m really loving and enjoying doing the Freighters..

Saturday

Working Out in VR

One of the things that VR does for me is that it makes working out more of a game or something easier to do than I would normally be doing so I stick to a schedule every Monday, Thursday and Saturday. I am working out in the ER and this we’re up to Saturday and so Saturday morning I put on my headset I put on a weighted vest and I put on wrist weight and I do a workout and I did them this Saturday, but there was a little difference or deviation from my routine, I after I do my HIIT in my weight training my boxing the next to the last before My cool down I get on the elliptical and this is such a beautiful thing that the elliptical does that. I absolutely love is that it sinks using a cadence it sinks to my headset and I use this app called Hollow fit that allows me to go through these maps and as I’m on the elliptical so I’m not bored but this particular app goes even further so some mornings I just do what’s called an HIIT high interval, intensity, training, and what it does is it gives me a guide to go at one speed steady and then it pushes me every couple of minutes to go way up and then go way back down again and this is good. It’s very good for cardio is very good for my health, but they also have these games that you can do and every once in a while I like to try out something different and this particular game is a dinosaur capturing or scanning game so you’re in like a Jurassic Park type thing, but it’s called immortal and as you’re riding through, you have the scanner and you have to analyze a certain number of each type of dinosaurs that you encounter and you also pick up different objects that appear by looking at them and it’s really good. it really gets me. It distracts me from the actual TDM of being on the elliptical but I’m getting the exercise at the same time and I’m doing the elliptical mainly because I used to run in 2022. I had to have surgery on my knee no I’m sorry 2012 oh my God that was even longer ago and 2012. I have surgery on my knee. My meniscus had some scar tissue and my orthopedic doctor told me that running was bad for me. he said even running on a treadmill would be bad because of hitting the ground but and an elliptical would give me the cardio I want it and not have such a negative effect or impact on my knees and so I purchased this one back in 2017 and it’s a Nordic track free strider trainer FSFFS5I and it’s really good as you can see in the screenshots in the show notes and also if you’re watching the video, you’ll see me actually scanning these dinosaurs and having fun and I’ve been doing this exercise for on the elliptical for many years, but I’ve been doing it consistently for the last two years every Monday, Thursday and Saturday and this was my Saturday so I’m really happy with that and I feel really good

It looks like I’ve settled into a routine of doing the missions on Sebastian and Aprillian. I really enjoy the routine and like I said it’s a lot like World of Warcraft and it’s all about the grind. Each of them get the same three missions. A part of me wants to do more, but according to what I’ve heard just the first three missions count each day. So since Sebastian is going to stay in this save, I’m doing him, but he’s royal. And of course I’m doing Aprillian because she’s sage and I feel sorry for them. While I was on Aprillian, I noticed that she was in a sentinel ship that was A class. Now I remember that yesterday I was gonna bring in April Pvd to that planet that had the S class sentinel ship, but she was in her main save. So this time I brought in Aprillian and I was multi boxing so I was on Sebastian in VR. At first, it was hard to find the ship. The planet had these beautiful giant sunflower plants and I loved it because sunflower seed bagels are my favorite and I've started baking sunflower seed bread. For some reason there were two other locations marked as S class, but the ship wasn’t there. Maybe it was someone setting up a base to mark the planet to come back too. I just got the glyph and took Sebastian to a portal where he teleported to the planet, but like I said, I couldn’t find the spot right away, but eventually I did and once I did, I got on Aprillian on the flat screen. I was streaming at the same time so I had to keep the headset on because that’s where the sound was coming from for the stream, but I actually managed to land on the flatscreen get to the ship and then fly to the place where you have to change the brain and get back. I had the supplies in my inventory, which was nice. And then I got the ship and I was thinking I might wanna come back with someone so I actually flew into off the planet and then summoned Aprillian’s Freighter and then logged off. Then I got on April Pvd, and for some reason, Sebastian‘s marker did not show up. It took a few tries, and then finally I Ended up logging off both Sebastian and April Pvd, and then swapping making Sebastian the flatscreen and running April Pvd in VR. And then the marker came up and I was able to get to Sebastian and the Sentinel ship. It was very annoying because there’s a base on that planet labeled in balls. I don’t know what that means. I don’t wanna know what that means but it was very annoying to constantly have to have it pop up on my screen. Here’s where it got interesting. I was prepared to do the dance to get the sentinel ship but I was pleasantly surprised that when I access the ship, it just instantly gave me the option to add it to my collection. So then I decided to bring Epril in to get the ship as well and the same thing happened. Now Sebastian already had an S class sentinel ship, but it was turquoise and gray, and this ship was red, which was perfect for him because he’s royal. So he got the ship as well and then he logged off. Now I have to spend some time, transferring the tech from his other ship to their ship because he got a lot of tech. But it was a very successful evening in VR.

Sunday

All right now we’re up to Sunday and I’m back on my routine. I logged in on Aprillian to get her missions done. She is loving her new S class sentinel ship. The only problem was the new ship had no fuel so she decided to go to the anomaly. She did the first mission which was the supply chain and she gave Polo 130 phosphorus, but at the same time she upgraded some of the tech on her brand new S class sentinel ship. Particularly upgrading the launch tech because you don’t wanna run out of launch fuel because you won’t be able to summon your ship when you need it so after accepting the next mission which was a striker And because she was already at the anomaly, she got automatically walked to the place where the striker where the swarm is and her new squadron that she hired joined her in the battle. I find that Battle very satisfying because I’ve gotten really good at taking them out. Then she decided to go back to the anomaly because she doesn’t have any fuel in that ship and she took the last one which is a hacker mission Got warped to the next system. This mission is actually one of the easiest ones because you just have to find a machine that’s highlighted and give it either a micro process or some ferret dust or some silicone powder but this one was interesting because it was going to an EXO suit machine and some people are having problems if you fill up all of your XO suit inventory then when you get this particular one, it doesn’t work right because you can’t fulfill the first step of the mission which is to give it the ingredients or the resources to make it give you an inventory slot so I’ve gotten to the habit of not filling up my inventory slot so while I was on the planet, I pulled Out my other starship, which was a class a and I stripped it of its inventory and of its tech and transferred it to my new ship. Both ships were red, so I didn’t really make a difference and I really love the appearance of this ship. It has a little thing in the front of it and I just think it’s just a really cool sentinel ship. I took it to a space station and increased its inventory slot and I opened up another supercharged slot, so that was nice. And then I got on Sebastian and did missions on Sebastian and it was the same missions. He had the phosphorus and he got the striker and his whole little squadron came out to Help and then he went back did the exact same thing as Aprillian and while some people might think it’s doing the same thing over and over again it’s actually challenging for me because I know what I’m gonna do and I can do it a little bit faster and he did the hacker mission this time he got one of those machines. It was a different one. it wasn’t the EXO suit one and he also pulled out his other ship. His other sentinel ship and now Sebastian is royal so it was really appropriate that he got a nice red ship Especially since his sentinel ship was actually Green and Grey. Maybe he Should exchange it with Aprillian but I think he’s going to make it his fourth squadron member. So now I’m doing the same thing I did with Aprillian And I’m dripping out the inventory and the tech and then he flew to a space station and upgraded the inventory on this ship and he actually did find a pilot and he traded his old sentinel ship and then hired that guy to be his quadrant so now he has four squadron with two scholarships two and the ball ship, and now his old Sentinel ship, and then he upgraded all the tech on his new ship. He’s very satisfying for me to do that and he had a bunch of tech because he had gotten some extra ones for the launching Help because of course he’s gonna keep this save. And while I only spent about 40 minutes playing on Sunday, it was still very satisfying.

Monday

I started on Sebastian and at first I wanted to upgrade his new S class starship but then I realize that all I had for suspicious packets were arms and he’s pretty set as far as being able to attack. Then it went on a normal Routine where I did the missions on Sebastian, I did stop at a space station and I got some launch thruster upgrade. That was better than what he had and I upgraded his pulse drive. He is going to the merchant guild and giving them stuff when he can and collecting stuff because again this is gonna be his main save. Then he stopped at his freighter and sent some of his forget on missions then. He did the hacker one and he renamed his ship from remnant to Redment just to make it a little bit more personalized then I got off of Sebastian and onto Aprillian.

And she renamed her ship to Sage because she’s sage. I’m gonna skip through a lot of the details I mean she did the striker one mission after that and then she went onto do oh she did upgrade her her new ship With the inventory augments, although I don’t know if she’s going to keep this ship, she is my second character so she has a lot of stuff that April Pvd has then she brought out her previous sentinel ship that was class a and she traded it to a NPC in a space station and then she hired him to be in her squadron. Now in the past, I’ve waited around and the ship has come back and I could buy it back, but it didn’t come back and then I looked up in the ceiling and the ship was stuck in the ceiling of the space station I accidentally did a restore reload and in the expedition it won’t take you back. It won’t do a reload. See if I can get this I did a reload auto save because they’re trying to stop you from duping in the space station. There’s no more reload auto save every one minute. It’s auto save from the last time you logged in and my last auto save was on the was Saturday on a brilliant for some reason so I was taking all the way back to when I first got the sentinel S class, but my restore point was still there so I went ahead and did the restore point and that brought me back to the space station before I traded the ship and then I just went ahead and traded it and added it to my squadron and didn’t worry about trying to get the ship back because I waited around and while I was waiting, there was a bunch of sentinel ships that weren’t exactly my kind. I don’t know who it is because there was a lot of people around. I wonder if I had turned multiplayer off if that would’ve made the ship come back but anyways I just gave up on that first sentinel ship and I did the rest of the missions on Aprillian. I did the sabotage one which was another interesting thing because I get the quest to fix the following swarmer‘s neural casing but at the same time I’m at a place where people have the same mission but it’s too. You know fight and it was such an interesting place because there were so many people around which means that there are a lot of people playing which is cool and finally I did the supply chain one and then I turned in for the day. I’m really enjoying all the little things you can do in this game and I logged off at the anomaly, the prismatic core is getting bigger.