Drusenija

I had organised a house design commission back in March, and the design was finished and delivered yesterday! Here's the video showcase the designer Sally Snow put together for it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3xIU7JFsM0

I'll extend that to say the randomness in the game isn't fully random. The number of times I've failed a 90%+ accurate gathering attempt in a row shouldn't be statistically possible.

That and once of Faux Hollows I got the same pattern twice in a row - thankfully I realised and I got the fox.

Hector Hectorson is a good place to start, he uses a top down graphic style to explain the fights. You also don't see the actual game footage as a result so you can still sort of go blind in the fight itself but still have knowledge of mechanics.

https://youtube.com/@hectorhectorson

I quite like Mizzteq's video guides as well, she also uses footage from the fights which can be helpful to understand what to actually look for in game. Plus her pun game is on point 😂

https://youtube.com/@mtqcapture

There's others out there as well who also do guide content, this is by no means an exhaustive list but they're my two personal favorites.

It even works when you reverse the order of the steps!

To follow on from this, after the first week or so, parties running the fights blind are typically in the minority. Most of the time there's been established strategies to handle fights (these can vary from DC to DC) and people will follow those strategies.

With that in mind, watching a guide to the fight is very much normal so don't be afraid to do it unless you plan to go in blind! (And if you're just starting out in savage you're probably not in that group unless you've got a couple of friends you want to try it with).

Basically though think of savage as a dance. You need to learn the choreography. Once you've done that, then it's a case of optimising your damage output while performing that choreography. The randomness in the fight is typically just whether you get sequence A or B first, so if you're comfortable with the memorisation of mechanics, and then repeating them over and over until you can do them on auto pilot, you'll do fine 😊

(If you're a healer or tank obviously you also need to be doing healing or tanking as well, so factor that in to what you need to learn!)

That's the logical option, yes, but it's the fact that this policy looks like it'll be applied to individuals as well, many who have probably never had to worry about doing that, that I think will make that type of service viable.

Yes, it's very possible to get a PO Box or forwarding address, and to get a company number or some form of virtual contact number to provide as a front for inquiries, but you need to know how to do that and where to get those services.

I think some of that at least was down to the servers being DDoS'd, meaning it wasn't necessarily specific to the DT launch (although some was I'm sure). Completely get your point though, especially for EX and Savage stuff, that would have been brutal.

Still need a phone redirect service too.

I sense a new business service about to flourish in Europe to provide virtual contact info for App Store developers.

But wait, most people are going to plug these bricks into their phones or tablets, yeah? Those have data connections we could surely piggy back off so rather than a one time or irregular phone home we could have real time data on where the cables are and how they're being used. And we can release an app they run on their device to capture that information that shows a nice pretty dashboard of when they charge their devices, how much power they use, etc.

We then use that as the justification to move the entire product range to a monthly subscription instead of a yearly one. We can even remove the sharing restrictions to begin with, and then add them back later with a family tier, and eventually prevent cables from being away from the registered home base for a predetermined length of time.

We could then add an upgrade tier for those that do need to use their cables in other locations.

...Is this the kind of logic that goes through their heads?

See the problem here is the price. At $30/yr that's worth considering. The problem is they'd charge $30/mth.

Vote on that thang!