Cholly

Completed Activities, got zero potions from main server. It worked on the test server, got several(and I didn't even complete Activities there, just got three done), but I received NO potions on the Path of Valor from the main. Still sitting at zero. Correction: Daily Goals, not Activities. No way that I'd ever have enough kobans to complete Activities in one shot in the first hour, especially during an event, lol!

Starting to get annoyed again. Number of participants is going up, but not the shards. Not. Even. By. ONE.

New patch notes pretty much cover it. Seems to me that it reduces motivation to participate more than once, but it's not my call.

Having issues in the test server Club Champion Challenge. It HAD been giving ridiculous impression numbers for a single challenge with 6 or 7 position matches(1000M+) knocking the champion out in a single shot. If I was the only challenger, it would give me 7 shards, with 3 more for each additional challenger. 2 challengers, 10 shards, 3, 13 shards... I managed to NOT knock out the champion for the end of January, and just let it be because the club challenges would have been insufficient for me to get enough shards for the girl anyway. Now, impression is back to being consistent, but I'm stuck at 2 measly shards with two other challengers, both under 1M impression and me over 50M. Something is seriously wrong.

Technically, it's the Sex Friends thingy, but that's picking nits, because it actually worked. 😝 Thank you.

Browse WHERE? I'm using Chrome, not VPN/AdBlock, but no message.

Judging from the scores in the current contest, I'm guessing that a boatload of peeps can't spend energy. Way too many scores ending with "00".

Me and my big mouth. 250 and climbing...

Both isn't so bad, but I might have to drop grinding the test server, lol.

I'm in the same boat although not that much energy, lol. Straight regeneration stops at 100, I don't remember ever going much over 200. It would be nice if they did Champions. Or Towers. Towers is good for grinding levels.

Observer_X, I went back to school for my degree not much younger than you. That's when I was introduced to Linux, Mac and got into depth with Microsoft, Home, Professional and Server variants. Server is the only version of a Microsoft product I would ever willingly install. I have 10 on my current laptop, but when I got my previous laptop, 8 honked me off so badly that I wiped the HD and installed Ubuntu at least 3 months before the 6 month warranty was up. I liked Windows 95, 98, 98SE, XP and 7. Current builds of Ubuntu install and operate in a manner that would be highly intuitive to an XP or 7 user. And like Kenrae said, Linux is still free. Places that charge, charge for materials(disks or thumb drives) or support. Still a lot of enthusiasts out there willing to help for free. And there are user groups consisting of misfits like me who like to meet face-to-face over coffee and donuts on occasion. Age range is huge, 18-70+(we used to have some even younger, but with COVID concerns we've had to limit it to adults)

I've been playing close to 3-1/2 years. I can confirm, that while rare, they've been around at least that long, I got one my first week. Didn't happen again for quite a while though.

Kenrae, it is entirely possible that we just got off on the wrong foot. I have since read several of your other posts elsewhere on the forum where you sounded not only helpful, but likeable. Not sure exactly why we seemed almost instantly antagonistic. Maybe I wasn't clear enough in an earlier post(s), but I felt attacked by responses, yours especially. Peaches, while I appreciate the show of support(At least I think it was a show of support), it's not necessary. I was being a rather grumpy old man.

Yo Observer_X, have you considered Linux? You can even run it from a thumb drive if you don't want to wipe XP. Ubuntu Linux is pretty intuitive for anybody used to XP, not much of a learning curve. Use Firefox or Chrome(not Chromium) and you should be back in business. Not hard. Old farts like me can use it, I'm 60. Even my wife likes Linux now.

I'm a grumpy old man, but I can do that. Nice avatar BTW.