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I was actually thinking about that as even getting the tier 2 trader is a pain in the ass. He’s only 3km away but so many hills! I have yet to find a good way to get there and back so a temp base nearer would be good. I didn’t realise it was a thing either, gives me even more reason to go looting so I can cut down all teh doors.

A little update from today; I think I may have found the best book ever! I get the brass door handle from every door I knock down so all the brass for us 😄 Crispy and I went to do a quest which turned in to more of a hunt as we found a few chicken, 2 deer and then I found a bear on the way back so about 140 meat and we weren't even trying to find animals. I think you're right about food though, I have the first level unlocked but moved on to unlocking other things. I want to get the next tier of extra meat then I think I'll put some points in to master chef so I can cook all the food I'm bringing back. I've also made an iron pick, so I think I'll go mining as I've marked so many iron, lead, nitrate on coal on my map it should be easy for me to dig some up.

So the server finally finish building the world and it is HUGE!!! I spawned in a nice green zone and completed the initial quests for making some plant fibre clothing and bed and the trader it sent me to was in a large town / small city so plenty of loot to find. I originally hid at the top of a Sham foods factory to survive the first night but Rich said about it being a bad place to set up our temporary base so he found a better building to set up in. Rich, Lee and I have gone through plenty of bounty's to get that all important XP to the point I think we had 3 or 4 each to hand in to the trader at the same time. We've also found too much loot so we've had to place storage on the outside of a building to store stuff in that we can then come back to later. Though on that, we found out the hard way that if you loot a building before starting a quest that resets the building, it will also delete any storage you place in the area too 😞 We've had some fun too, the building Rich picked had a couple of zombie bears in so lots and lots of arrows later they were dead. Unfortunately I also found a house that a wolf and boar in the back but I thought they were in a cage. Turned out they weren't so that was almost instant death 😞 Lee has made a few push bikes for us so that will help with getting around. I think Lee has spent his points on getting the bikes where I've gone more in to hunting and cooking. I think Rich has done something similar to me too but not quite sure. I think both Lee and Rich have got up to Tier 2 quests where I'm still on Tier 1 but I've done quite a few so I must be close. I'm hoping it will only take 1 or 2 more quests for me to also get to Tier 2 so that's what I'll be working on.

Damn Philly! That is not what I expected the prizes to be - far too generous! Can I have Age of Wonders please?

Mandatory acceptance? Like I'm going to miss out on any racing! I've heard back about my pedals today and they said they'll send me the replacement part so hopefully it won't take too long to get to me and fix the problem then I can be even further ahead 😁

I almost cocked up last night when we were talking last night about the Sony event. You do so much for all us mate, you’re the best of us so only right we occasionally do something for you now and then. Don’t apologise for nagging us though mate, you keep this place together with your nagging. They say about herding cats is difficult but some how you manage to herd us cunts and do we need it.

I can’t really add more than what others have said. This place would ve dead without you and determination. Well deserved in my opinion, you are FG and in the immortal words; GGFG.

I agree but then I’ve never bought a console day 1. With their desire to support old consoles hampering the new, it isn’t usually until a year+ that the new consoles take over and we see the new hardware truly leveraged. Also...PC master race 😂

Yes, a complete reset. We can’t play right now as the server is loading the world which should be done soon (could take upto about 10ish tonight).

The more the merrier.....just don't beat me else I might definitely hold it against you 😆 It would take a bit of fabrication but you could certainly use an old kart as a rig. I don't know about Thrustmaster but certainly Logitech and Fanatec CSL pedals can be taken out of their housing so you could easily mount the throttle and brake separately in the kart frame. The wheel would be a bit more trouble but I'm sure nothing you couldn't work out. It sounds like the only real question is where could you put it that doesn't end in divorce....

You told me where to go so I went, you didn’t expect me to actually be looking where I was going did you? 😂 I think the funniest of this server was running over the bear. Watching as the bear gets flung up in the air, getting back up just to be hit by whomever was driving the second car. It was perfect comedy timing by accident. Hopefully the map will have loaded by tonight so we can start getting all that juicy XP.

Agree Phil, there’s quite a leap in performance though the 3000 series doesn’t suddenly make older cards rubbish. I’d love a 3000 series card but I think realistically I’ll be looking at skipping a generation to a 4000. I do find it funny all the headlines of how much faster these cards are than 2000 series with seemingly no-one pointing out some of that is down to the 2000 series not being a great step up in rasterisation over 1000 series. But the 2000 series was a new card design and it seem nvidia have knock the design iteration out the park with these cards. Now to wait and see what team red bring to the fight.

What is the pathing of the zombies like? Could we make a base like a tower defence game so the zombies will have to walk past a number of traps rather than a single row?

Our current base was shit but I grew to quite like it in the end and with the traps and everything it was quite good on horde night. Though in reality I'm not all that fussed either way about resetting. Though I would say that if we reset, we don't again for a while so we can see how far we can push it 🙂 I guess I'll get my pick out again for all that oil shale and coal 😄 Though may I request that we have a map without a giant gorge in the middle of it 🤣 8 sounds good though Rich, gives me some time to do some Alyx before 7dtd 🙂

Hmmmm 😞 ok... @GazzaGarratt how much is in the FGFGF? 😂 Racing was fun last night, we all picked very different cars which made things interesting. I think we need a rematch now Lee has had some more practice and maybe Phil won’t try an impossible one stop.

I have the £500, any chance you can lend me the additional £57k?

Nice one Phil, I do like Maggiore so I'll join you for some racing 🙂

The P2 is basically a rebranded Super Flower PSU and has good reviews. So sounds like a good PSU to go for.

A good night on this last night with 6 of us on for horde night. With so many of us on meaning so many zombies, I really thought the base was a goner. But it survived thanks to @tronic44rebuilding and strengthening the walls of the base, @Diddumsand @phil bottle being an ecological disaster by turning all the trees in to spikes, @GazzaGarrattmaking turrets and powered traps for our moat and @craftofboredom making all of the molotov’s and ammo. All while I took a leaf out of @Plumbers Crack book and spent my time digging holes for things. The question is though, are we keeping this base now that it’s proven it can survive a horde night with the right defenses?

Ouch Phil, I tend to avoid Monza full stop as T1 is usually a massacre but outside your own mistakes it sounds like a clean race. A couple good races though should see you get your 100 points back so I’m sure you can in to C soon 🙂 I’m half and half about trying gt sport again to get some practice in and the feel of the cars in preparation for our races. I’m also equally thinking I’ll just go on blind, what’s the worst that could happen. I think I need to check @JBR-Kiwi times to see how fast he is to know if I need practice 😄

With a Ryzen 3950x and RTX3080 system you'll be pushing high 600W's, maybe in to the low 700W's under maximum load. It's rare to ever load CPU and GPU to 100% simultaneously at the same time though so peak power draw is likely to be lower. So from that respect, you'd be fine running an 850W PSU though it doesn't leave much headroom for future upgrades and you wouldn't be in the peak efficiency as typically these are around 50-60% load (you can usually find the efficiency graphs from the manufacturer).

It can be annoying when real life gets in the way of playing games. Hopefully the course is something useful/interesting at least. The real question though is, can we use Emma’s new blue hair as a distraction on horde night? As the last horde night did not go very well at all. The base is still standing but there’s more holes in it than swiss cheese. I’m not sure about Friday as I might be helping my brother in law to move some furniture. That shouldn’t take all evening anyway and I should be on Sunday.

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Oh yes! I loved the first season so really am looking forward to this 😄

Since when? 😆 It's not occured to me before but I'm surprised you've not joined in on 7dtd Dave. I think you should join us....one of us, one of us, one of us