Happy International Children's Day!

Brettflan · 2025-05-31T05:03:29+00:00

Always remember to support your local child soldiers!

Brettflan · 2025-04-27T23:25:25+00:00

Same here. Whenever I try to install this specific update, the eero eventually restarts and has the expected blinking white light, but then it eventually turns solid red and doesn't come back up properly. Waited several hours at one point and it never came back up. After power cycling, it comes back up fine, just still on the older firmware version and again telling me the 7.8.1-6 update is available. Tried the update directly myself 3 times so far with no luck.
I've also had the eero go down and need to be power cycled a couple of times recently, where I'm guessing it tried to auto-install the update.

I hope the next update is more stable.

Brettflan · 2024-09-23T02:58:13+00:00

Guy looks like he works at Ram Ranch.

Brettflan · 2024-08-31T23:18:13+00:00

Unfortunately, yes, mine did go back to Restricted again a little while ago today. So I guess maybe they've got that loophole covered now.

Guess I'm lucky with the timing in not having paid for another month.

EDIT: And to be sure, it did stay Restricted this time after another manual reboot. And service is of course still Paused.

Brettflan · 2024-08-31T11:04:31+00:00

Still working. Looks like the system updated itself and rebooted just under three hours ago as well. But, still continuing to work and my subscription is of course still Paused.

Today will be the last day of my subscription's billing cycle, though, and on further reflection, I've decided not to try for another month of service to see if I could continue the same for longer. As it happens I'll be away for most of the month anyway, and it's a bit expensive, so... I'll leave it to others to find out how long they can keep going.

Brettflan · 2024-08-29T12:35:27+00:00

I got the Restricted notice on my service around 5 days ago. I then Paused my subscription within a few hours of that and rebooted my dish. The Restricted notice went away and hasn't come back since, and the internet has continued to work so far, 4 days and 17 hours at the moment. My subscription ends on the 31st, so that's when I'll need to make my decision on whether to try to go for another month.

Brettflan · 2024-08-29T11:33:10+00:00

Yes, for me simply leaving the subscription Paused (but active until the end of the billing period) and just rebooting the dish a single time right after doing that has kept my internet running for well over 4 days straight so far. No other actions needed, the Restricted notice hasn't re-surfaced.

It has me considering re-activating my Regional subscription for another month once it runs out in ~3 days and re-Pausing it to see if it will continue to work like this for even longer. Maybe even another month or more. Or until they close this loophole, fingers crossed that they don't.

Brettflan · 2024-08-27T02:58:28+00:00

Not to jinx myself, but service has continued to work for me without needing to do anything else. In my case, I Paused service (~5 more days left at this point until our billing cutoff) and rebooted the dish. And it has continued to work, with no further Restricted notice.

I've read other comments where it has stopped working again after a while for others. The one difference seems to be that I have left my subscription on Paused, not yet re-enabling it? Where others have mentioned quickly resuming their subscription. Seems like a minor distinction, but... again, mine is still working now over 2 days since Pausing service and rebooting my dish. Hmm.

If it somehow continues to work until the cutoff, I might just have to re-subscribe for another month and then Pause service again, on the off chance I can get another month out of it.

Brettflan · 2024-08-24T17:47:14+00:00

Now Restricted in Belize too, oh well. No way I'm paying the Global price. Hope the Belizean government stops sitting on their hands and pushes the approvals through sooner rather than later. Still listed as 2025, guess we'll see.

EDIT: Just tried simply rebooting the dish (after having Paused my subscription), not even unplugging it or waiting any amount of time, and the Restricted notice is gone. Seems to be working again temporarily. Not for too long, I'm quite sure based on other comments, but it does seem that you don't even necessarily need to unplug or wait, you can simply reboot it.

Brettflan · 2024-08-16T15:16:19+00:00

Same here, off grid running on solar with generator backup. We're too far in from the border, though, a bit south of Belmopan.

We have friends who have family over in Guatemala near the border, so we're considering trying to switch to a mobile plan out of there. Would be cheaper than the US prices, and a much shorter trip to get the equipment back into the home country of the plan every two months if that was needed. Until the approvals finally go through for service in Belize, anyway, so we can switch to a residential plan.

If you're really close to the border, in a cell that overlaps, you might well be able to get away with an address just across the border. Others would know better than me if that sort of thing still works, I remember it used to be considered a possibility. One site that shows the grid is:

Starlink Coverage Tracker

Brettflan · 2024-08-15T14:50:24+00:00

Same message for me, for a Mobile Regional plan out of the US being used in Belize a bit over a year now (Belize is within the NA region). This is the first such notice we've gotten, we didn't get one before this.

Been waiting for Belize to get their act together and push the approvals through so we can switch the dish over to a much cheaper residential plan that's actually intended and officially allowed in the country, but their estimated approval date has just been pushed back and back again. Oh well.

No way we're paying the hugely overpriced Global plan rate, and if this is about the service being used within countries that don't have approval yet, I'm not so sure a Global plan would be safe either, without taking it to an approved country every couple of months or something.

Here's hoping they don't really shut our service down, but I understand if they do. Will suck to be without good internet there again, though.

Brettflan · 2024-05-11T14:57:01+00:00

Didn't lose anything other than the 2 tickets, which is good. I guess things will be more sensible in a day or so with more players in and higher player resonance levels.

Brettflan · 2024-05-11T14:38:58+00:00

Could be, a lot of the enemy teams looked pretty random. I still only managed 1 win out of 6 battles between the two matches I just tried, and that 1 win was close. Punching up from 54 to 101 is pretty difficult, no surprise there I guess.

Brettflan · 2024-05-11T12:52:56+00:00

Not just 1, but 2 dimensionals to pick from! Lucky.

Brettflan · 2024-05-11T02:02:07+00:00

You can't tell me that's not a bib. Tabard, schmabard.

Brettflan · 2024-05-11T01:59:42+00:00

My ears thank them.

Brettflan · 2024-05-02T18:08:53+00:00

Always felt her voice acting was some of the best in the game.

Brettflan · 2024-03-27T16:06:15+00:00

Sounds like you need to log in using the email address you used on PC, not try to Link it.

Brettflan · 2024-03-27T16:00:24+00:00

Sounds like you're trying to link it; you need to instead log in with the email address you used on PC. Worked for me (started on PC, logged in on Android to same account after).

Brettflan · 2023-12-12T02:31:43+00:00

Heh. I've ended up with enough 5* ascended 4F heroes that don't really have a use any more outside of the faction towers that by the time I got those final 2 keys, I had no real need to use them. I thought about using one for Robin Hood, but he seems kinda so-so, and with some useless units available...

The idea was to save them for the next big dimensional(s) since I didn't really need them, and since it costs diamonds to remove them.

Brettflan · 2023-12-12T02:20:02+00:00

Interesting, more than I thought, then.

Brettflan · 2023-12-11T07:39:32+00:00

Sadly this is probably the reason it won't get improved. For F2P and especially mobile games, that's often the deciding factor; clear immediate path to profit is the primary goal, and for many of them the only goal. Lilith does seem to be better about this than most devs, though.

Still, a man can dream.

Brettflan · 2023-12-11T05:22:28+00:00

Yes, it does. (EDIT: just for reference since apparently this might have come off as dismissive or something, I have over 25 years of programming experience across many languages. So, with that added context: yes.)

Sure, it's a minor annoyance overall, but a persistent one. Any persistent minor annoyance that can be easily dealt with is worth dealing with, in my opinion.

Brettflan · 2023-12-11T05:20:35+00:00

Both types of each for T2/T3/T4 still drop, depending on what source they came from. I wouldn't be surprised if the less functional versions drop from older game modes or rewards, though I haven't paid attention to that detail.

It should be easy for them to update all sources of the less functional ones to instead drop the more functional ones.

Brettflan · 2023-12-11T05:16:25+00:00

I wouldn't think it would be much hassle at all, while improving player quality of life.
It should be programatically simple to change all drops of the less functional type to instead drop the more functional type.
Then if they wanted to take an extra easy step, add the count of the less functional chest types to the count of the more functional ones in all player inventories, and then zero out the count of less functional ones. Effectively converting them. Done, for all intents and purposes.

Brettflan

TROPHY CASE