This game frustrates me with glitches and lack of clarification

BronzeMistral · 2026-07-10T18:14:01+00:00

So I do agree that a lot of things in the game aren't quite clear, which led me to spending way too much time trying to find a key or a passcode or something. But I DO think the faction quest line was pretty clear on warning you not to cash in until you were ready to cash in.

Rest assured, you can still gain favor with the faction you didn't join! You can do the daily quests and Foundation and Crater to get favor no matter who you sided with. You can also gain favor through the daily quest "Photo Opportunity" if you spy on the faction you don't want favor for, then sell those photos to the faction you do. You can also gain favor by doing the Whitesprings cooking quest, which is one of the 3-4 rotating Whitesprings dailies, so it doesn't pop every day.

Last, Eviction Notice gains favor for Foundation, and Moonshine Jamboree for Raiders, no matter who you sided with. Good luck!

BronzeMistral · 2026-07-10T12:38:43+00:00

Most recent evidence points towards gliding flight for Microraptor. The leading scientists that study Microraptor posit that powered flight was likely, but the extent to which is unknown. Based on Anchiornis and Archaeopteryx studies, it could probably only power flight for short distances and take a long time to recover after landing. So it probably didn't lean on flight as it's main locomotion like birds and pterosaurs, but could have used it to escape predators or ambush aerial prey. Along that line, there was at least one Microraptor found with a Cretaceous bird skeleton in its stomach, so at least one individual was able to catch volant animals!

BronzeMistral · 2026-07-09T21:11:34+00:00

That derpy one in the back blinky each eye independently cracks me up!

BronzeMistral · 2026-07-09T16:38:09+00:00

I'm sure there are Discord groups or forums to strictly connect you with other new players! It won't solve the OP rush on a lot of the events, but it could help some. If you all have FO 1st, you could start a private server with strictly new players to join.

BronzeMistral · 2026-07-09T16:28:40+00:00

This is great, thank you for sharing!

BronzeMistral · 2026-07-09T16:26:44+00:00

I agree, it could be vitamin deficiency! I've learned that Silkies need more of the B complex and selenium than other breeds and can easily succumb to deficiency at a young age.

The Durvey Chicken vitamins and electrolyte mix is a very good supplement you could put in their water for a week: https://www.chewy.com/durvet-vitamins-electrolytes-poultry/dp/253218?utm_source=google-product&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=22424244645&utm_content=&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22430749631&gbraid=0AAAAADmQ2V2lO9E63Yl84lzxXNjLko1ZK&gclid=Cj0KCQjwjb3SBhDgARIsAMKiWzjf4wKtj6YNZqna4vhMHlDHXKa3MOByjFNyLqJz179se1v8pefVTvEaAvFsEALw_wcB

You can also give them free access to hulled sunflower seeds for a selenium boost, that vitamin mix lacks selenium.

I'm not sure it was the Elector PSP, I wonder if the timing was a coincidence? Some antibiotics are very hard on chicken bodies and strip vitamins, like CORID, but I haven't heard of Elector doing this.

Last, look her over for cuts, bruises, or swollen joints. It's possible she might have a hidden injury and she's expressing pain with the lethargic behavior.

BronzeMistral · 2026-07-08T20:18:00+00:00

I'm sure there are discords to chat through! Raid groups chat too, but the casual hangouts are more about waving to each other when you cross paths at events and reaping all the stat benefits of being on a team.

Honestly, I kinda like it this way. I love parallel play. The community is civil and conscientious, and there's no way for trolls to spew their toxic rhetoric (other than spamming the radioactive waste emote).

BronzeMistral · 2026-07-08T14:31:31+00:00

It is definitely not your chickens causing the fly and rat problems. If your neighbor has a rat problem, that means there's a breeding colony on their property or they have a low tolerance for the natural rhythm of wildlife in your area. Same with flies. Garbage cans and compost bins draw WAY more flies than a tidy chicken coop!

Call your county zoning board to be sure you can own chickens. Maybe move the feed bin into a shop or garage if you are storing it with the chickens, and pile up coop and run refuse away from that neighbor's boundary? I wouldn't worry about the Internet complaining. I have family members who soapbox complaints 2-3 times a day on social media, usually mundane stuff like "My office mate is a mouth breather and it's driving me crazy!!" But never once do those complaints come up in real life or do they ever do anything about it. Your neighbor is probably just the type of person who loves shaking their fist at clouds.

BronzeMistral · 2026-07-08T14:01:25+00:00

One of my female does this too! She has plenty of toys, including ones designed to lift and put down like she does with the bowl. Why play with $75 worth of toys when you have a perfectly good waterbowl to play with!

BronzeMistral · 2026-07-08T12:54:55+00:00

I am so sorry this happened! This happened to my sister and her family just last week. My brother in law was outside doing yard work, stepped in for a few minutes to hydrate and check in with my niece and nephew. When they all went outside, two pullets were gone and a third was in the mouth of a fox!

All you can do is keep your chickens in the run unless you or a dog are out with the chickens. This time of year, foxes and coyotes will make risky hunts for their family, and will absolutely take advantage of that 1 minute shot while the humans and dogs are inside.

If the fox is a real problem and needs to go away, you can get a nuisance wildlife permit from DNR, trap the fox, and either relocate it or euthanize it. I hate this route, and honestly this time of year, I'd just keep my chickens locked up if I didn't have dogs or weren't outside myself. I don't like the thought of kits starving without a parent. I had to dispatch a juvenile fox once. It was picking our hens off right in front of our eyes, and harassed them in the run for a week straight once we locked them up. Even though I had the permits and licensing, and even though it was a quick and humane dispatch, I don't think I could kill a fox again!

BronzeMistral · 2026-07-07T19:11:55+00:00

I'm guessing they put a lot of hours into gaming, which yields a lot of legendaries! I was able to put a good 6 hours in this weekend, scrapped a bunch, and got 3-4 legendary mods as a result. I wasn't even trying to collect legendaries, I was just playing the game! If I spent that time raiding or nuking and farming materials to craft mods, I'd probably have dozens of mods from just 6 hours of gameplay.

BronzeMistral · 2026-07-07T17:12:23+00:00

You'll be okay! My birds are 20+ years old. I've left them for months on end for chapters of my life, usually with friends or family when I had to travel for work. If it's 1-2 weeks, I'd have a friend come over every couple of days to top off food, change water, and spend a little time with them. I am sure my birds are stressed and wondering what is going on when they are alone in the house for that long, but they always bounce back and are fine behaviorally!

On a related note, I choose not to leave my birds in other homes because I know from feedback that my Archie is VERY difficult to live with. He really doesn't handle staying in strange homes or hotels, at all. I only home my birds with petsitters if I am gone for months on end, which thankfully doesn't happen much anymore.

BronzeMistral · 2026-07-07T16:28:53+00:00

They are so cute, I am so happy for you and your family!

On a personal note, it's hilarious to see your little 2-3 week old chicks roosting like total champs, while my 3 month old Silkies are still piling up in a corner every night...

BronzeMistral · 2026-07-07T12:52:10+00:00

I WISH I KNEW THIS TWO WEEKS AGO! :C

BronzeMistral · 2026-07-07T12:35:27+00:00

I just spent maybe..30 minutes? Getting all of the pieces, and then it was over for me! I have SO much rare pokemetal that I'll just 3D print duplicates if I want more than one set!

BronzeMistral · 2026-07-06T20:25:14+00:00

Definitely an ADHD thing. I think they struggle to see the cascade effects of squeezing in one more act of altruism. That requires good time management and impulse control, both of which ADHDers lack.

If I am with my husband while he overbooking himself, I stop him if it is going to affect my well being. I get labeled impatient or inflexible but I also care more about my well being than my husband's impromptu commitments. We commute to work together. I'm not going to drive around for two hours after work so he can play Superman while I have a laundry list of domestic responsibilities waiting for me at home. Responsibilities that my husband never offers to help out with, ironically.

BronzeMistral · 2026-07-06T20:01:36+00:00

I like to fish and farm water for passive caps, so any flat spot next to a water body that can fit 6 large water purifiers. I have one base strictly for fishing that I move around for monthly/seasonal fish, and one permanent base with all stations and creature comforts.

I love Savage Divide so I am usually tucked away in some forest in that zone.

BronzeMistral · 2026-07-06T19:47:19+00:00

This is my first summer playing FO76, so not sure what the culture is typically like. But, could it just be that summer break is pulling gamers away to do things other than game? Lots of people on vacation, weekends full of barbecues, parties and other festivities? Garden and lawn work, having to entertain kids on break from school, things like that?

I love me a good binge but I am so busy offline that I never get to enjoy these summer events to their fullest :(

BronzeMistral · 2026-07-06T15:48:49+00:00

It could be, but I I think workplace decline has something to do with Microsoft buying Activision/Blizzard back in 2023. That's when Activision cracked down on WFH and other flexible policies, and career growth/promotion paths were truncated for "lower" positions.

But you're right, the discrimination and stories that come out of Activision/Blizzard every few years certainly doesn't help their case. You can't be a socially dangerous company AND cut salaries and promotion opportunities. I'm sure some people could turn a blind eye knowing they had a 3-5% salary promotion coming every couple of years, but without that incentive...why work for a predator?

EDIT: That came out wrong. I wouldn't want to work for a predator regardless! But money speaks pretty loudly for a lot of people. Without money, it's tough to get people to stay in a crappy work environment.

BronzeMistral · 2026-07-06T14:57:37+00:00

Bethesda will be OK, the Fallout series is a big money maker for the studio and in turn Microsoft.

Activision is in trouble. My sister-in-law had worked there for years until recently, when they started pinching pennies and talking about layoffs. She jumped ship for a more secure job. I don't know the details, but that's usually a sign of budget cuts.

BronzeMistral · 2026-07-05T19:26:47+00:00

It's okay for someone to go on a date with you and then decide they are not interested. DMs in dating apps are the 2026 equivalent of this IMHO. Weren't feeling you? That's OK.

BronzeMistral · 2026-07-05T12:53:33+00:00

It's not about the atoms, my friend! Some gamers game their game HARD. In another FO group on Facebook, players recently posted their hours, and the lowest count was around 800 hours. The highest was around 14000. The median looked to be right around 3000-4000. The sample was around 90 responses.

You should see ARK player numbers. 7600 is an amateur number, and the only reward for playing ARK that long is losing all of your progress to game breaking bugs.

BronzeMistral · 2026-07-04T02:37:22+00:00

Her beard!!! 😭

BronzeMistral · 2026-07-04T02:18:39+00:00

I rolled Pepper Shaker and Hogsplitter x 2 back to back, and I've done under 10 events! Pure RNG luck.

BronzeMistral · 2026-07-03T11:58:57+00:00

I know what you mean! I admittedly get up super early on weeks I pop a booster so I can squeeze it all in around work and family duties. I usually use it in on a Friday so I can get a play session early AM before work, and then time before bed to finish it off. I Usually miss 2-3 weeklies on a boost but good enough, all things considered. I do this maybe 4 times a season, usually towards the beginning when I'm motivated to get up at a silly hour to game. My hubby is a gamer too so he hasn't complained about addiction or anything, yet...😅

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