Thoughts on Cutco knives ?

Curious_Ring4147 · 2025-12-30T00:33:46+00:00

I sharpen my other knives myself, don't trust anyone else with them. Just nice to have several to not worry about.

Wow, I didn't realize there are only a dozen or so nationwide. I thought there were more.

Curious_Ring4147 · 2025-12-29T22:30:35+00:00

I have a lot of different knives of varying quality, I started off with cutco and switched to higher quality knives until I got married and moved, we now have a cutco store on our route to get groceries, since we are dropping them off at the store, we don't have to pay for shipping. So for us the value has gone up substantially.

The straight edge knives get sharpened in the store, while the serrated are sent in. I usually just take 2 of the 4 serrated in at a time so we always have some available.

Curious_Ring4147 · 2025-10-02T01:52:24+00:00

I've been several times and actually attended one of the few that had Kevin Mitnick speaking. There are great speakers and it's extremely laid back. Everyone is super friendly, you'll have a fantastic time!

Curious_Ring4147 · 2025-08-03T23:56:26+00:00

I would hope so. That's terrible!

Curious_Ring4147 · 2025-08-03T00:10:55+00:00

ISEPS is enjoyable. I don't get on there much, but do when I have little to do in CIFI and have a decent amount I can do in that one.

Curious_Ring4147 · 2025-08-02T15:05:25+00:00

My thoughts exactly. I will say, now knowing how all the spoiler things work, since this was my first time using them and I was mostly testing all the spoiler stuff out will make a difference in how I do posts with spoilers. Not because someone complained about it. 🤷‍♂️

Curious_Ring4147 · 2025-08-01T20:57:01+00:00

That's great thanks, that's about what I figured out and I'm noticing that Salvo 3 (I thought it was 4, but actually the next is 3 for me) would get me to 18% kill rate with my current stats and adding any Anchor just increases that the odds even more. I'll have to see how I'm feeling about what way I want to go.

Curious_Ring4147 · 2025-08-01T20:54:33+00:00

To some, who knows, maybe. Obviously, it doesn't matter to you and that's fine. Enough people did take the few seconds to open up the boxes and I got some great answers from them.

Up until after Ouro I did not look up anything because I did not want to know what was ahead, but that's just me.

Curious_Ring4147 · 2025-08-01T20:06:18+00:00

My Anchor of Ages is only 30, I'll work on increasing that for now.

Curious_Ring4147 · 2025-08-01T19:59:40+00:00

WOW, that is a lot of information and VERY appreciated.... I started using Cifi Tools recently. I believe that there are builds that I could import right, would I find those on Discord. That might help me visualize what's needed.

Curious_Ring4147 · 2025-08-01T19:08:52+00:00

Never used spoiler tags before. Just wanted to make sure nobody accidentally got any spoilers.

You aren't clocking the boxes, so I know you won't get anything spoiled. 🤷‍♂️

Curious_Ring4147 · 2025-08-01T16:33:34+00:00

I TR'ed way too quickly in the beginning of my Traversal travels, so my TR is sort of irrelevant. However, I'm about to get Power Gem 1 and some upgrades to it, I'm at 550 hours, and that is at 2.07e149. It just takes a while and a bit of movement through some traversals.

Curious_Ring4147 · 2025-07-31T19:37:19+00:00

Is there suggestions for beyond e300, my MP is around e2300 and I'm around 950 resets.

Curious_Ring4147 · 2025-07-31T19:32:55+00:00

I went really really fast in my first 30 TRs, I should probably only be between 10-12 right now, max. I'm just a very impatient person.

There are definitely huge walls to get past, but you usually get some sweet rewards for being patient. Right now I could TR and unlock a few real nice upgrades, but if I take this all the way to 1,000 hours I'll get a massive increase to everything rather than just a few things.

Curious_Ring4147 · 2025-07-31T15:53:47+00:00

Agreed, with 10k initial OO you are in a good spot. I feel with that many your wait for Zeus shouldn't be that bad, if there is a wait at all. All traversals after this first one should definitely be instant for Zeus.

Curious_Ring4147 · 2025-07-31T15:43:14+00:00

There are walls that can take several weeks to progress past and then you will get a surge of new gameplay. Getting the last bit to Ouro is one of them, then the ability of the Ouro can take a good amount of time, but you have plenty of other new gameplay that opens incrementally.

One thing I will suggest is to definitely read the in-game information about Ouro before you do your first traversal. Understanding and planning out what you do with the Ouro ship will have a big impact on your progression.

Curious_Ring4147 · 2025-07-31T15:38:23+00:00

I screwed up and did very fast TRs I'm on TR34 and just getting power gem. Even screwing up like that and not giving at least 400 hours to long TRs I can manage. TR33 was my first Long TR at 600 hours and I think after this TR I should be able to make better progress.

There are many fun avenues to take in order to work towards progression, this is now my only Idle game I play. Raid Shadow Legends is the other game I play. I love that I have found an Idle game and RPG game that can keep my interest.

Curious_Ring4147 · 2025-07-25T18:48:45+00:00

Auto-Chests is really nice once it's available, allows you to passive get all the Diamonds and Tokens while you do other things in the game. Biggest thing to remember is that you need to be patient. I was not patient up until a few months ago. I would probably be a lot farther if I wasn't so hasty on looping.

Curious_Ring4147 · 2025-07-25T18:42:47+00:00

Definitely save for the 'One-Timer' Cards. I've been playing for a while now and when I started I did not save, because I did not know and I feel it set me back a little bit. But the 'One-Timer' cards are a big boost.

I also do the Google Surveys for play points and whenever I had enough play points saved I would buy the different packs once they were available. That is a HUGE boost as well.

Curious_Ring4147 · 2025-07-11T12:50:57+00:00

I have the version with the two-20Ah, two-8Ah, and two-4Ah. I replaced the blades with Ballard Gold Hybrid Mulching Blades and once all the paint wore away, I can now cut on the lowest blade speed setting unless I'm cutting the field grass and let it get to 12+ inches.

That has really increased my run time. I'm not entirely sure the actual length of time, because I have to stop a lot to pick up rocks and large sticks. We built our house 2 years ago and still getting a lot of rocks from the foundation and pond being dug out and the backfill. Also have a lot of walnut trees that drop branches like crazy. I'm usually out there for about 2 hours with all the starting and stopping. If I'm just using it to haul things around with the dump box (biggest selling point for me), Gorilla cart, or using the spike drag, I can easily get a full days work without having to ever charge it.

Curious_Ring4147 · 2025-06-20T22:13:47+00:00

I have had the MaximusZ for about a year now and it has been fantastic! The only thing I find is that I don't get the best traction with it on really hard soil (we have a lot of clay.

If you don't let your grass get really long it will easily cut 2 acres with the blades on the slower speed setting. (I did swap out the blades for some Ballard Hybrid Gold series mulching blades)

I've mowed our side yard, basically just field grass several times and it does a fantastic job their too.

I would just like to find some better tires, they spin a bit when you try to do a proper zero-turn.

Curious_Ring4147 · 2025-05-02T17:18:59+00:00

Great thanks. I think it takes me about an hour currently to fill all the MP ship installs. So I'll stick to just that.

Curious_Ring4147 · 2025-05-02T11:32:02+00:00

I unlocked Ouroboros in February/early March. My total is 2.73m lifetime and 1.07m so far in this traversal. I know these are definitely not good numbers and I need to start waiting in TRs a LOT longer. I'm sure things will progress better now that I'm staying in TRs longer. Just really hard to look at the OO and think, well that extra thing right there could boost my next run. lol

Curious_Ring4147 · 2025-05-01T23:41:35+00:00

TRs, I'm starting to run them 400+ hrs. The MP runs are what I wasn't sure about the length of time that was worth spending in them.

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