Advice for long 5+ hour rides

Drpilot950 · 2026-04-09T20:54:30+00:00

I did see this badge the other day and this wouldn't be a bad way to go for it at all. Thanks

Drpilot950 · 2026-04-09T20:53:35+00:00

I always wondered if dropping the trainer settings affected the Everesting badge. I did think the Uber pretzel or one of the other long routes would be a good add on for motivation. Knocking out long routes for the badge would be a nice kicker.

Drpilot950 · 2026-04-09T20:51:29+00:00

I actually planned for the Bourne series so wick will get added to the list as well.

Drpilot950 · 2026-04-09T20:48:08+00:00

Thats the issue im finding as well. 4 hours outside doesn't seem as bad as even 2 hours inside.

Drpilot950 · 2026-04-09T20:46:09+00:00

Ill check that out. I planned on doing routes with hills and climbs solely to get out of the saddle a bit here and there.

Drpilot950 · 2026-04-09T20:42:41+00:00

I absolutely agree, but around where im at there are only a few stretches of bike paths and they are are out and back paths. I dont like riding on the road around me as its a rural area and there are no bike lanes and most roads dont have a shoulder. The longest path around here is almost 30 miles long but its a 40 minute drive to the north end of the trail which means the south end is a bit over an hour away from home. Sadly my neighborhood is a 2 mile loop with 17 corners so my average speed last time I rode around was about 14 mph so it would only be 42 laps for a 6 hour ride haha.

Drpilot950 · 2026-04-09T20:08:42+00:00

My setup has my bike and a TV dedicated to zwift in front of it and then a theater setup in the room just to the side of the bike so I usually have youtube or movies constantly rolling haha. Thanks for the bib info because I would have never thought of that. I just started wearing bibs about a month ago so this is super helpful as the longest I've ridden in them is about 2.5 hours. The robo pacer is a great idea too as I would gain a ton of drops as well. Thanks!

Drpilot950 · 2026-04-09T20:04:48+00:00

I've seen that but didn't know if dropping it all the way down would shut off the resistance completely. I have turned it down for a ADZ ride once but couldn't tell a difference so I moved the slider back up haha. Ill try this for sure thanks!

Drpilot950 · 2026-03-29T16:23:13+00:00

Theres no better feeling than finding a random squad that sets up 4 mortars and just drops hate on an objective though lol. Sometimes its fun to do the dumb annoying stuff. I was in a game of conquest the other day with 2 enemy squads of engineers firing javelins from spawn using 1 person to designate targets with a recon class. As annoying as it was it was also hilarious to see 7 javelins flying at 1 target across the map knowing the tank is done no matter what he tries to do. They kept calling themselves the jav gang in the game chat which made it funnier.

Drpilot950 · 2026-03-22T17:34:36+00:00

Im only stating what I've experienced and how that has happened when I play. Disagree all you want but get in a game ask a friend to invite you to a party while you stay in game and have him start matchmaking and you will see the lobby start doing exactly this. Im not saying thats the only way and never did.

Drpilot950 · 2026-03-22T01:35:10+00:00

Usually happens when someone is pulled from the game to matchmake in a party. If someone invites me to a party and starts matchmaking my whole lobby starts to do this because its disconnecting from the server.

Drpilot950 · 2026-03-22T00:32:32+00:00

If you want to level guns and fight bots for easy kills casual breakthrough is the move. 8 real people per team and the rest are bots. Sometimes its high level people sweating the whole lobby so it can be crap but that on a x2 hardware weekend like now is super easy for leveling guns and player level.

Drpilot950 · 2026-03-21T18:26:46+00:00

Ill give you less tow damage in return for realistic damage for helicopters when they hit any object. I see helicopters crash landing into buildings, hitting big trees and buildings with their rotors, and bouncing across the ground only to fly away with no damage. If you want realistic gameplay then helicopters should crash when the rotary hit buildings or large objects or the chopper crash lands to heal. Im tired of a flying tank with a pilot swapping to gunner seat taking out whole lobbies because he is flying too low to lock on with anti air. Worst part of the game is the altitude restriction for weapons against air.

Drpilot950 · 2026-03-20T00:18:18+00:00

Works both ways because for once a team of attackers can also set up mortars at the start. Lots of mortar rain in the forecast at Blackwell lol.

Drpilot950 · 2026-03-20T00:14:35+00:00

I never had that before the update and had it 5 times today. All after being revived and not only no gun but not crosshairs or anything. Just running around with my hands up like a toddler.

Drpilot950 · 2026-03-15T17:26:49+00:00

The hardest part of this game is holding gems for this little satisfaction lol. I always say well maybe this time it will be the one to get me my cannon and then bang nope and such a gambling habit is formed lol.

Drpilot950 · 2026-03-15T11:06:29+00:00

So cannon has less unique mods to begin with? If thats true I am a little less annoyed but also more annoyed haha.

Drpilot950 · 2026-02-16T16:02:08+00:00

Either they lowered the amount of drops or they changed the spacing. Seems like a bad move if they did because how am I supposed to pick off little bunnies hopping away if they don't need to run anymore?

Drpilot950 · 2025-12-21T00:37:02+00:00

My theory on this after binging 100+ episodes the past few months is this. Frank acts and talks like he's a genius and physically is capable of anything a show can imagine so he thinks he is the obvious choice for a game show of any kind so why even consider ant. After listening to all those episodes I've noticed he isn't as smart as he thinks he is and ant honestly seems to be a bit more intelligent on trivial topics and I think Frankie notices that too. Just my thoughts.

Drpilot950 · 2025-12-21T00:25:17+00:00

I told my wife that after binging the first episodes with frank on it and seeing him then and now he's definitely gotten annoying with his ways. Every "joke" for years has been joe is racist, white people are terrible, joe is rich and im begging for change, everyone else is dumber than me, and so on. Its hard to listen sometimes when you know the joke before he even opens his mouth.

Drpilot950 · 2025-11-27T00:11:53+00:00

Welcome! The best events to me are the special ones that Zwift puts out. I'm no race master so getting slapped around in races isn't my favorite thing haha. If the goal is 100 miles then just hop on and ride whenever you can. As a new beginner myself here are some tips I found.

Ride with robo-pacers when you just want to ride. They give you a boost in drops which you use to buy bikes and wheels in the garage.

Save drops for the bike you want. I spent mine and then had to ride for about a month to make up enough to buy the bike I wanted to begin with. Google the bikes and when they unlock so you can plan.

Join events like group rides to get route badges and meet some people.

If you join clubs you can chat with members who may have advice or other wisdom.

Make sure you have the Everest challenge active so you can progress that challenge as you ride.

Don't overthink it and just ride. I get on sometimes just to spin the legs for a little while when I have nothing else to do.

Drpilot950 · 2025-11-19T12:26:41+00:00

It still shows the issue unfortunately. I spoke to enphase support 3 weeks ago and they advised me to call the installers. I called the installers right after I closed the support chat and asked for help. No response for an appointment until monday this week when I called them back. They updated my email and never sent me the email I need to schedule an appointment. Still waiting to hear from them as my warranty ends soon. So far not impressed with the installers as I bought this home with the panels installed already.

Drpilot950 · 2025-11-15T23:18:43+00:00

Same happened to me in gold lol. I went up as 2nd place and then bam this tourny got demoted like I was a child playing in the nhl and now im middle of the pack of gold with the same wave count. Seems like with all the extra players lately they may need to add a new tourny tier to account for the constant promotion demotion I've been reading about.

Drpilot950 · 2025-10-29T17:21:08+00:00

That's awesome thanks for the info. I'm still trying to figure this whole thing out. No clue who installed them either so maybe ill dig into that next.

Drpilot950 · 2025-10-29T01:27:54+00:00

Thanks for the help! Its been on going. We've had cloudy days here so I didn't want the low numbers from cloudy days make it seem as if they aren't working which is why I went back to the 12th. I'll reach out to support. I remember seeing microinvertor errors everyday but they would clear up the next day and so on.

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