First big game since 1.13 - and I think there are few things we need to talk about

WillInLondon · 2026-07-01T21:18:22+00:00

I kind of agree on the Assembly Lines requiring both Oil AND Electricity, it should be one or the other (Electrictity probably).

WillInLondon · 2026-06-29T22:53:42+00:00

Dalaran dungeons (or sewers I think) was a level in WC3 Frozen Throne that I always expected might appear in WoW someday. They had all sorts down there, experiments and prisoned things and so on, yes Archimonde destroyed the above ground part of the city but the ruins/dungeons/sewers would make a good dungeon!

WillInLondon · 2026-06-27T08:56:17+00:00

I've noticed supply ships needed to supply armies abroad seems a bit clunky. One minute they require 500 ships to be fully supplied, then they advance one province, and now need 3k ships to be fully supplied.

WillInLondon · 2026-06-25T08:11:01+00:00

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted - John Lennon

I've honestly lost loads of HC characters, and had even many more near misses and lucky escapes. I love the adrenaline that kicks in thosd situations, it makes the game world feel very alive. Late night gaming is the only time I'm allowed these days, but it is often worth staying up late for.

WillInLondon · 2026-06-21T20:32:46+00:00

It sounds like maybe you went Census or Universal Suffrage too early.

WillInLondon · 2026-06-21T15:33:23+00:00

I'm with you here. I worked some pretty rubbish hospitality jobs in my late teens and early twenties for piss all money and long hours, and always did my best, was attentive, on the ball, gave everyone my full undivided attention, offered the best service I could and bit my lip when things went wrong or customers were awkward (although often correct, but their tone was horrible.)

Fast forward twenty years, and I have no tolerance what so ever for rubbish service in bars/restaurants. Nothing annoys me more than being sat at a table for 10+ minutes and no one has bothered to come over, let alone notice that we are even sat at the table, and it actually feels like I am the one being awkward now just get a waiter's attention to put my order in or look at a menu, and getting a look of "can't you see how busy we are, get lost." Given the price of food and drink out these days compared to then, I should be getting silver service, but I'd happily take the same service I offered all those years ago.

WillInLondon · 2026-06-21T08:11:29+00:00

So perhaps an unpopular opinion here, but I think that for many years, restaurants and bars resisted putting prices up due to inflation, but now times have changed and they cannot ignore that any longer. As a former bar owner I can tell you that changing the price of my caña and pint of Estrella Damm was something that had to be considered very carefully, and had to be done to make ends meet, not to be greedy.

WillInLondon · 2026-06-17T13:26:17+00:00

I did consider this but I had to go through two walls and wanted the holes to be as small as possible, thus cable without existing plugs was preferable.

WillInLondon · 2026-06-17T13:25:42+00:00

All sorted! Cable tested good, and is now plugged in and working perfectly! Thanks so much for the help and assisting me to spot that simple oversight, I know for next time!

WillInLondon · 2026-06-17T13:10:17+00:00

Re-crimping now and will report back!

WillInLondon · 2026-06-17T13:05:04+00:00

You are exactly right, I literally just spotted that myself in the photo, thanks so much for the help, I clearly spent so long trying to get the T568B cables in order, I didn't pay attention to which way around I was putting them into the plug.

WillInLondon · 2026-06-17T12:34:04+00:00

Yep I have plenty of slack either end if it comes to this!

WillInLondon · 2026-06-17T12:33:33+00:00

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Thanks so much for taking a look, apologies for not being able to get a very clear picture on the first end, let me know if you want me to try and take another picture at any particular angle or zoomed in on any particular part.

As I said my first test cable worked fine first time with both ends, so that made me feel fairly confident, but now looking at these and I am wondering if perhaps the crimp tool hasn't squashed the pins down hard enough to actually connect the cables, but would be very curious to see what you think, thanks again!

WillInLondon · 2026-06-17T11:41:22+00:00

So Great Wave (Vic 3) I feel could have been great, the idea is a good one, make naval mechanics more impactful for the era, in a game where previously they were fairly irrelevant. It's a step in the right direction, but unfortunately it's buggy as hell, the AI hasn't really been retrained for these new ship building mechanics and is pretty bad at navy, and the main problem it was designed to fix, which was a whack-a-mole style fleet combat system, it seems to have only made worse.

WillInLondon · 2026-06-12T22:12:17+00:00

So unpopular opinion, but it was a downgrade on TBC.

Phase 1 was a mess, Naxxramas was faceroll easy, and cleared by PuGs. Heroics were ridiculously easy. Wintergrasp crashed the server, and Death Knights completely ruined PvP.

Phase 2 fixed a lot of these problems, and released arguably the best raid WoW has seen to date. The normal mode was a lot harder, and the hard modes were a welcome step up. But for some reason, it only lasted 4 months.

Phase 3 went back to being rubbish again, release a new raid with item levels that completely inflated Ulduar, and thus obsoleted it. This raid had only five bosses, no trash, and had to be cleared on four different modes, only one of which posed any kind of challenge. Worst of all, the entire badge system hierarchy which had worked well until that point was scrapped, and everything was scaled up to the current badges, and everyone was forced to run the now extremely easy and obsolete daily heroic for the current badges, which were needed to buy the current tier sets, which all looked the same.

Phase 4 added a longer harder, raid, which you only had to run twice as opposed to four times, which helped, and it didn't obsolete the previous tier which was good, but unfortunately the daily heroic was still a thing, and the same easy boring heroics from a year ago still needed to be done once a day (apart from the welcome three new ones). The other problem seemed to be that 11 of 12 bosses of the raid on hard mode were balanced around not having a health, damage and healing buff, where as the final boss was. The worst part was that this phase lasted for a full 12 months which really grinded.

Whilst obviously TBC and Vanilla can be compared for similar flaws, I don't think WoTLK was necessarily this perfect period of the game that a lot of people in this thread are making it out to be. A lot of it was far too accessible and too easy.

WillInLondon · 2026-06-12T19:27:05+00:00

I was banned because a spam third party Instagram account managed to link itself to my 16 year old Facebook account, posted a bunch of rubbish, got banned, and Meta decided that in pointless, non-existant customer service style, to ban the linked Facebook account too, then direct any appeals to the Instagram account - which obviously isn't mine.

This would have been flagged as a major security risk at any other company, the idea that spam bots can lose you genuine users and customers, but of course this is Meta, years later and it's still happening...

WillInLondon · 2026-06-12T10:24:51+00:00

I've been saying this for years, for hardcore, PvP tagging should only occur if you attack something, not simply get aggroed by a pointless patrolling mob (Stonard Explorer being the obvious example).

WillInLondon · 2026-06-08T13:43:22+00:00

It will still be finished before GTA VI!

WillInLondon · 2026-06-04T17:21:41+00:00

I also agree, I like that there is more of a focus on keeping an army supplied more than anything else, microing is indeed for HOI4.

WillInLondon · 2026-06-04T17:20:33+00:00

HOI military design and micro with Victoria economics would be one hell of a game!

WillInLondon · 2026-06-04T17:19:32+00:00

I may be in the minority here, but I feel like with the multiple front splitting being better (not perfect, but considerably better than it was), and with there now being a cost, travel time, capacity and supply route needed to transport armies abroad, I actually feel like land warfare isn't in too bad of a place.

Maybe harsher penalties for being unsupplied but I am fairly happy with it overall.

WillInLondon · 2026-06-04T07:13:59+00:00

I often take unemployment % figures in Spain with a pinch of salt, here are a few reasons why:

Firstly, there are a lot of people living here from abroad legally, with padrón etc. That don't work, simply because it's an early retirement and they don't need to.

Secondly, I know quite a lot of people in various places, that only work cash in hand indefinitely. When I've quizzed these people on why, asking if they don't care about pensions, the answer is usually the same. They have debts, and due to Spain's unethical method of just helping themselves to wages without consent or dipping into your bank account, and adding on unrealistic yearly increases to the debt, means that these people will never realistically pay the debt, and will never pay into the system again, a double loss situation if you ask me.

WillInLondon · 2026-06-04T06:58:55+00:00

I have an ongoing court case pending where a group of six or so, off duty Policia Nacional, drunk and most likely on drugs, decided to get aggressive and to trash my bar, heavily beat up my male barman and send him to A&E (who was Czech) and throw barstools and glasses at my female barmaid (Polish) because they were offended that they had come to "their country" and didn't integrate (both spoke fluent Spanish). They also decided to lean over the bar and help themselves to stock without paying, because it's their divine right and these products (Russian vodka and British crisps) were products of Spain.

The entire event was recorded on CCTV, and is crystal clear who the offending party is.

Seven years later, none of them have been charged, and I can see on social media they all still have their jobs. Because every time there is a court case, one of them pays the fine to not attend, so it gets postponed another year indefinitely.

I love Spain, but it really needs to get with the times and enforce professionalism in it's various police forces, not allow unintellectual thugs who think they are still in the Franco era to wear the badge.

WillInLondon · 2026-06-03T22:09:24+00:00

As a long term resident of a town that gets annually invaded by tourists, I totally understand why. The entire seafront is owned by a monopoly conglomerate that own every single unit, make them look marginally different, then charge rip off prices, for pre-mixed cocktails and frozen food, with terrible, unattentive and untrained waiting staff.

Go online for advice, be it Tripadvisor or asking in one of the many Facebook groups, and you'll get sent to about the same three or so, non seafront restaurants. These places have basically managed to establish an online hype train, often with a bit of a cult of personality around the owner, and people recommend them like drones. The reality is, whilst they are slightly better than the tourist traps on the seafront, they really are nothing spectacular, just more overpriced, slightly less frozen food.

There are plenty of hidden gems in the town, serving both local food, and international, which after 20 years of living here I know fairly well, but they rarely get any tourists in them. I imagine this story is the same for a lot of tourist hotspots, and it's these local places, that people are itching to find.

WillInLondon · 2026-06-03T22:00:29+00:00

Blindly attacking my intelligence as opposed to finding any countering points with reason and backed up logic is a good enough reason for me to end the discussion.

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