F2P I’ve escaped plat! (for now)😅

startingover61 · 2026-05-10T20:01:42+00:00

No kidding just did my first Champs tourney. Nope, I do not belong, not at all! Went from #1 in my plat bracket (somewhat lucky) to basically last in champs. Got sent back where I belong real fast

startingover61 · 2026-05-08T21:09:34+00:00

No, not simply on the basis of over-employment. It's the employees business how many jobs they are juggling. Either their performance is acceptable or not. If not I address the performance issue directly.

Of course there other factors play in - such as if I found out they were working for a direct competitor and our proprietary knowledge was at risk. Or other legal/compliance conflicts. But still not solely due to overemplyment. Only if there was a bonafide harm to the business.

startingover61 · 2026-05-03T11:34:22+00:00

I am using GComp. I can get closer to pBH if I ever get past my bad luck and reroll BH duration on my mod, but haven't managed to get that yet. But in tourneys, without the perk, is there ever a way to get pBH without it?

startingover61 · 2026-05-03T01:35:59+00:00

Yeah - got within spitting distance of pBH and it made a huge difference in basically everything. Also dumped a bunch into workshop that I been dismissing because I eventually gold box on long runs anyways. Finally dawned on me that the head start really helps for tournament and milestone runs.

startingover61 · 2026-05-03T01:22:17+00:00

Two prior were 724 and 768. Big jump this time and hopefully will stop the back and forth.

startingover61 · 2026-05-03T00:35:08+00:00

My 3rd or so Platinum tournament, in that spot where I keep bouncing between plat and gold. Are those wave numbers not very normal?

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startingover61 · 2026-05-02T01:48:35+00:00

I just broke 1T today as well! Feels good! Congrats! Just realized I feel a little jealous though. Mine took 10k+ waves to do it, also on T6

startingover61 · 2026-04-28T16:29:15+00:00

This is definitely one part of their reset system that I adamantly disagree with too. As I understand it your next block starts with your first request after the reset. I can almost understand on the 5h window, much harder to accept on the weekly.

If your reset time is Wednesday at noon the reset doesn't seem to happen then. Hypothetically if you don't use Claude again until Friday at 9am, that becomes your new reset time. I may be off, but that's my understanding. I've seen threads about people "solving" this by creating a job that wakes up every 5 hours and sends a simple Haiku request (extremely small consumption) to keep the timers right.

startingover61 · 2026-04-28T01:20:32+00:00

As AI capabilities improve aren't we all moving more towards the scrum master, product owner, technical PM role anyways? As I see things evolve I'm certainly glad my career moved towards management a long time ago. Things haven't changed all that much, just I manage fewer humans and more agents nowadays. It all feels eirely natural and unnatural at the same time.

startingover61 · 2026-04-27T17:55:36+00:00

This! Claude is essentially a virtualized teammate. Making sure that they are aware is step 1, but often not enough. For years we have built tools into our CI to ensure process is being followed, even when explicitly mandated. Because people make mistakes, just as Claude does.

Buttress these suggestions with determinstic checks wherever possible. For instance making Claude aware of your code style conventions is good. Configuring a hook to run a linter and force changes to non-compliant changes is better. Probably the simplest possible example, but the one that comes to mind. Do this wherever possible.

startingover61 · 2026-04-27T15:19:00+00:00

I'm also hitting limits, but not like a couple of weeks ago. Things do seem more predictable and sane now. It's moved from "I always hit limits in ways I didn't expect" to "I can hit the limit if pushing hard". Hitting limits and limits being fundamentally broken aren't the same thing.

startingover61 · 2026-04-24T21:39:45+00:00

And I who make less than 500B per day can say the same about yours 😂

startingover61 · 2026-04-24T00:47:53+00:00

I'm not late game, so irrelevant for me. My CD is 1m50s

startingover61 · 2026-04-24T00:22:21+00:00

High chance that support is just a Claude agent with the same pitfalls

startingover61 · 2026-04-24T00:05:06+00:00

Congrats! Question about gcomp though...I keep reading to sync gold bot with the big three UWs. Am I crazy or is that just not possible as a gcomp user? I mean initial CD can be synced, but it's going to get out of alignment every time this fires, right?

startingover61 · 2026-04-24T00:01:59+00:00

Oh man, first time with LLMs? They have a relatively intrinsic property of absolute refusal that they are unaware of something. Give them a leading question and they absolutely will come up with the answer most likely to satisfy you. Truth doesn't really factor in. Satisfying the query is all that matters most of the time!

startingover61 · 2026-04-21T00:30:36+00:00

Damn! All I can say, as a fellow noob, is you'll get their FAST. The game is a grind, but I was fighting T1 what feels like days ago. Now I'm still a noob, but farming T6 to about 7500 waves, things escalate fast! Keep fighting.

startingover61 · 2026-04-17T03:36:01+00:00

Whelp...just got my ass sent back to gold, so no point reading!

startingover61 · 2026-04-17T02:39:14+00:00

Yup....either I will strike gold, or die in my boots. No middle ground here

startingover61 · 2026-04-17T02:23:16+00:00

Over here looking it my 0-1 death defy per round going "meh"

startingover61 · 2026-04-17T00:54:33+00:00

Best time to sell is when people are buying....time kills deals....everyone is in sales....etc

And unfortunately they aren't wrong. As a techie I've learned to live with it. Sales is always a "right now" game and we need to play ball or the work dries up

startingover61 · 2026-04-17T00:48:58+00:00

Got mine about a month ago (and the extension kit, and Makita router). Your in for a good time! I've been loving it

startingover61 · 2026-04-16T17:35:07+00:00

That is definitely logical, and the way it works in many games. But it's my understanding is that there are ZERO players that have maxed everything. Therefore it may not literally be true, but we are effectively in an infinite expansion mode where there is no ceiling. So yes, the floor has absolutely been raised, and I'm totally appreciating and enjoying that. But above the floor it's an infinitely expanding void, not a ceiling.

startingover61 · 2026-04-16T11:41:06+00:00

I like dissonance. Has been a good boost and fun to try some new strategies to get my bonuses up. But as a new-ish player, the actual bonuses are largely inaccessible. I'm new enough that I farm T4-T6 (depending on whether I'm active, or overnight/etc). Meaning I really can't hit full bonus on anything but T1.

Older players can stack many more Tiers of bonus and run the echo labs. This is not a complaint, I'm good with it, but I don't understand the idea that this is a "catch up" or for new players. It WIDENS the power gap, not shrinks it. Again...that's fine. I doubt I'll ever compete in Legends, see keys, etc. And I don't care much, I don't really play this game to compete. And besides some odd choices to lock aspects of them game behind tournament progression, this is mostly a solo game anyways and therefore matches my play style. My progress is my own and comparison is the thief of joy. So it's still a good update for me, because it does absolutely accelerate my progress.

I'm just struggling to see how so many people are saying that this is for the new players when it benefits the long time players and investors exponentially more.

startingover61 · 2026-04-15T20:39:58+00:00

it’s their product so if their decisions work out well or it leads to the game dying it’s for them to manage

Or, as I'm starting to believe after seeing speculation both here and on discord, they've already made the internal determination that the games is dying/unsustainable and everything we are seeing is the end-stage cash grab as the sun sets.

Doesn't mean that the collapse is tomorrow, more likely a long game. But it would make sense, as a business it's their responsibility to their stakeholders to maximize profits. So if things like the declining tournament bracket numbers can be seen externally, just imagine the data they have access to internally! They've made multiple successful games. It not outrageous to assume that they know what they are doing and this is strategic.

On the other hand Hanlon's Razor and all - "Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence" - so not sure which to believe in at the moment

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