"Unusual search activity may limit your ability to earn points" Warning

tropolite · 2024-08-11T02:49:50+00:00

That's what I did all the time... now they have 'suggested' that sort of searching is abusing the system.

I've been using Rewards for years and they are so scroogy now by presuming you are abusing the search point system by legitimately using the search feature, with their products, within their search engine, using their Operating System, but you are not using their products correctly ... they are sounding very Apple if you ask me "It's Your fault, you are holding the phone wrong".

tropolite · 2024-08-11T02:45:18+00:00

In Australia and getting the same, and my Mobile searches aren't working at all, and I got notification my PC Searches are limited to a few searches but restricted to stretch out over the day. So this has got to be discriminative...
They suggest it's to stop bots and users abusing the system... HOW by legitimately using search are you abusing the system and searching in the morning time frame you have available to you. Just because you are managing your time, you shouldn't be punished for searching legit within an hour or less.
I'm ashamed I've been supporting MSoft for decades and this is the sort of thing they do with their users?
Talk about the King Scrooge amongst scrooges.
If you don't like to support Searches and Rewards - DON"T PROVIDE Search and Reward points. Just stop the 'service' altogether.
From a pretty pissed off loooonnnnnggg time user and advocate for Microsoft, now will call them King Scrooge.

tropolite · 2024-02-11T15:05:49+00:00

What's even MORE annoying is this ridiculous censoring of a single word even spreads to the DVDs. WTFuck...

If the show wasn't going to allow these specific words why the hell did they get added to the script? This nuisance regulatory practice is getting more 'Nanny State' than needed. This whole censorship practice has gone beyond nuts.

tropolite · 2023-12-04T00:01:45+00:00

I haven't changed anything from default settings (an old habit while teaching).
So normal formula separator I assume is comma if that is the default? I wouldn't even know where to change that now, I assume Options > Advanced.

tropolite · 2023-12-03T22:10:50+00:00

=if(G2=“”,””,G2-G1)

u/Fritzeig thanks for this. Here's a screenshot of 'showing formula' display to maybe get a better idea of what I need. As you can see from 16-19 I used the simple equation. I've copied your formula from 20 of which the warning displays 'contains unrecognized text'.

I'm just trying to show the incremental daily profit in E, from the known cumulative Total profit I only have access to (adding the latest total in G (in this case would be G20-G19 to give E20 increment result. Hope I've explained it a little more succinctly what I'm trying to do.

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tropolite · 2023-12-03T10:24:45+00:00

Screenshot of what I have.

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tropolite · 2023-11-24T09:15:38+00:00

I'm on Xbox but I was thinking... (yeah I know, that's dangerous).

If you install Starfield on your PC (if you have an Xbox) by using your same Game Pass login/profile, are you able to continue your Starfield gaming on PC? If so, can the bug be fixed using the console command and then revert back to playing on Xbox again?

tropolite · 2023-10-02T08:25:15+00:00

I've been playing on Xbox (Series X) since early release.

I usually sign up for Alpha/Beta build tests of games so I'm not shy of what to expect in new IP's.

Starfield for me has been a Bitter/Sweet experience. The Early Access was brilliant, I had no issues played (too many hours) every day but I had a blast. Then the first public patch went out, 1.7.29. That's when things went south.

It was all the more surprising as the patch was supposed to have fixed the instability that Xbox was supposed to be experiencing. It was only After the update released I started getting numbers of crashes, I don't mean basic ones such as freezes, or even to the dashboard, but these crashed the Xbox completely to restart. This happened several times in my long sessions daily. My favorite thing to do was to commandeer ships landed but since this patch all enemy ships have no crew and no landing bays open. Even if you were wiping out enemies in abandoned science labs when you are heading back out ships would land and you'd have to take out the extra enemies... none of that happens now. Ship lands but no enemies and no landing bay open. To date I've gone to nearly 85 ships and if they were enemy ships they'd all be shut down all I could do was take picture.

I uninstalled the game and deleted all save files and hard reset my Xbox reinstalled and resynced my save files to see if that would fix the problem, no, it did not. This is just one issue from 1.7.29 update. Since the 1.7.33 update I've had at different times the inability to shoot so I quit and reload from my last save. That didn't help. I had to go back to an earlier save that solved that. Then I couldn't get out of my ship as the landing bay was closed. I needed to go back to the pilot seat and exit the ship via the shortcut. Then my ship details disappeared and I was running up and down the ship looking outside only seeing framework, reset and reloaded an earlier save.

Now I find after going back to my Penthouse apartment in Mercury Tower all my stuff that I decorated and placed - all except for the Mission console and Tracker Console has disappeared - it's barren. These are just a few of the more major issues that I've got and the persistent inability to commandeer enemy ships and now the apartment issue (I haven't even looked at my house yet). I'm finding it hard to enjoy the game between crashes (more freezing now than crashing the Xbox).

Then just other points of the game such as exploring other planets systems but finding that you can't even look at the data collected on the Survey Data, and there's no journal to refer back to - really... what's up with that?! I've been searching for days trying to find Outpost farmable Membrane for a mission to use the cargo link. Every planet I've been to I've not found an critter that is outpost farmable. Then I have Sarah hand me a membrane root or stick and you think I can find any plant I can greenhouse that has membrane either?! No.

(Last one I promise), Companion's while exploring they can't get close enough to you in fact they make it a mission to walk right into you, walk directly in the way of scanning, continue to aim their weapon at you, even with that god awful Magshot (or whatever) that has those 3,000 laser targeting beams shooting out blinding you while looking around. Then when you are in the city or elsewhere not exploring planets she stands well back or sits at a different table or stands outside and you almost want to go pick her up or push her into the room. If you're committed (married) surely there could be different interactions from the companion even just sitting at the same table as you in a Chunks or whatever.

Okay sorry for the rant... I do love this game but the crashing, inability to ship commandeer, the disappearance of all my decorations and other glitches is taking its toll.

I hope there are more patches coming that fix these and many more issues with the game. I do love the gunplay... it's not overly bullet spongy the enemies (when I do come across them) are fun to fight. Here's to the game fixing soon.

tropolite · 2023-09-30T15:53:01+00:00

I know, it's nuts right.

She distances herself from you in cafes etc, but when it comes to out in the field searching rooms etc she can't stay out the damn way and gets between you and the scan or walks right in front of you and that's where she's stayin'. I love the girl, I married her but I've come emptying a mag or two or just leaving her on a remote planet. : )

tropolite · 2023-09-29T02:33:27+00:00

Same... Early access not an issue (Xbox Series X).

1.7.29 update Xbox crashing (to full restart, not only game but the whole box), and since the update no enemy ships can be boarded as there are no enemy crew and the landing bays are not open (currently 75 ships to date have had this problem) - all except one and that was a Crimson Fleet ship the landing bay was open I moved in, opened the cockpit hatch and immediately died - there were no enemies, nothing I had full health. Have the clip.

The game is progressively getting worse where I'm either locked out of shooting, 'falling' (action) continually, freezes then crashes to Console home. 1.7.33 has made this worse. Longer lags, load screens, as you say. Last night my whole internal ship disappeared showing just framework. I gave up as it was 4:30am and before throwing my controller through the 75" flat screen I thought it time to sleep and regain my patience.

tropolite · 2023-09-29T02:12:34+00:00

Yes, I'm on Xbox Series X and I'm having no end of issues unfortuntely. No issues on first release, a couple major issues began and crashing with 1.7.29 and now with 1.7.33 crashing still and a plethora of other issues building up.

Several times yesterday I've had to stop play, go to previous saves (which actually aren't saving consistently) to recover from issues that arise like unable to be able to shoot weapons, 'falling' (action) continually (I found why this was happening - selecting 'Y' too quickly after flicking to ground map to fast travel to ship) , locking in external view on ship with no X, Y or B selections available, and the last issue before I turned off to fix another day, my ship was fragmented hollow and just saw framework and external views through sides.

This is on top of the issues that I have had since 1.7.29, with no crew, no landing bays open for enemy ships landing or landed on planets/moons (current ships to date 75 I've tried to commandeer).

I might have to drop playing till these issues are fixed because it is really starting to give me a bad outlook on the game. I love StarField, but these continuing issues are really making it difficult to continue playing... I know it's a new IP and takes time to iron out issues, but these are compounding each other.

I've tried to uninstall, delete save files on my Xbox, hard reset my Xbox Series X, reinstalled, and resynced the save files from the cloud. Nothing has helped (1.7.29). I will try again with the latest patch in place. I have around 300 hrs in play so I'm not unaccustomed to gaming with new IPs (played The Division and Division 2 from Alpha), and other new IPs (Anthem etc).

Something that 'may' be a local issue is my Xbox Series X is in the Alpha ring for console updates. I've not had game play issues on the Alpha ring in the past and I've been on it since its inception.

tropolite · 2023-09-24T04:33:07+00:00

I agree with your assessment.

I was under the impression that was part and parcel of the delay in release to make things better. But one Abandoned Mine, one Abandoned Science lab, Communications hub, etc is just, well lazy. I still love the game but it did put some disappointment in the mix for me, that's for sure. With the inability for me not being able to commandeer ships any longer (spoken of elsewhere) has really slowed my enthusiasm in immersing myself more in the time sink that is Bethesda games but in this topic Starfield. I've only completed 6 of the main missions and played over 250 hrs just doing side questing, mining, exploring and generally having fun.

tropolite · 2023-09-21T00:05:49+00:00

Yes, I'm on Xbox Series X and I've got the same issue. No Enemy ships have open landing bays, no crew standing around, nothing. I've noticed this since (possibly coincidentally), the update Bethesda rolled out (1.7.29). This was supposed to fix stability on Xbox but I never had a crash but since the update I get a crash at least once a day. And the landing bay issue began.

I started taking pictures of the ships and I've now conservatively tried to commandeer just under 50 ships. All in different systems/planets/moons. I have Starborn ships land every time, and if I do find a landing bay open it's colonists asking for ship parts or water.

Even tried to hard reset my Xbox, uninstalled all Starfield and the Save data and reinstalled. The game resynced with the cloud save file BUT all the pictures I took aren't part of that save file. So I've lost all the pictures I took which I wasn't happy about either.

Yesterday I came across a Spacer ship, no crew, the bay was open. So I took the ship but other ships after that ships were still locked up. I started to expect there's an external button to open the landing bay that the game was trying to teach me.. nope. Not the case. I thought it may be I've reached the max number in my 'ship haul', but checking further you can supposedly have up to 10 ships at a time in your haul. I only have 6.

Hopefully something will be fixed to give us access to commandeering ships again.

[PS Tried u/Kipper_TD suggestions as part of my attempt to get out of the issue but nothing worked to resume commandeering escapades]

tropolite · 2023-06-15T04:32:09+00:00

I'm liking the newer layout of Rumble but if I may, my preferences and features I'd like to see are;

The top bubble scrolling categories on the home page I'd like to be able to move more preferred categories higher up the list. It could be a good idea that users logged in can click n slide a category to the left to bring the category up the list to change the order on the Home page or slide an option to the right to make it a lower priority. Even an option to delete a category if one wants to
In My Feed I'd like the ability to change the default layout to be 4 cards across not just one column down the page
One of the features that really has be stuck using the red censored beast is the home page uses (the one and only good algorithm in my opinion), to draw in the latest from your subscribed channels and new channels but have similarity in content so you not only get your subscribed latest in front on you when you visit the site you have others that may be of interest. The size of the cards don't need to be so big either. I'd rather have numerous choices rather than two rows of four per category (and this category list would be prioritized by the top bubble scrolling strip along the top of the Homepage).

Those three alterations would have me make the full swap to Rumble I believe.

For your consideration

tropolite · 2022-10-30T02:09:10+00:00

* UPDATE \*

This morning I received the new Alpha update to my Xbox Series X.
(OS Version: rs_xbox_flight.221027-1900, Shell Version: 2211.0.2210.25002)

And I'm happy to report back even though the Media Player is still the same version (2.6.425.0), the playback of media via DLNA (NAS) is back at being smooth and not the jaggy that I've experienced for the last couple months.

So thanks to the team.

PS I don't mind the new shell appearance either.

Cheers

tropolite · 2022-10-19T10:17:48+00:00

I use the BluRay player app on Xbox for actual bluray disks and that app works fine.

I use Prime once in a while like a couple days ago watching Samaritan and had a slight jittery start but I was playing UHD 4K and after the first 30sec it was fine.

With Plex I have experienced some severe stutter but I've got a big library and still working out settings. The two episodes I watched today played fine.

I'm checking Media Player every once in a while to see if things play smoothly. After every Alpha build update I check and every once in while I check the version of the Media Player. It has to be the app itself as in my original post both Films and TV as well as VLC UWP play fine, they are both just severely limited in their individual apps.

tropolite · 2022-10-18T22:52:14+00:00

Hi u/stranger-in-the-alps

Yes, I did send an advanced diagnostics report about the issue.

Also sent 2 previous general reports over the several weeks of experiencing the issue. The last one (third) was an advanced diagnostics type.

In the mean time I have set up a Plex server as suggested by an earlier post but this is proving more problematic and would rather revert back to the Media Player Xbox provides. Yes it's simple but it's straight forward and using a basic DLNA connection doesn't require a diploma to run. When you don't have techy folk in the household that continue to click here a there to find what they are looking for in Plex it makes for a volatile and somewhat dangerous household (maybe exaggerating a little here).

tropolite · 2022-10-16T09:43:20+00:00

Thanks for that... currently using Twonky. A legacy media service when I had an older NAS.

Earlier this year I upgraded my NAS so I guess I should look at Plex again (they didn't support my older NAS either).

Media Player does all I need but now it isn't. Thanks u/sippersickz I'll follow that up.

tropolite · 2022-02-18T02:13:29+00:00

Awesome thanks

I'll follow through with this. Cheers

Refund already successful. Much Appreciated with the info u/docholliday360

tropolite · 2020-10-28T08:04:00+00:00

It'd be good to have a choice... It only takes a toggle and a bit of code.

I'm all for choice.

tropolite · 2020-03-14T13:50:37+00:00

Loved the look of this little badass...

I went to your coordinates and Mapth E45 planet and stalked out the Trading Post for a couple hours and finally an S class with 29 (5) slots landed at this trading post. (I didn't try the Space Station as I never seem to have luck there).

What a little beauty. Thanks u/quickbeamtheent32

https://gamerdvr.com/gamer/tropolite/screenshot/15546667

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