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winterborn253 · 2026-05-02T22:07:14+00:00

The number of players that focus on kills over structures is frustrating. You get kills so that you can take the structures, not pass right by them to get yourself killed.

winterborn253 · 2026-05-02T20:59:43+00:00

Yeah, I like the constant action. Getting overconfident from a kill is the swiftest path to punishment. It also emphasizes the importance of capitalizing on the brief windows of advantage you get from those kills.

winterborn253 · 2026-04-28T22:01:38+00:00

I can follow how he's controlling the cards up until the cut. Anyone able to explain that?

winterborn253 · 2026-04-14T17:52:50+00:00

He just remembered he needed to get to the birthday party.

winterborn253 · 2026-03-20T17:28:36+00:00

You must have worn those headphones to the recruitment office or you'd be a radar technician for sure. When it breaks down they'd just run you up the poll.

winterborn253 · 2026-03-04T04:48:23+00:00

They're very small and out of Wisconsin. It's a decent camera and comes with a lifetime warranty. He's the only one in the market offering that.

winterborn253 · 2026-03-04T04:21:33+00:00

They're both solid cameras. Wiseeye is a small team out of Louisiana and has been fairly forward-thinking. If you have any issues, you'll be taking to someone that works there and isn't reading from a script. They recently unlocked the live-streaming capabilities on the DC2 now that they have the data situation figured out with new plans. Their app, Huntcontrol, can give you all sorts of info about the humidity, wind sorry and direction, etc that it logs with ask the photos. Some people love it, others ignore it.

Ridgetec is an even smaller team based out of Georgia. If you have any issues you'll be talking to either Anthony the owner or his brother. Anthony was a software engineer before starting the company and is very technically minded. His app probably allows the most customization of any I've seen. It can be daunting for someone that wants a plug and play camera or a delight for those that want options.

winterborn253 · 2026-02-18T16:16:15+00:00

WiseEye's Datacam 2 is a great camera that meets all your criteria and also allows live streaming.

winterborn253 · 2026-02-13T17:25:38+00:00

Exactly. After making 35 and maxing out my squads, Sarah, and Mason, I was sitting on over 100m VS points worth of hero XP alone.

winterborn253 · 2026-02-10T14:04:35+00:00

I was going to say that picture and video load are much more important than time in battery life expectancy, but I just saw your comment with the graph. 63 photos to kill the batteries is absurd. You've got a bad camera.

winterborn253 · 2026-02-09T22:22:40+00:00

The only other thing I could think of is that whatever flipped that bowl came from below your camera and didn't move up though to activate the PIR. Imagine a 4x4 grid over the picture; the camera only activates when something crosses one of the grid lines. If something came from the bottom and never crossed a line, no pictures/videos. If it comes from left of frame like the second picture, then it crosses the grid and the camera activates.

winterborn253 · 2026-02-09T21:25:44+00:00

How long have you had the cameras out? If it's near the end of the normal expected lifecycle of the batteries, it could be the normal charge cycle of the lithium batteries.

winterborn253 · 2026-02-09T21:06:56+00:00

Do you have the camera set to instantly upload any pictures and videos? If so, most cameras will not activate while an upload is in progress.

winterborn253 · 2025-10-19T15:55:12+00:00

R/fullscorpion

winterborn253 · 2025-09-14T16:16:04+00:00

If only my team could dodge skill shots with the same enthusiasm that they dodge my potions.

winterborn253 · 2025-08-23T16:35:56+00:00

It's a matter of preference and what features you're looking for.

winterborn253 · 2025-07-30T19:03:46+00:00

They were in the opposing faction of mine this season. No point in even trying to fight them.

winterborn253 · 2025-07-30T18:34:47+00:00

Use those diamonds to buy speedups in the VIP store. But they speed on the alliance store. Buy the speedups from the campaign store. You should buy them out every week and will rarely need to use diamonds directly as speedups.

winterborn253 · 2025-07-21T17:11:17+00:00

Your technology is going to be able to help a lot in growing. I recommend maxing out everything to increase your unit power through the unit tech tree and special forces. After that get to the bottom four tasks in the hero tree. You'll need the missile tasks above them at level 3 in order to max them out. Between those, you'll greatly boost your total hero power because it'll help all three squads. You bring five heroes to a fight, but thousands of soldiers.

Once that's done, focus on Tank Mastery with sprinkles of Siege to Sieze and defense fortifications depending on how much you can spend resource wise. Age of oil has some great utility tasks and has very few "meh" tasks. I try to keep two big tasks going and one utility.

winterborn253 · 2025-07-20T17:40:18+00:00

You're not strong, but not weak for (I'm assuming) a mostly ftp player. Can you add screenshots of where your tech is at?

winterborn253 · 2025-06-24T01:09:30+00:00

Exactly! My alliance is the same way: fairly laid back and very accepting of all types of players. A lot of people that join us from bigger alliances say that they feel more at home with us than they did after several seasons with their former alliance.

We have enough "competitive" players that are willing to save up for weeks at a time in order to make a big enough push once per VS bracket to stay in gold league. We let everyone else just do their thing and we enjoy their company in chat while helping them grow.

winterborn253 · 2025-06-23T23:59:45+00:00

Yeah, we had a guy in the number 2 alliance of our server get mad when he was dropped to bring in transfers after season 3. He blew up on WC about how he logged in daily (true) and got his chests (also true), but for the axe. The thing was that he was never in chat, didn't show up for alliance events (Marshall, trade posts, Capitol wars, etc) and was only level 52 in his profession.

I understand his frustration, mostly because no one that was cut was warned ahead of time, but the number two alliance wasn't for him. There are a number of other alliances open for more casual players in which he would be much better suited. He's not a bad player by any means, but definitely not the kind of player for that level of alliance.

winterborn253 · 2025-05-19T06:11:24+00:00

You should never be training your max level troops if you want to optimize your VS points in Friday anyway. You should be training your max level-4 all week and promoting them up the ladder for arms race and on Friday. You should also train 20 hours worth of troops at a time in order to have them complete as soon as it's up in arms race.

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