WARFRAME: DRY DOCK Plat Scam during Christmas 2019?

Warframe has been a game known to push the limits of FTP Gaming, however, since the 2019 Dry Dock implementation to the DOJO for the new update, customers are complaining of a PLAT (in-game currency) scam by DE. The complaints try and address a building problem in the DOJO where many have already spent real money.

COMMENTS

"There is no DOJO map to see where to build the DRY DOCK, so what happens is after you've built long corridors and elevators to create new space, you can still end up with the message - NO SPACE. This wouldn't be problem if it didnt cost so much to build new parts of the DOJO or if one could see where mistakes are being made"

"I've spent 200 plat on building. Keeps saying no space, no space, no space. Yes I could keep trying to build up, build longer corridors, but thats not going to happen. I want either my plat back or I want the DRY DOCK right now. This is in my mind a scam and to do it during CHRISTMAS is just unforgivable"

"I tried to find a Moderator and complain in Regional chat to get some help and nothing came. There is no guide for players to build the DRY DOCK and after someone spends plat it really does seem like a scam"

"These people put so much money into making events like TENNOCON and then can't even create a DOJO map that shows where a DRY DOCK in the DOJO can be built so to reach the new update. Either they're scamming people or they're truly a bunch of idiots"

"Youtube videos by the players are trying to help other players build the DRY DOCK. Wheres the God Damn help from the game itself?"

"No one has time to spend 24 hours to build a single DOJO part, just to find out 24 hours later that you have to build another part, wait 24 hours, then another and another, this could take a month just to find a place, if there is one, for the DRY DOCK. As of now it's a SCAM"

"This guy in the regional chat told me to go to the forums to wait and talk. WTF - no one has time for that crap. Forum chatting and wait for a response for a week or whenever"

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Electric Cars are here - Can the Diesel Car industry survive in 15 years | DW Documentary

Change is here and its impossible to go back, says Pacific Islander tech student. DW Media has been releasing helpful insight into some tech areas like the Car Diesel Industry, the documentary being mostly about Germany wanting to go back to being a leader in Automotive, and how nations like Norway and China want to be fully electric in the next 11-15 years. 

In Britain, even their greatest vehicles had German engines, so most of the west is hoping an electric-car role comes from the German Industry soon. While in some nations, Electricity is an expensive monthly utility and going higher in price, in other nations leading the future, it's being routed into millions of Cars and smart houses powered by new battery banks and the natural free-energy from Solar tech. 

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Red Dead Redemption 2 Online Beta: Bad Reviews?? Still a possible good future

Unfortunately, the ultimate game with the ultimate potential just 6 months ago has died down to an almost complete empty and boring mix of servers. Someone said it best when they called the game, 'Ghost Town RDR2'. Rockstar was said to have in it's possession a winning lottery ticket, the problem is, they not only didn't cash it in, but they seem to have turned it into some type of online National Park, with strict rules and poor General Management by the in-game staff. 

Most complaints began after the very first real update. Instead of taking the game to new heights, mission glitches remained, all interaction within the towns were broken by spawning players long distances when killed, rank was harder to obtain, and there was still no reason to level past 90 rank, with players only able to buy tattered clothes in the most faded shades.

It's been said that the only way the game keeps afloat these days, is to grief their own customers, and hope that anger to retaliate, keeps the gamer playing. 

Comment "The landscapes in the game are amazing, totally amazing, I love the way the game looks, it's beautiful, but.. it's almost like it was made by a group of genius gamers, then managed by a bunch of money hungry idiots who do not care at all about it. People have waited months for a single decent update. No one can even play the missions, the missions glitch in-game. All there is now is bot fighting with their boring showdown series" 

Comment "Glitchy game just like GTA-V"

Comment "It's boring after a few days, maybe 2 weeks tops. Grinding alone. No one talks, I might as well be playing offline"

Comment "It was fun when it first started, but now... no. It's hella boring now, and they're not fixing the game to make it better, they're making the game HARDER, so that it takes longer to rank up. So lame. Making a game harder when people are already complaining... who is in charge over there"

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PS4 Beginners in Ark: The Survival Dino-game to Buy

Welcome to ARK on console and a gamer's paradise for Jurrasic Adventures! A place to build your survival home, capture Dinos, raise and breed Dinos, and evolve your character into a futuristic tech-age. The ARK game has now a reputation of being "An interesting mix" but that may change very soon if the company can't create a playable game without lag spikes. 

Ark is very imaginative and combines a kind of Minecraft and open world Dino-play. Ark with all it's faults though has amazing potential, but real gamers have seen many games with potential who end up in the junk. Be prepared for servers with trash builds from players who no longer play the game or who have moved to other servers, and Wall trolls trying to take over large areas. Get ready as well to be scared in the dark from unknown creatures, attacked from behind, beautiful landscapes, Dinosaurs who fight to the bitter end, advanced housing builds, lag spikes, and to have a neighbor who might ruin your 2000 hour hard built house by building a depressing Prison looking headquarters next door.

Quick Tips:

1. An Official Server is controlled by the game

2. PVE is a game where no one can attack your base and people build 

3. PVP is where your base and resources can be stolen

4. Any server that does not say Official is not controlled by the game

Which map to choose?

If you just bought Ark Survival Evolved and wanted to try out the game before getting too serious, then most go for The Island Map in a beginners PS4 server, but note that in beginner servers there is a rank 24 limit and you will have to transfer one day. Watch out for Raptors. The Genesis Map takes an extra $35.00 USD which might be an option (its a gamble, might be less congestion, might not).

How to pick a Server?

The best way to pick a server is by knowing the type of game you want, either PVP or PVE, and which map, then making sure the PING works for you. The Lag will be a big factor in your choice and a big problem with the game is that you have to go to each server and just try it out. 

Starting the game 

To survive in your first session, begin by combing the beach or an area with water because new characters need a water resource. Death in the game by DINO predators is common, and even though a player may die continuously at the beginning, he or she is still leveling up. Within your inventory by pressing "O" on the controller is where you will find your Health stats, and by clicking the "plus sign" on your attributes, you will level up and get ENGRAMS. Get to know the inventory menu and the options, ENGRAMS are in the upper top mid section, study them to unlock building and hunting features. Once a player has unlocked a few things, start to build a home and begin advancing out of a primal state.

"The game looks amazing when it's not filled with garbage buildings. The creators of the maps did a very very good job. Since there is so much to build and own in the game, 70 players per server is WAYY too much and lags the game. 20 players per PVE server sounds more like it "

" I have a base and the Dino's spawn inside my gates. FIX IT ARK. Whats the point in building a gate if the DINOs spawn inside my f*kin base and kill my new tames"

"When players leave a server, their buildings should auto demolish. but players who are logging in weekly, need their buildings to stay without worry"

"The game spawned a 50 ton BRONTO inside my fully closed DINO pet space"

"This game made my kid very happy but then made him cry for hours. The Official server, not another player, killed alllllllll his 12 pets in PVE - spawned a DINO inside his pet pen in Valguero Map sever 1139. Who does that to kids??? Kids get really attached to pets. This server pin-pointed his pet pen and killed his pets"

"Transferring servers should not be a Mission of it's own. It's unclear for many players how to transfer servers and take pets"

"You'd think the Official SERVERS to be the most reliable, since it says Official. THEY ARE NOT. It's a troll-fest. A smart person will learn quick that the game is unplayable. Most youtubers on the game have to pay for a private server and act like they earned it on official"

"This is why I stick to games made by JAPAN. Any idiot with a computer can make a game that just kills the player. I trust Japanese companies far more to have a pride in their creation, it's part of the culture. If a game's Corporate Headquarters is in an area with cut-throat losers, then guess what the game will be like. The only information on Studio Wildcard Company that owns ARK is that the people in charge are in lawsuits with each other"

"This game should be called SERVER FINDER"

"Think of it like GTA-5 online with moders who spawn things out of thin air, Prisons everywhere,and with Dinosaurs and jungles" 

"I have a neighbor who builds like a child in PVE. Now I have to move from the trash. Players please keep your bases neat and use the building techniques to make Home like bases. STOP building prisons! This is NOT Prison Craft people!"

"Taming the Dino I understand takes time, for a level around 145 I can see it taking about an hour, but not 2 hours, no no no, and in no way should it take 3 hours. I caught a 145 and after 1 hour and a half, it was only 30% tamed. That means it would take 3.5 hours total to tame, wtf is this game thinking??? No one has 3 hours, this is 2020!!! So many games online, get your sh1t together ARK. I killed the DINO by the way I did not wait and no one else should either"

"Great  Game with great potential, needs work though. I'm looking forward to the game advancing"

"One of the biggest attractions to the game is Taming Pets ~ Here's what will happen, it takes forever and a day to tame, then after your hard earned efforts, the game will kill it. After you've spent days building a secure enclosed pet pen, they will spawn things inside the building to kill your pets. The people who run this game are twisted and it's really a type of sick abuse. I want my money back right now"

"All I wanted to do was start playing and building, is that too much to ask after I just bought the game? I started in an OFFICIAL PS4 beginner server PVE (The Island Map) and was able to build a house after about 15 deaths from Alpha Raptors and a lot patience. Come to find out the beginning server has a rank LIMIT of 24. So I can not advance and will have to switch servers. I'm looking for a new server but all the PVE servers with good connection have been TROLLED to the max with endless WALLS blocking new players from water. Whoever made this game was not prepared for the retarded WALL TROLL, which is a person or clan who just builds walls around the whole map blocking resources"

"This game is awesome and I couldn't stop playing for days, but I was in a beginner server. I want a clear server PVE"

"I think the company that runs this game is AFK"

"WOW, havent seen this much lag since the 1990s. It's bad. How the hell did this game get on PS4? The world of gaming is moving toward VR and ARK can't even manage lag, it's just sad. I would be ashamed to own this game in the condition it's in. It's like an old house that makes the neighborhood look trashy"

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The Rock hosts "The Titan Games" January on NBC - Taking on Mount Olympus

A new show on NBC coming January 2019 will have "The Rock", Dwayne Johnson as host for "The Titan Games". The competition show might be similar to a former format of "American Ninja" says one report, only this time the athletes will be taking on Mount Olympus. 

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RED Dead Redemption 2: Review Amazing accomplishment

Although there were very old controversial angles played in the story of the game, people still understood it's very "ROCKSTAR" style, in how the story unraveled. The graphic work has been said to be "Top notch". Reports on sales says it took under four days to out-sell it's first version RDR1.

"The Gameplay Graphics, beats most new 2018-2019 Game TRAILER animations. That's how good the in-game graphics are compared to some new releases. It's well worth the money, a piece of country frozen in time, playable on your PS4 or XBOX."

"I never thought I would play an OLD Western film style game on PS4, but this is quite something. Rockstar has really out done themselves"

"Get ready to be AMAZED! This should be Game of the Year twice in a row! I cant wait to see whats in store for this game in the future"

"I can't wait for the online version, I just hope the new Online RDR2 version won't be disrupted with online hacks and MODS like in GTA5. No matter what though, the offline version is the best in 2018, thank you I had fun."

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How to fix: Unable to download patch files [20512], [25008], [20495] - FFXIV

According to online complaints Square-Enix has not acknowledged an American download issue, yet the company itself is not at fault says tech help. Customers with brand new Play Station 4's and who are FFXIV players, cannot get into the game because of patch error updates. 

HOW TO FIX:

Samoan Tech Help: Ok, there are quite a few threads out there complaining, all saying that about the last hour they get several error patch messages saying unable to download. Now heres what to do... you are going to have to setup a new internet connection on your PS3 and or PS4 > Go to settings > Find Setup New Internet Connection > Keep everything the same.. don't change anything except the DNS Primary and Secondary, just flip through, enter your wifi pass if you have to, auto, auto, do not specify blah blah, until you hit DNS Primary and Secondary > Now, if you have numbers there already, feel free to write the numbers down before you replace them. They should look something like 71.10.216.2 something like that. > Now you're going to replace them with 8.8.8.8 as the Primary and the Secondary as 8.8.4.4 got it? > Continue on don't change anything > then at the end, test your internet connection to see if it went through. Done.

I can understand that people with less tech experience will be scared to do this DNS public server change, but it's GOOGLE's and it's PUBLIC. FFXI before FFXIV was the first MMORPG and used to be a Japanese, Euro, and American "PC only" game, so older gamers are very used to these tech hic-ups between nations. Welcome to the real gamers world. And once you're inside FFXIV, don't buy Gil. 

Now what did you just do?

-You just changed your DNS Server to an open public Google one.

-Here is a list of Public DNS Servers to help your research.

Can I change it back?

Yes some people just change it back once the download is complete, some just leave it on the open public Google DNS Server to play FFXIV. If I were you I'd leave it.

Why did the original connection not go through?

It's because some overseas Networks are technologically behind Japan's Networks, and are 10-20 years outdated. So there's a problem when the super Japanese communicate too fast and too advanced. In about 10-15 years this problem might become much worse if other countries can't keep up with Japanese Networks, which are top-notch, and have amazing internet speeds. Some areas in the US. - Canada, Mexico, and Britain, are just now getting Fiber Optic cable, a tech that was released in the 1970s.

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Playstation Network: Connection timed out - How to fix

The Samoan Nerd Blog

According to some customers complaints, their Playstation console refused one day to log-in to the Sony Playstation Network. The problem caused some confusion as customers thought that meant the network was down. Thinking the network was down, some waited days, weeks, and in some cases, where maybe it was a young owner, they threw the console away.

If your system says: Connection timed out. Try this.

First check your Router. Reset your Router if you play a cross-platform online game, someone may have attempted at triggering your Router Firewall, booting you offline. These people who do this are sometimes called Booters. Games get heated and people cheat. There is a little hole in the back of your Router big enough for a toothpick. Either get a toothpick and stick in it the hole and hold it for 30 seconds, or unplug your Router for 30 seconds.

Samoan Nerd: "I woke up and the system wouldn't log-in. I thought well the Playstation Network must be down, but that is so a rare thing, that there must be some news on it right, nothing when I checked. I searched online for more news, and typed... Connection timed out....a few forum pop-ups resulted. I read the threads and they said to reset your system. Some posts said their system was down for days, weeks, gladly I found how to fix it faster. The forums said to RESET your system, the firewall was triggered so you need to do a router reset. It worked. Me, the Samoan Nerd wins lol. Yay!!! back to playing FFXIV."

If Resetting your Router doesn't work you might have to reset your Playstation to it's default settings, but if you press 'Restore System', this will erase all saved data, pictures, games, background themes, apps, and libraries. So make sure you press 'Restore default settings' and try that first.

Go menu
Go System Settings
Go Restore Default Settings  
Press Restore Default and follow instructions

Why did I need to restore Default?
If you're playing a competitive online game, hacks, cheats, and trolls may have triggered your firewall to spring up. Delete all the fake friends on  your PS4 list, trolls know when you log on.

"So, anyway..This is the Samoan Nerd Blog, signing off! Who can't wait for that Sony VR? Oh ya baby, it's on."

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Best Gamer setups: The PC HARDWARE WARS - Are they coming Back?

Although PC gaming hit it's greatest in the 1990s, there's now promotions on Youtube to get people back into buying crazy expensive Gamer set-ups. Instead of buying smart, keeping the build to fit it's purpose, these new gamer set-ups are for the old hardware heads.

MASTER Gamer Kavika "PC Gaming began to die out in the 1990s because Sony Playstation became the one-stop-shop for all gaming needs. All the graphic power and speed for a price that was too good for any gamer to pass-up. I mean people could get a powerful unit for $300.00 that played hundreds of the best games ever, versus spending $3,500.00 on a PC that can play only 4 good games. PC gamers could play only 4 games partly because of the space it takes to download and update every month due to hackers-cheaters-modders ruining the servers, and partly because PC games.... well there's not that many good ones out there, not compared to Sony's selection." 

"Although creating a game station is really fun, it's important to create a station that meets your needs. I mean come on.... $3,500.000 to play a game? Unless you plan on making an animated movie on that machine, it's a waste of hardware that will be outdated in 5-10 years."

"So that $3-5,000.00 spent on the desk gear... will one day, possibly very soon, be junked. Sony VR is already putting other VR units out of business. There's even fake hardware reviews on Youtube to help save the older VR units and brands. Sony VR might even go so far as to burn-out the Television-set someday. Less need for a TV. In years to come, VR sets might be used from teaching to movie watching, to going to an online VR Mall and meeting friends."

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Sony Playstation 4 takes Samoans in Washington Seatle for a ride

There's always that question when new Playstation and XBox models appear, and that question is "Which one should I buy". A Samoan Nerd group, a gamer group who goes from game to game online in a tight team to pass and take over realms, say "Go for the Playstatin 4. We switched from PC gaming just this year. We were full on PC, but it's hard to patch up the glitches for so many programs for PC gaming, and Sony has pretty much just taken all that hassle and made their product the BEST option for multiplayer online. Xbox, let's just be nice, it's just not there, still chasing, and you have to pay to play online."

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Laughing Samoans on YouTube are beloved by Pacifika: This is Polynesian Comedy

The Laughing Samoans

Recently several Samoan American fans wanted to say "Thank You", to the dynamic duo "Laughing Samoans", for posting, or allowing their videos to be seen on YouTube, as the Pacific Ocean is a vast place and traveling across 1/3rd of the world can be a bit straining for people who work. 

There are quite a few jokes that are aimed at the Polynesian community and the way Polynesian family tend to act and treat each other, so the inside humor might not be understood by all. In any case if someone has at least spent some time with Polynesians, they may be able to pick up the bit. The Laughing Samoans are going strong still, touring dates can be found on their website.

"At Manaia Blog we want to say though, Thank you guys for being who you are, cheers. It's always a  fun time when we get to review the comedy"

Thank you for your courage.

Fank you for your Comedy.

and sank you for your Community Spirit.

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Samoans in Utah say that Dragon Age: Inquisition is game of the Year

Gamers from all around the US nation have posted recently a forum of comments on the new released Super RPG game called "Dragon Age: Inquisition". The majority are saying, including some Samoan gamers in Utah, that it's surely a great pick for "RPG Game of the Year", an accomplishment that pushed beyond the RPG quota.

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Angel Warriors Tiger Tribe: Polynesians in the Pacific love the action

Angel Warriors Tiger Tribe

There have been comments of a greatly fun Chinese movie called "Angel Warriors Tiger Tribe", which shows a Chinese Exhibition going further south into Asia, where they are met by a Polynesian or Malyo-Polynesian people. The encounter ends up in a fight over land and resources, however, some of the Chinese Angels stand with the Tiger Tribe and fight against an armed force.

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The greatest Anime still online is Naruto Shippuden says Japanimation fans

One of the greatest, if not "The Greatest", animated productions to have ever been accomplished has been from the creators of the Naruto Series. In the past 10 years, now 2014, Artists and fans have marveled at the Naruto characters, the story, the mixture of history and entertainment. Pacific Islanders are great fans of Japanese animation, who may one day attempt at their own animations, summoning up powers of Mana, and showing off their battlements in touching stories.

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