Cool netball team names

Hi,
My name is Ramon, also known as Amon in-game. I reached Dia 3 in Ranked 1.0 and have also played several matches in the Plat/Emerald Elo, which went quite well. However, I'm now looking to dive back into ranked play.
Wondering what to expect here? Well, our main aim is to enjoy ranked matches without the frustration of random teammates from the R6 Discord who may not share our approach to the game (like focusing on kills rather than effective communication).
The skill level range is plat - Dia we have quite some players that have comp experience or are stil playing in comp
Now, when we play, I'm not expecting us to be pro-league material, but I do expect a high level of seriousness. and really work as a team. Sure, ranked can sometimes turn into a frag fest, but that doesn't mean we can't strategize or avoid players going off on solo missions and losing 1v1s.
Lastly i would like to include a indication of what time's we mostly play Monday Not playing Theusday Not playing Wednesday Not playing Thursday Playing at 7:30 PM CEST Friday Playing at 7:30 PM CEST Saturday Playing at 7:30 PM CEST Sunday Playing at 7:30 PM CEST - Until 10 pm CEST
If you are interested in playing some games and seeing how it goes you can add me on discord: Ramon2403
Thank you for taking the time to read this message i am hoping we can play some ranked soon!
Best regards, Ramon (Amon)

My company just went through it’s first round of layoffs in recent history, laying off 20 people in a company of 200. Mostly newer staff along with a few who have been with the company for 15+ years. My team, which is a team of 2, was not impacted.
I’m honestly a bit shocked that I wasn’t impacted. I’ve been with the company for a year since graduating college, and my manager fought to get my role created since he couldn’t handle the workload on his own. My boss has still expressed to my manager that he doesn’t understand why my role is necessary, and he’s suggested I move to fill other open roles within the company in the past. Luckily, my manager and a few others on the executive leadership board do consistently express my value and the impact of my role.
Still, I know that I could have very easily been on the chopping block and wouldn’t doubt it if my name was thrown out because of what my boss thinks. So, now I’m dealing with the anxiety of wondering if there’s going to be another round of layoffs if the industry doesn’t turn around. And knowing that at least in the view of my boss, I’m probably at the bottom of the totem pole despite how hard I work and how often I go above and beyond my responsibilities.
Does anyone have advice for preparing for the possibility (and dealing with anxiety until things turn around)?

Introduction // The Message: T
he story of Hugo Booker and the Cataclysm starts with an urgent message to us, his trusty helpers. He believes the current worrying signs appearing in the sky are related to the Cataclysm many years ago. In this message Hugo requests our help and provides us with an old tech computer for the task. The year is currently 2144
I. The Witness // Anomalies:
Hugo talks about the years he has been searching for information on the Cataclysm. He has images from the year 2080 that show anomalies over the skies of Canyon, Dead City and Springfield. He takes a journey to Neo-Tortuga and asks the Broker for the name of the oldest person he knows. Chester Coen was the answer.
Chester was a Gang Leader and has managed to make an enemy of Mega Corp Yan-Di after robbing one of their Council Members and making away with a few mechs. He remains a wanted man even after all these years. After a long-winded conversation with Chester, mainly of the latter bragging of his many adventures, he gets a confirmation from Chester that the current signs over the skies match those that were seen back in 2080. Chester advises Hugo to leave for Mars immediately, but Hugo declines. Instead he asks Chester who he can contact to help him further on his investigation. His answer? Soren de Vos.
II. The Whistleblower // Evo-Life:
Soren de Vos. The Evo-Life executive in charge of the Gene-Mod program was banished for "ethical misconduct". Soren is on camp with Chester's crew as a medic. (His son Cormac de Vos is a well-renowned robot prizefighter. Both deny having any living relatives.) After another long conversation with yet another eccentric, bragging about his many achievements throughout his life, Hugo manages to extract from Soren some classified Evo-Life records.
The first record was an email from the CMO of Evo-Life to the CEO from the year 2071. John urged Marie to join him on a call to discuss the joining of a huge project that the other Mega-Corps were working on, Project [REDACTED]. Evo-Life's role would be FMCG (Gene Supplement) supplier.
The second record was an invoice of a very large amount of Evo-Life products Yan-Di acquired for the Project. in the year 2075.
The third record, from the year 2081 was a transcript of a board meeting. The cataclysm was lurking overhead and urgent measures needed to be taken to save the Evo-Life economy. Issue was that Evo-Life didn't have a space program in order to construct ark ships to travel to Mars. The solution found was to steal the ships from Mid-Gardens, who's entire personnel was wiped out by acid rains. Problem was that their entire colony was under severe contamination from said rains. Solution was to send John to lead the way under the effects of Acid-Away™ and other fear-suppressants, since he got them into this mess in the first place.
]III. The Investigator // Yan-Di:
In the year 2142 an arrest warrant was put out in the name of Rico Seleznev (A.K.A. Hugo Booker), he has managed to evoke the ire of Yan-Di with his unwanted investigation work. Hugo contacts Jay K via text message. Initially Jay is hesitant to help Hugo out at all due to the warrant, but eventually warms up to him.
Hugo is looking for a way into the Yan-Di archives, Jay works his magic and gets him a contact, the deal is that Hugo must first steal an Ultimate Destrier for his contact. Apparently this mid-tier merchant wants to join the Golden Robots club desperately. Hugo agrees and the conversation is terminated.
The Yan-Di archives reveal that Mega-Corp Space-Tech approached Yan-Di in the year 2061 with this huge concept, The Project. Risks were sky-high but the possible returns were too high to pass up. Yan-Di agreed to help fund The Project.
Issues with The Project start to arise in the year 2080. Everyone is scrambling for safety asd escape measures following the latest mishap- a supermassive gravitational anomaly- at the site of The Project. Yan-Di analysts advise to invest into similar measures despite the confidence that the issue will be resolved.
It’s now the year 2081, evacuation plans are in full swing. Thanks to a couple on-point acquisitions, Yan-Di now has access to an exclusive space program company. The bad news is that there are limited spaces and only the highest class will be permitted to join.
We uncover a list of members requesting to join them on the space journey. All are permitted to join besides for one Kyle Rogers…. This name means something to Hugo apparently because he immediately wants to go meet up with him, he believes that Kyle will have some information on Space-Tech’s part of The Project..
IV. The Veteran // SpaceTech:
Kyle Rogers is a decorated first generation robot pilot. Famous for leading Space-Tech’s famed Eagle Squad until it was destroyed by what is believed to be the first encounter with the Grey Swarm. Harrowed by this loss he is determined to find the source of it at all costs.
Hugo has a conversation with a now retired Kyle. The conversation starts off normally and then takes an unexpected turn. Kyle asks Hugo what he knows about the Grey Swarm. Hugo replies that they are AI autobots who scour the earth and kill everything they touch. He speculates that this is because they are worried that we will interfere with their reproduction algorithm. Finally Kyle gets to the point he was heading. He asks Hugo if he has noticed the evolution of the Grey Swarm’s Bastions over the years, he explains that in the beginning the Bastions couldn’t teleport at all. The Grey Swarm must’ve grafted that technology from somewhere, but where? This seems to be linked to the Cataclysm.
Hugo asks if Kyle still has the Space-Tech records to which he replies that he does indeed and is happy to hand them over. The documents reveal an image of a weird looking structure which we immediately assume to be of The Project. The documents also reveal a message from the Megacorp Icarus. The message contains a hopeful message that seems to imply that The Project’s tech can be applied to living organisms as well. Hugo asks if Kyle knows anyone who can give him Icarus’s perspective on things he replies in the affirmative…
V. The Hacker // Icarus:
Tal Mokri is an intriguing fellow, he’s all cryptic and altruistic. This was going to be a tough nut to crack for sure.
Hugo starts off the conversation trying to receive info from Tal but he insists on hearing a few things from Hugo first, he wants to know why Hugo is interested in this whole catastrophe in the first place. Hugo replies to this saying that it began as a personal vendetta but now he believes that Earth is in serious danger. Satisfied, Tal now informs Hugo of another person he must meet as well, Nessa Riggs, the person accused of unleashing the swarm… Falsely as Tal explains. Nessa was simply unlucky to be the first person to discover a Grey Swarm factory. Tal also gives Hugo access to some Icarus files.
The first Icarus file reveals an email report Icarus sent to the Yan-Di and Space-Tech CEOs, it reports a serious spike in unidentified attacks on many convoys en route to the secret location of The Project. It recommends the inclusion of Mega-Corp DSC for help in security logistics.
The second file is a report from the Icarus research team working on The Project, they reported that the tech that is being developed for The Project seems to require two stable anchor points unless one wishes to risk mass-destruction.
Another document reveals a conversation between two Icarus employees regarding the development of a new robot; the Phantom. In the beginning they are of very different opinions about the idea. One loves it and the other rejects it vehemently, citing the Tharsis protocol which outlaws the use of any teleportation tech, all 5 Megacorps signed on this. The latter eventually gave in and agreed to talk to corporate due to the fact that this robot could give them a huge advantage on the battlefield.
A fourth file is about a security breach in a secret Springfield Icarus facility where the mercenaries responsible stole, out of all things, an old MRI machine. (See Team B).
Hugo now really suspects that the technology that the Big Five are producing is related to this teleporting tech, he shakes off his bad feelings and gets ready to meet Nessa Riggs.
VI. The Fugitive // DSC:
Nessa Riggs is a pariah in the eyes of all corporations but revolutionary by many pilots. In the corporations’ eyes she stands responsible as the catalyst of the current Grey Swarm situation.
Hugo sits down for a talk with Nessa. All is pleasant but there seems to be a tense air around Nessa, ignoring his feelings Hugo asks Nessa what she was looking for in the DSC files. Information on the Grey Swarm, was the simple reply. When pressed on what she had found she said that most of it is fluff and the rest is encrypted but what she does know is that DSC was the original creator of the AI technology that created the Grey Swarm headache we have today. When asked if she knew who had sent her on that fateful mission to the factory (see the Nessa Riggs and Raven cinematic) she replied that she highly suspects it to have been DSC themselves who sent her there through her contractor so she would take the blame. Just a scapegoat to cover up their misdeeds. Then Nessa suddenly remembers that she, in fact, does have some documents that Hugo may find interesting and she hands them over.
The first document is a record of an internal email suggesting that DSC should take some covert actions against the convoys heading towards the secret location where the other 4 corporations were working, in the case that their information was accurate. This would force the corporations to give DSC a piece of the pie in return for their security operations to secure the convoys and secret location. And they planned to use their latest invention: the Arachne program. The plan was authorized and put into action.
The second document was a signed agreement between the 5 corporations acknowledging DSCs inclusion in The Project for logistics and security.
Two additional documents outline the Arachne program and its functionality is clearly illustrated in a diagram. After reading all the details and connecting the dots, it becomes crystal clear. DSC were in fact responsible for the development of the Grey Swarm. Shocker.
The aim of the Arachne program is to allow human error in sensitive operations to be non-existent. This model involved an evolving AI model which eliminates any need for human interaction.
Hugo is in shock, he fears that his most dire predictions may become true. He fears that now, not only Earth is in danger, but even colonised Mars is under the imminent threat of pulverisation.
VII. The Cataclysm:
Arachne Logs:
22.07.2075:
Project Arachne initiated. Objective: Defend the research facility from external interference. Coordinates: [REDACTED].
2.12.2085: Conservation mode initiated. Objective: Maintain production facilities in operational status. 2.10.2130: Security threat of extraterrestrial origin detected. Assigning label: ROBOT PILOT. Setting production facilities to maximum output to prevent the security breach. Objective: Enhance the defensive capacity of production facilities.
2.02.2143:
Intruder detected at SWLP^04/21 facility. Target identified as a ROBOT PILOT. Project "Arachne" data compromised. Defensive measures have proven ineffective in preserving the integrity of production facilities. Initiating attack mode. Objective: Eliminate ROBOT PILOT forces on Earth.
11.10.2143: 5 factories lost. Previous objective deemed insufficient at maintaining integrity of production facilities. Objective update: Neutralize ROBOT PILOT central command on Mars. Utilize the object at [REDACTED] to reach the destination.
Hugo was filled with a sense of foreboding, he was right all along. The grey swarm was about to trigger the second Cataclysm in order to defend themselves from the human invasion. Action must be taken at once. He must alert Nessa as well. Time to move. We need to get to Ground Zero as fast as possible. He connects all the coordination fragments and it reveals Ground Zero to be in a deserted location in Antarctica. Nessa, Theseus and Hugo arrive on the scene to see that the Grey Swarm has already taken complete control of the compound. Options are limited. Nessa is insistent that they prepare for an aerial strike on the compound to prevent the Grey Swarms teleportation to Mars. Hugo doesn’t agree, he says that we must try and protect Earth from a second Cataclysm at all costs. Nessa heavily disagrees. Hugo jumps into action in his Nether, and starts battling the grey swarm while setting up a warp module so support can join. After an intense battle he manages to defend his position and support spawns in (us). We battle the Grey Swarm at Ground Zero and, after a week of intense fighting, manage to liberate the area from the dastardly little spiders. Earth is safe for now. (See Hugo and Nessa Cinematic).
Please do not reproduce in any way, a lot of work went into the creation of this piece.
Hope you enjoyed!

On March 16, I received an email from them stating, ‘We would like to inform you that we have disabled your Spotify account’ and questioned why. The email further explained, ‘The Terms expressly prohibit users from selling a user account or playlist, or otherwise accepting or offering to accept any compensation, financial or otherwise, to influence the content included on an account or playlist or the name of an account or playlist. It has come to Spotify’s attention that your account has engaged in unauthorized use in violation of the Terms. We have made this assessment based on your communications with other users of our service, and/or information which you have made publicly available on the internet.’
I swear I didn’t do anything wrong, so why is this happening?! Sometimes I cancel my subscription because I can’t afford it, and I need the subscription price to do other things, yet they accuse me of promoting my account and playlists! I contacted the support team, and they said, ‘Sorry, we can’t help you; you should contact us through email.’ I already did that, and there has been no response since my account was suspended. What’s wrong with them? Worst support ever. Has anyone else had the same problem?"

I just finished the game after around 55 hours of time put in and gotten the perfect ending and all that jazz, and wanted to share some thoughts I had about it.
I am assuming many people were interested in EC because of Suikoden, like I was. Suikoden 2 is perhaps the best game I have every played and i have completed it multiple times over the decades now (even though the first time I played it I thought I failed and got game over from seeing the greyed out credits scene in the beginning because i had never seen a credits scene other than at the end of the game.). And EC being both the spiritual successor of the franchise and even having the creator and director of Suikoden 1 & 2 leading development: Yoshitaka Murayama.
This will be an unfair comparison because I am literally comparing the best game I have ever played S2 with EC, BUT i will try to keep it fair and not be too critical.
ALSO PS: this is just my personal opinions, you have full rights to your own opinions. You may not agree with my opinions and that is perfectly fine.
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STORY: 6.5/10
Although the same creator behind the Suikoden 1 and 2 story was leading development of Eiyuden Chronicle, EC unfortunately didn't live up to the grand political and intriguing storylines in the way S1 & S2 did. Although we have some similar elements, it feels the story could have been better polished and written a bit more maturely and bit complex because the EC story is pretty straightforward there's not really much turns and twists and intrigue. The main villain is like a temped collaboration of Luca Blight and Agares. I wish there was more fleshed out version of him, and more of in depth story of the reasons for his actions. The plot moves very straightforward, and at times a bit bland especially in comparison to Suikoden 2. Its still a decent/ok story but it feels a bit watered down.
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DUELS: 9/10
One of the favorite things of mine from Suikoden series are the duels, and EC does it damn good. Id even say they do it much better by having multiple "scenes" you can take the duel in. The only downside is that duels are far and few in between. And I wish they would have added more dialog options but other than that they did fantastic upgrade on the duel system in my opinion.
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FIGHTS: 5/10
The majority of the gameplay will be fighting enemies and bosses outside of resource gathering so I wanted to review fighting by itself than add everything into a general gameplay category.
Fights are for the most part a bit hollow. The enemies are gorgeously designed but they feel very static and hollow when fighting. I don't know if its a lack of shadowing or something, but the vectors just feel empty for me. The bosses are also very detailed and nice to look at as a static image but feel empty hollow on the battlefield. The boss fights are also a bit boring although there are some early game Boss fights that leads to using environments and such, in total I think there are about 5 or 6 of such gimmick fights where you interact with objects in the environment, it was kind of cool for the first round or two afterwards you really see it wasn't really effective of essential.
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BASE BUILDING: 7/10
Base building in EC is pretty cool, you have basically a map of upgrades you can choose from and you get more options as your base grows. BUT the resources required to grow your base becomes a big hassle at end-game. You will either have to wait in segments of 30 mins so your gathering team can retrieve some materials or you can go to 2 locations to get the materials yourself and wait 5 mins to get 4 of each and having to fight multiple enemies in between the resource gathering points.
The other issue is the cost of customizing your base is very high. You can select what kind of statues, lights, trees and more but the cost to develop those options eat up a lot of resources that can be used to build your base.
Although the base is pretty grand in EC, I still prefer the base of Suikoden 2. The castle in EC is much larger but the S2 base just felt more alive.
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VOICE ACTING: 8.5/10
The game has great voice over acting for the most part. BUT i know i will probably be in the minority group here, I feel like Voice Acting didnt really needed to be included. There is a lot of VA as well, but again i feel like the funds and time could have gone to writing a better polished story instead. It would have been better to do it only for major scenes and duels than for almost every dialog. Again the VA was very well done, just if I had to choose one or the other, id remove the VA and focus on the other elements.
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WAR GAMES: 5.5/10
There are some elements of the EC war games i like and some i don't like. I like the more detailed individual abilities and ability to somewhat customize your army (you have option to add and remove cavalry archers mages and warriors as premade groups) but I didn't like the battle system itself, the battle grid was very small, there was not any environmental differences, there wasn't any ramifications of losing units either so there was not much pressure to perform. It was again a very simplified version of the S2 war games system.
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CHARACTER RECRUITMENT: 5/10
Although i don't necessarily enjoy grinding to recruit characters, there wasn't much difficulty in gaining the 120 character in the game, outside of the damn Baguia battle bots minigame (sheeesh i HATED that minigame). There were maybe a dozen of them that required special conditions rest of the characters either joined by themselves or just needed to be interacted with once. There also wasn't any like special in-depth stories like Victor, Star Dragon Sword and Neclord, or Killey side story in S2. There are maybe 2-3 where you need to have another character to get another character but theres no in-depth storyline for the side characters. No one is really missable. You just need to interact with them.
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MINI GAMES: 6/10
The mini-games in EC are again a bit of a hit and miss. I hated the battle bots minigame with everything, why would there need to be 3 matches when its best out of 2? Why do you start the ability to play the game so early but dont give the actual good spin bots until late game so you actually have a shot at winning. It was horrible and you had to fight a certain number of npcs before you could challenge the main people, and all that to get 1 character who is also not that good at anything.
Cooking was ok-ish because although it was very similar to Suikoden games, its mechanics are just messed up. Its just badly optimized scoring and the way to find what the judges like are so hit or miss, either the announces just literally says the dish or they say something so vague or nothing at all. But then you get the person who like spicy food something spicy and they vote 1....
The egg racing was useless, like there was nothing to be gained from it.
The favorite minigame for me was the card game. It became a bit challenging to defeat the S ranks, but it was a fun game with a interesting game mechanics.
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OVERALL SCORE: 7/10
Its a good/decent JRPG, but its still lacking the polish and finish that could have made it a great game. Again it is very unfair because i am comparing it to Suikoden 2. But I hope they continue and try to develop EC2, and work on a more mature storyline and fix those stated issues. The game was entertaining, it had some amazing moments like the first duel in the game. It just ended up fizzling out and becoming a bit stale as you went along instead of being a really intruiging storyline like Suikoden 2.
If you like JRPGs its a good game to play. If you think its gonna hold up to S1 or S2, then i would say lower your expectations and just enjoy it for what it is.

I don’t even know where to start with this. I’ll start with that my platoon is a very small platoon we have about 40 cadets only about half of who actually participate in the program. We are extremely overworked we are after school 2 days out of the week minimum some weeks were after school late every day like we were staying after school for meetings and practices 4 days last week we’ve been after school every day this week and early to school tomorrow then after school every day next week. This is on top of our normal duties and more stuff to do on our own time. The whole platoon is tired and just wants to go home and it’s making morale extremely bad within the platoon. Nobody can focus people are starting to find every excuse they can to go home at a normal time and some people are starting to get into tense situations with each other. Here’s some more because we’re such a small program we rank up really slowly compared to much larger platoons the highest promotion we got was to sergeant this year. We have cadets that came from much larger programs and got promoted much faster than us. We are struggling to get past sergeant and they just came from another platoon as a captain and is now being promoted to cadet in command for a platoon that they never talk to and don’t even go to the same school district. They don’t even know half of the platoons names and they don’t talk to any of us except to tell us what to do. I feel like if someone is gonna be put in command they should be here longer than 3 months and actually know more than a single cadet in which is the same cadet they are dating and have known from their previous program. On top of all that we have the cadet in which our new commander is dating handing out demerits like candy. One of our cadets is a squad leader, head of archery team, color guard, drill, raiders, and drones. She had one assignment she couldn’t get done on time and got a demerit for it she also missed one meeting and got a demerit for it we had another squad leader that got a demerit because their squad didn’t complete their tasks his squad does nothing he told them numerous times to do it and helped them with it but he took the backlash for them. Sorry for the whole article lol

Looking to see if anyone has any good names for the salt lake team coming Salt Lake I DONO lol not good cus pretty sure they have the color scheme and if I'm wrong ? Any direct me to any pages kn here people tried out different things for the Utah team

 I’ve played nearly 300 hours on the game. I usually host an operations and let random people join. Sometimes I join others especially for these major orders with new specific missions and help. And I was FINALLY KICKED. Everybody till recently has been really chill and nice people. My earphones have been broken for some weeks now. But I’m good with pinging and the micro chats. 

So this happened a few days ago. I join a Deactivate Terminid Control System, and when we dive I drop on near one of the Battery Silo. Ever since that one patch a few patches ago it’s been hard to steer the Hellpod. I drown after spawn and two players on the squad drops me three time near it for me to drown FOUR TIMES. I then texted them to please stop dropping me by there. The leader has time to drop me and a took the game to finally drop after waiting.
So we fast forward to the next mission and we’re doing an eradication mission. One teammate leaves before the mission and the other one leaves in the middle of it who was also throwing me at the water. So me and him are struggling. If anything I’m doing worse but he’s also throwing me at horrible spots. He asks he to grab samples, we both are available to grab it. He goes for them and I go for his arc thrower. We both die and say “*** u ****** “ or something like that. He also did say something else before that but I can’t recall it .Then he kicks me.
By the way it seems like he was farming since he kept leaving operations til he ran out of Deactivate Terminid Control Systems. This happened on the last 2 of the 4 missions. If you wanted to farm samples then do the Retrieve Essential Personnel missions. His username J…S. Also I faced an Extraction TeamKiller today.
Clarifying my thoughts the community is cool even though there are outliers. I never kicked someone out not even the team killer since left because of my friend reported him. Also didn’t have the chance for the guy who kicked me out since I closed app. I had a 5 minute clip to see what he said but I deleted since I kinda don’t care now. I just have fun while also being a team player. Sometimes I’m off my pivot and sometimes teammates are. I’m gonna finish this off by saying if you’re a Good or try-hard player, it can be hard playing with teammates not pulling their weight but that’s your time to prove your self.
Hell Comander signing off

What is airplane mode?
In the past, people would turn on airplane mode before the battle starts so if they messes up something the battle won't register. If however the battle ends up in their favor, they can disable airplane mode. Airplane mode blocks the connection to the outside world but still allows you to play the battle.
This used to be very helpful for raid to gain high score. If a score was unsatisfactory, you'd enable airplane mode before the battle ends. Usually people do that at the start of the battle so they don't forget. Nowadays you have a discard button so it's not important.
However, it's still important for Grand Arena and Territory War. If you quit the game before it ends, or use airplane mode, the battle will not count. You still however get the 1 attempt counted, but at least the next time you or someone fight that team, it's no longer preloaded with tons of Turn Meter.
So to do it:

1. Go to Windows Firewall with Advanced Security

(Either through Control Panel > System & Security > Windows Defender and on the left pane Advanced Settings or through Settings app > Windows Security > Firewall & network protection > Advanced Settings)

1. Select Outbound Rules and create a new rule (right click > new rule)

• Rule type: Program
  
• This program path: the exe file where you install the game.
  Default path: C:\Program Files\EA Games\SWGoH\SWGoH.exe
  
• Block the connection
  
• Select networks that are applicable or leave all selected
  
• Enter a name
  

Now whenever you want to airplane mode, just right click that rule and enable it.
However, if you want to perfect it, there's a way to make it quicker.
First off, follow this guide to create a .bat file that can enable/disable our firewall rule with a click of a button. Basically, copy the contents of the file while replacing Steam with the name of the rule you used above. I personally would have also replaced pause line with exit 0 so command prompt auto closes. Should look something like this (provided a copy link if reddit botches the formatting):
netsh advfirewall firewall show rule name="swgoh airplane" findstr "^Enabled:.*Yes$"
if %errorlevel% == 0 (

 `netsh advfirewall firewall set rule name="swgoh airplane" new enable=no` 

) else (

`echo Enabling firewall rule` `netsh advfirewall firewall set rule name="swgoh airplane" new enable=yes` 

)
exit 0
Save it as something like airplane.bat
Then right click the bat file > create shortcut.
Right click the newly created shortcut > Properties > under Target, append C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /C (with space at the end). This will allow us to pin this shortcut to taskbar for ease of access.
While also in properties, go to Advanced in the same tab and make sure to check Run as admin.
Now launch the game. If it errors saying no connection to EA server, try testing our newly created shortcut and see if it fixes. You will however be greeted with a UAC prompt asking if you want to allow it. If you really want to take this a step further, there's a guide on disabling it, works for Windows 11 too. Just remember there's no visual indicator if the firewall rule is active or not, so when launching the game just double check Firewall or rerun the shortcut if you can't get into the game, or check forum post if there's an actual issue.
EDIT: didn't know sigsig made a picture post :(
EDIT 2: Here's a video of it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZVNm_xNo1s&feature=youtu.be

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1. Zaccharie Risacher SF JL Bourg
   
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3. Donovan Clingan C Connecticut
   

Clingan has started his pre-draft process in Florida but will surely be selective with what teams he visits as his outstanding play this season has rocketed him into the top five on NBA teams' draft boards.

1. Rob Dillingham PG Kentucky
   
2. Nikola Topic PG Red Star
   

Topic made a pair of 3s and showed his vision with intelligent pick-and-roll reads, but his rhythm looked off -- as is expected following his prolonged absence. He got his shot blocked on a few occasions and struggled to move laterally out of a stance, as well. His coming games will be closely scrutinized, but he'll likely have plenty of games coming this month that give him a chance to regain some of the momentum he lost because of his injury.

1. Matas Buzelis SF G League Ignite
   
2. Reed Sheppard PG/SG Kentucky
   

Sheppard entered the draft after receiving feedback indicating he has a very strong case to be a top-five pick, possibly even a top-three pick -- an opportunity that is hard to pass on.

1. Dalton Knecht SG/SF Tennessee
   
2. Stephon Castle PG/SG Connecticut
   
3. Cody Williams SG/SF Colorado
   

Front offices will be particularly interested to assess his comfort level shooting both off the catch and dribble in drill situations as they try to better project his future offensive role and impact. Williams' size, playmaking ability and defensive potential have always signaled intriguing long-term upside, but there's a variance of opinion among scouts on his floor and ceiling as a prospect.

1. Isaiah Collier PG USC

Collier is viewed as a polarizing prospect, with a wide draft range starting around the mid-lottery and extending throughout the first round.

1. Ja'Kobe Walter SG/SF Baylor

Walter's shot-making ability, length and intangibles have given him a secure pathway into the later lottery, as teams feel pretty comfortable with what he brings to the table.

1. Ron Holland SF G League Ignite
   
2. Zach Edey C Purdue
   
3. Tidjane Salaun PF Cholet
   
4. Kyle Filipowski PF/C Duke
   
5. Devin Carter PG/SG Providence
   
6. Tristan Da Silva SF/PF Colorado
   
7. Jared McCain PG/SG Duke
   

He improved his shot creation, rebounding and defense as the season moved on and now has an easy niche he can fill in the NBA with his scoring instincts, competitiveness and smarts.

1. Yves Missi C Baylor

While still a ways from being able to positively impact an NBA floor on a nightly basis, Missi's physical ability and size make him an interesting development selection in a draft that's otherwise a bit light on rim-running centers in his mold. His range still seems wide going into May as the pre-draft process nears.

1. Tyler Smith SF/PF G League Ignite
   
2. Kevin McCullar Jr. SG/SF Kansas
   
3. Bobi Klintman SF/PF Cairns
   

It's hard to find an NBA team that isn't looking for 6-10 players in his mold, despite theoretical qualities to his game that he'll still need to answer for during the pre-draft process, namely his consistency on both ends of the floor.

1. Kyshawn George SG/SF Miami

There are real questions about his ability to get into the paint and handle physicality, but his mix of skills is inherently valuable if he puts it together. He could be a real riser in the spring, but he could also be better off developing in college another year.

1. Carlton Carrington PG Pitt

Carrington will need time to be ready to play meaningful NBA minutes, but his youth, versatility and feel for the game give him a high ceiling in a draft lacking in that department.
Notables:

• Their Top 25 remains the same as the previous one outside of 9-14 range.
  
• Dillingham, Collier, Missi and Kyshawn seems to have a wide draft range.
  
• Reed opted to remain in the draft because of high possibility to be a top 3-5 pick.
  

One of the reasons I want to play this game is because of the fun and cool team attacks.
Nowa and Seign's Team Attacks seems to deal decent damage for the amount of SP. So is Francesca and Falward since it is an AOE Heal (no MP). However, for other characters, the damage seems underwhelming ~ i.e. Mio + Hakugin (Hakugin alone deals more damage).
So I guess my question is, do you think it is worth deferring the game for now and hope that they patch the calculations to these soon, or just accept that this is one of the downsides of the game.

Hi parents, first off thank you for reading
I (22M) have always been quite ambitious. This has been very unfairly balanced by a load of health issues over the past 3 years - Covid mutated by chronic illnesses and left me depressed and hopeless for some time.
Good news is I'm way better now. This past winter I healed and came up with a plan to continue my hobbies and turn a few of them into some money, which is in it's early stages but has worked, which is awesome!
however, I woke up about last week and my total energy just shifted. My emotions are all over the place, I think the trauma of the last 3 years is finally catching up with me, and I now have no interest in anything - this may genuinely be the first time in my life that I've been bored with my free time, my hobbies and "side business" don't interest me all of a sudden.
I work a really cool summer job, however it's now become really really boring. I talked with the bosses to see If I can move up the ranks and while I can and they do want me, I will need to become far more dedicated and responsible not only for my new team but also for the people who come in. So no time to relax nor time to continue my "side business" although I'm not really motivated to do that now anyway...
Even if it pays better and is something new it also sounds like such a bad idea considering my current mental state - the only idea that sounds just as bad is being bored out of my mind in my current position while I stare at the wall once I get home.
I guess I'm not just looking for advice but also just to see if any of you guys have encountered the same thing? I feel like so lost and confused, I've never experienced anything like this to this extent before

Hunger of the Wastes
The people of Feycircle believed the fairy ring for which their town was named protected them from the encroaching sands of the Western Wastes. When the ring withered, they learned they were right. Worms came, devouring everything, and Feycircle’s dew-flecked pastures and verdant forests succumbed to the Wastes in an instant. Feycircle sank deep into the sands, and its inhabitants, now refugees, fled to a makeshift tent village some twenty miles away.
In less than a week, denizens of the waste found the pit where the town used to be and have made it their own, but there are far worse things than dust goblins beneath the sands. What made the fairy ring wither? And more pressing: who will save the two children who were left behind, or their father who went back to save them but hasn’t returned? Will it be you?
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Hunger of the Wastes is a trio of short “lair” style adventures. It will involve a fair bit of combat, some roleplay opportunities, and maybe a puzzle or two. You will begin at level 4, level up to 5 after the first lair, then up to level 6 for the final lair.
This adventure is nominally set in Kobold Press’s Midgard setting. Knowledge of that setting is absolutely not necessary. The setting tends to take a darker tone than standard fantasy, and sometimes small choices can have big, unforeseeable consequences down the line.
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Trigger warnings: threat of harm to children (no actual harm will occur), mild body horror.
Age requirement: 18+ due to mature themes and situations. This age restriction does not mean that the game is "anything goes." This is *not* an ERP game or even a romance game, and I would prefer that truly evil/despicable actions be left to the NPCs.
Tone: Generally serious, but with room for some comic relief. It’s not grimdark.
How we’ll play: asynchronous on Discord using the Avrae bot. I can get Tupper if you want it, but I don’t use it. I will be using Beyond’s map tool to display area maps, and I plan to experiment with using them for active combat maps, but I’m not sure what that will wind up looking like yet — we’ll figure it out together.
Characters: You’ll begin at level 4. Stats will be rolled until the total is at least 72, or you can use point buy. All official races, classes, feats, and archetypes are allowed, including Tasha’s optional class features and options for customizing race. All official backgrounds are acceptable, or you can create a custom background. If you select a background that does not provide a feat, you may also gain one of the following feats: Magic Initiate, Skilled, Tough, or some other feat that feels thematically/narratively relevant to your background (I’ll ask you to run your selection by me if you choose this final option).
The most recent version of OneD&D content is also allowed, though characters should generally use either 5e or OneD&D content, avoiding mix-and-match where possible.
I’m very open to 3rd party material, but I will need to approve it, and I reserve the right to adjust it if balance issues arise. (I will talk to you about any changes before we implement them.) I generally ask that you not mix and match 3rd party material from multiple sources/creators on the same character, to minimize the likelihood of weird rules interactions. In the “is there anything else you'd like me to know about you” question near the end of the application form, please be sure to include the word “worm food” at the beginning of your response, before you begin your actual answer, so that I know you read carefully at least this far into my post.
Player Characters must be team players who are willing to work together. While not every action or motivation has to be a shining paragon of goodness and morality, your characters should generally be heroes and willing to do heroic things.
Posting expectations: At least one post per day is the minimum, but more often is preferred. If you anticipate not being able to post for several days in a row, that’s fine, just try to communicate that to the group ASAP.
Somewhere between literate and semi-literate posting is fine. I do not expect long RP posts for every in-character action, especially in combat. My general expectation out of combat is 1-3 sentences providing dialogue and/or description of the action in a way that gives others something to react to or interact with. In combat, a summary of your actions on your turn plus the relevant Avrae rolls is sufficient, though you can provide more color if you want. I can provide private character channels that you can use to journal your character’s thoughts in more detail if you enjoy that aspect of roleplaying.
You can apply to the game using the following link: https://forms.gle/Y818Ru4SbjM5nPCBA
I'll leave the application open until roughly noon, eastern time tomorrow. I'll notify those selected roughly 6 hours after that.