Zwift Chat

[mjd1988]

Has anyone used the video screenshot capture feature? Or hasbit even been rolled out yet?

 

[steverob]

I know @alex_cycles does on his iPad, cause I've seen him post short videos on some of his Strava activities - usually the finishing sprints.

 

[mjd1988]

https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2023/02/enables-highlight-uploads.html

@alex_cycles is it a retrospective video? The 15 seconds just past? Must be a nightmare to do on apple TV remote, does it work through companion app?

 

[steverob]

Given that long, lumpy TTs are what mass-start Zwift races often degenerate into anyway, how about a shortish, flat TT for the Clydesdales' power to come to the fore? It's much easier to motivate yourself with others on the course - how about using the Zwift TT Club events on Seaside Sprint over the coming week and taking the results from Zwiftpower? It's only 9.3km, so probably less than 15 minutes (so there's no danger of getting an FTP bump!)

Good idea to tie in to an existing event, but I took a quick look at the times for the Seaside Sprint events and I'd struggle to make any of them unfortunately - the only day I'm free at the right times next week is Tuesday and that's the night of the ZRL Final TTT.

Plus I'd want a slightly longer course than our "tiny" races, although at the same time looking for something shorter than our normal race stages, which is why I was thinking along the lines of 20-25 mins for the B's, 25-30 for the C's. There's no worry with the frequent C's getting an upgrade - Andy, Phil and me are all racing at about 2.8 w/kg at the moment, so that would have to be a super-human effort to get us to tip over 3.2!

 

[steverob]

Also I did start this series saying that all courses would be picked at random, so I guess I should keep that going, except this time I'll outsource the job.

Whoever is next to reply, please pick a number between one and ten.

 

[mjd1988]

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[Peter Salt]

Has anyone used the video screenshot capture feature? Or hasbit even been rolled out yet?

I think it only works on Apple stuff at the moment. It's past 15s, I think - so the moment you hit the button is the end of the recording.

 

[steverob]

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Interesting...

Now need somebody different to pick a number between 1 and 40.

Actually let's get two people to do it, just in case the first choice ends up being something we've already done.

 

[AlanW]

I think its really unfair that after level 55 the increase of XPs to get to the next level increases from 20,000 to 30,000 XPs. Which based on XPs per mile and excluding getting any bonus XP, I think works out going from 660 miles to 1000 miles to move up to the level

 

[alex_cycles]

https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2023/02/enables-highlight-uploads.html

@alex_cycles is it a retrospective video? The 15 seconds just past? Must be a nightmare to do on apple TV remote, does it work through companion app?

It's completely automatic on iPad. It generally selects 2 or 3 sprints, often the finish, and uploads one of them to strava. You do get to select which one at the end when choosing photos. It may well be different on different platforms. I think I've seen the option to switch if off somewhere too. But it seems to work OK so I left it on.

I video all my events anyway for learning purposes and bragging rights (rarely the latter ), so it's largely irrelevant for me. (But it may be possible to deliberately shoot one just after you do something cool. I haven't tried.)

 

[alex_cycles]

Interesting...

Now need somebody different to pick a number between 1 and 40.

Actually let's get two people to do it, just in case the first choice ends up being something we've already done.

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[Peter Salt]

Interesting...

Now need somebody different to pick a number between 1 and 40.

Actually let's get two people to do it, just in case the first choice ends up being something we've already done.

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I think its really unfair that after level 55 the increase of XPs to get to the next level increases from 20,000 to 30,000 XPs. Which based on XPs per mile and excluding getting any bonus XP, I think works out going from 660 miles to 1000 miles to move up to the level

Unfair isn't really the word I'd use. For something to be unfair it needs to have an actual impact on something. XP on Zwift, at least past level 44, is completely irrelevant. They could have made it 300 000 points per level and it wouldn't make a difference.

 

[alex_cycles]

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Unfair isn't really the word I'd use. For something to be unfair it needs to have an actual impact on something. XP on Zwift, at least past level 44, is completely irrelevant. They could have made it 300 000 XP points per level and it wouldn't make a difference.

I agree with that. I think it's silly. I also think lower down having some levels 10,000 and some 20,000 is annoying and silly. But it's completely fair because it's the same for everyone. What would be unfair would be if they changed it when people complained (why don't they just make it 15,000 for those levels?)

 

[steverob]

And by increasing the amount of XP you need per level, it means it takes you longer to get to the higher levels, which gives Zwift more time to stall adding additional levels - win/win!

Not that I can talk, I'm only on Level 42 (good band by the way - showing that I'm a kid of the 80's)

 

[Legs]

It is possible to get the Tron bike at Level 8 (!) which most people regard as the most versatile bike in the game (certainly compared with all the other road bikes and wheels, any benefits are absolutely marginal).

I can't really get my head round why people want to fill their garages with lots of different bikes, and their wardrobes with crappy socks and gimmicky gloves...