What do I do for Merric
As one of the founders of Merric Gaming Community, I handle the day to day running of Merric, handle support tickets and manage subscription enquiries/queries as well as look after the community and it’s members and also oversee our admin team. I love what I do with/for Merric.

Day to Day
I was lucky to have retired early so now all my days are like Sundays. My day usually starts around 4.00-4:30am when I check to make sure all our servers have completed their daily auto restarts. I briefly run through the logs for the period while I was away sleeping (Yes I really do sleep, well hibernate). Then my day of answering tickets, helping members in game and just generally keeping an eye on everything.

I take a break around 1pm for a couple of hours and then back to it until around 10.00 – 11.00pm when I log off.

Games
I played World of Warcraft for 12.5 years (still have my accounts ready and paid for). I was then introduced to ARK by one of my sons just after it came out and have played ever since. I also play modded Minecraft, EVE Online (not anymore), I love 7 Days to Die and lots of other space sims and survival games.

Unfortunately Merric takes just about every waking hour of my time and so I am not able to properly play any games now, but that is ok as I get to do what I love – help others!

Favourite server
Well it used to be ARK: The Island, but, after having had a little play on the new Genesis 2 map, I have not gone back to The Island map yet. 🙂

My Setup
CPU:
AMD Ryzen 7 2700X 3.7 GHz 8-Core Processor
Motherboard:
Asus ROG STRIX B450-F GAMING ATX AM4 Motherboard
Memory:
Corsair Vengeance LPX 64 GB (4 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory
Storage:
SPCC M.2 PCIe SSD – 512Gb
Samsung SSD 970 EVO – 1Tb
2 x Western Digital Blue SN550 1TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive
2 x Seagate ST2000DM008 Internal Hard Drive – 2 TB
Video Card:
MSI GeForce 970 (it does what I need)
Monitors:
Asus 23″
Viewsonic 22″
Keyboard & Mouse:
Logitech G910
Logitech G502 Hero
Case:
NZXT H510 ATX Mid Tower Case
Power Supply:
Corsair RM (2019) 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply

Other hobbies
My main love is collecting coins (Numismatists), astronomy, watching documentaries (especially to do with Space, universe etc.)