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thistlechaserRestless, mostly sleepless nights, but if I go into details I'll sound like a broken record. :) When I got up this morning, I was starving, but silly me didn't leave time to stop and get breakfast. (Since I'm still feeling really "eh" about eating eggs, it seemed kind of pointless to ponder stopping somewhere. Note: I'm not having issues with eggs in bread, pasta, or that I otherwise can't see, just eating globby gloops of it in my mouth. Blech. I'm really trying not to let eggs go the way of meat, because if I cut everything that has eggs in it out of my diet, I will have a really high chance of just starving to death.) But as I drove to work, I got hungrier and hungrier, so I stopped at the egg sandwich place and got a toasted bagel. The darned thing tasted like the best food I ever ate! I really need to get some food in the house, especially something I could grab in the morning.
Between the hot weather, muscle pulls, and sleepless nights, walking has decreased lately. I'm going to let it stay like this through August, but once the weather cools down again I'll go back to daily. I know it would be better if I did daily now, but... eh. Any excuse not to exercise will do! Bad me.
FFXI:
I really wonder about my brain. I find job leveling to be boring and annoying, but I'm okay with crafting for five hours straight? (Non-players: To craft, you just click items from a list, click okay, and watch about 15 seconds of animation. There are only three types of animation: One if you fail, one if you succeed, and one if you greatly succeed. Nothing exciting at all, especially since I've seen each animation thousands of times already.)
My new system of handling money/crafting seems to be working. There are three kinds of crafting:
- Crafting for skill-up. You end up with an item, but you will sell it to an NPC for a loss.
- Crafting for guild points. You make items and hand them to an NPC, nothing gotten in return.
- Crafting for profit.
So I start out with X money. (Yesterday it was 150,000 gil.) First I take care of guild points (cost 50,000 yesterday). With the remaining money, I craft for skill-up. (I bought every single cockatrice skin for sale in all three AHs! I expect thank you cards from all those farmers! :) ). Here's the new part: After I craft for skill up, I sell the items to the NPC. This leaves me with about half the money I started with (wait, that part isn't new -- keep reading!). Usually at that point, I would just pour all the money back into skilling up, over and over, until all the money was gone. Here's the new plan: After using all the money once for skill up, then selling the items and getting half the money back, I take the remaining money and split it: Half for crafting for profit, half for tomorrow's turn-in points. Since I started with so much more than usual last night, I did the skill-up twice!
100,000 -> 50,000. About .6 skill up.
50,000 -> 25,000. About .8 skill up! Woo!
25,000 -> 12,000. Crafting for profit. Double to triple my money will return, as things sell overnight and today.
12,000 left for today's turn-in item.
I fished up a couple stacks of moat carp to supplement my income as I wait for things to sell, and now have about 20,000 gil to deal with today's turn-in. (Which isn't enough, unfortunately. Hopefully more stuff will sell by lunchtime!)
So while this can't be a daily event, when I do have enough money to craft for increasing my skill, it's the way I'll do it. And more importantly, now that I'm level 64 in crafting, I don't need to put 100% of my money into skilling up! Guild turn-in points are much, much more necessary right now.
The future: One day I will be done with turning items in to the guild! And one day I will be able to stop leveling leather! This will leave me crafting just for profit, and I'm expecting to be rolling in money at that point. The only problem I see with that plan is if SE introduces more guild items... I'm not sure if I hope they will or won't...
Between the hot weather, muscle pulls, and sleepless nights, walking has decreased lately. I'm going to let it stay like this through August, but once the weather cools down again I'll go back to daily. I know it would be better if I did daily now, but... eh. Any excuse not to exercise will do! Bad me.
FFXI:
I really wonder about my brain. I find job leveling to be boring and annoying, but I'm okay with crafting for five hours straight? (Non-players: To craft, you just click items from a list, click okay, and watch about 15 seconds of animation. There are only three types of animation: One if you fail, one if you succeed, and one if you greatly succeed. Nothing exciting at all, especially since I've seen each animation thousands of times already.)
My new system of handling money/crafting seems to be working. There are three kinds of crafting:
- Crafting for skill-up. You end up with an item, but you will sell it to an NPC for a loss.
- Crafting for guild points. You make items and hand them to an NPC, nothing gotten in return.
- Crafting for profit.
So I start out with X money. (Yesterday it was 150,000 gil.) First I take care of guild points (cost 50,000 yesterday). With the remaining money, I craft for skill-up. (I bought every single cockatrice skin for sale in all three AHs! I expect thank you cards from all those farmers! :) ). Here's the new part: After I craft for skill up, I sell the items to the NPC. This leaves me with about half the money I started with (wait, that part isn't new -- keep reading!). Usually at that point, I would just pour all the money back into skilling up, over and over, until all the money was gone. Here's the new plan: After using all the money once for skill up, then selling the items and getting half the money back, I take the remaining money and split it: Half for crafting for profit, half for tomorrow's turn-in points. Since I started with so much more than usual last night, I did the skill-up twice!
100,000 -> 50,000. About .6 skill up.
50,000 -> 25,000. About .8 skill up! Woo!
25,000 -> 12,000. Crafting for profit. Double to triple my money will return, as things sell overnight and today.
12,000 left for today's turn-in item.
I fished up a couple stacks of moat carp to supplement my income as I wait for things to sell, and now have about 20,000 gil to deal with today's turn-in. (Which isn't enough, unfortunately. Hopefully more stuff will sell by lunchtime!)
So while this can't be a daily event, when I do have enough money to craft for increasing my skill, it's the way I'll do it. And more importantly, now that I'm level 64 in crafting, I don't need to put 100% of my money into skilling up! Guild turn-in points are much, much more necessary right now.
The future: One day I will be done with turning items in to the guild! And one day I will be able to stop leveling leather! This will leave me crafting just for profit, and I'm expecting to be rolling in money at that point. The only problem I see with that plan is if SE introduces more guild items... I'm not sure if I hope they will or won't...
