Chocobos and gold and access and digging and stuff (FFXI)

[thistlechaser]

Much much much better night than last night, though not nearly enough time to do all that I needed/wanted to. So let's have a list!

- Nice Nai got me all the subjob items and so Chaser got access to the ToAU areas! Soon: Locker! Didn't have time to even go there tonight though. Hopefully tomorrow! Locker, locker, locker, I need you so much!

- Tried chocobo digging on Chaser. What a laugh! Ha ha ha! I have no idea how anyone sticks through digging at such low levels other than that they don't know any better. Nine stacks of greens, on the bird the whole half-hour, and I got a grand total of 11 items! Pebbles, insect wings, little worms, and best of all... drum roll... a bird feather! *snicker* I'm going to stick with it, though no way will she be getting her 100 items per day anytime soon. That 16 second delay between digs is a killer.

- As a reward for getting her to MNK 20 with fully leveled subjob, I got another gold level! Gold 71! The million gil it cost really hurt though. Tomorrow (or whenever I have time) I'll craft with my remaining materials, but very very very soon I'm going to stop buying new materials to skill. I need cash left both for non-crafting game life as well as doing her turnins. (Very sad, haven't been able to do her turnins in the last two days. Items I couldn't make or too expensive. Still at 60K/100K.)

- Eee! Bitty baby chocobos hatched today! Both are male, which hopefully is a good sign. (All of the females I've raised thus far have, um, died. *cough* Every male has lived until adulthood.)

Both chicks had the same parents. Happy parents! Red and black!
Father: WinterStorm, owned by Cydori, first class both mental traits, knows Bore and Treasure Finder. Red.
Mother: NorthernWind, owned by Aurian, first class both mental traits, knows Burrow and Gallop. Black.

Chicks are: NorthernStorm (Thistle's) and WinterWind (Chaser's). Both were male, born with poor stats, and both knew Treasure Finder. (Both will be taught Bore.)

Hey, naldene, here's the screenshot you asked for: Matching RDMs/lamp ornaments.

And I switched out DRG wyverns to make them look less cute and silly: Eeevil wyverns! You can't see it too well in the picture, but their teeth and claws are longer, their "tail spikes" are longer, their eyes are "evil", and of course the coloring.

Comments

[iniadelphinae.livejournal.com]

lol, low level digging is the pits. It's the main reason I've put off starting it on another character that already has a chocobo license. Stacks and stacks of greens on this macro:

/dig
/wait 16
/dig
/wait 15
/echo Dig

It can only be worse now with the zones even more dug up than usual. I was lucky and did okay on my low level digging in Konschtat and Yuhtunga (pre-inflation logs were decent gil).

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

*snickers and nods* That's basically my macro, too. It boggles me how long 16 seconds feels!

I did her in Gusta last night, because it seemed the least likely to be dug out. I'll probably stick there for a while.

I'm hoping once her chocobo gets big enough to ride that it'll go a little faster, but I'm not sure if that'll be the case or not.

[kamalloy.livejournal.com]

Huh, I didn't realize that a female digging chocobo was significantly smaller than a male. Auri's looks almost dainty compared to mine. ^_~

Also, Hien prefers being cute. It lets him beg wyverntreats from people more easily. ;p

[kamalloy.livejournal.com]

Oh, forgot to add that WinterStorm's stats didn't start going up until about day 14 or so. That still beat his dad's by a decent amount; I'm pretty sure AutumnWind didn't start getting stats to go up until he was an adolescent.

On my home PC I have a list of how WinterStorm progressed, but by day 40-something (44? 47?) he had his mental stats maxed. So the kids should progress pretty quickly, especially since they have parents with the same type of stats.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I think it has to do with your model size. You're a large hume, right? And Aurian is small?

Also, Hien prefers being cute. It lets him beg wyverntreats from people more easily. ;p

Heh! But if he looked evil, he could scare them, they'd drop the whole bag of treats, and run! ;)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Hopefully! The only roadbump might be the plan I had to pick. I did Sports Plan, which was 'favor father's traits, high END bird'. I don't want END, but I wanted the father's traits (since Aurian's has Gallop and Burrow, neither of which I want on my birds). Hope that doesn't slow things down/mess them up too much!

[kamalloy.livejournal.com]

It's probably a stat type and character size combination. WinterStorm is noticeably smaller than his dad, who's my physical bird.

And if Hien looked evil, people wouldn't want to scratch him behind the ears, which would make him sad.

For example, here's an exchange regarding his D&D counterpart:
*Hien walks over to Character1 and looks up at him. Character1 starts petting him.
Character2: Don't patronize the dragon!
Character1: But he wanted me to pet him!

[kamalloy.livejournal.com]

I doubt it will. I used the plan that took after the mom's traits and boosted receptivity, and all it meant that my receptivity would go up a couple days before discernment did. It was a little boost, but I had no problem maxing both.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ah, cool! Good to know!