Meh night, interesting chocobo info, screenshot for Dani (FFXI)

[thistlechaser]

Good: I caught a Besieged! FINALLY! Yay! Only level 2, so 400 XP, but at least it's something. Plus: Fun! Now I just need to catch my next one in less than a week.

Good: For the first time, synthed for profit on Chaser. Nothing big, just ingots. Roughly 10K profit per stack, roughly 40K profit for an hour's work. Meh. At least it's something.

Good: For once I was able to do my digging in the Desert! WOO! It was so nice to see this sort of results -- not even great items, but that much green! Yay! (Walked out with 1 plat ore, 4 gold ores, 1 DS ore which I lost when I tried to synth it, along with assorted other good things like coral frags and such.)

Good: Chaser's digging still appears to be improving. She got her first 'rare' level item today! Yay!

Neutral: I tried soloing a Lesser Colibri as BRD 73. Seems do-able if I'm uber patient, but not practical. Took me 5 minutes to get it down by about 20%, sleeping it multiple times so I could recover MP. I'm not patient enough to spend ~20 minutes killing one mob. Slept it and zoned. On the plus side, little risk of death.

Bad: Bored As Hell. Other than the Besieged, was bored all night. Blarg.

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Interesting chocobo foo: My two chicks are brothers. Same parents. Eggs handed in 24 minutes apart. They've eaten exactly the same food (in the same order even), done the same daily stuff with me, do the same overnight stuff. Everything is as close to the same as possible. They hit 'parent' level affection the same time.

Despite all that, today WinterWind went up to substandard in disc while NorthernStorm is still all poors! I had totally expected them to be mirror images of each other (stats-wise).

So the question is, is the difference caused by a real difference in the two chicks? Or is it more like 'Every day after doing X activity Y times there's a random chance for a stats raise...'?

Nine more days till they hit teens! Chaser has to keep hers no matter the color (she needs a callable one), but Thistle's finds out if he lives or dies then~

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Screenshot for Dani: Mmmmmm! If you had gotten goldsmithing shades instead.

And randomly: One of my mules putting a costume to good use.

Comments

[southern-hell.livejournal.com]

There's no theory that really seems plausible but I noticed from bought eggs the same difference of trends between my 2 characters eggs(most notably the difference in total energy), so I think it's possible either race or starting area affects their stats. I don't know why it would, but SE is weird after all.

[kamalloy.livejournal.com]

I may have to skip helping out tonight. I did a totally dumbass thing last night and pulled a muscle in my lower back while moving some books. It doesn't hurt nearly as much now, but I barely slept at all and I'll probably need to stop on the way home from work and pick up a few things. I'm really sorry.

Also, chocobos are weird. WinterStorm had developed a pattern of when his stats were going to go up, but it took unusually long for his receptivity to go from Oustanding to First-class, to the point where I was beginning to wonder if it was going to go up at all. Then it went up. And then discernment went up the next day, like I would have expected from the pattern. After that, I gave up trying to figure it out. ;p

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

No worries at all! Feel better! I totally know how much pulling your back sucks. c.c

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Odd. And SE sure is! :P

[southern-hell.livejournal.com]

WHat day was that around, going from Outstanding to First class?

[kamalloy.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I'm mostly annoyed with myself for doing it in the first place, although it's not like I knew beforehand what was going to happen and then went ahead and did it anyway. ;p

[kamalloy.livejournal.com]

I'll have to look it up when I get home, but I think it was somewhere around day 46-47. Listened to music as a chick, exhibited to the public as an adolescent and adult, fed gysahl greens.

[southern-hell.livejournal.com]

Interesting, I'm trying to find any patterns/proof in care plans benefit decreasing over time as it's been so hard for me to get any stat near max without going hardcore on chocolixers and stuff.

[kamalloy.livejournal.com]

Okay, here's WinterStorm's progress:
Discernment: First-class (Day 47, Outstanding Day 43, Impressive Day 39, Better than Average Day 34, Average Day 29, A bit deficient Day 23, Substandard Day 17)
Receptivity: First-class (Day 46, Outstanding Day 40, Impressive Day 36, Better than Average Day 31, Average Day 27, A bit deficient Day 22, Substandard Day 14)
Abilities: Treasure Finder (Day 36), Bore (Day 40)

I read him the Treasure Finder story a bunch of times before he learned it. He got Bore on the first try. Both were on days when his receptivity increased, and that may not be a coincidence.

By comparison, here's a partial listing of the progress of his sire, my first chocobo. I did a similar thing with AutumnWind (package delivery plan for strength and endurance) and his stats showed a slightly slower rate of growth. They also started going up later; I'm pretty sure he didn't get anything above Poor until adolesence.

[southern-hell.livejournal.com]

Oooh nice info, thank you :]