Short Day and Shopping 1/30/2018

Nothing on any of this morning's sessions, but at least two of those are destined to be deco or holo-pets, so no big deal.

Taking Aerys hunting on Dathomir tonight. Been working on housework, which has been absorbing a lot of my mental energy as well as my play time, but I have plans. :)

Okay. I lied. Did not go hunting. Watched some YouTube and then spent 4 hours on housework. Still a lot to do, but I am starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel... I think.

• Lifa: Tybis 1=0
• Benni: Tybis 1=0
• Aerys: Vorpal Durni 1=0 (Scrub)
• Oshorym: Vorpal Durni: Boom!

So took Osho shopping for the right colours of enzymes, and some element As and Cs and raw hydros, as we do not have a 17/19 or 2 18s to finish off that session. going to try and brew the highest mutagen 18 I can. May hold off on his next session until I can get an 18 over 12 mutagen. The starter was a 12 with 13 mutagen: should try to beat that for the next sessions. 

God, it's hard not to hope.

Maintenance 1/29/2018

• Lifa: Brackaset 1=0
• Benni: Voritor 1=0
• Oshorym: Squill 1= Boom (Critical Hit)
• Aerys: 4 hours left on timer

14 20s in stock, 3 more in production, and 37 more elements processing, easily another 5 hydros in amongst those and what I have remaining.

...And back. Pulled out the processed elements, started up the last set, set up 5 more 20s and one high mutagen. 

• Aerys: Kliknik 2=0
• Lifa: Brackaset 2=0
• Benni: Voritor 2=0
• Oshorym: Squill 2=0

Poop.

Going to take Aerys to Dath to do more porlogue quests and pull hydros from Rancors, and DNA from critters. 

Osho has sold some things, but as system mails are down, I don't actually know what he's sold. Annoyed with the chat server (which appears to be connected to the mails). I hope they get it sorted sooner rather than later, as I like being able to get into grind groups, etc.

Well, I was going to, but bounced from the server before I could. Mrrr.

19 20s now.

I have too much housework to do to justify playing tonight, since I watched a few more episodes of BSG with my middle kiddle. But got some stuff done and feel good about leaving things there for the night. Slowing my heartrate and settling for bed now.

Any One Wanna Buy a Mutant? 1/28/2018

Went to bed late, woke at 8, so up at 9 and flipping my sessions. I will not be able to play most of today, as I have outside things to do, and even when they are done, I am going to be trying to rebuild my bedroom on the new plan. This involves some serious RL inventory maintenace. Too bad I can't take the "junk loots" and sell it to a junk dealer: I could use the cash right about now, but honestly, no one wants my RL junk. It goes to thrift stores and I'd lay good money it gets tossed after a few months of sitting there. /sigh

• Aerys: Flit 3=0
• Osho: Sand Panther= BOOM! Fanged Tiglon! Now I need a 13pt Hydro to finish him.
• Lifa: Huurton 2=0
• Benni: Langlatch 2=0

The second Fanged makes me happy. Now I can sell one and still have one to hatch. :)

I will need a long hunting session to stock up on raws. It takes about 5 raws to make one 20, so I need to fill my inventory twice over in order to have enough stock to not have to hunt for a while. 

Logged in, pulled the needed 13 from the prcessors, and headed Aerys off to get buffed and go dragon hunting. A couple of kills in, I ran into Greenlotus again, so having a solid hunt. :) I have missed just running with someone.

All done with that: harvested 44 hydros, 20 above 6, so lots of 20s coming my way soon. 

Osho sold a capped and a non capped beast, so we have some more creds incoming. The first Fanged Tig has not sold yet, so I may drop the price on that one. 

• Lifa: Huurton 3 =  0
• Benni: Langlatch 3 = 0
• Oshorym: Fanged Tiglon 3 = 0
• Aerys: Kliknik 1 =  0

And crash time. Processors are chugging away, but boy I burn through raws fast. :P

Brothers and Birthdays 1/27/2018

It's my brother's birthday today. He came THROUGH for me and my family last year, giving me fully 2/3 of my son's tuition for the semester, and being the transfer agent for a Christmas gift of cash from my step father. I hope I can make his day special somehow.

RAWR! CAKE!

This reminded me that Legends is now on its second birthday, which is crazy cool and makes me very happy for the work that has been put in. The server is usually stable, the dev team is devoted to resolving issues and adding new content and just enjoying the game. It's really great. Happy birthday, Legends!

I was able to log in with no issues today, so I am flipping incubators now. Processors are all empty, which gives me a sad.

One of the first LOLBMs I made. Ridiculous fun times.

• Osho: Sand Panther 3: BOOM! :D 60 pt capped Fanged Tiglon. And Aerys doesn't have a cat... hmmm...
• Lifa: Bol 3=0
• Benni: C. Butterfly 3=0
• Aerys: Flit 2=Boom (Critical Hit)

Ran into the guy who sold me those enzymes and that DNA a week or so ago,. He's looking to get started in BM, and needs just the unidentified bones. I was sure we had a stack lying around, but be damned if I could find them. So I just bank tipped him 4 mill (since that's what they go for on the bazaar) and will keep looking. 

Off to hunt Krayts: all the processors are loaded, so I can just throw the first batch of enzymes in. I should also check and see if there are any higher quality machines out there, as I'd love to boost my mutagen a bit more. Will need cans soon too: yay for creds in the bank: I can just buy whatever I need. So privileged.

And got out to hunt Krayts and died on the first one. Rebuffed, headed back out, and server crashed before I could find one. I haz a SAD. And a bit of a mad; Aerys hasn't even run her session yet today because I need hydros so badly.

Logged back on: still had med buffs but lost and had several kills at the graveyard before a Jedi showed up. He was after pearls, and was game to kill stuff while he waited for ancients to spawn, so yay! 40 hydros in an hour, and I am set for the week. After I died, I ran processors, and ran back out there, killed some more. When I died the second time (third time today) I called it quits, cloned home and bagged up all the enzymes and then ran the session, and hit a boom on the Flit. Score. 

A good morning's play, even with the server issues. Now to get actually on with my day. 

...And back. Blitzed my garage and got a solid disaster started in my bedroom, and now taking a break till after dinner, so back to game.

Flipped the processors, got a good spread, so should be good to make a bunch of 20s.

There's still a couple of hours till the incubators are ready, so I am going to go shopping on Osho. I have 5 processors that are .48 to .54 mutagen, instead of .7 or .71... oi! there's .86's on Hoyt's vendor!!!

And there goes the 100 mill. :)

Easy come, easy go!

I need another 1.9 mill to buy the capped reproc capsules. Considering vending that cat now. I wanted a Psycho Jax for Aerys anyway... Put it on the vendor for 150 mill. Can use the creds, and like the beast so if it doesn't move quickly, I won't be mad. I do need to do another purge of the vendor and make a few more holopets. the low pointers don't sell anyway, and I'd love a chance to make an orange holopet. (Not even sure that function is turned on in this iteration, but it'd be darn cool to find out!)

• Osho: Sand Panther 1= Boom! (Strikethrough)
• Lifa: Huurton 1=0
• Benni: Langlatch 1=0
• Aerys:  has 3 hours left on her incubator...

so I picked out the stuff I am going to use tomorrow, and tried to get into the grind group, but tells weren't working, so I logged her off in the lab. if I wake up early enough I will run her session before I head off to work. Their sessions should be done about 8:30 or 9 am, and my ride doesn't get here till 10, so... kinda depends how hard I crash. I'm tired: it was a very full day.

Big Boom Morning 1/26/2018

Up early, as I'd hoped and energy to log in and do some maintenance. Made 4 20s last night, so yay! Still need raws for processing.

• Lifa: Bol 2=0; 
• Benni: C. Butterfly 2= Boom (Evasion); 
• Osho: Sand Panther 2= Boom (Block Chance); 
• Aerys: Flit 1=0

So that was a great start to my day: one chance each at a Chubafly and a Fanged Tig. :)

It's amazing what comes up on google image search.
This is apparently the "Crystal Structure of the Bacillis Subtilis Hmg-coa Lyase"
Our devs definitely fuddled with real names for biogenetic things.
I see you, Loche.

Going to run Osho out to buy more 11 pt Purples, as I appear to be out. And spent 15 mill on those, and some misc Isos and DNA. 

Then ran Aerys to Tat to try the Bestine elections, but it's more than a week before they start up again. I should do some research and read up on what all I should do there. Grabbed the painting schem from the museum director: will have to keep coming back to see about getting the rest of them. A little vendor research showed a lot of rare painting crates on vendors: I should definitely take Osho and go get those, and complete the Starship painting series as well. I will be dropping a guildhall eventually, and deco for it is good. 

Left Aerys logged out in Eisley, so I can buff her and get on with the hunting when I get home from work.

Got home, and logged Aerys in, got her a buff and then server crashed. :( Several hours later, still a no go. I guess that's today's entry done, then.

Bargain Hunting 1/25/2018

Stat boom on Lifa's Mawgax, nothing on the others. Hunted for an hour and 45 minutes, got 18 hydros, so will have a few more 20s to play with. I should do more tomorrow, but for tonight, I need to pass out.

And... three hours left on my incubators, as I ran those sessions just before crashing.

Forgot to note it yesterday, but that 59 pt Rancor egg sold for 100 million, so the Gang has some 226 million creds in the bank. That's lots: plenty enough for me to buy a five piece for Soulei, although it would be cool to start earning hers, once she's leveled up. Also to buy the next couple crates of cans and repro capsules, which I will be needing sooner rather than later. It really was serendiptous timing on the sale of achievement and sale of that Malosaur: we were literally down to about 50k across all toons, and now we're back in the pink. At least I'm rich somewhere. Just paid my bills IRL, and I have very little left over to cover groceries this month. The winter is always slower for my industry, and I definitely am catching up from Christmas.

I just realised I haven't run a single heroic upon coming back to the game. Not even sure I have completed all the prequests, actually. I'm lame. LOL.  Okay, off to work!

...And logged in a couple toons from work. Aerys: Bol 3=0; Osho: Sand Panther 1=0; Benni:  Corellian Butterfly 1=0; Lifa: Bol 1=0.

Grabbed the finished eggs and threw them on the vendor. It occurred to me to do a little market analysis, so I am going to go see what is up on the bazaar and maybe maintain a little list tracking gaps in the market and prices, etc. That will be a different post. I may have to set it up as a spreadsheet (makes sense to track changes over time and such, but that also means learning how to use spreadsheets... well, I do like to learn new things!)

Okay so that's done. Capped pets range between 9 and 35 mill for extractable DNAs, which means someone doesn't know how to set their prices according to what the market will bear. Also, some one was yelling in Eisley that they needed 89.7 % dark blue isomerases, paying 550k each. I did a fast vendor search and popped to four planets and bought out every dark blue under 500k. I need 'em too. Seriously though, learn how search the vendors and be willing to drive around a bit and you don't need to spam Eisley so much.

As it happens, there are huge holes in the market in the Canine, Porcine, Caprine and Elephantine groups, and a few others that don't make sense. Many of the ones with gaps are also mutatable DNAs, so there is significant benefit to hitting those up to load up as eggs onto the vendor.

Also, the devs have added at least one, possibly 3 more app mutations to the game and none of the Caprines and only one of each of the Canines and Elephantines have known mutations. I could easily kill two birds with one stone by testing those DNAs. I also like puppies... and while I don't like goats, it is a crying shame that they are so underused.

Of those in the gap categories, seven are Dathomirian, and four use the lesser-used lyases: Shear Mite and Baz Nitch use yellow, and Purbole and Verne use light blue. I would love the Purbole to become the Kowakian Monkey Lizard, and I am hoping one of the added changes is a Rasp, so I am going to focus on Reptilian Flier as well. I guess I'll be taking Aerys to Dath tonight to collect some DNAs and more hydros to run through the machines.

Welp, spent 100 mill on enzymes and things, including the parts for another Master Tamer's Necklace, for Soulei once she has leveled. Or maybe for Benni... ;)

After sorting the shopping and flipping the processors, which took me a bit longer than it should have, because I kept drifting off half way through a task, I have logged Aerys at Eisely so she can get a buff when I am awake enough to play again. I am going to crawl on into bed and pass out for a few hours. I might be up super early and play before I go to work. Or I might not.

Posting Plans 1/24/2018

No booms on anyone, and I prolly used the wrong combo on Lifa's so I feel dumbs. Threw in the last bitty bit emzymes to process, really really really need to go krayting tonight, and since I had coffee at 3 pm, I will likely be able to do it, as I will not be able to sleep at a more reasonable hour.

So in the vein of incentivising healthy habits, I should probably figure out a reward system for playing this game and getting done the things that I want to. as I accomplish each one, I could reward myself in some way. It's kind of sad that I am even considering incentiving playing a game, like playing a game isn't a reward in and of itself. Well, whatever.

My day to day "grind" in game focuses almost entirely on making mutation attempts. I harvest my own hydros, buy the materials for refining them, chase down my own DNA, buy most of my other enzymes, and focus very little else of my gameplay on any other aspect. I miss certain non-BM or less BM things I used to do, and there are some things I'd very much like to do moving forward, but I am not sure how I should prioritise those.

Soulei: levelling is not easy. I get bored so fast with the pizza runs, and the slow speed of xp gain. perhaps if I made a more concious effort to buff her up, and spend a couple hours grinding out the Legacy sections, it would be less of a slog? I dunno. Very hard to motivate me on this one.

Deco: this was always one of my joys in game, but it is the kind of thing I have to focus on, and don't want to do for too many days at a time. Perhaps an hour a week would be good, I can get a lot done in a short space of time: goal being one room a week? If it gets easier or faster or just flows, I can spend more time on it. I do want all my spaces to be immersive and reflective of each toon's history and personality.

Space: I always wanted to be a good pilot (thanks Stack and DL...) and it occurs to me that if I can get my joystick talking to my laptop, I could even get some practice in, and maybe find a rhythm. Piloting was a skill that eluded me, back in the day, and I'd like to change that.

Rebel: I miss my general rank and my R
eb decor. I want that back. I need to research the least time consuming ways to make that happen, and then farquing well do them. I will never be a hardcore PvPer as Aerys, but it might be a thing that Soulei could do and would enjoy doing. Oh! And battlefields! I think I only ever ran three, and I know there were games I never played.

I do miss resetting the static bases, and I really miss blowing up player bases. Oh the stories I could tell... and have... ( okay, I wanted to link in some old posts but it appears I have to go back over the old blog and blitz out the formatting and most of the pics. that;s sad: that's a lot of work. I may just create a Blast from the Past page on this blog and re-post those stories...)


Events: I would love to host another Beastly Bash at some point. Don't want to plan it till I have a few super nice prizes to give away and some finished decoed spaces and a chance to play around with StoryTeller some more. I'd love to redo the original BM Olympics too. That was such a great idea, and I'm so much more organised and together than I was when I tried to do all of it on my own before.

RP: I really want to establish an RP swoop gang on Corellia. I want to run a group of writer/RPers who contribute little adventure stories... I should put some thought into a website and such for that. I wonder if anyone else might want to contribute to that. So much tempting brain candy here... seriously, if anyone actually reads this blog and this is a thing they might like to mess about with, drop me a line!