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jecca_mehlota) wrote2009-03-15 05:20 pm
jecca_mehlota) wrote2009-03-15 05:20 pm
You can see now.
I don't think I mentioned that I finally finished setting up my room. So now all the lights are plugged in and working and the stereo isn't on the floor. AWESOME. And I taught my Dell to open .PDFs since teaching this thing to print is apparently outside the realm of possible things. VISTA. WHY. LEXMARK YOUR SITE IS SO USELESS. I can't get the Dell to connect to the internet, so I had to download Adobe's install on this machine, then transfer it to my old one. It was a bit annoying. I need a fax machine. A thousand curses upon Sundays.
Lately, I have found a new mind-numbing activity.
Fishing.
Yeah, that's right. Fishing.
No, not ice fishing. Online. FFXI. The usual.
It is the slowest skilling 'craft' in the history of everything. It really is. My brother's trying to get to 30 so he can try to catch a special fish to try and get a special item to try and fight a bunch of monsters to hope to get an extremely rare drop. It's taking a while. Aniko's fishing, too, and I, being bored and curious and mostly for lack of anything better to do, decided, why not? So now we all fish, but not all in the same places or at the same times. Aniko's collecting carp for a special item. I am also collecting carp, because that is what you catch at my level of fishing. Then I move on to ... also carp, but in a different area. All right!
Sometime in the last, uh, five years, anyway, they changed the fishing system! This is a good indicator of how much attention I pay to the updates and how well I keep track of what happens when. I have no idea. My brother only just noticed the boat time NPC in Mhaura (he's been there for a few years), and he asked me if there was one in Selbina and I couldn't tell him. Anyway, they changed fishing at some point, but I can't remember if the new way is really any better or worse, but apparently some people find the fatigue aspect of it annoying. Lemme tell you. I am sick of fishing long before my Mithra can't catch anything more.
SO YES.
FISHING.
my carp. let me show you them.
Ways to tell SquareEnix hates their player base: to get the super awesome fishing pole, you must collect carp. Oh, that is not hard!
Guess how many carp.
No, really. Guess how many carp.
50? No, not quite.
100? No, higher.
... 500. No, actually, it's a bit more.
..... 1000?? Nope, higher, still! Guess again!
TEN THOUSAND CARP.
F.U.S.E. IS A WAY OF LIFE.
If this entry weren't too long already, I'd talk about yesterday's Transformers: Animated, but as it is, I probably don't have anything to say that hasn't been said already.
Lately, I have found a new mind-numbing activity.
Fishing.
Yeah, that's right. Fishing.
No, not ice fishing. Online. FFXI. The usual.
It is the slowest skilling 'craft' in the history of everything. It really is. My brother's trying to get to 30 so he can try to catch a special fish to try and get a special item to try and fight a bunch of monsters to hope to get an extremely rare drop. It's taking a while. Aniko's fishing, too, and I, being bored and curious and mostly for lack of anything better to do, decided, why not? So now we all fish, but not all in the same places or at the same times. Aniko's collecting carp for a special item. I am also collecting carp, because that is what you catch at my level of fishing. Then I move on to ... also carp, but in a different area. All right!
Sometime in the last, uh, five years, anyway, they changed the fishing system! This is a good indicator of how much attention I pay to the updates and how well I keep track of what happens when. I have no idea. My brother only just noticed the boat time NPC in Mhaura (he's been there for a few years), and he asked me if there was one in Selbina and I couldn't tell him. Anyway, they changed fishing at some point, but I can't remember if the new way is really any better or worse, but apparently some people find the fatigue aspect of it annoying. Lemme tell you. I am sick of fishing long before my Mithra can't catch anything more.
SO YES.
FISHING.
my carp. let me show you them.
Ways to tell SquareEnix hates their player base: to get the super awesome fishing pole, you must collect carp. Oh, that is not hard!
Guess how many carp.
No, really. Guess how many carp.
50? No, not quite.
100? No, higher.
... 500. No, actually, it's a bit more.
..... 1000?? Nope, higher, still! Guess again!
TEN THOUSAND CARP.
F.U.S.E. IS A WAY OF LIFE.
If this entry weren't too long already, I'd talk about yesterday's Transformers: Animated, but as it is, I probably don't have anything to say that hasn't been said already.
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Approximately how long does it take to catch one carp?
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...You can "only" catch about 200 fish - all carp if you use the right bait, fishing pole, and if you're in the right places - per Earth day (clock resets at Japanese midnight). It takes about six hours to reach your fishing limit (so says my brother. I've never lasted that long).
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It takes about six hours to reach your fishing limit
...so ten thousand carp would take about three hundred hours, or twelve and a half solid days, of fishing.
...does anyone ever get the super awesome fishing rod?
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Surprisingly, yes! Some people are even crazy enough to have multiple characters for fishing, log one in after the last has finished. I cannot begin to fathom having that much free time. (It was probably more common for people to finish the quest before they changed fishing, because it was easier to use a bot program to fish for you.)