The Flame Geode Thread...... Again.

[RAIST]

I thought OK Let me see what happens. I got to Cape Teriggan at 1:12, as my level 99 thf/dnc and farmed flame geodes.
No weather happened.
Flame Geode 0
0:32 into earth day 1 soil geode.
Please fix this..

You made emp mystic and relic out of reach for me. As well as the next best thing. Games should be fun and this isn't.

In-game date was 11/13 and 11/14---half-way into the fall season, so cooler weather patterns are more prominent now. You just missed the two days fire weather was actually in the forecast (Windsday and Lightsday, 11/09 and 11/11 respectively). There may be some more odd occurrences that crop up...have a few dates noted that should still be accurate for this in-game calendar year:

12/17, Watersday in Kuzots (07:09 Eastern on Sept. 6)
12/30 Darksday in Kuzots (19:38 Eastern on Sept. 6)

If these game days also hold true like the others I've recently checked on, it may pop again on these days as well:

01/21, Iceday in Kuzots (15:48 Eastern on Sept. 7)
01/25, Firesday in Volbow (19:38 Eastern on Sept. 7)
01/27, Watersday in Volbow (21:33 Eastern on Sept. 7)

Granted, these may well be very short cycles for some of these forecasts because it is "off-season weather"...but the point is it follows a predictable pattern if one takes the time to track it. So far during the past 3 weeks, it has been a 100% match for the last 10 specific dates I have checked against in my notes from the last time I specifically hunted weather/days for geodes for a friend a few months back.

Not saying the system in general couldn't use some tweaking, but there IS a way to mitigate some of these problems IF you are willing to put in the effort.

[kewitt]

In-game date was 11/13 and 11/14---half-way into the fall season, so cooler weather patterns are more prominent now. You just missed the two days fire weather was actually in the forecast (Windsday and Lightsday, 11/09 and 11/11 respectively). There may be some more odd occurrences that crop up...have a few dates noted that should still be accurate for this in-game calendar year:

12/17, Watersday in Kuzots (07:09 Eastern on Sept. 6)
12/30 Darksday in Kuzots (19:38 Eastern on Sept. 6)

If these game days also hold true like the others I've recently checked on, it may pop again on these days as well:

01/21, Iceday in Kuzots (15:48 Eastern on Sept. 7)
01/25, Firesday in Volbow (19:38 Eastern on Sept. 7)
01/27, Watersday in Volbow (21:33 Eastern on Sept. 7)

Granted, these may well be very short cycles for some of these forecasts because it is "off-season weather"...but the point is it follows a predictable pattern if one takes the time to track it. So far during the past 3 weeks, it has been a 100% match for the last 10 specific dates I have checked against in my notes from the last time I specifically hunted weather/days for geodes for a friend a few months back.

Not saying the system in general couldn't use some tweaking, but there IS a way to mitigate some of these problems IF you are willing to put in the effort.

So I'm need to plan my life around FFXI I think not. FFXI is something to do when I got free time not something I do because I have to get something done in. Sorry I don't mind spending time farming on fireday for 1 hour every few days when I log in and it's darkday. To get zero geodes sucks for something I should be able to build up 2-5 per fireday easy. That would still take me more then a month.

If I had hours and hours to play and get people to do things I would go after a mystic or emp or relic.

Honestly I hear people in my LS coming out of Dynamis daily with 100-150 dynamis money, atleast at that rate I could see the goal of a relic coming out of it. Farming flame geodes I don't see the goal because it seems to take so much effort for so little gain.

Nothing is out of reach, you'r just lazy.

Please explain how it's lazy to spend 1 hour and get no results. Your adding nothing to the discussion other then trolling and it isn't helpful.

[RAIST]

So I'm need to plan my life around FFXI I think not

Why do people jump to this stance so quickly....

no, not saying you need to plan your life around FFXI...but if you are looking for specific weather to speed things up, there are ways to know in advance when it is likely (or even for certain) to occur and you can plan your play sessions accordingly. If you know your weather prospects aren't good this week, but may be next week....you can plan to try to take advantage of it when your chances are best vs. spinning your wheels when you have the worst window of opportunity.

For instance, I already know that tomorrow there is a pretty decent shot at getting fire weather on firesday in the Cape during early evening for me (just before 8PM), and another shot a few hours later on watersday, just before midnight. So... I know if I'm going to be farting around Friday night in game, I have two shots at catching some weather TOMORROW night.

I actually knew this 2 weeks ago, because I tracked the dates in the past, and I saw the pattern repeating itself back then---if it is indeed holding true, than I also know I have a shot at it again on Saturday (my day off) for Lightningsday in Kuzots just before 4PM. If I am going to be on, I already know I can hit QSC for some GOV tabs and go for flame geodes if I needed them. Same goes for 6PM Monday, and a two day window on Tuesday from 4:45 to 6:40--when I would be coming home from work, so I may still be able to hop on and catch a window if I wanted.

The point is there are ways to help you make the most of your time....it just takes a little forethought instead of just haphazardly trying to catch it randomly. At the very least, one can use the weather reporting at the bazaar site for a couple hours notice of when weather may be popping, or to track when the more opportune windows are coming up (like fire's pattern starts ramping frequency up in about a week, making it a good time to watch for fire around the weekend of the 14th).

Edit: as predicted last night... fire is indeed in the forecast for Darksday (19:38-20:36 Eastern) for Kuzots, still in-line with the pattern I took notes on back in March 2012.