Ruby lights on high tier WS

[Harukusan]

Ruby is good for capping gold/silver lights when exp is needed, but when those lights which can only be obtained through red boxes are capped, ruby tends to be more of a hassle than a helper by limiting the amount of blue boxes that can be obtained. What is to be gained when all lights are capped and you are still getting an overabundance of ruby pyxides? You can't build lights beyond their limit. It would be nice if azure/amber had a much higher cap so you can farm TE/exp/cruor/ki/etc without so many red boxes floating about. Self-restraint is the only answer to avoiding this problem. Earlier today while solo faming and working on trials, I had ruby built only half way, while azure was capped, and still seemed to be getting an equal amount (if not slightly more) red boxes, when they aren't even necessary. TE boxes seemed to be something of a myth that only occasionally appeared when I was nearly timing out. Stones aren't an issue, but I rather not have to break my chains to leave and re-up time.

[rog]

If you were ever in danger of timing out then the answer is to suck less. I always cap all lights, and get around 20-30 TEs per hour, solo.

[Korpg]

If you were ever in danger of timing out then the answer is to suck less. I always cap all lights, and get around 20-30 TEs per hour, solo.

Is this also when you get that emp weapon in less than a day?

[rog]

Is this also when you get that emp weapon in less than a day?

Obviously that is impossible, and i would never even suggest such a ridiculous thing. Not sure what you are going on about.

[Korpg]

Obviously that is impossible, and i would never even suggest such a ridiculous thing. Not sure what you are going on about.

Sure you don't...

[rog]

Sure you don't...

"finally finished on the fifth day". I never said started+finished in one day. A good portion of it would be done by another group on the first day while exping. Duh.

[Capn]

This really didn't warrent a thread... No personal requests...

[Greatguardian]

Jesus Christ, all this because he said any competent player with a pulse can infini-time solo even with all lights capped?

Protip: They can. It is nowhere near the realm of "POIDH", or "Getting 90 and an Emp in a day". Staying in Abyssea is stupid amounts of easy and any half-decent player, on any job, can make positive time if they need to.

Will shitty, inefficient jobs be stuck farming time more often than fighting NMs? Possibly.

Can they still hit a positive net gain in time? Absolutely.

[Harukusan]

Wow... Never said I never got time boxes farming solo... Learn to read Rog. I only stated that they were far and few between, was just bad luck, but I never timed out.

Also, this thread has gone so far off topic it's ridiculous. (then again, what thread hasn't been thrown out to oblivion when certain people jump in to share their "opinions?")