Island Sanctuary: Rest Cycles? Why?

[littlehobbit13]

Again, what reason is there to be stuck on the island? What activity on the island warrants all of our time as it is currently? I spend around maybe 15 minutes on my island per day and thats being generous.

I've spent literal hours on my island while doing roulettes. Just chilling. Enjoying the atmosphere without getting FC recruitment spam or limsa piss chat or tells about someone giving away gil because they're leaving the game. It's MY space. Being able to come back to the calm of my island was rejuvenating after hours of unsuccessful pf Savage prog attempts. It is a joy to go tearing around my island on Fatter Cat with its rushed pitter patter, hilariously launching myself off ledges to see what kind of distance I can get. I love going down to the beach on a clear day/night and just enjoying the view. If I bring all my mats with me, I can even spend time crafting there without anyone bothering me (or standing on me). I do a lot of content with other people, and the island gives me a change of pace for when I want a break but would like to keep playing.

If you don't view the island purely as a set of daily tasks to be performed, there are plenty of reasons to hang out there for more than 15 minutes.

Personally, I see the Islands coming from the same place as the patch release extension from 3.5 months to 4. Self-care and occasionally slowing down is important, and it's clearly important to Yoshi-P and the Devs to enact those values a bit through the game.

And as for the rest cycles, I think it's just intended to be another element of the workshop minigame, where you have to plan for them in your production efforts. (That, or it's a keen reminder to respect our robot workers so you survive their eventual uprising.)

[Themarvin]

Adapt to it... resistance is futile.

[JamieRose]

But why not have rest days? It can give players time to set up a game plan of getting materials and deciding what to make for the week. The rest days can be changed from week to week so you can fit it to your schedule to when you want it like maybe you might not have much computer time tues or wed because of work so you can just make them the rest day. Not to mention the island sanctuary isnt a race so the stuff available arent going anywhere any time soon so plenty of time to get them cowries.

Personal choice? I mean the way the system is set up you could skip any number days voluntarily. Here I'm being forced to do so because the devs were thinking...
You know I have no idea what the devs were thinking.

I just think it should be up to the player to decide how to approach this sort of content and not have arbitrary limitations foisted upon them.

[hynaku]

I want fire the worthless mammets. Why do robot mammets get 2 days off but your retainers never get a day off and there alive. Rest time needs to be done away with. Not like I need the mammets anymore since i'm max rank and have all items now.

[TaleraRistain]

Given the speed that you get the rare materials, it helps to build up a stock. Two days off is 16 more units of rare goods you have to work with. It's not about keeping the cowry count down, but giving us a chance to make those better items to try and hit that 17k mark.

Also makes it a bit more of a challenge. Now you have to get that 17k in 5 cycles instead of 7. I think that factored into rest days as well. Like putting the square in the middle of Red Girl, maybe that made the cowrie acquisition too high so the achievement may not have meant as much.

For the topic of the island itself and longevity, everyone interacts with content in this game to their own level. SE did say that this was casual, solo, do-at-your-own-pace content. It does have some things like the workshops if someone wants to play with min/max on that. But I can't see where they gave the impression this was something that would last for months and months and keep us busy for hours a day every day for that long. All content ends at some point, sooner rather than later for those who engage more. And then we have to find our own reasons to engage or interact with it while also engaging with other activities.

[Valfreyja]

Didn't read all this.

What time gating? The workshop has been cracked. People are pulling in 20k cowries a season for this. Rest Cycles are a joke. Set first on Tuesdays and adjust the other through the week to a poor value day. Simple.

Season 2 was enough to get me Trader of Paradise and the motorcycle, Season 3 is also finishing at 21k+ and I've already bought the outfit pieces.

[SamSmoot]

I spend a lot of time where waiting for the weather and time to combine and enable the last couple rare animals. Once I have them all, I may automate the garden and pasture again, collecting the drops only once a week to minimize the awful repetitive collection interface.
I suppose it'll serve as a good source of gathering and crafting materia if I ever decide to get back into that grind again.

[Jojoya]

'To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand island sanctuary...'

No, you need to be capable of slowing down and relaxing instead of running around doing everything as fast as possible.

That doesn't take a high IQ. That takes common sense (which as they say is not common).

Again, take a good look at those who are happy with the content versus those who aren't. Those who aren't almost exclusively rushed to reach rank 10 and then said "now what?".

[Vahlnir]

No, you need to be capable of slowing down and relaxing instead of running around doing everything as fast as possible.

That doesn't take a high IQ. That takes common sense (which as they say is not common).

Again, take a good look at those who are happy with the content versus those who aren't. Those who aren't almost exclusively rushed to reach rank 10 and then said "now what?".

Meanwhile I hit rank 10 last evening and this has been out like, 4 weeks. People really need to chill and just...enjoy things sometimes.

[Boblawblah]

No, you need to be capable of slowing down and relaxing instead of running around doing everything as fast as possible.

That doesn't take a high IQ. That takes common sense (which as they say is not common).

Again, take a good look at those who are happy with the content versus those who aren't. Those who aren't almost exclusively rushed to reach rank 10 and then said "now what?".

people seem happy to afk for days on end, that doesn't make it good content.