OMG do not try to catch animals with all your animal "Under care"!!!!

[Bukachu]

The alligator requires both weather and time of day to meet certain requirements, so the window it's available in real time might be weird depending on time zones

What I meant is, is in game weather somehow dependant on IRL timing?

[Aluja89]

What I meant is, is in game weather somehow dependant on IRL timing?

Yes, it's on a schedule and it's bugged.

So, we use this:
https://www.lalachievements.com/islands/

[Deveryn]

Yes, it's on a schedule and it's bugged.

So, we use this:
https://www.lalachievements.com/islands/

It's not bugged anymore. They fixed it in .21


As for what happened, that's all on the OP. A space should've been left open if there was something you're after.

[Iscah]

I make it a point to tend to the pasture and crops before anything else precisely for this sort of thing.
I also wouldn't use the automated care option either. It's 200 cowries a day and saves you basically 60s.

It saves 60 seconds per day (plus travel time) but you only need to collect every ten days at minimum, or every twenty days for crops.

Collecting animal leavings is only worth the money if you're crafting with them, though.

Yes, the weather cycles are based on IRL time, not Eorzean. So if you want to hit certain weather conditions you have to get lucky that it falls in a window you're available to log in.

It's not that it's "real time rather than Eorzean" but that regardless of how the weather is tracked, you need to wait for the right combination of day/night cycle and weather, which can happen at inconvenient real-world times.

The game weather is primarily tied to the Eorzean clock, with weather changes at 8am, 4pm and midnight ET.

[Packetdancer]

As for what happened, that's all on the OP. A space should've been left open if there was something you're after.

If you'd previously caught something and picked an animal to release from the capture interface, I can easily see someone planning to not release an animal until they caught the rare one to replace it. That works just fine when not using the caregiver, and I don't think it says anywhere that putting an animal under care prevents it from being released when a new one is captured.

And given the high likelihood that you don't catch the rare, why give up several more days of leavings? If the animal gets away, it could be days before another weather window is open at the right time, plus the next window that does open might be while you're at work or at 3am, or whatever. Leaving the animal in place until you have the guaranteed replacement is a reasonable choice to make, especially because -- based on a player's experience prior to unlocking the caregivers -- there's no reason not to.

I don't use the caregivers, but I suspect I might've assumed the same thing as OP: it had always worked before to pick which animal to release at time of capture, so why would you necessarily assume it wouldn't do so any longer? I mean, it's not the end of the world, but it's not a terrible "hey, heads-up, this does not work the way you might expect" to share with other players.

[Aluja89]

It's not bugged anymore. They fixed it in .21


As for what happened, that's all on the OP. A space should've been left open if there was something you're after.

Uh no, you can do it without any mammets assigned so it's on SE. Nowhere does it say you're limited once they're assigned.

[Deveryn]

Uh no, you can do it without any mammets assigned so it's on SE. Nowhere does it say you're limited once they're assigned.

I disagree. It would be a common sense move to make room for something, even more so to not have something in care to overwrite. It says right in the caretaking help section how you go about ending the service, but I guess more needs to be spelled out.

[Aluja89]

I disagree. It would be a common sense move to make room for something, even more so to not have something in care to overwrite. It says right in the caretaking help section how you go about ending the service, but I guess more needs to be spelled out.

Of course you'd disagree, like the good little zealot you are.

https://gyazo.com/7e4f96a1a0c80d1cb6630e0e30125d27
https://gyazo.com/5b482611fd653ab1b19871af288c2b0a

Nowhere. Sit down.

[Deveryn]

Of course you'd disagree, like the good little zealot you are.

https://gyazo.com/7e4f96a1a0c80d1cb6630e0e30125d27
https://gyazo.com/5b482611fd653ab1b19871af288c2b0a

Nowhere. Sit down.

Your illiteracy is showing.

I'm a zealot, but you're the one fighting a common sense argument It becomes a matter of just how much hand holding needs to be done with this game and for such a simple feature. The alligator isn't even necessary for anything. It's just an aesthetic. You can get the materials some other way. I already conceded that they could add a little more text, but you want to overlook that to try and take digs at me. Try that petty bullshit with someone else.

So if you fail to catch the alligator and it runs off but there's still like 10 minutes left in the weather window, you can go back to Moraby and then return to your island, and the alligator will be there again. Which is a detail that likely comes too late to be useful to OP, alas, but if someone else misses the alligator for the same reason -- e.g., you couldn't release an animal -- you could quickly go free up a slot, leave the island, and return to make another attempt before the window ended.

I tried for another shot at something post patch and it wasn't there, so that's fixed too.