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

[Skivvy]

So you were maxed out on pasture animals when you went out to catch the gator? If i knew i was going out to catch an animal i always made it a point to release the animal first only because i assumed catch or not i would loose it because there wast room. That being said did you lose the gator because you coulnt release the animal on the first try or was it because you had the max amount of animals in the first place.

Catching additional animals with a full pasture isn't an issue normally as the game will give you a prompt asking which animal you want to release in order to accept the new catch.

Those mammets though, they seem to have other ideas.

[Bsrking5]

If all of your animals are under care, give up catching any rares. It will run away before you get a chance to end the caretaker and go over to catch it.

[Seraphor]

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.

[LianaThorne]

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

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.

[Jeeqbit]

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

It's based on the number of seconds since 1970 like your computer time is, so even the alligator spawns a few decades from now could be predicted.

[xenahawk]

Catching additional animals with a full pasture isn't an issue normally as the game will give you a prompt asking which animal you want to release in order to accept the new catch.

Those mammets though, they seem to have other ideas.

Awe good to know, like i said not knowing that just had me in the habit of releasing an animal before i left. Granted something like that happening once is all it takes to learn it.

[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.

[Raoabolic]

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.

Joke's on you, I only have roughly 60s a day to play XIV so it works out perfectly~!
Besides, when you are raking in 600+ crowns a day, paying for NPCs to automate a facebook game is a pittance. I COULD have gotten my bike earlier but this game already coerces me enough to log in daily so it works out in my case, lol.

[Seraphor]

Joke's on you, I only have roughly 60s a day to play XIV so it works out perfectly~!
Besides, when you are raking in 600+ crowns a day, paying for NPCs to automate a facebook game is a pittance. I COULD have gotten my bike earlier but this game already coerces me enough to log in daily so it works out in my case, lol.

Fair enough if your time is that restricted. But it's not difficult to click on each animal/pasture once a day.

It's 1400 a week, 2800 if you throw in crops as well.
2800 thrown away to automate HALF of a process. You still need to click on each animal in the menu.