So I got the IS motorcycle and am island level 10.... Now what?

[Asari5]

did i miss something? how does a grind make GOOD content? it makes it more, not better

[Darthgummibear]

Mines still not rank 10. I must be super casual then lol

I seriously wasn't even trying. I wasn't one of those nutjobs who went around farming until I looked like an extra from The Walking Dead. It was almost entirely xp from things you would be doing anyway, like upgrading buildings, the expansions, workshop stuff, etc. The only part of the whole process that took any actual time on my part was collecting materials to build stuff. The rest was just waiting on the game.

[Boblawblah]

I didn't grind for island xp at all, and hit rank 10 in about two weeks, and as other people said, it's now maintenance mode, with only an hour or so every two weeks, and I get 10k cowries a week. The only 'grind' was gathering the materials to upgrade the buildings as soon as I could, but that wasn't too bad. I think rank 8 was the worst because I had to upgrade 5 - 6 buildings. But that wasn't even a few hours to do that.

If people are complaining about grinding in IS, then I have to wonder what you think about leveling alt jobs. Talk about doing the same thing over and over again.

[Iscah]

I feel like there needed to be way more detail in the farming side of things. Building suitable habitats for the animals you're keeping, feeding them the right type of food, giving us EXP for feeding them the right food so it doesn't feel like effort for no benefit while levelling.

Crafting items should ultimately end up benefitting the farm and the sanctuary, rather than everything feeding into the crafting that is simply exported.

[Atelier-Bagur]

It wasn't even much of a "grind". I went at it pretty casually and I was level 10 in less than two weeks after launch. In less than 4 weeks after launch, I had the bike and both hairstyles. This is with using a couple templates I made up for my workshop queues. No micromanagement whatsoever. My island is now basically in maintenance mode with mammets managing everything and I only stop in once a week to collect things and top off materials if I need to.

There's nothing to it. No substance. For me at least, if they don't add a lot more to it it's never going to be anything more than a passive source of glamour prisms and a few dyes. And this is supposed to be the big feature of the expansion.

If thats the case then yeah Im gonna be on that copium that it gets feature updates in later patches then

[Azuri]

PvP players were also expecting that new content will be added every patch cycle. How well that went...

This is going the way of Chocobo Racing. Btw, does anyone remember the last time they added something to Gold Saucer?

[Atelier-Bagur]

PvP players were also expecting that new content will be added every patch cycle. How well that went...

This is going the way of Chocobo Racing. Btw, does anyone remember the last time they added something to Gold Saucer?

Gold....what..?

[Azuri]

Gold....what..?

For the "but you need to take it slow" clown you seem to have ignored one of the most casual meme pieces of content in the game.

[Knot_D]

The real mount is the mandragoras, not that stinky bike

[einschwartz]

Basically two options after you've reached max rank and gotten all the items from shop.
1) Don't bother with the island and do something else.
2) Continue on generating cowries (no matter the amount) to stock up in case they add more items in the future.