2025: IS max rank 50 10,900,000xp required

[Deo14]

Try it without using the spreadsheet or hiring the mammets to tend the cropland and pasture.

If you're not getting much out of it, it's because you're letting other sources handle most of the content engagement instead of doing it yourself.

IS straight up has system for automation of pasture and cropland. Why would we not use it?

As for workshop, I really did try to do it myself for the first time, but that shit is garbage. In workshop, you need to go to the Review Supply & Demand window, you need to watch some guide because game doesn't even tell you exactly what does each parameter mean. So now you need to look for some good item. You find it, you close the window, you click Add button in workshop, another window popups (which for some reason uses regular UI skin, so for me it's blue, while last window has that IS exclusive look). Then you need to find that item. Add it to timeline and back to the step 1 for the next items. And after you're done, you need to copy all of these items to the other workshops.

So I'll rather just copy some spreadsheet than to go through this hassle. I really don't see why we still cannot have supply and demand window open with the other windows.

[Ayche]

You can now right click in workshop and select items straight from the statistics screen.
Workshopping is now a lot more fluid after the 6.3 improvements.
(I think it was 6.3, or was it 6.2, don't remember).

[Seraphor]

IS straight up has system for automation of pasture and cropland. Why would we not use it?

Because it costs cowries and doesn't reward EXP?

If you've reached max rank then carry on, but at that point you've likely exhausted the system and you're just farming cowries anyway.

I really don't see why we still cannot have supply and demand window open with the other windows.

When did you last engage with this system? Supply and demand stats have been displayed on the same screen you schedule them for a while now. Just pick the items with the highest predicted demand within the same categories for the first couple days, then the items with the highest predicted demand and highest value for the last couple days, of each week.

[Seraphor]

I think they will keep adding more content after 6.5. People enjoy the content. Unlike ishgard restoration where once we rebuilt the homes it was done or bozja where once you defeat the lady its pretty much over. The benefit of this is there is many ideas they could still do. They could add more islands. More animals. More systems, I would like to see maybe something like breeding animals,cooking minigame,treasure hunting (its a secluded island. Has to be something here) Maybe they could finally give us blitzball as a island game since there is water everywhere.

They could also update Squadrons, or the Companion system, or Chocobo Racing, or they could have given us a new Restoration, or a new zone like Eureka/Bozja.
But they didn't. They don't tend to rehash content.
If it's really the best thing they have to invest those resources in, they will likely make a new Island (or equivalent) for 7.X, but it'll be a brand new location, new system, and have no connection to the existing Island. Because it needs to be 'new' to draw in players, and to allows those who haven't already grinded 20 ranks in Island Sanctuary to be able to jump right into it.

[Deo14]

Because it costs cowries and doesn't reward EXP?

If you've reached max rank then carry on, but at that point you've likely exhausted the system and you're just farming cowries anyway.

You need to manually cancel caretaking for 20 animals and 20 plants whenever there is level cap increase. Once you level cap, you need to reassign all 40 things again. I've checked and this is still required after 9 months. We got collect all button, why not cancel all, or even better, temporarily pause all caretaking?

When did you last engage with this system? Supply and demand stats have been displayed on the same screen you schedule them for a while now. Just pick the items with the highest predicted demand within the same categories for the first couple days, then the items with the highest predicted demand and highest value for the last couple days, of each week.

First and last time was when it was released. But I already have my presets. I don't care about min maxing, and frankly, I don't even care about IS at this point, so I just put in my outdated presets in (assuming I don't forget about whole IS for multiple weeks) and don't bother. One would expect that at least main activity on the island would be fully functional on release.

[Voidedge_Ragna]

Because it costs cowries and doesn't reward EXP?

Its still a net profit to be lazy, sure you can spent hours to hit 16 faster and then wait 4 months and 2 weeks or you dont spent hours and get it done and wait 4 months and 1 week.

The Mammets costing cowries is true but if you kept up with it by entering every >2< weeks, you by now have so many leaving, rare mats and produce that you can select "sell all over 200" and have about 60k-80k cowries in those categories, which is almost enough to instantly buy all rewards without even having to do the workshop once and guess what, by the time 6.5 comes around ... the same thing happens again.

[Seraphor]

Its still a net profit to be lazy, sure you can spent hours to hit 16 faster and then wait 4 months and 2 weeks or you dont spent hours and get it done and wait 4 months and 1 week.

The Mammets costing cowries is true but if you kept up with it by entering every >2< weeks, you by now have so many leaving, rare mats and produce that you can select "sell all over 200" and have about 60k-80k cowries in those categories, which is almost enough to instantly buy all rewards without even having to do the workshop once and guess what, by the time 6.5 comes around ... the same thing happens again.

Hours? I'm playing most days anyway, it takes about 3 minutes to collect from all the animals, and about 5 minutes every 2-3 days to collect and sow all the crops. You get 1000 EXP a day for the animals, and 2400 EXP every 2-3 days for the crops, which isn't something to be sniffed at when everything else gives you 10 EXP a pop.

And unless you want loads of cowries (I've bought everything I want already) then IS is dead once you hit rank cap anyway.