Colonization Thread

[Malithar]

I've been checking up on it and today when I checked the Bud of the Swarm info dropped from the top tier down to "picking up steam". So the degradation is in place, it seems to be relatively slow however or possibly it only updates once per tally week.

As much as I'm enjoying SoA, this (nevermind their lack of usefulness and practicality), col. rate, and bivs (though that's getting fixed) seriously lack foresight into the player base. Hopefully they re-evaluate everything soon and make adjustments. Its going to be beyond silly next update when we're colonizing the new areas, and the areas right outside the city fall to all but nothing. They're supposedly changing the reives in the area to be more solo/lowman friendly, but I just don't envision that making much of a difference in the participation in the area.

Can understand that they don't want to make it a process that once we unlock/advance it, that we're done with it, but decay is just set to a silly high degree considering the population of the servers, never mind the amount of that population that actually does Adoulin content. Maybe Bahamut is an outlier, but I still see far more VW, Aby exp farm, seal farm, +2 farms, etc shouts then plasm farms or NM kills.

[Hitou]

It's probably just my play time, but on Siren I almost never see plasm farm shouts. Recently there have been people trying for T4 etc KI but that's about it. Never seen VW shouts anymore either though. Plenty of people shouting for AF3 seal farming though lol. It doesn't help that Siren is like 80% JP. There's lots of shouts in JP for something in morimar. Probably plasm farming or NMs. Can't really join those though since JP usually ignore you if you send them tells and it's not in kana.

[dasva]

Yeah was standing around last night and saw 3 difference vwnm shouts before I went to bed but 1 plasm shout. Not like that helps with colonization though lol. Hell I could rely on Mstaru's WoE shouts more than plasm lol

[Malithar]

Hell I could rely on Mstaru's WoE shouts more than plasm lol

Go join Lightningz VW shouts. I hear they're worth the two hour gather for the entertainment value alone. :D

[Fwahm]

Sylph has tons of plasm shouts every day, to the detriment of anything else (except the occasional delve NM shout).

I often see 2 or 3 people shouting simultanously for different groups in the evening.

[Odin'sLaw]

Sylph has tons of plasm shouts every day, to the detriment of anything else (except the occasional delve NM shout).

I often see 2 or 3 people shouting simultanously for different groups in the evening.

just never join a Remimme shout oh boy there the best for lols but worst for farming

[dasva]

ergon loci research seems to be instaneous or at most game day. Can't say right now if it's turning it in or hitting it but I started with 1 yet to be conducted did 4X on 3 mules rq and it was at just begun at the end of it. So doesn't look like it takes much to lvl them up either

[dasva]

To follow up on this it appears that research into ergon loci seems odd. All of them are exactly what they were when I checked a few days ago and yesterday... including the one I lvld up yesterday being right back at not yet begun. At first I thought maybe just first lvl decays really fast but seeing as there were some other just beguns that can't be it... idk maybe thinking eitehr I was seeing things when I saw it lvl or it's basically constantly decaying a little but I was/am on the threshold and it takes alot. Guess I may have to go to a very far out one to really test lol

[Malithar]

Which assignment are you doing? Hitting Scouts up next to take to Contributor, figure another spammer might help get some results. Or at least another set of eyes so you don't doubt what you saw. ^_~

[dasva]

I was doing Survey: Foret de Hennetiel. And given the fact bivouac 1 was down I decided to do Dragon Driftwood.

[Gwynplaine]

I've been checking up on it and today when I checked the Bud of the Swarm info dropped from the top tier down to "picking up steam". So the degradation is in place, it seems to be relatively slow however or possibly it only updates once per tally week.

Haven't been checking it every day, first time checking it since this quoted post: bud of the swarm ergon locus has now degraded all the way to "yet to be conducted". Just posting for the sake of FYI to gauge the rate of ergon locus degradation.

[dasva]

Ok semi update just did dragon driftwood again and checked right before turning in and right after and yep went up. Only took 4 to get from no yet conducted to just begun but who knows might have some leftover from someone else or from my last runs. If any of these turn out to be useful for something (doubtful but who knows) it seems it might be possible to just get ls together to spam it up right before events or possibly try to maintain 1

Edit: also 2 of the just beguns have degraded to nod yet so except the driftwood I did everything is either not yet conducted or exceptionally far lol. Wonder if once they get exceptional theys top going down?

Edit 2: checked again after game day change still lvld up

[dasva]

Welp my loci is already back down to has yet to be conducted. And given I thru 33 imps at after I lvld it up (and might have over did it a little when doing it) and my characters have only gained a little over 6 imps since I lvld it up doesn't look like I can do itwith just 3 characters unless it's times you do it instead of number of imps used. Assuming no one else was messing with it and it counts imps looks like it decays at 1 per hour. Guess I'll try feeding it one at a time now

[dasva]

So update had a friend throw some imps at it. From his reports it seems like it counts the number of assignments rather than imps used. He used 1 imp each time I used 3. He got it to just beginning after 4 while I got it to just begining after 4 runs. Another 16 imps/runs after he saw it was at gathering steam while when I did it I used another 33imps but only 11 runs it was still at just begun... well about to play with it again to see. Might be possible to get it up by myself after all

Edit: Just did first three and before turning them in went to gathering steam... either it happens before turning them in or dragon driftwood is getting popular
Edit 2 : yeah just did a couple more and before turning in went up to splendid... so either this is really popular or it's before turn in and doesn't take much and it's number of assignments
Edit 3: hmmm just had it go up after turning in this time. Also I thought there was only 5 levels. So far on this I've had yet to be conducted, just begining, gaining steam, going splendidly, and now it's at great degree and now got it to exceptionally far. Odd I was able to go all the way from lvl 2 to 6 didn't use up all my tags either. Like used around 30 i think

[Gwynplaine]

Also I thought there was only 5 levels. So far on this I've had yet to be conducted, just begining, gaining steam, going splendidly, and now it's at great degree and now got it to exceptionally far. Odd I was able to go all the way from lvl 2 to 6 didn't use up all my tags either. Like used around 30 i think

It used to be 5 and then one mini update ninjad changes and adjusted the messages and added another up to 6. I've been considering doing this on the test server since like most likely no one else would do that and it's controlled, but just takes time and /lazy.

[dasva]

Yeah I'm just going to try something really out of the way and annoying next like idk cirdas lol

[Gwynplaine]

Both Cirdas ergon locus are behind Reives so that would really be annoying D:

[dasva]

Yeah that's why I figure no one else would interfere. Though I suppose test server might be best so you can test the tinctures too. But god is it annoying to get on that let alone with 3 accounts lol

[Buffy]

What is the advantage to having the Ergon Locus 'levelled up'?

[Seha]

I believe it makes associated tinctures more powerful.