Elite Hunt Marks

[ilifin]

Where does it state in-game date? Or do you just track moon cycles?

You can calculate Eorzea's "age" and from that figure out the current date.

[faq]

You can calculate Eorzea's "age" and from that figure out the current date.

This. The calculations are done out of game.

You can also look up at the moon and correlate the phase with this: http://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/time

[Sigmakan]

Seems like you need some sort of in-game reference to calculate the age.

[Niiro]

Can Bs drop logs at an absurdly low rate or was some random guy talking out of his ass?

[Sigmakan]

Someone in a LS of mine said he got one from a B

[Grey Jorildyn]

Poidh

[Arthars]

logs drop from Bs

in your dreams

[Cairthenn]

Witnessed Alectyron popping 4hrs 45min after previous spawn/kill. Brontes popped ~66hrs after previous death as well

[Arthars]

less than 1 hour left to test Mahisha 66 hour respawn time + condition

this better go well

[ilifin]

less than 1 hour left to test Mahisha 66 hour respawn time + condition

this better go well

66h is the MINIMUM that we've observed. Past kills have been after 70h, 67h and 67h respectively.

Seems like you need some sort of in-game reference to calculate the age.

The reference is outside of the game. Eorzea started "existing" from a very specifc timestamp, so all you need to do is to take the current time vs that timestamp and you're good to go. We've got moon phases and the current date along with Eorzea time visible on the Excalibur spreadsheet.

[Arthars]

yea i figured its 66 minimum since theres no way it can pop exactly on the dot. 66H start accepting spawn conditions seems right

which is spot on because it did pop on 67th hour after we start dying from 66th hour onwards

i have been tracking this outer lanno S for past 3 cycles and missed them all after "giving in to sleep" staying up 50+ hours straight

all of them are popped in region of 66 to 70 hour mark too as i tracked history on the JP site which has an app running mob hunts

this time i tried the respawn time in your write up and not surprised it worked. Well done!

[Cairthenn]

Had the main hunting networks on Hyperion going off the windows proposed since last evening. The only inconsistency with the times was Alectyron, which popped 15 minutes later than it was supposed to be able to, so I moved it up to make that the one hour point. However, we have had quite a few pops at the force pop time that would be 5+ over the window if it was somehow timed from the pop rather than the kill.

[ilifin]

Had the main hunting networks on Hyperion going off the windows proposed since last evening. The only inconsistency with the times was Alectyron, which popped 15 minutes later than it was supposed to be able to, so I moved it up to make that the one hour point. However, we have had quite a few pops at the force pop time that would be 5+ over the window if it was somehow timed from the pop rather than the kill.

Are we talking specified spawn time + 60min + 15min? Or did it spawn after specified spawn time + 15m? Since it can spawn anywhere within those 60m after spawn time, usually in increments of 15m for the first 30m, then in 5m increments from 30m (35m, 40m, 45m etc) until 60m hits.

[Cairthenn]

Yes, it spawned specified spawn time + 60 + 15 after previous death.

Edit: Also just had Unktehi spawn ~3:30 after previous kill (it was killed on pop last time, just for argument's sake), which is -15 to proposed window open.

[ilifin]

Yes, it spawned specified spawn time + 60 + 15 after previous death.

Nuts. Was it alive for long? I am at this point assuming that every A rank just simply has a spawn schedule and they ignore player interaction. +15m over those 60m has only happened when we completely missed an A rank due to the zone not being searched. Had a Girtab exceed its 60m window by 8m yesterday and noticed that we'd killed _7_ B ranks had _4_ A ranks within the previous spotting of it. Meaning we didn't actually find it and note a time for it until it'd been up for 7 minutes in the zone. When we'd found it the coil party finders campers of North Shroud had it at 20% health too.

Had a giant question mark over my head for a hour in regards to a Kurrea recently too that spent 60m longer than it should have to spawn, only to find out that someone recorded spotting time data in their own timezone, so it was 1hour off.

[Cairthenn]

It essentially popped on my face and somebody else tagged it within 30 seconds.

[Arthars]

theda spawned exactly 58 hours + fishing time since last death

agrippa 67 hours since last death popped. Our party member opened a grade 5 box and it popped on map. Pretty sure it did not stood there for 1 hour last window because i personally saw it pop in my vicinity last window and zerged down

[ilifin]

It essentially popped on my face and somebody else tagged it within 30 seconds.

Then I have no other explanation other than that you noted the time wrong. Maybe by an hour? Happens.

[Sigmakan]

The reference is outside of the game. Eorzea started "existing" from a very specifc timestamp, so all you need to do is to take the current time vs that timestamp and you're good to go. We've got moon phases and the current date along with Eorzea time visible on the Excalibur spreadsheet.

Yeah, but is that assuming that eorzea "start" corresponds with 1/1 in game? I suppose that's the essence of my question.

[ilifin]

Yeah, but is that assuming that eorzea "start" corresponds with 1/1 in game? I suppose that's the essence of my question.

=((((((N(Now())-25569)*86400))+(14*60*60))-1278885600)-90000)*20.57142857

=(((((N(Now())-25569)*86400))+(14*60*60))-1278975600)*20.57142857

This, with a Google Docs spreadsheet set to pacific time, gives you Eorzea's age in seconds. Modify the bit with 14*60*60 to correspond to how many hours ahead of your spreadsheet Japan is.

Oh, and, you'll have to run modulo on it over and over, from seconds to minutes to hours to days to months, so 60, 60, 24, 32, 12 and then the final value is the amount of years.