Superstition Poll

[nitsuj]

I'm just curious how you people operate. I know there is no proven link other than superstition, and I don't intend to open those floodgates.

I'm just curious.

Myself, I'm 100 +3+3 alchemy with signboard, and I typically do my dark crystal synths only on full moon lightsday. I don't REALLY believe that it matters, but it has never steered me wrong...

How about you?

Sath?

[Sin Harvest]

I ignore moon day weather completely, but I tend to face w/e way just because, in fact I find it bad luck to even see what moon phase it is before I craft.

I also only craft in 1's or 3's. odd.....

[Klutz]

When I crafted. I would always drink Dr. Pepper. Never steered me wrong. Except when using Behe Hides. *Shakes fist*

[cdgreg]

I ignore moon day weather completely, but I tend to face w/e way just because, in fact I find it bad luck to even see what moon phase it is before I craft.

I also only craft in 1's or 3's. odd.....

I craft when Sinharvest sells all his HQ's so there's a chance I can make some gil. The opportunity is a rare one and he often recoups his sold HQ's before mine sell.

[enoch]

Craft whenever. I do face directions for no apparent reason. I do follow tiers and get advanced support only when it breaks a tier.

[Zouri]

Craft whenever. I do face directions for no apparent reason. I do follow tiers and get advanced support only when it breaks a tier.

ditto.. Ive never paid much attention to when i craft, weather, moon, blah blah blah.... No one i know does! If they do, they lie about it. Sure, i'll face SE for an earth synth... but really moving around takes like.. no time, so regardless of weather it hurts or helps or does nothing, it does not hurt to try. Ive never had any problem with hq'ing anything without paying it any attention (see sig)
Waiting for a particular moon phase or what not is retarded. I dont have enough time to even try.

[Howard Roark]

non public poll is fail poll

[Howard Roark]

non public poll is fail poll

[nitsuj]

non public poll is fail poll

Double post is fail post

What's wrong with the poll?

Also, I should note another reason I'm so curious on this is because I fish, and moon phase definitely seems to affect my bite rate (which I believe is an accepted truth).

So it's very easy to "assume" that (and others?) could logically be a part of the crafting algorithm.

[Taint]

While I have always followed days. Like nothing HQs on Lightenings day I swear. I did have an interesting streak. Went 1/42 on HQ Haubys facing South. For some reason I thought south was HQ and just assumed I remembered correctly after 5 years at 100 smithing. Anyways corrected myself to SE and am 3/12 since. Could be numbers just really failing for me but that 1 HQ in the 42, I did in a batch of 26 Haubys.

[Shamaya]

I craft whatever, whenever, but as for what I actually believe, I'm neutral.

[BerenTebogo]

Stop it.

[nitsuj]

Stop it.

There you are!

[cdgreg]

Double post is fail post

What's wrong with the poll?

Also, I should note another reason I'm so curious on this is because I fish, and moon phase definitely seems to affect my bite rate (which I believe is an accepted truth).

So it's very easy to "assume" that (and others?) could logically be a part of the crafting algorithm.

I never saw any drastic increases or decreasing fishing. I know omg, but it's accepted as true, well not by me. Maybe it was just because I fished to cap each day not caring about moonphase, but if you seriously only fish on full moon wtf you're limiting yourself. If someone wants to go parse results I'll be glad to hop to your side of the fence, but other than people saying "yar, I pulled up more moats during full moon I swear" I haven't seen much.

Only thing I believe in is the tiered HQ system, and obviously direction or moon phase doesn't change the game enough to break a new tier, so meh. If you want to face a direction fine it takes 3 seconds, but if you wake up at 4:45 AM to pop 2 synths you've been holding for a week for this perfect day then I think that's going too far. I used to be this guy, I evolved over time due to lack of HQ's lol.

[Kirschy]

I've always crafted whenever~

On the note of fishing, there was an update where SE said fishing was affected by moonphase:
http://www.playonline.com/updateus/050224hu5ol3.html

The influence of moon phases on the abundance of fish has been increased.

That being said, I still fish whenever I can!

[cdgreg]

I've always crafted whenever~

On the note of fishing, there was an update where SE said fishing was affected by moonphase:
http://www.playonline.com/updateus/050224hu5ol3.html



That being said, I still fish whenever I can!

I stand corrected, thanks for that!

[Cymmina]

I never saw any drastic increases or decreasing fishing. I know omg, but it's accepted as true, well not by me. Maybe it was just because I fished to cap each day not caring about moonphase, but if you seriously only fish on full moon wtf you're limiting yourself. If someone wants to go parse results I'll be glad to hop to your side of the fence, but other than people saying "yar, I pulled up more moats during full moon I swear" I haven't seen much.

I fish to fatigue, too. But when the moon is Full/New, I finish fishing for the day much quicker than any other moon phase.

Fish live in resource tiles and the tiles have a set restock rate. New and Full moons increase the rate the resource tiles restock.

For several months, there was a guy who would fish in Talacca with 4 or 5 bots (thank god he is gone). Bite rate for fish was usually 40-50%, but if it was a First/Last Quarter, I may as well go do something else because it would be an abysmal 20% bite rate. Even with the bots there, I would see a respectable 70% or better bite rate during New/Full Moon.

Now I am the only person fishing in Talacca, I normally maintain a 50-60% catch rate for fish. For First/Last Quarter, bite rate goes down to 40% at the worst. Full/New Moon, I've seen 80% or better.

The more people fishing where you fish, the poorer your bite rate will be because they're catching all your fish. If you're alone, you probably won't see a huge difference between the phases.

[nitsuj]

I've always crafted whenever~

On the note of fishing, there was an update where SE said fishing was affected by moonphase:
http://www.playonline.com/updateus/050224hu5ol3.html



That being said, I still fish whenever I can!

Interesting, I wasn't aware of those update notes. Also interesting to me:

Characters will become fatigued when fishing. -
Constant displays of the message "You didn't catch anything" hint that your character has
become fatigued. This fatigue is built up through catching large quantities of fish. At this
time it is best to change areas, or take a break from fishing for a while.

I always thought that was just "what people said" as well.

[Kirschy]

I always thought that was just "what people said" as well.

I was able to confirm this a few times since I often leave my character AFK at a spot for 24hrs+ and try to fish for an hour when I have a break. Just zoning doesn't seem to work. Need to leave the area for a few minutes and then come back or something.

[nitsuj]

Like I said, I usually do full moon/lightsday for my synths, purely for superstition. But last night I wanted to make Sath proud, so I just grabbed my synths and went.

Unfortunately I went 0/12 then 1/12, so 1/24. Slightly less than my T1 should be, but still within the standard deviation and obviously not a very large sample size. Oh well. Inconclusive shit is inconclusive, always.