So I was fighting Bar Lodos. I started with shooting with the turret. He starts to move back to swim along the ship. I jump off the turret and try to summon my mag to finish it off there. But it bugs out, and nothing comes out. My character is just stuck in that pose. I wasn't lagging because everything is working fine, and my npc are still fighting it/getting tossed by it. Meanwhile I'm just in permanent iframe, and can't move. I kick them out one by one just fine. Ended up having to restart the mission.

I know you guys didn't want to spoil the Persona stuff. But is there a point in not updating the current schedule? Now we have to leave the game open 24/7 so we don't miss out on the sg/title/outfit.

@BronzeAgeBrain said in Technique Fragment Costs:

Hmm... hopefully a good chunk of players sometime in the next month or so drop out of the crafting market. Right now the economic ratio crafting to buying already crafted items is doubtlessly negative for the crafter if they plan on fueling techniques with fragments on the market. The real culprit is the way the crafting system makes much more supply than demand by requiring crafters to go stepwise through a chain of crafting the same crafts over and over again. The result is that we have crafted techniques going for less than 10k, sometimes even close to the 1k minimum, while the absolute minimum in meseta to do a craft from market pricing is more than 200,000. The only way this changes is if either crafters gain access to really easy technique fragments, or people drop out in droves.

You know what would be an interesting calculation though: matching the cost of certain triggers to their hypothetical meseta price through Excube exchange into tech fragments. Say you get on average 30 10* weapons in the highest difficulty on a trigger (probably an overestimation on everything besides perhaps PD). Divide by two for 15 fragments, multiply by 40k earnings per fragment, and you get what, 600,000 meseta base from that UQ, plus whatever value the 12*+ you get are.

Most crafted pa are worthless because they are worthless. No one wants anything that doesn't have yellow text on it, which signifies a great success version. Afaik, great success isn't that rare. It's about 33% chance. So if yellow stats are that easy to get, then anything lower isn't gonna be worth anything.

Can you use a color change on the halter top shorts?

Doesn't the egg only drop from +10 threat level shaq/ultimate? Why are people bragging about farming low level maps?

I've done nothing. I'm not in any rush. I've been already running out of stuff to do, and mostly just logging on for urgent quest, which is also not often because they're all mining base 3 in the past week. I suspect the same thing will happen in a week or two. And then it's just waiting for ep5.

I like how people just yell at people to sell their nemesis/slave when anything above 13 is rare and untradable. They just expect it to suddenly fall out of the sky.

At the very least, hopefully no more mining base for the next 3 months. I'm sick of that place. Worst event ever. They took an already dull urgent quest, and made it worse.

Forced positivity is never a good thing. You have to identify the problem if you want to solve it. Shoving it away and forcing a smile doesn't help. This is why mmos always end up as cash grabs. They're always forcing themselves to accept whatever the publisher throws at them. It can be the most unoptimized, p2w, and unfair game, and they'll just make the excuse of they're still having fun in some niche way. So the publisher never fixes anything.

Personally, I don't care either way. I've given up because there will be always be these diehard people propping up bad decisions. I'm not a whale, so I can't really sway anything regardless. I just stick around to laugh at them when they inevitably run themselves into the ground.

The game only had a 10 year plan in Japan. Once that runs out, NA is sol. So it makes sense they'll milk it now, since the end is guaranteed.