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That's exactly how it works. If you aren't top 3 you only receive a pittance. Also you probably noticed that losing a Crystal Stakes race can set you back quite a bit due to the entry fee.

wut?
I'm old enough to have played on Atari, but I'm nowhere near boomer.

But William Higinbotham invented virtual tennis in 1958, so Boomers did have video games!

And many other boomers went onto make the most beloved video games that lead to the current era! (Shigeru Miyamoto 1952. Richard Garriott 1961.

Pre-Xbox it's all Boomers or older, baby!

Don't circuit races require Chocobucks to participate?
Which means it's kinda a bet. If you win you can make a gain yes, but if you don't arrive within the first 3 spots you're actually losing chocobucks.
Or did I miss something?

Spam free races yes, can also do the circuit races every 20 hours? for a few extra bucks!

i agree generator was a bit odd but mainly focused around is it worth ditching zanshin build fully if going with clemency set. Just hit R30 on my feet and have a few levels on hands so looking forward. I really want to get rid of Ryo/tat in favor of clemency but cant really make up the Zanshin any where else and not sure that the remaining zanshin is worth it over other options at that point. I suck with the math aspect of the gamea tho

Ok my stats are:
STR 243 - 18~19/32RP
END 234 - 10~11/32RP
DSC 18 - 18~19/32RP
RCP 15 - 15/32RP

So the difference between 15 RCP and your 186 RCP seems to be what is causing me to have ~36% succesful dig rate and your ~87% succesful dig rate.
Pretty... huge difference if I may say.
But it is what it is and I certainly don't have the time or will to do another chocobo.
For now at least, maybe in the future when there's no campaign up I can prepare a new one while waiting for the next campaign.
Eeeeeh...


Anyway, thanks for clarifying it.
I still think for me, given how long my sessions take (~50 mins a day?) it's probably gonna be more beneficial to go for the Sky Blue (increased skillup rate) rather than Blue (2x successful attempts per day).
Spending 2hrs a day to chocodig just isn't very... practical. But for now it will have to do I guess.

When I was farming Tolba a couple months back I saw a couple of chocobo digging bots at the entrance of the valley of sorrows. So they definitely exist. They'd pace back and forth at the entrance, digging at regular intervals.

I laughed pretty hard when one of them exceeded their chocobo riding time and the galka continued to pace back and forth on foot, pausing for a moment to "dig" before continuing on and on.

I'd point back to this paper as the financial justification for their data collection:
https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/35179.pdf

Basically, nerds observed that some classes of models kept getting better as you trained them on super large datasets. So you could build opinionated models and train them on modest datasets, or you could use unopinionated models and train them on really massive data sets.

That finding, and basic class of unopinionated models, ended up generalizing to text generation, image generation, etc.

No one knew that performance would scale this high, but they have been pursuing this in a principled way for almost 20 years.

The boomers didn't have video games.

Must be a dystopia.

Still looking!

The in-between digs thing is irrelevant atm because of the Hyper Digging campaign, allowing you to dig every ~5 seconds.
Is there something I don't get about digging then?
The only things I know are:

1) you need to have walked a certain amount (X?) yalms from the previous spot where you last digged
2) you need to be ready for digging, a certain amount of seconds which get reduced according to how high is your wing level and gear (this point is currently irrelevant with the ongoing Hyper Digging campaign)

Is there something else I don't know?
Point 1) I just deduced it on my own because I tried digging in the same spot without moving and after the first successful dig all subsequent ones would fail so I assumed you need to "move" a specific amount of yalms.
Is it wrong? Is the requirement something else?

To get 100 succesful digs with my previous (low endurance) chocobo and the ~5 seconds delay (more often than not 6 or 7 I'd say) it took me ~25 mins and the total amount of digs has been an average of, uhm ~280?
It usually takes me a bit less than 3 stacks of Gysahl Greens to reach that 100 successful digs.
I've only had 5 digging days/sessions for now and the amount has been pretty much similar in all those days.

Maybe I'm doing something wrong and there's some other requirement other than the 2 I listed above, meaning a lot of my attempts "failed" because of that?

So I have a fully grown chocobo I used for racing many years ago to unlock the Reisenjima related zone bonus.

Jockey: Galka DNA Green Green Yellow
STR 243 - 18~19/32RP Legs and talons
END 234 - 10~11/32RP
DSC 18 - 18~19/32RP
RCP 15 - 15/32RP
Abilities: none
Personality: Rather ill-tempered
Weather: prefers clear days, dislikes none.
Riding speed 97,5%
Riding time: 45 minutes


These are the stats of my chocobo.
Not ideal for racing I know, but then again not the worst either?
Given these stats, can anybody suggest me what would be the fastest/easiest/mostefficient way to farm chocobucks? I want a bunch, like 200ish at least.

To get the previous 150 Chocobucks I needed I just spammed Free races. Took me around 55 mins of endless annoying menus interactions to perform.
Is that the best I can do or is there something else I could be doing?

Thanks for any useful tip!

I assumed only the integer values are displayed.
Given how all crafting work in this game, it's safe to assume that PROBABLY (but not necessarily) it's the same with wing skill.

Each successful Dig gives you a chance to get a 0.X skillup, once you reach a full level, you get a +1 (and with the recent change you see it in the log).

That X value has a high cap (like 5?) in the early levels and the chance for X to actually happen is likely higher.
Later on the chance for X to happen becomes lower and lower and so does the cap, likely becoming 1.
Chocobo Rope might work in the sense that it makes the cap higher, like 0.2 instead of 0.1, so when you do get a skillup you OCCASIONALLY get a 0.2 instead of a 0.1.


This would all make sense, right? Except that with digging you can do it in any zone (with all crafting you progressively need to pick "higher level" recipes to even have a chance to get a skillup) and doing it in "harder" zones was reported to grant no additional chance to skillup compared to the "easier" starter zones.
Is that right though?
Supposing it is, then it's quite clear that Digging is different from all other "crafting" skills in this game and, as such, it doesn't necessarily have to use the partial 0.X system like all other crafting skill do.
It could be a fixed number of successful amounts on each level.
The numbers I've seen reported so far look very very similar altough not exactly identical.
We're within such a small difference that it could be caused by Chocobo Rope, for instance. (maybe it works that it has a low chance to make a single successful dig to count as two, sometimes, and this would create the difference in the number of successful attempts required to levelup reported by people).

Personally I still have the numbers I obtained for the first ~27 levels, I stopped tracking after that. I'm 29 and likely very close to 30.

My current chocobo has ~200 attempts per day (or should?). That alone is at least 50 minutes of time.
With the Endurance body those would become ~400 attempts per day.
Almost 2hours every day, it's... insane?
Unless someone can find a way to automate it lol, this feels like the grindiest thing in FFXI I've seen in quite a while.

Dye color doesn't affect your appearance during chocobo races, so it's still not perfect for aesthetics!

...this is the only reason I know to care about actual breeding.

You're not who I got the list from, but I would believe the person I did get the list from got it from you originally on some other Discord.

Information like, wants to free, man.

Thank you for your service, updating the wiki, and making a lovely VB site!

I left RE9 feeling not very satisfied. Didn't feel complete and the story was garbage. There were fun gameplay moments but most felt shallow. But everywhere you look online ppl are singing its praises who haven't even beaten the game. Consumer and influencer ideology is really destroying video games is so sad. I finally found some reviews that really nailed what o disliked about the game, and the comments on the video too. I miss the original games, are we living in dystopian times or am I becoming like the boomers.


https://youtu.be/OvhLHyMrr8I?si=yKoQ3itW8v9Yn91c

https://youtu.be/8ZZq3DTKZK4?si=_GGgr7SAqjnIBvhf

Server: Phoenix
Floor: West #2
Location: Just before the exit ramp!

I am sure they had some idea that they could profit from the data at some point.

Umm...None of the prime WS have Darkness/Light properties...

Invincible releases at 3 am ep 1 2 and 3

The story Im invested the most lately is the manhwa Plaything.

Dang, feels like every chapter is better than the previous.

Ive been constantly refreshing it daily for new updates.

And the it never fails to deliver.

It started as a simple revenge story, now is something huge.

Cant wait for the next one

No, it's like breeding diseases like a university hall of residence.

Easy? Yes. Tedious? Damn yes.
Took me over 50 mins spamming enter in those menus to farm 150 chocobucks, earlier.

But I digress! Anyway I swapped my choco to my "green" one and I managed to dig 100 more times.
Not sure what happened but I can think of two things:

1) Swapping chocobos, my daily 100 digs limit reset and restarted from zero?
2) This chocobo has very high endurance. Endurance gives additional digs past the daily 100 limit. Is it possibly my endurance is so high it granted me another 100 digs?


One of the two, I would say.

Damn, that IS exactly what I was imagining.

Is that like when you don't wash the carafe and just refill it?

Places that look like that often have the best food.

The infection adds flavor