M7IN

Lets be honest though, that X50 button was a godsend.

Umm... got her too... I'm not going to say how much I used resource-wise, but I think I made out like a bandit. Nevertheless, after seeing her safe and secure in my harem, I have but one thing to say... also, for the record, you have no idea how hard the decision to use this was, considering the sheer number of applicable memes i have for this situation...

@DvDivXXX As for the latter, understood. The prior however is another matter. There is but one thing, or should I say person, stopping me from posting on the current patch... Yep.... I'm stopping myself. This is for a few reasons. First, there really isn't anything intrinsically funny in said patch. No real irony, no sense of schadenfreude, not a hint of something to be parodied in sight. It was, by almost all accounts, a fairly standard patch. Only issues of note being the PoP bug and pop-up bug, neither of which feel right to comment on. Secondly, a number of the more noteworthy parts of the patch and other items of note going on, including but not limited to the new addition to the test server, are either out of my league or things I don't have access to. Third, and most importantly, the contents of the patch seem to have been pretty well covered, and I mostly refuse to be derivative! I mean, a man's gotta have standards....they're pretty fucking low, but they're there, damnit. Ahem, back to the topic at hand, it was a patch, I'd go so far to say that it was a good patch, but I'll have to end this here. Once again, I'll stick to the current patch, whichever that may be, for the subject of my future posts....in this thread anyway.😉

@DvDivXXX Duly noted. I will endeavor to keep my future monologues posts more in line with the patches at the time. I suppose I'll have to wait for the new patch before I can come up with any new material...

I was pretty much going to recommend what natstar had said, with one addition, clear out all the girls from the lowest tier of any villain, that way you'll have one less thing to worry about when farming for mythics. As for event girls going on at the same time.... yeah, go with natstar's advice and get them first. If you have the kobans and/or sandalwood to spare go ahead and use them for both, otherwise, just focus on the mythic. Edit: Honestly speaking, this is the only way I was able to pick up a mythic girl this time. I'd just so happened to have focused on Donatian for the last few days as Dove was the farmable girl I wanted the most, so she was just about completed anyway. After that, I just used the sandalwood that I'd picked up previously and focus-fired at him till I was finally able to clutch Alt Finalmecia with the last of my stash.

Rejoice, for I have returned again.....again.... Ok, so it's been 2~ish weeks, but i've been busy so whatever. Anyhoo, I'm here to throw in my 2 cents as a low~mid level player, same as last time. All in all... things ain't too bad, realistically speaking. I mean, Leagues and Seasons are a bit of a clusterfuck, with peoples stats being wildly all over the map while even being at the same level... but weirdly enough, it was pretty much like that before so it's almost as if nothing has changed ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Seriously though, if anything the playing field for those from level 200 to 350 or so seems to have been leveled, those at the top are those who have planned out and allocated their resources most effectively given the current shift in game mechanics. So for me, this is actually working out pretty well, though i wouldn't mind a more efficient way of farming gems... nevertheless, things seem to be working out As for my previously mentioned in-game money issues....they've actually been pretty comfortably settled. Turns out my paradigm shift strategy of ignoring my higher tier girls and focusing nearly all of my resources on the common or rare girls was the right path, for me anyway. They are now generating me enough cash to buy out the shop at any given instance while still having enough to reinvest into the harem. It's actually getting to the extent where I feel fairly comfortable about maxing out a mythic girl in a fairly short time-frame, more reliably than before the patch even. Then again, I should have known that building a reliable base of power is generally the best long-term strategy. As for the issues I've read about being faced up at the top..... it really doesn't mean a whole to to me. Don't get me wrong, I realize how selfish that sounds, but those issues are way beyond my current level of 253. By the time I get there, things will already be sorted out, we will have bigger issues to worry about, or we'll be too tired of it to care. Is it a bit of a defeatist attitude? Perhaps, but I can only really afford to worry about so much these days. I suppose that will be all for now, till next time, this is M7IN, signing off.

For the record, that was not intended as an accusation. It was a reaction to a previous post. An accusation/report would be put forward only if I have the data to make one.

Side note, if the gem eating bug is real, that would explain a few things. My gem count does look lower than I thought it would be at this point, then again, that might just be wishful thinking. Thankfully I'd been focusing on the cheaper girls so the impact isn't as bad, but it still adds up...

Fret, not for I, M7IN, have returned Rejoice, for I bring tidings of..... well, things are still rather crap, but they don't seem to be quite as bad as I had originally thought they might be, at least not until i completely run out of gems. 🙄 At any rate, my in-game financial situation is more stable than I thought it might be, immensely helped by the monetary buff to 3 particular girls. Nevertheless, my own efforts have helped to stem the constant outflow of cash by relying on methods I thought I gave up on long ago... ...my own Harem. For ages I had focused all my resources on the top tier units I'd managed to wrangle, few they may be. While they would bring in 10k here, 50k there, it wasn't enough to keep me floating though the new situation I'd found myself in. Then I had a thought, what if I'd been going at this back-to-front. I checked the wiki to confirm my suspicions, sure enough, with the current meta, I've gone about this the wrong way. So, what's my new plan? Focusing on grass roots efforts. I'm going to invert the pyramid and focus on the lowest rarity girls I have for a good while. Why? First, a fuckload cheaper. It takes a fraction of the resources to max out the affection of a common or uncommon girl, not to mention leveling them up to lvl 250. Also, while the common and uncommon girls, with the exception of the 5* ones, don't give a lot individually, together the cash actually adds up pretty quickly, and if you immediately reinvest they snowball pretty efficiently, even the seemingly cheap 1* girls can be fairly effective. Last, now that I've refocused my resources, I've finally been able to maximize shifts in Places of Power, which seem to be one of our last bastions for crystal/orb/cash mining. With this in mind, I'm actually eking out a decent living. Is it as effective as it was pre-nerf? Hell no, but it's working out fairly well for now. Well, that's it for the moment. I'll keep an eye on the ongoing discussion and chip in when I feel my insight/peculiar brand of humor is necessary. Till then, back to the hentai mines.

I've decided to sit on the sidelines for a few days before weighing in on the new issue, that being the current build on the test server... ...gotta say, I'm feeling rather fucked sitting around level 230... That said, I may as well see this as a challenge and make the best of it (for now). All in all, I will leave you with the words of a wise man, I hope they will give you strength in these troubled times.

Honestly, I'm getting vibes of "hey look, a distraction" from all this. We're already well into the next issue before the previous one has had time to settle...

@Kenrae I think it really comes down to costs and benefits. Think about it this way one of the primary currencies you use in daily life has been suddenly massively devalued and you have a ton of it on hand. you can still use it to buy things, but the cost is higher and the benefits are lower. are you going to go trade it all in then for resources in a panic, or are you going to hold onto it in the hope that the market balances out? Basically, i think most people are on the fence, waiting to see if kinkoid will revert the prices to normal in a week or so after the public outcry/backlash. sure, they can participate in item selling contests, but i presume most people see it as a trap, to drain them of this alternate cash source.

So in other words... The market in turmoil uncertainty in the air spending at an all time low no one wants to invest, or if they do it's minimal at best ...sounds to me like the bubble has burst and we're officially in a recession.

@DvDivXXX I'd thought about as much. The main reason I'd like to transfer would be that Nutaku's own little world can be damn quiet and rather isolating. There really isn't a good platform of communication there, hence me meandering over here to speak my mind.

...I have but a single reason for that... and here we are. On that note, i wish there was a way to migrate my nutaku HH account over, but that doesn't seem to be an option...