What's the favourite fic you've written vs your most popular fic? If these differ, why do you think this is?
If you write anon/under a different pseud at times, what sort of fic get this treatment?
How do you feel about the average length of your fic? Do you have a preference?
Describe your process when it comes to fic writing. (e.g. planning vs pantsing; music vs quiet; blast it out in bursts or return to peck at it every so often)
What are your inspirations? Are there any specific writers or sources you tend to draw from?
Do you think you have a distinctive narrative style?
Do you have any specific aims when it comes to your writing (e.g. a particular aspect you'd like to improve at)?
On the 'entirely canon-compliant to alternate universe' scale, where do you tend to land? How does this affect your characterisations?
Favourite genre to write? Any specific tropes native to this genre you're a big fan of?
Least favourite genre to write? Anything you avoid like the plague?
I only ever started using them properly when i was probably mid to late game, i never really knew what exactly to do with them cuz i’m just lazy to smelt them until one day i just got sick with the almost full inventory of my FAs and i just wanted to clear them out.
So i actually looked into guides online to which FAs i should use and stuff liddat and the difference was so big. They did so much more dmg than ever and that kinda shooked me but not rly either xD
USE YOUR FAs
2. Farming for fame in restaurant
This is also another that i really didn’t know about until late game as well. I was just cooking whatever i wanted cuz why not but in order to lvl up your restaurant, you need fame and i came across some people giving out tips on the official discord regarding cooking so i took em ya know
Butter bread and pineapple juice
butter bread is the best for farming for both gold and fame, pineapple juice is more for fame but it’s good too.
the bad thing bout them is, they take a “short” while to cook so you have to go back into the game constantly but most of us don’t have time for that LOL.
So i looked into the attributes of recipes: flavor is for fame, texture is for gold, aroma is for customer flow and appearance is for reduction of cost.
I looked into the dishes that had high flavor, as well as the time taken to consume them but ultimately, it also depends on how you play. Thus, it’s good enough to concentrate on flavor and texture when cooking.
And here comes my 3rd point
3. Gold is important to an extent
You won’t know how much gold you will spend until you get to that pop-up which says “You have insufficient gold”
I was once chilling in my in-game gold coins ya know, sipping on my mango smoothie just living the in-game high life.
But things like fusions, enhancements and even fishing bait cost so much and once i started farming for fame, used my FAs properly, money just seems to be so insignificant. Dropping like flies like no one’s business.
Solution is: texture , balcony orders(provided you use souvenirs that increase gold), cutting down on bait and all that..
4. Save le stamina
Again, something i didn’t know bout till i chanced upon a post. I’m not really a competitive player so I wasn’t really aware about gate of trials, ikr i’m living under a rock.
I do know that there are artifacts and stuff like that but to me, they just seemed to be like extras and stuff that i didn’t really bother about. Because to get energy, you gotta have cards and stuff like that and i didn’t have much of that either.
Anw, i started to save on stamina, from bentos, the tip shop and not spending it on ingredients so more fishing...which means more bait, which means more money, which means insufficient
5. Join an active guild
I was in an inactive guild for the longest time ever since the start of my FF journey until i read a post on tumblr. It was quite sad ngl cuz there was this other active member. We didn’t talk but ya know it feels sad to leave them behind ;.; i wonder where they are now
I left anw, and got into an active guild, again big difference. You will get more benefits...you basically will get more benefits.
6. Being active daily
I have 111 days not signed in from the previous months and it pains me to see that huge bar of red on the activeness streak report.
You don’t have to go active active, just reach 100 for activity daily and that’s enough.
I’m sure most of you would’ve known all of these LOL, it just took me research and chance-upons to know even more bout progression in the game
Frankly, the tutorial at the start of the game wasn’t the most informative, it just gave the basics of what you need to know, hell i didn’t even know there were restaurant tasks until mid-game not even kidding
At least new journey gave a “guide” on artifacts which i don’t rmb the other ver. having but oh wells.
Anyway these are things i should’ve known from the get go, feel free to include more stuff and discuss what nots xD
I swear that a FFXV mod needs to be made that takes both of the times that Prompto could’ve gotten a hug and changes them to him actually getting a hug.
“I made a mod for FFXV“
“What’s it do?“
“Hugs Prompto.“
“And you’re charging people $10 for it?“
“It’s worth it, trust me.“
gah. so whilst I love characters who lie for the bit, I am getting so increasingly sold on characters who don't want to be liars and yet are nonetheless forced to be. those who are actually pretty good at omission and avoidance, but pray they're not directly confronted, because they know the chances are high they'd crumble at the slightest pressure and they can't afford that.
