Raider of the Lost Skills

Yesterday's wake-up to no invaders was a fluke... had an invasion about 6 hours later. And woke this morning to the as-usual one. This is damn ridiculous. I can only imagine how many people who are only able to play at around that time have quit because every time they log in there's an invasion, and they just can't get anything done anymore?

With every invasion, I see more and more people just sitting in inside storages, mixing or whatever. Maybe when it's down to just 1-2 people who have no other gameplay doing the entire invasion by themselves that someone will finally wise up and figure out these daily invasions are completely ruining EL.

Doubt it. It's being done in the name of the almighty rosto. The only thing that matters any more is brick count (a new el-cel "award" page for most lost bricks only served to confirm this), game play just doesn't matter anymore.


Despite that, managed to get some stuff done yesterday. Like multiple levels, hehe.

Yesterday ended up being all about working on "the ignored skills", engineering and tailoring. After a couple k each of FEs and WEs (ugh!) were made, I went through the necessary ashes and saltpetre that were needed for the planned batch of dyes.

You advanced to level 35 of engineering!




Which also came with the bonus of:

Your overall level is now 121!




Sweet. :P

Ran out of FPs, so ended up back at my normal C2 haunt, Irsis. Stayed there to continue the work, getting the blue dyes made.


You advanced to level 25 of tailoring!




25? 25? That's it? No, that just wouldn't do at all.


You advanced to level 26 of tailoring!




Ah, that's better. :P And that was it for the day. 1 Eng, 2 Tailoring, and 1 overall, all in a day's...



Not sure how much I'll get done today though. Heading to the comp store for parts, and working on getting a new "used" comp working. Not exactly the latest, just an AMD Sempron 2600+ or such, but for those unaware I'm playing now on a Duron 800Mhz system bought in 1998! This sweetie of a comp has done me well over these years, but it's time for it to move on, hehe.

So gotta buy the needed stuff, get the comp together, clear out a hard drive for it, install Linux, test it out and make sure it's working well before transferring everything else out of this old comp into it... I may end up logged out a lot of the day.



So I'm not planning anything EL-wise today. Just do what I'm able to, which probably means a day of mostly harving when I'm on at all. Some minor alching too since I still need to get my HEs fully restocked, maybe make some to sell.