u/Cute_Economics2829

So ranking up makes your pets stronger, but the fact that these boards take ~30 minutes for your half a rank for your beasts is agonizing.

The fights themselves aren't always terrible (some of them are, but most are just "sorta bad"). I'm not really interested in the full max legendary stuff, but I'd like to finish the class quest line.

However, I can't bring myself the play more than 2 runs back to back, because 60+ minutes of these slow, annoying, encounters is just antithetical to "fun".

Is there some approach or items (or specific beasts) that can ease this burden? Some of the achievements seem so insane that I feel like I must be doing something fundamentally wrong (rank 25 with all 50 monsters? So you want me to play 1,500 hours of the worst content the game has to offer? Who thought that one up......)

A boss being able to do anywhere between 20 HP damage and 250 HP damage a round, simply because of extra turns, is making it pretty irksome for me to navigate some of these boss fights. Is this just a thing? Is there some sort of strategy you're supposed to employ to stop this?

Edit: answer seems clear: "go level up, this is a thing that just happens with later bosses". I appreciate the input from those of you who weren't weirdly emotional about a new player asking a question. ✌️

So I am navigating what I think is the mid game and I'm getting a bit overwhelmed.

I'm trying to rationalize about how to set up my trade routes:

They're just doesn't seem to be enough space for each island to the entirely self-sufficient. So at some point I found myself having to send intermediate materials, not entirely raw but not a finished product, between islands for processing.

Now I know there are optimal ratios, 2 wheat farms to 1 mill to 2 bakeries, because of the 1min 30second 1 minute production times.

Does the extra travel time and distance of a train route affect those ratios at all? Do you more veteran players find yourselves over producing a material because you know it'll be stockpiled and picked up all at once?

Or is the ratio just the ratio in the distance doesn't matter?

Now that wheat is used for bread and beer I'm finding them I am constantly running into choak points where *some* step of some pipeline is running dry and I'm having a lot of issues showing up production gaps while not absolutely *hemorrhaging* money.

Or is this just "the game" 😂😂 I have only been playing for like a week

Edit:

Oh my God, I think this may be "Welcome to the Statistics Screen"...........

So I have gotten a few games under my belt and seem to be able to avoid going immediately bankrupt. At this point, I have a number of strategic questions that I feel must be core to advancing as a player.

NOTE: I've been playing free play modes. I'm not super interested in a story or campaign.

So the questions:

- When is the best time to settle a second island?

I've sort of figured out that I can't keep enough farmers to run my island in isolation by the time I want to move up to artisans. I just have too many houses to support all 3 technological tiers of production.

Something that has been working, it seems, is settling a dedicated island for farming output and then moving goods from that island back to my main island for consumption.

What are the patterns people find successful here? When do you expand and begin to divide production types across islands?

- How many production buildings can be supported by what number of material buildings?

By this I mean What Farm to Flour Mill to Bread Bakery...

Is it 1:1:1?

I find myself building one of each when I need more, but then hours down the line, I also find that I have massive stores of certain materials.

Is this different for every type of raw material and finished good? This has been one of the most opaque relationships to navigate for me.

- how much does distance matter?

When I first move on to industrial workers, clay and brick is precious and I don't built paved roads right away. Is this hampering me to a large degree? Does it matter how far the houses are from a warehouse or farm, or only a market? Does it matter how far the market is from a warehouse? Are all warehouses linked or does a warehouse far from a fishery get stocked with fewer fish than one nearby?

I think these are my three biggest questions at the moment and I'd love to hear some wisdom from some more experienced players!

Scenario:

- have a ship

- completely empty

- have 2 islands, my main one and one that can grow hops with fertility

- assign trade route to ship: go to island that can grow hops, collect hops, bring to main island, drop off repeat

- with trade route assigned, ships just sit there and do nothing

- have to move everything back and forth manually

Do I just fundamentally misunderstand what trade routes are for? How do you move goods between islands in a way that DOESN'T suck ass? 😮‍💨

Likely gonna drop this whole game at the Rufus Gold Saucer boss fight. Cannot believe they wove such a dogshit segment 50 hours into the game.

Immune to all ranged attacks, immune to all magic, immune to all status effects, 99% of moves only reload after they land a successful hit.

This is a fight where a designer said "you will approach this only one specific way, you will execute this one approach 150 times in a row or you will start the fight over".

And you can't even try different materia loadouts without fighting Rude and Elena all over again?

Welp, game was great up until this point but this is perhaps the worst moment in gaming, across any genre, in the last 10 years.

Edit:

General fight flow:

• Dodge until reload

• 50/50 change Rufus will counter attack during reload animation

• Regen self

• Rufus dashes

• Attack and he'll count you mid dash

• wait some more

• perfect block his first attack.... But lmao @ you, perfect block recovery animation is longer than the delay before his follow up attack, so attack #2 cannot be blocked

• fight devolves into running away until your limit break is up

• have fun getting your limit 4x to finish the fight before he whittles you down

I feel like Aerith is so bad in combat that I must be playing wrong. She feels like she moves very slow, has low HP, horribly long attack animations for low damage that take *forever* to build to ATB bar.

I love her as a character, so I don't want to bench her for the entire game, but putting her in my lineup feels like handicapping myself.

Anyone have any good tips for how to play Aerith correctly?

We've got a 2016 and it has been working fine, but the last couple times we've started it up, the Bluetooth never connects. Trying to connect from our phone's Bluetooth menu, where the Murano entry is saved, just hangs on "connecting..." For a minute before timing out.

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Trying to use the "phone" feature on the car dash returns "phone in use", but going to the Bluetooth menu itself just shows an empty screen with the back button in the top left.

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How does one actually run a software reboot on these things? I have been searching online but not actually found anything helpful. I feel like I need a Bluetooth driver reset, but nothing I've done has achieved this. Any smart fellas here happen to know the answer?