Single post in Kai's Journal

I’m back! Sorry to anyone I inconvenienced by falling off the face of the earth. Life irl’s been really rough and I was facing multiple health crises that all compounded and keeping up with pokefarm just got to be too much. And then once I’d been off for like a week, getting back on felt like too much of a big deal and I got too anxious. I’ve been wanting to come back for awhile and now I finally feel better enough to do so! So, part of the reason why I dropped off is essentially because for how I was playing, I need to invest a certain amount of time and effort each day for it to be worth it at all. And I stopped being able to afford that level of activity, so then… what was the point? In order to melan hunt the way my optimizing autistic brain wants to do it, you need hypermode, arceus rank, shiny and ubercharms, and a fully charged albino radar every day. To fully charge the albino radar every day, you need to do around 12,000 clicks every day. To have hypermode, shiny charms, and ubercharms, you need to have a fair amount of on-site income, which involves obtaining and selling valuable items and pokemon. And then on top of that, you need to regularly check in to click people and hatch parties. So all of this means 1. mass clicking 2. social interaction 3. regular playing throughout the day. 3 isn’t so bad for me, but 2 got overwhelmingly stressful, so I’m still opting out of that aspect of pokefarm. I haven’t revived my shop yet and I don’t intend to for awhile. 1 is really only practical using key binding, and I haven’t figured out how to do that on my newer computer, so I need to use my sad, old, dying, fragile computer, and I need to use it in something approximating proper posture or my body hates me. I stopped being able to block out time for that, and so then my ability to play pokefarm kind of collapsed. Besides that, there’s also tournaments. To keep arceus rank, you need to hatch every new pokemon that comes out, and new pokemon keep coming out, and really the only practical way to do that is by participating in tourneys, preferably ranking, and the competition gets intense. So that contributes even more to pokefarm feeling very all or nothing to me. I’m not complainin, just explaining why I dropped off for awhile. When I came back, the first thing I did was catch up on news. I feel like I missed something somewhere (when did the wishforge change???), but I did see Niet’s post about PFNew being a more casual game, and he talked about literally everything I just said above. So I’m glad Niet recognizes the problem, and I’m excited for PFNew when it comes out. All this to say, I’m back, and at first I really didn’t know what I was going to do. I can’t keep up with melan hunts right now, and it felt like there wasn’t much else to do. I was thinking PotD hunts and reattaining arceus rank, and then *shrugs*. Now I think I’ll definitely do those, and hopefully some housekeeping. After that, maybe melan hunts again? Or I could focus on tourneys. I’m not sure, we’ll see. Update: I found the news archive! Was that there before? Anyway I like the new wishforge update!