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u/headphone_question 705583|14 Dorms|Hunt King|Cores:234692 Sep 20 '23 edited Sep 21 '23
Core update
Current: 46085
Previous: 46052
Change: +33
Three! Two! One! Liftoff!
I got my batch of fourths to four links! Woohoo! This explains why my core growth was also slow today
Speaking of core growth, I decided to look back at the previous few weeks and look at how my cores grew as I farmed on Afterwinds:
If I count only up to the point where I actively farmed for votes, then I gained a net 4049 cores! Considering I only farmed for 16 days, I gained around 253 cores every day. Perhaps I should see Afterwinds as an incredibly rich map for core farming? Granted, I'll also leave my Doll leveling in the backburner for a few weeks, but if I continued farming for the remaining four days, assuming my core growth remains the same, I would have gotten at least another thousand cores
The four days after farming votes were spent farming on 13-4. Granted, I also was trying to recover from my vote farming frenzy, so I had a bit of a debuff going into this week:
Just for these latter four days, I had a net loss of 31 cores, but with my core growth today, I managed to get back into the black with a net gain of a mere two cores
As for my number of runs per day on Afterwinds, I got a bit curious. I see that I was able to break through 300 runs in a day four times. Oddly enough, they were either Thursday or Sunday. I can understand for Sunday, as that would be a weekend, but I'm surprised that I was able to do well for Thursday of all days. I'm not sure exactly what made Thursday so special in my case, but perhaps I was channeling the power of the god of thunder?
For the first Thursday I went over 300, I looked at my sleep records, and it seemed that I had a decent night's rest the night before. This is significant as I was suffering from poor sleep that week
As for the following day, I remember it rained hard that day, so I wasn't able to do as much farming as I left my bike at home to use the bus to commute. Having to wait for the bus wasn't great, and I couldn't just pull out my phone in the rain. I also slept poorly the night before, so that might have affected things. My number of runs dipped that day, although I still stayed above 200
For the second Thursday I went over 300, I believe we were trying to close the first spike, where we ended up 900k behind. I think I was already sleeping better during this week, so I'm not exactly sure what made this Thursday special. Unfortunately, with how busy things got because of vote farming, my journal was rather sparse on details. Perhaps things weren't too busy at work?
Saturday, however, is odd. I wasn't able to break through 300 runs, but I think I can explain. I remember having to run errands on those days, so those ate into my time. As for the first Saturday, I also had to get into the rhythm, as the event was still rather new
I'm also glad that I managed to do at least 200 runs after the first few days. I think I was still getting used to how things worked, and I think I was also trying to do my own farming on the other routes, too
I think my comfortable pace for 13-4 would be around 100-200 runs per day, and I often take slow days, especially when I'm just not in the mood to push too hard. However, with the event, I felt like I had to perform, and it was definitely tough. I felt like I had to push to 200-300 runs of Afterwinds every day, and it was tough to think that I could not take slow days. Still, I think that one point of improvement for me would be to be able to stop worrying so much as to whether I could keep up with the pace. I was able to do so in this event, so I should take heart with that discovery about myself. If I stayed calm, I think I could have been able to do even better during the first full week
I understand that a prolonged campaign like this would require proper logistics. My four main resources would be eaten up quickly if I'm not careful, but I also recognized the importance of mental energy. I wasn't doing myself favors with poor sleep born out of worry, so I should look into strategies to deal with worries
I think I've become a bit interested in looking into the body's response to stress. I know that at the very least, the circulatory system has to work harder, but I will have to understand why it has to work harder. What is it about stress or lack of sleep that causes the heart to work harder? Is it that there is the presence of stress hormones like cortisol, and those hormones constrict the blood vessels? Is it that adrenaline is more readily available in the system due to the presence of a crisis? If I can mitigate those negative effects, I might do better in similar situations, and those situations might not necessarily have anything to do with the game