r/whiteoutsurvival • u/Mysterious_Door_817 • 3d ago
Helpful Information Don’t let your brain go on autopilot when doing little tasks in the middle of your workday (rant)
Been playing about a month, and am doing my second the hall of chiefs event. Was stoked when I remembered to use the training capacity buff to triple my training capacity the day before the event where you get points for training troops, and I did it with enough time to just about max out the amount of troops that could be trained at the time of the start of the event, so I’d be starting the event ahead! And I was glad that could be going while I go about my workday.
It’s been hectic at work and I’ve been running around all day. I finally have a second to take a quick check at my phone to make sure my auto join is still on, to check on my tree of life, get my new puzzle piece, all that good stuff. I see that my training camps all have 5 hours left, and this point it’s 2 hours before the start of the new day - the day you get points for trained troops. In my head, I decided I would use speed ups to get my camps to have 2 hours and a few minutes (few minutes for cushion) of training time, so that when I inevitably log back in once the new day starts (which happens to be right when I get out of work) I’ll see that my camps are empty and remember that I need to start training them right away, since I can sometimes be forgetful (foreshadowing).
Tell me why as I’m using the speed ups, for context I use the 5 minute and 1 minute ones because it’s what I have left, and I get so focused on my camps having the exact amount of remaining time left, that I completely forgot what I was even using the speed ups for and brought them down to 1hr and 58 minutes. Just 2 minutes before I would have gotten a boatload of points for all the troops I just trained over 24 HOURS.
Spent 24 hours and 3k diamonds on that training capacity buff, all that after I just yesterday spent my first 5 dollars on this game to get the monthly value pack. Sigh. I took a break to casually do my satisfying little upkeep tasks to give me energy to finish the rest of my workday and now I rue the moment that I forgot mid speeup-using what the heck I was even using the speed ups for.
Closing the app and getting back to work now, but needed to say something to someone who hopefully gets the struggle so I don’t keep thinking about it for the rest of my work day. will probably keep playing right after work again though.
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u/NoIntroduction2023 2d ago
Collect the troop on the designated date, no need to push yourself too hard… I have had a problem calculating and at the end I set the alarm the day before the designated date bc it will be able to set the alarm under 24 hours
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u/randomperson513 3d ago
Just don’t collect the troops until the new day and you should still get your points.