The last part took me like 7~10 days. Then another 5~7 days to get another copy of that part. And now it’s the third day trying to get another one.

Don’t forget too, its the amount of luck you have that will ultimately give you the dropped files. Less is more.

zagerblag Posted:

It should take about 50 Pink Floyd drops, starting now; that is, at any moment when you have 49/50 pieces, you should expect to take about 50 more Pink Floyd drops to finish a Pink Floyd. I don’t know how frequently Pink Floyd drops, but at max threads (11, according to the Wiki), if every drop you got was Pink Floyd, it would take about 4.545 visits. I would expect you to need at most another week.

I cannot subscribe to this theory. I’ve completed 8 I think:

pink floyd - darkside full album (tt
ly syncs w/ wzrd of oz at 2:43 aweso
me!!!).hear
Found:

    * Piece #1 x 9
    * Piece #2 x 4
    * Piece #3 x 6
    * Piece #4 x 14
    * Piece #5 x 5
    * Piece #6 x 2
    * Piece #7 x 16
    * Piece #8 x 18
    * Piece #9 x 10
    * Piece #10 x 12
    * Piece #11 x 11
    * Piece #12 x 9
    * Piece #13 x 4
    * Piece #14 x 12
    * Piece #15 x 5
    * Piece #16 x 6
    * Piece #17 x 15
    * Piece #18 x 11
    * Piece #20 x 10
    * Piece #21 x 10
    * Piece #22 x 4
    * Piece #23 x 14
    * Piece #24 x 5
    * Piece #25
    * Piece #26 x 5
    * Piece #27 x 8
    * Piece #28 x 12
    * Piece #29 x 21
    * Piece #30 x 12
    * Piece #31 x 11
    * Piece #32 x 7
    * Piece #33 x 5
    * Piece #34 x 6
    * Piece #35 x 11
    * Piece #36 x 6
    * Piece #37 x 13
    * Piece #38 x 16
    * Piece #39 x 3
    * Piece #40 x 8
    * Piece #41 x 7
    * Piece #42 x 12
    * Piece #43 x 11
    * Piece #44 x 16
    * Piece #45 x 13
    * Piece #46 x 12
    * Piece #47 x 5
    * Piece #48 x 6
    * Piece #49 x 9
    * Piece #50 x 7

Missing:

    * Piece #19

*Eventually* a player should be earning a Pink Floyd for every 50 parts they earn, on average (sometimes less parts, sometimes more until you get the next one) Near the start of the grind for parts it’s more difficult since due to random chance you’re unlikely to get all the parts you need. And if you do, that means a longer grind for the next Pink Floyd.

If you’re grinding HoFF with max threads, and getting an average 4 parts per visit, that means each Pink Floyd should arrive (eventually) about 12 visits. If it’s 3 parts per visit, then the number of visits required jumps up to 17.

Grinding HoFF exclusively means sacrificing 3/4 of your deliveries at least, and a good chunk of your job point earnings as well. So, say $60k*3=$180k lost per day from deliveries, and $16k*2=$32k lost per day from job rewards (unless you happen to be able to do the speedrun jobs) if you’re using 4 visits a day. If you use your visits less often, then those numbers increase to 7/8ths or 11/12ths of your deliveries & even less job rewards.

With the above number estimates;

Running 4 visits every day; 3*60+2*16=$212k costs per day

Running 8 visits every 2 days; 7*60+6*16=$516k costs, $258k costs per day average

Running 12 visits every 3 days; 11*60+10*16=$820k costs, $273k costs per day average

Also factoring in that one day a week you can’t get job rewards. It’s still more cost effective to use your visits on that day rather than save then for the next, if you’re grinding a single forum.

If you grind more forums, you eliminate the above costs, but that means a longer wait before you start seeing any payoff.

Acid Flux Posted:

Hmm, doesn’t the Job Board reset every hour? That might help minimize the lost flezz.

Well then you’re looking for max threads to turn up twice a day, or you lose moar parts. You’d have to watch the game 24/7 for a miniscule advantage.

Acid Flux Posted:

No, I just meant that 4 HOFFs with Job Board payouts might be available throughout the day if the Job Board resets.

So do you want the job board payouts, or do you want the extra moar parts? It’s a tradeoff.

Scenario 1: Wait for HoFF will 11 threads, run the forum 4 times, taking jobs for 2 of them.

Scenario 2: Wait for HoFF with 11 threads, run the forum 2 times, taking jobs for each, then repeat, waiting for 11 threads to turn up again an hour or more later. If it doesn’t you’re either down on moar parts (if you run the forums on 10 threads or less) or deliveries (if you wait until after rollover to run the extra 2 visits)

Yeah, I do all mine with jobs, but I’m not picky about the thread count.

I just wanted to point out that you can get job points for the saturday turns if you wait and run them after midnight server time. This always seemed a bit flawed to me.

Wylin Posted:

I just wanted to point out that you can get job points for the saturday turns if you wait and run them after midnight server time. This always seemed a bit flawed to me.

Especially since Shabbat is from Friday sunset until Saturday sunset, not midnight.

I also wonder about the artificial limitation imposed there,and the reasoning behind it, other than flavor text.

Ever since Kyoubai was released, I’ve been completing a Pink Floyd every 1-2 weeks. I’m missing 3 pieces right now.

Also, that’s from pwning only HoFF >_>