Anytime an extended downtime is announced, I start preparing for the worst. With today's downtime from 1100 - 1400 GMT to deploy the first part of Incursion, I've gone ahead and made sure I have some 4 day skills in my skill queues. But this time I also had to prepare for the possible negative effects on my planetary interaction colonies.
Unlike the skills queue, any lengthy extended downtime affects my PI activities. I don't have a lot of free time so I like to do my clicking when I wake up. 6:30 am in Chicago is 1230 GMT, which falls in the window. So how do I get around this problem? On Sunday, instead of setting 23 hour extraction periods, I started running 5 hour cycles. I could do this on Sunday because all I really did was watch football, and doing planetary interaction every so often wasn't very hard. Once 10 o'clock rolled around, I started up the 23 hour extraction cycle again.
Unlike the skills queue, any lengthy extended downtime affects my PI activities. I don't have a lot of free time so I like to do my clicking when I wake up. 6:30 am in Chicago is 1230 GMT, which falls in the window. So how do I get around this problem? On Sunday, instead of setting 23 hour extraction periods, I started running 5 hour cycles. I could do this on Sunday because all I really did was watch football, and doing planetary interaction every so often wasn't very hard. Once 10 o'clock rolled around, I started up the 23 hour extraction cycle again.
Besides setting the time to when I get home from work, I got a lot more minerals just in case something goes wrong with the patch. I calculated I have enough to last for over a complete day of downtime at each of my colonies. But I'll be glad when the downtime is over and I can get back to my morning routine again.
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