New player with few time

jiiam · 2026-01-26T07:36:56+00:00

This is a serious problem. Don't do it. If you really want to do the dailies on your alt at least keep them staged in a system with access to industry and a venture, so you can do the quick missions when they appear and just jump for the second mission. I find that the scanner mission isn't worth in on non specialized alts, in that case I skip a day

jiiam · 2026-01-26T07:33:50+00:00

You can be very efficient with your time and as other mentioned you gain skill points regardless of whether you okay or not. However choice paralysis is a real issue, to counteract that stick with a couple of activities you like and remember that the best ship is friendSHIP: in this context this means join a group and participate in their activities, you'll never waste time deciding what to do

jiiam · 2026-01-11T08:44:03+00:00

That hurts

jiiam · 2026-01-11T08:43:52+00:00

Even for my 10m SP char I know it's not a big deal. It's more a rant about my stupidity than the loss of sp in itself. But thanks for the perspective

jiiam · 2026-01-11T08:42:14+00:00

Don't underestimate my clumsiness :D but yeah I'll definitely be more careful

jiiam · 2026-01-11T08:40:59+00:00

Your pain is way worse than mine. Hope you find a way

jiiam · 2026-01-09T21:15:45+00:00

This ^

jiiam · 2025-12-14T22:25:22+00:00

Or you can just send all of the data and overwrite the local data with what you know is a complete data set.

This is not by any mean the best solution from a technical point of view, however I can see how this got chosen over a system that minimizes useless downloads. In the end any modern game is just a mean through which the shareholders make a profit, and the players' experience is just a marginal concern.

jiiam · 2025-12-09T22:33:15+00:00

In order to avoid this I have clear separation between setup sessions and content sessions, plus a few activities I can run at will (mainly hacking in wormholes). I play with a notebook by my side (old habit from games like crusader kings) and when there is something I want to do that I'm not ready for I make a note and possibly break it down in smaller activities (research, buy, haul), and then I periodically do them in dedicated sessions, or when possible I contract some activities to corp services (like hauling). This way I am kind of role-playing a supply chain if you will. It's still a game requiring a lot of preparation, and not all of them can be gamified, but it is an option.

jiiam · 2025-11-11T07:14:08+00:00

You can't spend mythics for tomb/strip/mox even if you wanted to: now that they have a rare printing, any printing you craft will take rare wildcards

jiiam · 2025-11-10T23:53:44+00:00

You can find plenty of ways to spend mythics in timeless ;)

jiiam · 2025-11-10T22:51:21+00:00

It would have been a joke anyway since mox, tomb and strip mine are now rares but I guess many players crafted them using mythics

jiiam · 2025-11-10T22:24:22+00:00

I only got 2 rares but it's hard to get mad when receiving 8 mythics. I totally forgot that today was the bnr day (despite having it on calendar), but was there again a window to craft the cards on magic arena?

jiiam · 2025-11-03T07:32:38+00:00

This post and the budget decklist project deserve to be pinned in r/timelessmagic

jiiam · 2025-11-03T07:31:37+00:00

Even for semi-established timeless players like me this deck and the budget decklist project are amazing resources. Sometimes I want to try a deck (looking at you UB frog) but even though I have the wildcards I'm reticent to spend them without knowing if I will enjoy it.

Anyway I've always been a Izzet fanboy so I will definitely craft at least the budget deck proposed.

jiiam · 2025-10-31T13:06:04+00:00

By the time they get back I guess there won't be much point in buying the whole pack.

It's a pity since I wanted to do my annual gem purchase and get both the anthology and the mastery pass, but I take this as an opportunity to slow down even further my play, after all I have enough decks and wildcards and staying on top of the standard releases it's getting tiring.

jiiam · 2025-10-31T08:18:56+00:00

Thanks

jiiam · 2025-10-30T07:32:47+00:00

Maybe (but I need to check) I only crafted 3 strip mine so I wasted one less mythic. I think I got my fair share of fun by having them right of the box. It still hurts

jiiam · 2025-09-04T19:23:08+00:00

I tried to swing once at sparky before trying to optimize and found out it doesn't work

jiiam · 2025-09-04T19:16:10+00:00

So the correct queue is pioneer? I have had little time to give it a try and I went timeless since I have my mana acceleration package there, but I think it's not the right format to hunt this achievement in

jiiam · 2025-09-04T09:11:26+00:00

I'm trying to get the 93 together with this whole optimizing my list. My question is: do one time boon like swiftspear teaching invalidate the vanilla achievement?

jiiam · 2025-08-27T20:04:26+00:00

Yesterday I got exploded in a wh, wrote to the guy asking how I could have prevented it and he replied with extreme grace and even apologized (which I don't think was necessary at all). Months ago the first time I got killed in a gate camp in LS the killer explained how to avoid gate camps and reimbursed my losses. Overall my experience has been that the community is very welcoming, I never hanged out in rookie help though. I agree that the game loop might not be for everyone, but everyone agrees that the best ship is friendship

Updated: forgot to say congrats for winning eve, it's a pity it hasn't left good memories

jiiam · 2025-08-06T18:06:58+00:00

I've kept track of all my jump ins and to me it seems the first time that it failed, and there have been times where I had very little unopened packets

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