FF9 Perfect Game with Offensive Training B - 78 (first test of a long session of catching frogs)
0Welcome,
This is the 78th episode of a let's play of a "non-Excalibur II perfect game with offensive approach of training" type of challenge, intended for the NTSC US PS1 version of the game.
Link of the complete playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaIe3G8M8kUh9tYa0aIU7F18IAwcbZW66
Link of the first episode in the playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GxUT7eGCQY&list=PLaIe3G8M8kUh9tYa0aIU7F18IAwcbZW66&index=2
This particular short episode contains info related to catching frogs efficiently. The main info to focus on is the text appearing at 00:45, as it details how I should do in the future a nearly optimized frogs catching session of several hours (as a reminder, I have already caught more than 100 frogs but the ultimate goal of the challenge is to reach 32767 frogs caught). The session of several hours I tested and recorded is however different from the the nearly optimal one described at 00:45; it is a practical rather than optimal routine, it is detailed at 00:28, and it has been recorded in the sub-episodes of which the links are below (total playing time is 11 hours):
* Episode 78-1 (a kind of "prep" for the main 8 hours session starting around the 90 hours mark / frogs captured count was raised from 105 to 133):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX2uN3EpN1c
* Episode 78-2 (1st hour of the main frogs catching session / reaching 151 frogs captured):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsMO7eHbLpc
* Episode 78-3 (2nd hour of the main frogs catching session / reaching 166 frogs captured):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1X2bwmNgq0
* Episode 78-4 (3rd hour of the main frogs catching session / reaching 184 frogs captured):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uV9LsFQ_LQ
* Episode 78-5 (4th hour of the main frogs catching session / reaching 201 frogs captured):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p36bRyeB0nE
* Episode 78-6 (5th hour of the main frogs catching session / reaching 218 frogs captured):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NJjVFvhpM4
* Episode 78-7 (6th hour of the main frogs catching session / reaching 238 frogs captured):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPznIJbJQUM
* Episode 78-8 (7th hour of the main frogs catching session / reaching 254 frogs captured):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1w8sfq3C_Q
* Episode 78-9 (8th hour of the main frogs catching session / reaching 272 frogs captured):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv2tKauM7r0
Extra info/corrections/comments on this episode:
* As a reminer, in anticipation of the eventual long sessions of frogs catching, I achieved in "episode 70" the "frogs ponds' improvement" task, that consists as a reminer of transferring the golden frog from Lachenta Wetlands to Lanar Island (where the frog growth cycles are the shortest), and of ensuring that the golden frog has the best frog growth level among the 3 frog growth levels of a golden frog (the best one gives birth to baby frogs after the passage of only one cycle, without passing through the tadpole phase).
* As a reminder, the catching frogs session recorded in this series of "78" sub-episodes is far from being optimized; basically, for it to be nearly optimized:
- I should have started visiting all the ponds regularly as soon as I loaded the initial save file, meaning around the "87:03:XX" mark; instead, I started visiting Blairsurpass Plains at "87:15:XX", Lachenta Wetland at "88:09:XX", Donna Plains at "88:45:XX" and Lanar Island at "89:57:XX".
- At Lanar Island (the pond containing the golden frog), I should have opted for the routine consisting of visiting the pond every two cycles in order to catch an average of 3.75 frogs, instead of visiting it every cycle to catch an average of 1.97 frogs.
* With the readjustements above, after the passage of 11 hours of play, I could have caught about 207 frogs and reached the 312 frogs caught, instead of only reaching the 272 frogs caught by catching 167 frogs.
* The universal stats to retain from the catching frogs session recorded is the average number of frogs caught from visit #2 in the three ponds that do not contain the golden frog, which is more or less 1.6 frogs, and the average time spent in Qu's Marsh, which is around 2 minutes. As a reminder, the number of frogs caught in the pond containing the golden frog depends on the "Golden frog's couples mating odd", which is a random value that ranges from 128 to 256 and that characterize the golden frog in a particular save (it will be reinitialized if the golden frog is replaced by a new one), thus my average stats of 1.97 frogs caught after one cycle and 3.75 frogs caught after two cycles in Lanar Island cannot be used as a reference for other players.
* Most users and I rely on the "Qu's Marsh" guide uploaded by the user "SoftReset" in GameFAQs for all the technical info related to Qu's Marsh and frogs catching.
The following is the link of an annex file containing the details on max stats/items/Tetra Master requirements (notably the trainings):
https://www.mediafire.com/file/v75arfocbfl2cxs
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