Ahhh I've been budgeting my time among other games and chores these past couple weeks. When I get back I have to take my Runeys off the Endangered Species List. I've barely started Autumn.
I've meant to do that but RFF is just so engaging. I don't know how i finished to pay off the second to last loan on my house in AC:CF and acquire my basement (finally) when I was just starting out in RFF. Luckily I did it though, cuz I wouldn't of reached that one milesstone at the pace i'm going now.
Conduit, AC:CF, Punch Out, Mushroom Men, Okami, and everything else in my backlog can SUCK IT. RFF OWNZ!
Last time I played i got hit by a second storm and it FUCKED up my grass patches after just planting them. That pisses me off to no end. Can anyone tell me how grass works in this game compared to Harvest moon? I believe in the first HM the grass dies off completely in the winter and has to be replanted, but in HM64 it regrows the way it was once winter is over. I don't mind beeing a little wasteful and use a whole bag of seeds to replace the one or two patches per 9x9 square that are missing now if the grass is going to regrow once spring rolls around again. If I'm going to have to replant however, i might as well leave my feild looking a little sloppy until then.
Oh, and i found an easy way to get silver. Once you get a peice from the Lava Ruins, you have a small chance of being able to get some in the Green Ruins (and i'm assuming Whale Island as well) as long as you break stones using an SA. Using an SA on those ore boulders gives you a better chance at finding higher level ore as well! Though when it comes to silver, i've only found level 1 or 2 at best. Iron, though, i've found up to level 9!
I've actually worked this into part of my routine. Visit the Green Ruins, plant the cucumbers and strawberrys i have growing in the first room, head up the steps and make a left, then another left (cutting down the second vine wall) and once i watter the crops i have in this room (the one with the ants) i'll head to the alcove to the left and use my Silver* Hammer to break the blocks in my way. The path there leads to a door with boulders blocking a chest that contains Rice**.
Next time I play, its BOAT RACE time. I previewed the day (ie saved in the morning, played and quit w/o saving) and I have to ask: How do you get a girl to join you on the boat? Annette was the only girl at the lake that day, and was the only one that asked if i'd be going to the boat race on the previous day. Everyone else was uninterested or just made a passing comment to let you know the boat race was coming up.
*You need the silver hammer to get into the room i'm speaking of because only that will break the small brown rocks blocking the path. You can try using a weaker hammer with a ton of SA's but after 6 hits and no luck (what a special axe woulda done to take out a stump) i gave up wasting RP. With the silver hammer, just 1 SA breaks em. Obviously this means you really do need to delve into the Lava Ruins and acquire some Silver there first, before it becoming available elsewhere.
**I never paid too much attention to what was in this treasure chest because i was more concerned with getting Silver and high levels of Iron and Scrap Iron for forging. It feels like every time i've done it, it is Rice that I get, and at least twice now i've gotten level 10 rice! I keep it in my fridge until i get some more recipes to find out what i can make that will maximize RP/HP restoration with its high level (or nutrients!).