New Year Refresh

Welcome to 2024!

Okay, so aside from announcing that I will be posting more Hunger Games content (🥳🍾) and vlogging this year, I’ve been thinking ALOT about my plans for LOP too.

So where to begin? Well, I’m currently hoarding for CS Dom/Favored, not that I have any expectations for how well I’ll place. 😅 The player I anticipated dropping this last round, ended up only doing half the drop. 😱 Which, to be honest, really messed me up for next month. And unfortunately, I need to catch up since I haven’t fully unloaded everything for at least five cycles now. 😩 Or I at least don’t feel comfortable hoarding beyond this next CS round. (I’m beginning to feel it in debates, guild wars and field. 😰) It will set a new personal record for power/intimacy quick rank increase, but I doubt it will claim a victory on the CS ranking. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I’ll talk more about the details of that drop next month.

However, in order to not completely miss out on the rank goodies for CS, I went ahead and revised a strategy goal I made last year. I decided to promote all my red partners to gold this last Dominant cycle (and hoping that 29M increase doesn’t come back to haunt me next month. 😆) I figured at this point in the game, bringing some balance to my partner stack will make me a stronger force to be reckoned with going forward. I say this having run into several players now who have an exceptional/somewhat unbeatable top 8, and weeeelll I’m a little jealous. 🙃 So I think that’s going to be a goal this year, evening out my top 12, and any other partners I promote to arch chief this year.

This includes my confidants too! I’m definitely going to get Mozi promoted to “Love of a Lifetime” and then work on evenly leveling up the rest of my top 8. Maybe I’ll win Grandiose Ceremony this year. 🤣🤣🤣

Back to partners. My previous statement probably means I am going to pass on adding “paid”partners to my stack this year too. I am a little curious to see how that fairs actually. I started it last year, but then the game added 4 free partners. 😅 Two of which I was given after an update, and the other two that you earn from the new CS events. I will eventually get the CS Hunting Competition partner this year, but outside of that, I’m going to try my hardest to NOT add to my current stack. I’m just interested to see how much it stunts my growth. And well, as we can currently see, the opportunity to grab missed partners always seems to come around eventually. 😏

Another thing I’ll be doing this year is replenishing my inventory for CS Banquet, Debate and Hunting. 😂

I’m like all out of banquet invitations, challenge letters, pursuit tokens, and all those hunting competition goodies. So I’m going to be doing bare minimum participation for a lot of stuff this year, or at least until I recoup my resources.

Oh and I want to challenge myself to hoard ingots! Maybe I’ll hoard to some ridiculous amount, like 50k. 🤣 (I say that, when I know I’m going to indulge a little here and there. 😅) But now that I have some sense of the event calendar, I feel like I can actually accomplish this goal, since I know when I’m going to need my ingots and when I won’t. (Also like right now. I may pay for a game or two to get some more banquet invites, but beyond that, I’m probably sitting out again. But then there is the argument for dropping just enough ingots to rank in event points, which can have a major item payout if hardly anyone else is participating. 🤔 Spending ingots as a F2P is always a gamble. 🤪) But sadly, there’s always that knowing I’ll have to pass on items I would love to have. 🙃 (Like so many of those pretty backdrops or partner skins… 😮‍💨)

But I think my main goal, if I can sum it up, is just to continue enjoying the game. Frustrations and all. I’m really curious to see how long I last in this game. It’s fun being around for all the new updates and watching how guilds reorganize as players cease playing for one reason or another. I’ve actually thought about making another F2P account to run a different partner building strategy, but I don’t have time for that. 🤪😂 Not with everything else I have going on and my interests being as divided as they are right now. (I’m constantly pulled between Russian language, Russian history/culture, Chinese history/language, Hunger Games blog posts, Theology, or my Fan Fiction. Which do I feel like doing now in my down time? 🤔🙈)

Anyway, as we keep progressing through the year, I’ll try to come up with some new LOP strategy series stuff to chat about here to keep me and everyone else on their A game.

TTFN (ta ta for now.)