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This is all... extremely disappointing and I feel it shows a complete lack of creativity. Each weapon deserves to have its own unique afterglow..

Wow I can't believe there haven't been any crafting posts whatsoever in the time since I've been gone @_@

I've decided I don't want to remake my original spreadsheets (laaaaazy) so I'll just say that everything you need is definitely hear. If anyone cares the gameday/moonphase correlation spreadsheet I have in the OP is 100% accurate and it was the foundation I used to make the original spreadsheet. If you want to reconstruct it just logic out the size of each seasonal factor and add a wheel to the right of the moon phase. Every season lasts 3 months and benefits 2 elements. The times and elements can be found fairly easily and I remember that the elemental associations for each season tend to make sense in a real-world way. This is your best friend also when building your spreadsheet: http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Time

That's pretty much all you need really. I suspect that there's a wheel bigger than season (probably year like I said earlier) but I don't believe that knowledge holds nearly as much value as the rest and its far more of a pain in the ass to analyze. My final spreadsheet that I was evaluating with (and which enabled me to HQ my signed T0s with such ease) had a fresh "elemental window" every 8-10 (I forget which I used in the end) in game minutes, with the elements alternating in reverse order (like those of the moon phases).

Like I said before money's easier to make these days so I'd never recommend full use of this system for gil-making purposes. Its a -serious- pain in the ass, especially when testing and locking down how exactly the seasons work. When I was working on it there were a bunch of nights I had to wake up for an hour in the middle of the night so I could test key windows. If anyone wants to go diehard and rebuild the whole thing synths with multiple tiered hq like tools n such are good for finding the windows, as mentioned before.

In closing on the whole thing, knowledge of day + moon ELEMENT + season should be plenty in order to generate a consistent gil stream, especially when you focus on market analysis and lower level synths (these can be AMAAAAAZINGLY lucrative especially with multiple mules). If you're deadset on signing your own gear like I was then learning the system (or being uber stubborn lol) is the way to go. Given the lack of attention this part of the site seems to have seen I'm guessing that's not a big concern these days though lol Trying to consistently use advanced knowledge of the crafting system can be mentally annoying and, imo, does not give you a considerably unfair money-making advantage over someone without that knowledge due to the spacing and offset of the best windows. I had a lot of fun learning it all and seeing it through to fruition but I find it more relaxing and interesting to look for awesome, neglected t2-t3 synths and make them (because you literally cannot lose money doing that and you don't have to wake up at ungodly hours @_@)

Edit: I hope to be back in the game in a month or two and if there are any uber-hardcore crafters that want help with this feel free to post here or message me. As you can surely tell I'm not the least bit secretive about this stuff anymore lol