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#NPCs count
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Which part of the guide is tripping you up?
Look at Figure 5
I'm going to guess that this is the part that is tripping you up
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Read this and imitate it, if anything doesn't make sense let me know and I'll explain it in more detail
coral zinc
Yea this is tripping me up
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So what you want to do is, from a fresh seed identification or re-identification, as in no advances have occured since you last checked your seed...
- Close and reopen the pause menu
- Re identify your seed again
- Subtract the amount of advances it took you to re-identify from the total number of advances
- E.g if 15 advances total, and 7 were used to re-identify, then 8 advances came from closing the pause menu
- Open the menu close timeline sub-window
- Tweak the number of NPCs until you see +8 in the first row (inside the jump column)
The guide goes into this in more detail
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Ok, re-identify your seed when you can, keep the pause menu open, and let me know when you have done this
Don't do any extra animations or close the pause menu after re-identifying your seed
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Okay, click update seeds for now
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done
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So what you want to do is, from a fresh seed identification or re-identification...
Now follow the bullet points
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okay so now i search for the npc count
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Please show screenshots along the way so I can make sure you're doing this right
No, close and reopen the pause menu
Follow from bullet point 1
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Good
Click generate and follow step 2
Show me a screenshot of retail tools after you've done this
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Ok, so based on this, how many advances do you think occured from closing the pause menu?
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10
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Bingo
Now click consider menu close and open the menuclosetimeline sub-window
Don't click update seeds, like the guide says
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Is your in-game weather "Normal Weather"? This is the regular sun icon
coral zinc
do i type in NPCs 1 first?
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Perfect, search with 1 NPC
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Ok, now 3
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4 etc
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Hurray
Looks like your NPC count is 5
Hopefully now you understand how to calibrate
coral zinc
i will find out soon when i get to shiny
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Yup, make sure consider menu close is checked on the main window with 5 NPCs, and search for your target again
The search result table will produce the frame you're expected to close the pause menu on
Follow the static guide for more info, it's very clear on how to advance the RNG state in a controlled manner
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getting closer and closer
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Yup, make sure `consider menu close` is checked on the main window with 5 NPCs, ...
if i save the game and reset it will adcances reset or stay the same
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You can't restart the game, you'll get a new seed and have to start again
Your NPC count will be the same if you don't move, though
coral zinc
You can't restart the game, you'll get a new seed and have to start again
yea thats what i thought so
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getting closer and closer
few more menu advances and it should be here
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Good luck
Pay attention to step 8 btw, as it will throw off your calibration if you unpause while holding a direction if that checkbox is not active, and vice versa
coral zinc
hmm should be close
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Yup!
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Well not this time it seems :/
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Are you standing with spawned Pokemon with you or something
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Not your follower, like wild stuff
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nope
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Does anything spawn on your walk towards Virizion?
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nope
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It's worth double checking both of these things
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ill just reset game and try again