Dang it, Numa always sneaks up on me

[rpgfreakiod]

I know it's kind of how Numa is supposed to work, but it always sneaks up on me when I have a bunch of lessons from reading a bunch of books.

Gives me a dang heart attack trying to mash everything in before Numa ends.

[Maina]

I generally find that I have time to either open rooms, craft, or read books. Or, at least, my brain works better to focus on one type of thing in a day.

I've taken to just having the first half of a season be book-reading-time and the latter half be for everything else.

That way, I'm not generating new Lessons that might poof before I can use them. Usually.

[Psyringe]

The "time of day" display at the top of the screen shows you (at its bottom) how far along the current season is. I generally make sure to not end the last day of a season with lots of unused lessons, in case Numa occurs. So far, I think I lost only one lesson to Numa.

Then, at the start of the next season (if it isn't Numa), I focus on reading new books for the first few days, to generate a bunch of new lessons that I'll then use up before that season ends.

All that said, losing lessons to Numa apparently isn't as bad as it seems because there are (reportedly, I haven't done it myself yet) ways to get a theoretically infinite number of lessons, though it sounds like it would take a long time to generate large numbers of additional lessons.

Regarding Numa "sneaking up on you", as far as I understand, Numa will happen exactly once every two in-game years, inserted between two regular seasons at a random time. This means if you see Numa before all 8 regular seasons of that cycle have passed, you should then be "safe" for the remaining duration of that 2-year period.

[rpgfreakiod]

Yeah I multitask and lose track of the time a lot, both the time of day and the seasons.

[super_jqp]

It's every 9 seasons. Fool me once and all that.

[Lukethanuke]

So Numa cant happen mid season?

[Lukethanuke]

Originally posted by Psyringe:

Then, at the start of the next season (if it isn't Numa), I focus on reading new books for the first few days, to generate a bunch of new lessons that I'll then use up before that season ends.

So Numa cant happen mid season?

[Eaton Sumida]

Originally posted by Lukethanuke:

Originally posted by Psyringe:

Then, at the start of the next season (if it isn't Numa), I focus on reading new books for the first few days, to generate a bunch of new lessons that I'll then use up before that season ends.

So Numa cant happen mid season?

No, it always happens between two other seasons.

[Liren]

I would beg to differ, my last one happened mid-winter. New day dawned, the weather was about to populate... and suddenly Numa. That caused a bit of a panic for me.

[Psyringe]

Originally posted by Liren:

I would beg to differ, my last one happened mid-winter. New day dawned, the weather was about to populate... and suddenly Numa. That caused a bit of a panic for me.

Are you 100% sure that you haven't lost track of the time, or otherwise misinterpreted the situation?

Numa has never appeared mid-season for me, and I've never heard of another player to whom this happened either. The general consensus (which matches my personal gameplay experience) is that the game basically has a deck of 8 cards, 7 of which saying "no Numa" and one saying "Numa happening" - and that it draws one at the start of every regular season during an in-game 2-year cycle.

Obviously, you could have discovered something rare that no one else has seen or reported yet. Or you could have run into a bug. But since your report is in stark contradiction to established community knowledge, and since it's something that _would_ be very easy to spot if it indeed happens, I would have expected more people to come forward with this already, so please forgive my skepticism. Let's keep an eye on the matter. If I ever encounter Numa mid-season, I promise I'll come back to eat my words. ;)