Smarter thing to do is to Skip the TV shows

[Animalman]

Pick them up on VHS and watch them when you are at full comfort and ready to learn the skill.
awful waste sometimes just getting nippence for it. knowing later on when u safe and had the book you can't get the best of it.
u know what i mean?

[Hedge]

True enough. I find you are only going to get to level 2 on a few things by the time the power goes out or the shows no longer come on. It can be an either or situation but yes you do maximize your early game time by not watching them.
I tend to read a select few level 1-2 books while watching every show I can for the first week. After that I catch them if I can.

[KrossKounter]

capentry show is useful cuz you might need a water collector early on.

[Animalman]

Some settings u have no time to read
i think its acceptable to go if you brought 75% in the skill. catch the shows up to a point.
But i in the first week use the TV schedule as my timing. So i want to be inactive at the hours of the shows. And if i miss a show always kicking myself damn i could have used that.
I feel like the Carp is the only show you really wanna get if you brought a boost with you. Aside that initial clearance time can be all consuming you really have no time to squeeze a book in. Or even a decent amount of a book without fast reader.

Still particuraly riverside
riverside really because of the VHS store you really can miss a bunch of shows here with little to no consequence.

[KillerKommando]

The shows at the beginning are "free XP", in that they don't count against the XP from the VHS shows you can pick up and watch later even if they're the same episode.

Catching them at all is worth it, even for a small amount of XP. Dying to catch one of the shows is not worth it.

[Hedge]

Originally posted by Animalman:

Some settings u have no time to read
i think its acceptable to go if you brought 75% in the skill. catch the shows up to a point.
But i in the first week use the TV schedule as my timing. So i want to be inactive at the hours of the shows. And if i miss a show always kicking myself damn i could have used that.
I feel like the Carp is the only show you really wanna get if you brought a boost with you. Aside that initial clearance time can be all consuming you really have no time to squeeze a book in. Or even a decent amount of a book without fast reader.

Still particuraly riverside
riverside really because of the VHS store you really can miss a bunch of shows here with little to no consequence.

I use fast reader.

[Hedge]

Originally posted by KillerKommando:

The shows at the beginning are "free XP", in that they don't count against the XP from the VHS shows you can pick up and watch later even if they're the same episode.

Catching them at all is worth it, even for a small amount of XP. Dying to catch one of the shows is not worth it.

I didn't know that about the vhs tapes. Ty.

[Great_Puffer]

Originally posted by KillerKommando:

The shows at the beginning are "free XP", in that they don't count against the XP from the VHS shows you can pick up and watch later even if they're the same episode.

Catching them at all is worth it, even for a small amount of XP. Dying to catch one of the shows is not worth it.

exactly

[Slayer Slayerson]

Can i mod the TV show out, so my squirril-chasing brain doesnt have to plan around the tv shows.

[stevasaur]

Even if they change the TV shows not to stack with the tapes, having XP now can be more valuable than having XP later, especially since you might not live to see "later."

Plus most of the concentrated VHS locations are either very out of the way (Riverside) or in dangerously populated areas (Muldraugh, March Ridge, Lousiville etc). So you're gambling that you'll be able to retrieve the VHS's instead of dying in the process and losing the XP you've already earned.

So going VHS over live shows is a choice, but not always the right one.

[maviscruet]

Originally posted by stevasaur:

Even if they change the TV shows not to stack with the tapes, having XP now can be more valuable than having XP later, especially since you might not live to see "later."

Plus most of the concentrated VHS locations are either very out of the way (Riverside) or in dangerously populated areas (Muldraugh, March Ridge, Lousiville etc). So you're gambling that you'll be able to retrieve the VHS's instead of dying in the process and losing the XP you've already earned.

So going VHS over live shows is a choice, but not always the right one.

True - So much of the early game is striking a balance between short term and long term need.

In the ideal world I like to read the relevant skill book then sit down to watch the video and get the exp and the bonus. But if I'm in the base and a show's on or about to come on the TV isn't going off and I'm not going out.

[KrossKounter]

I don't see the appeal of min-maxing a sandbox game. Sometimes I do it, but sometimes I throw myself into absurd situations to spice things up.
Every playstyle is valid since this is just a sandbox after all.

[AbsynthMinded]

My PVE approach involves camping the TV from the jump. Provided I can get to a 'house' at or near my preferred base area. Then I do my beast to venture out from there, gathering initial resources and planning a route to my 'base'.

Planning around the TV shows sets good habits for keeping a schedule. It is rarely talked about how important it becomes to have a schedule for when to eat/sleep/exercise/watch shows.. or any number of other chores.

[Jarzzen]

If you take the deaf trait, does watching the television/vhs really do anything for you? Yes, I get irl a deaf person can still learn by watching, just not sure how the game reacts.

[AbsynthMinded]

closed captioning has been a thing for a long long time.

[stevasaur]

Closed captioning is also mentioned in the description of the Deaf trait!