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Training Course. Popular in this Category. Related Civil-Engg. Activity Name: a unique description, typically begins with an action verb, that clearly identifies the activity. Duration D : the number of working days to perform a specific activity. Early Start ES : the earliest date an activity can begin.

Early Finish EF : the earliest date an activity will finish. Late Start LS : the latest date an activity can begin. Late Finish LF : the latest date an activity will finish. This means that the contractor is responsible for developing a schedule based on the early dates, not the late dates.

A milestone can also designate the start or end of a single activity or group of activities. See the red diamond in Figure The project documents will identify some, not all, milestones that the contractor is required to track and report. See Table for a Table Sample Milestones sample list of milestones. The relationship arrow travels from a predecessor activity to a successor activity and can be either a driving relationship or a non-driving relationship.

Predecessor activity—an activity which controls the start date of the following activity ies. Only the first activity does not have a predecessor.

Successor activity—an activity that can not start until the completion of the activity ies before it. Only the last activity does not have a successor. Driving relationship—the specific relationship between the predecessor and successor that determines the start date of the successor activity. Non-driving relationship—the specific relationship does not determine the start date of the successor activity.

Lag—the duration assigned to a predecessor activity to delay the start its successor. Lead negative lag —the duration assigned to a predecessor activity to allow acceleration of its successor before completion.

Use lag and lead durations sparingly on projects. Be aware, that some contractors may try to use lag or lead durations to hide delays in a schedule. Excessive use of lag or lead durations could have adverse effects on the project schedule, distorting the critical path and causing resource conflicts Winter, To illustrate relationships, we will separate the activities into two walls: Wall 1 and Wall 2.

Assuming that the duration of Prime Wall 2 is slightly longer indicated by a slightly larger activity block than the duration for Wall 1, Dry Time 2 will not start at the same time as Dry Time 1. Wall 2 is the driving relationship since it will take longer to prime and dry. Also, in the example, there is a 2-day lag on the driving relationship, which means that the start of the successor activity Prep Complete will lag the completion of Dry Time 2 by 2 days.

Finish-to-start FS : The successor activity cannot start until the predecessor finishes for example, Activity B starts after the end of Activity A , the most commonly used relationship. Start-to-start SS : The successor activity cannot start until the predecessor starts for example, Activity B can start only after the start of Activity A. Finish-to-finish FF : The successor activity finishes at the same time as the predecessor for example, Activity B must finish at the same time as Activity A finishes.

Start-to-finish SF : The successor activity finishes after start of the predecessor for example, Activity B finishes after the start of Activity A , the least commonly used relationship. By changing the relationship types between activities, project completion can be gained or lost. Placed onto activities or milestones, these dates can be start dates or end dates. Constraints override schedule relationships.

Although constraints can be useful, they can also distort the project float and critical path. Furthermore, using hard constraints will prevent tasks from being moved by their dependencies and, therefore, prevent the schedule from being logic driven Winter, Hard Constraints A hard constraint overrides the network logic and is a restriction that sets the early and late dates to the imposed date.

Mandatory Start Date—prevents the start of an activity before or after the specified date, even if the predecessors are complete. Examples: Notice to proceed, site access, agency approval. Mandatory Finish Date—prevents the finish of an activity before or after the specified date, even if the predecessors are complete or the successors have started. Examples: Completion milestones and project interfaces.

Soft Constraints A soft constraint protects the schedule logic. Start On or Finish On Date—a restriction that will delay the early start or finish or accelerate the late start or finish to satisfy the imposed date.

As Late as Possible Date—a restriction that uses positive float to delay an activity as long as possible without delaying its successor. Using a software program is advantageous for performing the intricate calculations of a detailed network and will perform those calculations in a fraction of the time.

The CPM algorithm—the forward and backward pass—is very important to both owners and contractors. A manager may wish to know which activities are critical and which will be impacted if other dates are delayed. A contractor may wish to know the absolute latest date they can perform a task before it affects other activities on the project.

Knowing how a schedule operates will help troubleshoot problems, find delays, and create meaningful communication with accurate project information. Starting at the beginning of a project and traveling through each activity in the CPM network, each task is analyzed by what precedes and succeeds it.

The forward pass calculates the earliest date a project or task will start or finish, while the backward pass calculates the latest date a project or task will start or complete.

Calculating the Schedule Forward Pass The forward pass is used to calculate the early dates day of each activity in the schedule.

Begin moving along the network, from left to right, assuming that the Start milestone has an early start day ES set at zero. Chapter 3: Critical Path Method 25 Finish-to-Start Calculating the successor early start day is dependent on its Finish-to-Start relationship with its predecessor s.

When there are multiple predecessors, the largest value of all of predecessor activities plus any lag determines the start day of the successor. Similar calculations can be performed for the forward pass with the finish-to-finish and the start-to-finish relationships.

Figure is the start of a schedule to paint a room. The schedule begins with a Start milestone at day 1. Using the formulas, the early days have been calculated. The late start day LS of every activity is the late finish day LF minus the activity duration D plus one day. Similar calculations can be performed for the backward pass with the start-to-start and the start-to-finish relationships.

The goal of the backward pass is to determine float, which will be discussed next. Figure is the end of a schedule to paint a room. The schedule ends with a Finish milestone at day Using the formulas, the late days have been calculated. If the free float is very small, a delay on one of these activities can cause the previously near-critical path to become critical. Free Float According to the Standard Specifications Glossary , a near-critical path is a chain of activities with total float exceeding that of the critical path but having no more than 10 working days of total float.

It is the longest duration path in the network. Any change in duration or delay to activities on the critical path will impact the project completion date. Project Duration After performing both the forward and backward passes, the most critical path can be deciphered.

To determine the total project duration DT , sum all the durations D and all the lags L on a Project Float specific path. To determine the total project float FT , sum all the float F along the path. After all durations and floats are tabulated, which paths are critical, near-critical, and so on can be determined. Path ABCF is the most critical path with a total duration of 21 days and a total float of 0 days. These results state that if there is a delay on any activity on this path, project duration will be longer than 21 days, thereby delaying project completion.

For assistance or additional information, contact the Construction District Training Coordinator. This is a very effective tool for construction scheduling; however, it is also very detailed and has many functions that a scheduler needs to understand before such reviews can be performed.

And, whether just reviewing schedules or having found a reason to create one, it is important to learn how to build schedules. Chapter 4 provides the basic knowledge necessary for use of the P6 software.

Chapter 5 describes how to build baseline schedules, including all the activity codes and work breakdown structure WBS codes. Chapter 6 shows how to create update schedules, and explains the process to create accurate schedule updates.

P6 provides in-depth analysis tools P6 Organization: Enterprise for planning, tracking, and controlling projects, including Project Structure project documentation, project issues, analyzing and Opening P6 resolving time impact analyses. The program is broken into its constituent elements.

Each project can be further described and organized by the work breakdown structure WBS , and then by schedule activities. With the ability to create up to 50 EPS EPS Level 3 levels, project storage structures can be developed to accommodate multiple complicated organization structures. Level 1 nodes represent the districts, Level 2 nodes represent an individual resident engineer office, and Level 3 nodes represent a specific project expenditure authorization EA.

In this way, there is a logical grouping of schedules, which provide an intuitive means of drilling down and summarizing. Each project has a unique work breakdown structure that describes contract scope and groups work activities appropriately. Figure Organizational Structure Contract scope is divided into individual work activities, which describe the order in which work will occur, and how long each activity will take, given assumed resources.

Usage of the program or the installation selections made will effect what window the program opens. If the program has been used, then the default open screen will be the last screen used. If a program is open, then close it by selecting File, Close All, and responding yes to the prompt.

The Open p Project j window opens. Select View, Toolbars to activate visible or deactivate hide the various toolbars. The text names for the buttons on the Navigation Bar, the Directory Bar, and the Command Bar can also be toggled on and off. The Home window, contains five main elements, as shown in Figure Menu Bar—provides access to the variety of tools and options. The important areas of the Menu Bar will be discussed throughout this manual. Navigation Bar—shows which window is open. Forward—navigates to the next screen that the user accessed, after the current screen.

Home—takes the user directly to the Home Window. Program Dir. Directory —toggles the directory bar, on the left side of the window. Help—accesses the P6 help utility. Directory Bar—along the left side of the window, has a total of twelve buttons.

Each button opens a new window. The first four buttons open windows with information at the program level. The bottom eight buttons open windows with project level information, Figure It provides the program-level overview of all the schedules that exist in the P6 database.

Tracking Window—should be used to display and create tracking layouts for the open project. Activities Window—used to view, create, and modify an open schedule. Assignments Window—used to view, add, and delete resources assigned to activities.

For contractor-prepared schedules, the usefulness of assignments is limited. Expenses Window—used to manage costs and expenses for an open project. For contractor-prepared schedules, the usefulness of expenses is limited. Thresholds Window—used to add or delete thresholds for an open project. A threshold is a variance range on a given parameter, such as start date variance, which can be applied to a specific work breakdown structure element.

Thresholds can be used to monitor performance; however, for contractor-prepared schedules, the usefulness of thresholds is limited. Issues Window—used to add, delete, or modify issues for an open project. Issue files are useful to track the ongoing history of a specific activity; however, for contractor- prepared schedules, the usefulness of adding issues is limited.

Risks Window—used to add, delete, or calculate risks for an open project. Risk analysis is a very useful tool for managing projects; however, for contractor-prepared schedules, the usefulness of maintaining risks is limited. Chapter 4: Primavera P6 Basics 41 Directory Buttons—mirror the functions on the Directory Bar; however, they can only be accessed through the Home window, whereas the Directory Bar can be accessed while in any of the other windows.

Status Bar—provides information about the user and the open project. This bar cannot be edited. The Projects window, Figure , is used to globally review the entire EPS and all the projects contained within that structure. This view accesses and edits the project-level data of individual schedules and the project default settings.

Finally, it is through the Projects window that an individual project is navigated to and opened. Activities can be created, viewed, deleted or modified in the open project, including relationships, codes and resources. Activities Toolbar—provides direct access to several useful activity functions, Figure These functions can also be found in the menus button of the Menu Bar. Command Bar—contains icons buttons for adding and deleting activities, cutting, copying and pasting activities, and moving activities within the active view.

Shows or hides the Gantt Chart in Opens the Columns window, which the top layout. Opens the Timescale dialog Shows the Activity Network in the box, which is used to specify the top layout. Shows or hides the Activity Details Group and Organize in the bottom layout. Select predefined or create Shows or hides the Activity Usage custom a filter. Spreadsheet in the bottom layout.

Select predefined or create Shows or hides the Activity Usage custom a grouping and sorting Profile in the bottom layout. Profile in the bottom layout. Opens the Resource Leveling dialog box — used to schedule Shows or hides Trace Logic in the activities using resource bottom layout. Run after the schedule Shows or hides the bottom layout. These activities can be grouped and sorted in a variety of ways, to suit the needs of the scheduler. Additionally, the columns can be modified to provide detailed information about the activity and its status.

Specific information about each activity can be seen and modified from this page. A detailed discussion of the creation and alteration of layouts is provided in Chapter 5. It can be customized both on the timescale and the information shown.

The bars can be customized to show different colors, shapes, and patterns. Labels can easily be added to the right or left. Relationships between activities can also be shown. Summary bars showing the duration of a group of related activities can also be set up. In the standard layout, activities are represented by green bars if they are not on the critical path, or by red bars if they are on the critical path though these colors can be edited.

Activity Network—shows the activity boxes and logic links, Figure The activity network is a graphical representation of the logical network behind the CPM schedule. Activity information is contained in boxes, with logic links represented by arrows. While the location of the activity boxes can be time- scaled, the duration of the activity can only be known by reading the original duration field in the box itself.

Bottom Layout—shows additional detailed information about either individual activities or about the entire project, Figure A number of options can be selected to be shown in the bottom layout, or the bottom layout can be turned off entirely so that the top layout fills the Activities window. Additional information will be covered in Chapter 5. Global level data is used across all project schedules, while project level data is project specific.

As discussed, the Directory Bar splits the global data from the project data. Global level data is available to all projects across the organization and provides the structure necessary for centralized project and resource management.

To minimize the potential for confusion or changed data, this data should be used at the project level whenever practical. This will open the Work Breakdown Structure window, Figure The top WBS level, the parent level, is automatically named with the project name.

Users cannot add additional parent level WBS values; however, users can add values below this parent. Reordering the WBS is called promoting and demoting. For instance, to move the new WBS level under P6. II, and has been re-coded P6. The WBS name remains the same. The cut, copy, and paste buttons on the Command Bar can be used to quickly duplicate or move WBS nodes. This is also true of the delete button on the Command Bar.

Deleting a WBS level will also delete all the subordinate nodes. Chapter 4: Primavera P6 Basics 51 Creating Activity Codes Activity codes are like tags, assigned to each activity within a schedule, allowing customizing of data. They represent broad categories of information, such as phase, division of work, or location. For each activity code, specific values activity code value must be defined that further describe that category. For example, if the project is occurring at multiple locations, a Location code with values such as Main Street, Elm Street, Hill Street, and so forth, should be created.

Activities can then be associated with a specific location, such as Main Street, by assigning that specific code value to the activity. Use of activity codes provides a means to view, group, and summarize activities within the schedule, create reports, select and summarize activities, and organize a layout by grouping and filtering. Activity codes can be organized in a hierarchy. They can be used on both the global and project-specific level within the database and each activity code global or project may contain an unlimited number of activity code values.

The activity code level is project. The Activity Code Definitions Project window will open. Length can be set or the default value 7 can be kept. This is the maximum length of the code value, not the code description. Each activity code value has two fields: Code Value and Description. The order of the codes in this window determines the order of the grouping bands in a layout that uses activity codes. Therefore, ordering the code values logically will lead to a logically organized layout.

Only the code values will be deleted, not the activity code itself. Labor man-power —measured in units of time, can be as specific as an individual, or established as an entire crew as long as the crew is defined.

Material—measured in units other than time such as cubic yards, linear feet, tons, square feet, and so forth. Once a material resource is established in the resource dictionary it can be continuously reused, however on a specific project schedule the material can be consumed by the activities to which it is assigned and therefore is not continuously reused.

To add resources to project activities; on the Menu Bar, select Enterprise, Resources or click the Resources button on the Directory Bar to open the Resources window Figure Figure Nonlabor Resources Details of the selected resource is viewed and edited in the Bottom Layout of the Resources window.

Another method for entering resource details is to use the New Resource Wizard. The following demonstrates the steps to create project resources, using the New Resource Wizard. For a material, click on the radial button for Material, then click on the Expand button to open the Select Unit of Measure dialogue box. Highlight a unit of measures and click Select to select it and return to the New Resource Wizard.

In the example,p tons is highlighted. Contact information can be added for a specific labor resource that is identified by name. A calendar can be specified to limit the availability of a resource.

Click on the Expand button next to the calendar name. Scroll to choose and highlight a calendar, then click Select to select it and return to the New Resource Wizard. Click Finish. The resource can now be viewed in the Resources window. The original duration is the number of working days an activity needs to complete. Calendars can be assigned to individual activities in order to show which days are allowable for progress to occur.

These two activities together are predicted to require a total of 10 working days to complete the scope of work. However, not every day is a working day. If the project is operating on a 5-day work week, then typically Saturdays and Sundays are not available for work see dark grey areas in the calenders. P6 uses calendars to account for the non-work periods, weekends, holidays and so forth, in the CPM algorithm forward and backward pass; see Chapter 3.

P6 skips the non-work periods to calculate the start and finish dates. The successor activity, Activity , begins on the following work week, skipping the weekend, on Monday, June 15th and finishing on Friday, June 19th. Together, these activities have a duration of 10 work days, even though it is actually 12 calendar days to completion.

If Calendar Case 2 is applied to the network, Activity is delayed and starts on Wednesday, June 10th, and finishes on Tuesday, June 16th.

This activity breaks over the first weekend. The successor activity immediately follows and breaks over the second weekend. Since the weekend is a non-work period, the P6 software splits the duration of the activities to either side of the weekends.

As a result, Activity is predicted to finish on June 23rd rather than June 19th from Case 1. Together, these activities have a duration of 10 work days, but it is actually 14 calendar days. This is a simplified explanation of the function that calendars serve in P6. P6 actually calculates time in hours, not days as in previous software versions. Therefore, it is necessary to accurately represent the planned days for working, so that the software can predict, with reasonable accuracy and realism, the start and finish dates for activities.

Click on the Time Periods tab. Close box. Click on the Dates tab. Check either 12 hour or 24 hour and check Show minutes. Chapter 4: Primavera P6 Basics 65 Types of Calendars P6 utilizes three types of calendars: global, resource and project- level. A calendar must be assigned to each activity and it is used to identify when work can take place.

The activity type determines which calendar is used during schedule updating, the activity calendar or the resource calendar. Global calendar—is created by individual users. These calendars are accessible to all projects in the EPS network and are available for all resources and activities.

Resource Calendar—is used to determine when the resource can work, and the limits for that period are determined from the shift definition on that resource. Project Calendar—is created by the project manager or scheduler for specific job use. The project calendar defines when activities can progress. These calendars are similar to the global calendars, but are available only within a specified project.

Established calendars can be assigned to schedules or a copy can be modified to create a project-specific, project-level, calendar. Project has been selected, so the calendars in the current project is displayed. For the example, highlight Standard and click Select to return to the Calendar window.

Verifyy and correct, if necessary. Click on each day of the week and establish the working g hours. On this calendar, all working hours are established as 8 hours per day for each day.

In the example, the only non-work days are on the weekend, Saturday and Sunday. Other non-work days can be added to the calendar such as for holidays or anticipated weather days.

This will change the shading to dark gray, and that day on the calendar will no longer be used to calculate the estimated finish dates on activities. Chapter 4: Primavera P6 Basics 69 Practice You are the scheduler on the project team to construct road improvements in the town of Springfield, at the intersection of High Street and Memorial Boulevard.

The work includes the demolition of existing medians, excavation and installation of new drainage structures, widening of High Street, and installation of traffic signalization and signage.

Create two calendars; a five-day work week calendar, and a seven-day work week calendar. Percent Complete Layouts presents the newly created schedule in concise, Assigning Percent Complete attractive, and informative ways, and can be printed out for Schedule Calculations distribution. An activity is also known as a task, item, or event.

An activity can contain more than just a description and duration; it can also contain all the information about the work to be performed. This is typically used when multiple resources assigned to the same activity can work independently. Level of Effort—is a summary activity which summarizes the latest start and earliest finish dates of its predecessors and successors.

It is typically used for ongoing tasks dependent on other activities as its duration is determined by its predecessor or successor activities. It should be noted that constraints cannot be assigned to this activity type. Chapter 5: Developing and Formatting Schedules 73 Start Milestone—is used to mark the beginning of a phase or to communicate project deliverables.

This activity is a zero duration activity that only has a start date. Constraints and expenses can be assigned to this activity type; however, roles or resource assignments cannot be assigned. Finish Milestone—is used to mark the completion of a phase or to communicate project deliverables, final inspections, etc. This activity is a zero duration activity that only has a finish date.

WBS Summary—is used to roll up dates, duration, and percent complete values for a group of activities that share a common WBS code level. This is similar to a level of effort activity, but provides more summarization functionality. In order to view the details of the activity, open the Bottom Layout of the Activities window, Figure The activity details shows that the newly added activity as the default Activity Type, Task Dependent.

See Figure By expanding the view on the activity code, its code values can be seen. Relationships In order to add, edit, or delete relationships to activities within the project schedule, click on the Relationships tab in the Bottom Layout, Figure On the left side of the Relationships layout is the Predecessors window, and on the right side is the Successors window.

Within either window is the Assign button. Clicking the Assign button under Predecessors will allow the user to assign predecessor activities, while clicking the Assign button under Successors will allow the user to assign successor activities. For the purposes of illustration, a successor relationship will be added. Lags A lag, the delay between the start or finish of one activity and the start or finish of another, can be specified between activities.

There are many uses for lags, and some uses are not generally acceptable. Lags can be positive or negative. Constraints P6 provides nine constraint types for early start or early finish dates when it becomes necessary to impose restrictions on activities to meet external requirements. Start On or After—sets the earliest date an activity can begin.

It forces the earliest start date to the constraint date; however, if the calculated start date is after the constraint, the later date will apply. Start On or Before—places a deadline on the start of an activity. It forces the activity to start no later than the constraint date. Start On—forces the activity to start on the constraint date, regardless of calculations of the schedule; overriding schedule logic entirely.

Finish On or After—sets the earliest date an activity can complete. Finish On or Before—places a deadline on the completion of an activity, forcing the activity to complete no later than the constraint date.

Expected Finish Date—is used as a means to predict a completion date other than the one calculated by the schedule. Mandatory Finish—forces early and late dates to be equal to the constraint date, regardless of schedule calculations. As Late As Possible—consumes the free float in an activity, and pushes an activity as late as it can be worked without impacting the start of the next activity.

In other words, it is used when the activity has fixed resources with fixed productivity output per time period. When the activity duration or units are changed, resource units per time remain constant. This duration type is typically used for resource dependent activities. Fixed Units—used when the units defined as either costs or work effort are a fixed and limiting factor, and increasing resources can decrease the duration.

For these activities, if the user updates the duration or units per time, the units remain constant. These duration types are typically used for task dependent activities, which are activities whose duration remains constant regardless of the number of resources assigned. In other words, the duration remains fixed along with the units, but the crew size increases or decreases in order to complete the fixed scope of work within a fixed time frame. This is most common duration type for Caltrans.

Each activity can have its own duration type. Therefore, each activity will calculate differently, depending on its settings. Different settings could result in different results when the schedule is calculated. The values for Remaining duration and At Complete duration updated automatically to match the Original duration value, and they will update automatically as progress is input into the schedule. This estimated completion status is used by P6 to analyze the probability of meeting a projected date.

The different methods of calculation are: Duration Percentage Complete—is used when progress for the activity can best be reported based on original planned work days and scheduled work days remaining. For example, if an activity had an original duration of 10 work days, and it is estimated that there are four work days remaining, the activity is estimated at 60 percent complete.

This method is only useful when the scheduler is accurately estimating the number of work days remaining based on current information. Physical Percentage Complete—is used for activities whose progress can most accurately be assessed based on the judgment of a construction inspector. This is useful for complicated scopes of work involving more than one unit quantity, where an estimate of the total work in place is the best way to judge progress. Units Percentage Complete—is used when actual work effort accomplished and actual work effort remaining can be used to accurately represent progress for the activity.

For example, if an activity originally had 10 tons of hot mix asphalt, and the contractor has installed three tons, the activity is estimated at 30 percent complete. As with the duration type, the type of percentage complete selected for an activity can affect how that activity is calculated by P6, and the use of different types can impact the estimated remaining duration. Therefore, take care to ensure that the selected type of percentage complete is appropriate to the way the schedule is being used.

Assigning Percentage Complete Assigning a percentage complete to an activity is a common method for updating the schedule. An activity that has not started cannot be edit for percentage complete. If the activity does not have an assigned actual start date, P6 will not accept a value for percentage complete other than zero. Entry of remaining duration based on field conditions is the preferred method.

When the schedule is run, P6 applies the CPM algorithm, the forward and backward pass, in order to determine a predicted completion date for the schedule.

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It puts data in categories based on what it learns from historical data. These models can answer questions such as:. The breadth of possibilities with the classification model—and the ease by which it can be retrained with new data—means it can be applied to many different industries.

The clustering model sorts data into separate, nested smart groups based on similar attributes. If an ecommerce shoe company is looking to implement targeted marketing campaigns for their customers, they could go through the hundreds of thousands of records to create a tailored strategy for each individual. But is this the most efficient use of time? Probably not.

Using the clustering model, they can quickly separate customers into similar groups based on common characteristics and devise strategies for each group at a larger scale.

One of the most widely used predictive analytics models , the forecast model deals in metric value prediction, estimating numeric value for new data based on learnings from historical data. The forecast model also considers multiple input parameters. If a restaurant owner wants to predict the number of customers she is likely to receive in the following week, the model will take into account factors that could impact this, such as: Is there an event close by?

What is the weather forecast? Is there an illness going around? The outliers model is oriented around anomalous data entries within a dataset. It can identify anomalous figures either by themselves or in conjunction with other numbers and categories. The outlier model is particularly useful for predictive analytics in retail and finance. For example, when identifying fraudulent transactions, the model can assess not only amount, but also location, time, purchase history and the nature of a purchase i.

The time series model comprises a sequence of data points captured, using time as the input parameter. It uses the last year of data to develop a numerical metric and predicts the next three to six weeks of data using that metric. Use cases for this model includes the number of daily calls received in the past three months, sales for the past 20 quarters, or the number of patients who showed up at a given hospital in the past six weeks. It is a potent means of understanding the way a singular metric is developing over time with a level of accuracy beyond simple averages.

It also takes into account seasons of the year or events that could impact the metric. Designed specifically for supply chain management, Logility is a data analytics and predictive tool built inside of a business intelligence platform.

Internal process scoring helps you build a complete risk assessment and foresee possible disruptions or problems. Logility is a user-friendly platform and entirely cloud-based, so you can access your data from any location and keep a close eye on your supply chain in real time. That means you can plug in different scenarios and analyze the possible outcomes of those scenarios without having to create a new model each time.

BOARD is an excellent choice for banking and insurance, retail, manufacturing, and logistics. Statistica provides several business intelligence tools that run parallel and work in tandem. Their Decisioning Platform uses predictive analytics to help you make smarter and more agile business decisions. By applying custom business and contextual rules like state and local laws and tracking patterns in your business data, the app can predict customer and market behavior and help you pinpoint business opportunities.

Plug in your other Statisitica products to build full predictive models. While any industry can use this software, Statistica has a history of building fraud and risk models for the financial and insurance industries.

This company owns 33 percent of the predictive analytics market and boasts 40 years of experience. The company evolved from code-based analytics that were siloed in different departments to visual, self-service editors that bring advanced data analytics to beginners.

Major features include:. According to reviews, SAS excels at predictions and overall movement analysis and can process large data sets in a short amount of time. A major application of predictive modelling is risk assessment.

Based on the data analysis of the past records, predictive analytics tools can help an individual, company, or organization to conduct a risk assessment and determine the depth of risk or profit that the future beholds. Yet, predictive modelling is one of the most efficient methods of risk assessment in an organization. Learn more about risk management. The last of all applications of predictive analytics is quality enhancement. It is somehow related to the use of predictive modelling in the field of marketing.

Based on what kind of responses or feedback a product or a service gets from the customer over time. Quality enhancement involves considering past feedback, improvizations, and recommendations that may lead to the enhancement of the quality of an institution or a company.

Perhaps predictive modelling can be very helpful in the field of quality enhancement. In the end, predictive modelling is a useful data analytics technique that has helped the field of artificial intelligence to advance and enhance the way the world operates. Not only does it help to forecast future outcomes, but it also determines the way future decisions will impact current situations by using various machine learning tools and techniques.

With the help of various types of predictive models like the classification model, the clustering model, or the outliers model, this branch of data analytics is quite useful for industrial purposes.

Be a part of our Instagram community. What is Predictive Modelling? Soumyaa Rawat Aug 24, Machine Learning. Predictive Modelling Predictive modelling is the process of analyzing current outcomes and known information to predict future outcomes. Predictive Analytics Techniques While predictive modelling is defined as a predictive analytics tool to extract future outcomes with the help of past data, it can also be considered as a mathematical procedure used to calculate future possibilities.

Classification Model Among all the predictive modelling techniques in machine learning, the classification model is one of the widely used techniques.

H2O A leading platform for data analytics, H2O is a predictive modelling platform that supports a variety of sectors like healthcare, finance, marketing, and telecommunications. K-Means: A popular and fast algorithm, K-Means groups data points by similarities and so is often used for the clustering model. It can quickly render things like personalized retail offers to individuals within a huge group, such as a million or more customers with a similar liking of lined red wool coats.

Prophet: This algorithm is used in time-series or forecast models for capacity planning, such as for inventory needs, sales quotas and resource allocations. It is highly flexible and can easily accommodate heuristics and an array of useful assumptions. Predictive Modeling and Data Analytics Predictive modeling is also known as predictive analytics.

Benefits of Predictive Modeling In a nutshell, predictive analytics reduce time, effort and costs in forecasting business outcomes. Likewise, their computations can be so exceptionally complex that humans have trouble finding, let alone following, the logic. All this makes it difficult for a machine to explain its work, or for humans to do so.

Yet model transparency is necessary for a number of reasons, with human safety chief among them. Promising potential fixes: local-interpretable-model-agnostic explanations LIME and attention techniques.

Whatever it has learned is applicable to one use case only. This is largely why we need not worry about the rise of AI overlords anytime soon. For predictive modeling using machine learning to be reusable—that is, useful in more than one use case—a possible fix is transfer learning. Bias in data and algorithms: Non-representation can skew outcomes and lead to mistreatment of large groups of humans. Further, baked-in biases are difficult to find and purge later.

In other words, biases tend to self-perpetuate. This is a moving target, and no clear fix has yet been identified. Financial Management. Financial Forecasting vs. Financial Modeling: Key Differences.

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Diskspd is a command-line tool for storage benchmarking developed by Microsoft. It is widely used to generate various requests against storage systems for the storage performance analysis. We set up a [Failover Cluster], and used Diskspd to generate random and sequential, and read and write IOs to the local and remote storage systems with different IO sizes.

Our tests show that the IO response time is sensitive to processor frequency under different power plans.

The default Windows Server Balanced power plan could double the response time of that from the High Performance power plan under certain workloads. Windows Server Balance power plan removes most of the regressions. Starting from Intel [Broadwell] processors running Windows Server , most of the processor power management decisions are made in the processor instead of OS level to achieve quicker adaption to the workload changes. The legacy PPM parameters used by OS have minimal impact on the actual frequency decisions, except telling the processor if it should favor power or performance, or capping the minimal and maximum frequencies.

Hence, the PPM tuning results mentioned here are only observed on the pre-Broadwell systems. For each release of Windows, the most current production servers are used in the power plan analysis and optimization process.

In some cases, the tests were performed on pre-production systems whose release schedule matched that of the next Windows release. Given that most servers are sold with 1 to 4 processor sockets, and since scale-up servers are less likely to have energy efficiency as a primary concern, the power plan optimization tests are primarily run on 2-socket and 4-socket systems.

The amount of RAM, disk, and network resources for each test are chosen to allow each system to run all the way up to its full capacity, while taking into account the cost restrictions that would normally be in place for real-world server environments, such as keeping the configurations reasonable.

Even though the system can run at its peak load, we typically optimize for lower load levels, since servers that consistently run at their peak load levels would be well-advised to use the High Performance power plan unless energy efficiency is a high priority.

All of the tested benchmarks use throughput as the performance metric. For example, a benchmark run is considered "valid" if the mean or maximum response time is less than certain value. Therefore, the PPM tuning analysis also uses throughput as its performance metric. But the primary consideration is to maximize the power efficiency as defined below at medium and low load levels.

Running the CPU cores at lower frequencies reduces energy consumption. However, lower frequencies typically decrease throughput and increase response time. For the Balanced power plan, there is an intentional tradeoff of responsiveness and power efficiency.

If the workload is very sensitive to response time, the system should either switch to the High Performance power plan or change Balanced power plan to very aggressively increase frequency when it is running. HWP is a new capability for a cooperative hardware and software performance control. OS is no longer required to monitor activity and select frequency at regular intervals.

Switching to HWP has several benefits such as quick response, better knowledge of the hardware power efficiency of processors and other components under TDP. For HWP system, Windows still has the option to set the minimum and maximum processor states to provide constraints. It also can use Energy performance preference EPP parameter to set balance between power and performance. Lower value favors performance, and higher value favors power. The default value 50 that is to balance power and performance.

The default PPM parameters in Windows Server R2 favor power too much that could significantly impact the workload performance, especially to bursty workload. The CPU utilization-based power management algorithms might hurt the latency of IO or network-intensive workloads.

A logical processor could be idle while waiting for IO completion or network packets, which makes the overall CPU utilization low. To resolve this issue, Windows Server automatically detects the IO responsiveness period and raises the frequency floor to a higher level.

The behavior can be tuned by the following parameters no matter if the system uses HWP or not. If your primary workload characteristics differ significantly from the five workloads used for the default Balanced power plan PPM tuning, you can experiment by altering one or more PPM parameters to find the best fit for your environment. It is a key component in many multimedia projects and has new features added constantly.

Since FFmpeg is developed with Git , multiple repositories from developers and groups of developers are available. All FFmpeg releases are cryptographically signed with our public PGP key and should be verified for authenticity. Approximately every 6 months the FFmpeg project makes a new major release. Between major releases point releases will appear that add important bug fixes but no new features.

Note that these releases are intended for distributors and system integrators. Users that wish to compile from source themselves are strongly encouraged to consider using the development branch see above , this is the only version on which FFmpeg developers actively work.

The release branches only cherry pick selected changes from the development branch, which therefore receives much more and much faster bug fixes such as additional features and security patches.

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Is it possible for this phone to get the phone to work without a tftp server? The reason I ask is that it will be used as a remote ip phone at the satellite office that doesn't have a server over the WAN. That's just the thing, I push the factory reset sequence but it still keeps choking and resetting and it never let's me get to a config screen. It just keeps resetting right?

When its booting up hit settings - then choose server menu, is this possible? From there you set a TFTP server path and can specify the location of a new bootRom, firmware and configuration files.

Thanks for all your help. I had to wireshark it to figure out what ip it was holding onto, and static my computer as the gateway and run dhcp and tftp tftpd32 to load a config file onto the system. Then I was able to get into the menus and static the device as dhcp would not work reliably on the device, sometimes it would fail.

I didn't have time to search for the new firmware, as that may have fixed its issues. To continue this discussion, please ask a new question.

Get answers from your peers along with millions of IT pros who visit Spiceworks. I am trying to get an ip to worki. Iit came from a system that I know is working. Is there anyway other than doing the tftp thing? Best Answer. View this "Best Answer" in the replies below ». Popular Topics in Polycom Communications.

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Viewed 5k times. Improve this question. Cidricc Cidricc 1 1 silver badge 3 3 bronze badges. Your program needs many more functions, you have like 10 levels of indentation in just one function, it's really hard to understand the logic, which makes it reasonable that it does not work.

You don't check for full houses or straightflushes, and you don't check for high straights T-J-Q-K-A, only the low straights A Beyond that, it doesn't look like you included how you compute the parameters you pass into analyzeHand.

By the way, you don't have to reinvent the wheel. None of your functions except for main declare a return type Check your compiler settings; it should have warned you of all of these. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Thread: C programming, Poker game C programming, Poker game I'm having trouble with a poker game. I was able to print out the correct hand straight, three of a kind, etc. And i just dont know where to start.

There are no suits when you are playing the game so please ignore any part of the code that has to do with suits. Also, if there is a way to input the players' cards into an array for each player and work the program like that i'd greatly appreciate it if anyone could help me out with that as well.

After a full house is the flush where you will use a while loop and an if statement. After a flush you will use a while loop and two if statements for both straights and three of a kind. You will then use a while loop and an if statement for both two pairs and two of a kind. Finally you will only need one if statement to determine if the player has just a high card. Now it is time to move onto the last and final step. The final step is to tell the player what their combination is.

To tell them their combination you will use println and System. The println will tell the player what their combination is, and the System. Did you make this project? Use the functions. For example, a function which turns the card of the highest value, among five values, then an other one which turns the one who is the second highest, then an other one for the third highest, etc It could help you order the values of the cards of a game.

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Poker game in C programming 1 Narmadha Restrictions: 1. The only authorized functions libC are printf and scanf. It is prohibited to use loops and while If you do not know what it is do not worry. Use functions. Stud Poker The stud poker takes place with a deck of 52 cards.

Here are the various combinations, classified in increasing order by value: 1. High card : None of the following combinations: 2. One pair : two cards of the same value. Two pairs : two times two cards of same value. Three of a kind : Three cards of the same value.

Flush color : Five cards of same color.

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One of the newest horse games to the scene is Red Dead Redemption 2. While horses were featured in Red Dead Redemption, the sequel dedicated much more time and attention to the realism of the horses. Although Red Dead Redemption 2 is not a strictly equestrian game, it caters to older equestrians, providing incredibly accurate horse anatomy, movements, and interactions. Throughout gameplay, you will bond with your horse as you feed, water, clean, and interact with them.

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Players can upgrade certain pieces of equipment such as saddles and blinders. In this game, the primary use of your horse is for transportation and carrying gear. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt does contain several mature themes. Because of this, it is rated for players over the age of Several titles feature unique dress-up challenges, which allow you to customize your own creature. Players will mix and match various fur colors, decorations, and accessories to give each mini-horse their own style.

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Players who own a house should always keep the capture card of equal value in their hand unless the house is captured or broken. A house uncemented has a pile of cards which when summed equal the capture value. For example, a 5 and a 6 have a capture value of 11 Jack.

A cemented house has more than 1 card or sets of card equal to the capture value. For example, a K cemented house could contain the following:. Houses can be broken if a player adds a card to it that increases its capture value.

There cannot be multiple houses with an equal capture value on the floor at once, they must be combined into a cemented house. Loose cards with an equal capture value to a house must automatically be consolidated into the house.

If the house exists first, the loose card may capture it or be added to it. These cards must add to the capture value of the house. Houses capture values must be either 9, 10, 11, 12, Players must also have a card equal to the capture value in hand in order to create the house. You can only establish a house for yourself, never your teammate. Houses are broken by adding a card from hand to it thereby increasing the value of the house.

You are not permitted to break houses you own. Loose cards from the floor which equal or sum the capture value of a house you own can also be captured and added to cement an ordinary house. Players can add cards to cemented houses during their turn which are of equal value. At least one card must come from your hand. If the house is owned by an opponent, you must have a card in hand equal the capture value of the house to add to it.

However, if the house is owned by your partner you may freely add to it. The game ends once everyone has played all their cards in hand. All houses should have been captured, since players must capture them with the capture card of equal value they are required to hold on to. Loose cards may still be on the floor at end game, however they are added to the capture pile of the team who last picked up cards from the floor.

Each team score their captured cards Spades, 10 of Diamonds, and all aces as outlined above as well as bonus points for sweeps that may have occurred.

Granted both teams scored at least 9, the difference between the scores is calculated. The differences are recorded and accumulate throughout successive deals. Once a team has a point lead they have won a Bazzi. After, the difference goes back to zero and the bazzi repeats. If a team scores less than 9 points they automatically lose the bass and the next deal resets the difference.

Hi Vaibhav, in short no. An uncemented house cannot be broken AKA added to by cards on the floor or loose cards. The only way to break a house is to play a card from your hand. This means you would have to create a situation where both the 11 and Ace were in uncemented houses equal to the queen and then play your queen to sweep. Since only one card can be played in a turn this is impossible to complete in a single turn. Hi Rahul, Not sure if this was a question, but yes you are correct.

You can now collect both into a cemented house. Hey First of all thanks for the rules of the game. I just wanted to ask that in the last hand when all the houses are picked up and loose cards are left. The loose cards equal to a no. Hi Sumegha, thanks for the question. So in order to capture loose cards from the table, they have to be added to a house. I hope this helps. Hi Sourabh, I am not exactly sure what your question is. Could you elaborate further and I would be happy to help you.

My question is when there are 4 people playing and there is a situation of seep on the floor can the other partner tell him that or is he not allowed to do that? Hi Rajeev, while I do not believe there are any official rules against this, I would recommend not having table talk between players. If you were interested in trying to play in this manner I would discuss it with all players before you actually start the game, so no issues arise.

If there is a 13 house.. Hi Ramandeep, so no that is not a seep. You will be creating a house using the ace and the cards that have a value of This will then be cemented with the already formed 13 value house. You must in order to perform this play hold a king in hand this has a capture value of This is usually useful where one of the pair is a low i. Throwing a loose card : A loose card can be thrown at any time. When a player cannot perform any of the other actions available, they must throw a card from their hand.

This card is loose on the floor and can be used by other players. Picking up a house : When points have been tied up in a house, or there are many houses on the floor, it is usually! A house can be picked by a player during his turn by playing the card with the number of the house, e. When picked, a house is placed face down in front of the player. Picking up a house is usually left as late as possible, in order to extend the run of cards being added to a house — remember, points are awarded for the number of cards picked up.

This typically arises where one house is left on the floor and the next player has the card of the remaining house, or occasionally where no houses are left after a pick-up and the loose cards on the floor all add up to the value of card in the next players hand.

Sweeps are kept in front of the player with the card used to pick up the sweep face-up, or recorded elsewhere on a scoring sheet. Sweeps mid-game are particularly dangerous, as this forces the opponent to throw a loose card; if the next player has its pair, a second sweep occurs, and the pattern can continue disastrously.

The end-game of the last card usually has teams picking up the remaining houses. The last team to pick up usually the dealer receives any loose cards also remaining, and the last pick up is not considered a sweep. Players count their points, remembering to add 50 for any sweeps.

The losing team deals the next round, and play continues until one side reaches the target point lead. Two players can play this game, in a slightly modified form. Four hands are still dealt, but two are kept closed. Play goes as normal until the first 12 cards have been processed, and then play continues with the next hand — the last loose cards are not picked up, but rather serve as the seed for the next round. As the players are forced to pick up any piles before the second hand comes into play, the transition from one round to the next leaves the two-player game particularly vulnerable to sweeps.

The above discussion is nothing but the variation of rules i experienced throughout Delhi-Haryana-Punjab region. Different groups play with different rules of cementing and picking.

And play such that the other team picks up most of the points. I have a doubt!! We were all playing sweep today my family of 4 , i had a house of There was a loose 3 and some other card on the floor. Can I throw a loose 8 or is it compulsary to add on to 3 coz i knew my partner has 8 of spades, i wanted to give him a chance to pick it up.

Not compulsory to add on to the 3, but you risk your opponents picking it up together with the house of If your opponent set up the house of 12 and you set up the house of 13, that is a signal to say you could sweep the floor if you wanted to do so. In this you distribute four cards to each player and four cards on the floor.

And like normal seep, one player will ask for a card from the floor. The next part is different. The cards are then distributed in such a way that both player has five bundles of four cards each, but face down.

Then the first card, the uppermost card of each bundle is revealed. So in totality each player is in possession of 24 cards. But only nine cards are known to him eight for the player who goes first , and he can use only those eight cards per chance ;out of which four cards are visible to the opponent as well.

So that those five cards are always visible. In northran areas of Pakistan we play a little bit different.. There are total 26 points.. Can we have more than two houses in the floor… Because I have seen some people allowing third or fourth. Can we sweep if there is a cemented pucca house of 9 and a loose 2 with J? Can a house ordinary or cemented ever be swept if the total of the loose cards and house equals the value of played card.

The unbreakable house of 11 cannot be converted into a house of 12 or In a normal sweep game, players play one game at a time. After the completion of the game, winner is decided. In the other form of the game, there is a concept of Baazi - that is, you continue playing the opponent until the difference is points or more. Only when the difference is points or more, then the winner is declared. In Octro Seep game, you play the game to win chips, which is virtual currency or virtual money.

The chips you lose or win have no value in real money. These virtual currency and items do not refer to any credit balance of real currency or its equivalent. In the Octro Seep game, for each game, there is a boot amount. The minimum boot amount in Octro Seep game is chips. At the start of the game, each team puts chips in the pot. At the end of the game, the losing team loses the boot amount say chips plus chips equivalent to the points it loses.

The winning team wins these chips. For example, in a game if winning team collects 65 points and losing team collects 35 points, then the difference is 30 points. On the Seep game table, click the icon i to find out chips equivalent of 1 point. Let us assume a point is worth 5 chips. Then a loss of 30 points is worth chips. The bid number. The dealer after shuffle and cut gives four cards to the opponent player and places four cards with face down on the floor.

The pack of cards is reshuffled and cut and the deal is repeated. After the successful bid, the four cards on floor are turned face up; these four cards become the loose cards.

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Use grey key to unlock. Inside Rec Lodge. First locker gives epoxy, 3rd locker gives wallet. Open zip in wallet for orange key Use orange key on door on left side to open storage locker. Put epoxy on canoe. You need to find a nylon patch. Go out to road turn right to flag.

You need a 4 digit code on the key pad on the flagpole. Turn R to red flag hut. Use yellow key to unlock. Light switch is on left side of door, half way up door. Turn right. Look at digital clock and see 4 numbers Turn clock over, click battery cover and get battery. Nothing of use in drawers. Turn right, get trumpet from bottom drawer. Open fridge for cola. Click on pad hanging on wall, get paperclip. Go back to flag pole. Put numbers in key pad, press green button. Get flag. Go right to blue flag hut.

Wake up sleeping boy with trumpet. Get shoe. Give to other boy for a knife. Go to Rec Lodge, in to storage cupboard.

Put flag on epoxied hole. Get canoe, life ring and oar. Go to lake. Put canoe, ring and oar in water. Click on buoy. Use knife to cut plastic tie.

Get light bulb huh?? Fill empty tank in the lake Go to UFO. Go inside Put cola in hole above notice. On left of this screen click on grey bar. Place battery. Turn right to get to control panel. Note coloured lights in three's.

Go right and place water tank. Go back 2 screens, click on grey bar to get 6 buttons. Click for colours purple, yellow, orange, blue, red, green. Click switch on right. Panels opens. Put light bulb in, click on small panel below green light for screwdriver. Go right, click on grey panel under lights. Use SD to open. Use paperclip between broken wires to join. Go out and talk to alien Subscribe and get daily new escape games by email.

Please read our Commenting Rules before posting your comment! Posting walkthrough links to YouTube and other sites is forbidden! Please report any spam or unwanted comment by contacting us. Advertisement Camp Pine Escape is another point and click room escape game series developed by Selfdefiant. Camp Pine is a place where you can prove your skills as a team mate. Take your chance! Scout around for useful items and help the friendly alien repair his ship without getting noticed by the camp director.

Can you get the Outstanding Sapling Badge? Good luck and have fun! Yay goody! Love the Flonga ones! Well I love all of them really. I've got lots of things to figure out how to solve, but nothing to start with!

Don't know what to do with the TV. And I'm still missing the SD. Oh ok SD is in space ship under spot where a light is supposed to go. Ah, got it. Missed fixing TV, going to play again to see if I can. The light switch was on the left hand side of the door, just above the middle.

I might be slow, but I am typing everything I find. LOL I am stuck now! Have the knife and screwdriver left.. Hi, bandy!!! Very nice SD game!!! Jo C, have you fixed the canoe?! I'm stuck with you Jo C -- canoe is fixed but can't take the preserver or oar?! The filling the tank bit was a bit pixelly but it is on the right side of the lake somewhere!

Well i replayed and now i am out! This was a bug lol Home Discussions Workshop Market Broadcasts. Change language. Install Steam. Store Page. Pine Store Page. It is only visible to you. If you believe your item has been removed by mistake, please contact Steam Support. This item is incompatible with Pine. Please see the instructions page for reasons why this item might not work within Pine. Current visibility: Hidden. This item will only be visible to you, admins, and anyone marked as a creator.

Current visibility: Friends-only. This item will only be visible in searches to you, your friends, and admins. Guide contains: Amphiscus Orb locations. Walkthrough for all 3 puzzle Vaults. Guide about achievements and how to get them. Droolica and faster resource gathering information. This item has been added to your Favorites. Created by. Csontzuzo In-Game Sea of Thieves. Languages: English. Guide Index. Zap Away. See Ahead. Potion Master. Grob's Support.

Collector's Dream Amphiscus orb location. Keyholder key graphite locations. Take This chest locations. Cave Dweller. A New Home. Battle of the Reptiles. Resource locations. Perfection time of the game: about 20hours, but this can be a bit more, depends how much you want to explore. He is offering rewards for turning in Amphiscus orbs and the first reward for 5 orbs will double your inventory size.

Resources respawn every minutes, depends on rarity. Highly suggested to keep "randomracenemeinserthere" essences for later use. No point not to follow! Fast, no commentary walkthrough of all 3 vaults. Hollow mountain start: Ancient Stables start: Dune Observatory start: Find the Conducting Lantern Outfinding. This item found in Hollow Mountain Vault. The main quest will send you to explore "vaults". In the one which is located at Telkin Pass you can find the conducting lantern.

After exploring the first vault you need to do A LOT of quests before being able to enter the second vault and the same happens between the second and the third vault. This item allows you to use the small blue diamond-shaped object which has some lightning effects on it. I believe you see such things already before reaching this part of the game and wondered how to use them:- You can enter the Vault once upgraded the village at its location.

Location of Telkin Pass:. Find the Scouting Lens Outfinding. This item is found in Dune Observatory vault. This vault is called Dune Observatory. This item helps you to find secret objectives and items. Find the Taming Bands Outfinding. This item found in Ancient Stables vault. Check the video for a fast, goal oriented, no commentary walkthrough. This vault is called The Ancient Stable. The Taming Bands allows you to tame critters. These what the critters are useable for: Alphaphant : You can use these as mount to travel faster without losing energy.

Bleeker: The only monster on the island and it is used for combat. Puffle : A tamed small bird can be used as a jumping platform.

You can use this pet to reach harder to reach areas, towers, what you can't enter without this method. Gather all gear created by species. After the first vault, before the second vault you need to do one quest for each of the faction and so you need to be allied with them once.

Before the third vault, after you beat a very strong enemy on the top of Mt. You need craft all the faction related gears, these recipes purchasable from faction vendors IF you allied with them or found during quests related to those factions. The purchasable recipes also depend on the size of the village.

There might be recipes from Tier A villages too, but crafting the followings unlocked it: Gobbledew faction: Feather Sleeves Purchasable at any Gobbledew village if you allied with them. Gather all tools created by species Collecting all recipes described in this topic, and then crafting them unlock the achievement. The achievement was bugged until October