[Feba]

http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/gui...opment/census/

On May 16, 2006, FINAL FANTASY XI celebrates the 4-year mark since its launch in Japan, and prepares to enter a fifth year of service! Vana'diel is now larger than ever due to the commencement of service for the new Xbox 360 and the release of the third expansion disc, "Treasures of Aht Urhgan." The FINAL FANTASY XI community has grown and evolved a great deal, and continues to reshape itself even now. The FINAL FANTASY XI development team has compiled this report in order to give players an overview of this change. And now, after much analysis, we are proud to present the sixth Vana'diel Census.

I would copy it here, but it's too big...

[Fayttt]

Oh sweet I love these.

[Aeolus]

Most ppl play whm? o.O For subbing teles I hope cause I can never find any lol tarus M are second harhar, Hume F still being beaten by Elvaan M tho wtf..

[Fayttt]

"Out of the many players who have begun the Aht Urhgan missions, almost half have completed "A Mercenary Life," the last step currently available. We attribute this level of progression to the absence of difficult battles, and the desire to follow the antics of the unique characters encountered as the story unfolds."

What the hell!? Have people not even figured out how to finish TOA8 yet it's actually in the game?! O_O

[Feba]

Lol, most likely they mean that they've finished all the requirements for that mission (Talk to Naja?), we just can't get a new one yet. Traditionally, Expansion missions are ALWAYS "Current".



Something interesting, they made a comment on how they place the number of people on TAU8 on not having any hard battles... I wonder if they're gonna keep it that way.

[Fayttt]

Hope they dont keep it that way ._.;;

[Feba]

I hope they do... Keep the battles to assault, and the story to the missions.

[Fayttt]

Kinda would screw up the challenge though ; ; .. I mean CoP was a bitch but It'd be nice to have maybe a couple tough battles so not anyone could pass through TOA.

[Faulsey]

The Vana'Diel census is always interesting.

I must admit, some of the top 15 job choices seem odd; THF/WAR, BST/WHM and SMN/WHM I wouldn't have expected to be in some of the top spots.

They should have included an Al Zhabi homepoint ranking See how many people still have that as their homepoint.

Also, if ToAU is purely cutscenes, I will actually cry. It's not final fantasy without boss battles; I'm sure assault is great (Not tried it, no one ever wants a level 50 Assault ), but we need some story driven battles. That we take part in. I'm not interested in seeing the Immortals and Corsairs tearing each other to shreds, thanks for offering, though. I want to do the tearing

[ikkleste]

I'm sure there will be storyline boss battles, but the intro to get everyone invovled (and sell copies) had to be open to as many as possible.

Originally Posted by Faulsey

I must admit, some of the top 15 job choices seem odd; THF/WAR, BST/WHM and SMN/WHM I wouldn't have expected to be in some of the top spots.

but when you think about it just about every SMN is SMN/whm, every BST is BST/whm. where as for a lot of other choices the (admittedly larger) population of, say RNG, is sub-divided between RNG/nin, RGN/cor, RNG/thf, RNG/war

[Omniblast]

Originally Posted by Faulsey

The Vana'Diel census is always interesting.

I must admit, some of the top 15 job choices seem odd; THF/WAR, BST/WHM and SMN/WHM I wouldn't have expected to be in some of the top spots.

They should have included an Al Zhabi homepoint ranking See how many people still have that as their homepoint.

Also, if ToAU is purely cutscenes, I will actually cry. It's not final fantasy without boss battles; I'm sure assault is great (Not tried it, no one ever wants a level 50 Assault ), but we need some story driven battles. That we take part in. I'm not interested in seeing the Immortals and Corsairs tearing each other to shreds, thanks for offering, though. I want to do the tearing

You can attend any assault using any job level 50+. You can even go into a uncapped Assault.

I do a 3 person assault, with all 3 of us earning 1k assault points and occasionally 1500 for the leader.

[Omni]

There is an error in the relic weapons print out.
Polearm and Scythe are mixed up.

[Faulsey]

Originally Posted by ikkleste

but when you think about it just about every SMN is SMN/whm, every BST is BST/whm. where as for a lot of other choices the (admittedly larger) population of, say RNG, is sub-divided between RNG/nin, RGN/cor, RNG/thf, RNG/war

Firstly, there are roughly equal amounts of RNG as SMN; both listed as 2%, so theres no larger population there

What I meant was, SMN and BST in particular, and THF with a WAR sub, I wasn't expecting to be in the top 15; SMN and BST because they make up 2% and 3% of the population respectively, and /WAR, after 30, isn't too common a THF sub.

However, looking at the pie chart again, most jobs are lower than 5% of the population; so it shouldn't have come as any surprise to me that jobs such as SMN and BST are in the top 15, since the majority of jobs are only 2% or 3%.

Also, people complain about not being able to get mages, but seriously, between them, BLM, RDM and WHM make up a staggering 41% of the population. I think most mages just hide from us . That, and I suppose those who have mage mains don't play them all the time.

[Mhurron]

Looking at the data, I must be the only one with ToAU who has not unlocked any of the new jobs.

[Bishop]

Originally Posted by Omni-Ragnarok

There is an error in the relic weapons print out.
Polearm and Scythe are mixed up.

I noticed that too and you beat me to the punch. I was like: Wow, SE screwed up the names on their own relic weapons on their on census, wtf?