Things I've never understood in FFXI

[Murphie]

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5. I normally shutup but if someone is doing something obviously wrong or giving bad advice I correct them. I take everything I say as offensive so to get the point across.

If you think that being offensive is going to help to get the point across you've got a little something to learn about communication.

[Drive]

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1. Yes, I've idled outside moghouse tons of times. I normally get warp 2'd and just leave during it. same with teleport crystals. Mainly I do go in my mog house but sometimes, if i really have to do something I just leave. And yeah If I'm looking for a certain shout(maybe missions?) I may leave(in jueno I go near auction house).

2. If I have the ability to provoke, I'll provoke. Unless you want your sleep to fail AGAIN and get killed AGAIN let me take the hate.

3. Elvaan hentai, all I'm going to say.

4.I homepointed tons of time at level 75. I really don't care but at the same time I don't exp on my bard at all. So I need all the exp I can muster.

5. I normally shutup but if someone is doing something obviously wrong or giving bad advice I correct them. I take everything I say as offensive so to get the point across.

[Murphie]

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I don't really think that had anything at all to do with the point he was trying to make.

But I do the same thing.

[Jei]

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"OMG you're still rank 1?!?!"
"Why is your sub underlevelled? That's just shameful"

Those are something I note to myself lol. When I got invite, I always /sea the leader. And if he has 1 out of 2 of those I don't join >.>

[Neomage]

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Random Fact: Game Masters cannot warp people outside of their moghouse, and hence, cannot send them to mordion gaol and suspend/ban them unless they log out inside their mog house as they can ban them once their offline.

Still, if you where going to be banned being condemned to your MH for all eternity isn't much fun either.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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Here's a couple more:

People who cry for R3 at 75

C'mon, at 75 we have TP burn and Manaburn, if getting a measly 1k back is a problem for you, its time to work on your priorities in-game. If Kirin, Bahamut or whatever is killing your alliance, suck it up at take the R1. You should have a reraise item used beforehand anyway, don't be the one who keeps your alliance from winning just because you lost a little EXP.

People who give advice in-game in a condecending/rude way

I was running around catching up on OP warps today, did my one in quifim and ran to Jeuno. I got to the AH in Port to grab some iron bullets and this little scene plays out in front of me in regards to a level 26 WAR:

"OMG you're still rank 1?!?!"
"Why is your sub underlevelled? That's just shameful"
"You're using a spear as WAR, lemme guess, you're going lolDRG?"
"Warriors use Axes and Great Axes, not damn spears"
"Can't afford better gear? Go farm! It's not hard!"
"You're on Xbox360, right? You're all noobs."

And things of that nature. This was most likely the guy's first character, just new to the game in general. Regardless of how this new guy may have been playing his job, there's a difference between advice and being an asshole. I wish people could make the distinction and act accordingly.

[Mhurron]

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Theres a certain taru female mnk on my server that well... has had a 'virtual' relationship with just about everyone in whitegate.... you sometimes see virtual lovers spats outside of mog....
i heard once...
"oh i should have never left you for that hume~ im so sorry"
/em gently caresses <someTool>.
srsly now.... fucking cut it out.

I don't care how hot Mithras are, thats just damned annoying.

[Murphie]

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I've long since learned to stay away from the "dating in the game" subject, as a lot of folks don't share the same view, and I just end up making people angry. So I avoid it.

But I do think there is something a bit off about folks who are on their third, fourth, whatever in-game boyfriend/girlfriend/whatever, and these people don't see anything strange or unusual about their behavior.

I'll be honest though. I don't pay too much attention to what other folks do. Doesn't get me much of anywhere either way.

[Omni]

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People Using FFXI as a Dating Service
You people are a strange breed, maybe you should stop attempting to breed and let natural selection take its course. I'll accept there's a chance you could possibly meet someone in this game worth dating and can meet them to do so, but when you're on third in-game girl/boyfriend that's just a cry for help.

Theres a certain taru female mnk on my server that well... has had a 'virtual' relationship with just about everyone in whitegate.... you sometimes see virtual lovers spats outside of mog....

i heard once...

"oh i should have never left you for that hume~ im so sorry"
/em gently caresses <someTool>.

srsly now.... fucking cut it out.

[ItazuraNhomango]

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I can sort of understand people "dating" in-game; there are a lot of lonely people out there, and they crave human connection.

What I cannot understand are people who have wife/husband/boyfriend/girlfriend in real life but still "dating" (or, err... perform more intimate activities with) other people in-game.

It's... creepy.

[Ziero]

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1) It's a home point and gathering area. It's a prime place to set up bazaars, meet up with friends or just end up after dieing/warping or whatever. Only place I see it being really bad are lower Jeuno and AU though.

2) If I have voke and am not tanking, I will voke the mob and keep fighting the first one. If I am tank and we get a link, I will do something else to draw it's attention. And if I just don't have voke, I'll do whatever I can to keep it off the guy trying to sleep it. A melee will last longer then a mage in most situations, so I'll get it's attention, you sleep it and we move on.

On that note, I have seen a LOT of mages recently who have had trouble sleeping links, assuming they even try it. This is just as big of a problem as melees attacking links.

3) Most people who date in FFXI don't start up FFXI with the sole intention of meeting someone, rather they're playing and just 'connect'. Sometimes it's just something small that they try to make bigger, but people do this IRL as well and it's just as bad. If someone is specifically playing this game to find dates then yeah, it's sad. But if they're just finding people they actually like and 'dating' them, I don't see the problem. There aren't too many places for single, geeky people to mingle and find dates for IRL. Looking for love in your local comic or game shop is just as bad as doing it online imo.

And for the record, yes I have dated people online and yes they were both real girls. I know because I made a point to meet them both IRL.

[Haggai]

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And about dating in XI... hume girls are hot.


(oh where's that manga page about it that I saw posted here some time ago? gotta look for it.)

Funny you say that about Hume girls... I was with my LS last night skilling up and one brought out his NPC, a Hume girl. After a few dirty emotes, someone said "Hume girls are sluts." We all ROFL

[Raydeus]

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I'm guilty of letting my char just standing there for a few minutes just outside Whitegate's MH.

The reason I do so is that sometimes it just takes so much time for the area to load that I just select exit moghouse and go AFK while it loads. I never leave my char that way for more than 10 mins though.

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About melee waking up sleeping mobs I just tell them to stop hitting the mob once, then sleep the mob again, and if they keep hitting the mob I'll just let them die.

A Raise is 150 MP but spamming CIV can eat a ton of mp so I just save MP.

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And about dating in XI... hume girls are hot.


(oh where's that manga page about it that I saw posted here some time ago? gotta look for it.)

[Lmnop]

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there was a dead dude outside of Whitegate mog house the other day. One of those cases of warping in dead. I couldn't see his name because of all the people. I started hyper-tabbing through all the people to try and find a gray name. There were so many people that even if I was like right on top of him, in first person view, with only a space the size of his body in my camera, that my tab list wasn't long enough. I.e. I'd start over before getting to him, I simply COULD NOT target him manually. I also tried the mouse. Didn't work either.

See, that's called stupid. Don't these people have somewhere better to be? Meanwhile, It took my computer over 20 seconds of black screen to zone into that same mog house last night.

So yeah, idle on the balconies please.

As for melee link management. I typically provoke a link and let a mage do whatever they want to it. In leveling NIN, I found that the worst part about being a tank is that I can't voke links too. Even when I leveled THF, I was voking shit. I'm a voker.

[Skoal]

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The only thing I have yet to rationalize to some degree in FFXI, is why does the O Lance have Ranged Accuracy on it?

FTFY

And I agree with this statement.