Now Square-Enix wants customers to be happy. how will FFXI make us happy now?

[Elwynn]

Re: Now Square-Enix wants customers to be happy. how will FFXI make us happy now?

- Teleport NPC in Jeuno that could teleport to the main cities, can make Rank 10 in the city a requirement. Alternatively give players the option to skip the airship travel from and to Jeuno.

Repatriation

Now that there are books right outside the three main exits to Jeuno. The "requirement" is do enough FoV pages to get 50 tabs. I've already used this with a lowbie mule. I fought enough FoV to get 50 tabs, then went from Bastok to Windurst (via the ferry) to get the W. Saruta OP, setting home point all along the way. Once the supplies were delivered, a walk across the zone and 50 tabs, and back home. At level 1. (Brag: level 1, no oils, no powers, no aggro.)

And I don't use the airship much because my "main" PS2 has had file corruption problems with the Jeuno -> 3 nations ferries, even after I did verify/repair once, not to mention my getting used to teleports from WHM being my first main job.

(Carrying around many Teleport-X items taking inventory space is not what I call a solution unless you are outside town.)

Everyone should get BLM to at least 17, and WHM to at least 36. Of course at that point the people who don't understand city fame will fall to pieces and whine about the cost of the scrolls on AH. But as a Windurstan without Valkurm OP, I can understand what a pain it is to get somewhere when you are playing a job other than BLM or WHM, and have no outpost to get there. (Also, don't set your HP in Whitegate if you're playing in conquest areas. Is 300 gil really that important?

- Remove lottery spawn NMs and make them triggerable instead. Or increase their drop rate after a certain period of time has passed since their introduction to the game (Ra/Ex item NMs only)

At least improve the drop rate to 100% for rare/ex items. I mean, sheesh, even moldy earring was a pain and I only waited a little over 4 hours total for that, through three pops.


I know the "more drops, more gil" has been mentioned and debunked already, but how about more/better drops for higher level monsters of the same type? For instance, they don't need to make CN crawlers drop silk thread 100%, but there's no point in farming anything but the baby crawlers if the drops aren't overall any better from the higher level crawlers.


I like the idea someone had about city battles. Basically lowbie-Besieged. The main problem is what to do to keep the 75s from one-shotting everything before the lowbies got a swing in. Maybe a level cap (like 10 or 20 or so) when you get "tags". It would also be funny if every now and then the mobs would chase around un-tagged lowbies without actually attacking them.

[hexx]

Re: Now Square-Enix wants customers to be happy. how will FFXI make us happy now?

Wow Cruz, seriously never thought people could reach your level of retardedness........


On topic: I'm pretty happy with the game myself, travel gets easier the more you advance in the game, but its only natural that they force you to run around and get to know the place before you are allowed to just warp around and stuff.

As far as NM drop rates is concerned, cant complain too much, im 1/1 on both VE and LL so..........*ducks as someone tosses a shoe* yeah dont hate me please, I have yet to get Okotes or S.Kyahan to drop for me T_T

[Feba]

Re: Now Square-Enix wants customers to be happy. how will FFXI make us happy now?

Feba gazes at Shadow Lord statue intently.
Feba prepares Feather Duster.
Shadow Lord statue's dust effect is removed!

I have no idea where the Shadow Lord statue came into this, but I approve.

Also, it has made me pretty happy. So, Square Enix, I suppose the lesson is, if you want to make your customers happy, give them free statues?

[TheGrandMom]

Re: Now Square-Enix wants customers to be happy. how will FFXI make us happy now?

This October will be 6 years for the full NA release.

[Omniblast]

Re: Now Square-Enix wants customers to be happy. how will FFXI make us happy now?

Certain items from certain NMs should be 100% drop and Rare/EX once they are lotted on and won.
Examples of such.
Valkrum Emperor
Leaping Lizzy

Like they did with the Thief's Knife, they should do something similar like that as well. I mean these should be common enemies that everyone has experience fighting and I shouldn't have to camp them after playing x number of years of this.

Seriously I forgot how many years ago ffxi started... but I was there from the start of NA. uhhh how many years has it been? 5? 6? 7?

[Cruz]

Re: Now Square-Enix wants customers to be happy. how will FFXI make us happy now?

[Cruz]

Re: Now Square-Enix wants customers to be happy. how will FFXI make us happy now?

You guys aren't funny lawl.

Oh gosh. Please tell me that avatar is not you...

[Balfree]

Re: Now Square-Enix wants customers to be happy. how will FFXI make us happy now?

You guys aren't funny lawl.

[Cruz]

Re: Now Square-Enix wants customers to be happy. how will FFXI make us happy now?

foobar starts casting taskmage on topic.
Armando uses common sense.
Raydeus takes 9,999 damage.
<foobar> shouldn't you wow trolls be accusing someone of cheating or quitting out of counterstike/warcraft iii because you're losing?
Feba gazes at shadow lord statue intently.
Feba prepares feather duster.
Shadow lord statue's dust effect is removed!

...wtf?

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

Re: Now Square-Enix wants customers to be happy. how will FFXI make us happy now?

Foobar starts casting Taskmage on Topic.
Armando uses Common Sense.
Raydeus takes 9,999 damage.
<Foobar> Shouldn't you WoW trolls be accusing someone of cheating or quitting out of Counterstike/Warcraft III because you're losing?
Feba gazes at Shadow Lord statue intently.
Feba prepares Feather Duster.
Shadow Lord statue's dust effect is removed!

[Cruz]

Re: Now Square-Enix wants customers to be happy. how will FFXI make us happy now?

Listen, DeltSmash. I really can delt smash you, among other things. I weigh nearly 200 pounds and have about 5% body fat. Don't mess around with me, kid. You won't like where it goes.

[Cruz]

Re: Now Square-Enix wants customers to be happy. how will FFXI make us happy now?

taru's are stupid

Hurrrrrrrr good one. GTFO.

[Cruz]

Re: Now Square-Enix wants customers to be happy. how will FFXI make us happy now?

Never before has an avatar been so apropos

Most people don't admit that this avatar applies to them. Well, at least you're honest. That's...something...

[Armando]

Re: Now Square-Enix wants customers to be happy. how will FFXI make us happy now?

As you can see, a big chunk of my "unhappiness" in-game has to do with the pointless time sinks related to travel in XI. It just shouldn't be so inconvenient after you reach a certain point in the game.

Perhaps if you stopped bitching about how X or Y should've been in the game Z years ago, and asking for everything to be soloable, you'd realize that letting everyone get from point A to point B immediately right off the bat is stupid, and that traveling is not a time sink right now if you make full use of the tools that are available.

We have a billion fucking ways to warp (without even having to shout) or move faster. Refining old content to be less stupid, and continuing to add new, quality content is far more important. If you want to talk about pointless timesinks, bring up 15 minute waiting times between pop NMs such as Hakutaku where you usually bring half an alliance worth of people that need the hat.

I do agree that lottery spawning is pretty lame and having a shitty drop rate on top of being lottery spawn is just downright vexing though.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

Re: Now Square-Enix wants customers to be happy. how will FFXI make us happy now?

You know, after about four years, one would think WoW players would have stopped making dummy accounts to troll other forums. Sock puppet much, fanboy?

When bigger and better MMOs than WoW are out, I don't think I'll be wasting my time trolling WoW forums.