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By Drayco on 2025-07-23 12:21:54 |
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Reopen Hades! It's time to go home!
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By Lutia on 2025-07-23 12:16:37 |
Rrrrrrrepost
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By K123 on 2025-07-23 12:15:51 |
Mr "I'm right" thinks a brand new player is signing up to play a 23 year old MMO with no outside influence, just finding FFXI randomly and signing up.
99.9% of brand new to FFXI players are being influenced to play it from an outside source, either via a streamer or from reddit or something else, and through this influence will wind up on a popular server, they wont land on "a dead server".
Source you ask?
2018 numbers vs today Code Today Apr2018 Difference
Cerberus 2,719 3,092 -373
Quetz 2,862 3,498 -636
Leviathan 3,043 3,211 -168
Sylph 3,098 3,240 -142
Siren 3,351 4,178 -827
Lakshmi 3,460 3,616 -156
Valefor 3,515 3,375 140
Bismarck 3,626 3,975 -349
Carbuncle 4,235 4,024 211
Shiva 4,277 4,713 -436
Ragnarok 4,547 4,703 -156
Fenrir 4,840 4,132 708
Phoenix 4,865 4,786 79
Odin 9,591 8,193 1,398
Bahamut 11,240 5,652 5,588
Asura 15,034 12,357 2,677 Seeing this list makes me think ok maybe 6 servers would be too few, maybe even 8. I'll go with 10. |
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By Seun on 2025-07-23 12:03:10 |
The only reason to play on Asura is the AH.
Tourism yes, residence no. Vacation on Asura during a discount campaign when you want some souvenirs. I would only live there if I were in the service industry and it was my job to farm gil or content for other people. |
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By Rairin on 2025-07-23 11:59:43 |
most people wouldn't invest that much money into multiboxes if they couldn't sell RMT
the amount of 4-6boxers who buy in huge quantities from me leads me to believe you're completely wrong
it's more a matter of having disposable income and enjoying the scripting/planning aspects of the game for most, imo |
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By Eiryl on 2025-07-23 11:29:12 |
Quote: Quickening Movement Speed +10% |
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Carbuncle.Maletaru said: »What if you're the only person with a Leathercraft shield on your tiny server? Now suddenly 5 more Leathercrafters come over from the one that just merged into you.
What if you've got a lock on the Sif's Macrame market, and now there are 3 new people who sell them?
What if the server you transfer to has synthesis materials, or JSE materials, at twice the price of the one you're leaving? This can be summarised under "BUT MUH MONOPOLY!!1!" and "MUH RMT ACTIVITY!!1!1!!!"
Dodik said: ยป
Why would a person with 6 accounts go to a highly populated server where they can never find a free camp.
That makes no sense what so ever.
a lot of them need to have their gear merced because having 6 characters isn't enough to actually clear things with them The other side of the coin is probably that most people wouldn't invest that much money into multiboxes if they couldn't sell RMT services to earn it back, they simply need customers. |
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By Jinxs on 2025-07-23 11:04:07 |
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I know it's sarcasm but sprinter shoes sounds like an absolute loss
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By K123 on 2025-07-23 10:52:14 |
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By Jinxs on 2025-07-23 10:48:16 |
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The cogs are way far off from other mobs
Using such may be detrimental to my results
While I understand it but not well enough to explain it
Doing those calculations against that thing
Is going to overcompensate when I go to exp, do too top floor and even some basement
Leaving a lot of really good gear behind
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By K123 on 2025-07-23 10:45:38 |
Not like a 6 boxer is joining any Pugs. A lot of people that own 6 will use 3/4/5 for certain content and pug the other slots. Not everyone is a master of Silmaril, or has the patience to alt/tab or use send and do things manually with more than 2/3/4 chars. |
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By K123 on 2025-07-23 10:43:59 |
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You have jig if you take DNC, only BRD RDM COR have jig if you take 2 DD. I really much prefer not to get cursed for the minimal effort it takes to kill 6 instead of 3 and to kill Naraka.
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Just from a business standpoint, there's no issue with small servers. If the gameplay experience is meh and people can pay the extra $18 to transfer, that's an additional revenue stream.
I mean, it depends. If a new player logs onto a smaller server and discovers it's a ghost town, they might conclude the game is dead and move on. This has happened with a lot of the newer MMOs, and I would think FFXI at this point in it's life cycle probably doesn't get that as much, but still. |
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What mob or values should I be using to check my sets for
Locus
Sortie top
Sortie basement
I'd suggest looking at this page. the long_horned twitter link at the top is valuable as well.
you can just add them directly to enemies.py
Some of the wiki pages (bg or wikia) do have some stats listed (both for regular mobs and NM), I'd say take reasonable guesses based on other info for anything that might be missing. |
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Does Oshosi mask Triple Shot DMG + still work when Lanun gants proc for Quad shot? I'm guessing not?
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By detlef on 2025-07-23 10:31:08 |
Never knew about the Pom-pom fruit. For 40k/12, that's a neat investment, especially with no Medicated effect. IIRC they're pretty weak but it's something that you can throw on top of an imperfect bolters in a pinch. |
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By Seun on 2025-07-23 10:29:43 |
Every other server being a ghost town caused asuras congestion.
No. Asura is full because there are hundreds of players playing across thousands of accounts. The actual elephant in the room... with the 5 other elephants all lined up neatly behind it in matching lockstyles. Self inflicted. I find it hilarious that the biggest argument in favor of going to Asura is "more people to play with" and the problem with Asura is all the multiboxers.
I think it's hilarious that anyone would try to make an argument to move to Asura. It's a lot easier to come up with reasons to not be there. The only thing I missed was a more active economy, but with Sortie and Limbus(so far) having no gil sinks... good riddance. |
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I wish more groups did 6 mobs in C and killed Naraka. People say CC bolters overcomes it but I still don't like being cursed. You have bolters and jig, and you can use pom-pom fruit as a jig replacement too.
All true, but I don't like being cursed either. The movement speed can be overcome, but the stat-deficit/DPS loss from being cursed is enough to be noticeable and annoying. |
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By Jinxs on 2025-07-23 10:13:14 |
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What mob or values should I be using to check my sets for
Locus
Sortie top
Sortie basement
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Never knew about the Pom-pom fruit. For 40k/12, that's a neat investment, especially with no Medicated effect.
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By Dodik on 2025-07-23 09:51:35 |
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I do know multiboxers that moved main/alt accounts to Asura just to get clears then moved back.
Some kept a char on Asura for the Pugs. These are the exception though.
This will shock no one, but small servers have a lot of multi boxers. Small groups, if you're friends with others you help each other out to get clears on various characters as needed without needing to "play" 4 5 or 6 boxes at once.
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By Rairin on 2025-07-23 09:45:17 |
Why would a person with 6 accounts go to a highly populated server where they can never find a free camp.
That makes no sense what so ever.
a lot of them need to have their gear merced because having 6 characters isn't enough to actually clear things with them |
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By . on 2025-07-23 09:28:54 |
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By Dodik on 2025-07-23 09:26:38 |
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Why would a person with 6 accounts go to a highly populated server where they can never find a free camp.
That makes no sense what so ever.
Not like a 6 boxer is joining any Pugs.
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By detlef on 2025-07-23 09:13:54 |
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No to a merge, we would all be fighting to light the Jeuno lamps and that's no way to live.
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By detlef on 2025-07-23 09:11:54 |
I wish more groups did 6 mobs in C and killed Naraka. People say CC bolters overcomes it but I still don't like being cursed. You have bolters and jig, and you can use pom-pom fruit as a jig replacement too. |
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By Seun on 2025-07-23 09:10:37 |
Every other server being a ghost town caused asuras congestion.
No. Asura is full because there are hundreds of players playing across thousands of accounts. The actual elephant in the room... with the 5 other elephants all lined up neatly behind it in matching lockstyles. Self inflicted. |
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By K123 on 2025-07-23 08:56:48 |
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There was a time noone knew about birds and I did DNC THF DRG there wonderfully. Then few people knew about beetles in KRT and now there are 4 parties there at all times now.
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By NynJa on 2025-07-23 08:54:09 |
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I dont think its all pups, I just remember someone posting that video way back when and it showed how congested the camp there is.
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