Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

From the way Jessie described it, sounded like they'd trickle out the expansions, so that the ongoing players would have to wait to unlock stuff like BLU, COR, DNC etc.

I guess that would at least mean that the people rushing up to 75 on it now would have to unlock and do lowbie EXP after those roadblocks are lifted.

But with their attitude towards NIN sub, RDM, and whatever other kooky ideas they've got going, still doesn't sound appetizing.

If I had friends I knew that were gonna play on it, I might give it a shot. But I don't, so I won't.

I mean, I guess it couldn't hurt to try it out. I'd feel like I was wasting my time though. And I'd probably do what I did for alts during college back in 2008/9. Back then, I'd just start in Sandy and level solo in Ghelsba because it had a lot of tight knit areas with mob levels ranging from 7 to mid-early 20s. I remember leveling an Elvaan alt there in the span of a couple of nights solo to 25 Monk. Can do similar in Bastok with Palborough, since it's got the boat that loops back to Zeruhn, which once you've hit low 20s, you can zone into Korroloka and solo worms to 25 a little bit faster than Ghelsba. I don't know enough about Windy and Horutoto, but lord knows Giddeus's arrangement sucks by comparison.

Then again, from what I've seen from some small youtubers posting LPs and similar things from other private servers, sometimes the private server devs change mob locations dramatically.

I'll just never understand the mindset, ever. I literally grew up in that era, have played since almost day 1 and I still don't want things to go back to that. I have done HNM, every single one, done all the end game, everything practically. I know that it will be impossible to get a game that had that magic, it was lightning in a bottle. These people just do not get that, they think they can do it with every derpy private server that pops up every couple of years.

They are just constantly stretching an already fractured playerbase and hurting retail over all. Such a shame, they should stop and support retail. It's always the same type of people running these things too, one of them I know from posting on BG. They have some kind of complex where they wanna be in the aery again and feel like they are top dog with their bots and clique. So sad honestly. If it isn't for HNM, you can't tell me that whacking crabs for hours endlessly or nether blasting Kirin to death over an hour or the same tired strats we used back then are fun. How many times can you do that before you get bored? lol

I'll have you know getting 10 exp a kill and watching NMs pop purple were the best days of the game! Not only would they pop purple, but they wouldn't drop the thing, so in 5 days, the same group would make it pop purple all over again for their next chance.

I never got into HNM scene, though my first experience with it was when I was EXPing in Chef Boyardee Tree and a pile of people went running by. Someone in party said Fafnir's window must be about to open and I had NO idea wtf they were even talking about. Party broke to go to Aery to watch. There was kinda smack talk, but nothing too serious. A bit of bitching that the audience of onlookers was causing lag, yadda yadda. About an hour or so later, this glorious dragon appeared on my screen. Whole lotta deaths happened and eventually a dragon went splat. Followed by a bunch of "Sword?" in say

They also intentionally gutted drop rates for the first few days, citing that they don't want the economy to overflow with items. This in addition to nerfing buying and selling prices at vendors and nerfing quest rewards has made it impossible for anyone to buy any gear.

I heard everyone started picking up fishing because sending Rusty Buckets to a mule in Bastok to make 200 gil per five buckets is the only way to make any money. And then they started banning people for doing that because it was an "exploit". LOL

From what I've seen in streams and through friends on Discord it sounds like a train wreck and I'm curious to see how long it lasts at this point.

Dear god. Did they want people to just kill beastmen for gil raw? 8 gil per Yagudo Interrogator yeehaw!

There's no point in buying anything until 75 so, it's ultimately a decent choice.

Otherwise you just have 300 pair of leaping boots and a hundred people camping lizzy and VE 24/7

(yet another reason to just start at 75)

They not keeping the R/ex versions for those NMs to alleviate that sorta maneuver?

That wouldn't be era correct, now would it.

Wait... so that's not the official name of our coins?!

That server is going to go down to <800 best within the next 2 weeks - I promise you. They may steal some from Nasomi and they may steal some from Eden, but at the end of the day, they're going to get bored.

Also, the thought of re-rolling on a private server in vanilla era these days literally sends hives down my body. Talk about going backwards in life.

I mean, it happened in era... like what, 2006/2007? Only 3ish years into the 75 cap while ToAU was going strong and what not.

Era mindset being before that... ooof!

I remember late 05/early 06 being told to stand in the corner and meditate/sleep pot to full TP and notify alliance when ready to fire off a Steel Cyclone. Just standing there in the corner, trading ***talk with the other DDs.

Meanwhile the mages, PLD kiters, and RNGs were doing steady work on the constantly running around Kirin. The most exciting part of all of it was the beginning when Kirin summoned the other Shijin.

Contrast with a year or so later. My first Kirin zerg. Done in a shout group. Just 13 or 14 physical DDs buffed out the *** taking it down in mere minutes. Quite the high.

Even if you exclude Ebay, currency still fluctuate all the time though. It's normal in the market and not going away anytime soon unless our economy system change drastically.

For Example If I go to bank/foreign exchange outside of Canada and purchase $1 Canadian dollar, I will need to pay $1.02 to the bank. And if I sell $1 to the bank, I only receive $0.98. maybe in some country with less Canadian dollar available it fluctuates even more.

Since currency isn't available to everybody equally so we need to pay an additional price to the bank so the bank can get the currency for us.

And this is without limitation on certain condition. Add specific condition like "coins only" "brand new coins only" "coins with specific design" which makes it even harder to get then yeah, it's not surprising that it fluctuates even more in the market.

Unless physical money no longer exist and every country has unified currency, AND deposit/withdraw somehow magically cost $0 and accessable to everybody in the world, I see no way to stop that.

A couple cents, yes. 1000% *** no.

Muawahahahahahaha! /devilish laugh

San d'Oria and Windurst have formed an alliancce!
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

It's all thanks to me taking back Tavnazia and Kuzotz! /flex

You're welcome, Odin!

If you're silly enough to have a twitter, make sure you vote right now.

Elon will quit if you vote yes.

Why, I like him and what hes doing lol.

Also, when people post pics of newborns constantly everyday... I just think they look weird. Humans have some of the ugliest babies, only puppy pics allowed.

he's already going to do it, the poll is just a farce.

The new secret owner is Saudi Oil Prince 6969 and the new "owner" is some random white guy who will tweet less than dorsey.

6 million yes
4 million no

The gap widens, someone better release the bots if they want it to look real. That's really gotta sting the ego and ego is the only thing he's got. Amusing.

Random thought...

He actually hasn't done a single thing, which is funny.

My dog just woke me up telepathically

I heard "wake up" clear as a bell in a dream. I of course open my eyes and shes staring at me. Then just bolts to the door to pee.

Yep. It happens when eitehr nations tie for 2nd or if the nation in 3rd failed to take however many zones they need to not need an alliance.

I know a few friends who already jumped in. All are new to FFXI (been interested in it but never got to try it out), except one veteran who quit since Abyssea.
I will join too to have fun watching them be noobs & get a taste of that sweet nostalgia before the inevitable Cease & Desist from SE.

A private server acts as little more than a unlimited free trial for the game proper, people who enjoy the game will be very likely to move to retail. It also gives the game a lot of free press from streamers and 'tubers.

There is really no downside since retail is objectively better, as much as it's fun to be a noob and spending 10 hours farming for dia and being totally reliant on other people for literally everything, it will get old after a while for most and when it does retail is there with a far more user friendly experience.

Also they don't even need to send a C&D, they just contact the server provider and ask them to take it down if they want to. Will be taken down within the hour, no server host is going to to say no to a company contacting over copyright abuse. Unless they try setup in Russia or something.

https://youtube.com/shorts/HERK6um9QAo?feature=share

It actually hurts retail more than helps. Most of those people are so far into their "blue pill"they won't ever touch retail.

I think a small percentage think of it as you say where it's the only way to play the game, the majority either want to play the game they used to play many years ago or a game they heard a lot about from the 11 vets in the 14 community. The majority will be friendly to moving to retail because it is a better experience once the novelty wears off. Trusts, more jobs like blu, more storylines, professionally run servers, giving money to a company they like that run 14 (if they are 14 players) also developers that are never going to give gil or stuff to their friends and ban you for any reason they want. Drama is always rife on these servers and it creates massive rifts.

A private server for XI is kind of like an apple tree in your neighbors garden, that he lets you you take apples from. You can go pick your own apples, clean them, cut away the bad parts, deal with the toughness and deal with the neighbor being a tophat sometimes.

..or you can goto the store and buy them in perfect condition with no strings attached. Even if you get off on the rustic nature of "the real way to eat apples", one day you'll wake up and it's raining and you cba and the store is 5 mins away.

I get the appeal of classic, it's great. However for most it's just a huge pita past 30 or so, and gets annoying pretty quick. Back in the day we put up with it becasue there was no alternative (even though it was a great social experience), that's not the case there.

We could not just go play a more user friendly version of the game, it was put up with it or quit. These people can leave any time they want, and get better / same experience

I don't feel any older though. Every year they get me, its the same day too! It's a conspiracy.