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Chocobo Blinking was nerfed!
 Carbuncle.Burkey
Server: Carbuncle
Game: FFXI
Posts: 165
By Carbuncle.Burkey 2012-10-22 14:45:02
I've never sold a single blinker, and didn't even know what people were talking about when they said they were "selling blinkers" until recently, but I wish that Square Enix would just leave FFXI alone sometimes. I feel there are better ways to deal with RMT activities than reducing NPCable item prices. like focusing on lv30, naked, /anon mules who do the same activity 24/7?
also:
alex are all selling immediately
hmp are selling immediately
bynes have gone from ~7.6 to ~7k
bronze have gone from ~8.5 to ~8k
shells have gone from ~6.5 to 6k
among other things
-all in about an hour
Server: Lakshmi
Game: FFXI
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By Lakshmi.Inspectorgadget 2012-10-22 14:46:18
Carbuncle.Anesthesia said: »anyone know if haks are intact?
Remain untouched ...for now
What are these haks of which you speak?
Spill the beans! Lakshmi.Inspectorgadget said: »you'll need at least lvl 90 fishing, an Ebisu Fishing Rod which will run you in the ballpark of 8 12 million on average (Ive had friends having to spend as much as 40 million worth of Liks and Gugs to get the items), and Serpent Rumors KI which costs 95k GP, or about 8 weeks of turning in GP fish if you do it every day. Lu Shangs wont cut it on these fish, they'll break it every time you have a line snap which is a 1 in 3 chance. You'll also need to spend 150-200k in bait and fish for anywhere from 16-20 hours each day if you want to reach the 210 fatigue cap on them. Needless to say it's not recommended for everybody.
I'd also like to add that you'll need 90-100 minnows each day which are becoming more and more impossible to get. Nowadays it takes me at least 6 boat rides (2 hours) to get enough bait for one day.
Siren.Kyte
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By Siren.Kyte 2012-10-22 14:47:17
Bismarck.Azagthothe said: »They should have just eliminated cruor chaining and left the items as they were.
I think altering cruor chains to some degree combined with altering how it is distributed among party/alliance members would have been the way to go. This was pretty much the laziest way of going about this they could have taken.
 Asura.Ina
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By Asura.Ina 2012-10-22 14:47:40
What do they expect us to do with cruor now? I never done blinkers but I was seriously considering starting doing it.... It's a shame in my opinion, this was a stable source of income for many people in game. Now they're left with dynamis only, which is already packed. The issue was it was bringing gil into the sever at a much faster rate then could be balanced by gil being removed by AH/airships/chocobos/npc venders. This caused prices to shoot up and made it hard for anyone who didn't already have lots of gil to get their footing if they were a returning player or new one and didn't have cruor.
 Gilgamesh.Schmule
Server: Gilgamesh
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By Gilgamesh.Schmule 2012-10-22 14:48:04
All this means is you need to go and find one of the others hundreds of ways of making gil that has GOT to be more interesting than trading stacks of a single item to an NPC.
If however you were botting, all I can do is LOL. I mean really LOL, like I just got out of a mental home!
Fenrir.Curty
Server: Fenrir
Game: FFXI
Posts: 587
By Fenrir.Curty 2012-10-22 14:49:04
Although I feel bad for those who were using blinkers legitimately, it's worth noting that many groups were taking advantage of this option of gil farming.
Just offhand, I know at least 10+ individuals across servers who started up 14-18 accounts, ran a bot that pulled, killed, and even opened chests for them (as well as converting the cruor for them of course). Other than the initial start-up effort of preparing the accounts, no effort was needed for these people to be making around 200M/day.
I tried to not be jealous, but it does make it difficult to want to still work hard to farm gil in this game with people making this amount through being afk.
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 Bismarck.Misao
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By Bismarck.Misao 2012-10-22 14:49:24
how do blinkers affect vw and other stuff?
also, this made me lol
Carbuncle.Anesthesia
Server: Carbuncle
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By Carbuncle.Anesthesia 2012-10-22 14:51:33
how do blinkers affect vw and other stuff?
also, this made me lol
I'm guessing a precipitous drop in the supply of HMP. Not certain though.
Ragnarok.Hotkarl
Server: Ragnarok
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Posts: 520
By Ragnarok.Hotkarl 2012-10-22 14:54:10
Why does SE mess with stuff that doesn't Evan matter
By Drjones 2012-10-22 14:56:35
how do blinkers affect vw and other stuff? I'd join voidwatch shouts just for the easy cruor which I'd later convert to gil. Without that option on the table voidwatch just lost what little appeal it had left.
Good luck putting together any more voidwatch shout groups.
 Valefor.Sapphire
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By Valefor.Sapphire 2012-10-22 14:59:33
About time, inflation was out of control.
It was easy to convert cruor to gil but everyone was doing it lately to keep up with inflation.
The RMT was just getting more and more bold with their packs of naked mules in jeuno going between abyssea and the npc merchants in jeuno.
Time to max out those vw atmacites/brew empyreans or convert cruor to rubicund cells.
FFXI just got more hardcore! ;p
Bismarck.Misao
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By Bismarck.Misao 2012-10-22 15:02:48
About time, inflation was out of control.
It was easy to convert cruor to gil but everyone was doing it lately to keep up with inflation.
The RMT was just getting more and more bold with their packs of naked mules in jeuno going between abyssea and the npc merchants in jeuno.
Time to max out those vw atmacites/brew empyreans or convert cruor to rubicund cells.
FFXI just got more hardcore! ;p love you Poison avi~
edit:
did this tread get un-mained? wry?
Server: Leviathan
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By Leviathan.Comeatmebro 2012-10-22 15:05:33
Blinkers were completely broken. They deserved to be nerfed. Anyone who was using them at any scale should have known this.
Voidwatch participation is unlikely to tank noticably, unless you're suggesting this will actually kill the playerbase. The only spammable event is legion, timers result in downtime for even the most endgamey players. If you're playing, you want something to do, and voidwatch fills that role. It's worth less, sure, but no brand new shiny alternative was made.
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By Leviathan.Comeatmebro 2012-10-22 15:13:00
ikr
Carbuncle.Shokox
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By Carbuncle.Shokox 2012-10-22 15:27:18
I like how SE just came in randomly no *** and just shut down blinkers on a whim.
Glad I always cashed out my cruor immediately, lol.
Server: Bismarck
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By Bismarck.Azagthothe 2012-10-22 15:28:18
Siren.Fupafighters said: »Bismarck.Azagthothe said: »They should have just eliminated cruor chaining and left the items as they were. Cruor chaining isn't the issue. Can cleave and still get cruor distributed well among 5/6 mules. Capped lights at 110 a kill I believe?
Yeah, that's true. This was an oversight on my part. They could have nerfed the amount of cruor received through cleaving as well.
Some potential for exploitation exists in Voidwatch; however, this is greatly limited by the amount of stones you have and the availability of Voiddust. This might have actually increased participation in Voidwatch rather than doing the opposite.
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By Odin.Tsuneo 2012-10-22 15:30:00
Let's see how long it takes for more people to flock to fishing. It's not like there's enough bait to go around as it is anyway.
Carbuncle.Anesthesia
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By Carbuncle.Anesthesia 2012-10-22 15:32:28
Leviathan.Comeatmebro said: »Blinkers were completely broken. They deserved to be nerfed. Anyone who was using them at any scale should have known this.
Voidwatch participation is unlikely to tank noticably, unless you're suggesting this will actually kill the playerbase. The only spammable event is legion, timers result in downtime for even the most endgamey players. If you're playing, you want something to do, and voidwatch fills that role. It's worth less, sure, but no brand new shiny alternative was made.
now hold it until gil goes back up to 10-20 a mil and buy a car.
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By Leviathan.Comeatmebro 2012-10-22 15:33:40
Carbuncle.Anesthesia said: »now hold it until gil goes back up to 10-20 a mil and buy a car. may or may not do things like that, but it's relatively unlikely gil will ever break 10/m again :(
Carbuncle.Anesthesia
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By Carbuncle.Anesthesia 2012-10-22 15:39:07
Leviathan.Comeatmebro said: »Carbuncle.Anesthesia said: »now hold it until gil goes back up to 10-20 a mil and buy a car. may or may not do things like that, but it's relatively unlikely gil will ever break 10/m again :(
Already more than 10 on one major site, it was under 8 a few days ago. Of course that's going to be more than player>player or player>rmt site, but it's an interesting trend.
 Fenrir.Eneas
Server: Fenrir
Game: FFXI
Posts: 630
By Fenrir.Eneas 2012-10-22 15:43:12
the question is, are the Japanese players complaining about it? if not there is no petition that will work.
 Ragnarok.Corres
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By Ragnarok.Corres 2012-10-22 15:49:16
dominion ops will be nerfed too maybe? can get a lot of points and use them to buy augmented weapons (polearm brings over 7k at npc)
By Avitori 2012-10-22 15:50:07
hahaha
Fenrir.Schutz
Server: Fenrir
Game: FFXI
Posts: 3122
By Fenrir.Schutz 2012-10-22 15:50:59
dominion ops will be nerfed too maybe? can get a lot of points and use them to buy augmented weapons (polearm brings over 7k at npc)
Yah, I think I had better go liquidate my Dom OPs points there soon. :p
By nyheen 2012-10-22 16:39:18
ya this needed to be nerfed a long ago, it was broken and people was abusing the hell out of it. so it was time to BALANCE! (ya i miss the balance/tanaka stuff!)
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Leviathan.Egonn
Server: Leviathan
Game: FFXI
Posts: 280
By Leviathan.Egonn 2012-10-22 17:38:48
Basically instead of banning one or two people on each server that seriously exploited this, they jipped everyone out of a way to make money. But it definitely needed to be done. The inflation on our server was out of control.
Server: Fenrir
Game: FFXI
Posts: 3501
By Fenrir.Skarwind 2012-10-22 17:41:45
So glad I got rid of my account before they did this...
By frisko 2012-10-22 18:00:08
i know Blinkers were 500+ gil before, but is there anything else that chocobo vendor sells besides blinkers that cost more than 67 gil? lol
lower jeuno, neptune spire 531g
is now
lower jeuno, neptune spire 68g
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