Alpha male nerd rage chokes this game from ever progressing, since if you ever give a complement or acknowledge something, it translates into showing weakness and you have to be alpha male at all times. You can’t ever really demonstrate to people that -x- works. If you ever want to convince anyone of anything, you have to have Ph.Ds, with degrees in astrophysics and quantitative analysis, show with graphs and charts how -x- is better than -y-. And then you have to post it everywhere and anywhere multiple times, before players start to realize -x- works.
But it’s even the simple shit that I notice sometimes. You would be shocked at how many rangers I’m seeing not use Camouflage since it’s been updated. And Square-Enix has flat out told us what the updated Camouflage does.
Short of things like Hastega II and Refreshga II, the playerbase doesn’t ever really give a shit. It’s kind of sad.
I haven’t been leaving many comments lately… I’ll try and fix that.
►January 17th, 2010 | Category: Game Mechanics, The PlayerbaseWell I haven’t caused any controversy in a while. Best change that.
Astral burning is ruining this game.
For the uninformed: Astral burning is a type of quick blast EXP party. Basically, everyone level syncs to a low level with 3-4SMNs. Someone drags every mob in Korolloka Tunnel to the EXP party, all the SMNs use Astral Flow (summoner two hour), and blast all the mobs into oblivion, hitting high number chains in the course of a few minutes. It’s something like 40,000 exp for about 30 minutes of work.
So now everybody is churning out jobs at 75 at an alarming rate, which means more demand for popular rare items. Which means there’s actually more competition for shit. The real problem? They’re shitty players that good gear just doesn’t fucking help.
I’ve often argued that FFXI is a game of numbers, and it is. When you understand the nuances of a job, that’s what the game boils down to. That first part though, the “nuances of a job” part, seems to be oblivious to everyone astral burning their latest fad to 75 (or 66, because, well, Maat’s Cap I guess).
The game has been strained in ways quite unimaginable by this, both on the playerbase and the game itself. Just burned that WAR to 75? Better get that Adaberk. Burned COR to 75? Maybe you should buy those dice now, maybe even work on your marksmanship a bit. BLM finally finished? Great. Now just have to finish working on your enfeebling, elemental, and dark magic skills now. Don’t worry if you get bored with the job by the end of the week. Just burn another job up to 75. After all, why try understand nuance when you just shit all over the place?
►January 8th, 2010 | Category: Loot and Looting, The LinkshellIn what can only be described as an amusing and amazing display of greed and corruption, my limbus linkshell leader went up and changed the rules of the linkshell last night. What a great thing to come back to.
Before, it was a simple and basic point system. You get points by going to runs. Getting drops cost points. Spend points to get drops. It worked out well for me, since I couldn’t attend more than one run a week at the time (ZNMs, Einherjar/Dyna, Salvage, and so forth). I could slowly build up points and hit the last piece of Homam I need (feet).
My Salvage leader vanished though (he was the one who encouraged me to join in the first place), leaving me with little to no connection in the shell. And last night, the leader of this shell decides that rules needed to be changed. “Anyone who didn’t like it could leave”.
So I did.
Basically, he was going to merc out drops. This isn’t a problem in of itself, but the gil would only go to the person who brought the buyer. You could sell any drop you wanted, as long as you had point lead. It would cost that person the same amount of points as if though they had bought the item themselves.
In other words: It’s a pyramid scheme. People at the middle-to-low end of the points list basically got nothing out of it, delusionally believing that some day they could get a piece of homam/nashira. The people at the top could merc out drops endlessly and get huge chunks of gil for it, and get the labor they needed from the people at the bottom.
It was an absolutely amazing display of greed I hadn’t seen in a very long time. Apparently this guy needs to upgrade a salvage body, and decided to use his limbus shell as a means to an end. Anyone who is staying in that linkshell that isn’t on the top four of that list has mental problems, and can’t see what’s actually going on in that shell.
Anyway, someone was kind of enough to listen to me vent rage and hate, to a point where maybe we’d start our own lowman limbus shell. I like the idea of lowmanning stuff, but I certainly don’t have the right jobs for it I don’t think. We’ll see if anything comes out of it.
This is another one of those posts where I’ll just let the pictures do the talking.
►December 29th, 2009 | Category: Loot and Looting
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