JP Midnight - Abolish this, please.

[Authority]

I know for certain things like Dynamis, it prevents the market being flooded of currency etc. But for missions and AF quests, it is the most frustrating thing.

Back when the content was released, I understand that SE wanted to delay progression to keep people around. When that content becomes old, and just a speedbump towards current content, the delay is just a giant frustration.

Example: Corsair AF. You level incredibly fast in today's FFXI. You will get to 60 from 50 in only a few hours, if that. (Not including abyssea parties). However, with a few exceptions, each piece of AF requires waiting until Japanese midnight. This makes something that should take a few hours at most take almost a week. The same goes for TOAU missions.

I know I'm not the only one who wouldn't be upset if this restriction was removed.

[Mnejing]

Matsui has already replied to this:


The reason behind the requirement of waiting until midnight JST for missions and quests was to set the stage for the storyline as well as to alleviate congestion. However, play styles have changed for FFXI and I think there would be no issue if we removed this requirement.

However, if we were to get rid of the requirements associated with the storyline it would be contradictive, and we need to address these one by one, so we will first start by addressing the aspects without any issues. Please give us a bit of time to work on this.

[Dragoy]

Job Points midnight?

Heh. I wonder if people would be okay with switching to “JPN” now. I know “Japanese” is way too long to type, so that's out of the question.

Ugh. Must... resist... ranting about... lingo in... general.

Sorry. Pet-peeves and so on and forth... What I wanted to say is, there was this, too:


Hello everyone!

The dev. team is looking into removing the wait time restrictions for older missions and events. However, we won't be able to remove them all at once since there are such a large amount of them and each of these event scenes being created differently.

If you guys could provide for us specific examples of where you have (or are) being inconvenienced by wait times, we can put those on the top of the list to be removed first. :)

So it's been going for quite a while now. They were pretty fast with the waits on the certain quests due to the trust I have no faith in. I wonder if they will finally do something about Aht Urhgan due to Nashmeira, too!

[Olor]

I would really like to see the wait on all AF be removed. No more JP midnight wait for BLU AF yes please!

I support the speedy implementation of the removal of these unnecessary roadblocks. Even replace them with Vana day if you're worried about the NPC saying it's tomorrow breaking our immersion. IDC about that personally but if its those references which are holding the team back, that would be much preferred.

[Dragoy]

Oh and it could be worse!

I was recently reminded of this personally, when I got my items for the Ebisu fishing rod mere 3 hours or so after day-change... on a Sunday. Yeah, so I had to wait the whole week for the thing! >:|

It's not like that thing is there to prevent congestion on battlefields even. It just is, because: ???.

Fun times (not!).

[Xantavia]

I'm surprised they haven't adjusted the AF waits yet. Upgrading relic armor used to be like 3 days (or a week) didn't it? Now its next game day which works just fine IMO.