You got my hopes up.
Now I has a sad.
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You got my hopes up.
Now I has a sad.
you mean your deffinition of casual is that, anyone whos been playing for years is far from casual either by the money they have invested or the time they have spent. time = money and money = time not getting away from it.
I still fit that; I average about seven hours a week over the last seven and a half years.
Even dumping the roughly a year where I wasn't playing at all, that's still only eight hours a week or so.
So: there is still overlap between "people who have played for more than a year or two" and "casual players".
For the record the BG Random Question Threads and Whats Better Threads are probably two of the most useful and most helpful forum topics relating to FFXI on the internet. In general the people who post there post because they want to improve themselves. The people who reply are ones who'd found the answers or have seen the answers mentioned somewhere else.
Saying the infomation is hard to find on BG is rubbish because their search function is pretty good, and failing that there is the aforementioned Random Question thread.
If you can't find infomation on BG it's because you're not trying.
And those are not the only two good threads. There is a lot of very valuable infomation in Advanced and Mathy Parts forums.
at any time of the night/day you generally get your first reply in RQT in about 5-10 mins tops
Yes but you should add "on average". What is systematic to hardcore players, unlike casual players, is committement overs the days/weeks/months/years. Basically if you farm anything that requries grind you are hardcore. While abyssea offers nice opportunities to casuals for instance, it's kind of made for hardcores (empy, vnms).