Cross-Server Invites

You guys must skip over a huge amount of posts because otherwise you'd recognize panthera centric sarcasm.

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

Rog you are really the worst troll on these forums.

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I'm amazed the admins have allowed this to go on as long as they have. Allakhazam 2.0 it seems.

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Originally Posted by rog

For cheaters maybe.

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Why would someone who said he stopped playing ages ago care?

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Originally Posted by rog

Because cheaters will abuse it in combination with nexus cape.

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Nexus cape is useable once every 20 hours.. I hardly see that being something able to be constantly abused. Realistically that abuse COULD happen... once every 2 days. But I wouldn't call that abuse. It would be called "using equipment the way its designed".

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Originally Posted by Zyeriis

I disagree, Rog is the best troll on these forums. Rog can bait so many people so easily, I just sit back and /popcorn some times. This time it was shocking how effective it was and how many people took rog's statement seriously.

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Ah I see what he was doing, he was parodying Starcade with his trolling. Now, where did I put my punting boots? I've got a little tarutaru to find...

The only thing it could be abused for is Tiamat anyway, there is like no other 24+ hour pops worth fighting anymore.

I would like to see at least invites from any city would save me a trip to Jeuno everyday for gather together time to form up parties.

I'm not sure about this.
Server-wide invites would be very much welcome in an environment where you have a server-wide channel of communication, at least in cities. Kinda like WoW's "General" channel. But while it's very useful, it's not very "FFXI-esque", also developers already stated that with the current FFXI infrastructure such a possibility would be a very heavvy burden for the servers.
In light of this, I think server-wide invites wouldn't really be useful.
The fact they updated /PCMD to work region-wide some patches ago is good enough, imho.

What they should do is make /shouts zone-wide. Currently they have a certain range (100 yalms radius? 150 yalms?) from the person shouting. In some particularly large zones you can't possibly reach everyone. Say you're in Valkurm Dunes asking for help, or for a Raise. You're shouting but the only person willing to reply to your shout is too far away, so they won't read it.
I think shout should really be made zone wide, possibly increasing the amount of seconds between each shout you can make, to avoid the same people shouting too often.

I'm not really sure what's going on in this thread, but... Yes please to server-wide invites! I'd love to be able to invite friends/ls members/party replacements at any time, no matter where they are.

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Originally Posted by svengalis

I am thinking the Dungeon Crawling we will be receiving in the future updates my be something like wow dungeon instances with server wide invites but I could be wrong.

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That's what we thought MMM was. How wrong we were.

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Originally Posted by Daniel_Hatcher

The only thing it could be abused for is Tiamat

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Walking from Port Jeuno to Sauromugue Champaign to get an invite for Tiamat is such a stretch. Let's call that abuse while we're at it.

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Originally Posted by Daniel_Hatcher

The only thing it could be abused for is Tiamat anyway, there is like no other 24+ hour pops worth fighting anymore.

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Then there's really 0 worry for abuse, because as it stands all you have to do is walk outside port jeuno (since you've probably got your HP there anyway) to get Sauromugue, which is in the Aragoneu region and makes you inviteable from Attowha anyway. HP in your hometown? OP to Meriphtaud instead.

Tiamat is already one of the most convenient HNMs to Nexus Cape to for this reason, and cross region invites won't really affect this.

I'm confused. Why exactly does careful attention need to be paid to "specially restricted areas" and instanced areas for this issue? Let's say I'm doing Salvage, and I invite my noob friend in Windy so we can chat while the rest of the party does Salvage. Noob friend still can't enter Salvage, get anywhere near Salvage, or get any drops from Salvage. How is it any different than going to Windy and inviting noob friend to the party before heading off to do Salvage?

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Originally Posted by Camate

As careful attention must be paid regarding specially restricted areas, and instanced areas, the development team would like to take their time to look into the possibility of forming parties no matter where you are in Vana’diel. They will be looking into this, but they will need a good deal of time.

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Thanks for the update Camate, glad to see dev's see it as a good idea as well. Thank you for taking the time to respond to the thread.

I fully support server-wide invites, or as close as you can get to that.

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Originally Posted by Dazusu

That's what we thought MMM was. How wrong we were.

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Actually, I thought Moblin Maze Mongers was going to be a full blown level-editor, not anything like WoW's dungeons.

Anyway, I support the idea of party invites from anywhere in the game. Sure, with all the various methods of teleportation we've got these days, it's not as big a deal as it used to be back in the day, but it's still an extra layer of convenience, and more convenience makes the game more enjoyable, in my opinion.