Suggestions: Quality of Life Stuff and other suggestions

Reason people are 6 boxing+ now is simple, greed. SE has added countless systems that REWARD multiple account players. Delve, Abyssea pop sets, Sparks etc. One system after the next simply handing out free gil per account.

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Originally Posted by Stompa

I agree with you, broadly speaking. But also remember that in 2004, players were soloing to level 75 on BST, not relying on other players. Also, the cliques you mentioned, they existed in 2004 too.

I don't blame multi-boxers, so long as they're running vanilla FFXI code.

I don't think server merges would accomplish anything, in terms of making new friends or engaging in group content.

The level 75 era was successful, because most of Vana'diel is geared towards level 75 co-operative group play.

With level 99, and 119, most of Vana'diel became <Too weak> and did not require co-operative group play.

The great thing about level 75, was making new friends in Exp Parties. A new player was basically forced to team up, be polite / courteous, and make friends.

Obviously we all have nightmare stories about LFP and terrible failga Exp Parties.

But I also have stories about awesome Exp Parties, on my long road to level 75, meeting really awesome new friends. I would never have made those new friends if I had not been forced to turn my party flag on.

People say that they are older / too busy IRL these days, to do all of that level 75 stuff. I respect and understand their opinion.

But, I had more fun in the level 75 days. I met thousands of new people, made so many great new friends, and experienced real white-knuckle, life-or-death, excitement / thrills, even in the most basic mundane Exp Party.

What I will also say, is that I still love Vana'diel in 2021. It is still the place where I feel most at home.

Vana'diel is so very beautiful to me, in 2021, just as it was in 2004.

Also, I am very happy that FFXI is still online in 2021, and I salute the Dev Team for working so hard to keep bringing new content and fun campaigns.

FFXI will always be the greatest computer-game in the world, and Vana'diel will always be in my heart, forever.

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Didn't mean to quote all of this but just the part about server merges. I don't think merging servers now would do anything either, i was simply saying if SE merged the dead servers back when they all 1st started dying then there would still be people on other servers at this point like i said, its too late.

Everyone is running "vanilla XI code."
No add on in existence changes the code, that isn't even possible. And literally all multiboxers are using some tool, because it's necessary to run more than one instance of the game.

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

Everyone is running "vanilla XI code."
No add on in existence changes the code, that isn't even possible. And literally all multiboxers are using some tool, because it's necessary to run more than one instance of the game.

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You can multibox with multiple PCs or in virtual machines on the same PC.

Even so, your pedantry added absolutely nothing to the thread.

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Originally Posted by Immortal

Reason people are 6 boxing+ now is simple, greed. SE has added countless systems that REWARD multiple account players. Delve, Abyssea pop sets, Sparks etc. One system after the next simply handing out free gil per account.

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Would you be prepared to pay $20 subscription to offset the losses of all the multiboxers or are you greedy?

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Ahead of the 20th Anni. What do you want the focus of FFXI to be?
Matsui: The Voracious Resurgence is our main focus but we also want to release job adjustments within the year [my assumption is this means FFXI years, as in 19th year vs. 20th Anni year].

Fujito: Voracious Resurgence, Job adjustments, a concrete plan for storage, putting out any fires that come up along the way (As they inevtibly do). All leading up to the big fireworks show that the 20th Anni will be!

Matsui: now is a good time to come back. Enjoy the new missions. Help out each other on the assist channel you scrubs!

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Yes, more missions. Thank you.

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Originally Posted by Pixela

Would you be prepared to pay $20 subscription to offset the losses of all the multiboxers or are you greedy?

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Did I mention I wanted them gone? I was simply explaining why its being done. People are older now with more expendable income and they are playing by themselves out of greed to get things faster and in more quantity. Not hard for anyone to understand that concept. I think its a loss of revenue on SE's part for not having a cash shop, just looking at XIV and how many people bought that new whale mount due to the expansion hype. Wow, they must have made tons of money just off one mount that probably took them 10 minutes to make.

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Originally Posted by Immortal

Did I mention I wanted them gone? I was simply explaining why its being done.

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On the internet, explaining something must mean you're advocating for it. There's no such thing as nuance or context.

On the internet, why bother worrying? We are more English players and less Japanese players. Different cultures.

Please make a final fantasy 11 classic server. I want to see ff11 come back to consoles (ps5,xbox,switch). Plus our ff11 and ff14 subscriptions combined. I wanna see final fantasy 11 prosper again!

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Originally Posted by Immortal

Did I mention I wanted them gone? I was simply explaining why its being done. People are older now with more expendable income and they are playing by themselves out of greed to get things faster and in more quantity. Not hard for anyone to understand that concept. I think its a loss of revenue on SE's part for not having a cash shop, just looking at XIV and how many people bought that new whale mount due to the expansion hype. Wow, they must have made tons of money just off one mount that probably took them 10 minutes to make.

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I have 6 characters, I barely do any meaningful content at all these days outside of mundane stuff. I know lots of people with a lot of alts that are the same.

I originally had so many to camp multiple HNM in holding groups 10 years ago, then I got attached to them and and enjoyed getting gear for multiple characters and now I can't play unless I have them all active. It's just how many mmorpg players are, people get attached to the characters they have and when they finish gearing up their main or cap all jobs it's nice to have other ones to keep giving you reasons to play.

It's not just greed.

FFXI costs $12 a month, 6 * $12 is $72. There are far easier ways to get gil with $72 than playing 6 characters.

Also, if you have 6 characters you just sextupled how much gil and gear you need to gear up. You can't just have 6 characters and level them to 99 and it's done, you have to gear them all up to be useful.

Sorry sweetie, but you're wrong. Easier ways to get gil than paying 72 dollars? What a laugh, there are so many systems in place that would reward someone paying for 6 characters, you could easily triple your gil for the price you pay monthly. You aren't going to convince me otherwise, and it is simply greed, there is no other way around it.

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Originally Posted by Immortal

Sorry sweetie, but you're wrong. Easier ways to get gil than paying 72 dollars? What a laugh, there are so many systems in place that would reward someone paying for 6 characters, you could easily triple your gil for the price you pay monthly. You aren't going to convince me otherwise, and it is simply greed, there is no other way around it.

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They have to do a lot of work to get that gil with 6 characters, plus they need yo be fully geared to be useful too.

It's far easier to have 1-2 characters and have trusts, than play 6 characters.

What do you think everyone is doing with 6 characters to make mass gil? easy ambuscades? or do you really think everyone with multiple characters is bashing out VH ambuscades constantly?

Most f the richest players on the servers I know have at most 1 alt, they merc stuff with their hyper geared main and just use trusts to kill stuff.

Gil literally falls from the sky with multiple accounts. Weekly sparks/acco caps is automatically 12m gil or so. Each Odyssey Sheol C, 500~1m gil per character. Omen farm on each character, ambuscade for each character is a huge gil magnet. These are just the obvious ones, but there are so many different ways that I won't go into. You don't need great gear anymore, now that you can simply buy sets from Ambuscade that you can use to clear basically anything or buying Tier3 Odyssey NM gear. I know all the in/outs of multi-boxing so you aren't going to fool me lol. Just because you enjoy the actual multi-boxing aspect, doesn't mean that the majority don't do it out of greed, they do. People just want to play by themselves now with their little 3rd party program supported armies, and rake in all the benefits. Not really MMO like, but I'm not sure where you're going with this.

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Originally Posted by Immortal

Sorry sweetie, but you're wrong. Easier ways to get gil than paying 72 dollars? What a laugh, there are so many systems in place that would reward someone paying for 6 characters, you could easily triple your gil for the price you pay monthly. You aren't going to convince me otherwise, and it is simply greed, there is no other way around it.

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It's not that you can't make more money, it's that it isn't necessary.

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Originally Posted by Immortal

Gil literally falls from the sky with multiple accounts.

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I can make 10-12 million a day with one account and a lot of alts. Gil isn't a reason to multibox, it's a benefit of doing it but it's a lot of work that way.

Far easier with one account and trusts.

Sure thing... I guess thats why everyone and their grandma is 6 boxing these days right? It isn't as much work as you claim to think, there are so many addons now that it makes it not as bad as it used to be.

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Originally Posted by Immortal

Sure thing... I guess thats why everyone and their grandma is 6 boxing these days right? It isn't as much work as you claim to think, there are so many addons now that it makes it not as bad as it used to be.

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I mean yes, people do it, but hardly "everybody and their grandma." Among my friends, I don't know anyone that 6 boxes. One of them has two accounts. That's it.

The majority of the population is on Asura, that is why you don't see it. Youre on a dead server.

I know people who multibox just to get gear their LS doesn't want to farm ...like Volte armor.

Shoot, I played BST main forever, but LSes didn't want to bring a BST to events so I had to gear 3 other jobs just to attend LS events so I could lot gear and make progress on my BST.

Multiboxing isn't about greed. It's about convenience. Try asking yourself LS Tank if they find pulling in Dyna-D fun. No tank? No run! :/

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Originally Posted by Immortal

The majority of the population is on Asura, that is why you don't see it. Youre on a dead server.

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Actually, it's quite the opposite. Multiboxing is in fact easier to spot. And if anything, the "deader" a server is, the more likely the people on it are multiboxing.

My point was that people I know aren't multiboxers. There are enough of them that you can see them, but just because you see them doesn't mean they represent the majority. Whether it's Asura or any other server, multiboxers are a minority. It just seems like there's more of them than there are because of the fact that one person is controlling several characters.

Shiva is far from "dead." It's just not overpopulated like Asura is.

Remove animation lock from job abilities, there is really no reason at all to lock players in place when it's so easy to remove. It's just incredibly annoying and makes the game less fun.

The game still has systems in place that demand you be in the same position at the start as the end with spells cast and arrows fired so I don't see any reason players can't move while using provoke or whatever.

I think the only reason at this point it's there is cosmetic.

Mandragora MiniGame Suggestion.

If I have 5 points, the opponent has 20 points and there are 10 points left on the board, the game should end since there is no way to change the outcome anymore. It's so annoying that the game continues when there is no way to even win anymore and you just have to go through the motions or quit. It's a disgraceful waste of time and lead to me not even wanting to do it this year when I spammed it last.

The game itself is actually kind of fun but the thing above is obnoxious.

Every turn there is an option to 'Give up' at the bottom.

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Originally Posted by Haldarn

Every turn there is an option to 'Give up' at the bottom.

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If I'm winning and there is no way for the opponent to win, giving up means I lose points.

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Originally Posted by Pixela

If I'm winning and there is no way for the opponent to win, giving up means I lose points.

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You haven't gained any jingly until you finish the game. Before the end of the game, those number are just the score.

So your issue here is that you don't want to take the time to finish a game you will win? So you want presumably quicker Dial Key Fos for the sake of a chance at more HMP? It's supposed to have some level of tedium so that people don't feel that it's easy to obtain them, flood the market, give the gilsellers a field day and make Empyreans even more common.

I mean it's obnoxious that they want me to gain 63,000,000 capacity points to master each job. I think my wife would agree with you that there are many elements of the game that could be considered a 'disgraceful waste of time'. Really, that should be the tagline for their next sales drive. Crazy that we still play really...

When you want something to hurry up and be over, it's a sign that it's probably time to stop doing that thing.

Emp weapon items as login reward options more often.

I would wager, people have mules from the appreciation campaign with a couple thousand points. Lazy folks like me may reactive mules, to squeeze out the last few instead of farming. They were 1000 items last time I believe; that is fair, but 500 would be awesome.

I'm sure this has been asked countless times but I am going to post this again regardless.

Please update the games connection! Every time I zone I cannot speak in any of my Linkshells for 30 seconds. I also cannot access items in my inventory.

When doing ambuscade I zone so much I miss 90% of what's being said and I can't really reply. I can't stress enough how much the connection needs to be updated. It's 2021 now, please address this issue.

Character data has to be loaded after every zone due to the tiny memory of the PS2. I understand it's uncommon for many MMOs but it is what it is and SE has never updated the game system (I still believe they should just like they do to FFXIV).


FFXI is always a PS2 game and that's why the nostalgia is very very very strong for everyone. lol

Players on the FFXIAH forums have some opinions about the community reps. Good or bad? Your decisions.

https://www.ffxiah.com/forum/topic/5...r-adventure/6/

I was happy the two community reps able to find players to play with, ride on the boat with, and experience the nostalgic adventure in Valkurm Dunes. It may take a while for them to catch up before the endgame content.

Of course, I will never understand what the community reps say in a streaming video expect only their gameplay (and few players I know!). If you need any help in the game "in a legit way", please don't hesitate to ask us. :D

Food caps need to be raised to meet with the gear increases. We've been using the same food with the same stat caps since the beginning.

150 attack was a lot 10 years ago. Enemy defenses have increased significantly compared to the best possible foods. You don't need to make new foods, just raise stats / increase the caps on existing foods.

I want to be able to access the Asura Auction House, without having to go to that cesspool, or without having to pay you $30 to go and leave.

It's time to work on one AH for all servers. It's the only thing keeping many people on Asura.

Please give us an option to turn off macro errors. FFXIV and WoW have it. Many SMNs would cry tears of joy.

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Originally Posted by Yvone

I want to be able to access the Asura Auction House, without having to go to that cesspool, or without having to pay you $30 to go and leave.

It's time to work on one AH for all servers. It's the only thing keeping many people on Asura.

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While I would love a more active AH, please leave the cesspool on asura so the rest of us dont have to experience it

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Originally Posted by Yvone

I want to be able to access the Asura Auction House, without having to go to that cesspool, or without having to pay you $30 to go and leave.

It's time to work on one AH for all servers. It's the only thing keeping many people on Asura.

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Well, he isn't wrong at this point. The majority don't like item shortages.

This may have been addressed before but has there been any thought to provide a campaign event for like double or triple points from Einherjar? there's already increased campaign points for other events, why let this sit in the wings, no pun intended. This would help take away the time sink of having to do this every hour to earn a mythic. WSY? Thanks.

WSY - what say you? Did I understand that correctly?

Regardless, {Yes, please.}

2 minor fixes that would have a fairly big impact on the game.

Firstly, remove blaze spikes from Domain Invasion dragons. This causes so much lag on Asura it's insane, I know you can turn it off but why have something that causes that much problem. Spike damage effects cause a lot of lag when you have 60 people all hitting it, especially blaze spikes.

Secondly, when you press enter on your character and the sub menu comes up. It leads to a chat option that still defaults to shout, this needs to be changed to yell.

The number of new players I see trying to use shout and nobody seeing it is depressing, I have told hundreds of players about this over the years and it never ends.

Change the sub chat menu to say, tell, party, l1, l2, unity and YELL please.

Auroral Alicorn mount when? Gib me pretty hors pls~

Would love also a monstrosity version for it. Honestly, I'd love to see monstrosity expanded and revamped as a whole. It had so much potential.