"Extend time" in la theine abyssea...

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Originally Posted by Raxiaz

Because it's a video game, but I care about the lore in FFXI.

I'm going to restate that the "fix" here needs to be that the NPC accurately tells you how much time you're going to get from your traverser stone by using the "extend time" feature, if you're coming back to them after a while in abyssea. Also, if you're not going to get at least 50% of the traverser stone's base worth (15 min), then the "Extend time" feature should not even show. That's all I'd ask.

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You're ignorant.

Just to clarify..,.I'm paused in the dialouge atm so I can type it exactly as the game is presenting it after you select to add a stone, it tells you the bonus time you'll get per stone (+18), it tells you the value of the stone(s) you will be applying (48, 96, etc), and you confirm you want to spend the stone(s)...it then presents you with this panel before actually taking your stone, so you can see what your total will be after applying the stone (I requested 34 minutes initially, and am adding 1 48 minute stone, so I get this):

Toatal time obtained for this stay: 82 minutes
Confirm.
Cancel.

While I was holding the menu to post this, time had elapse. When I exited, chat log showed this activity:

Your visitant status will wear off in 30 minutes
You expend 1 traverser stone.
Your visitant status has been exteneded by 48 minutes.
Your Visitant status will wear off in 77 minutes.

Went back into the menus and added 1 stone.... blah blah.. +18 minutes, 48 minutes per stone... and here is the gotcha that your are COMPLETELY MISSING:

Total time obtained for this stay: 120 min.
Confrim.
Cancel.

Now, if you were paying attention to what it was telling you along the way, you should have been able to catch that 77+48 does NOT egwual 120, but 125. Also, if you had noted that you were at 82 after adding time the first time, 82+48 does not equal 120, but 130. either way, you have been givrn sufficient information to realize you were going to loose time if you added another stone.

Guess you are just spamming the menus and not actually reading, perhaps? maybe? just a little too impatient with the system and it wouldn't matter if it was telling you that you would only get partial credit for that stone because you aren't actually paying attention? hmmm? maybe? just a little? take a breath once in a while and actually READ what is on the screen and make note of what it is trying to tell you?

No, I was reading. And it wasn't being very clear on anything. At 21 minutes left, adding a 42 minute stone doesn't exactly equal 120 minutes. So how the hell am I supposed to know what it's really going to give me? Keep track of what the initial time was when I entered? A simple fix but unnecessary nonetheless would be to write down the starting time.

I'd rather the damn thing just tell me "You will get 17 minutes of time from this stone." instead of me having to remember a number about an hour and a half later. I'm not so good at remembering numbers.

But hey, it doesn't matter. This is an insignificant problem in everyones' eyes - including the Developer's apparently, because they coded it so ambiguously - and obviously requires no further discussion.