Ambuscade! 1 NPC, 100 players

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Originally Posted by Olor

Have folks considered upping the points gained for lower tiers? I am going to need to spam this a lot on easy to get any gear at only 75 points per win. I asked folks if they wanted to group up but people only want to group with folks who are already super geared... so can we stop punishing soloists? Please? For the sake of everyone?

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Some guy allready solo this event in VD, considarate that make "stop punishing soloists" no sence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqLWio0PGfw
i don't think you really understand MMORPG is mainly for play with other ppl
solo ast BST can be fun but have an other job to play in pt would be helpfull for you to enter "normal party"
BRD is the main reroll job for BST (due to the CHR stuff you allready use as BST) but expensive to gear up.
COR can be geared fast enough to join good JP party and get the 3 star u'r looking for.
COR GEO are perfect job to find room in party (event you spend less than 20M to gear up the job)

Thank you for adding solo content finally!

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Originally Posted by Akivatoo

Some guy allready solo this event in VD, considarate that make "stop punishing soloists" no sence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqLWio0PGfw
i don't think you really understand MMORPG is mainly for play with other ppl
solo ast BST can be fun but have an other job to play in pt would be helpfull for you to enter "normal party"
BRD is the main reroll job for BST (due to the CHR stuff you allready use as BST) but expensive to gear up.
COR can be geared fast enough to join good JP party and get the 3 star u'r looking for.
COR GEO are perfect job to find room in party (event you spend less than 20M to gear up the job)

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Solo'ed with his third party tools lol.

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Originally Posted by Akivatoo

i don't think you really understand MMORPG is mainly for play with other ppl
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Thing is, that's just not true.

Almost every mmo that runs now is a solo game first and foremost, and FFXI also fits this category because they have heavily embraced solo play. An MMORPG is mainly a solo game with the ability to group with others if you choose. Your thoughts about what an mmorpg is, pretty much about 5-10 years out of date.

I've played almost every mmorpg there is and they are all mainly solo games, FFXI had to evolve and get with the times.

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Originally Posted by Akivatoo

Some guy allready solo this event in VD, considarate that make "stop punishing soloists" no sence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqLWio0PGfw

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This is like mocking a homeless man for starving because a millionaire with a fishing boat can catch fish to eat.

Are you comparing a player with all the best gear (that they had to get in groups), all the plugins and probably "certain naughty plugins" on a very specific job to a solo player with sparks or just above gear?

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Originally Posted by Akivatoo

Some guy allready solo this event in VD, considarate that make "stop punishing soloists" no sence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqLWio0PGfw
i don't think you really understand MMORPG is mainly for play with other ppl
solo ast BST can be fun but have an other job to play in pt would be helpfull for you to enter "normal party"
BRD is the main reroll job for BST (due to the CHR stuff you allready use as BST) but expensive to gear up.
COR can be geared fast enough to join good JP party and get the 3 star u'r looking for.
COR GEO are perfect job to find room in party (event you spend less than 20M to gear up the job)

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I do not agree with this way of thinking at all. The game is leaning more towards solo play now, I have been soloing because lack of party invites and that is on top of me shouting. Maybe you don't understand what an MMORPG is FFXI is no longer the party onry it used to be. I am not horribly geared and still can't find parties for the content I need. I don't always solo but when I started back up a month ago no one would take me because the gear I was wearing wasn't up to par, and getting help getting up to par wasn't easy because to get into the groups to get this gear I had to be geared which makes 0 sense. . . .

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Originally Posted by Akivatoo

Some guy allready solo this event in VD, considarate that make "stop punishing soloists" no sence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqLWio0PGfw
i don't think you really understand MMORPG is mainly for play with other ppl
solo ast BST can be fun but have an other job to play in pt would be helpfull for you to enter "normal party"
BRD is the main reroll job for BST (due to the CHR stuff you allready use as BST) but expensive to gear up.
COR can be geared fast enough to join good JP party and get the 3 star u'r looking for.
COR GEO are perfect job to find room in party (event you spend less than 20M to gear up the job)

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Yeah, folks above already said that, but saying that because someone with tons of gear that they got from group content can do something with that gear and with 3rd party tools, everyone can is silly. I am totally willing to admit I'm not the best player, and I totally don't have the best gear, but I'd like to enjoy the game.

Punishing folks for playing alone or in small groups or with others who are not well geared is bad game design, especially when the content requires spamming of a limited resource (instance time)

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Originally Posted by Diavolo

That's just the way the game handles the "instanced" fights, Ambuscade included - only a few players/parties can enter the same battlefield at any given time, after which everyone else is left waiting for those players to exit. So the problem outlined here would have sprung up regardless of how populated your server is.

I am hoping any further content created for FFXI plays to its strengths, the open world, and not to its weaknesses. There are plenty of wide open zones with practically no activity whatsoever that are screaming for a little attention, might be nice if they got a little of that before it was all said and done, especially now that mounts have become a thing.

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This is a good point. Ambuscade KI could have been used to pop a dragon/orcs/Whatever in the open world for credit. Heck they could have allowed it to work at any VW pop for example. As soon as content goes into those pseudo-instances it just falls to bits.

Its because of the way they do instances...

Einherjar for example, all of the possible instances (think there are 9?) are in the same zone and make up a 3x3 grid.

The 'instance' server isnt creating a new room for each person its just asking

'is someone in each of the 9 rooms? if so no one can enter'
where as in modern mmo it says
'need another instance? ok here you go let me make a new instance for you'

Taking a map like legions, dividing it into 9 or 12 rooms and calling them instances doesnt help anyone.

Simplest solution is to redo the incentives; Add a daily reward bonus similar to the 'duty finder' dailies reward in FFXIV to get a substantial (200-300 marks) reward for clearing dragon /orc once per day to allow people to get their 1 or 2 clears daily and move on.
The spamming is the problem.

Maybe even lock out the content once the 4 tome-giving RoEs are depleted to further reduce incentives to spam. Honestly, there's a lot of other things to do in this game, but right now, its 100% ambuscade because people want their capes, upgrade items and the tiered gear rewards.

Quick back of the napkin calculation is @ 500 hallmarks daily require 29 days to get to the hallmark tier needed to get all the +1 gear set that month
Guess what, the incentive is there to crank out the hallmark and spam the content.

Is there an upgrade path of the NQ versions of the gear? Because if someone couldn't get hallmarks due to being able to solo on normal and with great effort only got 300 hallmarks a few days in a row, he or she won't be able to hit the tier needed to get the last +1 piece. Really unfair and cruel to casuals.