Global Shout or Possible solution to congestion?

I understand there are limiations to the game, preventing certain things but is the game limited to a global shout? or at least a shout that can be seen in areas that SE wants more populated? (Port Windy/Sandy/Jeuno/Bastok Mines/White Gate)

If a Global shout, or linked shout between the cities is not possible then people will never leave Jeuno because of the convenience of getting a group of people together for a party, not many people use their LFP flags now these days, I'm sure you notice that.

Doing a search now results in 19 people in all known areas using the flag, of that 7 of them are between levels 75 - 90.

If SE is worried about the congestion of Port Jeuno, why not look to adding the NPCs to Whitegate? Whitegate is a much more flexible zone then any other location in the game, able to teleport from Whitegate to Jeuno or your home nation at any time, and have access to it from all the major cities in the game.

I know that when Abyssea was released it was based around Rise of the Zilart, and Wings of the Goddess, is the community that worried if they add a extention to all three Abyssea titles that it will prevent all the current owners of Abyssea, Zilart, and Wings of the Goddess from enjoying their content?

What would the possibility then be of adding a quest for those who have Treasures of Aht Urghan, to expand the reaches of the Abyssea NPCs and place them in Whitegate and Nashmau, would it be that memory expensive to implement into the game, as you've already stated some zones are at or near cap memory that they can hold for those playing on PS2 versions.

I have to say, I've heard several people suggest this and I love the idea.

If there were a global shout channel nobody would need to remain in Jeuno with the other 1,000 ppl looking for shouts and would definitely relieve the congestion being experienced there.

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This would a great addition to the game. Great suggestion.

They added different channels in xiv I wander why they have not done the same for XI.

This has been suggested many times and it's been largely ignored, I don't know the reason for that but I guess this will go the same way.

Global is asking for trouble. I doubt it'd be possible, but I think that if the shouts throughout Jeuno(and RuLude) could be linked, it'd definitely help with congestion. Especially in port.

Or a global linkpearl that anyone could join. Something, anything!

I just wish SE would just say,"Yes, we can," "We'll look into it," or "PS2 Limitations." The silence is deafening! It's been brought up a few times, and we don't know what SE's stance is.

Dev Post about Multiple Zone Chat possibility being tested.

Hopefully it won't mark the return of RMT spam ><

Even still, I can see idiots spamming up the log just to be annoying. I think regional shout would be more appropriate. That would be better for a region like Jeuno. If an annoying person wants to spam the server on a mule or something, they would have to be in Jeuno (this would prevent newly created characters from spamming the server since they start in Bastok/Sandy/Windy).

See, I want to be able to look through shouts messages without sifting through spam. Port Jeuno is almost like that as it is now =/

I was actually surprised they didn't add any new abyssea npcs to whitegate. I know its not exactly close to the zones that have the maws for abyssea, but it has much more room for people than port jeuno does and it would be nice to see whitegate populated again.

Redesigning the shout system is really the only way to go. As much as I would like a "out of character" chat, FFXI just isn't very chat friendly. Your sentences are already horribly limited and the lone chat box isn't winning any awards, and I don't feel like having to filter chat so a bunch of city folk doing nothing can piss and moan at each other aren't spamming my log. If they can combine Jeuno shouts it'll go a long ways in helping but even then it's at the mercy of people willing to move from the "cool" spot that is PJ right now. Also, as much as I hate to see it changed yet again, implement Jeuno tax. You can't really do it just for Port. People will just move to Lower or Upper or probably Ru'lude. At least then you knock out at least like 50-100 AFK bazaars for sure.

Finally, to put the nail in the coffin, Abyssea NPCs give off a 100 HP tick 10+ yalm poison aura if you stand by them for longer than a few minutes. Yeah, let's see people wait on top of the NPC for hours with that in effect making life a chore for everyone else. In before poison aura kills people down below at AH in PJ resulting in emergency maint for 2 hours.

Its a good idea other then the fact that instead of /shout wars and spam in one city it would be unavoidable where ever you go...

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Originally Posted by Valarian

it would be unavoidable where ever you go...

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If only, IF ONLY, SE gave us something like chat filters where we could filter it when we don't want to read it.



IF ONLY.

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Originally Posted by Romanova

If only, IF ONLY, SE gave us something like chat filters where we could filter it when we don't want to read it.



IF ONLY.

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Or a blacklist option but you know I think that would be asking for too much...

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Originally Posted by svengalis

Or a blacklist option but you know I think that would be asking for too much...

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Stop, you'll make my head explode.