WARNING - New Players or Players thinking of coming back - Consider this first.

[Inafking]

You can get EXP easy. The game isn't hard.

Why don't you actually do something in the game before you tell us how easy it is.

[RAIST]

All I can say is... wow.

Learn to use a couple tools available to you that I rarely EVER see brought up in these debates:

Use your server (and job) pages on the forums.
Strikes me as odd the outcry about lack of help not just here, but elsewhere--and yet I don't see much activity in server forums asking for help with the lower level stuff. Didn't find a single request for help with Genkai in the server forums here--33 hits on the term. A couple in job forums but none in the server forums. List what you are needing help with and search them for what you need. Other sites also have Private Messaging--join some of those forum sites and post on their server/job pages requesting help. PM is very handy for teaming up with people on those forums.

Search Comment, Bazaar Comment, Auto-Translate.
Learn how to use them, they can be your best friend in a multi-cultural, multi-language community like FFXI.

[Inafking]

Use your server (and job) pages on the forums. Search Comment, Bazaar Comment, Auto-Translate.

No one on any of the servers I've ever played on uses anything you've suguested.

[Eurell]

No one on any of the servers I've ever played on uses anything you've suguested.

Noone on any of those servers uses Auto-translate? Really? Sorta hard to believe you aren't exaggerating just to make things seem worse than they are at this point.


@ OP
Like a lot of other people have said, Bismarck seems to be a very helpful server. My wife and I just started helping out a new player that was shouting for help the other day. What makes him fun to help though, is he attempts the missions and tries to progress on his own, and asks questions when he's confused, or asks for help when he gets stuck. We suggested he work on some rank missions for his airship pass, he got to rank 4 in 3 days. We told him to get a choco license, he looked up what had to be done and got it done that day. He's got 2? lvl 50ish jobs now, and we were happy to help him beat g1 and 2 because he puts forth some effort on his own. And thanks us lol. I cant tell you how many times I've helped people and haven't been thanked.

I also know at least 2 LSs that help anyone from lvl 1 on, and also do endgame stuff for their other members. Thats not even counting for the 2-3 other LSs listed in this thread.

lol, sorta off topic but, funniest part about helping this new guy lately...
He was doing mission 2-3, and had to kill the Orc Warlod NM in Ghelshba(sp?) Outpost. He climbed to the top of the zone, got to the NM, and sent me a tell for help, saying it was too hard for him. He was a lvl 52 DRK. So I head out to help, and start asking him questions about his scythe skill, wondering if he lvled too quickly and wasn't up to par. I get up to him, and tell him to kill the NM, saying I would cure him and give him advice if he ran into trouble. He went up and 2-shotted the NM.

Me>> Um...? Good job!
Newbie>> OMG HOW!?
Me>> I told you you could handle it!
Newbie>> But it said it was impossible to gauge! I swear!

I laughed for a good 5 minutes after that lol

[Inafking]

Noone on any of those servers uses Auto-translate?

Yup. Only the english players use it to correct their spelling. German / French / JP don't even bother.

[Lynchilles]

You are like the man of 1,000 excuses.

[Bumbeen]

He's right though

[RAIST]

No one on any of the servers I've ever played on uses anything you've suguested.

You do realize that you just emphased my point 10-fold?

Sounds like a real opportunity for a teachable moment.....

[RAIST]

Yup. Only the english players use it to correct their spelling. German / French / JP don't even bother.

Maybe on your server... but I've got about 5 or 6 JP players on my list that I teamed up with because they had auto-trans comments in their /seacom when I was doing bazaar.

You are falling into the same trap as the OP. Basing your point of view only on your server's population and not accepting that may not be the way it is for the entire game. Maybe if someone was maybe getting the word out to some people somehow that these exisitng tools are useful instead of just discarding them as not worth it or nobody uses it when in fact people DO use it and they DO work...it may effect a little change here and there.

[Inafking]

I've tried putting stuff up in /seacom. Does not help if no one reads it. Just because it worked for you once, does not mean it works. Hell, people don't even read /seacoms when they invite you for EXP.