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

[Venat]

Bring FFXI to PSP Vista. It would bring more players into the game to support it.

Next set would be to uncap all the CoP,RoZ and what fights in the game where a lv90+ job could enter and solo them. This would make the games easyer but at this point in time... that content is very old and very hard to even complete.

FFXIV missions are solo based. Its not good for the game but it also has its benfits. FFXI should do this for FFXI,RoZ,CoP,ToAU and all 3 Mini Packs Storylines.

Also Boost the final reward for Wings of the Goddess by increassing completion of all 3 storylines. More players would plan on beating all of the content then. Wotg is far by the longest storyline in the game which takes alot of groups.

Keep Abyssea the way it is.

Make Void (New Endgame) More like Endgame focus on upgrading older equipment based on finding new (very hard) Magician Trial items. Also include new Void gear and make a Combin system when having 2 fully completed pieces of equipment.

Skadi Body+1
Thief EMP AF+2

Combin those 2 pieces =

((New lv99 Equipment))

See this way you gotta complete 3 types of endgame to earn equipment

Salvage,Void,Abyssea

[RAIST]

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.

Seem to be contradicting yourself....How would you know this if you aren't using it.

And I have had people who read my /seacom as I would solo /DNC and would put my available main jobs and subs and they would invite me and ask me to change subjob or if I wanted to change to another of the main jobs I had listed.

Korpg made a point in a thread about the payment systems, and the concept behind it may apply to this:

Originally Posted by Korpg
Just because a problem happens to a superminority does not make the system horrible.

It cuts both ways. Just because it works/doesn't work for a select few does not necessarily mean it is a good/bad option.

All I meant to point out about using the server/job pages to ask for help and using search/bazaar comments is there are tools already there that can help the situation, but people aren't using them--and maybe they need to start.

Edit: /seacom dind't work for me just one time...It's panned out for me too many times to count. So much I can't recall in fact. I just only listed some specific instances that stuck out for me. Case in point--it's helped out at least once on nearly every one of my 80+ items I've upgraded through the magian moogles so far. By the time I finish +2 armors, it may well wind up having helped on every single piece in the end.

[Yokoh]

I disagree with what the OP is saying (to some degree), the linkshell that I am in helps each-other out on nearly everything, from newbie conquest missions, to high-end sky things, Quest lines from all expansions included. We do regular shouts for people to join up, we get along like one big family. Many of the community, true, are more interested in higher level things, only for the fact that maybe.. they did it once, so why bother doing it again? (thats one thought they might have) But just as equal as there are people unwilling to help, there are many that are very generous with time and other luxuries in the game. So, its just very unfortunate that some people take things too personally. Just think, back in the day, we used to sit DAYS Seeking a PT. Final Fantasy 11 has become so much easier to play. As for the remark about not getting a subjob at Lv18.. You dont HAVE to get a subjob unlocked at 18, for most new players (or characters) you might not even have an adequately leveled subjob yet, so that remark isnt exactly valid, imo... I understand that people might find it frustrating, but trust me, we are out here, willing to help out a friend. It just annoys me, when I find people blasting the entire community from such a niche catchment. ALSO, the language barrier is next to null and void these days, if you dont understand, say Japanese, you can just as easy jump onto Google Translate and convert english to japanese, and pull up the Romaji (and ask the japanese to communicate in Romaji instead of characters) and its easy. (I already know enough Japanese to hold my own, so its not too much of a problem) But it just feels like, 'If you dont talk English, GTFO' considering its still a Japanese based game. But hell, what do I know, im from England... ((Sorry for the lack of paragraphs, my enter key is broken ;(..)

[RAIST]

Maybe it's just me... but for the most part, I've had good experiences with non-english players. I've been pleasantly surprised at how many JP players can speak at least broken english and will make the effort to communicate with me. Probly helps that I often degrade myself right off the bat by admitting <<---Amerika no baka or something along those lines....

[Steamgear]

I already knew the reputation of FFXI for a long time (elitist community, solo unfriendly, yada, yada,...) when I signed on a couple of days ago. And I don't really care anymore. I want to play a FF mmo and my primary game, XIV, is being rebuilt at the moment.

I do realize things are going to be different but then again that's par for the course for a FF game.

[Sephiran]

I understand how you feel, but being cast aside is a part of this game. Nothing you can do about it.

I've soloed the majority of the game (didn't get a chocobo 'til 40) and found it rather satisfying--and mind you, I was a WHM. The first and second Linkshells I was in did practically nothing to help me. And in the second, the LS founder had it in personally for me. He despised me for distorting WHM as I did and eventually kicked me from the shell (not entirely a bad thing, he taxed the non pearlsack-holders). For a time, I though all 75's were like that. I did things on my own until I found a good LS.

Eventually, WHM became tiring and ceased developing it at 74. I started leveling PLD, soloing a lot of it as PLD/WHM--at 45, I was even able to self-EXP chain and at 71, I solo'd Promyvion-Vahzl (see http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Ta...s#Testimonials).

My point is, don't give up. Soloing has its rewards and it's not so bad.

[Inafking]

How would you know this if you aren't using it.

I use it all the time. That is how I can tell you it does not work.

[Inafking]

My point is, don't give up. Soloing has its rewards and it's not so bad.

We're talking about quests / missions. Not EXP. Please read before posting.

[Inafking]

you can just as easy jump onto Google Translate and convert english to japanese, and pull up the Romaji (and ask the japanese to communicate in Romaji instead of characters)

good luck getting "JP ONRY" to use Romaji so you can read / translate what they say.

[RAIST]

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

I use it all the time. That is how I can tell you it does not work.

soooo this post is mistaken then? or was it the first one? Which is true?

Again... just because it didn't work for YOU specifically the way YOU were trying to use it, doesn't mean it doesn't work for others.

Please, just stop as it is getting old.

I'll quote it again from the Boondoocks in that other thread you are also trolling this viewpoint in:

Gin Rummy: I always say the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.
Riley: What?
Gin Rummy: Simply because you don't have evidence that something does exist does not mean you have evidence of something that doesn't exist.
Riley: What?
Gin Rummy: What country are you from?
Riley: What?
Gin Rummy: 'What' ain't no country I ever heard of! They speak English in 'What'?
Riley: What?
Gin Rummy: English, motherfucker! Do you speak it?
Riley: Yeah.
Gin Rummy: So you understand the words I'm saying to you!
Riley: Yeah.
Gin Rummy: Well, what I'm saying is that there are known knowns and that there are known unknowns. But there are also unknown unknowns; things we don't know that we don't know.
Riley: What?
Gin Rummy: Say what again! Say what again! I dare you! I double dare you, motherfucker! Say what one more time!

/facepalm