The Mysteries of Vana 'Diel

[Ziyyigo-Tipyigo]

Two words:

cardian cards

[Glamdring]

delay on X-bow vs bow, I've used both RL, you can get off 3-5 arrows in the time it takes to get off 1 X-bow bolt because X-bow takes forever to cock (granted, not with any particular accuracy).

Gear changes mid-fight, I've taught sword-fighting (and other weapons for that matter) for rennasaince fairs, SCA and the like; if you take the time to change armor between swings you'll be dead by the 2nd swing, not to mention some armor actually needs assistance to get on, particularily plate armor. On the other hand, if you have decent hand speed and agility you can change weapons pretty much without penalty.

Why can't we throw knives? Honestly, I have a dart board with 3 of them in it in my home office.

How do taru tanks work? Honestly, almost everything in the game can either step over them or pick them up and throw them into a tree...

This is a mideval world, wheres the smell, disease and whore-houses? Slaves? the 90+% illiteracy rate?

Why does everyone on 3 continents all speak the same language?

that'll do for starters...

[Coldbrand]

High fantasy not medieval.

[Sparthos]

The water in Bastok looks like they've been just dumping their sewage into it.

Yay for corrupting the public water supply.

[Kiroko]

delay on X-bow vs bow, I've used both RL, you can get off 3-5 arrows in the time it takes to get off 1 X-bow bolt because X-bow takes forever to cock (granted, not with any particular accuracy).

Gear changes mid-fight, I've taught sword-fighting (and other weapons for that matter) for rennasaince fairs, SCA and the like; if you take the time to change armor between swings you'll be dead by the 2nd swing, not to mention some armor actually needs assistance to get on, particularily plate armor. On the other hand, if you have decent hand speed and agility you can change weapons pretty much without penalty.

Why can't we throw knives? Honestly, I have a dart board with 3 of them in it in my home office.

How do taru tanks work? Honestly, almost everything in the game can either step over them or pick them up and throw them into a tree...

This is a mideval world, wheres the smell, disease and whore-houses? Slaves? the 90+% illiteracy rate?

Why does everyone on 3 continents all speak the same language?

that'll do for starters...

I would love to see something throw a Taru into a tree.

[Chamaan]

In one of the missions involving Fei'yin, a NPC says they found ruins similar to Fei'yin on Cape Teriggan. What is this supposed to be?

Fei'Yin was a Kuluu settlement. Same as Horutoto and the Temple of Ugga. They might've had a settlement that failed on take on Teriggan. Alternatively, it was something they built to interact with Garuda's protcrystal. The Kuluu created Summoning magic after they were exiled by the Zilartians. Was the reason Zilartians were afraid of the Kuluu and tried to purge the Emptiness from them, since the taint of Emptiness was what prevented them from hearing The Whisper of the Soul that allowed psychic communication between Zilartians. They wanted to remove the difference between them so they wouldn't have to be afraid of an army of Summoner prols rising up to crush the psychic bourgeoisie.

You've got avatar lore a bit mixed up.

Carbuncle is one of the terrestrial avatars like Bahamut, Fenrir, Diabolos and Phoenix. These avatars are called terrestrials because they are merely magical beings created after Altana split the mothercrystal and created Vana'diel.

The celestial avatars however are immortal beings who existed before Altana created Vana'diel but are currently dormant save for Alexander and Odin. The fear the terrestrials have always had is that if awakened, the celestials would attempt to reunite the crystals and destroy Vana'diel thus bringing the world back to "paradise" meaning the end of their lives.

I thought the Celestial Avatars were created after the formation of Vana. They're called the Celestial Avatars because they're their own constellations. There was a whole series on the legends of each of those avatars back when they were doing the Tribune still. They were all mortals that moved the heart of Altana with their actions in life, so she called them and someone important to them to Heaven and they became a constellation/Celestial Avatar. Like Garuda was a bird that healed her master's illness, Ifrit was some monstrous general that repented for his deeds. Each of the brightest stars in the sky (the colored ones) is part of their constellation and named after the person or thing called up with them.

The Terrestrial Avatars were just bound to Vana because they were in charge of the Mothercrystals.

That's just what I remember from the tribunes though, there might be something in the Smn storyline that contradicts that and those are just fun stories and legends people made about the stars.

[Seimore]

If Corsair's are using a six-barreled gun...why can't they shoot six bullets at a time?

[Lushipur]

six barrel gun, as other time of machinegun with more than one barrel, just shot 1 bullet at the time but exchange the barrel firing the bullet to avoid overheating.

[Chamaan]

Well. Hexaguns aren't machine guns. They're pepperbox guns. Pepperbox guns are what predated revolvers. You'd have multiple barrels that could each be preloaded, like the wheel of a modern revolver but with extra long chambers. But the wheel didn't spin when you pulled the trigger or cocked the hammer the way they do in modern single and double action revolvers. So after firing each shot you'd have to grip the barrels and spin them with your hand to the next shot. The advantage was that you have a bunch of shots loaded up already so you wouldn't have to open the breech and fumble with another bullet.

FFXI's other guns are all single-shot rifles of some kind, or stubby shotguns, I dunno. But they all have much longer delays than hexaguns, which fits with the model of a pepperbox gun having lots of shots ready to go.

[Seimore]

I see, didn't think of it like that XD
How do worm enemies conceal treasure chests?