Abyssea ,New players should get 100 stones to start out with at least.

[sc4500]

I all ready had 4 people just quit game for next 3 months or for good, since they can't really do anything in aybssea for next 3 to 6 months since nowdays most the stuff there is low man stuff under 6 people partys and thats good, and veterans are not going need to worry about stones since most all ready quit for a 6 month break or yr break to build there stones up or the rest the players are on to other stuff that no one new can really join or do abyssea stuff like all the older players are able to do, since new players can't get access to abyssea gear,

Just sucks when your helping out a friend only for them to run out of stones then they got to wait a few days. while the rest of us get everything. and/or have them jump into the zone right after we almost got a mob killed so he/she can get a seal or something.

Yes you can exp party to build time but worthless and you can get all the exp you need in grounds of valor.

Also is it not squares job to make some money and not something that makes people quit.

[0nionKn1ght]

Um after a shakey first day, I used my second stone in an exp party to gain a 3 hour entry stock, and bought the stone atmas with the cruor I earned, and now I have more stones than I can spend, and continually have at least 2 hours stocked up every time I enter, and thats been 7 days since I returned to FFXI (I last logged in at 75 cap, pre abyssea so nothing was stored up for me). I have also spent around 2 million cruor already and gathered a tonne of Atma and NM kills.

So sorry man, but your suggestion is really badly thought out and makes very little sense inline with the games mechanics.

[Eric]

No. How about you work for the abyssites that lower the time needed for Joachim to make you new stones instead?

EDIT: One more suggestion would be to use the time you spend waiting for stones doing other things that you should be doing anyways. Abyssea isn't the only damn thing in the game.

[Teraniku]

No. How about you work for the abyssites that lower the time needed for Joachim to make you new stones instead?

EDIT: One more suggestion would be to use the time you spend waiting for stones doing other things that you should be doing anyways. Abyssea isn't the only damn thing in the game.

This is true. Work on Magian weapons (a great way to level your npc follower), Work on all the mission / expansion storylines you haven't finished, general questing (The Windurst Star Onion Brigade, and Aht Urghan Serpent General Quest lines are particularly good.), Campaign, If you can handle the R.N.G. then Voidwatch, or Nyzul Isle 2.0, etc.

[Randwolf]

If your friends had a better guide, they would have done the things necessary to drop stone replenishment time first thing. A better guide would have first made sure he maxed their time with TE chests which DON'T require an EXP party as mentioned.

Seems to me, your friends' issue wasn't the stones. It was the person helping them who didn't know how to do it. Since, I'm assuming their guide knew how it worked before he even began, he should have not let their stone/time run out. Not S/E's fault. It was your friends' crappy assistant.

p.s. - We just had people return to the game with the exact same issue. We did everything I mentioned above with them and walked them through the mechanics. They all have plenty of stones now and didn't quit.

[Zerich]

Most of us got our stone+ abyssites a while back. If you think anyone took off time to 'build stones' you're misinformed. Also, ask other friends who didn't quit during [A] to help get you the abyssites. If those people aren't willing to help you, then I'd reevaluate who your friends are in-game.

[Jackstin]

Abyssea is for seasoned players, or people who have at, least played a little while.

This idea is basically saying, Abyssea is the whole game, ignore everything else as its far less important. There is tonnes of stuff to do in this game besides Abyssea, and it is good to encourage newbies to experience it. There's plenty of people doing this stuff too.

For example, in April I was ablemto zipmthrough WotG in 2 weeks. No statics, just from other people doing the same missions.

[svengalis]

If you do the quest to lower the stones down to replenish every 8? Hours and do the time exstension quest to get you 48 minutes per stone time really shouldn't be an issue. You could also farm time which really isnt that hard unless you dont have some form of azure. We all had to go through it.

[Meyi]

Talk to Joachim, wait a week, and have 7 stones. A week won't kill anyone, honestly. Also get a BLM, BLU, or SCH friend to go in and build up Azure quickly. At 160 Azure you'll start getting Time Extensions, plus 160~255 making the blue chests appear more frequently.

No reason to quit the game. 100 stones is a lot, really. I could understand 5.

[svengalis]

Hard as it is to believe there really is more to this game then abyssea.