Craft Skill Limitations

[Rustic]

I seem to recall a friend of mine leveling Goldsmithing in roughly a week or so. That was like 5 years ago though. Maybe things have changed? Or maybe I'm just crazy...

You're not. 1-60 can be done in a day, assuming sufficient funds and access to materials. Nowadays, it's even easier.

Heck, easiest way to test it out is Alchemy, since that's likely as fast and straightforward a process as it gets- and I know I've seen people readily go 1-50+ just powerleveling an alchemy mule to skill them up.

[Sircurtis]

First I would like to say that as a player paying for a decade its time you listened to the players and stop using our money to fight RMT activites. Concentrate on our game instead of fighting the impossible. This is the reason why we lost so many people.

Things to help fishing:

1) skill ups take to long. I just got done wasting 4 hours of fishing time just to get no skill ups. We as the players need to know more about the rules of fishing that you set forth. What is expected of us to get our skill ups. Skill ups are just all over the charts since the changes. Some of us are not young kids anymore and dont have the time to sit infront of the computer to get a .1... or no skill ups. It is just not fun. This could be one reason why we lost so many people....

FFxi is a great game because its complicated and difficulty level is up there but there comes a point when its just to much and the people cant take it anymore.

2) if your going to put restrictions on fishing then make it that. I would rather know how much fatigue I have in a meter or be told I can only catch so many fish in a day than fight with the mess that fishing has become. Its not going to stop rmt activity.

3) fishing should be brought to server side for a few good reasons. a) the usage of bots which is what created the fatigue system can be eliminated b) ffxi can make their own bots and charge us for it. Lets say a rental program for the honest players. If this was done that would give ffxi more money to increase its staff and make it better. after all ffxi is a business right??? This would make the players happy also. Lets face it there is already to much content in ffxi so why not make it easier to obtain capped crafting. This could even pay for a team to fix the stuff we have instead of making more areas. There are a ton of things that just dont make any sense any more...

Things to help all crafts via the AH:

The AH was created at the beginning of ffxi. We have grown and changed. So why in gods creation do we still only have 7 slots available. We should have unlimited slots and change how we do business. We are still going to need mules and always will so that tactic for extra money is moot. At this point the rmt have been beaten so much that the AH is just plain bare. The players dont have the time to farm for hours and play the game and there just are not enough crafters because of the difficulty level. I go to get stuff and there is nothing for sale... or I have my 7 items on ah and I sit there for days some times waiting for it to sell. Its no wonder why players go buy gil... Your forcing them to. If your so conserned about RMT activity then why not think for a second about how the players will respond. what things are they doing that we can put a finger on. I for one know that if a player is putting things on the AH for 24 hours a day/7 days a week and never leaves the comfort of jeuno or bastok that they probably are an RMT. Can we do anything about this? YEs. Cap the AH. hmmm if a player is putting up 30 million of one item there is no reason for it. Come up with a good viable number of one item that put a cap on it. this means that after they sell 12 stacks of sneak powder then they are done. they can not ah any more of that item. or you could change it in this fashion. Everyone gets put on a waiting list. RMT like to undercut the real players and the real players have no idea why their stuff is not selling. so what can we do about this. Put them on a waiting list. things are sold for lets say 30k gil no matter what they put up there and they just need to wait their turn. If there are 100 items on ah then they will be number 101. the RMT will not be able to meet their quota for the day and the players will be able to have some money. In my opinion I think that if there is nothing on the AH than the AH should provide it this way there is always something for sale all across the board. Think about that for a second dont just dismis it!

Anouther thing is about the NPC's either the NPC's should have every single item to craft or have none and be able to be gotten from monsters. there is nothing worse than waiting for a city to have control of something just for the RMT to jack up the prices because they can get it 3 cities away. This in no way helps our economy. Everything should be crafted at that point unless its a rare/ex item. All rare items should be done away with completely. FFxi has always been a world of fantasy exploration and working as a close group to get things done. Missions and such. Why push competition. and btw whats up with an NPC selling an item for 30k and when you sell it to the NPC they give you 20 gil.... Come on what moron thought this up. Whats it going to hurt to give players gil. It is after all a game.

If your so worried about RMT activity why has no one thought of just opening up a FFXI RMT addition to the main website. FFXI prints its gil and therefor could take advantage of the proceeds of selling gil to their own people. Some people just dont have the time to wait for things to happen and thuse they run to gil farms or vendors and purchase gil, items and leveling I see even. It means more money for ffxi and it means we would get a bigger and better staff of programmers, developers, and even GM's. The players would be happy and news would spread to those we lost for the past 5 years.
and what would this accomplish also you might be asking... well its very simple. It means that you will be getting more money, the players will be happy and most important is that ffxi could then control the gil in ffxi. COMPLETE CONTROL OVER YOUR GAME! wow what a concept... but my guess is that you already are doing this via brosales cause they keep giving unwanted tells.... and its only them... Nice tactic.

I have more but this is enough to chew on for now. Thanks for supporting the "Players" instead of the RMT for a decade! You know how to contact me if you have questions.

[Sircurtis]

and P.S.


FFXIAH.com is onto a good thing with the bazaars. We need a way to find things in bazaars faster than searching for hours everyones bazaar. If you could hook them up and support their efforts I think that would be great. Then you have an ally in the war against the RMT because we would all be buying from ourselves.... Just a thought


Thanks!

[Rustic]

and P.S.

FFXIAH.com is onto a good thing with the bazaars. We need a way to find things in bazaars faster than searching for hours everyones bazaar. If you could hook them up and support their efforts I think that would be great. Then you have an ally in the war against the RMT because we would all be buying from ourselves.... Just a thought

Thanks!

The only reason I cannot respond with more than this is everything I would say would be a violation of forum ToS, so:

No. I disagree with your desires to make this a pay-for-paradise...and the reason we see fewer and fewer RMT companies up to sending out tells is simple. They're mostly elsewhere now. Please, keep using my money to get rid of RMT, I don't want a game infested with the digital equivalent of roaches.

[Sircurtis]

and the reason we see fewer and fewer RMT companies up to sending out tells is simple. They're mostly elsewhere now.

Thats funny. Your even saying that they are STILL everywhere.....

So what has been done bout the RMT situation? Nothing... They just wasted our money "trying" to fight something that is unwinable. Thanks for your help clearing that up.

And yet again tonight I spent anouther 4 hours and not one skill up... I called a GM and they didnt reply, I contacted Support and this is the response:

Thank you for contacting SQUARE ENIX support,

SQUARE ENIX is unable to provide game hints, tips or strategy. We recommend that you seek assistance from the manuals, strategy guides (BRADYGAMES - www.bradygames.com), other players and the various Community Sites. An excellent site we can recommend is na.square-enix.com. A suggestion I would give you would be to go on the related forums there and inquire directly to other players what exactly your issue is and perhaps they experienced similar problems.


Did this help me? Not a bit. I'm not asking for game secrets here. I'm saying to fix my fishing so I can enjoy a game that I am PAYING TO PLAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Am I pissed? I Sure Am!!!!!!!!

I'm so pissed I am ready to find a lawyer and sue them. Why? Becuase I am being promised that I can fish and gain levels and right now I am being prohibbited from doing both. And to top it off I am paying my good hard earned money for it. All in the name of RMT actions. Is this really fair to me as a LOYAL PLAYER?

I mean really come on now..............

[Sircurtis]

Here is anouther thought. Why not put the fishing fatigue system only onto the RMT fisherman when they are suspected. Why should it hurt everyone because of a few bad eggs.

[Sircurtis]

Anyone know how to get their own server?

[Demon6324236]

You cant...

[Rustic]

Thats funny. Your even saying that they are STILL everywhere.....

I've been here since the first NA week of release. Believe me, they're not "everywhere".

Everywhere was when you saw botted RMT doing mining circuits in Gusgen. Fishbotting desynthesis items in Yughott, literally lining every available surface for whatever was the most valuable fishbotting pre-Gobbie Bounty Hunters. Monopolizing spawns. Massive manipulation of the AH economy. We're nowhere near those levels of RMT influence today, and it's only because of the unceasing efforts of S-E.

So what has been done bout the RMT situation? Nothing... They just wasted our money "trying" to fight something that is unwinable. Thanks for your help clearing that up.

See above. I've been a part of the game economy for nearly a decade. You can't "kill" RMT short of literally being able to go to the source and physically putting a sledgehammer through their computers- people will constantly attempt to manipulate the game for real profit, and the only thing you can do is treat the attacks on said system to minimize their effects. That applies to every game. FFXI. WoW, and nearly every MMO on the market.

And yet again tonight I spent anouther 4 hours and not one skill up... I called a GM and they didnt reply, I contacted Support and this is the response:

*snipped*

So...you're complaining about skillups? How about you give me the numbers? What are you fishing? What's your current skill level? How many of your actual pulls were fish that could skill you up before fatigue sets in?

Did this help me? Not a bit. I'm not asking for game secrets here. I'm saying to fix my fishing so I can enjoy a game that I am PAYING TO PLAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Am I pissed? I Sure Am!!!!!!!!

I'm so pissed I am ready to find a lawyer and sue them. Why? Becuase I am being promised that I can fish and gain levels and right now I am being prohibbited from doing both. And to top it off I am paying my good hard earned money for it. All in the name of RMT actions. Is this really fair to me as a LOYAL PLAYER?

Any lawyer would look at you, by the way- and laugh their ass all the way out the door as they politely escorted you out of the office. You aren't promised anything of the sort, nor that an activity be as easy as you want it to be. What you ARE being is absurd.

I mean really come on now..............

Precisely. You're over the top and you want your own special playground where you can be the best without doing it at the same pace everyone else is.

From years and years of hearing stuff like this- odds are, the problem is you. That being said, said problems are usually easier to correct than you might think, and the solution is not howling about the unfairness of the game for denying you skillups. It's finding out why your skillup rate is so abominable, talking with other players with -details-, and getting over the wall.

Now, let's get started. Your current skill, where you're fishing and for what, what rod, what bait. I can guarantee you, you can do better with help. That's what you need to give in order to get it.

[FrankReynolds]

I suppose you would be fine with the government shutting down the internet to get rid of cyber-criminals right? Because that's much easier than pursuing them in a way that doesn't adversely affect law abiding citizens.

Dude is somewhat off kilter, but correct in that SE usually does more harm to Non-RMT players than actual RMTs with their tactics.