Recently returned but having trouble getting into post 99 content, please advise ...

[Jin_Uzuki]

Example, here is an example that anyone can easily verify by using FFXIAH or log on on an Asura mule. On Asura there's an unique /yell culture that only exists on Asura, and only exists since recent years. If one person /yell something in public channel, it'd turn into chains of "conversations" that could last for more than an hour, and some of these "conversations" are either jokes/troll/politic talks/LS drama. There are people that creates mules with unique names just to join those "conversations". I consider this culture unique to Asura because I've never notice this trend happen on any other server, including some of the bigger ones, at least not as frequently. And it's also irrelevant to server size, even in 75 days when each server has 3k players, conversations in public chat never happen nearly as frequently. Safe to say that this "culture" was developed on 2017 Asura because of time, circumstances and synergy between people.

That's not Asura culture. That's "there are a lot of people online and running around culture". Of course it happened less because /yell was not a thing , but shout conversations in Aht Ughan Whitegate were certainly a thing. /yell conversation don't happen in low pop server not because of "culture" but because with 300 people running around, with half of them being mules or afk.

That happened in 2006, less so because /yell was not a thing, but certainly happen. Hell, it happened on your own server and I can that because I was on Ragnarok on 2007 and I played on that server for years (One I still remember after all these years was World Cup shout fights). Shouts "drama" or "conversations" are nothing new.

Or one individual may dislike yell conversations, and doesn't play for character progression, in that case he'd prefer another server that's not Asura because he gains no advantage on Asura, only disadvantages.

Like what, panics attacks for /yell? Why are you being so dramatic?


The only "culture" that exists in FFXI is "current game culture" and it's generally shared by all servers. Maybe some servers are exclusively ERP, but I'm not privy to that.