Removal of Mercenaries

[Afania]

Here is my suggestion:
Alter the treasure pool. Make it so new people can't join the party while there is treasure within the pool. Maybe this will start enticing people to play together once again, face a challenge, and win that piece of weaponary or armor they have been after.

No :<

This should've been a day zero thing that they did. Far too late now.

Also; Songs and Rolls should be dropped if the bard/cor leave the party.

No :< and no...….


First of all, placing a restriction on treasure pool will NOT remove merc in any way. Merc will just invite buyers to pt instead since capable merc will not have any issues carrying a leech in pt. In fact, people also merc master trials and ambuscade, both content doesn't reward people with a treasure pool.

Additionally. It also removed the option for LS/friends to let new people come in and lot stuff. The whole concept of FFXI is to help others and build community, and people frequently do so by saying "anyone need X item in pool" in LS chat. If there's a restriction on treasure pool, then those gears will hit the floor.

Another thing about merc: Its actually one thing that keep vet players playing. I know more than a couple of people that's been playing for years, has capped aeonic, omen drops and everything. Essentially there are no other things to do in game for them except merc and make more money. If merc isn't an option, they'd all just quit because there won't be ANYTHING to do in game when they have every thing.


Top end players are the backbone of community, they organize events for more casual players to join, write guides, share strategy, basically keep the entire community together. I came from a small server, and I know for sure that if some of the more hardcore player quit because they have nothing to do in game, the endgame community would collapse because the rest of player would not go out and organize events, they'd just quit or server transfer. And merc is basically what keep people still log on everyday to do something at this point.

Basically, merc is a thing and necessary, just deal with it. If you don't like seeing yell with it, there are 10+ other server without merc yell for you to choose from, since merc yells pretty much only happen on Asura.

About songs and rolls, having the ability to buff and drop multiple pt gives BRD and COR more "weight" in the alliance. We can invite a brand new COR with a roll set that buffs 3 pt, that'd give them more weight in the alliance and worth a spot.

If buff and drop isn't an option for them, they'd have to do more in the alliance to worth a spot, such as DDing. Essentially that means newer COR are less likely to get invited to high lv endgame because they can't contribute more than 2 rolls.

So no thanks to BRD and COR nerf.