February 2021 FINAL FANTASY XI Digest

[Wotasu]

Please look into the matter about lag/latency I'm experiencing 5-10seconds delays on action taken. Load icon never stops loading while in Gaol.
I would like to do this content, but with the high latency I am unable to.

[Lehmie]

I invited me here to say how nice is the nee content, thx SE But please repair the content with the huge lag, its relly not playable. I hope (^^*)

[Tsukihika]

Already posted a bug report regarding this issue, but our linkshell party had another strange thing happen on Sheol: Gaol content earlier.

Our original intent was to do some further testing, how clicking the Veridical Conflux present within Sheol: Gaol seemed to suppress whatever thing is causing the severe server side lag present within this zone for many players.

Clicking this Veridical Conflux seems to indeed rapidly load all player inventories and suppress the packets received from ffxi server, as can be observer in-game from the send/receive values on upper right corner. As long as player stays on this Conflux menu, no server side lag is detected and content behaves as intended... Leaving this menu, however, once again causes server to spam client with massive amounts of data. As can be observer from the in-game send/receive values.

Now here is where the strange thing happened. After warping to boss area from lobby. All party members having clicked the Veridical Conflux. All of us were somehow able to access trust magic that we had not unlocked in-game yet. Personally i had access to Ygnas trust! among various others that i had yet to unlock. From which i can only surmise that our personal trust magic lists got sent into some weird zone specific global trust list. And all of us gained access to this list upon clicking the Veridical Conflux.

Upon leaving Gaol our trust magic lists were back to normal.

Or is this some intended feature for Gaol that i have missed? It would certainly be handy to have access to trust magic of whole party, but this feels like a proper unintended bug...

[Keagan]

Amazing update.

The best part about this content (Odyssey) is it can't be Mercenary exploited, making players team up again. Please think of this for any future Content!

yes it can

[Immortal]

No idea where that even came from in the first place, just because of the job change thing I guess? Most people these days have 3+ characters, each with fully capped support jobs on their mules. Not being able to merc content is a dream, SE would have to nerf multi-boxing in some form.

[Tsukihika]

Bumpin the thread for better exposure.

Can we have some reaction from community representatives / forum moderators, that they are actively following these threads and aware of the issues? Ideally within the next 24 hours.

[Rokada]

1. SE seem to have added a lot more network traffic when Dyna-D added RP upgrades to gear/weapons. Whatever system is being used to track RP is likely the reason we now get high latency on actions and movement in Dyna-D.

2. Odyssey A, B, & C, seem to have the same general latency issues as Dyna-D

3. Odyssey Gaol, has pushed this extra network traffic to the point that lag is reaching 6s for actions for some players. Packets are likely getting dropped altogether between the server and client as well.

SE please investigate this and give us an update to say that you are. I'm willing to wait until the end March before I quit the game, but if nothing is said before that my patience will be exhausted.

[Tsukihika]

Since the community reps were a no-show within given time frame, and made it clear they're not even following these forums much... I went ahead and dropped a formal Square Enix FFXI support center ticket regarding this issue and requested proper investigation. Let's see if that sparks any action...

[Immortal]

Why is it ok that we are constantly ignored yet we pay a subscription price ? XIV players are not ignored and constantly have NA reps responding. I don't see the reason.

[Leny]

Why is it ok that we are constantly ignored yet we pay a subscription price ? XIV players are not ignored and constantly have NA reps responding. I don't see the reason.

Because you refuse to punish the company for it's sleights. Openly acknowledge they're doing wrong, but here you are with an active character, paying.