Suggestions: Quality of Life Stuff and other suggestions

[RagingAvatar]

Please can the social team for FFXI join Bluesky like that XIV team have? I keep finding I'm missing news since moving away from Twitter/X.

[Eth]

Please make the bonus exemplar campaign permanent, so that every month, a 500,000 exemplar point bonus is available, in the form of double exemplar points earned, up to the bonus limit.

[Alhanelem]

Please make the bonus exemplar campaign permanent, so that every month, a 500,000 exemplar point bonus is available, in the form of double exemplar points earned, up to the bonus limit.

So much this

[Chromium]

The entire point of a campaign is to make something exciting, making it permanent is counter productive.

[Uroah]

None of them are exciting. Conversely, when they are down you are completely unmotivated to do that thing entirely.

They also encourage you to hyper fixate on the event when they are up, because it's the only optimal time to do it, so you play more and play longer.

They are more harmful than good.

[Chromium]

On some mmorpg games where they have limited ability to add new content, they cycle dungeons. They take some dungeons out, putting them back later and they do this to add variety by cycling dungeons in and out so players don't just do the best one or whatever.

When you have campaigns on XI, you in effect put content into "worth doing" category (even though ppl do it out of this time) and so push players into doing them. Whether it's card farming, crafting or xp.

If you goto any XP spot right now it's packed, cause of the campaign. When boosted card drop campaign is running, everyone is doing it just cause it feels more worth it.

It works very well. If people do the same thing every day it gets tedious, campaigns make them diversify or they feel more rewarded for doing it. If it becomes the norm, it's no longer special.

For instance, adding the dark campaign as a full time thing has greatly reduced the crowd size around the npc. People who used to do it every day during the campaign, now barley do it at all.

[Uroah]

That's literally the point. When there's limited time you HAVE to do it. If it's up all the time, it's not a big deal.

[Alhanelem]

The entire point of a campaign is to make something exciting, making it permanent is counter productive.

The difference here is that the exemplar bonus is only for a limited amount of EP. Once you use it up, it stops. The idea is to have one monthly, so people who don't feel like botting can make some progress.

[Chromium]

They are always going to be very protective of exemplar boosts, they have no reason to help players cap them.

[Alhanelem]

They are always going to be very protective of exemplar boosts, they have no reason to help players cap them.

Well there is a reason, and its because pretty much everyone uses bots/scripts to do it because of the obscene amount of time it takes to max a single job (You could cap the majority of jobs to 99 at EXP rates comparable to current EP rates in the time it takes to ML50 one job- obviously level 99 doesn't take nearly as long as it used to, but if it did, you'd STILL lv99 I think like 18 of 22 jobs.)

While I can certainly grind Locus mobs solo just fine, without scripts and multiboxing it would take an even more obscene amount of time on the jobs that I play most- basically there's "savage blade jobs" and "everyone else." so I 'm not going to pretend I don't sometimes join up with someone I know is probably automating it in some way, because it's so ridiculous that it's hard for even me to maintain my integrity.