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[Scuro]

I don't understand people's moaning or saying "Everybody is going to pick their mules!"..... No, I'm sorry last I checked I'm damn proud of my lvl 90 BLU called Scuro on Odin. I frankly don't give a damn lol. My only regret with this is that it asks for your 3 primary jobs and yet it only displays 1. I would ask that they display all 3. Why should displaying your in game name, server, and job hinder anyone from posting? If anything I would find it more encouraging so that if your asking for help on something, people can find you and offer such help.

And if the trolls come after you in game.... Well thats what black lists are for. What this does for me personally is it allows me to see what level the person is, and based on that take them seriously or not... If they are lvl 1-30 I can tell you right now my level of seriousness and respect for a post will be drastically lowered for a garbage idea, then it would on a garbage idea coming out of a 90 (which would probably even have less respect then the 1-30). This just gives me a better understanding of a person's perspective =).

P.S
You should come to the realization that if you say something stupid or you are a jerk in general, it will effect you in the long run (In RL you don't go walking around town spitting on people that talk to you, it tends to get your ass beat down.). People will recognize you and you will gain a reputation for being an ass hat. If you would be smart, and try not to bash as much, you might actually get somewhere, to say that you can come onto a forum and smack talk and then hide behind anonimity is cowardly.

And if your really that flustered about posting with your name attached to it, trust me, SE did a good thing by having jerk posters stop posting and leave the forums simply because they don't have the gaul to put their name and reputation to their posts. Honestly if SE can get those of you that are actually drastically worried about your anonymity to leave, we might actually accomplish something around here then having people asking for a pankration update. When I'm an ass on these forums or in game, i want people to know that Scuro, from Odin, 90 BLU is calling them out. And if anyone comes after me in game, I do have black list to fall back on ;-)

[Atomic_Skull]

Anonymity is a good thing not a bad thing. People are more likely to speak their minds. The internet is the one place you're free to speak the truth without fear of retribution for not paying lip service to bullshit.

[Zaknafein]

Anonymity is a good thing not a bad thing. People are more likely to speak their minds. The internet is the one place you're free to speak the truth without fear of retribution for not paying lip service to bullshit.

I completely agree. I certainly feel free to speak my mind even with main character information shown. At the end of the day my virtual reality FF character is still pretty anonymous

[Bulrogg]

There are very few positives and negatives for this move. I too do not understand why they are doing it.

Only that I think after it happens we'll eventually get over it

It's my guess they may be testing to see about linking in game achievements to forum profile; maybe changing how medallions are tallied again. I don't know, and I don't mind.

[Ravenmore]

Why do I have no control over what job it displays in my avatar? If you're going to make use use something at least make it something that works. One fail thing after another this month gd SE get with it.

Set every box to the job you want to display, it will then go to one box with that job.

[Aleste]

I don't really care either way whether or not my character/server is shown; nor do I particularly understand why job level is shown.

It matters not whether I post from my main or mule; I don't feel like my opinion would vary on the grounds of being harassed (in the loosest sense possible) in-game.

[Greatguardian]

I am, arguably, one of the most scathing, opinionated, generally either loved-or-loathed posters on these forums.

I have never, ever been called out in game for anything I've said on here, or BG, or anywhere. Never. Not once. In fact, the only time someone outside of my linkshell has ever spoken to me about something I said on the forums, the person thanked me for what I had said. I haven't even received any negative FFXIAH comments either (and no, I don't delete any of those), and those can be posted from any server.

So, unless you think you can get more people to hate you more than they hate me, I'm pretty sure harassment will not be an issue for you.

inb4 someone posts negative ffxiah comments now to prove me wrong =P.

[Bumbeen]

My main is gimp cause I came back from 2009 so I use a mule til I get it geared.

[Zaknafein]

My main is gimp cause I came back from 2009 so I use a mule til I get it geared.

Sort of a lay away plan.

[Habiki]

They should really adjust it so only characters lvl 30 or higher can post in the forums would eliminate alot of the ignorant posters and trolls and make the forums alot nicer. I doubt someone will go to the extent of leveling a mule from 1-30 for the ability to post on these forums. Only reason people pick mules is because you can get banned in game for posting inappropriatly on the forums. So i see no reason to not restrict it to lvl 30 characters or higher, make them work for the right to post. Instead of letting them run rampant belittling others for their opinions and generally being rude, they wouldn't act like that in game I don't see why they should be allowed to here.

I imagine the moderators will eventually crack down on the type of misconduct on the forums by the players, and hopefully some people lose their lvl 1 crafting mules with 100 craft skills or nice gear they have on their mules they used as their handle for the official forums when their character gets banned in game, it will teach them a lesson in proper etiquette.