Regional Outposts

[Zarchery]

Take over the outpost for yourself. My character started in Bastok, and I'm back with Bastok now. However, back in December, I ran through Sandoria missions with a buddy from my linkshell. I was a Sandorian for two weeks. At one point, I captured Gustaberg for Sandoria, JUST FOR FUN. I fully intended to go back to Bastok after hitting rank 10, and in Bastok I had all the outpost warps (including Ronfaure and Sarutabaruta). I staged the takeover for fun.

It's not that hard. Spend your cruor on a full set of Perle, Aurore, and Teal gear (I think 72,000 cruor should suffice). Then wait by the outpost until just before the weekly conquest tally and trade it all in. You'll buy a bunch of influence for your nation.

However, it's important that you do this immediately, and I mean IMMEDIATELY, before the conquest tally. More than 10 minutes before the conquest tally and control will shift back to the home nation.

[lllen]

lol, wondered how to do that.......I was lucky being from Bastok on Hades we got Windy OP a couple of times, but never ever did I see Bastok get Sandi, jumped to Ramora with some friends and I kid you not, 10 mins (was only there 3 days at this point) before tally I noticed Bastok had Sandy.....you have never seen anyone get to Sandy as fast as I did that day. I couldn't believe my luck.........three months later I was back in Hades with all op's

[Zarchery]

Over on Gilgamesh, those starter regions fall into the hands of foreign nations so often that I'm not even that surprised when it happens any more. A week after I captured Gustaberg for Sandoria, someone else capture Sarutabaruta for Sandoria.

[Frasier]

It reminds me of the time when Bastok had lost Gustaberg for 3+ weeks to San d'Oria on Phoenix

[Rosalie]

not that Gustaberg is that hard to take over with SMN burns...

[DukeDudeston]

LOL Well now will be your time, with the server close, a lot of regions might be lost to Beastmen, soo.. get out there and fight for your nation.

But I do agree, the "front yard" OP (as someone else had put it) should always be nearly impossible for other nations to grab, after all, it will suck if you are starting out, and the nearest OP that your home nation has, it miles away. I always see the first OP Supplies run, as a sort of Tutorial of what they are, and how they work.

[Sureal]

i have all ops for all 3 nations

you jelly?

[Rosalie]

i have all ops for all 3 nations

you jelly?

lol... same here, though i only finished up windurst's a month or two ago with gustaberg.

(all the ppl in smn burns seem to be from sandy) :O

[Chronofantasy]

If the new players need those OP then they can team up and take control over these OPs. I've seen other nation take over OPs near the other cities quite a few times during my FFXI career. Fortunately I have every single OP collected from a long time back, but taking over the OPs is all a part of co-operative play. I don't think SE really needs to fix anything here unless they tweak it to make the control gain higher with less work, yet it would be nice if some of the same co-operative play still stayed intact.

[bungiefan]

An LS can coordinate a zone takeover by buying equipment and trading it to the outpost. The high gil value of the Abyssea cruor armor makes it even easier. Just get a group of people to do it and you can all get your outposts for a nation. That's how certain servers have done it for years, do a rotation of the 3 starting zones each week for 2 weeks.