Pulse Cells

[Juilan]

I must say, that update too so long such underwhemlingness, FIVE CELL FOR ONE ITEM WTF SE

On a side note, I am enjoying The Last Story from Mist Walkers, reminds me of classic final fantasies in its goodness... oh wait...

On topic again, this seems like a proletariat move to keep the masses surpressed. Spending so much time on a system that accomplishes VIRTUALLY NOTHING. When they could have spent half the time (and roughly half our subscription money) on something more meaningful. mentioned a revised ticket system but it could have gone one step closer to making this a better structure , 1 fight = 1 point. Have the prized item be 100 points... and you have a minium of a 1% drop rate! We your subscribers deserve something better than a 1% drop rate on any item,

News flash the reason the why the pigment augment system was so under used was because the monsters sucked and their drop rates sucked even more

Pass this on to your devs, ill even put a japanese version if they like.

[MarkovChain]

Why do you complain ? All you have to do is buy 5 cells, you don't even have to waste your time doing VW, the gimps do it for you !

[Camiie]

Why do you complain ? All you have to do is buy 5 cells, you don't even have to waste your time doing VW, the gimps do it for you !

Well you do have to get kill credit at least, so you need to do it once.

[MarkovChain]

yeah but that's 100x less annoying, all you have to do is horde gil.

[Winrie]

No matter how you look at it, this system is stupid as hell and it only helps people who have bodies to make Gil lol, the 1 kill 1 ticket 100 tickets = gear thing woulda Been way cooler lol. The cells wouldn't be so horrid if it wasn't only the bodies that could be converted into cells. Much better IMO to put body needing 10 cells while other pieces needing 5, if they are so worried that people would cap bodies quickly if say fajin boots and phineus gun ect could be turned into cells as well.

Pretty much what I'm saying is the system shouldn't be bodies only, and other pieces should be able to be converted to pulse cells as well, as the system should change a little too, example of say kaggen:

Mantis eye, phasmida belt, mekira mekogai = 1 cell when converted out of the pixis(all we did here was add the lesser gear to be able to make a cell instead of just the mekogai)

Npc would offer you:
Phasmida belt, mantis eye for 5 cells
Mekira mekogai for 10

I don't know it makes sense to me, but my general opinion is that the lesser gear shouldn't be lacking in use in regards to cells, some of that stuff is decent ish. And hey where cells for rubeus and ogiers!! XD

[detlef]

No matter how you look at it, this system is stupid as hell and it only helps people who have bodies to make Gil

You don't need to have the item already in order to make a pulse cell.

[Alpheus]

To Winrie's point about more than just the glowy stuff being turned into cells, when this system was first mentioned Camate did say that (at least at that time) they would prioritize the rarest drops first (to be supported by a ticket system) and that the other drops would follow. However I will grant that not much has been said about the expansion of the ticket system since then so maybe they will add those items at a reduced amount of required tickets (since SE practically said that pieces like ogier's and rubeus were more common compared to pulse bodies and weaps).

One could only hope at any rate. >.>

[Camiie]

One could only hope at any rate. >.>

Instead of the "Don't forget..." message, the log-in screen for FFXI should read:

"Abandon hope all ye who enter here."

[tyrantsyn]

I've gotten a Pulse Cell for Mex Harness, I sold it for 750k, think that's reasonable.

I could see it reasonable @ a mil. The key here is not to pay out to the gouger's. If they want more than lets say 5 mil for a cell. Just don't by it.

[Return1]

This thread is full of silly whining. The ticket system is only as bad as people are stupid. Quite honestly, if you'd pay 20mil a cell for an Ephemeron then good for you, your stupid ass was parted from your money, as all fools should be.

Most of these drops are pretty useless, and none of them are worth THAT much. The funny thing about prices is that they will drop if no one buys them. The prices will steadily drop until they reach a price someone will buy them, and once the idiots who buy them at that level all get them, the price will start to drop again, before it hits its settling point.

The ticket system while sucking for the most part, does keep people doing voidwatch after they got the "good" drops, so it helps people to continue trying for drops, and rewards people for helping maintain a flow say Kaggen runs. Like it or not, it does its job. Just because it's not how you or anyone but the people who make the money likes, it still functions and helps.

I for one am glad they didn't make it too easy to get, or we'd have to deal with even more gimps and idiots running around that would actually use garbage like Ephemeron and Coruscanti.