Let Producer Matsui Know How He Should Catch Up on 2 Years!

[Jryan]

When I use restoring/healing breath, and the monster dies, my wyvern George seems to lose his will to finalize his action. So could you please help him? Please help George with his motivational problems, and encourage him to finish the task at hand (which is healing his master or other members of my party, who may or may not be getting whacked in the back of the head by 15 other monsters simultaneously.) From one of your faithful dragoon Relic owners, that is all. Thank you.

[Caillou]

Skilling up is absolutely painful. When leveling was slower, it was easy to cap a weapon or two in a single party. Those days are over.

My idea:
Introduce a new quest where players can collect mannequin parts and turn them in to our own personal skill-up dolls. The dolls will level up much like our fellowship NPC's. Using the doll frequently will strengthen it, allowing you to use it for longer periods of time. And for fun, allow us to customize our doll and make it look like certain mobs.

[Trisscar]

Taken from this thread: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...int-Categories

As soon as I saw a crown on that page I knew that a rep would be in there coughing up reasons why it won't happen and bring that dreaded 'balance' in to it. Sure enough:

Good evening, Vana'diel!

As a part of the character growth system, we will be increasing merit caps and adding new categories in the future. However, we will not be removing the cap entirely.

The reason we are not removing this cap is because it would allow players to ultimately max out everything and cause characters to become universal or too versatile.
The whole idea behind merit points is to offer many choices and allow players to choose based on their preferences. This way, even though it’s the same job amongst everyone, their proficiencies and roles are different. With that said, by totally removing the cap from merit points, the fundamental purpose would be lost.

[sarcasm]Big surprise Square![/sarcasm]

So here is what I would like to see: Please do stop coming up with reasons why you can't do a thing and find out ways to meet our requests (within reason, obviously). That is what these forums are for, as is the test server. Please do fine your employees every time they use the word 'balance', dock their pay, revoke their leaves and vacation times, do whatever it takes.

[Wint]

My only request is opening up character game data/status to developers to create apps to compliment the game. Not only am I working on a Logitech G-series app, I'm also a member of the Switchblade UI Developer program and would love to create a Razer Switchblade UI app to go along with XI.

[Byrth]

As soon as I saw a crown on that page I knew that a rep would be in there coughing up reasons why it won't happen and bring that dreaded 'balance' in to it.

Maybe this new guy actually wants to know what to change, though!

My only request is opening up character game data/status to developers to create apps to compliment the game. Not only am I working on a Logitech G-series app, I'm also a member of the Switchblade UI Developer program and would love to create a Razer Switchblade UI app to go along with XI.

What is Binder?

[Trisscar]

Maybe this new guy actually wants to know what to change, though!

Hopefully he'll start lighting fires under everyone's ass.

[Almalieque]

Abbysea

Increase minimum entry level requirement to 70-75+

6 man xp dungeon

Create a 9 floor dungeon where entry is similar to Abbysea

3 floors are mobs for TP burn parties

3 floors are mobs for Mana burn parties

3 floors are mobs for traditional tank/mage/DD parties

Parties with 6 or less people can get "tagged", similar to atmas, to allow them to kill a certain number of mobs within a certain time frame (i.e. 10 mins)

The number of mobs to kill will vary on the type of mob (i.e. 25 TP mobs for 10 mins, 7 traditional mobs for 10 mins) and the average level of the party

Completing these tasks yield similar value results as Abyssea or "end game" events

There are no beneficial gain for exceeding the necessary kill number before the end of the time limit

The time limit does not restart early.

[Trisscar]

Abbysea

Increase minimum entry level requirement to 70-75+.

Square, please do feel free to recognize unreasonable requests such as this.

[Smokenttp]

Square, please do feel free to recognize unreasonable requests such as this.

honestly why exactly this is unreasonable at all?, dont tell me because leveling outside is painfull and an unecessary time sink because it is not, this kind of request in my opinion is just lazyness from most of ppl, leveling is no where harder then it was in the past (outside of abyssea) and in my opinion what ruined the majority of the game is that in the begining they made abyssea 30+ instead of 70+, i belive the major damage that this have caused is that they pretty much picked up 8 years of content and throwed in a garbage can ( the fact you can pretty much get a job from 30 to 99 in one day then just breeze through old content to catch up makes the game experience alot worse then say wining the airship fight while level cap was still on (i needed 6 months to pass that so yeah it was alot hard)).

you pretty much dont have a challange at all in the game and it becomes dull and boring very quick, im not saying also that uping the cap alone would imediatly fix the game but it is not as exagerated as it sounds, anyway look here : http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...l=1#post353272

try and to think about it for a moment. i dont know if this will give something for you to think about or if you will just bash me out because my opinions might not be the same as yours but i want to hear your reasons on why do you think its unreasonable and check my points in that thread as well.

[Trisscar]

*Snip*

That was not an inventation to a debate. The producer said he wanted suggestions of what we would like to see, and I would like to see Square not back slide FFxi into a dark time in leveling.

Also, recap CoP? Seriously? I'd rather see them remove the caps on the few places they still exist.