Make More Solo Content

[Feary]

Please list the solo content available that is worth doing and provides a simple challenge.

Also, people need to understand I'm just talking about something to do when no English speakers are online. This game needs a lot more content in all aspects.

if nothing in this game to you is worth doing then quit. im sure the time gained would increase your quality of life.

these types of "suggestions" are what making this game population drop off the face of the planet.

small simple tasks, are just that. they are completed fast, get tedious quickly, and bored ppl before the next update.

then there is no one to play with, because nothing is seriously worth doing. the "worth doing" that is not defined as its not your taste or too past your play level but because you've done it 5 times for every job you own and its more entertaining to play something else or makes it more apparent you are missing out on life.

who wants to sit down and realize that when the point of a game is to the exact opposite?

so please stop making "suggestions" for solo content in an mmo, it would never end kindly.

[Malthar]

There is enough party content out there. What we need is more alliance content.

[Dazusu]

There is enough party content out there. What we need is more alliance content.

Sadly that ship sailed about 4 years ago. Most end-game Linkshells that had any form of mass competence have died out through lack of challenging (and enduring) 18 man content - and an abdunance of small-group content. My own Linkshell a victim of this; along with many others on Leviathan (like Radiance, etc). The scraps of alliance content that were fed since Abyssea weren't enough to keep most Linkshells together (though Delve came close... it missed the mark with excessive drops - meaning after a couple of wins, it wasn't worth farming anymore). When things like Divine Might II are added now I'd guesstimate that less than 20% of an already abysmally small player base touch them.

It is time to accept that 6 man content is all we're going to see, and the ideas of FFXI being a "massively multiplayer game" are very much in the past. The majority of current players seem satisfied with 3-6 man content (and more power to them). Those that enjoyed larger scale content have slowly died off over the years due to negligence on Square's behalf.

Had SE kept the alliance content up consistently after Legion, things might have been different. Too little, too late, too far apart.

[Ramzi]

^ this, although I think what people are saying is that it's hard to get an alliance formed due to the low population. JP seem to still be playing in large numbers - 1500 people on Shiva right now during JP primetime.

Alliance content has been made obsolete due to populations, but what exactly are you looking for? Something like dynamis/limbus with 128 level difficulty? Kind of a raid, or more of a battlefield setup?

[Lithera]

Some would say for alliance content it would have to be beneficial to bring an alliance worth of people to the event vs low maning something.

[Arbalest]

I like not having to form alliances. It's nice.

[Rhonda]

I've always considered Walk of Echoes and Meeble Burrows to be fun things I can do on my own. Both can be somewhat profitable, too. I've caught up on my missions lately, too. CoP, ToAU, WoTG, Abyssea, SoA (up to the end of Ch.4).. next up are the three mini-expansions.

While WKR aren't solo content, there's no real commitment to stick around for the whole thing and there are often shouts for them in town.

Also, the game really is best played with others.

[Draylo]

Who are you to say what we're going to see? SE reads different ideas from this forum, why can't he post his own opinion? Regardless of what LS are left, there are still people that enjoy alliance content or who still have functioning linkshells or the ability to obtain an alliance of players. Also this thread is hilarious, a good 90% of this game is soloable haha.

[Dazusu]

Who are you to say what we're going to see? SE reads different ideas from this forum, why can't he post his own opinion? Regardless of what LS are left, there are still people that enjoy alliance content or who still have functioning linkshells or the ability to obtain an alliance of players. Also this thread is hilarious, a good 90% of this game is soloable haha.

Ah, Draylo, always one to take a post the wrong way.

I too am one of those people that enjoy alliance content; as you well know. It was the main function of my Linkshell for many years.

The point I was making is that SE has neglected Linkshells and given the distribution of 18 man content over the past 4 years; can you honestly say you expect any substantial content aimed at large groups in the near (or even distant) future? If that was a possibility, a lot of people I played with would return; but like me - they know SE's track record - and post Abyssea, it aint great. Not for Linkshells, anyway. It doesn't need me (or anyone else) to "say" what SE is/is not going to do. Their actions speak for them.

TLDR: Incase you still don't get it; when it comes to alliance based content, I agree there should be more of it. Released at a rate equal to that of small group content (and not modified small group content: i.e. delve enterable with 6 or 18). Do I think we have a chance of that ever happening? Nope.

[Tennotsukai]

I believe my before posts were too vague, too thoughtless, or maybe everyone just dislikes me lol. The way I feel about solo content now is that it was all once party content. It's either too challenging (AA) or a boring chore (everything else, not reives). I know exp and gil farming are not exactly this, but I do not need exp nor gil. To add to this, used to, farming gil/exp was somewhat fun and challenging, but now it's like mowing. We're literally mowing through the enemies and omg it's freaking boring. Same with working on REMCs. BOOORRRING.

Newer content may have been the answer to soloists but not for long. I had already stated that I have done 109 battlefields and reives way too often. Those are fun for soloing but too much can become repetitive when you have 20+ of each paper and all the bayld in the world. VE AA fights are a little less worth doing when I can farm sparks faster than most people I know.

So what kind of solo content am I looking for so I may have some of you better understand what I mean? First of all, I'm talking endgame content. I understand this game revolves around soloing all throughout being less than lvl 75. That's unfortunate but nothing can really be done about that. Now, we have had several things to do in the past solo that are now meaningless. Campaigns, NM hunting, BCNMs, Besieged (kinda), dynamis (when it was more difficult), and not content where I feel like I'm mowing because the enemies are so weak, and I see bots everywhere farming mindlessly. All I'm asking for is for SE to let up on the battlefields that they keep producing and work on something else.

I know some of you are in strong disagreement with me on that solo content is not as important as party/alliance content. To that, I say make another thread stating we need more alliance content. Already done? Make another one. If you haven't noticed, the community reps don't read every single post, so they may just catch the title, the trolling replies, but not the issues you bring to the table.