Feedback on Existing Bonus Campaigns

[Diavolo]

The purpose of the campaigns is to highlight specific contents in the game due to the fact that there aren't enough players to regularly populate all of it. So rather than trying to spread everyone too thin or keep them on the one thing that's basically always good (ambuscade), you have campaigns that promote specific content so that people who actually need to clear that content can find people to do it with.

If you have a better idea on how to do that other than boosting loot/rewards on a temporary basis, we're all ears.

You have no idea how much that bolded part annoys me. The entire population is funneled into Mhaura these days and FFXI no longer looks like an open world MMORPG because of it. It's Ambuscade, Escha/Reis and a few HTBF/UNMs. Spreading the population out a bit by breathing some life back into older content would do the game some good. If the populations are too small, well, most here are probably familiar with my mantra: merge the servers.

Voidwatch needs an updated means of trading voidstones to Voidwatch NPCs because bouncing back and forth between town and VWNMs every 6 fights is impractical. At the very least, recharge rate needs to be sped up (4-6 hours) via quest, affecting your stock retroactively. Lights should be increased to maybe 50% or more of their max values to offset the fact that VWNMs die so fast and not everyone has the luxury of carrying around low level gear/weapons.

Wildskeeper Reives respawn time should be changed to 15-30 min with either a 50K bayld cap and/or 2 HP Bayld guaranteed + rare chance at Aged Box.

Delve should be changed to single person entry, unless congestion is a concern, and plasm reward from NMs outside of fractures increased so those wanting some older gear/weapons or a little help farming their way to Idris/Epeolatry have extra incentive to spend time in Adoulin.

I've barely touched Vagary and would defer to others for ways to increase its appeal, short of increasing drop rates and lowering difficulty, neither of which strike me as great ideas for that particular content.

Still plenty of other material to work with for campaigns should that content ever get updated.

[Alhanelem]

You have no idea how much that bolded part annoys me. The entire population is funneled into Mhaura these days and FFXI no longer looks like an open world MMORPG because of it. It's Ambuscade, Escha/Reis and a few HTBF/UNMs. Spreading the population out a bit by breathing some life back into older content would do the game some good. If the populations are too small, well, most here are probably familiar with my mantra: merge the servers.

Voidwatch needs an updated means of trading voidstones to Voidwatch NPCs because bouncing back and forth between town and VWNMs every 6 fights is impractical. At the very least, recharge rate needs to be sped up (4-6 hours) via quest, affecting your stock retroactively. Lights should be increased to maybe 50% or more of their max values to offset the fact that VWNMs die so fast and not everyone has the luxury of carrying around low level gear/weapons.

Wildskeeper Reives respawn time should be changed to 15-30 min with either a 50K bayld cap and/or 2 HP Bayld guaranteed + rare chance at Aged Box.

Delve should be changed to single person entry, unless congestion is a concern, and plasm reward from NMs outside of fractures increased so those wanting some older gear/weapons or a little help farming their way to Idris/Epeolatry have extra incentive to spend time in Adoulin.

I've barely touched Vagary and would defer to others for ways to increase its appeal, short of increasing drop rates and lowering difficulty, neither of which strike me as great ideas for that particular content.

Still plenty of other material to work with for campaigns should that content ever get updated.

You clearly missed/ignored the part immediately following the bolded statement. Becuase everyone's at mhaura because it's the best/easiest way to make progress in a number of ways (But even then, I have a hard time getting groups for it and usually end up doing it solo, despite your comments about "everyone" being in mhaura). The campaigns exist to make other contents more enticing on a tempoary basis, because if they weren't temporary, you'd simply have everyone doing whatever is "the best" and you'd have hte same problem we have now. There simply aren't enough players to spread everyone around to many different contents at the same time. The campaigns are the best way to ensure different contents are being played- Just at different times, rather than all at the same time. Even merging the servers wouldn't be enough to entirely solve this problem. It would just mean longer lines for ambuscade, which doesn't seem to be enough to push people to do other content.

[Diavolo]

You clearly missed/ignored the part immediately following the bolded statement. Becuase everyone's at mhaura because it's the best/easiest way to make progress in a number of ways (But even then, I have a hard time getting groups for it and usually end up doing it solo, despite your comments about "everyone" being in mhaura). The campaigns exist to make other contents more enticing on a tempoary basis, because if they weren't temporary, you'd simply have everyone doing whatever is "the best" and you'd have hte same problem we have now. There simply aren't enough players to spread everyone around to many different contents at the same time. The campaigns are the best way to ensure different contents are being played- Just at different times, rather than all at the same time. Even merging the servers wouldn't be enough to entirely solve this problem. It would just mean longer lines for ambuscade, which doesn't seem to be enough to push people to do other content.

FFXI isn't a one trick pony, for starters, even in its current form. Take a look at all the campaigns hitting us at the same time this month - how do you justify holding all those campaigns at the same time and then claiming the game doesn't have enough players for it?

[Shiyo]

I personally dislike campaigns - they make an already easy game much easier - and would prefer they disappear altogether. Many of the campaigns act as temporary "fixes" to areas of the game that are unpopular and require updates to make them more appealing on a permanent basis (Voidwatch, Wildskeeper Reives, Vagary), but if I had to choose a favorite among them it would probably be the XP/CP campaign as it benefits absolutely everyone and probably gets the most people to spend time playing the game, socializing with each other.

Agreed. I don't like events that simply make me run out of things to do in game faster and quit faster. That isn't good for a monthly sub mmo!

They also funnel people into feeling FORCED to spam 1 or two types of content which causes burnout. Ypu also feel like there's no reason to do x content if an event for it isn't going on and feel the need to sub/unsub based on current campaigns. This, again, is bad for a MMO.

[Rydal]

CP Bonus should be at least every other month.

I'm surprised no one said anything about the HTBF campaign. I've been waiting on that one for a while (since Rainbow campaign?).

Campaigns that should be more often than not:

Alter Ego HQ (the HP and trust sacrificing ones combined)
Skirmish (since it is almost irrelevant)
Incursion
Unity
HTBF
CP/EXP Bonus
Domain Invasion Dragons
Walk of Echoes

Campaigns that should be every 3-4 months:

Voidwatch
Vagary
Nyzul Isle Uncharted Mystery Item
WKR/Bayld (the plus event that gives 4 HPB)
Dark Matter
Wanted/Abjuration Dials
Gaes Fete

A schedule would be great so we know what to expect. The past few months seem to be repeating the same events more frequently than before. I'd also like to see some new events. I know SR campaign is impossible (apparently) but how about some fresh ideas? Admittedly I can't think of anything right now.

[Urmom]

Think everyone wants more cp campaigns.

Could add new/change and combine some campaigns a little. Like combine the balyd/wkr with delve one. Combine all the dial ones into 1. Combine the gaes fete and dragons ones.

Also for the old broken content ones that are basically never done outside of campaign just make them permanent.

[Prothscar]

A repeat of the Trust Login campaign (wherein all of the previously available login campaign trusts were available for 100 points each) would be much appreciated. Wouldn't even mind if prices were raised to 300/500 a trust as long as I can get the good ones.

[Lancextrm]

CP Campaign would be nice, along with Vagary Campaign

[Immortta]

EXP/CP campaign needs to be semi regular, maybe one every two months. People don't even bother to CP without the campaign, even though you can get a respectable amount.

[Muras]

I'd like to toss in my vote for CAP happening more often. Why is it so rare now? I swear we used to get it every other month or so...

But I'd also like to ask for Wildkeepers PLUS to happen way more often. The rate of being able to obtain HP bayld when this is happening actually feels a bit balanced for once.

Either that, or increase regular bayld from reives and coalition assignments some more so it can be converted to HP Bayld. I just wanna be able to reliably solo these things at a respectable pace when I got the time to play, like how you can chip away at a mythic by doing salvage runs. There just isn't an ergon equivalent of that, at least not one that I'm aware of.