GIVE US MORE STONES

[Cream_Soda]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QckF9...eature=related

You guys...

[Raxiaz]

On my main, I have over 700 stones.

On my alt, I have over 300 stones.

I can't see how stone accumulation is a problem when getting even one of the celerity abyssites is easy. The NMs for the +3 min abyssites are also relatively easy - /shout groups can knock them out, no reason why an organized LS couldn't.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

I have 15. lol
My alt have 600, my friend has 400.
I feel bad. ; ;

[Zyla420]

it's really all a matter of what you're wanting to progress at. if your main focus is killing NMs for seals/+2 items/empy/general gear then chances are your group is gonna go in, kill shit they need, leave. that can burn some stones up pretty quick if you do that all day, especially for ppl who just bought the add-on set.

i think i got less than 70ish stones, but i don't seem to run out either. my friend just started, has 2 stone production abyssite, and can't keep enough time to save his life cause he's tryin to get +1 gear. this don't mean i'm opposed to the system though, i think it's fine as is, just saying i can understand where the OP is comin from.

[Zatias]

More stones would also add to the congestion ; ; Maybe.

Already have most people with 300+ stones, and Abyssea on average has about 100~ people per zone. One of the main points of a stone count was to reduce congestion and prevent overcamping of NMs. Stone acquisition is longer an issue as said above, most people have over 300 stones. Why do we need to add more? lol

[Mordanthos]

I'll tell you why people are running out of stones. They have real lives. They dont have half a fricken day to spend just cleaving TE to get 400 minutes before they can start what they are doing. A typical responsible adult is going to have to go to work, and spend minimal free time playing the game. All they have time for is to get on, jump in aby, get the KI, and pwn the boss, before they run out of time.

You start to lose stones quickly when you have to do this. Let's also factor in these fricken NM that pop 1 every 10-15 minutes, and 2-3 LS camping them, you know how fricken annoying it is to try to complete a Glavoid Pop Set when all you do for all 120 min, is fight over 1 mob you need 6 times or more for a KI. Sometimes i wonder why KI isnt ally wide, 1 single proc, everyone gets the KI, you know how frustrating it is to try and claim a time pop NM when everyone has the claim and the KI and the only person left that needs the KI is some slow failbot player that takes an hour or more to finally beat the other competition.

^ This is where u lose stones. Fighting over time pops, and single pop NM's. Why do we have Emp weapon NM's at 3 pops per mob, but all the pops before them, and every other pop in this game only has 1 single pop. All i have ever accomplished in Abyssea more than anything, is learning how to be more of an ass, and fight other people over popping an NM before them so i dont waste my stones. And it gets to the point where, there just isnt "time" for common courtesy. I dont give a crap if someone has 5 more pops on this thing or not, i got 10 stones left and times ticking, i dont have time to be messin around staring at these guys, and let's not forget these annoying solo faggots that take FOREVER to kill stuff.<--- This is the mentality that most people have, they run to the pop, and then it becomes a big fight fest of who has the better macro to pop the NM, or who has a better AP radar to tell them the time pop spawned.

And dont tell me to farm KI from amber chest, been there, done that, very awesome when you waste 140 minutes getting the same 3 KI when you need the other two. Call it bad luck, but it accomplished the same frustration as fighting over a pop or a time pop, and that's just simply "WASTE MY TIME"

[Cream_Soda]

I'll tell you why people are running out of stones. They have real lives.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Jn59...2606213D09B173

RL card, seriously?

[Nawesemo]

I have an opinion on this,

I didn't know.

That's my excuse, but now that I do and am making a consience effort to keep my time logged @ 120 min before i leave abyssea it's gotten better.


I think i'm sitting right around 100 stones now.

I'm sure I started my abyssea fun with about 210 stones give or take, and was burning thru them rather quickly with head hand and leg seals, (few sobeks and other random long farm'd nm runs). We completed a lot of +1 sets for our shell before I started getting down into the 120's, and never paid it no mind, The "/panic motion" didn't hit until i went to Jochiem (sp?) and asked em how many stones I had left , 65!!!?!

That's when I said uh o, and had to pip up during our runs or I was going to be one of those linkshell members the OP was mentioning, "I can't go guy's I'm out of stones" .... So I spoke up and asked firmly if it were possible that we farm time when we go in (to buffer our activites) and then again to 120 before everyone leaves, (Our General was already aware of this and trying to keep me to stay to get time, I just wasn't as worried about it as he, I appriciate good friends who're always looking out for you without ever making you aware... but that's another story)

O.O FARMING 2WICE FOR TIME IN THE SAME RUN ARE YOU MAD!?

Na.. really went alot smoother than I originally thought, Go in , build your Pearls, Azures, then start in on Amber (Dam Victory smite!!!! dam it and it's Rubies to hell *note find mobs that don't ruby) ... you get time this way , and once amber capped all gold boxes after that have the chance at the really good goodies (ki's) and what not.

Go do the deed (farm up +1 seals, Mad farm your Chloris's)

and before you leave (if forwhatever reason anyone is lacking time at this point)...

Start putting in work to jack it back up to 120 and bounce....

This is keeping me satisfied with my Stone store (i'm sure once we (I) get back to the comfortable 200 range, we'll start randomly just leaving abyssea again) but as a shell I'm thinking this will become our routine when we go in together.

We've also left members in over night (800+ min) and had them farm time for the next group the following morning (EU members) it works out , but I'm very paraniod and have speculated that the system starts buggin out after 24 hours, buffs wear every 10 min for a milasecond (or something they show wearing in the log), the log itself just crashes from time to time and just goofy stuff starts happening, but my speculation was that our time extensions wern't coming as quickly as they should but that was probably just me eyeballing it.

Anyway, More stones would be nice, but setting up a bit of farming structure is honestly all it should take.

I'm not in Abyssea 24/7 (though it seems) but from my experience this is a tried and true method of keeping your stones together and avoiding that "o crap i'm going to time out" worry.

[Zatias]

I'll tell you why people are running out of stones. They have real lives.

That doesn't make much sense. Wouldn't a "real life" up your stone count? >.>

I understand the wasted time camping swarmed NMs, but seriously the "real life" should INCREASE stone count, if anything.

[Cream_Soda]

That doesn't make much sense. Wouldn't a "real life" up your stone count? >.>

I understand the wasted time camping swarmed NMs, but seriously the "real life" should INCREASE stone count, if anything.

when my rl got busy, I had 160 stones. I have over 500 now