Instance content can i have it?

[Glamdring]

People being people expect cheats and straight play and every variation in between. But ??? claiming really is extremely easy, the enemy there for PC players is connection speed and latency, which all amount to lag. The same exploit was used for years to clean certain vendors of limited items out every JP midnite, because the trade point would appear several seconds earlier in Japan than in the US (Cotton crafting, ugh...), and then they would put the item up at highly inflated prices on the AH.

If you want to get rid of the "botters" assume they have no patience. When you do get claim, take your time to kill, I'm talking 45+ minutes. Everyone that screams at you to hurry up, find room for on your /blist. Get all 3 procs, make a special point of never letting it go back to unclaimed because they may ninja it (if they try, feel free to do the same, the golden rule). Kite to an out of the way place so that if they didn't bring a bst or a rng they have no idea what's happening, just the ??? is never repopping. And if you really want to be a jag, do it again with the repop.

[Bhujerba]

not worth the trouble =/ ...
contents like assault are design differently in a clever way to make them look 100% "separated" , it doesn't matter how it was design here or in any other game, what matter is the idea, the concept of "separation" the OP is talking about usually referred as "instance", I'll call it here "FFXI instance" .

this type of content the "FFXI instance" will continue to exist and implemented.

[svengalis]

My only issue with popped items is people bot popping, I've had my run in on people bot popping the Lizzard in Mis. coast Abyssea and Chloris.

And you can tell when they do it especially when the ??? appears a second and its gone, I can't compete against people who do that and i cannot GM because what proof do I have other than them staring at the ground where the ??? used to be.

You don't have to not pop to do that. Just set a macro.

[Alhanelem]

its still instanced = team A wont ever meet team B in the same area, this how its interpreted to all other MMOs communicates.

This is not the definitition of instanced. The implementation is what makes it instanced or not. It's only instanced if any group can just go in and do something without any interference- the servers create a private little world for those people. That is not what FFXI does, and other people CAN interfere with your ability to do a BC fight or assault by being in there and preventing you from going in. True instancing does not have a significantly limited capacity. In FFXI, when some BCNM or other similar event is new and popular, you often have to compete with other groups to get in. That doesn't happen in a game with actual instancing.

[Alukat]

god pls don't instance the game.
i've played some other games with instanced content and i never like it. only mobs there and no ppl who i can talk to and interact with.

[Zachary90]

I think a lot of people misunderstood me in that last thread. I would really like It if NM were instance so I am not wasting so much time online or something similar.
(Especially in a timed zoned it just makes me want quit again)

I shouldn't have to wait until someone else pops a NM and kills it before my group has a chance at it. l really want my kannagi.
BTW I don't need to any discussion on this, this post is for the developers so please don't post in my thread if you are not a se employee.

work for it

[MarkovChain]

Hm... What would auntie Isladar do?

Nuke discussion threads and allow bots one as usual ¿

Instance content can i have it?

I think a lot of people misunderstood me in that last thread. I would really like It if NM were instance so I am not wasting so much time online or something similar.
(Especially in a timed zoned it just makes me want quit again)

I shouldn't have to wait until someone else pops a NM and kills it before my group has a chance at it. l really want my kannagi.
BTW I don't need to any discussion on this, this post is for the developers so please don't post in my thread if you are not a se employee.

I agree with the OP. *** is becoming dragon's aery II on all popular spots with timed NMs. The next content should be instanced.

[Atomic_Skull]

I agree with the OP. *** is becoming dragon's aery II on all popular spots with timed NMs. The next content should be instanced.

But it can't be because the game does not support true instancing, only multiple copies of small areas inside a single large zone.

And if they won't even do something as easy as updating the PC client to DirectX 9 they certainly won't do something that requires a major overhaul of the client and server software.

[Nattack]

this is a time when an opinion FINALLY is useful, especially in the face of "BTW I don't need to any discussion on this, this post is for the developers so please don't post in my thread if you are not a se employee."

this entire post totally circumvents what this forum is good for - the users input

users, plural, us. i dont want instanced nm's, i can wait three minutes between pops.

[Miera]

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Using what? a bot? huh? I don't bot, sorry I like game fairness. Plus I play on the Xbox.

To the question on how I can see if someone is locked on a ??? when there are no ???s at the time. Because you can see their Character's head looking straight downward as if they are locked to something on the ground. Unless my Xbox doesn't pick up that there could be a treasure chest there, I don't know.