Translations (JP to English)

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Originally Posted by Reinheart

Nahhh you'll adapt :) don't worry too much imo.
If people can't handle it they will stick to simple system, doesn't mean they have to take part in this new system + if they don't want to color it themselves they can always just buy the different colored gear from market/etc :)

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Have you used materia yet? 50 million types with different kinds for different slots and different catalysts...hard to track, takes forever to buy and and properly update 1 piece of gear. Seems overkill.

Original Thread Link: http://goo.gl/IT5Ka

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Originally Posted by Triairy

こんばんは。
Good evening,

パッチ1.19で行われた、各ダメージ計算式の一新、モンスターパラメーター などの見直しなどのバトル改修により、同レベルのモンスターが同時に複数出現するリーヴクエストや、リーヴクエストに関係のない、アクティブモンスターが 配置されているリーヴクエストなど、達成が困難になったリーヴクエストについては、フィードバックいただいているものを含め、パッチ1.20でリーヴクエ ストの全体的なバランス調整を行います。
With 1.19 patch the changes made to new individual damage calculation and changes to monster parameters for battle modifications. This made the leve's hard to complete where leve quest mobs with multiple mob pops or leve quests which has active monsters not related to leve quest.
Along with the ones we already received feedbacks on we will be making overall balancing adjustments in 1.20 patch.

パッチ1.20まではご不便をおかけしますが、パッチ1.19で達成が困難になったリーヴクエストの詳細など、引き続きフィードバックをお願いいたします。
We apologize for this inconvenience until 1.20 patch.
Please continue to give us feedbacks on leve quests which became harder to complete post 1.19 patch, thank you.

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Materia is fine, it tells you what the stats on it are, what catalyst you need, and what crafter you need. You really don't have to worry about being picky until you're working on your endgame gear. Catalyst-hunting is the only negative thing about it. There's no in-game way to know where certain catalysts are and Fingerprints of the Gods is really freaking random. It needs to activate more for lower tier catalysts so the price on the low rank catalysts will drop and newbies can get into it.

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Originally Posted by Gidonoidon_Sur

Have you used materia yet? 50 million types with different kinds for different slots and different catalysts...hard to track, takes forever to buy and and properly update 1 piece of gear. Seems overkill.

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Yep I have but it's only been a week still, once the market goes around and people start getting used to the system I'm sure it will get better + I'm sure with player feedbacks some stuff on the materia craft will be modified.

As for me I tried all 3 parts in this one so I know.
1. It takes time to materialize (100% spirit bond) a gear just by crafting/gathering - I see fighting speeds this up reading the forums.
2. It's s*** pain in the butt to farm the catalist, 4 hours and 2 catalist isn't fun for me, tested 2 days and obtained only 6 so far for level 30+ one. God's Fingerprint hardly activated... and even after it activates it's not 100% guarantee, have to go through same gathering process with the purple glowing lights....
3. Attaching materia is bit confusing since it has parts you can attach to; have to look at the the catalyst; on top of that have to have the right craft + crafting level to attach it.

I tried it so I know it's hard right now but I would give it some more time + keep on posting my comments to see if the devs/reps can make some modification to this since I think this materia system is interesting.

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Originally Posted by Gidonoidon_Sur

Not sure, seems overly complicated to me. This game already hovers on the too complicated line sometimes. Add in 50 million types of materia, catalysts, certain materia for certain slots, different variants of the same gear, etc etc, just a headache to me. Thoughts?

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Perfectly fine. If you guve a lot of combinations it's going to get complicated versus giving everyone an auto win button like many MMOs.

Off topic post by YoshiP made on the coloring thread about test server.

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Originally Posted by Naoki_Yoshida

プロデューサ/ディレクタの吉田です。
Producer/Director Yoshida here,

スレ違いですが、こちらで一点だけ補足させてください。
Sorry this one is off topic but wanted to add one comment in here.

テストサーバについては、新体制後のインタビューでもお話ししたのですが、
できるかぎり早急に必要だと思っていました（というか今も強くそう思っています）。
Regarding the test server; I have mentioned in the interview after forming the new team. I wanted to make this as fast as possible (even right now I think strongly about this)

ですが、いざトライしようと開発環境のヒヤリングの際に、大きな問題が発覚し、
どうしてもその対応には大部分の開発速度を一時低下させ、サーバの対応も含めて、
大規模な開発運用体制の変更が必要だと判明しました。
However when we actually tried this in development environments hearing there was a major problem and this slows down the development speed for large section and along with working the server, we noticed there needs to be a large-scale change to the development structure.

そのため、現在行っているサーバ改修に合わせてテストサーバも実装予定で、
FFXIV側のテストサーバが遅れているのは、それが理由になります。
For that reason, along with server modifications we are currently making we are also planning releasing the test server, and reason behind the cause of delay on the FFXIV side of test server.

引き続きやる気満々ではあるのですが、ゲーム本体の改修を待てない以上、
まずは改修を優先し、その後に環境を入れ替え、バージョンブランチの仕組みを設計し直し、
（設計は終わりました）テストサーバに対応するつもりでいます。
I still want to make this possible, but since we can't wait on actual game repair we will first work on the repairs then after structure swap would like to structure a system to allow version branching (structure is finished) and make it possible in the test server.

それまでの間、どうしても後手に回ることが多く、それゆえにできるだけ
事前の仕様公開を心がけさせて頂いています。どうか、今しばらくご容赦頂けると助かります。
Until that time there are things that gets pushed back but we are trying best to try and release the feature beforehand as much as possible. If you could please hang in there would appreciate it much.

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Originally Posted by Jennestia

Perfectly fine. If you guve a lot of combinations it's going to get complicated versus giving everyone an auto win button like many MMOs.

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Or people like me will ignore the whole system completely, aka failed content, kind of like the Caravan Quest no one ever does.

Caravan Quest? Oh, you mean the one that rewards you with 4 company seals for half an hour of work?

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Originally Posted by Gidonoidon_Sur

Or people like me will ignore the whole system completely, aka failed content, kind of like the Caravan Quest no one ever does.

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Speak for yourself. The chocobo caravan gives quite a nice reward if you keep the chocobos safe enough, and I try to do at least one every day.

And as for ignoring materia completely...well, good luck with that, buddy. It's become an integral part of the game, and all future content will be balanced around it.

Anywho, sorry for derailing a bit. Thanks for the translations as always, Reinheart! You're the best. :cool:

YoshiP's comment on PL issue

Original Thread Link: http://goo.gl/Q7oMJ

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Originally Posted by Naoki_Yoshida

プロデューサ/ディレクタの吉田です。
Producer/Director Yoshida here,

遅くなってしまい恐縮ですが、吉田からも補足させてください。
Sorry for the delay but let me comment on this as well.

PLは本当に個々人によって単語の捉え方も違いますし、
先行するプレイヤーと、後発のプレイヤーの距離感を縮めるために、
ある程度許容するという方針にブレはありません。
それはあくまでボランティアだったり、PLする側のプレイ時間を消費することで、
仲間や家族、友達のために善意で行う行為だと思っているからです。
There are different feelings towards PL depending on the players view on it but the goal where having new players come closer to older players have not changed.
I believe this is because it's volunteer for the side doing the the PL by spending his/her time helping his friend or family member and doing for good will.

ただ、その範囲は今回の占有改修によって発生することを想定しており、
極端なレベル差がある状態で、PLされる側のキャラクタをPT内に入れたまま放置し、
レベル差分の経験値の減衰が効力を発揮していないことが想定外でした。
We did have an idea about this after after the modification to the claiming system but didn't expect where the person getting PL can be in the party and do nothing and gaining exp without the penalty where it calculates the level difference between the players.

経験値獲得の計算式は、今回のパッチ1.19で根幹のテコ入れが入ったため、
表面上の効力が分かり難くなっており、今回の対応の遅れに繋がっています。
緊急メンテナンスも視野には入れていましたが、パッチ1.19aのリリースが
目前に迫っているため、本件も同時に対応させて頂きます。
There was root changes to the exp gain calculation formula in 1.19 and made it difficult to understand and also reason for the delay.
We thought of having a emergency maintenance but patch 1.19a release is close by so we will have this included in it as well.

混乱について重ねてお詫び致します。
I apologize again and again for the confusion.

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