Reinheart Translations! 2.1 and 2.2

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Originally Posted by Reinheart

I do make a lot of mistakes on live letters, but as I said before live translations are much harder than regular translations, I mention this in the live letter before and after and apologize for any errors... however this one is off of article, you can go translate yourself if you want and check it out.

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Reinheart, correct me if I'm wrong (which is very likely :p), but the impression i got from reading that article is that after a player has obtained a piece of gear, regardless whether through need/greed/inaction, the character will no longer be able to need or greed for the rest of the week.

But I'm not sure if this means that the character will be marked as unable to receive further drop, or merely being unable to cast lot on them.

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Originally Posted by KamikazeMan

Why would you do Crystal Tower with your static party as their main jobs? Makes no sense. You all may as well play as your secondary jobs and actually...idk...enjoy the content and not rush through it and complain about how easy it is?

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Other person haven't alts-jobs beacuse play 2-3 hours per day or only raids and don't rush fate party to get a lot of lvl 50 battle and magic class.
If they hold the week lockout, what is the sense of do CT than other job who is not main? The first week, CT could amazing and a challenge, the next ones is a rush mode to get more gear in minus time. Here, WOW, RIft, Aion or others mmo's.

If there isn't lockout, players would play CT with other jobs

Whats weird is, what about if someone has an item that drops and no one wants it? Does it need to drop to the floor? So we just waste loot that drops because no one can lot it cause they'll be locked for a week? What if you forget to pass and it drops to you? Does that lock you too since you gained the loot? The system has too many flaws to be like that, I'm hoping It's not completely like that and we ain't wasting loot drops because that would be stupid.

Thank you, as always, for your hard work Reinheart!

I mean this out of sincere curiosity, not as a pining for a bygone age: What is the difference between the proposed Crystal Tower lockout and, say, pre-2012 Dynamis, or Limbus? Is it the lack of other content to do in between? Or have we just become unwilling to put up with that type of content?

As always, its a joy to read your translations.

Mainly I'm curious about the pricing on Housing (as I'm sure many people are).

I wonder if pricing for Individual Housing and FC Housing are going to be the same. Something to ponder over.

It would also be a good indicator as to whether or not I should be saving money now.

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Originally Posted by Vinroke

Because, like every other game forum, the ones who happy with the game are simply playing it instead of posting on forums

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You know, people say this a lot..that means you're not happy with the game since you're posting on the forums. You know those who suggested the changes for ARR that you're playing? Yeah they posted on forums.

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Originally Posted by Hulan

Thank you, as always, for your hard work Reinheart!

I mean this out of sincere curiosity, not as a pining for a bygone age: What is the difference between the proposed Crystal Tower lockout and, say, pre-2012 Dynamis, or Limbus? Is it the lack of other content to do in between? Or have we just become unwilling to put up with that type of content?

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Dynamis pre-2012 (this includes drop update, money update, relic item updates and additional job drops) - Go in for 3 hours a day unless it's a straight shoot to the end or farming. Possibility to obtain whatever gear that drops without being locked out from lotting it. If I got my DNC Relic body, I can still lot my SCH Relic Hat if it drops or my Corsair Relic Hat. After the run, 3 day lockout and I can do it again with no lotting restriction.

Limbus - Same deal, no lotting restrictions other than what the LS leader sets.

Crystal Tower XIV - Lot one item, you're done for the week. You can spam it all you want but you won't be getting anything.

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Originally Posted by Tupsi

Dynamis pre-2012 (this includes drop update, money update, relic item updates and additional job drops) - Go in for 3 hours a day unless it's a straight shoot to the end or farming. Possibility to obtain whatever gear that drops without being locked out from lotting it. If I got my DNC Relic body, I can still lot my SCH Relic Hat if it drops or my Corsair Relic Hat. After the run, 3 day lockout and I can do it again with no lotting restriction.

Limbus - Same deal, no lotting restrictions other than what the LS leader sets.

Crystal Tower XIV - Lot one item, you're done for the week. You can spam it all you want but you won't be getting anything.

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I'll grant the fact that you can take more than one drop. But mathematically, they're equivalent on a per-week drop (give or take). Limbus or Dynamis had a 3 day lockout, so only two runs per week. A good farming run could pull in ~20 drops, so ~40 in a week, for between 1-2 pieces of gear per person, per week (Limbus was much worse). I don't really see the difference, fundamentally, except that this time the dev team is forcing our hand on the matter. I'll definitely grant that that is non-optimal, but it's not like the per-week drop rate is that different.

For what it's worth, I'm not saying there are no issues here, but I would argue it is completely congruent with systems people were perfectly happy with 4/5 years ago. Whether we have changed, or the game environment has, I don't know.

What are the JP saying about the loot lockout on Crystal Tower?

They have a few threads on CT popping up.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...加される更なる週制限について

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...スタルタワーのロットについて
This is the best one I could find.

Pretty much same thing, some are angry that it doesn't make sense to have CT a weekly loot when the ilvl is under the top tier, at same time there are those that are OK with how it is, and those just saying lets just wait and see. I'm sure other region forums also talking similar stuff.

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Originally Posted by Tupsi

You know, people say this a lot..that means you're not happy with the game since you're posting on the forums. You know those who suggested the changes for ARR that you're playing? Yeah they posted on forums..

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I didn't mean to imply that all forum users were unhappy with the game. That said however yes, I do have complaints about the game, mainly the huge lack of sidequests at Lv 40-50. Granted, I may just be not seeing them.