Do you remember when...

Remember when things only stacked to 12, including lumber, fine sand, etc.?

Do you remember when SE only gave us one retainer and it could only hold 80 items and also our personal inventory was only 80 items.

Remember when Aetherytes had no time limit on restoration so you could pull mobs into the aetheryte camp and regenerate life/mp whenever you wanted? (Essentially turning camps into clusterfucks of monsters and people)

Remember when falling under the terrain in Uldah was a fairly normal occurence?

Remember when everyone was excited because we got an extra month of free play?

Remember when acquiring an item when your inventory was full would simply drop it instead of putting it in your loot list?

Remember when NPC popping wasn't prioritized so you had to wait for EVERYONE in Uldah to load before you could talk to the levequest givers?

Remember when Fleet of Foot didn't do anything? (As a Lancer I was completely bummed out!)

Remember when you could only get Shield SP by blocking attacks?

Remember when arrows only stacked to 99 and most materials stacked to only 12?

Remember when gear turned yellow right away? Remember when you had to check your inventory to see which gear it was?

Remember when you had to repair your underwear?

I remember when the only way to get any sort of gear or weapons at all, was to craft it. And you had to have like rank20 in 3 crafts to make a rank 5 gear...

I remember when there weren't any restrictions at all on guildleve, you could do them all you want.

I remember cassiopeia hollow was a secret leveling place and mole caves were heavily camped ...

I remember when multishot was a level 1 skill and arrows stacked to 99 and there was no such thing as refill.

I remember when the level cap was 30

I remember when there was only one server called Shadowlord.

I remember the cheesecake thread .............

I remember when there weren't any chat filters at all ....

I remember when market wards all had completely obscure names that meant nothing, so everyone just went to the first one on the list, and the only way to find what you wanted was to check every single retainer ......

I remember when there was no way to tell that you leveled up besides checking the menu, and your exp bar only updated if you opened the attributes menu.

I remember when people first found out what surplus really was ...............

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Originally Posted by Zetsumei_Tsunarashi

I remember when the only way to get any sort of gear or weapons at all, was to craft it. And you had to have like rank20 in 3 crafts to make a rank 5 gear...

I remember when there weren't any restrictions at all on guildleve, you could do them all you want.

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Hehe, I remember paying over 300k (which was a fortune at the time) for an Heavy Iron Lance because it was from the only dude on the server that could make them, the recipe wasn't even on YG yet! :D

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Originally Posted by Colino

Hehe, I remember paying over 300k (which was a fortune at the time) for an Heavy Iron Lance because it was from the only dude on the server that could make them, the recipe wasn't even on YG yet! :D

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I remember paying 50k gil each for fish glue.

Do you remember Eft grinding parties?

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Originally Posted by SAMINUS

Do you remember Eft grinding parties?

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Mistbeard cove, 15 people. Everyone stand in the aoe dmg so mages can get more SP for heals!

Do you remember when on the first day of CE release it was almost impossible to get in, and when you did you heard shouts for linkshells.. and people running around naked with onion helmets :3

Do you remember when Grid was actually packed full of people?

I remember when using shockspikes made you a moron because it gave you less SP.

I remember when healers would complain when other healers used high level cures because it wouldn't maximize SP gain.

When /sea was still in the game.

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Originally Posted by Verecund

When /sea was still in the game.

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I wish :(

We never had /sea

do you remember the horror of crab parties?

do you remember going to all 3 cities to check the wards because all 3 were full?

do you remember mining before the stack limits were 99?

do you remember when behest areas were so full you could fill 3 of the 15 man parties?

do you remember those awesome emergency maintenance days just to lower the amount of francesca heads or fish hooks we made?

do you remember when battle was actually fun? (i'm talking about like the original against dodore and gob before they found out how to use emulate properly)

do you remember how many times you watched 15 man parties get owned fighting dodore?

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Originally Posted by TonyMontana

Mistbeard cove, 15 people. Everyone stand in the aoe dmg so mages can get more SP for heals!

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I remember that, Mages getting sp for aoe healing, getting mad if a person was out of range, burning through wands like crazy, ranking up the fastest.

Remember queues to get in the game?

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Originally Posted by darkstarpoet1

do you remember the horror of crab parties?

do you remember going to all 3 cities to check the wards because all 3 were full?

do you remember mining before the stack limits were 99?

do you remember when behest areas were so full you could fill 3 of the 15 man parties?

do you remember those awesome emergency maintenance days just to lower the amount of francesca heads or fish hooks we made?

do you remember when battle was actually fun? (i'm talking about like the original against dodore and gob before they found out how to use emulate properly)

do you remember how many times you watched 15 man parties get owned fighting dodore?

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I made a killing off some of those crafts selling to NPC, then they went and lowered the amount we could make. Wolf Fang fish hooks or something was the biggest seller for me.

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Originally Posted by SAMINUS

I remember that, Mages getting sp for aoe healing, getting mad if a person was out of range, burning through wands like crazy, ranking up the fastest.

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Getting banned because of it?

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Originally Posted by Konachibi

Getting banned because of it?

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I never heard of anyone getting banned over it, but I haven't seen those players since last year so maybe they did get banned, I didn't switch to mage classes until after the sp per mob/rank change i think.

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Originally Posted by Konachibi

Getting banned because of it?

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No, AFTER they fixed the power-leveling version of it, the best way to get skill points on mages was cure spam, in this case AoE healing because it gave more chances to heal(each person could give skill points)

The power-leveling version was basically be a cluster of mages all spamming AoE cures for a couple hours then they were all 50. It was later nerfed but healing was still the best way to level mages

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Originally Posted by SAMINUS

I never heard of anyone getting banned over it, but I haven't seen those players since last year so maybe they did get banned, I didn't switch to mage classes until after the sp per mob/rank change i think.

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yeah they had some that did get banned over it. if they knew you had leveled up using that exploit they would confront you about it. if you admitted doing it they removed the ranks you had gained. if you denied it they banned your account. the problem was they had to be 100% sure that you had done it or they didn't do anything.

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Originally Posted by Zetonegi

No, AFTER they fixed the power-leveling version of it, the best way to get skill points on mages was cure spam, in this case AoE healing because it gave more chances to heal(each person could give skill points)

The power-leveling version was basically be a cluster of mages all spamming AoE cures for a couple hours then they were all 50. It was later nerfed but healing was still the best way to level mages

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Sounds a bit odd, but it reminded me of the very first time I played FFXI. I was playing a Thief and my friend was some kind of healer/buffer class (dunno which one it was). Whilst i fought stuff he just kept healing and buffing me, when I asked what he was doing he just went "powerleveling". Dunno if he meant me or him though... either way it made the fights boring.

Do you remember people saying that Ul'dah would be a ghost city because noone liked the desert enviroment?

Do you remember when making it to Rank 15 took a few days?

Do you remember mobs running back anf forth restoring their HP constantly?

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Originally Posted by Aramil

Do you remember when there were no inventory sort and the delay when selling something to a npc was ridiculously long?

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Still is....

Do you remember when you could get 1-50 in a month solely off various coblyns and doblyns?

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Originally Posted by Konachibi

Getting banned because of it?

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Mages didnt get banned for that. You are thinking of something else you sorta kinda heard about.

do you remember when

there was a flash of light and some bastard in white /slap you and make you cry.

Do you remember when Haubergeons used to always do this? ~ http://i.imgur.com/Xtd4f.jpg


Consequently, when people used to send you dozens of /tells a day asking you where you got your haubergeon. ಠ_ಠ

The scary things is how there's all these things everyone is mentioning that are no longer in a game that is literally just shy of a 1 year anniversary.

Lot of different stuff happened in a year O.o'

Do you remember when the day before retail release and we still didnt know if the game, a MMO being released on PC in 2010, would have hardware mouse?

Do you remember in closed/open beta when people were so sure we were playing a very old version of the game and we would have some completely new way more modern version at release?

Do you remember getting the email saying you would start being charged a monthly fee at the end of Nov. 2010. Do you remember how many people dropped their subscription the week of the email. Then do you remember SE realizing just HOW bad they had messed up and made the game free for the foreseeable future.

Do you remember when PS3 players were so disappointed they would have to wait all the way until the end of March 2011 to start playing?

Do you remember when Crafting support only lasted 5 minutes.

When 100 people were fighting to claim the very small amount of mobs in any area.

When Dodos and Goats used to stare through your soul

When the interface was so slow to sell anything quickly to npc's you had to choose items starting from the bottom of your inventory

When Silver rings sold for 80k a piece and Gemmed rings sold for 200k

When your retainer would dissapear from the wards at least once a day resulting in not selling anything

When you had to choose each ingredient individually when crafting resulting in maybe 2 crafts per 5 minute common support

I could go on :P

+1 vote to necro this thread next year and state the 'do you remember whens' of what we have now. :D

Remember your cautious optimism? Then your confusion and frustration? Followed by a short period of anger and distrust only to be replaced by cautious optimism once more?

When the damage on your armor was some ridiculous 6-digit number instead of a meter display of 0 to 100%

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Originally Posted by Pulseczar

When the damage on your armor was some ridiculous 6-digit number instead of a meter display of 0 to 100%

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Kinda reminds me of armoured core, your health is determined by some enormous 7-8 digit number and there's no real way of making sense of how much damage you're taking or whether you're close to death or not. At least not untill the robot starts smoking and stuff starts falling off it. That's usually a bad sign for a robot.

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Originally Posted by Pulseczar

When the damage on your armor was some ridiculous 6-digit number instead of a meter display of 0 to 100%

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They're still there in the .dats, just not visible.

Do you remember when fully repaired weapons only lasted 2-3 leves before needing repairs again?

And people think repairs suck now lol xD

Do you remember when marmots and cactuars were small?

Remember when they buffed SP gain to the insane levels?
I grinded 130k SP the day after that patch and hit maximum fatigue that week...

Which brings me to this: Do you remember when if you gained too much SP you would end up gaining absolutely NO SKILL POINTS from each kill.

When I was still levelling before 1.18 I was getting between 50-100k SP for 1-2 hours at BW so I was almost constantly fatigued.

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Originally Posted by SAMINUS

I never heard of anyone getting banned over it, but I haven't seen those players since last year so maybe they did get banned, I didn't switch to mage classes until after the sp per mob/rank change i think.

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I did. I remember quite a few people being banned because they didn't come forward and report themselves.
If you reported yourself though you just had your rank reduced.

Do you remember when the first wave of people hit rank 50 about 5~ weeks after launch then most of them quit because there was nothing to do except level another class?

In a few weeks I'll be able to come back to this thread and say:

when we didn't have chocobos????!!!?!?!?!?!!

I remember the huge queues to login during the alpha

I remember 5 mins after getting a character made you would DC and be back in the queues in the alpha

I remember being stalked by dodos and goats

I remember the insanly slow UI making doing anything a chore

I remember it taking about 5 secs between hitting an ability and it being used

I remember the aoe cure exploit

I remember having 1 retainer that would depop all the time so nothing got sold,

I remember an sp glitch in alpha that made you hit fategue in 10 mins

I remember looking through the wards for gear was impossible because there was no search

I remember having no hardware mouse

I remember having no graphics options making lower end systems lag hugely (in alpha and possibly closed beta)

I remember loads of posts on forums about people stalking the mail man for thier CE
Need I go on