Yeah, lots of speculation on that but still no concrete plans about what they're going to do. It's definitely 'something' but we don't really know anything about it yet.
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Dear GM's, We need more veldspar ore.
Please consider building a new mining node.
Our base is under attack.
It's pretty damn insulting to go from ffxi, which was epic difficulty and forced you to socialize, to this game, where you don't have to try hard at all. I didn't say I was so "Cool" and all that. You said that. I don't think I'm better than everybody else. I'm pretty average skill and achievement wise, and if you knew me in the game, I'm probably one of the more helpful person you'll know. I just want a challenge dammit. I want that feeling of desperation. A quadriplegic can get rank 14.
What a gnashing of teeth over nothing. Considering at any level you can just return and run back to where you died, with the same exact effects, having someone raise you at 14 doesn't make anything easier. All it does is add convenience of not having to run. That's it.
As an aside, judging people's experience in game, based on the info on the side is a bit of logic fail. Many people have multiple characters; Cairdeas has a character they've been with since the start (Midgarg Zolom IIRC), but has used Cairdeas for posting on the official forums. Hardly a secret.
Time=/=Difficulty. A huge majority of the stuff in FFXI was not Difficult, it was time consuming.
Hell, I soloed Rank 3, 4, and 5 because I could. They were easy. The only difficulty I had with any of them was bumrushing Castle O past a bunch of true-sights to trigger a cutscene. But even that was easy with Whm/Nin, Stone Skin, and Utsusemi.
Events that require more then one person are even easier, the only thing difficult is getting the people together, and when I played XI I was in some of the larger social LS's which made doing so really easy. Hell Sunday nights was Delkafutts night for us, anyone who needed it I'd run them up to the 10th floor to get their key and get their cut scene in the basement.
There is no penalty to death. It shouldn't matter if it's Lv1 or Lv100.