So Ixion is fun [Spoilers: lol jk]

So that was a thing that happened. 400+ people zoned into instance 3 of The Lochs on Ultros and everything went downhill from there. Ixion wound up killing a lot more people than you see here 'cause I've loaded the maximum number of people I'm allowed to see. :D
Pretty sure everyone got Silver/Bronze on it that time and nobody got Gold. Everyone was fussing about it.
SE, fix yo servers. I couldn't even combo into Goring Blade 'cause the server wouldn't pick up on my Fast Blade or Riot Blade. lol

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DDIKjUrXoAAA06A.jpg:large

I think they need to lower the requirements for max rewards on both hunts and boss FATEs, at least for now.

SE needs to change server hamsters!

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Originally Posted by KatenKyokotsu

SE needs to change server hamsters!

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They need to upgrade to ferret
http://memecrunch.com/meme/13SHN/mad-ferret/image.jpg

Same thing happened to Odin back then. They ended up decreasing the requisites of getting gold, making it easier for people to reach said rank.

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Originally Posted by KageTokage

I think they need to lower the requirements for max rewards on both hunts and boss FATEs, at least for now.

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I suspect it works like any fate where the difficulty is scaled based on the amount of people who did it last time.
If 400 people did it, expect 400x~ the difficulty.

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Originally Posted by Canadane

I suspect it works like any fate where the difficulty is scaled based on the amount of people who did it last time.
If 400 people did it, expect 400x~ the difficulty.

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I thought they changed that this expansion.

Edit: Quote from the patch notes - "Changes to difficulty based on the previous number of participants will now affect all FATEs in the nearby area rather than individual FATEs."

I am unsure if this affects the super fates or not, maybe not.

They need to make this fate spawn across all three instances of The Lochs simultaneously, currently if you're not in the zone when it spawns or absurdly quick to get there you'll just be blocked from entering because the instance is congested with 350+ people.

I'd rather take 1-2 guaranteed horns as opposed to 0 from not being able to enter the zone.

You mean you guys actually got to finish the fight without the instance just disconnecting and booting everyone to the character screen? LUCKYYYY

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Originally Posted by CelestialRibbon

I've loaded the maximum number of people I'm allowed to see. :D

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it's the fundamental game design flaws that shouldn't be in what you would call a 'Massively Multiplayer Online' game

first, the zone sizes are a joke, although they've been getting progressively bigger with each expansion, you can obviously tell that the transformation from 1.0 to ARR introduced gating everywhere and made zones tiny and compartmentalized and they have been struggling to push the envelope

the amount of players you can render is a joke, the draw limits are a joke, the names of mobs and players only show up when you get in close distance of them, too close

the server infrastructure is a joke, whether it's the latency problems before or after the move to California, whether it's Raubahn's wall on Stormblood launch, whether it's 300 players in a zone making the zone unplayable. THIS IS AN MMO, but it seems like SE got too used to a consolish "MMO"