Alphascape 3

Hi,

Just really leaving some feedback for a dyslexic friend who is really struggling. I wonder if you would consider changing larboard to port?

Starboard and larboard are really similar words and hard enough to read quickly and work out the difference without dyslexia, let alone with! My friend is struggling even more because even the shape of the words is so similar. Port is shorter and a completely different shape when all you have to do is recognise a difference.

Particularly because there are no differences between the attacks to observe visually!

I also feel (as does she) that the word larboard isn't in common parlance whereas Port is.

My friend is getting very stressed over this fight and this is one factor which really isn't helping.

I agree with the Dyslexia being problematic.

A problem I'd like to mention is blindness (partial or otherwise). While I am more than capable of reading clearly, oft times I am caught off guard and am not capable of responding properly to the mechanic because I (PLD MT) would run to what I would perceive as his right side though Omega used Larboard because my partial blindness skewed the word and I would be left to take my best guess at what direction it goes.

I mention this because while I have a 55 inch TV, I still have problems. And there are plenty of other players that don't have the same luxury of having a large screen with a high quality output and have to strain harder than I would on a smaller or even blurry screen.

Another problem that my Australian friends have primarily is latency. While it would be recommended to play on the Japanese servers, they have created long lasting bonds with the people they know on the NA servers which makes it near impossible for them to change server regions. That being said, a problem they often have is latency because of trying to connect from Australia to North America servers. With that in mind, more often than not, they will not make it in time to avoid mechanics and while quick AOE mechanics are a staple for Alphascape, V3.0 is much faster in my opinion compared to the rest of the raid tier.

I also suggest either lowering the AOE from a 195-220 degree angle to a half field/circle AOE, increasing the timer for the mechanic Star/Larboard to possibly 3 seconds, or show the AOE marker to symbolize specifically which direction Omega is going during the entire progress bar/time of the mechanic/move.

If I'm not mistaken, doesn't the Japanese version of the fight just use "left side of the ship" and "right side of the ship"?

yeah japanese attack names are just left/right side. Larboard was chosen as it was an older way of saying left. they're not gonna change it now.

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Originally Posted by Songwillow

If I'm not mistaken, doesn't the Japanese version of the fight just use "left side of the ship" and "right side of the ship"?

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It does use the japanese words for starboard and larboard/port. It's just that those words contain the symbols for right and left.