Starlight event - question to devs

Is it possible the starlight event lasts bit longer? Many ppl go on Xmas holidays, since the event is daily q-based we have no chance to collect all event's items :(

It will probably be available on the cash station later on...

Edit: Just pointing out a way of getting the items in case you miss them.

















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dont start the cash shop crap again

With the exception of the clothing and minion, all the other items will probably be flooded on the MB so you can just buy them.

Are they not Untradeable items?

A lot of the housing items are tradeable. Only the Clothing items and the Minion are not really and you can get all of those with only 2 days of quests, maybe 3 if you want a tree too.

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Originally Posted by Nigela

Is it possible the starlight event lasts bit longer? Many ppl go on Xmas holidays, since the event is daily q-based we have no chance to collect all event's items :(

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Actually... if you make sure to get red, yellow and blue at all times and simply trade them in for 2x greens you will have more then enough!

Just make sure you use the Trees on peoples Home land (Star, moon or sun) and do not use the NPC tree ^_^

The House trees are also marked with the quest indicator so check out your mini map! ^_^

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Originally Posted by Niqote

Actually... if you make sure to get red, yellow and blue at all times and simply trade them in for 2x greens you will have more then enough!

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OP's complaint is that people will be on holiday vacation, and therefore unable to do dailies. Unable to do dailies means less chances to get red, yellow, and blue. Less chances to get red, yellow, and blue means less to trade in for 2x greens.

So, OP wants to extend the event so that people will have a chance to do dailies once they return from their holiday vacations. See?

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Originally Posted by LineageRazor

OP's complaint is that people will be on holiday vacation, and therefore unable to do dailies. Unable to do dailies means less chances to get red, yellow, and blue. Less chances to get red, yellow, and blue means less to trade in for 2x greens.

So, OP wants to extend the event so that people will have a chance to do dailies once they return from their holiday vacations. See?

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Yes, I understood however since the New Years event will be on it is unrealistic, if they had of started it earlier it might be better ^^.

What I said is great advice if the person was not already aware. After all you need 33 stars for all items (sans food/fireworks) and if you do as i suggest above you have a chance at getting 84 stars along the span of the event; meaning OP only needs to play a few days to get it all done instead of panicking about needing to be here every single day (which would net only 43 stars if they were not savvy)

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Originally Posted by Razzle

It will probably be available on the cash station later on...

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Not until next christmas event 2015
The items from last halloween event are also still not in the cash shop















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I imagine all the holiday events will run for shorter times with grindier quests to push people to the cash shop now.

Yeah this event started way to late, imho. Should have started earlier in the month.

All my other games I play have had their christmas events going all month...

I wish they'd started it earlier too, I'm heading back to my mum's for the holidays tomorrow and wont have access to the game. So I only get today to enjoy the event T.T

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Originally Posted by Jaykos

I imagine all the holiday events will run for shorter times with grindier quests to push people to the cash shop now.

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It's not a shorter time though, it ran for exactly the same two weeks last year (18th -> 31st):

http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...t_Celebration/

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Originally Posted by worldofneil

It's not a shorter time though, it ran for exactly the same two weeks last year (18th -> 31st):

http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...t_Celebration/

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And this:

Starlight 2010: Wednesday, December 15th (4:00 p.m. PST) through Friday, December 31st (7:00 a.m. PST)
Starlight 2011 (Winter Is Not Coming ^^): Friday, December 16, 2011 at 0:00 a.m. – Saturday, December 31, 2011 at 6:59 p.m. (PST).

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Originally Posted by Niqote

Actually... if you make sure to get red, yellow and blue at all times and simply trade them in for 2x greens you will have more then enough!

Just make sure you use the Trees on peoples Home land (Star, moon or sun) and do not use the NPC tree ^_^

The House trees are also marked with the quest indicator so check out your mini map! ^_^

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I hate to get too terribly off-topic, but since you mentioned it somewhat. For the event can we use our own trees, both Private and FC houses? Or does it have to be a tree in someone else yard? I haven't tried it out yet in my own (both FC and my house) because I didn't have the trees yet in either. Thanks to anyone who can answer me ^.^

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Originally Posted by Yamimarik

I hate to get too terribly off-topic, but since you mentioned it somewhat. For the event can we use our own trees, both Private and FC houses? Or does it have to be a tree in someone else yard? I haven't tried it out yet in my own (both FC and my house) because I didn't have the trees yet in either. Thanks to anyone who can answer me ^.^

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Yes you can, I did today.

Also a bit irritated that they made Christmas quest hide behind the "dailies" restriction.

What a drag.

Makes you wonder what goes through people's heads when they dream up this stuff. Do they sit there and think of ways to make things un-fun and screw you over?

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Originally Posted by Quesse

Also a bit irritated that they made Christmas quest hide behind the "dailies" restriction.

What a drag.

Makes you wonder what goes through people's heads when they dream up this stuff. Do they sit there and think of ways to make things un-fun and screw you over?

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Its funny that I actually did them twice today. The reset must be late morning here on the east coast US. I did the start of the quest early this morning, did the 3 dailies, then when I logged back in around noonish or so I could do them again.

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Originally Posted by Eye_Gore

Its funny that I actually did them twice today. The reset must be late morning here on the east coast US. I did the start of the quest early this morning, did the 3 dailies, then when I logged back in around noonish or so I could do them again.

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Tyvm about the trees. And yes the dailies reset for EST @ 10AM EST.

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Originally Posted by Quesse

Makes you wonder what goes through people's heads when they dream up this stuff. Do they sit there and think of ways to make things un-fun and screw you over?

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Yes, you got them! This event was entirely designed because they knew you'd go on vacation!

I like the fact that it's daily quests. Actually means the event will last, unlike the others where you're done in half an hour and never touch it again.

You can get the untradable items in a couple of days. If you are not even around for that long, how is that SE's fault?

The rest are mostly housing, so it's something FCs can work on together.

I really don't get why people are mad SE didn't take their personal vacation into account. I missed most of the summer event for the same reason.

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Originally Posted by seida

I like the fact that it's daily quests. Actually means the event will last, unlike the others where you're done in half an hour and never touch it again.

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I just wish the daily quest wasn't so... Pathetic? It's like a couple minutes of work a day and done. Back to the rest of the game. Bye-bye Christmas. It's great that it can actually last until the new year, but there is just no meat to these dailies at all...

I'd much rather have seen this event split into two; a FATE style currency collection like last year for furniture, and the current daily currency collection for armor/minions/gifts. Would have been awesome if we could trade Gift Bags to the Empty Twinkleboxes/Gift Boxes for a sort of Secret-Santa style event (perhaps have a NPC you can also trade them to to give to a random homeless player through the Mail Mogs as well)... Then I could burn through half the event and actually feel like I spent some time on the event, and do the dailies with an added "Who do I give this to?" aspect at the end of it.

I for one am glad SE stopped trying to shove every single event into a FATE.

Very few FATE-based events have been fun. This daily quest is fun (for me), and a bit like a scavenger hunt if you don't want to/don't know tree locations. Yes, it's a bit annoying that it'll run through a lot of people's holiday plans, but considering this is the exact time frame they did it last year, I don't really know why it wasn't expected. I've rarely seen SE deviate from their normal time frames for seasonal events every year.

Somehow I miss the last Starlight FATE. It was funny, because it was the first time you have to run into a AoE circle and not out ^^

Sure, generic FATEs are boring. But i hope that SE still bring FATEs for seasonal events, that have interesting mechanics (like a tree casting buffs around) and are not boring.

I liked the summer fireworks minigames more.