THANKS SE! Quick VENT!

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02-07-2018, 10:45 PM
panderin

THANKS SE! Quick VENT!

Just NQ'ed a Nightsteel Greatsword for a friend b/c we all got kicked out of our server!
Guess I will gather all this stuff again, SO FUN!
This is just a VENT but REALLY....at a low population time on a low population server and it decided to POOP!
#ANNOYINGAF
02-07-2018, 11:44 PM
Caimie_Tsukino

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Originally Posted by panderin

Just NQ'ed a Nightsteel Greatsword for a friend b/c we all got kicked out of our server!
Guess I will gather all this stuff again, SO FUN!
This is just a VENT but REALLY....at a low population time on a low population server and it decided to POOP!
#ANNOYINGAF

Ouch... > _ <
02-08-2018, 02:28 AM
ChameleonMS

Take solace in the fact you were able to complete it NQ all. Anyone whos been crafting for a while knows the pain of have a DC mid craft and losing all mats.
We've all prayed, offered sacrifices, etc... for the day when SE implements a return from a DC to mid craft status so we can continue our work.
02-12-2018, 08:32 PM
Rinuko

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Originally Posted by panderin

Just NQ'ed a Nightsteel Greatsword for a friend b/c we all got kicked out of our server!
Guess I will gather all this stuff again, SO FUN!
This is just a VENT but REALLY....at a low population time on a low population server and it decided to POOP!
#ANNOYINGAF

Anoying yes, but luckly the mats for the 3 star isnt hard to gather. I think it more anoying to farm Creation for npc bought mats lol
02-13-2018, 12:32 AM
Elamys

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Originally Posted by ChameleonMS

Take solace in the fact you were able to complete it NQ all. Anyone whos been crafting for a while knows the pain of have a DC mid craft and losing all mats.
We've all prayed, offered sacrifices, etc... for the day when SE implements a return from a DC to mid craft status so we can continue our work.

I know they think people would abuse it if they see they're about to fail a craft but it would it kill them to at least give us a slight chance at recovering our materials? Living in rural Tennessee doesn't lead to the most stable of internet connections.
02-13-2018, 03:53 AM
DrWho2010

how is the game supposed to know that you have a shitty connection tho lol.
02-13-2018, 04:42 AM
Elamys

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Originally Posted by DrWho2010

how is the game supposed to know that you have a shitty connection tho lol.

If you disconnect from the game mid craft at all you will lose the materials no matter what with zero chance of getting them back. It's not about the game knowing if I have a bad connection or not, it's about having even a slight chance at recovery in the event that I do DC. Even failing a craft normally there's a chance you'll get your materials back. There's a big problem in the design of a lot of games lately that presume everyone has a very good and stable connection is the only reason I bring it up when the fact is an enormous portion of the population does not because they do not have access to it. But due to SE's fear of abuse we get nothing.
02-13-2018, 04:49 AM
Mahrze

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Originally Posted by ChameleonMS

We've all prayed, offered sacrifices, etc... for the day when SE implements a return from a DC to mid craft status so we can continue our work.

With the lalafell population on the rise, I believe you haven't sacrificed enough.
02-13-2018, 05:21 AM
ChameleonMS

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Originally Posted by Mahrze

With the lalafell population on the rise, I believe you haven't sacrificed enough.

The lalafell population rises faster than lemmings. It is impossible to sacrifice enough.
02-13-2018, 09:39 AM
Caimie_Tsukino

LMAOOO, it's funny how Panda's venting thread got almost 3K views! :p
Maybe we're all interested in what other people wanna venting about!
(Btw, Panderin is a really good friend of mine on Zalera. We all like to call her Panda ;) )
02-13-2018, 10:00 AM
HaoA

Ah yes, those angry lala eyebrows cannot be messed with. jk.
02-13-2018, 11:13 AM
Kabooa

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Originally Posted by ChameleonMS

The lalafell population rises faster than lemmings. It is impossible to sacrifice enough.

That's quitter talk if I've ever seen it.
02-13-2018, 11:37 PM
ChameleonMS

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Originally Posted by Kabooa

That's quitter talk if I've ever seen it.

I am a crafter, I use Reclaim when we know it is a lost cause. Lala sacrifices are just another example of this in FFXIV life.
02-16-2018, 12:26 AM
Alisi

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Originally Posted by panderin

Just NQ'ed a Nightsteel Greatsword for a friend b/c we all got kicked out of our server!

How exactly did this happen? If you're kicked mid craft, you lose everything. They do post when they're taking the servers down. If you started a craft when they announced they were taking the server down, it's not really SE's fault. Did they change things so you get a NQ if you're kicked? And it's still better than having a 99% chance of an HQ and getting a NQ. LOL.

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Originally Posted by ChameleonMS

The lalafell population rises faster than lemmings. It is impossible to sacrifice enough.

You can never sacrifice enough of us. We are planning the lalapocalypse! My brothers and sisters are rising up! Standing on each other's shoulders! We shall look you in the eye so we can see the moment that realize your downfall and destruction! Bwahahahahahahah!

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Originally Posted by ChameleonMS

I am a crafter, I use Reclaim when we know it is a lost cause. Lala sacrifices are just another example of this in FFXIV life.

Sometimes you don't have room for reclaim! D':
02-16-2018, 12:36 AM
Caimie_Tsukino

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Originally Posted by Alisi

Sometimes you don't have room for reclaim! D':

Yeah, I haven't had Reclaim on my cross class list for all my classes for a loooong loooong time... I've been crafting "courageously"! LOL
02-16-2018, 12:51 AM
Canadane

You finished the craft.
How is it the servers fault?
02-17-2018, 11:20 AM
Kalayel

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Originally Posted by Canadane

You finished the craft.
How is it the servers fault?

Well, servers do handle spikes extremely poorly. If you have any fluctuation in your internet, you either get kicked out or everything freezes. I experienced this today while I crafted the black willow cane. A small lag made the entire game freeze. As a result, my macro jumped a step and it continued without using Byregot's blessing, NQ'ing the cane at 11%. Granted, it's still better than being kicked out and loosing the mats, but still, the servers do this so often, it would be nice to either have them improved or at least have some safety measures for when it kicks you out, which happens a lot.
02-17-2018, 11:33 AM
Nezerius

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Originally Posted by Kalayel

Well, servers do handle spikes extremely poorly. If you have any fluctuation in your internet, you either get kicked out or everything freezes. I experienced this today while I crafted the black willow cane. A small lag made the entire game freeze. As a result, my macro jumped a step and it continued without using Byregot's blessing, NQ'ing the cane at 11%. Granted, it's still better than being kicked out and loosing the mats, but still, the servers do this so often, it would be nice to either have them improved or at least have some safety measures for when it kicks you out, which happens a lot.

This is why you should always have a '/cancelmacro' macro on your hotbars, when regularly crafting with macros. It allows you to cancel the current macro if you notice a lag spike, so you can finish the craft normally.

That said, I'm also curious how the OP managed to finish a craft while being kicked off the server, presumably without warning.
02-17-2018, 09:24 PM
Alisi

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Originally Posted by Kalayel

Well, servers do handle spikes extremely poorly. If you have any fluctuation in your internet, you either get kicked out or everything freezes. I experienced this today while I crafted the black willow cane. A small lag made the entire game freeze. As a result, my macro jumped a step and it continued without using Byregot's blessing, NQ'ing the cane at 11%. Granted, it's still better than being kicked out and loosing the mats, but still, the servers do this so often, it would be nice to either have them improved or at least have some safety measures for when it kicks you out, which happens a lot.

Well, that's not what OP was saying. She said she got kicked out of the server while crafting. I have experienced what you're talking about though. You can do the stop macro or I've found that crafting inside your house or apartment greatly reduces the chances of that happening. I think it's because it's in its own instance.
02-17-2018, 10:47 PM
Roth_Trailfinder

And that’s why you manually craft ... I have experienced slight delays in the game accepting input, and I can see how using a macro would have had that macro skip a step (because its on its own time). Crafting manually, however, you merely wait for the game to accept input again and carry on!
02-19-2018, 07:26 AM
Elamys

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Originally Posted by Roth_Trailfinder

And that’s why you manually craft ... I have experienced slight delays in the game accepting input, and I can see how using a macro would have had that macro skip a step (because its on its own time). Crafting manually, however, you merely wait for the game to accept input again and carry on!

This is also why I manually craft and also because I find hitting a button and going AFK to be boring. I love crafting and macroing it is just...not my thing.

I tried the macro thing once in Heavensward, thought it was okay, then hit a lag spike and watched in horror as my turn in was destroyed. That was all it took to make me delete them lol
02-24-2018, 12:17 AM
panderin

I had no idea this would get so many views or responses. I can see some people misunderstand what actually happened so I will try to clarify. Yes I macro craft and no I don't go afk when I craft. Since this was a non specialist recipe for me I hit my first macro and it was going right along fine then a few things toward the end of the macro misfired. I tried to recover with other abilities which were all lagging and I was like NO the SERVER is about to poop! I could tell what was coming. For nonspecialist recipes I macro the first bit then manual the second bit. I got to 78% and it NQ'ed then the server kicked a lot of people, me included. This was at 7ish am on Zalera which is a low population server. However I did put it on the mb and made 500k which was fine and made me feel a little better lol!

Hihi Caimie <3

Also, this was not scheduled maintenance, I am not dumb. This was off peak time game lag random boot. This was a Nightsteel weapon which is a lot of creation mats.