Time machine for fun and giggles

Hey all,

I thought it would be fun to go back in time and find the first forum post made on the day I started the game. To figure that out I had to:

Lodestone > Character Profile > Achievements > click >> to go to the last page.

Here's mine.
https://i.imgur.com/XOEilyL.png

The first post I found on 5/20/2014 is:
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...00-000-Gil-%21


<edit> Had to add this one for appropriateness to the topic. https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...-players-today


What's yours?

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...nt/detail/803/

Not working for me. ; ;

Achievements didn't exist when I started playing. :(

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...90#post5586290

Not surprised it was about me gnorkin' it to the fact that I used to play WoW, although this post is 4 months removed from when I first started playing the game. The more you know?

I know I started in 3.1 and didn't come to the forums until 4.3, and I'm pretty sure my first post was in the old Tales from the Duty Finder thread, about a bad run against Tsukuyomi. I'm too lazy to actually do the legwork to look for it.

I love how my oldest achievement are Storyteller II instead of Storyteller I :D

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...905u9Xx6u0.png

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Originally Posted by Canadane

Achievements didn't exist when I started playing. :(

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Well, there was the Lodestone-only achievements originally for 1.0 long before they were actually added in game (which you can still view on the modern Lodestone under the 'Sixth Astral Era' tab), including some long obsolete curiosities such as achievements for levelling up in physical level or the defunct 'Sentinel' class. ;)

Unfortunately you can't view them in individual detail on the Lodestone but just as a list, but my earliest one was for attuning with the 1.0 aetheryte at Camp Bentbranch back in 2011 (now Bentbranch Meadows for you post Calamity adventurers. ;))

I looked at these when I was bored at work and I really took to botanist.

https://media.discordapp.net/attachm...39/unknown.png
It was my first 50

Also I was one of those people

https://media.discordapp.net/attachm...92/unknown.png
https://media.discordapp.net/attachm...18/unknown.png

And despite how ARR it feels, I still really like bard. I just don't really play dps that much anymore.

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Originally Posted by TheMightyMollusk

I know I started in 3.1 and didn't come to the forums until 4.3, and I'm pretty sure my first post was in the old Tales from the Duty Finder thread, about a bad run against Tsukuyomi. I'm too lazy to actually do the legwork to look for it.

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You would be correct.

It's actually quite easy to find your first post, set everything up like in the following image:

https://i.ibb.co/ZgTqFP6/Capture.png

My first post. 02-27-2014:

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Originally Posted by Jandor

Cross class traits could be interesting. You could try and balance it by having cross classed traits take the place of one of your own rather a simple addition like the abilities, and of course by having some sensible limits on it.

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I thought this one shortly after that, like my 4th post of something, was rather amusing. BLU ideas back when we thought BLU would be a full job. 03-09-2014:

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Originally Posted by Jandor

Could have monster abilities appear on a tab under the cross-class abilities menu, you can only slot them when you have the blue mage job stone equiped.

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My first post went something like this:

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I spend more time spamming the login server than I do spamming Bootshine on Little ladybugs.

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I think it had something to do with how unstable the servers were in August 2013.

Hey all,

Point of clarification: I'm not talking about YOUR first post, but the first post you can find on the day you started playing the game. For example, I started in May, but didn't join the forums until December. If you joined the forums and posted on the same day you started the game, cool beans, use your post. If not, what's the first post written on the day you started playing?

Reminiscing about the past? Okay, cool...

When I was your age, we only had one startin' city! Called Corneria, it was!
Six jobs, four member light parties only, no alliances...
The Overworld mobs would hand us our own butts and we liked it!

My first post on this forum was in the original Tales of the Duty Finder thread.

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...20#post3589420



I can’t post a snippet right now, but my first Storyteller achievement was earned on 2015/11/18— Storyteller I, Storyteller II, To Crush Your Enemies I, and Just Talkin’ ‘bout Shafts I.

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Originally Posted by Illmaeran

Hey all,

Point of clarification: I'm not talking about YOUR first post, but the first post you can find on the day you started playing the game. For example, I started in May, but didn't join the forums until December. If you joined the forums and posted on the same day you started the game, cool beans, use your post. If not, what's the first post written on the day you started playing?

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Awh, I misunderstood the point. :c I was kind of enjoying my nostalgia trip.

They didn't have forums when I started playing :(

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Originally Posted by HyoMinPark

Awh, I misunderstood the point. :c I was kind of enjoying my nostalgia trip.

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That's still good! Glad you enjoyed your trip down memory lane.

8/16/2013 .... time flies....

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Originally Posted by SilverObi

They didn't have forums when I started playing :(

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Then what was your first post?

The achievements are the Storyteller I and II, and To Crush Your Enemies I on 08/24/2013.

First post on 08-26-2013 05:53 PM. And, yes, one sig harkens back to those days.
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...=1#post1077120.

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And when a lot of people go the transfer route, how many weeks will your character be locked while the transfer character server gets overloaded? Maybe they will just throttle it to handle 1 transfer per day.

I am really trying to just laugh about all of this. But it gets harder.

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From my first character(now my alt).
https://i.imgur.com/3c9ABuj.jpg

From my main character.
https://i.imgur.com/3eVpttA.jpg

First few achievements from 2.0.
https://i.imgur.com/yEfZW14.jpg

All of mine is a skewed due to 1.0