NIGHT TIME!!

Cool!!

http://rss.finalfantasyxiv.com/jp/bl...20130118_1.jpg

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http://rss.finalfantasyxiv.com/jp/bl...20130118_3.jpg

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/blog

Good find, they did a good job on this, now I can't wait to see other stuff like rain and fog.

Just need undead now.

It need more darkness and less light ^^

Looking nice, now give us a video walkthrough! :D

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Originally Posted by Felis

It need more darkness and less light ^^

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Just turn down the brightness on your screen. ;)

OOO Bamuhaut even destroyed Eorzia's 2nd Sun!

It's not blue enough! First the grass...now this! :rolleyes: This is sarcasm, by the way.

The bit about HQing made me laugh! Good job SE!

Imagine 'Dewdrops and Moonbeams' playing during the night. It will be sleepy-town, Gridania.

I wonder if they plan to have different night-time music in cities and the rest of the world..

I don't know about you other old Xi'ers, but I spit gingerale on my monitor laughing when I read the bit about moonphases, hehe
"Ah, but will facing north-by-northeast at 2:45 a.m. while the moon is a waning crescent result in a 27% increase in your chances to synthesize HQ mythril ingots!? That is real the question!
Fernehalwes"

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I don't know about you other old Xi'ers, but I spit gingerale on my monitor when I read the bit about moonphases, hehe
"Ah, but will facing north-by-northeast at 2:45 a.m. while the moon is a waning crescent result in a 27% increase in your chances to synthesize HQ mythril ingots!? That is real the question!
Fernehalwes"

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lol that myth will never die.

I dunno it worked pretty crazy on my HQ sushi synths! :D

I did mean to say spit gingerale laughing though :P

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Originally Posted by Reika

lol that myth will never die.

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i don't think it's a myth i think the moon,time,date have a lot to do how good your craft i know for sure it work for me. Yoshi-p said that they wont tell us no it does noting then the people who believe would be sad the other would not care and said ahah i knew it if they said yes then the people who believe would be ok now i know it big deal and the other be like oh cool nice to know. So it better to not let us know and let us believe in whatever we like because that a better answer.

it allow people to believe in whatever they want :)

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Originally Posted by Aislin

Imagine 'Dewdrops and Moonbeams' playing during the night. It will be sleepy-town, Gridania.

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This, oh god, this. I do hope they have alternate music for night time.

The new theme for Gridania is way too cheery for night time.

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Originally Posted by Venat

Cool!!

http://rss.finalfantasyxiv.com/jp/bl...20130118_1.jpg

http://rss.finalfantasyxiv.com/jp/bl...20130118_2.jpg

http://rss.finalfantasyxiv.com/jp/bl...20130118_3.jpg

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/blog

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really beautiful!

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Originally Posted by Zenaku

i don't think it's a myth i think the moon,time,date have a lot to do how good your craft i know for sure it work for me. Yoshi-p said that they wont tell us no it does noting then the people who believe would be sad the other would not care and said ahah i knew it if they said yes then the people who believe would be ok now i know it big deal and the other be like oh cool nice to know. So it better to not let us know and let us believe in whatever we like because that a better answer.

it allow people to believe in whatever they want :)

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You see, this is EXACTLY the kind of reaction Ferne is looking for. XD

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Originally Posted by Kyri

I don't know about you other old Xi'ers, but I spit gingerale on my monitor laughing when I read the bit about moonphases, hehe
"Ah, but will facing north-by-northeast at 2:45 a.m. while the moon is a waning crescent result in a 27% increase in your chances to synthesize HQ mythril ingots!? That is real the question!
Fernehalwes"

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Well, after spending more than a year on ffxi reading Eruntalon posts on Alla and trying to find HQ mystery i laughed really a lot, and so comes my first post on the Lodestone :p

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You see, this is EXACTLY the kind of reaction Ferne is looking for. XD

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Will that the point yoshi-p pretty much said they would never tell us if it's true or not it's the point of letting people believe. I going by seeing how they did that in FFXI i'm sure they did something like that in FFXIV :) just not as hardcore seeing how in FFXI the sky don't move and in FFXIV it does and all :)

Thank You to the OP for pointing out the new blog post. The night-time pics really are lovely. I agree with the poster who mentioned we need a video now. Showing us just the different times of day and the weather effects maybe??? Puh-lease!!!!

So is it just me or is Ferne taking even greater delight in messing with our heads? ;) Actually I love reading any of his entries, both here in the forums and on the blog.

So Ferne....we need MOAR! :D

So the whole bit about north-by-northeast at 2:45 a.m. while the moon is a waning crescent result in a 27% increase in your chances to synthesize HQ mythril ingots!? Is a myth formed in FFXI?

I never got into FFXI, that and FFV, the rest of the FF's I completed. When I read it, due in fact of the waning moon, and while trying to play FFIV The After Years for the first time, while waiting for FFXIV:ARR I seriously thought it was true. hahahaha

Edit: oh, and did no one else notice the Paladin in full AF/Relic is in Gridania? I cannot wait til beta haha.

It gives a very unique atmosphere and looks so good ! I kind of wish they'd add some sort of bonus/malus based on moon phase/elemental days (I really liked that from FFXi) hehe

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Originally Posted by Daniolaut

So the whole bit about north-by-northeast at 2:45 a.m. while the moon is a waning crescent result in a 27% increase in your chances to synthesize HQ mythril ingots!? Is a myth formed in FFXI?

I never got into FFXI, that and FFV, the rest of the FF's I completed. When I read it, due in fact of the waning moon, and while trying to play FFIV The After Years for the first time, while waiting for FFXIV:ARR I seriously thought it was true. hahahaha

Edit: oh, and did no one else notice the Paladin in full AF/Relic is in Gridania? I cannot wait til beta haha.

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Yeah, it's a reference to Final Fantasy XI.

http://www.axiomfiles.com/Files/2973...ingcompass.png

I always thought it was BS...yet I still faced those directions just in case. Stupid superstition!

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Originally Posted by Kyri

I dunno it worked pretty crazy on my HQ sushi synths! :D

I did mean to say spit gingerale laughing though :P

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Your signature!!! That video is phenomenal!!

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Originally Posted by KiriA500

Yeah, it's a reference to Final Fantasy XI.

http://www.axiomfiles.com/Files/2973...ingcompass.png

I always thought it was BS...yet I still faced those directions just in case. Stupid superstition!

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Ah that is kind of a let down haha. I was getting excited :P

(but thanks for the quick respond)

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Ah that is kind of a let down haha. I was getting excited :P

(but thanks for the quick respond)

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Well, to be fair, crafting in XI was awful. We don't need junk like that when we have decent systems in place, like we did at the end of XIV.

You're welcome!

I really hope they don't bring back the facing direction of synthing and time of day of it to get certain item thing there is in ff11... It lacks any rational to why it works and it just makes ff14 DoH unneedly complicated... Although by look of the blog post it is inevitable... T_T

::Sigh:: Just not the same with no Dalamud.

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I really hope they don't bring back the facing direction of synthing and time of day of it to get certain item thing there is in ff11... It lacks any rational to why it works and it just makes ff14 DoH unneedly complicated... Although by look of the blog post it is inevitable... T_T

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Eorzea doesn't have specified days of the week, so it'd be quite difficult to calculate which direction you should be facing in the first place. Also, having multiple crystal shards required for some synths would mess that up as well. On top of that, we already have skills that increase HQ rate (at least we did at the end of 1.xx, I assume they'll be similar in A Realm Reborn).

That was clearly a nod to FFXI players by Fernehalwes.

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Originally Posted by AlexNiculaie

::Sigh:: Just not the same with no Dalamud.

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I agree. I'm gonna miss waiting to see how big it gets with every patch... Now we just have dumb, boring stars to look at! :(

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Originally Posted by Kirito

I really hope they don't bring back the facing direction of synthing and time of day of it to get certain item thing there is in ff11... It lacks any rational to why it works and it just makes ff14 DoH unneedly complicated... Although by look of the blog post it is inevitable... T_T

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Afte 10 years there is still zero evidence to support that direction, day of the week, moon phase or time of day does anything for crafting in XI.

Wow looks cool :D Cant wait

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Originally Posted by KiriA500

Eorzea doesn't have specified days of the week, so it'd be quite difficult to calculate which direction you should be facing in the first place. Also, having multiple crystal shards required for some synths would mess that up as well. On top of that, we already have skills that increase HQ rate (at least we did at the end of 1.xx, I assume they'll be similar in A Realm Reborn).

That was clearly a nod to FFXI players by Fernehalwes.



I agree. I'm gonna miss waiting to see how big it gets with every patch... Now we just have dumb, boring stars!

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It is not impossible for them to do it. If they have a time schedule then having a day schedule wouldn't be hard to make... And if I recall from the blog post they said a time they didn't say a date... So they can make it with respect to RL or in game time (they would have make it first) it would certainly be possible... I just hope they don't do it since it makes no sense why it works and makes it unneedly complicated...

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It is not impossible for to do it. If they have a time schedule then having a day schedule wouldn't be hard to make... And if I recall from the blog post they said a time they didn't say a date... So they can make it with respect to RL or in game time (they would have make it first) it would certainly be possible... I just hope they don't do it since it makes no sense why it works and makes it unneedly complicated...

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They won't do it. There's absolutely no reason for them to do so. Don't worry.

It seems nice.
Hope to see constellations (that rapresents primals and stuff) in the sky too.

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They won't do it. There's absolutely no reason for them to do so. Don't worry.

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There's no reason for them to do a lot of stuff yet they do it. You can't speak for SE really.

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Originally Posted by KiriA500

They won't do it. There's absolutely no reason for them to do so. Don't worry.

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They'll do it. There's absolutely no reason why they shouldn't do so. Be psyched.

Night time looks nice, but the lighting levels may still be a tad high. The white reflection around metalloid armor still seems to exist. I still think they can improve on that a bit. Then again that screen shot is really darn small, and i'm not a Paladin.

Any Paladins out there want to give your thoughts on it? How does the lighting compare to how the shield and armor normally look? Nice nod to XI Fern.

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There's no reason for them to do a lot of stuff yet they do it. You can't speak for SE really.

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Oh, you're right. All those skills they worked on to improve crafting were just a cover for the RANDOM CHANCE of moon-phase crafting! That makes perfect sense!

:rolleyes:

Good job Fern on the HQ questions. Nice little throwback to the FFXI days.

About night time, this is another future I'm waiting for. Monster spawn changes with the time of the day, music changes and maybe even behavior of monsters ? (sleep, more agressive etc.). I'm only hoping my one year laptop will endure this ...
As for the moon phase myth, I also think this is working. HQ'ing is a bit easier with the right moon.

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Originally Posted by KiriA500

Oh, you're right. All those skills they worked on to improve crafting were just a cover for the RANDOM CHANCE of moon-phase crafting! That makes perfect sense!

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The chance could be as low as 0,1~1% and you wouldn't notice. You can't say it's not in the game for sure. :)
With that blog post he brought it up again and there will be people who'll be facing directions unless it is completely denied by SE :)