gathering in nature

[Tonan]

Currently the highest node a Botanist/Miner can gather from is Grade 5 while Fishers have Grade 10s, giving them a huge advantage over Miners/Botanists for skilling up. Will we be seeing a balance to this in the future?

In regards to fishing, we have been looking into lowering fishing spots Grade 6 and above to Grade 1.

First of all, thanks Bayohne for the tedious work of grouping the questions and conveying answers from the very developer(s) in charge of gathering content who seem so lack of enthusiam to develop further, in contrast to Matsui-san who is believed to bring constructive changes to the fighter/mage battle contents.

Personally I feel mortified to read the "Gathering Q&A" threads on both the Japanese and English forums. Take example of the above quoted answer, seriously I don't see the logic of eliminating Grade6+ fishing spots instead of implementing some for mining and harvesting.

In FF11, we used to know the full name of the responsible developer for certain contents, like from dengeki/famitsu magazine interviews. I would also like to know the full name of the person(s) in charge of gathering contents and see if he's/they're courageous enough to admit "sorry, it's far too troublesome to define and associate new item lists for higher grade gathering points for the 2 classes than to simply duplicate existing grade 1 item lists for multiple fishing points" openly on magazines very soon.

Meanwhile I would love Bayohne from the customer rep team to help convey the message to the person/people responsible for gathering contents that "If you don't like what you do, please quit. You are merely disappointing those who still support this game when many others are harshly criticising it."

[Sorel]

[FONT="Verdana"]Personally I feel mortified to read the "Gathering Q&A" threads on both the Japanese and English forums. Take example of the above quoted answer, seriously I don't see the logic of eliminating Grade6+ fishing spots instead of implementing some for mining and harvesting.

I understand why they are doing this. Grades were designed with target Ranks in mind. Which is why players get the surveying abilities for a particular Grade at a particular Rank.

Grade 1 = Ranks 1-9
Grade 2 = Ranks 10 - 19
Grade 3 = Ranks 20 - 29
Grade 4 = Ranks 30 - 39
Grade 5 = Ranks 40 - 49
Grade 6 = Rank 50

The presence of Rank 7+ fishing points is clearly a mistake on the part of the Development Team, as they should only be available to those of a Rank that is currently higher than the current cap.

The Development Team has two possible solutions.

1. Raise the Rank cap on Disciples of Land to 90, create Grade 7 thru 9 points for miners and botanists, and provide the appropriate survey abilities to all DoL classes.
2. Change the Grade 7+ fishing point to Grade 6 or less.

It looks like they are going with the second option.

I can't say I find fault with that, as the first option would take longer to implement, and cause some serious balance issues in the game.

As for the reason they just didn't explain this ... well they had a lot of questions to field. So it is understandable that they would just state what their fix is for the issue ... instead of penning a 20 line response like I did.