a pretty serious question

[Tupsi]

I thought you said this was a serious question...

What I'm thinking, since unless the world is Vanadiel, it's kind of impossible to be playing a sequel where the world is completely different. I mean, when we played Resident Evil 2 there were plenty to link back to Resident Evil 1.

The NM system of FFXI was utter crap.

Current NM system in FFXI:

Voidwatch NM - Popped.
Walk of Echos - Prespawned NMs based on the conflux you go into.
Quest based NMs - Majority are popped or on 1-5 minute respawn timers, you also gain full credit being in the party and in exp range.
ZNM - Popped tiers of NM.
Most regular world NMs - Drops R/E version of now crafted items or items that drop in BCNM type arenas.
Fracture - Popped NMs or you go inside of their domain.

I don't see how that's utter crap, as you say.