Losing Faith in SE

[gamesmart]

This is consistent with everything that I have ever read. Thank You. I used to have Verizon FiOS (many threads on here for that) and recall people reporting latency issues.

In short, it is easy to blame SE for negative "server lag" experience to those who are not fully in the know who these things work. I don't understand it all personally, but I am wise enough to know that it isn't simply SE's issue.

Honestly, I personally don't know a whole lot about networking myself. All of the stuff I posted before was what I've learned from these forums (shocker, I know), and the occasional trace route I've done whenever something starts acting up. Of course, it's a bit of a personal interest for me as I'm going into computer science (still a freshman though), so I'm a bit more inclined to want to know how it works rather than just saying "hurrdurr SE fix this."

[TheRogueX]

During my trial period I almost quit over the RMT spam because it shows a lack of community moderation & professionalism. I have played nearly a dozen MMO's & NONE of them have had this poor of moderation.

This is nothing. Where I come from, the gil sellers owned all the best hunting spots and would happily PK you until you deleveled/dropped your gear if you tried to fight there, even if you needed it for a quest.

But yeah, it is pretty annoying.

[dragorian]

If you have a lot of disconnections,lag and or game crashing it is not the servers. You should take your CPU heatsink off you will be surprised that the thermal past had crystalized and need to replace itif not the issue then either your graphics card is old or you're mobo is dying also do you have sufficient cooling and a good case and dust free. Also do you have the right mobo for CPU if CPU is fbus 5gts and using an 4gts board ull have bad performance I'd also would use an lab killer from Razer it makes ffxiv priority

[Zanarken]

As for the RNG aspect, I understand RNG is needed in games like this to expand the lifespan of content. However, often times in this game, it feels like an absolute joke. I've become especially aware of it lately as I've been trying to obtain alt gear from WOD (almost two weeks of non-stop WOD just to finally get the DRG chest) to leveling miner and seeing:

"You obtain nothing"
"You obtain nothing"
"You obtain nothing"
"You obtain nothing"

While having a 96% success rate.

I've had similar experiences. While everyone I have attempted to discuss this matter on has assured me the RNG in this game is "perfectly fine" I have my doubts. The probability of the outcome you just described is .00000256. That is something you should only experience as a harvester a few times in your entire gathering career yet I have had it happen more times than I can count. 98% success rate & 4/5 misses. Never ceases to amaze me.

This is nothing. Where I come from, the gil sellers owned all the best hunting spots and would happily PK you until you deleveled/dropped your gear if you tried to fight there, even if you needed it for a quest.

But yeah, it is pretty annoying.

That is horrible >< No way would I be able to tolerate that. What MMO was that if you don't mind me asking?

[Luvbunny]

There is no RMT in Japan servers, if you don't believe me try create one alt at one of the Japanese servers and you will know it.

That is a big lie lol, there are BAZILIONS of these so called gilfarmer, creating massive army of Black Mage bots to become materia factories.They are easy to spot, just do player search and check english as language, and you will see hundreds of these bots in Uldah. It will be either thaumarge or archer army, or all level 50 black mage with no Free Company, no grand company affiliation.

Yes, we don't get those "friendly tells" every 30 seconds advertising bullshit website that sells gills - but RMT is getting desperate now and re-using the "add friend" tactics to annoy you. They even start targeting smaller server that is primarily Japanese players, such as Belias...which is really baffling.

[nuyu11]

Snip.

Ooo.... I just tell based on my experienced, because I from NA/EU server before moved to Masamune.
Yes I have seen few boots but I don't know there are BAZILIONS of them.
Some pathetic loser want a shortcut but ruin other ppl experience meh.

[NorthernLadMSP]

I've had similar experiences. While everyone I have attempted to discuss this matter on has assured me the RNG in this game is "perfectly fine" I have my doubts. The probability of the outcome you just described is .00000256. That is something you should only experience as a harvester a few times in your entire gathering career yet I have had it happen more times than I can count. 98% success rate & 4/5 misses. Never ceases to amaze me.

Oh, definitely. It's not something that has happened once or twice, it happens quite frequently.

[Tiggy]

Complaining about connection problems? It's be extremely well documented how much of that has nothing to do with Square. I love how people always blame square instantly with zero regards to the massive load of poor American internet infrastructure between them and the servers.

Your faith was already low if these are your snap reactions.

Oh, definitely. It's not something that has happened once or twice, it happens quite frequently.

It doesn't matter if it happens frequently or not (despite the fact it helps players sometimes too and they REALLY like to forget about those moments) The problem is those roles aren't unique to you. The game isn't rolling the dice 4 times in a row solely for you. The same RNG system is rolling the dice for thousands of people at a time. It cares not for your streak. It cares not for what number you rolled last. Each roll is unique and unrelated to the last and your rolls were just one in the hundreds of thousands of rolls. Were the odds low to fail that synth. Yes, but not impossible to fail. RNG is RNG and people REALLY like to forget that really simple basic concept. If it's not a 100% chance of success then there is a chance it will fail. The failure is the users for failing to ensure a non-zero result. The game in no way shape or form goes extra special out of it's way to screw players. All I see is more people here who clearly don't have any knowledge of basic statistics and random distributions continuing to spread poor information around like this.

[Niurok]

Even on Excalibur they have gone back to the teleporting underground ways...

[Kosmos992k]

Even on Excalibur they have gone back to the teleporting underground ways...

What this tells us is that there is no process in the game to check teleport coordinates, nor anything to check that the teleport request is legitimate. Coordinates under the surface geometry really need to be flagged so anyone using them can get banned, and teleporting to a target location without use of something like the Eternity ring to 'port to your partner should also be a red flag. I really can't understand why this issue has not yet been fully addressed. The same is true of all the position hacks.