Quote Originally Posted by Xatsh View Post
Kings where when I did all my homework back in college. Sure they are a pure hell if you actully just stared at your screen blankly for 30mins at a time... why most people did things between windows. Like 90%+ of the Aery was afk all but 30secs every 30mins until it poped.

Go to faf
-No pop window 1
-Read 10 pages
-No pop window 2
-Read 10 more pages
-No pop window 3
-Do the written homework
-pop window 4 kill it

Then go to KB
-no pop window 1
-start next assignment.

World NMS is XI where the best thing ever for college student and high school students alike... gave you time to get all your stuff done. If they where not there I probably would of failed all my classes >.>
But surely spending (in worst case scenario) 3 minutes total playing the game out of 3 hours is awful game design. Times have moved on from that. I did kings because that and Sky was all the game had in the Zilart days, not because I enjoyed it. The fights were great if you managed to get a claim but it was bad implementation.

There's ways to implement items such as Ridills and have them just as rare without the game being a pain in the ass or spend 2 hours 57 minutes of every 3 hours doing anything but playing. The dungeon speed run in XIV right now is a good example of how to make items rare. No one on my server has a sword or bow. Implement something hard like that with further criteria for your Ridill and they become even rarer. For example, require a drop from three different dungeon's speed runs to be exchanged for an item. You then need skill in multiple scenarios to get your rare item.