Aquapolis Raiders (story time, folks!)

[Jacost]

My FC (and it's allies in other FCs) had been stockpiling maps for the week leading up to the patch, so we had quite a few to get through. I joined them for the fourth map, which got to the second room, which was as far as they had gotten before. The next map was one of mine.

Since I had the choice of doors, I decided to use /random, pick the left door if it was lower then 500 and the right if it was higher (what to do if it was exactly 500 was one of the running gags that developed). Using this method, we got all the way to room seven. Seeing this, everyone else decided to use the same method. It worked on the next two maps as well. Some of us had accepted /random as our new god at that point. Unfortunately the law of averages reasserted itself after that despite our platitudes to the /random god, and we didn't get further than room 3 again, if we got into the aquapolis at all.

TL;DR: Using /random got us to floor 7 on three consecutive runs.

[Rhodkr]

Do we reaaly need to be a full group to do those or can we go with 2 or 3 players ?

Naw, my group did it with a full group because that's how many people wanted to come along. Our group set up was random as well, we had 4 people who mailed tanks, so two swapped to their dps classes, and three people who mained smn. (I main mnk, but as we had no healer and my ast is i212, I went healer so we didn't kill ourselves) lol

[Nalien]

Do we reaaly need to be a full group to do those or can we go with 2 or 3 players ?

Just got done with a stockpile of maps and did about 5 runs of Aquapolis, duo'd with no real problem Scholar/Dark Knight. Had the Cyclops boss twice, might be difficult with some of the mobs but wasn't too hard. Golden Goblin once, but he got away, was close though... Pretty sure could kill him if we weren't going "What is that?!" for the first few moments...

First run, first room gave the rabbit minion, then made it all the way to the final room and got "On Windy Meadows", much to my dismay, since I wanted "Twilight over Thanalan"... Got back to house and I have "Twilight over Thanalan" though, so SE might need to check that out, preferably in a way that doesn't give me "On Windy Meadows" after they fix it... Don't think we got past the 5th room on the following runs... Still, great piece of content IMO...

[raela]

Ohh, that makes me happy to hear! My bond partner and I have a stockpile of maps and we prefer to duo content. We were getting worried that we'd have to ask for help..

[Nalien]

Oh, one word of warning if you're going to duo Aquapolis; Make sure you have plenty of inventory space... You don't want a crafting V materia to drop to the floor because you were both loaded up with stuff after opening 7 chests... >_>;

[Eclair_Xysha]

Does anyone know if Aquapolis is RNG based or do they actually give you clues? The first few times I tried it, we were just picking out random doors on the first level and we would always always always fail. So on our 4th portal we were so bummed to the point where we had to carefully choose which one to pick and we started to think that maybe Yoshi-P isn't that stingy. Maybe he left clues??

So we like... looked around the area before opening treasure maps and we were all like... "Okay... there is a trail of gold here on the left door... but on the right door... the gold on the floor shows more than the left... LETS PICK LEFT.... LETS SEE...."

And so after our first door we kept using clues to find our way through the last floor (Which we did!!) but I didn't appreciate the heavy trolling at that time, because it was my map. D:

But after a while, our "clues" started to fail after our 3rd successful clear and so we desperately went back to see what we did wrong since one of the guys in our party was recording everything for observation purposes and such.

Then we figured out that maybe how the MONSTERS come out of the cages, determines the Left or Right door. And that in the Carpet rooms... it flips. ((If all monsters come at you all at once, its Left. If monsters come at you individually one by one, its Right. At the Carpet room, its the opposite.))

And we cleared for the 4th time.

But at this point however I'm not certain if its just us getting dumb beginners luck? Or there is really some kind of... THING.... to indicate which door is the correct one or not. Anyone wanna test this theory out with me? D:

[Zigabar]

But at this point however I'm not certain if its just us getting dumb beginners luck? Or there is really some kind of... THING.... to indicate which door is the correct one or not. Anyone wanna test this theory out with me? D:

I'm fairly certain it's RNG unless you see the glow on the door, but I'm willing test it with you. My friend and I have a bunch of maps still. HMU on my main Sanura Tsukishiro later.

[BristolRuss]

Did some maps with my FC earlier. From 3 maps we got to the Aquapolis twice. First time we reached room 4, the second time we cleared it. I ended up with 2 Grade 5 materia dropping into my inventory from the final chest (one gathering the other crafting (which sold for a tidy 3.6 million)). Saw two nutkins along the way as well.

[Reinha]

7-manned 7 maps with the fc. Was quite fun and made more than twice the amount of gil I spent on the map! Got to the very end once by picking only right side doors, it was quite hilarious. I didn't win any minions but others did.

[Deathgiver]

Anyone know what the goblins drop? Saw them once, but we were 2-manning and tried splitting dps and ended up not killing either...