The JP button

[Molly_Millions]

1. you can queue your actions in battle
2. I can speed through gathering faster than other NA players and I'm not in Japan

[Soulfire]

i understand what your talking about, though, many of the japanese have the same problems, so being japanese is not it (yeah, i tried what you said, i was speedier than him actually, i was turbocrafting using my controller. Maybe they do so too?)

I tried that and was getting beaten out. You can't input anything until the server gives you permission to do so.

you can queue your actions in battle

At the moment you can't queue something waiting to get back to you, it's faded. This works two ways, though, there and back, so you're waiting on more than just the server.

Taei... Unless SE stops being so strict I really don't think there's much that can be done about all this. Everything is so server-side as a cheating countermeasure and very few improvements can be made without making things function client-side.

Available HP/MP/TP to cover action costs, evades/blocks/parries/misses to perform special actions, actions landed and from proper positions to enable combos and void TP costs, lack of ailments that would prevent actions from being performed, animations and their locks being managed by the server after everything checks out, etc. They all add up, and it results in many Japanese being falsely lauded as skilled players. And that's just the combat aspect!

I believe there was mention of regional servers, and if that happens it will help with these latency issues. I sure don't plan on opting into that, though, if it's irreversible. Like I told you earlier, I actually wish to live in Japan someday.

Therefore, since those moderators are always combing over the forums, please note this: If regional servers come out I would like to be able to perform transfers between them at any given time. Thanks!