Thread: The Rising Event! 1.0 Experience

Originally Posted by Boterote

"The two Armies clashed under the specter of the sanguine moon".

For those of you who don't understand this.. The Garlean Empire quite literally invaded all 3 city and killed players in town.

Not actually totally correct - the only city that was directly attacked gameplay wise (as clearly shown in your screenshots) was Ul'dah - Limsa Lominsa and Gridania never were. This was actually for technical reasons (as well as a sly jab at the players by Yoshi to stop idling in Ul'dah or at aetheryte camps all the time as it was literally breaking the game.). All those people clustered together in the one place for long periods rendered the Ul'dah Inn Room completely broken and inaccessible to the point SE could not fix it, due to 1.0's terrible server infrastructure and Crystal Tools being so impotent that it couldn't handle more than ten characters on screen at once, instead employing a work-around by entering it via an npc who was hastily added to the Gold Court, and thus you could never again access the Inn Room directly through the Quicksand in 1.0 - that work around remained in place to the very end. Thus clearly showing clearly to everyone the real reasons why 1.0 was shut down and replaced with ARR.

Still, the last day before the Calamity was an amazing event that I will never forget (even though I was booted off the server with an error half an hour before the end and could not log back in).