All Worlds Maintenance (Sept. 11)

[Kiara]

Greetings,

The development team is aware that there are times when you cannot participate in content so easily and without worry, and I’d like to let you know future countermeasures we have planned to address this.

1. Significantly reduce repair fees and the cost of dark matter
   While the focus will be placed on high-levels, we will be significantly lowering the overall fees for repair and the cost of dark matter.
2. Addition of item level requirements for high-level dungeon participation
   We'll be adding a requirement to participate in high-level dungeons and hard mode primal battles that will make it so you need to have equipment above a certain item level equipped to participate. To coincide with this, we will be implementing a system that will display the average item level for your gear in the character window.

Thanks Camate. I wanted to pass along 2 notes:

• Can we please get the restoration of Requesting Repairs from Other Players? We can request Materia Melding from others, and we had the ability to have others fix our equipment in 1.0. Why was this removed?
  
  It also allows us to actually *talk* other players in this *MMO*.

• For the "Item Level Requirements," there are pros and cons. Can you confirm that if we form our own party (not via Duty Finder), that the Gear Check Requirement can be bypassed?
  
  As others have said, there are times that we want to help our friends / LS mates that might be new to a dungeon / learning, and we're helping them through some content.

Thanks!

[Sentinel]

Greetings,

The development team is aware that there are times when you cannot participate in content so easily and without worry, and I’d like to let you know future countermeasures we have planned to address this.
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We will be addressing #1 after the maintenance tomorrow, and #2 and #3 will be implemented after patch 2.1.

When is character transfer? Please give us some details on this!

[Deaglerk]

Greetings,

The development team is aware that there are times when you cannot participate in content so easily and without worry, and I’d like to let you know future countermeasures we have planned to address this.
[list=1][*]Significantly reduce repair fees and the cost of dark matter
While the focus will be placed on high-levels, we will be significantly lowering the overall fees for repair and the cost of dark matter.

Hi Camate, thanks for info. umm where can i find what they fixing/adding into this maint? usually it would be Update section or somewhere but there really no info about what FFXIV team is doing on this maint.

[Alcyon_Densetsu]

1. Significantly reduce repair fees and the cost of dark matter
   While the focus will be placed on high-levels, we will be significantly lowering the overall fees for repair and the cost of dark matter.

That's really great! It costs me about 5,000 gils to run the last 3 dungeons of the main story quest when I help people in my FC, and at this rate I wouldn't have been able to do it much longer, short of asking them to pay my repairs for lack of personal gils.

Thumbs up, SE and Yoshi, for a such a quick response to this tuning issue! ^_^

However, there's a small improvement I'd like to suggest. When one repairs pieces of equipment, it uses 1 dark matter no matter how bad the condition. This forces us, to optimize our costs, to wait as long as possible before repairing them. The trouble is that we run into the risk of hitting 0% while in dungeon, thus unable to repair without abandoning.

Wouldn't it be better if a full repair (from 0% to 100%) did use something like 5 or 10 dark matters (adjusting price accordingly, dividing the price of dark matter by 5 or 10), so that we may choose to repair more often, and keep our equipment near 100% all the time? I, for one, like to repair as often as possible; but when my crafting classes will reach 40, I'm worried I won't be able to do so, and eventually will forget to repair at some point... and have to tell my dungeon mates "sorry, forgot to repair, we have to call it off".

If repairing a single piece of equipment did use 10 dark matters, I'd be able to repair as soon as my pieces hit 90%, thus keep my equipment in pristine condition. As a tank, I'd like that very much. But I can't, or won't, do it if 0->100 costs the same as 90->100, since that would be a huge financial loss.

[Unowned]

Addition of item level requirements for high-level dungeon participation
We'll be adding a requirement to participate in high-level dungeons and hard mode primal battles that will make it so you need to have equipment above a certain item level equipped to participate. To coincide with this, we will be implementing a system that will display the average item level for your gear in the character window.

Does this iLevel take in to account HQ gear and materia melds? Both of these things do not increase iLevel and do make a significant impact on gear performance

[Vektrat]

1. Significantly reduce repair fees and the cost of dark matter
   While the focus will be placed on high-levels, we will be significantly lowering the overall fees for repair and the cost of dark matter.
   

All of this is good news, and it shows you're listening, I'm glad.

However I think this is the wrong approach; it will be good as a fast fix, but the economy is still broken. Instead of lowering repair costs, what should be done is to put options for the players to generate new coin into the game (for example, make dungeon trash drop significant gil).

By lowering the cost you're just making the problem hit in a further time, by doing so repeatedly we will just reach a point where repair cost = 0, thus no death penalty or game-fun whatsoever from the death fear.

[Shosasosa]

yea tired of DFing Titan hard cuz the rest of my FC isnt there yet and ending up with a bunch of people in full af thinkin they are gonna replace their Aetherial weapon they got in Aurum Vale with a Titan Weapon

[Erudain]

Mant is at the same time for all worlds...authentication servers are all in JP, is what allows us to create characters on those servers, so when they go down all worlds go down.
NA is only a data center, no devs or mant team.

Actually what SE is doing is what any successful international compaly would do, screw the less possible ammount of customers.

Mant times are:

8AM - 6PM +/- hours in Japan, Australia, SE Asia. Office hour are like in the rest of the world from 9am-10am to 5pm-6pm. Mant ends when their prime time starts.
2AM or 3AM - 11AM or 12PM in Europe (Lon, Par, Ber respectively).Thats an off hour, everyone is at their work or school
5PM - 3AM in NA (PDT) prime time for NA

If you think NA has more customers than JP + Aussies + Europe combined, then I want some of what you're smoking

And no...no company does different maints for their servers, Blizzard doesn't do it, NCsoft doesn't do it, Bioware doesn't do it, Nexxon doesn't do it, no way SE is going to do it

[Neo_bahamut]

Actually what SE is doing is what any successful international compaly would do, screw the less possible ammount of customers.

London is five hours ahead of us on EST there more than one time zone being affected on this side of the world and people from europe complaining as well this is NOT the best time for EU simply because its not quite as bad as us plenty of people play past 2 or early morning depending on your shift no one is in school at 2am btw the only ones getting best downtime is Jp and yes I do think Eu + NA > JP + Aussie as far as profit but its not like I am in SE accounting dep its only a suspicion. If they care about EU give the best down time it affect them none us less you can't put in EU with your group here I much rather they run on EU time then JP THAT would screw less people as you put it

[Caedeia]

Why not help the rest of your FC or friends get to the point where you can do it together? These kind of fights used to be community checked.