All Worlds Maintenance (Sept. 11)

[Arminus]

What are you guys doing to address the ludicrously out of control gil seller spamming that is going on in the chat channels on a daily basis? Your paying customers (the ones who bought the game) would like to have our chat channels back from the Gil selling spammers, please. Thanks.

[asheliemarie]

Is the plan to always do maintenance on American servers during American prime playing time? Running it from 5pm pst to 3am pst means you hit the exact window which makes it impossible for us to play.

Also, is there a plan to add right-click blacklist or report spam to shout/whisper gold sell spammers?

its because they are catering to the jp working hours. our primetime is their morning time. so they do maintenance while most of them are at work or sleeping in. to where as we're left with nothing to do since it sour prime time. idk why their doing it with this game. they never did it with ffxi. ffxi maint usually started around 8a.m. wel in their primes days anyway. but then again sometimes it ran up to 6pm est.

[Jadi]

Will this address the horrible latency many of us are experiencing? My ping constantly says Send 0 Receive 5000, that shouldn't even be possible.--

Hello Sion,

I am a network engineer and I've worked for some of the top IT companies in the world. (Microsoft, Intel, AT&T etc). FFXIV doesn't display raw network information in a meaningful way to the end user. I believe the client is showing game packets (UDP) and that those are compiled and used as the values shown in Send/Receive. It does *NOT* show rate, in other words the info presented by that does not show you network speed or latency at all.

"Tons and tons of data suggests that people with my issue are being routed too many places to connect."
I don't know how to respond to this because it's pretty much based out of your total ignorance on the subject.

I'll be willing to come as a witness to you lawsuit to inform the court that you have no idea what your talking about.

-JD

[Jadi]

Furthermore SE does not control the pipe. When your saying too much data is routed too many places.. first off.. its not much data at all. SE has been very good with their network programing and the load is actually very minimal secondly, its routed to one place.. to SE, and SE does not control the route.

I'd check an see if your roommate is on netflix man..

[Toranja]

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.

One word? Don't.

[Gaidon]

[*]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.

This! Although it will be interesting to see if this will apply to all dungeons or just through dungeons in the duty finder. If your own Free Company doesn't mind carrying you, well that is their choice.
I am not sure why people complain that this is bad, unless they are always the lazy under-geared player that wants to be carried.

[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!

[PhyvCentz]

I want to thank you for all the hard work the team has put into making this ridiculously addictive game. I have only one suggestion that I hope you consider.

Please run these LONG maintenance windows on a rotation with other regions. Just because the NA prime time window affects the least people it doesn't mean it should always be us.

Thanks for everything SE, you've made an awesome game I will play for years to come.

[Stellus]

Gee, thanks for doing the NA servers during NA prime-time. Genius.

Greetings,

In case you haven’t seen the news announcement posted on Lodestone, we will be holding a long maintenance on Wednesday, September 11th from 5:00 p.m. until September 12th at 3:00 a.m. This maintenance will address the below three things, which Yoshida mentioned in his post:



We apologize for any inconveniences this maintenance may cause, but appreciate your understanding as we do our best to enhance the servers to ensure comfortable playing conditions.

[hokuminaria]

How bout changing up the maintenance start/end times to shaft the JP players instead of us for once

Americans and their fantasy time zone! Japan time is the only time!