FFXIV Closed Alpha/Beta Discussion (Cancelled for this week)

[Katlan]

how about "nobody knows because the odds of somebody encountering a name error with such a small sample size AND you meeting them are currently too low"

or alternatively, I WONT BELIEVE IT UNTIL S-E CONFIRMS IT

guess what, if at the naming screen they require u to put in 2 names, then its given that both names are unique. Good use of ur first post. Because it could of been that ur last name is your account name or something.

[darkscion0]

how about "nobody knows because the odds of somebody encountering a name error with such a small sample size AND you meeting them are currently too low"

or alternatively, I WONT BELIEVE IT UNTIL S-E CONFIRMS IT

Till SE confirms it? Provided there's at least 2 character slots anyone can test it.

[Nash]

They stated that eventually you'd be able to send someone a /tell using one full name and the initial of the other name which means that both would have to be unique.

This isn't confirmed.. that was just speculation

[Jinko]

Here's a nice quality version of the intro cut scene.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrTb7YpniiI

Thanks, quite impressive from a graphics stand point, can't wait to see what it looks like in 1080p with all effects on.

[itschina]

guess what, if at the naming screen they require u to put in 2 names, then its given that both names are unique. Good use of ur first post. Because it could of been that ur last name is your account name or something.

its ok, once I logged in and saw your avatar I understood why you ask stupid questions

[solracht]

I'm sure it will make balancing the encounters a lot easier. If you assume that each item has an item budget you can predict player strength pretty accurately. In FFXI since you could really min/max your gear for every single action that you take, the item budget pretty much goes out the window.

Example:
Very powerful WS that has low accuracy. Trade off is that it has a higher chance to miss. Gear swapping allowed you to stack accuracy, much more than you'd need for your other skills, just to overcome this. Afterwords you can switch back to your normal stats benefiting the rest of your skills.

Effectively the choice of accuracy VS other stats was removed from your hands. Gear swapping I find made the game less interesting because there was a generally known set of gear to maximize every action in the game and you followed the same gear progression as everyone else using the same skill.

If you could not gear swap, and equipping the extra accuracy to make the WS land wasn't worth losing the other stats, said WS would be considered useless by the community, and used by nobody. In the second scenario, the choice of using the WS is removed from your hands, at least as much as your choice of swapping to accuracy gear or not in the first scenario.

I don't think the problem you're describing is related to FFXI's gearswapping system, but to having to play with others. MMORPGs fall in this category.

Players find what's optimal, and others usually follow.

[Lazytowner]

its ok, once I logged in and saw your avatar I understood why you ask stupid questions

http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/2...5669121657.jpg

Oh come on now I thought it was funny.

[Purrrfect]

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_F5LA_nG7oQM/S7...cEj6Rw/hat.JPG

FUCKING EPIC HATS!

[linkinsg]

[img]hxxp://lh5.ggpht.com/_F5LA_nG7oQM/S75ZnUh54sI/AAAAAAAAAD0/cF5J1cEj6Rw/hat.JPG[/img]

FUCKING EPIC HATS!

Like :D!

[Lunarhawk]

Will this game have one of those things where you can wear both normal clothes that decide how your character looks while meanwhile wearing actual armor for stats that don't appear (or if you wore 2 sets of armor the one for appearance wouldn't affect stats)

[Lonely]

Will this game have one of those things where you can wear both normal clothes that decide how your character looks while meanwhile wearing actual armor for stats that don't appear (or if you wore 2 sets of armor the one for appearance wouldn't affect stats)

SE has not said anything on this so I doubt it.

[supercoco]

Spoiler: show

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_F5LA_nG7oQM/S7...cEj6Rw/hat.JPG

FUCKING EPIC HATS!

agree, too bad we don't have tail anymore

[Lunarhawk]

SE has not said anything on this so I doubt it.

That sucks
I honestly hate having to wear the best stuff I have available for the stats when it's ugly and clashes with other pieces of the equipment. Games where you can wear a second non-stat effecting set of clothes/equips make it look so much nicer, even if less realistic (like a mithra fighting the king of all dragons in a tank top)

[LD]

agree, too bad we don't have tail anymore

Crap, I just noticed that the Miqo'te don't have tails. ._.

That's kinda lame, if you're goin' with the cat eyes & cat ears, you round it out with the tail.

[Sho]

D: Too many people, not enough Live infos.

[solracht]

They have tails, and they're fluffier this time, and they match the hair color. Double check the pictures.

Edit: This was posted on page 101.

http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/67/1270755127355.jpg

[Eklm]

That sucks
I honestly hate having to wear the best stuff I have available for the stats when it's ugly and clashes with other pieces of the equipment. Games where you can wear a second non-stat effecting set of clothes/equips make it look so much nicer, even if less realistic (like a mithra fighting the king of all dragons in a tank top)

I honestly think they should adapt Aion's idea of equipment skins (wow, Aion actually does something right).

Here is how it works for those who never played:

http://aioninsider.com/game-mechanic...uipment-skins/

[Dantrag]

holy fuck, i went out of town for the day and this thread jumped up 30-40 pages <_>

[linkinsg]

removed screen

[Lunarhawk]

I honestly think they should adapt Aion's idea of equipment skins (wow, Aion actually does something right).

Here is how it works for those who never played:

http://aioninsider.com/game-mechanic...uipment-skins/

seems interesting but it also costs money and loses the item you choose the skin of