The 9th Vana'diel Census Preliminary Survey (05/14/2009)

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It's almost time for this year's FINAL FANTASY XI Vana'diel Census! We'll be taking a look behind the scenes at the numbers that made up your world in the past year.
For the 9th Vana'diel Census, we'll be trying something different: a preliminary survey to find out all about each adventurer's day-to-day life in Vana'diel.

That means we need your help! Even if you're a silent ninja, a shy scholar, or a bard with laryngitis, let your voice be heard! Together, we can make the 9th Vana'diel Census the best one yet!

Participate in the survey here. (Link is dynamic, check the POL front page for the link.)

The survey will be conducted from May 14, 2009 at 3:00 a.m. (PDT) to May 25, 2009 at the same hour.

The questions are pretty interesting.

[fusionx]

They definitely have some good answers for the questions

Selling the right to obtain rare items won in combat.

For some reason this impressed me

[isladar]

Oh wow.

[Not Kuno]

Gallijaux motherfucker represent.

[heavensword]

I personally love to buy EX items from linkshells. I dont have time for certain end game activities, and this allows me to obtain some pretty sweet stuff.

I'd love to be able to do this, but then the whole money making thing gets me.

On average, how much gil do you make per week? (Select one answer.)

0 - 50,000 gil.
50,000 - 100,000 gil.
100,000 - 200,000 gil.
200,000 - 500,000 gil.
500,000 - 1,000,000 gil.
1,000,000 - 5,000,000 gil.
5,000,000 - 10,000,000 gil.
Over 10 million gil.

[Gergall]

They definitely have some good answered for the questions


For some reason this impressed me

I wish there was a question asking for your favorite method to XP. Seeing Astral Burn as a choice would be hilarious.

[Murdock]

I can't help but think they have some other motives for asking these questions. The answers are pretty specific.

I wonder if something will come of this? or if will all just be presented in a nice looking chart/graph as usual.

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They obviously don't get the whole "why people join linkshells" thing in respect to HNMLS.

[Not Kuno]

They obviously don't get the whole "why people join linkshells" thing in respect to HNMLS.

What? I was just standing around in whitegate then bam I was invited to hnm ls. It's what square realized with all those shouts.

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What? I was just standing around in whitegate then bam I was invited to hnm ls. It's what square realized with all those shouts.

This is certainly not how I've picked up any of my decent HNMLSs. Maybe the worse ones I've been in.

Personally, I do research online and check out different shells on different servers to find one which fits my times and stuff I want to do. Also, how successful they are and their claim frequency (if they have a news page, which most do).

"/shout Pick-up" linkshells tend to be one of my biggest regrets and time wasters in this game :/.

[The Blackrose]

This is certainly not how I've picked up any of my decent HNMLSs. Maybe the worse ones I've been in.

Whooooosh.

[Cream Soda]

I love how it asked what you do in your main ls and "ls events" was one of the options

[Mizango]

I can't help but think they have some other motives for asking these questions. The answers are pretty specific.

I wonder if something will come of this? or if will all just be presented in a nice looking chart/graph as usual.

This too piqued my interests as well. I was thinking perhaps SE wanted our honest opinions on things we would like to be "changed", then I remember it was SE and disregarded it as a nothing more than a simple survey.

I personally hate the NPC system, I mean 15 gil for crystals? 50 gil for Adv. coupon when you start the game, wut? Seriously 50 gil buys you nothing, not even level 1 gear. I guess it never hurts to hope that something tangible can come from this, I guess if enough people overwhelmingly flood a particular question they may be prone to take a closer look at it.

I especially see the "How much gil do you make a week" one sticking out to alot of people.

[isladar]

Making questions that fit every game situation would be arduous to write and to fill out. I'm mostly just impressed that they seem to actually be asking how we play their game.

[The Stig]

I submitted: SMN (main) and SAM (sub) with "It's popular in parties."

Bring on the "SMN MELEE!!!" updates!

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I submitted: SMN (main) and SAM (sub) with "It's popular in parties."

Bring on the "SMN MELEE!!!" updates!

I submitted WAR/WHM lulz

[Gergall]

I submitted: SMN (main) and SAM (sub) with "It's popular in parties."

Bring on the "SMN MELEE!!!" updates!

More like:

SE Dev1: SMN is kinda weak, maybe we should buff it a bit?
SE Dev2: I guess you're right, but lets take a quick look at how SMN did on the survey results...
SE Dev1: Oh hey look at this, people are using SMN/SAM! It seems that it is very popular in parties already! Nevermind about the whole buffing thing.

[Ohaigaiz]

More like:

people actually think we're going to do something to the game based on this survey

[The Blackrose]

Fucking whooshes... jesus dont you think sometimes people get it, but just want add there 2 cents to a particular point/topic? Regardless if it was sarcastic...

Because the 2 cents in this case went something like this:

Ted Turner: Are aces high or low?
Peter: They go both ways.
Bill Gates: He said, "They go both ways."
Ted Turner: Like a bisexual.
Michael Eisner: Thank you, Ted. That was the joke.

Go be butthurt about it somewhere else.

[Ohaigaiz]

Because the 2 cents in this case went something like this:



Go be butthurt about it somewhere else.

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