The Final Fantasy XI Team Answers Your Questions! (01/20/2011)

[orson]

Yeah, all I could ask for is a straight-up 300% XP increase on all non-Abyssea mobs. Should be enough to be comparable to Abyssea XP using normal PT setups rather than throwing an alliance of people at mobs for XP-chest drops no?

It'd also increase duo/trio setups as DC/EM would be much more worth your time.

That's the thing no one is against improving exp outside of abyssea. It's obvious that SE needs to do something to improve exp outside of abyssea. Removing the daily limit on FoV is a good start but I kind of disagree that the tabs are restricted to 1 per day.

Tabs should have more buffs or stronger buffs as you go to the higher level areas. The only other option is to extend the length buffs last and make it so you don't lose them on death.

[Darkmagi]

Make FOV buffs similar to cruor buffs!

[Trigun]

Training dummies outside of all towns to skill up on.
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[macross]

I just want to be able to store my kc and hkc.

[Gergall]

Training dummies outside of all towns to skill up on.

Or just fix the skillup rate.

Or just pay an NPC a small fee for skillups.

[Domovoi]

really? people complaining about lag in Port Jeuno? I lag more in Whitegate then I do in Port Jeuno..

Really. Were you around when people on Odin and Bahamut were not able to log in because they were in White Gate when they logged or something and the zone was capped? White Gate has a higher cap than Port Jeuno, and on more crowded servers it is most definitely an issue these days.

[orson]

Really. Were you around when people on Odin and Bahamut were not able to log in because they were in White Gate when they logged or something and the zone was capped? White Gate has a higher cap than Port Jeuno, and on more crowded servers it is most definitely an issue these days.

On less crowded servers it is an issue too. If it wasn't for the fact that the game loads NPCs prior to PCs most the time you'd be screwed. I've had it happen before where all the PCs were loaded and I ended up having to zone to make Blest reappear.

[Apelila]

Port jeuno this morning had something like 500+ people in it on Asura. I haven't seen that many people in a zone in a long while. I hope they put in a counter measure for people AFK in front of the mog house, or allow people less lag when trying to run through PC's.

[Yugl]

I hope they put in a counter measure for people AFK in front of the mog house, or allow people less lag when trying to run through PC's.

This is such a problem. People need to log the fuck off or stand in a designated bazaar area.

[Ophannus]

Put a 100/tick Bio aura near MH zone if you stand there for more than 1 minute.

[Yugl]

Won't help because they'll die and HP there anyways.

[Shenrien]

wouldn't be hard to make it so if a player is standing near the MH entrance or right ontop of it that they just walk backwards into the zone line putting them back in their mog house.

[mactabilis]

You'd think after being moved away from whitegate mog fuckers would learn. My solution: auto jailer sends them to moridon if they afk for more than 1hr in front of mog or horst, then they have to call gm and wait...and wait...then finally submit 500 word essay on why they'll stop being douchebags. Then maybe they can be let out

[Xantavia]

This is such a problem. People need to log the fuck off or stand in a designated bazaar area.

Unless you happen to be on a server where the bazaar is in Port Jeuno. On Titan, damn bazaar is set up in the area between Horst and the Mog House. Its terrible on the weekends.

[Fiarlia]

Unless you happen to be on a server where the bazaar is in Port Jeuno. On Titan, damn bazaar is set up in the area between Horst and the Mog House. Its terrible on the weekends.

Unicorn too, fucking hate that so much. Especially because I love to bazaar hunt. -_-

[Byrthnoth]

I have given up bazaaring. I'm trying to dump my inventory and get out of the business. I don't need any more gil and the new bazaar spots are painfully laggy and decentralized.

[Gwynplaine]

They had might as well just make most everything Auction House-able. Who would rather hunt through bazaars to buy some Marvin Peleges rather than just get it on the AH. The only thing bazaars are useful for is for selling things in out-and-about areas with no AH. As well as selling very expensive items that sell slow and cost too much in AH fees.

[ronin sparthos]

Allow people to fucking bazaar in Chocobo Circuit without pointless fees. The zone is useless anyway and could make for a great lag-free area for bazaars to AFK while reducing the load on PJ.

[Domovoi]

On less crowded servers it is an issue too. If it wasn't for the fact that the game loads NPCs prior to PCs most the time you'd be screwed. I've had it happen before where all the PCs were loaded and I ended up having to zone to make Blest reappear.

Well, I meant people not being able to be in zone. I've heard from friends their servers PJ is crashing or not letting them in. We don't really have that issue on Shiva, because we are essentially no man's land. Lag is still an issue, but not to the extent where port jeuno is crashing.

wouldn't be hard to make it so if a player is standing near the MH entrance or right ontop of it that they just walk backwards into the zone line putting them back in their mog house.

Putting doppelgangers of Horst/Joachim should fix the issue. Not sure about the rest of you, but the second I read that and mentioned it on vent, most of us unanimously agreed we would once again be setting our home points in our respective home nations. The last time I had my home point in Jeuno before abyssea was the day before ToAU came out.

[Vegetatheprince]

Q: Atma infusion and traverser stone issuance are really bothersome procedures. Can't anything be done to simplify things?

A: For the next major version update, we are considering ways to streamline the atma infusion process, such as introducing a feature whereby players can edit and save their favored atma combinations for later use.

This is still coming, right? Right?? RIGHT??!?!