Announcing the World Merge(3/1/2011)

[Julian]

Hi Juliano, the core members from Perfection are still together, we remember you

That's cool. Although I did burn most of my bridges with perfection back in the day, heh.

edit: Is Zephyre around? I.. have a feeling he probably isn't, but I miss him should probably drop him a hi sometime on msn

[bungiefan]

I just find it funny that Bahamut and Odin are getting a population infusion, when they were the two servers to get closed to new characters for being close to capacity.

[ccf]

Nope. Most NAs here are idiots, with "endgame" being so lowman focused, most "Linkshell" groups that are still around are all pretty bad and full of crappy people. There's a guy with a Masamune and probably a Kannagi by now, and his war sub is underleveled, and his gear sucks, but he's in what used to be one of the top LS's of the server. It's that bad.

On the JP side, 90%+ of everything is just shout and pick up now. All those clusterfucks of Japanese spamming the shit out of Abyssea are almost all just shout pick ups, who WILL NOT invite foreigners. Don't even bother trying.

I'm sure you can find some competent people on this server and put together a PW alliance, but it wont be as easy as just finding some LS to use your pop.

Heck, I'd be down for it, I need PW atma too.

Also, there's a difference between competition and frustration.

Urgh so nothing great in carbuncle? That's just annoying, more competition in WoE, and of course abyssea.

[takito09]

So how many ppl does Shiva has on jp an na prime time ? ( thanks in advance for the answer)

[Julian]

I was describing Odin...

[Jaxzer]

FFXI_EN: We're well aware of the congestion in parts of Abyssea and will be implementing countermeasures in the next major version update. #FFXI

Lol that was quick

[Darkmoon]

Good idea, for the LS's I listed.... websites are below.

Grudge: http://grudge.guildwork.com/

Wipe: http://wipe.guildwork.com/

misery's company: www.miseryscompany.net

Black Lotus: http://blacklotus.guildwork.com/ (From what I have been told BL's apps have been closed for months/ a year or so due to a Higher than thou / We don't cheat/bot/ 3rd party tools attitude)

I run Blacklotus (Silian is name on Uni), and Hova is right on most points. We have been basically closed to recruiting for closer to 2 years, this is mainly due to the very low turnover we have had, and ever since Abyssea has come out we didn't feel there was any advantages to adding new members, we still run with an active 24~ members. This makes event nights some nights very crowded we split up and do multiple things, but adding to that mix seems bad. We do run a no bot/cheat attitude call us backwards, but we just never felt the need to we didn't do ground back in those days we opted for Einherjar etc. Id say the "Higher then thou" attitude would be a little off the mark, we generaly try to work with all the other shells out there to not have claim wars on zones/mobs etc, if some shell has 5 more Sobeks to pop we would perfer to go farm other stuff then get in a poping war. I'm pretty sure I activly talk with most all leaders on the server and am on for the most part a Civil to friendly relationship with all of them. Don't get me wrong there are a few groups/people that we don't work with/give a shit about, but usualy takes an extream dick over to get to that point.

Not exactly excited about this merge, going to be on a server with 2x-2.5x the population, when its already ugly to try to get shit done in Abyssea doesn't seem very fun. Hopefully they release some new content soon that will help disperse some of the population around the server more.

[Eleven19]

FFXI_EN: We're well aware of the congestion in parts of Abyssea and will be implementing countermeasures in the next major version update. #FFXI

Lol that was quick

Yeah definitely feeling.. a little bit more optimistic about this now. I love that this new team reacts to the playerbase's feelings.

Edit: Hi Sil lol.

[Julian]

FFXI_EN: We're well aware of the congestion in parts of Abyssea and will be implementing countermeasures in the next major version update. #FFXI

Lol that was quick

Really curious to see what these "countermeasures" are. I have a feeling they probably wont be enough, but seeing as how this is the first "fuck up" they have made in a while, I guess I'll just give them the benefit of the doubt ;(

[Kaslo]

Carbuncle is 80% JP, 15% retarded NA, 5% good player.

We have more full perle/aurore/teal people than you can handle!

So sad and true... At least I should finish Guku tonight (need 9 skins, have 4 ki already), but we have 2 more people to do...

[Kaslo]

FFXI_EN: We're well aware of the congestion in parts of Abyssea and will be implementing countermeasures in the next major version update. #FFXI

Lol that was quick

Incoming 5 min respawn gukus >.>

[Isiolia]

Don't even suggest joining a "good" Linkshell. They don't exist on Asura. Its either full of Egotistical asshats with superiority complexes cause they run a linkshell, Dumbasshats, or just Asshats. There are no good Linkshells left in FFXI that are Recruiting

There are linkshells on Asura? I was under the impression people just shouted for hours until they had a full alliance, and then reserved anything remotely of value.

[Darkmoon]

Edit: Hi Sil lol.

Howdy, Guess it takes a server merge to get me off my lazy ass and post on BG again
I hope the counter measures are in the form of timed pop NMs being on a 1-5 min timer, and maybe allowing multiple poped NMs to be poped at once?

Honestly fix the god damn max Boxes per zone shit. nothing worse then Charged Whisker burning 20-30 mobs to see only 1 ruby and nothing else load since all the Blue and Gold Boxes are capped in the zone due to people not opening them fast enought or just letting unwanted boxes sit...

[Necronus]

So since Phoenix is one of the destination worlds I don't need to worry about my name because Phoenix isn't going poof right?

correct

[NynJa]

Honestly fix the god damn max Boxes per zone shit. nothing worse then Charged Whisker burning 20-30 mobs to see only 1 ruby and nothing else load since all the Blue and Gold Boxes are capped in the zone due to people not opening them fast enought or just letting unwanted boxes sit...

I've been meaning to number all the pyxis in a zone and see how things line up...but are there really X pyxis devoted to red, X to blue and X to gold chests?

[Madeline]

So sad and true... At least I should finish Guku tonight (need 9 skins, have 4 ki already), but we have 2 more people to do...

I'm very thankful I've already finished my empyrean, but my shell has 4 more left to do.

I'm thinking we can do at least 2 of those before this happens. 2 of them are Tahrongi side.

But yeah, best of luck. I can only hope these "countermeasures" involve 5min respawn NMs and ???s that don't go down when the NM is popped. Otherwise, I dunno what they're planning to do that would actually make a difference.

[Mrbeansman]

You know that once they make multiple copies of the same NM pop people will just max out the pops and brew them all with stuff like aeolian edge right?

[Kyte]

Gukumatz just got 10x worse.

Edit: WHAT THE HELL IS SIREN ANYWAYS?!

bwhahaahaha

[Sithel]

I feel for you guys merging, I was in the Midgard > Quetzalcoatl merge and absolutely hate it. Just about every NM you can think of has someone on it. I'm sure it will make some rage quit. With our server merged it made a lot of assholes here. A lot of ninja popping ??? pops. Have fun!

[Eleven19]

Howdy, Guess it takes a server merge to get me off my lazy ass and post on BG again
I hope the counter measures are in the form of timed pop NMs being on a 1-5 min timer, and maybe allowing multiple poped NMs to be poped at once?

Yeah. Tbh I don't think Guk etc on 1 minute would help that much. I think they'd have to make every NM pop item and ??? and allow multiple NM's up yeah.

Honestly fix the god damn max Boxes per zone shit. nothing worse then Charged Whisker burning 20-30 mobs to see only 1 ruby and nothing else load since all the Blue and Gold Boxes are capped in the zone due to people not opening them fast enought or just letting unwanted boxes sit...

Now that I was never privy to. Good info to have tho.