Announcing the World Merge(3/1/2011)

[NynJa]

886 Gilgamesh, and it seems theyre all in fucking Altepa spamming for Dragua's ???...not the KI, just the ??? to load Dragua. Fuckhead JP's WATCHING me brew them down, and they still rush to pop Dragua over me. Theyre too fucking cheap to brew their own so I'm stuck here watching them take 20 minutes per kill.

[22:18:51]Vermy : good job rushing to pop a 15 minute kill
Thats when these scrubs popped it. Its been over 10 minutes (10:30 now), and its at 50%, with a fucking scorp harness Vere mnk tanking it.


I cant WAIT till SE INCREASES competition for this garbage, when its already bogged down as is.

[Pikarya]

You sound very angry sir/madam.

[Julian]

And you're right on. All the good people stopped meriting/seal farming/whatever, so now in pick up groups you just get guys like Mikeyco and Lei. I stopped doing anything in a pick up forever ago.

Oh my god this is so fucking true. I hate Mikeyco, that guy is such a shitty fucking tool, can't play, and has the stupidest fucking gear. I'm so glad I don't have to bother with pickup alliance exps anymore.

[ryskar]

There's more I could name but I just figured I'd throw it some examples, haha. I usually don't say anything unless people are really, really, really bad, so bad that they leave that sort of impression.

Had a full AF1 drg in abyssea - altep a few months ago, didn't know those still existed.

[Tomiko]

Heh, mitra. I remember that too.

/wave Tomi

How's Ramuh treating ya these days?

Make me miss the old days of KI.

Doing pretty good, I'm in a more casual ls these days.

Anyone on ramuh to watch out for? Retarded linkshells etc?

Watch out for me!

[Iremire]

Wanna hang out when I get to phoenix Iremire?

Oh you know I am

[Yugl]

Siren is very JP dominated, Gukumatz/Amun/etc are only really overcamped during JP hours and in NA time there's been many occasions where nobody is killing them.
How is it with Diabolos? anyone to watch out for?

Our server has tons of noobs and noob shells. I think there are probably 2-3 good shells and that's only judging by gear they *can* obtain (not that they make good selections for sets). As for people to watch out for, consider searching Dankdragon's posts. If those bring about hatred, you won't like him in-game either. As mentioned earlier, noobs are plentiful, so hopefully Siren does something to fix that. Diabolos JP population is strong, but it has a lot of stupid people as well.

Edit: I haven't touched Einherjar forever either.

OH GOSH MY SIGNATURES GOING TO BE FACTUALLY INCORRECT.

[NynJa]

You sound very angry sir/madam.

After spending time building lights, and getting 3 dragon ear KI's, I head to Dragua to find scrubs spending 20 minutes killing it (this I'm tolerant towards, but its scrubby considering Dragua's a huge cockblock atm and everyone wants it). When I manage to pop it, they WATCH me brew it down in about 30 seconds, then resume spamming on the ??? to get their 20 minute pops in. Yeah, I was angry, you're very perceptive.

[Guitarman]

After spending time building lights, and getting 3 dragon ear KI's, I head to Dragua to find scrubs spending 20 minutes killing it (this I'm tolerant towards, but its scrubby considering Dragua's a huge cockblock atm and everyone wants it). When I manage to pop it, they WATCH me brew it down in about 30 seconds, then resume spamming on the ??? to get their 20 minute pops in. Yeah, I was angry, you're very perceptive.

Anger is watching a full aurore dnc solo a NM you need in the span of 30+ minutes. And will they accept help just so they can be done quicker? oh no.

[Fievel]

Anger is watching a full aurore dnc solo a NM you need in the span of 30+ minutes. And will they accept help just so they can be done quicker? oh no.

they NEVER take help

NEVER NEVER NEVER

[Alvein]

From a purely holistic perspective, high server population is great when you have a wide variety of equivalent events with great rewards to participate in. This game had that a few years ago for 75s, around midway through the TOAU era there was Dynamis, Limbus, Einherjar, Nyzul Isle, Assault, KSNM, ENM, Missions, etc.
Unfortunately with the release of the level cap, most of those have become obsolete purely because Abyssea is an efficient way to acquire more rewards in a more efficient way. What they need is a way to distribute the players throughout the server like they used to do automatically, because there were rewards to be had.

[Cesaria]

Had a full AF1 drg in abyssea - altep a few months ago, didn't know those still existed.

Oh we had one in level 30 merc cpt. gear recently... but it was ok cos he had super awesome gear to ding into... full set of white shiny perle.

As a comparison from one of the previously merged servers - Quetz is currently 1600 online at 8am UK, so late night NA/mid afternoonish JP I believe... was about 2k online during EU evening last night when I looked (did a sea about 5pm last night - so noon EST and I think 2AM JP time).

Still had only 12 people in Attowha yesterday evening - which was nice for us not to be annoyed by idiots for once.

[Cesaria]

From a purely holistic perspective, high server population is great when you have a wide variety of equivalent events with great rewards to participate in. This game had that a few years ago for 75s, around midway through the TOAU era there was Dynamis, Limbus, Einherjar, Nyzul Isle, Assault, KSNM, ENM, Missions, etc.
Unfortunately with the release of the level cap, most of those have become obsolete purely because Abyssea is an efficient way to acquire more rewards in a more efficient way. What they need is a way to distribute the players throughout the server like they used to do automatically, because there were rewards to be had.

The problem is the move, like you say, from the higher numbers required for stuff like Dynamis, into the lower body-intensive stuff... essentially all these LSes of 25 members have fragmented into groups of 4-5 or so low manning stuff, so there either is a need for more "stuff" to go around or be done, or a lower population to be able to access the aforementioned "stuff". So rather than 2 alliances and about 30 people trying to get the dynamis trail markings and 15 of them being pissed off, you've replaced it with the same 30 people in, say 7 or 8 low-ish-man groups all trying to get Gulkamatz to progress with empyreans/+2s and about 25 of them being pissed off (and I'm only using the numbers 4 or 5 man groups as a generalization - I KNOW they're lowermannable but you get what I mean).

[Jex]

Anger is watching a full aurore dnc solo a NM you need in the span of 30+ minutes. And will they accept help just so they can be done quicker? oh no.

they NEVER take help

NEVER NEVER NEVER

And here I thought it was just my server... It's like, What the fuck are you trying to prove? That you can solo an NM and cock block ppl who actually have productive shit to do? Only to live by like 5% health? FUCK THAT GRINDS MY FUCKING GEARS....

Question: Is it me? Or does it seem like that no matter what the fuck NM is it will go ape shit on them and get the dnc to like 5% HP and then just sit there with its thumb up its ass doing nothing till the dnc has the chance to heal it self and have a fucking quick bite to eat. /rant

[Shenrien]

Question: Is it me? Or does it seem like that no matter what the fuck NM is it will go ape shit on them and get the dnc to like 5% HP and then just sit there with its thumb up its ass doing nothing till the dnc has the chance to heal it self and have a fucking quick bite to eat. /rant

Murphey's Law.

[Afrohatch]

sweet i made a friend already

[Xanthe]

@Sho: If Carbuncle wasn't also getting merged, I'd probably consider moving back I don't think there are that many oldschool people on Carby left that still remember me, or actually even like me, lol. I'm pretty sure I got on nearly everyone's bad side in at least one point in time. But then again, I don't really have too many friends on Odin either, but I'm kinda stuck here for reasons I don't want to get into.

I'm old school, still playing, and I remember you, but I don't like you. Three out of four isn't bad!

[Afrohatch]

886 Gilgamesh, and it seems theyre all in fucking Altepa spamming for Dragua's ???...not the KI, just the ??? to load Dragua. Fuckhead JP's WATCHING me brew them down, and they still rush to pop Dragua over me. Theyre too fucking cheap to brew their own so I'm stuck here watching them take 20 minutes per kill.

[22:18:51]Vermy : good job rushing to pop a 15 minute kill
Thats when these scrubs popped it. Its been over 10 minutes (10:30 now), and its at 50%, with a fucking scorp harness Vere mnk tanking it.


I cant WAIT till SE INCREASES competition for this garbage, when its already bogged down as is.

From SE's Twatter page:

We’re well aware of the congestion in parts of Abyssea and will be implementing countermeasures in the next major version update.

Not sure what this means, because an even lower respawn time isn't really going to help anything ;x Unless they plan to add Guku/Heqet/etc's respective KIs to gold chests, which I'm sure would help a bit

[NynJa]

Not sure what this means, because an even lower respawn time isn't really going to help anything ;x Unless they plan to add Guku/Heqet/etc's respective KIs to gold chests, which I'm sure would help a bit

It would help a bit, untill theres 300 people per area trying to cleave, and then this happens:

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...

[Hanyoko]

Few things for the timed pop KI that come to mind for possible adjustments:
1) NM is 100% and the fodder have a chance to give KI
2) NM gives KI to whole party/alliance
3) gold boxes

Really one thing I wish would have happened with the KI from gold is that you have a chance to get any KI but have increased chances of getting the ones for the nearby NM (example for attowah: fleas/campa/crawlers would pour out mothra pops; worms, cocks, efts, hecteyes pour out sandworm KI; bones,ghosts,dogs,antlion,etc pour out corse).