Dev Tracker: Discussion (Old)

[Kincard]

128 bits including 0, I guess?

As far as the synergy scrapping in sky goes, I definately remember wishing I could've done that when I was going augment-crazy on my Haidate. I would farm up several sets of Byakko, but I'd have to warp back to town and synth my pants in between kills. It really made me waste a lot of time.

[Draylo]

Wow the timer reduction is awesome.

[Byrthnoth]

I was almost entirely certain that Slow/Elegy had an effect on the delay between Ironclad attacks. Still a nice change to make though. It'll make me prefer RDM to WHM as our Legion's 18th man.

[Kincard]

Do Ironclads have varied delay based on the type of attack they use? It's probably just me eyeballing/crazy imagination but sometimes I see Ironclads pause their attacks for a lengthy period of time. I'm not sure if this is just me thinking that that's the case due to the varied animation length for the different attacks.

[Byrthnoth]

I think the time between the start of each of their attack rounds is constant but some of the animations take longer, so if you judge by the end -> start it looks variable. Still, I seem to remember proccing Shinryu/Ironclads was much easier when they had Slow/Elegy on. I could be wrong though, considering I procced my last Ironclad about a year ago now.


Also, an interesting side-note from this note is that it means they could make a version of Paralyze that also affects TP moves.

[Slycer]

Slycer probably won't translate this since it's just a summary of the past week's updates, but the JP post here has a line that states that Matsui plays a Taru under the link to his response about Taru stats. Just figured some people might find that fact amusing.

Proceed to psychoanalyze the guy based on what race he plays, etc.

Actually I was looking at it. Typically those posts have some interesting/colorful remarks from individual developers.

Anyway, there was a reference to the old haiku contest post which I forgot about (was a JP only thing). There were some great ones, so I thought I'd share the five winners. I tried to keep the 5-7-5 syllable thing in the English translations so I made adjustments/additions where necessary.

セルビナで　ボギーが去るのを　待つ一夜

Serubina de ~ Bogi ga saru no o ~ Matsu hitoya
Safe in Selbina ~ Until the bogies are gone ~ Waiting overnight

ここ１０年　日記はすでに　攻略本

Koko juunen ~ Nikki wa sude ni ~ Kouryuaku hon
Over these ten years ~ My diary has become ~ A strategy guide

辻レイズ　あなたに憧れ　白あげた

Tsuji reizu** ~ Anata ni akogare ~ Shiro ageta
Passers-by, please help! ~ I'm humbly pleading with you ~ Please raise my white mage!

**((There's no obvious literal translation for this - it's an established JP expression referring to someone kindly raising you from outside your party at no cost. Tsuji means like "crossroad" so would refer to someone just passing by. They also have expressions for tsuji-cure, -haste, -protect, -shell, etc.))

ただいまと　帰れる家が　もうひとつ

Tadaima to ~ Kaereru ie ga ~ Mou hitotsu
And now, once again ~ I'm back home in Vana'diel ~ Yet another time

((I think this one refers to the Return to Vana'diel thing, that the guy keeps quitting and coming back))

And my personal favorite, by far:

ヴァナ友が　何時の間にやら　我が嫁に

Vana tomo ga ~ Itsunomaniyara ~ Waga yome ni
Vana'diel, my friend ~ Before I even realized ~ You became my bride

[Fake]

That Ein change is probably what's going to really make mythics a lot easier, rather than the alexandrite requirement...though, I guess that means say goodbye to any hope that Alexandrites are going to crash in price due to neo salvage.

People aren't just going to suddenly start thinking mythic is easy because eyepatch can be in 1/3 of the time, if you are starting from 0 on all items then nyzul tokens + assault wins would take just as long if not longer than 3 day einherjar eyepatch.

[Alistrianna]

wasn't there supposed to be some annoucement regarding Salvage this week? I really hope it wasn't the reference that Embrava is weaker in there lol

[Kincard]

People aren't just going to suddenly start thinking mythic is easy because eyepatch can be in 1/3 of the time, if you are starting from 0 on all items then nyzul tokens + assault wins would take just as long if not longer than 3 day einherjar eyepatch.

Eh, I dunno, I guess I've met a few people that are super-rich and are basically bottlenecked by just ichors (Wish I was that lucky...lol), so this means a lot more mythics being made from that. A single mythic takes up 30k of the darn things, so even one extra mythic on a server isn't something to scoff at, IMO.

[Zirael]

That all sounds nice, but the synergy part confuses me, not for any real reason, I was just wondering whats so special about the number 127?

2 to the power of 7 minus 1
Information coded in seven bits of data, allowing for 128 states (0 to 127). That's half a byte (256 states).

[Byrthnoth]

Eh, I dunno, I guess I've met a few people that are super-rich and are basically bottlenecked by just ichors (Wish I was that lucky...lol), so this means a lot more mythics being made from that. A single mythic takes up 30k of the darn things, so even one extra mythic on a server isn't something to scoff at, IMO.

I do not know where the gil would come from, but if history is any guide this is how it would be for me. I could buy about half a mythic at current prices, and I bet I could have farmed the other half in less time than the 26 weeks amps would take.

[Fake]

I may be missing something but it should only take 35 odin v1s to get 100k, or 105 days (in a perfect scenario, call it 110 days. There is no reason you can't build up the ichor in under 16 weeks.

Nyzul tokens can obviously be gained at a much faster rate, but you have add 50 days to that for the assault clears. I'm really failing to see how the bottleneck is at ichor when the other requirements would take a similar timeframe to complete.

[Draginhikari]

People aren't just going to suddenly start thinking mythic is easy because eyepatch can be in 1/3 of the time, if you are starting from 0 on all items then nyzul tokens + assault wins would take just as long if not longer than 3 day einherjar eyepatch.

Maybe not, but it is the only one of the mythic processes that at least one can't be done on a daily basis currently. You can still do 1 assault/nyzul per day, you can still do salvage once per day, and you can do ZNMs whenever you want. Though it probably won't drastically increase the desire for mythics as a whole, it does put Ichor back at least on a similar level and less annoying in general.

[Kincard]

I may be missing something but it should only take 35 odin v1s to get 100k, or 105 days (in a perfect scenario, call it 110 days. There is no reason you can't build up the ichor in under 16 weeks.

Nyzul tokens can obviously be gained at a much faster rate, but you have add 50 days to that for the assault clears. I'm really failing to see how the bottleneck is at ichor when the other requirements would take a similar timeframe to complete.

Well, if you want to spam Odin every time, it would cost you and everyone entering 750k each. I'm not so sure you'd want to do that, heh. I believe most people just spam Tier 3 over and over, or possible Tier 2 > Tier 3 > Odin over and over if they want abjurations for whatever reason.

[Dotsudoku]

Excellent bonuses, but I have a feeling that our weapon skills are going to be subject to paralysis now as well- at least for a time.

[Fake]

Maybe not, but it is the only one of the mythic processes that at least one can't be done on a daily basis currently. You can still do 1 assault/nyzul per day, you can still do salvage once per day, and you can do ZNMs whenever you want. Though it probably won't drastically increase the desire for mythics as a whole, it does put Ichor back at least on a similar level and less annoying in general.

No it doesn't put it on a similar level, it already is on that level in terms of time it takes which is the only really relevant point because none of the requirements are 'challenging'.

Well, if you want to spam Odin every time, it would cost you and everyone entering 750k each. I'm not so sure you'd want to do that, heh. I believe most people just spam Tier 3 over and over, or possible Tier 2 > Tier 3 > Odin over and over if they want abjurations for whatever reason.

My server's prices are nowhere near 750k for the 3 valk items, more like ~500k, however if you have such an abudance of gil that you've delt with the alexandrite requirement well ahead of finishing the other requirements it shouldn't be hard to fund 3 chars to triplebox odin, especially considering 2 of them are getting ichor that can then be spent on subsidising the entrance cost.

[Selamis]

Ein time adjustment is really awesome.

[vagus]

The 20hr Einherjar is nice. But still doesn't solve the biggiest issue with a Mythic. 30K Alex.

[Kincard]

My server's prices are nowhere near 750k for the 3 valk items, more like ~500k, however if you have such an abudance of gil that you've delt with the alexandrite requirement well ahead of finishing the other requirements it shouldn't be hard to fund 3 chars to triplebox odin, especially considering 2 of them are getting ichor that can then be spent on subsidising the entrance cost.

You are required to have 6 people to stay in Ein. It's kind of ridiculous to spend that much gil on that stage of the weapon when there's really no need to. Much better just to spam tier 3 over and over.

[Darkmagi]

Some people have much more gil than time. It's actually realistic for some people to do this. You don't have to spend that much either, since mules will be able to spend any ichor gained on feathers. (and other people not upgrading)