Not a Temporary Questions Thread

[Buffy]

It's probably based in logic and some knowledge of programming, but from my memory, SE has said repeatedly that the issue is the PS2 doesn't have the memory to load more than 160 items at once, which is what happens when you have both inventory and something else open to move stuff around.

Edit: We're also dealing with legacy code that originated FIFTEEN years ago at this point for a PS2, ported to a PC, ported to Xbox.....

Half the time I'm surprised the game boots up.

[Kohan]

Hopefully that also means the Spam section is getting closed.

Don't worry—the best forum of all the forums isn't going anywhere.

Is this anywhere close to real or just the wet dream of someone who doesn't have a clue how these things work?

It's not unrealistic, but as SE has noted, this would affect your loading time in all zones. As such, they're cautious about implementation. They didn't say it's not possible—they simply voiced their understandable concern about extending loading times. (Personally, I'd take a longer loading time for more inventory space.)

Edit: We're also dealing with legacy code that originated FIFTEEN years ago at this point for a PS2, ported to a PC, ported to Xbox.....

Half the time I'm surprised the game boots up.

Rather than be surprised, I'm impressed. For all of the flak it gets about supposed "spaghetti code"—largely from people who don't actually code video games, I'd wager—FFXI is, software-wise, easily the most stable MMORPG I've ever played. I make fun of little things here and there (e.g., the item descriptions' text exceeding the box boundaries), but I've always considered it quite an accomplishment.

[Kaisha]

It's a shame the inventory couldn't be loaded in stages, eg. On-hand inventory -> Satchel/Sack -> The rest. Would make their loading excuse less moot, and how often do you need access to your inventory 10 seconds after zoning? Besides oils/powders which you can use via macros before they're shown in your inventory anyways...

[Terravcota]

Did yesterday's maint fix:

"An issue wherein the amount of experience points obtained by players was occasionally incorrect."

Actually change anything in Dyna for iLevel or is it still gimp shit? =(

[Fwahm]

It's fixed.

[Sechs]

but as SE has noted, this would affect your loading time in all zones.

Would it?
What does affect the loading times in zones? The fact that you have a repository with "X" slots, or just the slots with items?
For instance: would a character with 5 overall items load faster than a character with 480?
If it's only the "used space" then you have quite a valid point, if instead it's just "number of overall slots" it wouldn't make a difference, because there would be ~130 slots for each repository anyway, no matter if you use those additional 40-50 slots or not.
(supposing this guy is right, I'm leaning to think he has no clue)

(Personally, I'd take a longer loading time for more inventory space.)

I dunno. I'd like to say I don't care either, but it kinda depends on the difference. Are we talking about fraction of seconds? Couple of seconds? 30 seconds?
It changes a lot.
They could just make so you cannot access (from the "View safe" menu) repositories that you cannot access, making so they load only when you're in your MH.
Unless this would require too "radical" changes to the code of the game and they are unable to allocate the necessary resources to do it.

[Kohan]

Would it?

Yes. They've specifically stated as much a few times. Here's one example: http://www.bluegartr.com/threads/112...=1#post5803342

I dunno. I'd like to say I don't care either, but it kinda depends on the difference. Are we talking about fraction of seconds? Couple of seconds? 30 seconds?

I'd accept any of those. I understand that plenty of people wouldn't want the thirty seconds option, but I wouldn't mind. I doubt it would be that much, though. Probably five or less.

[Bail]

Don't worry—the best forum of all the forums isn't going anywhere.

I'm happy with the forum changes! I was crushed when I didn't see the ffxi linkshell board at first though....I thought I had lost my ForceOfWill thread forever

[Sonomaa]

we are dismantling the random question threads
we are NOT making a new Q and Q section, yugl is drunk and not paying attention. refer to isladars thread
ie: if you have a question, make a thread and ask it, add as much detail as possible, dont be dumb

[Ragns]

After seeing how the XI forum section is going down the drain as XIV release is getting closer it was decided that this forum will serve as Q&A section too.

tl;dr: Feel free to make new threads for your questions in the FFXI: Everything section.