Dev Tracker: Discussion

[Isiolia]

They might have something on Friday.... If only for the login campaign... But... Who knows.
Golden Week!!

You can look back a year on the Playonline site and see that Golden Week didn't halt the flow of information a year ago. I mean, it's a logical reason and all, but we're also talking about stuff they'd likely have had planned out for a bit at this point, and could have prepped the announcements for last week.
Historically, we'd probably be seeing Anniversary event stuff, bonanza, etc that'd be really basic announcements to throw out there too. Login Campaign just stands out in that, unless they're just not doing it, the start date has been very consistent. Starts on the 10th, runs to the 2nd, and has done so every time, far as I recall. Even when that meant starting on the weekend.

[Treize Kordero]

Oh I keep forgetting about golden week.. I was wondering why last week my anime and manga didn't drop... LOL sheeeeiiiiiiiittttttt

[Trigun]

Maybe its just something weird with my pc.

[enoch]

Maybe its just something weird with my pc.

Nah, I get the same thing. When I'm not logged in with a Google/YT cookie, it asks me to sign in to watch the vid. When I sign in I get that it's private. Maybe some kind of geofencing based on IP or some other artificial limitation.

[Lonoha]

Hate that long silence... SE needs to keep talking to us. Let us know what's going on.

Honey what's going on? Honey, are you mad? Talk to me honey that silence is killing me

[Trumpy]

YOU'RE TEARING THIS FAMILY APART!

[Toth]

There we go haha. The second floor Mog House additions look fantastic.

[Damane]

There we go haha. The second floor Mog House additions look fantastic.

i beg pardon? they might just as well added only the mogsafe II, not that i stay alot in moghouse ecxept when changing jobs

[dasva]

i beg pardon? they might just as well added only the mogsafe II, not that i stay alot in moghouse ecxept when changing jobs

Some people really like to play sims in their mog house

[Kincard]

Myself and a couple I know do like screwing with the mog house decorations, it was just always kind of annoying how the form was connected to function, although these days inventory space is much less of an issue than it was back when it was important to maximize everything out of your 3 storage options (Safe, Storage, Locker). I've spent a great deal of time decorating my Free Company's house in FFXIV- actually I bought like 90% of the house itself, lol.

Being able to decorate the middle of the room is great. If this came out a few years ago I would've loved it. Better late than never though, I suppose.

[Marootsoobutsu]

Myself and a couple I know do like screwing with the mog house decorations, it was just always kind of annoying how the form was connected to function, although these days inventory space is much less of an issue than it was back when it was important to maximize everything out of your 3 storage options (Safe, Storage, Locker). I've spent a great deal of time decorating my Free Company's house in FFXIV- actually I bought like 90% of the house itself, lol.

Being able to decorate the middle of the room is great. If this came out a few years ago I would've loved it. Better late than never though, I suppose.

One of the few things I wish XI had that XIV has is the free company house. The Free Company thing in general would be great.

[enoch]

I like MH decorations enough to consider going back and doing Pankration content for the trophy... but I'm severely disappointed (though not at all shocked) that they didn't take the opportunity to give us the ability to add a second mega-moglification. Switching MH around from Cooking to Fishing is a pain in the ass and makes me want to do neither - so I end up leaving Cooking up all the time. Bleh.

[dasva]

I like MH decorations enough to consider going back and doing Pankration content for the trophy...

Wait how do you even get those? Because I used to do this a lot back in the day and managed to have a champion that lasted over a week before being defeated and never got a trophy

[enoch]

Wait how do you even get those?

No clue. Not a lot of info out there. Apparently you have to win the diablo circuit and then talk to some NPC? On Phoenix the Pankration champ is a Mimic that's won the last 3800+ matches (probably because no one but npc's does this shit anymore). I'm going to try to knock it out with a Dark Elemental. We'll see how it goes.

The other furnishing I'm still banging my head against a wall trying to get is the trophy from the Chocobo Dream Race against Sakura. My chocobo is maxed, and it seems all down to luck. I always seem to come in second place with a speed apple, and any other item seems to get me 4th or lower. Bleh.

Don't get me wrong, I'm excited about the MH changes, just wish they'd listened to my feedback (ha!) about the mega-moglification thing.

[dasva]

Yeah I had a lot of wins under my belt... had a chigoe with like 3 different speed enhancements and enterror. Pretty much beat anything that didn't resist a lot AND have phalanx. And even then I could generally time them out with terror lock.

The help text on it says from a 1st/2nd in tournament... Diablo isn't what you'd really call a tournament so maybe they just never implemented the way to get them?

[enoch]

maybe they just never implemented the way to get them?

That would be a big sad face, but again, it wouldn't surprise me because it'd fit with SE's modus operandi of continually letting us down. A google image search didn't yield any pictures of the thing actually sitting in someone's MH. I'm not sure I have the heart to ask on the official forums, only to be ignored.

edit: couldn't resist: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...l=1#post548704

[Byrthnoth]

The Pankration string table .dats show that the system was designed to have a tremendous amount of depth. It got canned because the initial response (to SE using it as a lame gating mechanism for ZNM) was so negative. They probably just never implemented them.

[dasva]

Yeah I seem to remember them hyping it a lot and making it sound like they would do a lot for it. Sad kinda wish I had a prize for all the time I wasted in pankration

[Byrthnoth]

11491: Currently, we are holding a Pankration tournament.≺Prompt≻
11492: The rules are simple--only the winners of their respective battles advance to the next fight, with the final monster standing declared the victor.≺Prompt≻

^ Have you guys ever seen this?


I think this was the default for every cage?

Currently, we are conducting versus battles.≺Prompt≻
These are basic matches pitting one monster against another, with the winner taking all.≺Prompt≻
If you apply as a two-person party, you will be able to reserve a registration slot for him or her, ensuring that your monster will be pit against that of your party member.≺Prompt≻

I don't remember this ever happening:

Currently, we are conducting group battles.≺Prompt≻
Group battles are three-on-three melees which require adventurers to register small parties of monsters to fight in the Pit.≺Prompt≻

I don't see any reward dialogue that would actually hand the furniture over, though. It's possible that it's just part of the pankration stub that got dropped.

[dasva]

I don't think I've seen anything about a tournament but honestly it's been so long I forget. As far as group battles I know that definitely never happened which is sad because that sounds awesome as shit