Dev Tracker: Discussion

[Spira]

im personally a bit sick of the log in campaign thing. Admittedly it does work to get people to log in daily, enough for some to start playing more and all, but is more chore than enjoyable. I didn't like that they put exclusives behind login points.. but thats just me.

I'd say the problem with the login campaign is that it is asynchronous with the flavor content of the month/update. in other words, whatever that is new and exciting to do in game cannot be done just by logging in. The AA battles in particular require merit points (which are still a bit high imo) which, while relatively easy to obtain, isn't new and more many, isn't fun. you can't jump into the new content straight away - this can be alleviated if you could stockpile for it.. like say gather seals for orbs that you can exchange. With merits points you can only hold the KI + 1.5x worth of it in merit points. I'd say 5 merit points per KI is more reasonable, and with Kam'lanaut coming up, maybe 10 for the newer one.

as for SoA.. i can't believe how fast time flies. its almost 1 year into SoA... and i think its pretty decent as far as expansions run - better than WotG imo. They thought through a tiered release of battle content much better this time than ever before.. (even tho there are some kinks). At this point people know to expect more Skirmish and more Delve - and actually look forward to it (the latter). but what else is there that we don't know of ?

[dasva]

personally the log in thing actually kills my drive to do anything else or actually play. Spend so much time logging and using points and such. And it's almost like why bother when next log in I can just get stuff from logging

[Ligray]

Matsui here.

While there are space issues when it comes to adding parameters such as accuracy to the current UI, it would be possible to address this by checking with a special NPC or by adding a new text command.

We would like to look into displaying information for right hand accuracy, left hand accuracy, evasion, ranged accuracy, ranged attack, magic accuracy, and magic evasion moving forward.

About time...

[NynJa]

I'm okay with this...even if its not displayed in the GUI, the fact it WILL be accessible I'm ok with.

[ronin sparthos]

Whatever endgame Seekers is supposed to release, the missing wyrms, final Naakual battlefield, Hades, that huge amount of area in Rala yet to be utilized.

[Draylo]

You do realize you don't have to spend log in points or bother with the whole campaign?

[NynJa]

What are you talking about? You HAVE to, its released content, you have to participate in EVERYTHING SE releases for FFXI, surely these people all have multiple lv50 pankrations, full sets of salvage+1 armor, garrison clears, all 20 ballista and brenner titles, full neo-limbus sets, full monthly event gear for the whole year, 3 stars in all sauro and batallia meebles events...

[pancakesandsex]

Whatever endgame Seekers is supposed to release, the missing wyrms, final Naakual battlefield, Hades, that huge amount of area in Rala yet to be utilized.

Maybe skirmish III is just Rala II Cirdas II Yorcia II

[dasva]

You do realize you don't have to spend log in points or bother with the whole campaign?

Feels like such a waste to not get free stuff though lol.


And that more display info thing is interesting... guess it's time to hold off testing to see what we get since it will likely make future testing much much easier

[Tarage]

"How dare SE give me free stuff that requires 5 seconds of my time. I hate them."

[Xantavia]

What are you talking about? You HAVE to, its released content, you have to participate in EVERYTHING SE releases for FFXI, surely these people all have multiple lv50 pankrations, full sets of salvage+1 armor, garrison clears, all 20 ballista and brenner titles, full neo-limbus sets, full monthly event gear for the whole year, 3 stars in all sauro and batallia meebles events...

And then you people like the guy on the OF who feels it is a huge drag to play through CoP for limbus access to upgrade AF. He can't enjoy the game until he has all the gears first, then he will work on missions and stuff.

[dasva]

CoP was my favorite expansion/missions

[Kincard]

surprised nobody has pointed out how the VU preview pic has Roc in it, probably one of the new Eminence objectives

get to hunt a bunch of old NMs, its like they're redoing trials without actually having trials

[Ophannus]

At 10pts a pop, no reason not to use points on beastmen seals for kraken club bcnm.nthe roc thing reminded me of the Amazing Dale quest. These NMs are always up because they've lost relevance but being 24/h spawns is gonna be a pain to get now

[Kincard]

did they ever change the thing where you have to trade for seals one at a time, because if they didn't i'd rather just buy nothing

(but i'm spending them on shanks anyway)

[Lyramion]

ya got all 450 KCs for last one in 1 go

[Shenrien]

surprised nobody has pointed out how the VU preview pic has Roc in it, probably one of the new Eminence objectives

get to hunt a bunch of old NMs, its like they're redoing trials without actually having trials

Doubtful, they'll probably reduce spawn time of the NMs like they did for a lot of the NMs already, just lower their drop rate and how much gil they give out, and potentially lower how many of whatever item drops, i.e. KA's Damascene and Lumber Jacks Beetle Blood.

[Sechs]

About time...

I don't get that.
If they really cannot display it in the "Equipment" menu, why not create a new menu just like they did for the Currencies one?
"Advanced Stats" with a recap of your current stats, period.
Adding it to an npc or text command would be so annoying...

[Sechs]

Reading on official forums I just realized that in spite of what Matsui said, it's not really an UI problem (they could have made a new specific menu if it were).
It's a packets thing.
That data is probably not sent to the client but stays on the server. To get an exact number you probably need to make a specific request from the client to the server.
Talking to an NPC or writing a text command would probably do the job.

If this is how things are I wonder why they couldn't just say it instead of using the "It's an UI issue". How are we supposed to trust their replies if they keep saying bullshit?

[Fwahm]

A packet problem would be a UI problem if it caused problems displaying stats on command.