Dev Tracker: Discussion

[Isiolia]

Hopefully they're going to do the rainbow style one again. The Login Campaign page has been broken all day it seems - they're linking to the new one from the banner, but it's just not there yet.

[dasva]

I AM LIKE A GOD.

If I pray to you will I get more OP gear?

[Psion]

If I pray to you will I get more OP gear?

obviously!

[Alistrianna]

obviously!

Eff that, killing Psion just so Dasva can't have his way!

[dasva]

obviously!

Praise Psion

[Niiro]

The shield excuse is pretty bad. Just do what XIV does, add a piece of gear with no model which you can then set as a style lock. That way nothing fancy has to be done on the server's side.

There's nothing like this for shields in XIV either.

[Seha]

Incoming flying mounts!

[Ihina]

Sure, let's get on top of that clothes-stripping, mind-controlling, tentacle monster. What could go wrong.

[dasva]

Oh so we can sit on top of the tentacle rape machine but they totally nix my idea of filling mog house with them.

[jacobs67]

They should have tied unlocking mounts to monstrosity so if you have a level 99 monster you get the key item that lets you ride it, at least it would give a purpose to the otherwise abandoned and useless content

[Scythiroth]

I will 100% play again if they add more to Monstrosity. I really enjoyed leveling and unlocking more stuff in it.

[Rosalie]

Or even if they tied Monster Rearing to Monstrosity/Mounts, like unlock the monster soul or if you have its memento or something simple like that.

I find it kind of odd that they don't have saddles for the mounts, but I guess they don't have the resources for that.

[dasva]

A queue for entering ambuscade? Not bad idea. Kind of wondered why they haven't done it before. Interesting about the rewards though... sounds like they aren't getting rid of some just added more each month? Kinda makes me not want to do the event at all then until way later since points reset unless they plan on discontinuing the capes

[JeanPaul]

The shield excuse is pretty bad. Just do what XIV does, add a piece of gear with no model which you can then set as a style lock. That way nothing fancy has to be done on the server's side.

There's a way to hide shields using lockstyle, though I don't think it was intentional. All you have to do is use a 2-handed weapon and a grip in the main/sub slots of the lockstyle set. The shield will be invisible when you equip it.

[Kincard]

The digest for the 25th Freshly Picked was posted, but there's really not much to say.

The display for food stats on help text is planned to be prioritized for popular foods like sushi and the foods from the Curio Vendors.

Next Mount looks to be Bomb.

FFXI ~if~ said that Siren was originally intended to be a summon introduced at the end of Adoulin, but since they were busy with Rhapsodies, that didn't happen. They decided to implement Cait Sith and Atomos instead. (Which doesn't make any sense to me since IIRC Cait Sith/Atomos had been promised for a long time before that)

Weird bit of lore for Ghalcimus D. Adoulin (Arciela's father)- when he disappeared in 879 CE, he journeyed out with the Order of Adoulin and was caught in some unknown event which sent him into the past. Here, he gained fame as a mercenary known as Duskraven. The Duskraiders who followed him are the knights of the Order of Adoulin. During the development of WOTG, originally they had this idea for 12 Knights known as the Zodiac Soldiers who would be available as recruitable guest NPCs. Ultimately they were only able to implement Duskraven- later, they took that same idea of 12 people and from that created the 12 Orders of Adoulin.

[Seha]

Wow that Duskraven tidbit is canon? That's pretty cool.
I mean yeah fuck paradoxes.

[Julian]

Did they forget that they already removed the restriction on the other salvage zones? What a terrible canned response.

[NynJa]

Did they forget that they already removed the restriction on the other salvage zones? What a terrible canned response.

Huh?
They removed the once per day for all areas, then arra kept crashing cause everyone was doing it cause it was so easy. So they reimposed the restriction there.

Irony is that SS is easier and faster than arran.

[Ophannus]

Assumig Duskraven didn't die during the Shadowreign period, he could have met Arciela? Also, I would think a noble of the Adoulin house would be familiar with the events of the Crystal War. He diaappeared in 879 and the war was in 864.

[dasva]

Those pup questions were funny... like as the dev said it already goes to 5 minutes. And faster recasting on those jas wont really do much. Pup could use some help here and there but those requests aren't really problem areas. Yay at getting new mantles next month