FINAL FANTASY XI Update (May. 24)

[Koyangi]

Can Beseiged mobs be slept? Maybe the only way to win now is going to be to have a horde of BLMs sleeping the shit out of everything, and have the entire zone gang up on 1 mob at a time.

Never could be slept.

[Septimus]

From:FINAL FANTASY XI
May 24, 2006 05:15 [PDT]

FINAL FANTASY XI Update (May. 24)

At the following time we have performed a version update of FINAL FANTASY XI.

[Affected Period]
May 24, 2006 4:00 (PDT)

[Affected Services]
FINAL FANTASY XI

It has come to our attention that several errors have caused the Treasures of Aht Urhgan expansion to have enjoyable content. The Chains of Promethia team has corrected these errors.

[Important Update Details]
-Players who fall in battle during Besieged will now lose Experience Points and will no longer be affected by the raise spell.

-While under the effect of Sanction you will earn half of the Experience Points that you would normally receive.

-When the Astral Candescence is in a beastman stronghold, players will now receive an effect that reduces their XP like the spell poison.

-All Chigoe type monsters are now true sight and can use the spell "Meteor" and the ability "Doom".

-The areas around Al Zahbi now level cap players at 10. Monster strength has not been adjusted, but may be lowered slightly in future updates.

-A new fish ranking system has been put in place where you trade rare fish to gate guards in Aht Urhgan for Imperial Standing.

We apologize for making enjoyable content and look forward to new methods of inconveniencing you in the future.

Fixed.

[Rocl]

From:FINAL FANTASY XI
May 24, 2006 05:15 [PDT]

FINAL FANTASY XI Update (May. 24)

At the following time we have performed a version update of FINAL FANTASY XI.

[Affected Period]
May 24, 2006 4:00 (PDT)

[Affected Services]
FINAL FANTASY XI

It has come to our attention that several errors have caused the Treasures of Aht Urhgan expansion to have enjoyable content. The Chains of Promethia team has corrected these errors.

[Important Update Details]
-Players who fall in battle during Besieged will now lose Experience Points and will no longer be affected by the raise spell.

-While under the effect of Sanction you will earn half of the Experience Points that you would normally receive.

-When the Astral Candescence is in a beastman stronghold, players will now receive an effect that reduces their XP like the spell poison.

-All Chigoe type monsters are now true sight and can use the spell "Meteor" and the ability "Doom".

-The areas around Al Zahbi now level cap players at 10. Monster strength has not been adjusted, but may be lowered slightly in future updates.

-A new fish ranking system has been put in place where you trade rare fish to gate guards in Aht Urhgan for Imperial Standing.

We apologize for making enjoyable content and look forward to new methods of inconveniencing you in the future.

Fixed.

OMG NICE! CoP Director returned. I'm so over-joyed.

[Dezzimal]

The honeymoon is over. Just when you thought SE could do something right they're starting to screw it all to hell again...

[NynJa]

Where the fuck do I sell these Black Soles

[aurik]

Wait, what's wrong with this update that has people bitching about it?

1) They lowered the AH taxes in Jeuno+Nashmau+Tav
2) They lowered the bazaar taxes in Jeuno
3) They fixed the problem of Zahbi overflowing by shunting you to Whitegate instead of simply resetting your connection.
4) They tweaked the mob AI in beseiged, yet to be determined exactly how
5) They fixed a bug with IS/XP calculation in beseiged
6) They removed debug messages

Looks all good to me.

[layoneil]

nothing, people are just PMSing.

[Eternus]

Where is the AF for the new jobs? How about the chocobo circuit, new pvp, etc? We getting some new missions any time soon? God forbid SE release a expansion as a finished product. We knew ahead of time at least on this expansion it was going to be incremental, does not mean that it isn't bullshit.

[layoneil]

Where is the AF for the new jobs? How about the chocobo circuit, new pvp, etc? We getting some new missions any time soon? God forbid SE release a expansion as a finished product. We knew ahead of time at least on this expansion it was going to be incremental, does not mean that it isn't bullshit.

quit than. the next real patch is in June.

[Khamsin]

I have this feeling that if, due to this update, we lost the Astral Candescence while I was at work, it would be back in Al Zahbi by the time I got home.

Hell, it'll be back in Al Zahbi before most people realize it was missing.

[NynJa]

Wait, what's wrong with this update that has people bitching about it?

The Al Zhabi AH, which is supposed to be the cheap method to get shit on the Jeuno AH, was changed to be more expensive than the Jeuno AH.

[Septimus]

Wait, what's wrong with this update that has people bitching about it?

1) They lowered the AH taxes in Jeuno+Nashmau+Tav
2) They lowered the bazaar taxes in Jeuno
3) They fixed the problem of Zahbi overflowing by shunting you to Whitegate instead of simply resetting your connection.
4) They tweaked the mob AI in beseiged, yet to be determined exactly how
5) They fixed a bug with IS/XP calculation in beseiged
6) They removed debug messages

Looks all good to me.

1) They raised the price of the Auction House in Al Zahbi.
2) People will still be in the Rolanberry Mall.
3) Al Zahbi is still going to be filled with AFK assholes kicking people out of the zone who want to participate in Besieged.
4) It will be hilarious when Bhoots start Perditioning the all over the Generals' faces and win in less than 2 minutes.
5) I thought they fixed that already.
6) Well, OK, no down side to that.

Every silver lining has a dark, fluffy cloud around it, and I am just the guy to find it for you.

[Kurp]

Wait, what's wrong with this update that has people bitching about it?

The Al Zhabi AH, which is supposed to be the cheap method to get shit on the Jeuno AH, was changed to be more expensive than the Jeuno AH.

It's 50 fucking gil more to put up an item in Al Zahbi than it is in Jeuno now.

[Koyangi]

Wait, what's wrong with this update that has people bitching about it?

The Al Zhabi AH, which is supposed to be the cheap method to get shit on the Jeuno AH, was changed to be more expensive than the Jeuno AH.

It's 50 fucking gil more to put up an item in Al Zahbi than it is in Jeuno now.

where can I farm that extra 50 gil

[layoneil]

2 and 3 weren't caused by this patch. why don't people complain about Sea drop rates here too.

the only negative is the Al Zahbi AH fee, which imo never should've been like that in the first place.

[kupkup]

guess the (yawn)s got to SE

[Jeryhn]

Today's BG Thread Theme.

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I'm more concerned that Whitegate's AH will still have the original Jeuno AH taxes than losing 50 gil placing an item on the AH in Al Zahbi over Jeuno.

If Al Zahbi and Whitegate are now equal, no reason to save AH npcs in Al Zahbi.

[Larkwynn]

the only negative is the Al Zahbi AH fee, which imo never should've been like that in the first place.

This was one of the many incentives to do Besieged... to keep the cheap AH from being taken captive. But now its taken away because SE's servers can't handle a popular activity.

What they really should do (in addition to today's update) is have a confirmation message at the end of the Beseiged CS and if you don't respond (because you're afk) then you get moved to Whitegate.

[layoneil]

If Al Zahbi and Whitegate are now equal, no reason to save AH npcs in Al Zahbi.

there isn't but i think all NPCs will still be saved within hours of their capture. it's just that now, different types of players will be doing the saving.

[Kurp]

the only negative is the Al Zahbi AH fee, which imo never should've been like that in the first place.

This was one of the many incentives to do Besieged... to keep the cheap AH from being taken captive. But now its taken away because SE's servers can't handle a popular activity.

What they really should do (in addition to today's update) is have a confirmation message at the end of the Beseiged CS and if you don't respond (because you're afk) then you get moved to Whitegate.

There's still plenty of incentive to keep the cheap Al Zahbi AH. While you're in Aht Urghan would you rather put stuff up at 1% fee in Al Zahbi or go to Whitegate and use the AH there with a 2% fee?