Fresh Server.. Would you play?

[CubsWoo]

I'll read it too, but there are several images in my head (mostly seeing dozens of parties treating every Lich and Exoray like a goddamn KB spawn every six months) that are preventing me from taking it seriously.

[Zalius]

Once again you prove your stupidity.

I could type out the long list of how it could be good, but you have already made a snap judgement and its not worth proving it to a bunch of random people on a forum.

Unless you're proposing massive crafting/XP bonuses to such a server the entire idea is flawed from the get-go. Who would make it to 75? I don't think anyone even made it close to that in the beta, and that was 4 months.

tahtz cuz lvl cap wuznt 75 on beta HAHA WIN LOLZ RIGHT YES

But seriously, i dont give a shit either way, you stop caring about anything without suppanomimi

[DeadLegend]

But seriously, i dont give a shit either way, you stop caring about anything without suppanomimi

Knight's Earring takes my pain away and colors my world with roses

[Zalius]

But seriously, i dont give a shit either way, you stop caring about anything without suppanomimi

Knight's Earring takes my pain away and colors my world with roses

LOL BUT YOU DONT GET THE +5 SWORD SKILL SO LOL@YOUR SAVAGE BLADES

[DeadLegend]

No sweat I'll just get a rajas ring, the huge boost to my sick dd=extra hate (*'-')
227 atk go!

[Zalius]

No sweat I'll just get a rajas ring, the huge boost to my sick dd=extra hate (*'-')
227 atk go!

my blm has more atk then you lolz

real plds use soil rings

[Heian]

No sweat I'll just get a rajas ring, the huge boost to my sick dd=extra hate (*'-')
227 atk go!

my blm has more atk then you lolz

real plds use soil rings

If I couldn't wear Bomb Queen Ring I'd just keep my Rajas on lol......

[JoOeetheplatypuS]

Ding! BLU65 ftw

Ok now heres the idea: The server resets which turns this game into a competition about who can do the most the fastest. Here's how it rolls:

It resets every 6 months (maybe more or less, I'm not sure.)
There are server rankings based on the highest job level. In case of ties you go to the next highest job to decide. There are also crafting rankings, same deal but each craft competes on its own. Also rankings for missions etc.
If you win the server (or are in the top 10 or something) in certain categories (craft level, job level, specific job level, net gil earned from AH) you will get small items on all future resets. Mostly for epeen value, stuff like the nation aketons.
Many things will be adjusted. Drop rates on important items like limit break items and spawn areas for those mobs (like 4x the exorays with 33% before TH drop rate.) Prices for spells and armor from NPCs would be lowered by about half-2/3. Gil drops from mobs would increase with level. Exp gain would be buffed by about 2fold. In general things would speed up on this server.
Linkshells/pearls will be kept through resets. You can set a group up for victory that way.
Due to the lack of a stable economy, merits, high level help, etc you will have people learning new ways to play this game. No longer do you always just hit the AH and get everything, you often will have to know how to farm it. It will truely show who is good at the game.
Conquest will once again matter since it will be good income and usable to good gear.
Garrison and Eco-Warrior (LOL) would be useful again.
The servers would have a lower limit of people on it. Instead of the approximately 18k people per server you would have numbers like 6-7k.
I'm considering instanced lower level exp zones as a possibility.
Certain NMs would be fun again, like Roc, Simurgh, etc. You will see people rush to kill them to get an omghealing staff or omghaubergeon and it will take actual skill to kill.
This isnt for everyone. Nothing would be destroyed to make these servers. They would be additions.
It would be a major longetivity boost for the game. Instead of just maxxing out and having nothing to do it would be a mad rush, you would constantly devise new and better ways to get as high as possible as fast as possible. Eventually people will learn how to hit 75 on a fresh char on a fresh server in short periods of time (like 3 months.)
Much of the game would be more balanced. RNGs could be unnerfed since gil is a real limit here. NIN and /NIN are not as dominant. BLMs wouldn't dominate as much due to lack of elemental staves. Melee would not have a lot of the great gear that is taken for granted like viking axes.

It would just be a totally different experience.

[DeadLegend]

BLMs wouldn't dominate as much due to lack of elemental staves

I'll never understand this because the ls I was in usually only had 3 blm on for events.

Idea sounds pretty cool but personally I don't like to rush :x I took around a year for blm75 and a little less for pld. I killed simurgh in a lv55-60 alliance one time and it didn't seem to take much skill btw <.<

Resetting server makes everything into a frenzied hunt :/

[Heian]

Ding! BLU65 ftw

Ok now heres the idea: The server resets which turns this game into a competition about who can do the most the fastest. Here's how it rolls:

It resets every 6 months (maybe more or less, I'm not sure.)
There are server rankings based on the highest job level. In case of ties you go to the next highest job to decide. There are also crafting rankings, same deal but each craft competes on its own. Also rankings for missions etc.
If you win the server (or are in the top 10 or something) in certain categories (craft level, job level, specific job level, net gil earned from AH) you will get small items on all future resets. Mostly for epeen value, stuff like the nation aketons.
Many things will be adjusted. Drop rates on important items like limit break items and spawn areas for those mobs (like 4x the exorays with 33% before TH drop rate.) Prices for spells and armor from NPCs would be lowered by about half-2/3. Gil drops from mobs would increase with level. Exp gain would be buffed by about 2fold. In general things would speed up on this server.
Linkshells/pearls will be kept through resets. You can set a group up for victory that way.
Due to the lack of a stable economy, merits, high level help, etc you will have people learning new ways to play this game. No longer do you always just hit the AH and get everything, you often will have to know how to farm it. It will truely show who is good at the game.
Conquest will once again matter since it will be good income and usable to good gear.
Garrison and Eco-Warrior (LOL) would be useful again.
The servers would have a lower limit of people on it. Instead of the approximately 18k people per server you would have numbers like 6-7k.
I'm considering instanced lower level exp zones as a possibility.
Certain NMs would be fun again, like Roc, Simurgh, etc. You will see people rush to kill them to get an omghealing staff or omghaubergeon and it will take actual skill to kill.
This isnt for everyone. Nothing would be destroyed to make these servers. They would be additions.
It would be a major longetivity boost for the game. Instead of just maxxing out and having nothing to do it would be a mad rush, you would constantly devise new and better ways to get as high as possible as fast as possible. Eventually people will learn how to hit 75 on a fresh char on a fresh server in short periods of time (like 3 months.)
Much of the game would be more balanced. RNGs could be unnerfed since gil is a real limit here. NIN and /NIN are not as dominant. BLMs wouldn't dominate as much due to lack of elemental staves. Melee would not have a lot of the great gear that is taken for granted like viking axes.

It would just be a totally different experience.

Some parts seem good but in actuallity they need to be added to the normal game, like buffed exp and renewed effort on Conquest, instanced exp. Some people may be into this stuff but I actually like seeing the fruits of my efforts over the last year and a half that I have played.

So by doing this you have made about 95% of the end game material pointless in doing so, because we all kill Fafhogg for the challenge....

The whole point of FFXI is to show off and boost one's own ego by having as many items as possible that the other people around you do not have.

[Lordwafik]

Yeah I doubt i'd play much if the game just reset every few. I like all my stuff, I worked to get them with my friends etc, I dont want all those things gone, just tto get them again, playing a game of Groundhog day XI.

[Heian]

I'm a LootWhore who doesn't wanna loose his Mandau.

I couldn't resist sorry Wafik

[Lordwafik]

I'm a LootWhore who doesn't wanna loose his Mandau.

Fuck yeah

[Severance]

I'd play. 8)

[Rocl]

I wouldn't hit it.

[Quizno]

My personal favorite is when they say "Everyone bots, so it's okay." Then, they turn around and bash all the RMTers lol.... Everyone RMTs, does that make it okay?

(Don't even try to twist this around, btw, you know who you assholes are.)

So let me get this straight....you actually care if people buy gil? You care if a few starving chinese 18-30 year olds do this for a living?

Why do you care? Because you suddenly can't get an Ulli stone?

You cheat? Fine, no problem. You're cheating, but then you go and say you're not because a majority of people do the same? Then you become a fucking joke of a player.

did you even read my entire post or did you blow your wad the second you read what you wanted to hear?

I'm sorry, but in my personal opinon if you have a BOT on your system, you at some point or another intended/intend to use it.

You don't just download a cheat tool because it makes your hard drive smell of flowers!

I had it on my hard drive because I think flee hacking is the funnest thing the game has ever introduced =)

If I could flee hack without being permabanned I sure as hell would!

[Ryko]

My personal favorite is when they say "Everyone bots, so it's okay." Then, they turn around and bash all the RMTers lol.... Everyone RMTs, does that make it okay?

(Don't even try to twist this around, btw, you know who you assholes are.)

So let me get this straight....you actually care if people buy gil? You care if a few starving chinese 18-30 year olds do this for a living?

Why do you care? Because you suddenly can't get an Ulli stone?

I'm sorry, I must have missed the part where anyone has the ability to play the maturity card in this game so... yes?

[Popeh]

So let me get this straight....you actually care if people buy gil? You care if a few starving chinese 18-30 year olds do this for a living?

Why do you care? Because you suddenly can't get an Ulli stone?

So, let me see if I got this right.
Dozens and dozens are decent spec gaming console/PC, a pretty decent tinternet connection to be running dozens of chars at the same time, who knows how much per month in membership fee per account.

Yea, that could be why they're starving! Starve already so legitimate players can get on with it.

I have never had sympathy for GS and I never will. If there was a bottle of poison sat over the side of their drinking water i'd be sure to 'accidently' knock it in.

oh, and apologies for /derail on the starting thread topic

[Priran]

You cheat? Fine, no problem. You're cheating, but then you go and say you're not because a majority of people do the same? Then you become a fucking joke of a player.

did you even read my entire post or did you blow your wad the second you read what you wanted to hear?

lol, kettle

[Airshort7]

The idea of just a new server being released with no world transfers is cool, I like it.

The idea of that server resetting every 6 months is just stupid.


But if they released a brand new server, I would go reinstall my POL and create a character on it :D