Version Update Highlights (11/22/2006)

[Seditedi]

Its definitely gonna be nice to have that ability to warp to sky, but imo that just corrects the minor annoyance of having to walk/chocobo to sky. Personally I just OP to Zitah and walk from there, doesn't take very long at all. I don't know why they are focusing on such minor things, when there are major problems with Gilsellers in sky.

[Fen]

tbh i don't see how this is going to "check" gilsellers, obviously you're going to have to be past some point in the CoP story (probably finished it). how many of the sky gilsellers actually have sea? none that i know of, cos they only do RoZ missions

RMT have killed J'lo more often than all NA LS on Alexander combined~

[Sasarai]

I think it would be considerably more shocking if the whiners here actually REJOICED over the fucking-awesome that is this update.

I hate Sky RMT too, but damn, faster way to sky = win. That is all.

Being considerably optimistic about a legendary update.

[grover]

There is a good chance that either of those could be a requirement, and we know damn well that would exclude 99% of all gil farmers.

Hehe, not Asura's. Their entire BLM army all have Tamas rings.

Agreed, Hades has at least 40+ RMT in Sea that fight JoL every couple of days. Have a couple Novio/as in bazaar for 50 & 20 mil.

[Gatsby]

If this is just the beginning of the changes that SE is announcing, that is a good sign. I'll make my final judgments on the update once I see the entire patch notes.

[Vic]

http://www.playonline.com/pcd/topics.../1037/1037.jpg

Anyone else notice the nazi salute? >.>

[Pearlsea]

I will deside if I like the patch after I see thier full intentions on improving BST, to me the rest is just filler although 70 mog locker and warping to sky is very nice.

[Viktor Vaughn]

Science damn it, you people are the biggest batch of whiners who have ever whined in the history of man.

Square: "Here you go folks, here's a big bag of win."

Whiner1: "Why didn't we get this two years ago?"

Whiner2: "Sure it's win, but I'm allergic to win."

Whiner3: "RMT can use it, even though they never ever leave sky so my point is moot, but I like to whine to hear myself whine."

Whiner4: "My toes are cold."

Whiner5: "How I mine for fish?"

Seriously, do you people even listen to yourselves? What if the requirement to get to sky through the halls of transference is beating sky and/or through a significant portion of CoP? There is a good chance that either of those could be a requirement, and we know damn well that would exclude 99% of all gil farmers. (And probably at least 75% of you whiners. Hey, but that's something else to whine about.)

There is not an item on that list that is not win, super-win, ultra-win, ninja-thunder-magazord-win, yet somehow people manage to find something to bitch, moan, and complain about. Do you know how annoyed I am to have logged in for the sole purpose of chastising people for being annoying? Seriously, just shut up.

Thank you good sir, the sitting on of shampoo bottles may now commence.

[yuriku]

the taru in your sig is huge lol!

[ddazska]

Dear SE,

Please make the requirement to Teleport to Sky be rank 10 minimum. This will keep 90% of those 75BLM/23WHM pieces of shit from using it.

Thanks in Advance,

Dd

[Ryko]

There is a good chance that either of those could be a requirement, and we know damn well that would exclude 99% of all gil farmers.

Hehe, not Asura's. Their entire BLM army all have Tamas rings.

qft for fairy

[Ryany]

In response to the complaining about complaining, I don’t like being lied to. It’s not that I ever really believed PS2 limited storage space years ago, but they could have at least either not answered the question back then or have given an honest answer.

Past hypothetical responses that would not bother me now:
We don’t know.
We do not have any plans to upgrade storage.
We feel the storage space is sufficient.
We are saving upgrades for ToAU to help sell it.
We want to sell more mules, so we are not giving extra space.

[Jeryhn]

Warp to Sky is interesting to me for meriting purposes mostly, especially when the Astral Candy is gone. Tending to agree that you'll need to be at a certain place in both RoZ and CoP to make use of it, considering how the Crags are tied in with both Tu'Lia and Al'Taieu storywise.

+10 inventory always good. New quests that reward Imperial Gold Coins for converting into Silvers always good. Limit points aquireable in Besieged will be great.

I like the Fellowship change as well, as late as it is.

Judging by the opening up of new areas, I'm going to say those Stone Monument thingies still won't be activated. Look at a map for Alzadaal... there are additional exits to the Thickets and Mire than what we currently have access to. I'm going to say we'll probably end up traveling through the Ruins to get to these areas (which could be potential NM areas).

It also seems they mentioned Salvage in association with the Ruins. Perhaps the Remnants will be the Salvage areas, and I'm guessing as far as Salvage goes, you'll be salvaging for the four other Astral Candies that players were told hidden in the Ruins in ToAU Mission cutscenes. You'll probably need to be at a certain point in the missions.

"Improvements to existing game mechanics" intrigues me. That doesn't say "job adjustments". I wonder what that could mean.

[divisortheory]

Dear SE,

Please make the requirement to Teleport to Sky be rank 10 minimum. This will keep 90% of those 75BLM/23WHM pieces of shit from using it.

Thanks in Advance,

Dd

If they can take Absolute Virtue to 83%, don't you think they can get rank 10 in like.. a few hours?

Deal with it, and be glad you can warp there. Not like it matters, you probably STILL won't go try to compete. When will people learn that gilsellers really don't fucking care how "hard" or "time consuming" things are - they're going to do it anyway and you're still going to be just as screwed, so be happy with what you have.

[FFXIFlux]

There is not an item on that list that is not win, super-win, ultra-win, ninja-thunder-magazord-win, yet somehow people manage to find something to bitch, moan, and complain about.

ninja-thunder-magazord-win:
"We realize that Sky is like a trillion years old, so we made new areas with harder challenges and better rewards. Enjoy!"

Septimus-version-of-win:
"You can get to trillion year old content faster."

Ninja-thunder-magazord > Septimus.

[Seditedi]

"Improvements to existing game mechanics" intrigues me. That doesn't say "job adjustments". I wonder what that could mean.

Previous update announcement did say job adjustments, so hopefully we'll get some decent adjustments, as well as changes to some other things.

[JoOeetheplatypuS]

There is not an item on that list that is not win, super-win, ultra-win, ninja-thunder-magazord-win, yet somehow people manage to find something to bitch, moan, and complain about.

ninja-thunder-magazord-win:
"We realize that Sky is like a trillion years old, so we made new areas with harder challenges and better rewards. Enjoy!"

Septimus-version-of-win:
"You can get to trillion year old content faster."

Ninja-thunder-magazord > Septimus.

Oh wonder vag, why must you be so drippy

[Demosthenes]

The Fellow system will be adjusted so that your fellow no longer disappears when you change areas.
*Fellows will still disappear if the area you enter is not an area in which fellows can normally be called.

Been Playing FFXII and Twilight Princess. I've not touched ffxi in like a month. If we can use I'm fellows in besieged, I'll be game. Speaking of which, when the hell do we get to take them with us to ballista!?

[Viktor Vaughn]

the taru in your sig is huge lol!

But it feels so good. *^_^b

[Janice]

There is not an item on that list that is not win, super-win, ultra-win, ninja-thunder-magazord-win, yet somehow people manage to find something to bitch, moan, and complain about. Do you know how annoyed I am to have logged in for the sole purpose of chastising people for being annoying? Seriously, just shut up.

Fellow thing sounds like to load of crap. They are basically saying 'we will never update the fellowship system ever again. We will just do stupid little fixes and nothing else with it. Have fun.'