Chocobo Racing Delayed and March 7th patch date

[DreizehnOfSiren]

* We will be making a change to the "World Pass" system. After the maintenance, you will be able to select the designated World for your new characters. For those of who are considering issuing a "World Pass" prior to the maintenance, we recommend that you use the "World Pass" before the maintenance goes into effect. You will still be able to issue a "Gold World Pass" even after the maintenance.

Starting March 8, 2007, players will be able to create new characters on the World of their choice. Up until now, Worlds would be randomly assigned to characters upon their creation, while only players with World Passes could join their friends. However, with this new adjustment, all players, even ones without World Passes, will have the option to select their realm at the character selection screen.

Originally, the World Pass system was introduced to maintain a balance among all the Worlds and prevent overpopulation. However, with the continued stablization of each World's adventurer community and recent technical advances in server technology, it has been determined that allowing players to create new characters on Worlds of their choice would not greatly affect the current population balance.

In conjunction with this change, we have updated the character creation screen to include a new pull-down window from which players can select the World of their choice. Also, additional characters added to an account will no longer be automatically assigned to the same World as the first character. Players will be free to choose where they wish that new character to reside, be it the same World, or a completely different one.

Finally, the development team is continuing their work on World selection by making preparations for a new service that will allow players to move their characters to different Worlds. Please keep a close watch on the Topics page for further updates on this exciting feature.

*While all World Passes will become void after March 8, 2007, Gold World Passes will continue to be distributed to players who wish to purchase them. Any adventurers who would like to invite their friends to Vana'diel can still utilize the Gold World Pass feature and take advantage of the special benefits this unique system has to offer.

HOORAY WORLD SWAPPING

Wrong thread, go here: http://www.bluegartr.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16757

[FinalJustice]

All i know is that this choco racing had better be loads of fun, cause if SE delays it this long, and it turns out to be really lame, I'll explode.

[yrpaine]

its not hard at all to collect IS when you're meriting for 20-25k/hr. That's 2-2.5kIS / hr.

lol ya, i know, you realize you're saying that to someone that has bard, rdm, nin and war 75. I merrit quite a bit myself (2brd pty only, and ya anything less than 20k/hr just feels slow), but I still think it's worth saving IS and just buying ~100k-ish stacks of imp. coins till we find out how good the new items are. Once we find out, people will either start hording points to get these items (and coins prices will increase), or dump their points in dusgust knowing they can get several hundred thousand more IS b4 the next rank increase (and prices on coins will go down). Guess i'm most likely just getting my hopes up, but it does seem that they're trying their hardest to keep us interested, I wouldn't be surprised if higher rank items ended up being more than decent.