Fan Festival #2

[bercus]

To answer peoples question from the other Thread.

No I won´t be at the Fan Festival. Why? Because I live in germany and don´t plan to spend 1000$ for it.

However, if someone "big" from here will to go the Festival I can give that
person the contact informations for an Interview. (Still not 100% promise you will get an Interview )
(BG LS Member/Moderator/BG Wiki People)

I was recently contacted by Square again, where they wanted the recent Interview from the GC for
referance. On a site note I will be getting soon an E-Mail with some answers on a few questions.

Short cut from the Mail

My JP colleagues are trying to get more information for those questions which we couldn't prepare "interesting" answers in time.
I'm aiming to send you more information within a couple of weeks.

I told them to take out the questions about WotG. The expansion is close to come out, so there is no need to answer them imo.
Hopefully something interesting comming from there.

To those who go to the Fan Festival, I suggest you do not bother to ask about WotG. The game will come out a few days later anyway.
Just report what you get shown on the Festival. Since the Development is there you can focus on other stuff that
really should get to the Development Teams attention.

AV, Kings, maybe Inventory Space, we need more HNMs.
More instanced stuff. Einherjar /randomness. Why?
Whats up with that Feather bullshit, losing everything when entering Odin.
And that gives people maybe chance on 4 Abjuration Bodies for 50 people who want one.
Not to mention the 180k for every Einherjar to get to Odin.

(what they think about adding more servers.
Many are crowded with endgame players and no space to EXP,
many are crowded with endgame LS at Kings
A few more servers can maybe help in balancing more then
just World Transfers.)

If people really want to stress about Dynamis I don´t think it would be wrong.
I am sure everyone will agree, that we would welcome some smaller adjustments there.

A Fan Festival is probably better to ask stuff like that. In Interviews they prefer stuff
to ask for the present, not about past content.

What about someone from the BG Linkshell? Noone gonna go there?
What about some Moderator from the BG Forums or BG Wiki?

Also my Interviews aren´t that great. I am just a normal FF XI player who likes to bug SE with questions
and bring stuff to their attention again and again.

Good luck and PM me if you go to the Festival, of course you can post here too .

Bercus

PS:On a sitenote, no reply at all to Charitwo´s Thread would have been a lot better .

Edit:
If you go there, try to find a Japanese Person who might translate a bit for you guys too.
To make sure they UNDERSTAND all questions.

[Plow]

maybe Inventory Space

In my opinion this is really the most pressing issue in all of FFXI, something's really got to be done about this crap when even a simple exp pt requires 55+ inventory use, and certain jobs flat out cannot take everything they *NEED* to many events.

(For example, has anyone counted up how many items you would carry on a nin/drk for something where you need say a full resist set, a full +enm set, a full -dmg set, a full evasion set, a full haste set, and a full souleater melee set? I'm thinking 85ish with meds and tools.)

[Elmer the Pointy]

I'm going to try try try to get there. I have a new project I've been burning the midnight oil on to show off in time for FanFest. Only problem is I'll probably hit money constraints. Since this stupid company went under my plan sort of fell through... I got to hang around Japan with all the free time, but now will have to bust my ass when I get back.

Anyway, we should try to set something up. It seems like Square Enix has been paying more attention to BG recently, and this is a perfect opportunity to improve that link. As for questions, we should try for a little more variety while still hitting the important topics. For example, they seem to be kind of sick of 3 Kings and abjuration talk. Brute force complaining about it doesn't appear to help, but they respond well to new ideas and concepts, especially in chart form.

Still, first we need a representative and to establish contact with SE. For TGS, bercus gave me several contacts at not a single one responded =/

[spooky]

Expanding the Armour Storage NPCs, would go a long way in helping storage problems. I only have 3 jobs levelled and try to make money from fishing and farming, and I’m already finding storage space a problem.
I really like the new Servers idea; it might be a lot easier on them than adding more and more content to occupy people.
Also I think they might want to take note that because of all of the removal of Gil from the economy and the massive deflation things at the Auction house tend to sell a lot slower… It would be nice if you could put 10 items up instead of 7. If they are worried about the impact that would have on RMT, you could do a “Gobbie bag” like quest for the additional storage space, make it reasonably hard, perhaps requires a 75 job?
I’d also like to know what they have planned for merits in the future, Race merits? Crafting merits? SubJob level merits? Group 3? Pet merits?
Also what enhancements can we expect to Einherjar?

[Stolin]

I'd be extremely upset if they added more shit through meritting. It has to be the laziest possible way to impliment new abilities. Why do people get boners when they see a colibri camp or mamool ja staging point open? What is so appealing about killing the same monsters thousands of times for weeks and months?

Anyway, gogo more fun instanced fights.

[bercus]

Still, first we need a representative and to establish contact with SE. For TGS, bercus gave me several contacts at not a single one responded =/

They respond fast when they want something from you only it looks like.
About the not responding, they have some weired spam filter haha.
Still I think they just ignored your mail =(.

[Luto]

I dunno if more servers would be so hot. All the lolshells you hate are gonna jump at a chance for their uncontested Fafhoggs. It may level the playing field a bit though I guess. 2-3 LS in Aery compared to 4+.

[bercus]

Its not just about Fafnir and 3 Kings.
Dynamis, Limbus, EXP everything can get or has the chance to get better with more servers.
Of course that costs money again .

And I doubt stuff would be uncontested :D.

[Luto]

I'd be extremely upset if they added more shit through meritting. It has to be the laziest possible way to impliment new abilities. Why do people get boners when they see a colibri camp or mamool ja staging point open? What is so appealing about killing the same monsters thousands of times for weeks and months?

Anyway, gogo more fun instanced fights.

Yeah cause breaking a latent for new WS was a lot more fun. If it's not birds, it's crabs. It's ffxi sadly.

Its not just about Fafnir and 3 Kings.
Dynamis, Limbus, EXP everything can get or has the chance to get better with more servers.
Of course that costs money again .

And I doubt stuff would be uncontested :D.

Yeah but stop to think about it. Is someone more likely to switch servers for a chance at an empty exp camp or 50 less people in Aery?

[bercus]

People switched to Remora and other servers too.
Thing is when people move cause of Aery, it will automatically
be those people less competition for Limbus/Dynamis ect too.
Only other thing possible is they do everything right with new expansion.
Many new HNMs and like 10 areas where you can possibly exp as 70-75-

[Luto]

That's true and didn't Remora turn into a shithole? lol

And as for the expansion, it's going to have the original expansion and RotZ (right?) areas. So, yeah hopefully there will be some new exp spots at 75, but they're gonna have to be on par with MJSP/Birds and to a lesser extent, Mire and Mt.Z.

Luckily, SE has been a little more aware of what they're doing lately so I have hopes for the new expansion.

Just please, for the love of God, no CoP level capped BS.

[bercus]

That's true and didn't Remora turn into a shithole? lol

:D Isn´t it good to get rid of the shitheads?

[Luto]

What about the people that were forced there pre-world select w/o buddy pass? So many lives lost to Remora. ; ;

[bercus]

Thats why we just need a great expansion.
Enough areas to EXP from 70-75 Party ranges similar to ToAU ones.
Enough content to keep people busy.
Over 10 HNMs with good loot that are strong too.

= Most stuff solved for a while

And then 10-20 more INventory space, small changes to Dynamis and
Einherjar and it gets better and then keep going again
for 3 Kings.

Not just cause of the loot and people botting and wanting Items.
I enjoy the fights still.
Tiamat ect as well.

[Luto]

Dynamis drop rates would be nice. In before people can bitch about FFXI on easy mode, but I don't even do Dynamis anymore because I really don't need to go 5/5 on my BST AF2 when my BST is 20 if you know what I mean. <_<

Maybe in the past areas, make the current middle lands HNMs pop there too <.<? 2x Fafnir a day, 2x B/KB, etc. Make the ones in the past a little stronger. Idc if you have to make some stupid bs reason the past ones are stronger. Inbued with the Shadow Lord's power or some shit like that.

[riddaraan]

I'm sure someone more well known in association with BG will be there. Just in case that doesn't happen, I'll be there.

[kuronosan]

Some questions I'd ask:

1) Nyzul Weapons - what is the point? they still do nothing.
2) Einherjar - needs to be more like a mixture of Dynamis and Limbus.
3) BLU/COR/PUP - AF+1, AF2, AF2+1, JSE, Where the hell is it? Why can't these jobs equip any of the mainstream older gear in the first place? Give them a job-defining piece of armor that can be crafted and isn't rare+ex.
4) Inventory Space - Too much gear that's useful only in certain situations so it needs to be macro'd. More space needed to compensate since X-Body is great for TP/curing/buffing but crappy for WS/nuking/enfeebling.
5) Exp spots - There are plenty of exp spots in AU for 75s... why not compensate by fixing exp spots outside of AU? Signet exp still isn't enough. Mobs chain indefinitely in AU areas because of the respawn rate whereas in zilart or promathia areas they still respawn too slow to be worth it.
6) New spells/summons/rolls that are useful? Come on. Who would want to summon Alexander if all he could do was cast Holy and stand there like a rock? If you add something, make it something not only worth getting but something that actually aids the party or person.
7) Equipment that makes sense. Why would you add a weapon with DEX+2 VIT+2 that costs over 200,000 gil to craft when you can get one on the AH that is 200% more effective for a quarter of the price? Stop adding useless items.
8) Skill levels. What is the point of SAM/PUP having throwing skill when they can't use any mainstream throwing weapons that matter, when BLU has tons of throwing weapons and no skill? What is the point of BST being able to equip certain bows when they have no bow skill?
9) Abjurations - Why does the new abjuration set still blow chunks compared to older gear and is not only harder to get it takes several times longer to obtain only for the piece you spent 15000 Ichor on to possibly explode and lose the material?
10) Almighty Apkallu - What is the point of an NM that nobody knows how to spawn? Why do you add NMs to the game with ridiculously secret spawning conditions? Does your development team enjoy spending all this time thinking up challenges that nobody cares to overcome?

Do something that gets the player involved. If there are people giving up, chances are you made it too hard. If everyone has moved on (hello there absolute virtue) and can't be bothered to figure it out then you're doing something wrong and need to give better hints (nyzul weapons).

[levish]

How about adding another +30racc to ziska's and dropping it's damage rating, then maybe I can hit something with bolts without sushi and craptop of other racc pieces. then i just have to worry about stinky proc rates on occasion

Or just slap the racc on the status bolts so war/drk and whoevere else can use them actually has a snowballs chance in hell of actually using them instead of <Red Mage><Dispel><Please>

[Therin]

My only two complaints/issues are AV and Nyzul Weapons.

I feel that they need to tie off the loose ends before adding another expansion. It's okay to leave things like Almighty Apkallu, Goblin Wolfman (before ToAU was released), Birdman Cape unresolved - but please, AV and Nyzul Weapons are pretty much the biggest things in their respective expansions, so here's hoping they'll finish them off before adding another.

[kuronosan]

I'm pretty sure Birdman cape was resolved. The NM has a chance to spawn when you log in Caedarva during some treasure quest.