All Worlds Maintenance (Oct. 24)

[Khamsin]

again the idea for my SE April fool's joke surfaces. One day switch of all loot pools- but to keep it "fair" items of equal value will be swapped around.

For example, W. Abjuration: Body will drop from Bubbly Bernie for the day.

You find a steam clock on Aspidochelone?

[Indalecia]

You find a Seiryu's sword on Fafnir.

[Paegan]

You find a Seiryu's sword on Fafnir.

I'd pay a considerable amount of money to see that happen to certain LS's on my server.

[Division3]

You find a Seiryu's sword on Fafnir.

I'd pay a considerable amount of money to see that happen to certain LS's on my server.

I'll double what hes paying

[spooky]

Oh well, looks like it's off to the cinema with me. Bye everyone! ^.^

[Alistaire]

Would be a great day for someone to finally kill AV...

You find a Malflame Ring on Absolute Virtue.
You find a Malflash Ring on Absolute Virtue.
You find a Maldust Ring on Absolute Virtue.
You find a Rogetsurin on Absolute Virtue.
You find a Katayama Ichimonji on Absolute Virtue.
You find a Pilgrim's Wand on Absolute Virtue.
You find a Dash Sash on Absolute Virtue.

...followed by news about someone hacking into U.S. missile command and bombing SE headquarters later in the day.

[Lawliet]

"You may now re-obtain your ToAU ring if you have tossed it by repeating the final mission"

lols.

[Whatinthe]

I heard some LS on Odin just zerged through a Faf that popped 10 min before maintenance.

And killed it.

[Amele]

You're correct, the DirectX 9 rewrite goes hand in hand with the upcoming windowed mode. It was discussed in the E3 interview between SE and otherwiki back in May and posted in this thread.

Back in March at the Premiere Site Summit, we were told that there would be a window mode released. When will this be released?

The reason this has been taking so long is that FFXI uses DirectX 8. To allow the windowed mode, we have to rewrite the program to be DirectX 9 based, which is what we're doing right now. And we hope to have all of that work finished by the time Wings of the Goddess is released. It will probably come out at the same time the expansion is released.

No idea if this will include any sort of graphical update, but we should at least see some performance benefits from upgrading the client to DirectX 9.

this is quite untrue. (look at all the windowed games that came out at that time on dx8) so unless SE has worse coders than I thought; they're doing it for some other reason. one can at least hope they'll add new graphical tweaks (like supporting AA) if not a texture/engine overhaul in the process though.

[Whatinthe]

this is quite untrue. (look at all the windowed games that came out at that time on dx8) so unless SE has worse coders than I thought; they're doing it for some other reason. one can at least hope they'll add new graphical tweaks (like supporting AA) if not a texture/engine overhaul in the process though.

SE does indeed have bad coders. Why do you think Taj and friends can come up with exploits/backdoors that make us endure weekly "emergency maitenance".

Hint: The basic coding error that allows MrArgus to work has not been patched.

[Edrick]

Would be a great day for someone to finally kill AV...

You find a Malflame Ring on Absolute Virtue.
You find a Malflash Ring on Absolute Virtue.
You find a Maldust Ring on Absolute Virtue.
You find a Rogetsurin on Absolute Virtue.
You find a Katayama Ichimonji on Absolute Virtue.
You find a Pilgrim's Wand on Absolute Virtue.
You find a Dash Sash on Absolute Virtue.

...followed by news about someone hacking into U.S. missile command and bombing SE headquarters later in the day.

But, where else will you get the Dash Sash!? I still <3 that thing...

[Amele]

this is quite untrue. (look at all the windowed games that came out at that time on dx8) so unless SE has worse coders than I thought; they're doing it for some other reason. one can at least hope they'll add new graphical tweaks (like supporting AA) if not a texture/engine overhaul in the process though.

SE does indeed have bad coders. Why do you think Taj and friends can come up with exploits/backdoors that make us endure weekly "emergency maitenance".

Hint: The basic coding error that allows MrArgus to work has not been patched.

the sorts of things that are being exploited are not even close to how trivial a windowed mode in a directX app would be.

and which basic coding error do you mean? last I checked argus was exploiting more than one hole, and at least some of them are systemic to how a windows process needs to be coded to play nice with the OS.

[Alistaire]

And SE is well-known for blaming things on things like this that make no sense. Like how they say the limit of 60 inventory is due to ps2 limitations. No sense at all. I can still see /bank, /storage, /locker while I'm out xp'ing, so the only difference is whether or not I can access those items outside a mog house. Nothing at all to do with "ps2 limitations."

[Aldaris]

----=== Update Details ===----

- We have been informed of an issue where HNMs finally have entered NA Prime Time for the first time in 2 months. This issue will be corrected.

so ture...

[arshesney]

And SE is well-known for blaming things on things like this that make no sense. Like how they say the limit of 60 inventory is due to ps2 limitations. No sense at all. I can still see /bank, /storage, /locker while I'm out xp'ing, so the only difference is whether or not I can access those items outside a mog house. Nothing at all to do with "ps2 limitations."

Not to mention AH browsing, how many Body or Feet pieces comes up in a search? Each with their own detailed info.

"Sorry , you can't browse AH due to PS2 limitations"... I have yet to see that happening

Hell, just say you don't have experience on PC programming, or that you just C&P your code from the PS2 version with small adjustments and now it's bloated beyond programmer's comprehension

[Pergo]

All worlds maintenance being conducted right now will be extended until 17:00 (PDT).

We apologize for the inconvenience.

[Date & Time]
Oct. 24, 2007 from 10:00 to 17:00 (PDT)
*Maintenance completion time may be subject to change.

[Affected Services]
FINAL FANTASY XI

2 and a half more hours

[Demonsparta]

My money is on some sort of event implementing Redeyes. :< As for why it's 4 hours long...uh...SE?

[Judai]

You find a Ridill on Cargo Crab Colin.

No Kings for another month, yay \^^/ .............

[spooky]

All worlds maintenance being conducted right now will be extended until 17:00 (PDT).

We apologize for the inconvenience.

[Date & Time]
Oct. 24, 2007 from 10:00 to 17:00 (PDT)
*Maintenance completion time may be subject to change.

[Affected Services]
FINAL FANTASY XI

2 and a half more hours :(

FFS >_<

[Septimus]

You find a Ridill on Cargo Crab Colin.

No Kings for another month, yay \^^/ .............

I think that Ridill actually has a better drop rate. >_< (0/25'D!)