The ultimate suggestion to SE

[Aikar]

I think this is the greatest thing ive ever seen from allakhazam, Lets throw our advanced reasoning to this logic!
http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/forum.html?f ... =18;page=1

Proposal:
Currently players only lose TP when they change equipment on the Main, Sub or Ranged slot. The author proposes that players also lose TP when they change equipment on the Head, Body, Hands, Legs and Feet slot. Players do not have to lose TP when switching equipment on the 'Accessory' slots (ears, fingers, waist, back and neck).

Reasons:
- Elitism
There is a general consensus that the 'accepted' way to play the game for players playing melee jobs is to use two different sets equipment: one for regular attacks, another one for Weapon Skill attacks. These players are expected to switch equipment quickly when they acquire 100% TP and do a Weapon Skill, then switch back to the original equipment afterwards. Both sets of equipment are usually expected to be expensive pieces costing more than 100,000 a piece.

Casual players sometimes feel pressured to follow the 'guidelines' laid out by elitists and cause them to buy the equipment that these elitists deem 'necessary'. It's hard enough for casual players to gather enough money to purchase one set of equipment but requiring them to purchase two sets of equipment could deter casual players from playing the game.


- Realism
While the author realizes that this is a video game, realism is a very important part of Final Fantasy XI. The ship/airship schedules, rent-a-moghouse, weather effects are some example of the adherence of the game to realism. Switching armors in the middle of a fight, however, is not realistic. While there are some unrealistic aspects in this video game, this is just 'too unrealistic'.

Imagine in a real life battle where warriors and knights are dueling each other. How realistic is it for them to change their body and leg armor whenever they want to launch a powerful strike, and to change again afterwards? They do not have time to do that. Changing earrings, rings, belts, necklaces and capes are still realistic enough and can be done by people with fast hands.


It is with such humility and loyalty to the game that this author presents this proposal to the developers of Final Fantasy XI. The author wishes that the developers consider this proposal and take the appropriate action.
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http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/profile.xml?168884

[Phraust]

The first guys response to that was fucking classic lol,

[Slott]

this is already in the lolalla thread or something, and has been for a couple days

[evilpaul]

omg did you guys see the WotG video? I think I saw Cait Sith!

[Lordender]

lol allah thread, elitism occurs on every online game in existence. People are their own enemy in this game, play well in exp parties and people will like you, play shitty and people will talk shit about you.

[Epical]

And this is why the Banished to Alla card exists.

[Lordwafik]

I love that card because it has a frame from Superman 2 when "special effects" meant Skew and Transform!

[Saraphym]

The realistic part made me lol. Also I don't really think FF or any MMORPG are really designed for "casual players".


but seriously, what are the chances we're being wooshed and someone made that post for the lulz.

[Aikar]

this is already in the lolalla thread or something, and has been for a couple days

Yeah but A) Most of us dont have the IQ to spare to read everything in that thread (or care to)
B) This topic is epic enough of a LOL to deserve its own thread.

[Cookiemonster]

Why does it seem like everyone who claims to be a casual player wants to scale the game down to something that they can rent and beat in 1o hours.
While were at it lets get rid of all the armor all together, well paint red markings all over our bodies, add that jump button everyone bitches about, and go around spamming buttons mindlessly killing things with flails. Oh wait that's already a game.

Not that there's anything wrong with those games. >.>

[Wizerd]

this is already in the lolalla thread or something, and has been for a couple days

Yeah but A) Most of us dont have the IQ to spare to read everything in that thread (or care to)
B) This topic is epic enough of a LOL to deserve its own thread.

Before I saw this response, I thought you actually liked the idea and I was gonna cry.

[shirizaan]

this is already in the lolalla thread or something, and has been for a couple days

Yeah but A) Most of us dont have the IQ to spare to read everything in that thread (or care to)
B) This topic is epic enough of a LOL to deserve its own thread.

Before I saw this response, I thought you actually liked the idea and I was gonna cry.

Yeah, the subject line concerned me a bit too... I thought we might have another useless thread on our hands. Then I LOL'd and all was good.

[Judai]

what a crazy noob

[Jeryhn]

The first guys response to that was fucking classic lol,

Indeed.

[Dezzimal]

Lolalla indeed, though I wouldn't mind seeing some sort of change to gear swapping so that I don't have to run at 60/60 whenever I'm on BLM

[Scythiroth]

Lolalla indeed, though I wouldn't mind seeing some sort of change to gear swapping so that I don't have to run at 60/60 whenever I'm on BLM

Well, you can be 60/70 pretty soon at least.

[arshesney]

Lolalla indeed, though I wouldn't mind seeing some sort of change to gear swapping so that I don't have to run at 60/60 whenever I'm on BLM

Well, you can be 60/70 pretty soon at least.

Yup, 10 more spaces to bring around that situational gear you really didn't want to leave home^^

edit: grammar ; ;

[SeraphusRagnarok]

Urge to kill....rising

[shirizaan]

Lolalla indeed, though I wouldn't mind seeing some sort of change to gear swapping so that I don't have to run at 60/60 whenever I'm on BLM

Well, you can be 70/70 pretty soon at least.

Fixed for accuracy.

[BRP]

This looks familiar... Oh yes, Alla pics thread.

Well I wasn't expecting this to be my 2nd(would of been 1st) post here considering I've been using alla for 2 years now but,

http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/forum.html?f ... =12;page=1

I'm sure you can figure out which poster to laugh at.