All Worlds Emergency Maintenance (Mar. 17)

[ronin sparthos]

Seriously, even though I QQ a lot myself, I think people are just grasping at the last straws to stay QQing about everything.

Well i think if your a BST you have every right to QQ you heart out, they got a massive cocktease that ended in getting socked in the nuts. Lower Reward timer is great, but not 'wait 3 months great'

Ok guys, your Slime/Leech/Coeurl jugs are ready - we were leaving it till patch day as a surprise! *hurrahs*

Look! you can sub /dnc and get sambas to cure your pets - isnt that amazing? Look at all the wonderful possibilities we've opened up for you! *shock and awe*

*days later*

We messed up, we didnt release those jugs - sorry guys, maybe the patch after next. *fuck, oh well... it was too good to be true*

Oh and we're taking back those samba buffs, they are obviously too broken for an already borderline top-tier DD like yourselves - enjoy those reward timers and pet biscuits though: if you can get them. *what the fuck????*

If that isnt a letdown, i dont know what is. lol

Even though I am not a BST or a pet-job player; they are on my list, just not priority much; I did find the pet-samba thing bullcrap(understatement, could insert a much worse word here, I guess?), but that's as far as this go.

Did you read the whole 3 pages of QQing? Bloodpact timer, Mog house lag, etc. I don't think those were necessary at all. Pet-samba thing though, let it slide for god's sake, SE, not like any of the pet-job can do any game-breaking with a little "feature" like that.

Alot of the stuff needed to be fixed ya, but this was a pretty substandard update for anyone that wasnt DNC or SCH - and the people who thought they were getting a cute surprise got a lump of coal for seemingly no reason.

Glitches always follow updates, its nothing surprising to me that things got broken - last update 3-4 eles were on top of eachother in Windy for no reason. lol

SE needs to learn sometimes you need to listen to the REAL player outcries and do things on a whim - that is real 'popular demand'. Im going to beat that cheese sandwich decision to fucking death because if they think thats what the playerbase wanted off a lackluster expansion opening then they are delirious @ Square-Enix Japan.

[archibaldcrane]

For those of us at work who won't be updating until about 6PM eastern..

Can someone let us know about how long of a download to expect?

None, if anything ~5 files at most I would think.

56 files for windows.

Geez, wtf did they do :E

They probably also tossed in fixes for stuff like Sleep II and Raise II for scholar (the scrolls had the wrong job levels listed), the Swiftblad thing, etc. etc. Who knows what fixes it would take for the moogle thing (and how much other shit they broke in the process)

[Sepuku]

additional effect items are broken.

i.e. Intruders earring

turns 40 MP to 40 HP in areas not under own nations controle.

atm it is:

turns 40 MP to 40 HP Period! wherever you are , we dont fucking care!!!111



I am fine with that , it should stay like this, items are NOT designed for Conquest areas only.

[Katlan]

recast better not be broken after this is all I gotta add >.> Playing FF for a week w/o it made me feel seriously gimp

[evilpaul]

Glitches always follow updates, its nothing surprising to me that things got broken - last update 3-4 eles were on top of eachother in Windy for no reason. lol

http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/2...142802afw0.jpg
You called?

Has anyone else been unable to target the Fortification in Campaign? I had to /assist someone who was beating on it because it never showed up for me until ~5mins later yesterday.

[Seraph]

additional effect items are broken.
i.e. Intruders earring
turns 40 MP to 40 HP in areas not under own nations controle.
atm it is:
turns 40 MP to 40 HP Period! wherever you are , we dont fucking care!!!111
I am fine with that , it should stay like this, items are NOT designed for Conquest areas only.

Awesome. Speak of this no more, I don't want it fixed.

[SamanosukeShiva]

you can also put smart grenade on delivery eventho it's ra/ex

[Vacht]

what is reality

[Velecic]

For those of us at work who won't be updating until about 6PM eastern..

Can someone let us know about how long of a download to expect?

Just did a version Check & Update, 56 Files to Download, took ~5 minutes.

[evilpaul]

you can also put smart grenade on delivery eventho it's ra/ex

I noticed that too, but there's a few Rare/Ex things that were deliverable for some reason before. (That smoking egg furniture I think?)

[Doc]

This isn't a beta, the same principles do not apply. A beta is where you do your testing, not the release version.

Actually, in this particular case the strategy is arguably better suited to a release environment than a beta one. The point of the post (which you seem to have skimmed past) is that the buff strategy is a psychological ploy. The extra edge-case testing that you get is a bonus that goes along with it.

I'm well aware of the difference between beta and release code just as I'm sure you're aware that modern MMO games blur the lines between beta and release software in the first place! You could state - without irony - that all MMOs are in a perpetual state of test/release/re-test/re-release, and thus many of the techniques you employ in a traditional beta program work quite well.

Understand that I'm certainly not making excuses for things like broken bloodpact timers, missing item information, garbled translations, lack of proper regression testing, etc. I'm simply explaining why I think SE did the 2H update in that manner. Frankly, I think the alternative explanation that SE never did any testing whatsoever (which is what would have to have happened for them to not notice how strong it was) is much more far fetched than mine.

Good points. After what I've learned from software testing in industry, I'm surprised there aren't MORE bugs based on the huge scope of FFXI. Their testing methods do seem a bit suspect but it's impossible to say how bad it is without knowing about their entire process.

[Fusoyah]

They had a lvl i think 43 feet gear on AH and it said something like "Attack+U5050".. They should fix that too if they noticed lol.

[Kawfee]

They had a lvl i think 43 feet gear on AH and it said something like "Attack+U5050".. They should fix that too if they noticed lol.

Yes, all of the Iron Ram gear has incorrect stats displayed that say Attack+<random memory location> or something.

[WithinMemoria]

The "Check Version" button is up..

Total of 56 files..

[Starr]

additional effect items are broken.

SHHHHHHH

[Koga]

@ work so won't be hosting the update files untill I get home in about an hour.

[SilverBreeze]

I know there were some things wrong, my Scholar @ 72 learning Raise 2 and Reraise 2 even though the scrolls say level 75, other crap... but does that really take 4 hours to fix?

The biggest problem is the fucking Moogle though.

LS: "Oh fuck ____ Pop. Come everyone!"
Me: /ma "Warp" Tinkie
Moogle: YOUR MOG LOCKER EXPIRES IN THREE YEARS
Moogle: YOUR MOG LOCKER EXPIRES IN THREE YEARS
Moogle: YOUR MOG LOCKER EXPIRES IN THREE YEARS
Moogle: YOUR MOG LOCKER EXPIRES IN THREE YEARS
Moogle: YOUR MOG LOCKER EXPIRES IN THREE YEARS
Moogle: YOUR MOG LOCKER EXPIRES IN THREE YEARS
Me: SHUT THE FUCK UP AND LET ME CHANGE JOBS!
Moogle: YOUR MOG LOCKER EXPIRES IN THREE YEARS
Moogle: YOUR MOG LOCKER EXPIRES IN THREE YEARS
Moogle: YOUR MOG LOCKER EXPIRES IN THREE YEARS
LS: Hurry up guys, whats taking so long?
Me: My moogle is either on strike or is holding my gear hostage...

Or maybe they realized they gave Tarutaru Females the wrong Scholar AF... ok ok, I'll stop whining about it...

[miokomioko]

You're like a lab rat that keeps pressing the switch that elecrocutes him.

[WithinMemoria]

[Important Update Details]

- The restriction on a specific special ability of the NM "Skogs Fru" in East Ronfaure [S] has been removed.

The following issues have been addressed:

- If the expansion disc "Wings of the Goddess" was not installed, the game would freeze after completing the battle fields in Throne Room.

- Harvesting in Wajaom Woodlands and Bhaflau Thickets may have been unavailable.

- Inability to target Brittle Rock in the assault "Excavation Duty" in certain conditions.

- Dark Kindred "Shadowhand" may have cast certain spells on players which it normally does not cast.

- The affect of "Regen" was not listed on the item description of the item "Sol Cap."

- The help message of following magic scrolls did not include the level for Scholar:
Raise II/Reraise/Reraise II/Sleep II

- If the expansion disc "Treasures of Aht Urhgan" was not installed, the effect of the magic "Retrace," "Recall-Jugner," "Recall-Pashh," and "Recall-Meriph" would not initiate.

- Players may have been unable to target "Fortification" during campaign battles.
* Due to the change, "Fortification" and monsters from campaign battles will no longer link.

- Certain monsters may not have retreated immediately after the campaign battle ends.

- Even though the Campaign Ops "Bridge Too Far" was not offered, an event reporting the result of "Bridge Too Far" may have started to scroll after talking to Campaign Arbiters.

- Recipes other than Alchemy appropriate ones may have been assigned even though Alchemy was selected in Campaign Ops "Iron Anvil III."

- The Dancer job ability "Samba" was effective on player's pets.

- Magic "Sleep II" did not extend its effect to targets within range when the Scholar job ability "Manifestation" is used.

- Unknown characters appeared on the help message of "I.R. Chainmail" and "I.R. Sollerets."

- The help message for the Scholar job abilities "Accession" and "Manifestation" stated that the amount of required MP will become triple if used.

- The help message of Scholar's job ability "Sublimation" was incorrect.

- In case Scholar is selected as a support job, the number of Charge and recast intervals of the Scholar job ability "Stratgems" differed depending on the level of the main job.

- The character motions for "/dance1," "/dance2," "/dance3" and "/dance4" emotes did not play the correct motions for Tarutaru characters.

- BGM would start in the middle when it changed from the battle BGM.
Example: When player fishes while the battle BGM is playing.

- Sometimes was unable to access the "Mog House" menu while in the Mog House.

- Position of the cursor may shift in certain menus (Magic, Mission, Quest, Key Items, Bazaar) when the list were scrolled using the left or right keys.

http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/polnew ... 2849.shtml

[Koga]

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