All Worlds Emergency Maintenance (Sep. 11)

[Apelila]

Automaton, summoned avatar, and Beastmaster's summoned or charmed pet will no longer leave when Level Sync is activated or when designated player's level increases while Level Sync is activated.

...Lv11 Carries? or Amigos?

I think (not to hard now) that what was supposed to happen was pets of a higher level than the player where supposed to leave with aggro towards the player and it was happening to every pet.

Or they fucked it up and quite literally instead of having aggro like the update notes say, the pet would 'leave' and go away.

[Lordwafik]

Go play another game for that whopping two hours it takes to fix what they're doing.

http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/g3/bells.htm

http://www.owensworld.com/flashgames/play.php?id=33

[Thorshammer]

SE: It has come to our attention that the nm Absolute Virtue was almost defeated. The method used to accomplished this was not how the developers intended. This will be secretly adjusted.

Thats funny :D

[Auspice]

You guys forgot one of the notes on the update:

"We addressed an issue where players were receiving too many AF2 drops from various Dynamis zones. We apologize for the inconvenience."

[Tsukasaz]

You guys forgot one of the notes on the update:

"We addressed an issue where players were receiving too many AF2 drops from various Dynamis zones. We apologize for the inconvenience."

If they change this I'm blaming you.

[Shinsei]

I wonder if they patching the relics too lol....I don't think the relic boost was meant to be implemented until another update, and they were prolly testing shit on Aegis for example and maybe forgot to comment out the code? <.<

[amisakarp]

Ninja-fix the blocking of certain South Korean ISPs. :nyoro~n: (No, it's not an ISP problem because I've run traceroutes, ping tests, and so many other tests on those SE servers; the POL server on SE's server network is blocking the IPs of KT/LG Telecom ISPs. I ran a test from VA, and it was able to connect, but from my IP it wasn't able to connect. My ISP also said if I contacted them one more time, they'd come and shoot my dog.) q w p

[Linktri]

Fixed.

[Date & Time]
Sep. 11, 2008 from 10:00 to 12:00 (PDT)
* Maintenance completion time may be subject to change.

[Affected Services]
FINAL FANTASY XI

[Maintenance Details]
Following changes will be made:

- Automaton, summoned avatar, and Beastmaster's summoned or charmed pet will no longer leave when Level Sync is activated or when designated player's level increases while Level Sync is activated.

Following issues will be addressed:

- Unable to remove additional effects from special abilities "Aegis Schism" and "Dancing Chains" used by some Shadow (Fomor) monsters.

- Status icon does not appear correct when Relic Weapon Gungnir's weapon skill "Geirskogul" is used.

- Level Sync synchronization does not deactivate upon participating Campaign Battle or Besieged.

- Absolute Virtue will be made immune to Souleater and Drain effects. (Fuck you, you're not doing it right bitches!)

[Arcanesoul]

Automaton, summoned avatar, and Beastmaster's summoned or charmed pet will no longer leave when Level Sync is activated or when designated player's level increases while Level Sync is activated.

...Lv11 Carries? or Amigos?

I'm sure this is going to be messed up anyway. No way they'd program it so your pet adjusted to the level sync. They would probably leave it at the same level pre-sync and it would mess up your exp because of the level difference. At least with avatar's, automaton, and wyvern, you can easily dismiss and call it again, so it's not going to make much difference. Bst's will only get the chance to re-call a pet at level 23. Also if someone levels up, you can almost guarantee that your bst pet won't level up, like it is for automatons until you recall it (and even then bst's get done in 'cause it's a level range).

Here's hoping that it will somehow allow you to call say Diremite familiar at that level, but it's probably going to stay as it was before. Meh.

[Sobie]

My money is on AF2 drop rate Ninja-fix.

[Aajinana]

Nice of them to not fix EXP bands wearing off when the person your level-sync'd with levels...assholes >.>;

[Fhqwghads]

Why...... cant.... they...... BETA TEST THIS SHIT ON ATOMOS??? -.-'''''''

Rant:

Spoiler: show

They do beta test it. The problem is, since they're uptight pricks about letting out early info, they disallow regular players from helping out. Unlike every other MMO company on the face of the fucking planet, who actually understand how critical having actual players on test servers is and WANT them to be there, SE would rather shroud everything in their big Jay Pee mystery fog, and put out the fires they cause later on when their pathetically small crew of Atomos testers overlook even the most fundamentally basic game mechanics that is discovered in a few hours after the updates/expansions go live.

They really need to get over this bullshit "mysterious secrets" crap and have normal players go in and test their changes out. Having their player-base beta test their changes for them after they're on live servers is completely fucking stupid, and time and again we've seen how it doesn't work. *DING DING* Get a clue, SE. *DING DING*

[Faithe]

[QUOTE=Infini;2221384]Why...... cant.... they...... BETA TEST THIS SHIT ON ATOMOS??? -.-'''''''

[QUOTE]

This is the BETA TEST!!! BAHAHAHA

[Marcicus]

ninja nerf to Atonement, calling it now.

[fussel]

Nice of them to not fix EXP bands wearing off when the person your level-sync'd with levels...assholes >.>;

Has this already been confirmed? I wrote that in the "Things broken"-thread, but I'm still not sure if that was coincidence because I had reached the maximum exp bonus. I'm pretty sure that it happened, though. Checked the battle log and it went out together with the rest of the buffs, not as the first and not as the last.

I'm also pretty sure that it doesn't turn off when level sync is just activated - I did the use band, recharge ring, use band again later trick. Then, the second charge wasn't used up completely (rather only a couple of hundered exp) and it was still active two days later when I went to a level sync party again and it didn't turn off on level sync activation.

[Aajinana]

Has this already been confirmed? I wrote that in the "Things broken"-thread, but I'm still not sure if that was coincidence because I had reached the maximum exp bonus.

I tested it last night in level-sync party with my irl bf, used my band just before he was due to gain a level and it wore when he did after only 200exp ; ; Unless i'm bugging, which is possible cos my FF tends to suck alot at times lol will test it again today when the charge is up again tho.

Edit: will test again in about 15mins which is when my band is up, providing i can find someone close tnl to sync with.

Re-edit: scrap my last comment..guess my game was just glitching yesterday...just De-leveled my bf's NIN in the name of science lol (he's gonna be mad) Sync'd with him till he re-leveled and my band didnt wear. Tho i still think lsing it yesterday after 200exp is more than a bit weird. Oh well...

[test123]

Aftermath effect will be reduced to 10 seconds.
Due to heavy traffic, ps2 and server limitations players will now be penetalized for equipment change.

[Therin]

They should just recruit a small crew of Beta testers worldwide, and give them all Atomos accounts and make them sign NDAs. Maybe a couple hundred NA, JP, and EU ones.

[Odin'sLaw]

i think we'd all love to test stuff out but i think thats the point :/ SE

Doesn't trust us players with "secret info"

[Cesaria]

Oh well... least my Xbox came back this morning... back to Civ and kicking Mr Lincoln's ass for me.