All Worlds Emergency Maintenance (Dec. 16)

[Xanthe]

At the following time, we will be performing FINAL FANTASY XI maintenance on all worlds. During this period, FINAL FANTASY XI will be unavailable.

Thank you for your understanding and patience.

[Date & Time]
Dec. 16, 2009 from 9:00 to 11:00 (PST)
* Maintenance completion time may be subject to change.

[Affected Services]
FINAL FANTASY XI

* The World Transfer Service will be unavailable starting 30 minutes before the maintenance. Please wait until after the maintenance is completed before attempting to use these services.

* Players who are scheduled to participate in various in-game activities including Dynamis and Salvage, we ask that you please wait until maintenance is complete before engaging in these activities. Please note that we cannot replace items that are lost during the maintenance process.

http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/pol...ews17681.shtml

[Eanae]

I hope to god they fix Tiamat.

[Aeowin]

I agree with Eanae, this random draw-in shit is ridiculous.

[Neoex]

done 2 tiamats nothing seems different to me

[TummieGaruda]

I wish they would fix the droprate on aptants, but thats just a dream lol.

[Despain]

I wish they would fix the droprate on the new NMs, but thats just a dream lol.

ftfy

[SargentRemora]

I agree with Eanae, this random draw-in shit is ridiculous.

Could you tell me what this is about? Noticed Ouryu was drawing in our PLDs a lot more too, but I thought that was down to less experience with Wyrms.

[Deader2818]

I wish they would fix the droprate on all HNMs, but thats just a dream lol.

ftfy

Hi. Welcome to FFXI, where drop rates have always sucked.

[Karbuncle]

Hi. Welcome to FFXI, where drop rates have always sucked.

Tell that to PELICAN >:O HUH?

I miss 100% drop r/ex items =<

[Deader2818]

Tell that to PELICAN >:O HUH?

I miss 100% drop r/ex items =<

Joyeuse FTFW!

[Wulfgang]

Could you tell me what this is about? Noticed Ouryu was drawing in our PLDs a lot more too, but I thought that was down to less experience with Wyrms.

We did a ton of Ouryus last night, I was PLD/RDM, everything is normal.

[evilpaul]

They're nerfing the easy 1-40 Synergy skill up routes. They realized Synergy wasn't useless and impossible to skill and wanted to fix it.

[Rugazanami]

They're nerfing the easy 1-40 Synergy skill up routes. They realized Synergy wasn't useless and impossible to skill and wanted to fix it.

Hm. That's probably it. They probably will make it so that failures won't give skillups. Or even worse, they might make it so that you lose your items on a failed synth.

[Deader2818]

That, or they are going to make it like other crafts where you have to be a certain level to try the synergy.

[evilpaul]

So are they going to tell us what the hell they did?

[Deader2818]

A version update of FINAL FANTASY XI was performed at the following time along with emergency maintenance on a number of areas.

[Date & Time]
Dec. 16, 2009 at 11:00 (PST)

[Affected Services]
FINAL FANTASY XI

[Important Update Details]
- Adjustments have been made to the processing load in a certain area.

Whatever that means.

[NynJa]

What the fuck does that mean? Can someone check JP or German? lol

FR: - Ajustement du volume d'information à traiter dans une zone spécifique.
Basically translates to the same thing.

I dont get if it were a specific zone, they couldnt just do zone maintenance?

[evilpaul]

The Palborough rock grinder thing?

[Deimos]

What the fuck does that mean? Can someone check JP or German? lol

一部エリアにおいて、処理負荷の調整を行いました。

Japanese says the same thing. Pretty vague. Maybe Whitegate is less laggy? (Unlikely)

[SnickySnacks]

Likely means that some part of the server code wasn't behaving and was eating too much CPU on the server.

Very likely nothing that players will notice.

or, as evilpaul suggests in the post below me...
they changed it so the processing load on the player's systems will be less.

idk.

Either way, it's not anything important.