All Worlds Emergency Maintenance (Jul. 20)

[LinktheDeme]

Some people also seem to have an infinite supply of stones. I have yet to run out of stones and I've been spamming the fuck out of Abyssea while my buddy has to wait on Joachim.

dumb question but you and your friend realize that Joachim does store stones right?

[Marootsoobutsu]

dumb question but you and your friend realize that Joachim does store stones right?

I went more than 36 hours before he would give me a new stone; something about him isn't working right.

[Hyan]

Well, I guess we found our emergency.

[S N K]

Abyessa exp is the 1st right thing they've done right and good in a damn long time. I really hope to all fuck they don't nerf it.

[Shenrien]

I love maintenance, it brings me so many laughs with what people come up with, the robber crab expansion on ffxi made lol pretty hard.

[Nightfyre]

incoming nerfing footwork with oat h2h. my poise shoes will not be pleased.

fuuuuuuuuuuuu

Actually, given the model that was proposed recently I could see it happening eventually. Would be cool if they left it alone though, what with all the new Footwork shinies this update.

[ringthree]

We know of at least 2 glitches involving stones that are pretty serious for those who have it happen.

1. People randomly getting 3 minute for a stone even when they go from 0 time.
2. If you don't get visitant status and you have stored time it disappears.

In all honesty both of these are emergency maint. worthy. It's also been mentioned that some mobs are not giving lights and that may or not be intended.

Although I am pleased that I managed to get all of my jobs to 80 so I can be a bit more relaxed in regards to the exp situation.

There is another glitch that has happened with the quests regarding Curella. Trading the Lambent Scale completes the first quest with Halver, but you don't get the key item. This has happened to at least two people that I know.

[ringthree]

Abyessa exp is the 1st right thing they've done right and good in a damn long time. I really hope to all fuck they don't nerf it.

I really don't think it is going away. There is just no way to XP the old way for people that have multiple jobs and will still need to get to 99.

[Dathus]

Incoming extension til 6PM EST.

[CubsWoo]

Game's back up, with a ~30 file version update. No news on what's been changed yet.

[Crizto]

SWWWAAAARRRRRMMMM

[Byrthnoth]

JPs have an update notice! Someone check out what was up!

[Baelorn]

JPs have an update notice! Someone check out what was up!

Black screen issue fixes.

[Sho]

I can count on one hand the number of times SE has discovered something wrong with their game before it was fairly widely available knowledge. And yes, there are definitely things wrong still with the game caused by the update. The long pause between this and the last update could be SE making sure they got everything.

Also, on the lines of Abyssea XP being the FFXI-solution for the casual player:
Really? Does the casual player spend 5 consecutive hours playing?

If their goal was to make FFXI casual-friendly, SE failed. Abyssea rewards the people who stick it out for the most hours in a row. When we figure out how lights work and how to be more efficient pumping up our strengths (and stop bringing a bunch of THFs and PUPs to Abyssea as DDs with no bards and a BLU pulling), we'll probably be able to get good/capped XP in ~1 hour, and possibly net 80k XP in a 1.5 hour 3-stone run. *That* is casual player friendly. "Stick it out for 5 hours and get 75->80+buffer+11 merits" is not.

It's casual in the sense that, a person that only has 1-3 days can cap out jobs and/or merits within those 1-3 days over someone that can play a lot more.

You know there is no way possible for the same person could do it under older exp conditions with the same allotted time to themselves. EX: I have a friend that's on his 7th lvl 80 job right now, and he has less time than most to play.

[zephr]

At the following time, we performed an update of FINAL FANTASY XI.

* An update to the client program has also been included in this update. After the following time, when you press the "Play" button, the update will begin automatically. Please follow the instructions shown on the screen at this time.

[Date & Time]
Jul. 20, 2010 at 12:00 (PDT)

[Affected Services]
FINAL FANTASY XI

[Important Update Details]
- A counter measure was implemented for the screen blackout issue which may occur during the event in "Crossroads of Time" mission which plays after winning the battlefield of "A Nation on the Brink" mission.

- A counter measure was implemented for the screen blackout issue which may occur during the event for "Embers of His Past" and "The Prince and the Hopper" quests.
*To address these issues, a location which allow players to view the past events has been moved from Aht Urhgan Whitegate to Wajaom Woodlands.

[Byrthnoth]

PS2 version? I have been blackscreening a lot since the update when I'm in alliances with animations on, but I thought it was just my PS2 being hella old.

[Nightfyre]

That's it? ffs

EDIT: I've been crashing fairly often at times post-update on my PC, also blamed it on age.

[NynJa]

too lazy to type, but would have probably been quicker -.-

http://img828.imageshack.us/img828/7...datedfiles.jpg

[Hyan]

SHIT, 114.DAT! That's the TE chest...

[NynJa]

SHIT, 114.DAT! That's the TE chest...

Looks to be some french dialog on my end >.>

Actually, most of the dats seem to be dialog tables.
Also found:
Wajoom dat list
Batallia[s] dat list