FFXI Version Update (9/08/10)

[Crizto]

Abyssea Campaign nice >_>

[ronin sparthos]

Winning Bastion better pay out in TEs ._.

[Spira]

not just you.
either they disallowed it or the servers are being crappy. more likely to be the latter tho but who knows

edit:
remember that during the aug 31 preliminary update there was server congestion on the version check thing already...
now there's probably even more reason for it

[Not Kuno]

Note that it sounds like abyssites might allow max stones carried to go to 5.

You could already go to 4. The problem is the max is still 120 with this expansion so... still useless.

[Alkar]

I realize most people could give two shits about the storyline but really

I don't remember you caring much about the storyline either before these notes. And if we can cross 20 years by entering a maw, I don't see why we couldn't simply enter one in the past and end up 20 years later in a different dimension. It's not that hard really.

[Cantih]

Winning Bastion better pay out in TEs ._.

Oh god, brilliant.
I pray they actually managed to think about that.

[Calintzpso]

first person to actually download the update, i pray, is knowledgeable to make a update upload file for all of us.

This is ridiculous.

Every post I read, I hit the retry button... still nothing.

[Shin Volcano]

Most groups I've been in will /random for items from chests anyway, so no change there. Adding them to pool lessens the chance of someone swiping it from a chest without proper notice, be they box bitch or just some selfish bastard.

Welll, i think somone still has to choose for them to be in pool, no telling how that pan out. if it will work like quater master i guess?

however..i really do wish they could do something about the fucking event skiping.

[Vandalhart]

Omg wow they are fixing some really awesome stuff! Loving the changes to abyssea but still no way of dumping merits it seems being able to tele to maws from jueno will be rather fantastic though!

Changing my HP to Port Jeuno Mog House may be the best thing when I goto Abyssea parties now. Warp, Merit spend, Horst back out. Might take 5-10 minutes.

[Dooom]

The last person who cares about story in FFXI anymore in SE. Ideas like continuity seem to be totally out the window with Abyssea. It's just a giant sandbox of "let's put this here and this there and oooh that'd be cool". Like when you're a kid and play spacemen vs. cowboys.

[Spira]

Note that it sounds like abyssites might allow max stones carried to go to 5.

doesnt just sound like, they actually say so on the line right above the one you quoted.

Three stones will initially be the maximum amount you may possess at one time, but this number can be increased to five through the acquisition of certain key items.*

[Kaslo]

The last person who cares about story in FFXI anymore in SE. Ideas like continuity seem to be totally out the window with Abyssea. It's just a giant sandbox of "let's put this here and this there and oooh that'd be cool". Like when you're a kid and play spacemen vs. cowboys.

Technically, everything always goes out the window once time travel is introduced into anything.

[S N K]

Yeeeeeep, THF DW is DW1.
Move along, nothing to see here, keep using /NIN or /DNC for now.

Yeah I was thinking the same fucking thing.

Once the next update after this happens, THF will have more DW from /nin. They should have just made it DW2 for THF instead of DW1.

[Vegetatheprince]

Technically, everything always goes out the window once time travel is introduced into anything.

Especially when you've been on the island for too long.

[Calintzpso]

The last person who cares about story in FFXI anymore in SE. Ideas like continuity seem to be totally out the window with Abyssea. It's just a giant sandbox of "let's put this here and this there and oooh that'd be cool". Like when you're a kid and play spacemen vs. cowboys.

Cowboys would win, just saying.

anyways, with all of us at the flood gates pounding the repair file system, I feel sorry for the ITs in the server room who have to be ready for any problems.

To him, its looking like black Friday, everything in the stores 50% off, everyone got 10k refund the night before from the government and they're short half if their staff cause 5 people called in sick. God help them.

We are gonna rape bandwidth tonight!

[SnickySnacks]

As for perfect counter, previously it would counter 0-3 attacks, sounds like they're fixing it to counter a minimum of 1.

[Calintzpso]

SUCCESS! got file check to work

[Spira]

The last person who cares about story in FFXI anymore in SE. Ideas like continuity seem to be totally out the window with Abyssea. It's just a giant sandbox of "let's put this here and this there and oooh that'd be cool". Like when you're a kid and play spacemen vs. cowboys.

actually i dont see what the issue is with continuity.
Abyssea exists on a different plane completely so its story is separate from this one.. until they tie it in.. thru moogles probably.

placement of maws doesn't really matter that much, but at least they bothered to place them near where the zones are geographically, with the exception of Misereaux, where they just placed it near an existing vortex already.

Vunkerl makes sense in continuity. I'd be interested to see Misereaux tho. Wonder what Riverne will look like

[Cantih]

All in all though, a nice looking update.
Just need to get in and see what Bastion actually outputs, and how good AF3 is. If I can get some more TH, I'll be pretty happy.

[Spira]

Technically, everything always goes out the window once time travel is introduced into anything.

thats a very good point lol.