Random Complaint Thread. No white knighting allowed.

[sruon]

Lindblum is still kind of lively but yeah, the SP thing is a pretty big deal to me so i've just been toying around in Ul'dah synthing, can't really say about camps. I'd guess by April/May we're going to see those controlled free transfers like in FFXI.

[Meko]

Nice terminology there lol.

[The Q]

One thing that I've run into lately that I must complain about is there is no way to quickly change which LS I am chatting to, at least as far as I know.

[Sephiroth]

Yeah it would be nice if you could switch LS on the chat bar like you can with changing chat mode. Or even better, why not let you open chat windows for multiple LSs so you can chat to two or more at once?

And while talking about chat boxes, I wish they would fix the UI bug where problems occur when a window is on top of the log. I sometimes have to move the log window in order to click accept on a trade.

[miokomioko]

What reason is that?

It's not at the other end of a ferry ride out to an island and it's not at the far end of an annoying-to-navigate forest. It gets the most traffic because it's between the other two cities and that's why most people park their retainers/bazaars there to get the most exposure.

[solracht]

It's not at the other end of a ferry ride out to an island and it's not at the far end of an annoying-to-navigate forest. It gets the most traffic because it's between the other two cities and that's why most people park their retainers/bazaars there to get the most exposure.

I wish they had added an airship ride connecting La Noscea and the Black Shroud right away, would've made the contest for the capital city a little more fair.

[Lucavi]

1) Lost my leve from zoning into an invisible zoneline at a bridge at tranquil, losing my 20k and my new skirt.

2) DCed on the very next leve, losing 900 thaum marks.

I'm so glad I came back for the night.

[miokomioko]

I really wish they included some indicators for local leves that had been completed but not delivered or whether or not the ingredients have been obtained as well as how many sets of ingredients are left to attempt.

something like:

Blank leve icon = synthesis materials have not been received yet
Yellow arrow leve icon (X) = synthesis materials have been received but you have no completed the necessary amount of items yet
Green check leve icon (X) = you have created the minimum required items but you have not delivered them yet
Leve removed from list = Leve has either been failed or completed + delivered

X = amount of synthesis materials remaining


Also, it should give you the message "synthesis materials exhausted" even if you successfully completed the leve, not just when you fail it.

[Grey Jorildyn]

Dear SE,

Why do I have to log out to change my client settings?
Does your game have down's?

Sincerely,

Grey J.

[Rainesong]

What's with rank 10 local leves being the hardest ones? Even when I'm a couple ranks over 10, I always seem to smash 1 or 2, and the others may be close. All other ranks I've done (up to 30 so far) I smash far less. I can be a rank or 2 below the recommended rank and be just fine... Maybe it's lack of abilities idk...

[Sephiroth]

I don't know why they had to fuck with bold. I just spammed bold and Epiphany through 6 synths of a rank 20 leve. Yet I still couldn't reach 200 rating. I got to about 193. It's a waste of time even picking these up now because I get about 10 SP a synth.

[Darkdreamer]

Man, I've really been hoping for some better news on this game lately. Everything just seems so shitty and only the loyal people/masochist are sticking around in the hopes it gets better. While I do understand it's night and day now from what it was when it was first released none of it seems too promising. I've been hoping for better things to happen and start playing during PS3 release but I don't know anymore. It almost makes me sad that I threw away all my codes/key code/all disks and other information for XI, key word almost.

[Sephiroth]

Well the patch didn't make me love the game any more. They added enough negative changes to cancel out any good they added. I'm going to give it a six month subscription next month and if the game is still fail when that runs out I'll be done. If they can't make the game great by June it will flop.

[Meko]

I don't know how the game is going to be resurrected honestly. So much is lost with a poor launch that the future changes will have to be epic to have any sort of draw in. The PS3 launch "might" help but I don't see it being that big of a deal. As far as MMO's go, games that launch poorly typically stay that way a la Warhammer and Age of Conan (right off the top of my head). The game has/had potential but at this point in time, it's probably too far gone as the next wave of games will be coming out in the next 6 months or so and with WoW's Cataclysm expansion.

[Purrrfect]

One thing that I've run into lately that I must complain about is there is no way to quickly change which LS I am chatting to, at least as far as I know.

I sent SE a suggestion about giving us a /l1 /l2 etc. but you know how those submissions just go to a deleted folder.

[Siatdiat]

I don't know how the game is going to be resurrected honestly. So much is lost with a poor launch that the future changes will have to be epic to have any sort of draw in. The PS3 launch "might" help but I don't see it being that big of a deal. As far as MMO's go, games that launch poorly typically stay that way a la Warhammer and Age of Conan (right off the top of my head). The game has/had potential but at this point in time, it's probably too far gone as the next wave of games will be coming out in the next 6 months or so and with WoW's Cataclysm expansion.

Don't forget they are competing with their own game as well. New Abyssea on the 6th, Cata on the 7th... Idk who will be playing 14 during the Dec update.

I keep wondering where the innovation is in 14 btw... I don't know how making a 3-D version of ultima online is innovative.

[Lucavi]

I'm guessing that since Japan didn't play ultima online, SE, out of the goodness of their heart, will bring the old experience to Japan in a new era~!

[Sephiroth]

I really don't know why I bother crafting. The average price of an ice brand on my server is 85k, which is pathetic considering it's an end-game THM weapon and the value of gil in this game is so low compared to FFXI. Then we've got to factor in it's about 65k in mats to make it. Sure you can farm the mats, but farmed mats have value too.

Then we've got the THM weapons in the 30s, it takes a week to sell one at 100-130k. Gem rings? They take days to sell at 15-25k each. Other jewellery? Useless. I can't even sell the mythril choker which is the best necklace in the game right now.

I don't know what SE can do to fix the economy. There's too much gil in the game and no one wants to spend any of it even for stupidly low priced equipment. I guess part of it is because there's not many high rank battle classes to keep up with the unlimited supply of equipment for them. Supply way higher than demand issue.

[arshesney]

Rank 20 cooking leves in Ul'dah and Gridania: why guild facilities required?

[miokomioko]

Rank 20 cooking leves in Ul'dah and Gridania: why guild facilities required?

Just to piss you off. ;[

I think starting at about 5 ranks above them, I've been able to complete them with common facilities and some concentration.

Shit like 'Battle of the Breads'... Rank-20 = Guild Support. Rank 25 = no support required. And Finger Food... Rank-20 = Guild Support. Rank-30 = no support required.
It's just random as hell. You'll get over the hump of actually needing the appropriate support soon enough.