Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

Classic level 75 cap people who quit in late ToAU/early WoTG, and don't want to admit that the game continued without them just fine.

FFXI was so amazing when it took you thirty minutes to get from town to Aery to stand around for 30-200 minutes.

The greatest irony about is they complain that it became a shadow of an MMO because of trusts etc.

My brother in Altana, it developed trusts because so many people left. People like you! You are the reason it is this way!

And you just know he's a dude that probably deuced out the second they raised the level cap to 80. I understand but will never fully understand why that level cap raise made people quit.

Like, I get it, Abyssea came out with new gear that was a lot easier to get and sidegrade/better than a lot of stuff people spent years and beers and fears on to get. I get it. But everybody who had the old gear still had a leg up and an even easier time getting decked out in the new stuff. Like, ***, the cap raise came with new WSes at 80, which was only like 2.5 years after Mythic WS came out, and then that same year we got Empyrean WS too... and then not even a full 2 years after that, merited WS! It wasn't all sunshine and rainbows, but there was so much new stuff gameplay wise I personally found the time to be FFXI converted into FFXI: Crack Cocaine edition.

Solid ROI on all my playing hours? Ultimate weapons that aren't locked behind gil(well until Voidwatch and Heavy Metal but that was a little later)? I can do solid lowman or big group for it, too? Sign me the *** up!

I was just confused for a second when this instructor said: "Do you know when to use UX research? well, use it before, during and after the design phase".

Then me: "well, so did you mean use it all the time?" I dont see a point of being specific with the design phase when everything is somewhere before during or after some point in time.

Things you hear someone saying it as something super smart, but in the end it is just dumb.

yeah the price of a big world like that, it loses the size charm with too much fast travel, but the world was often not engaging enough to keep such slow travelling fun. Thank god for the social aspect getting to type chat to friends and auto running.

I would often spend an entire evening just getting a low level to xacabard for the first time to get the teleport, or got forbid, yhoater teleport. And if someone needed to be walked to feiyen for the first time? shoot me now lol no wonder we were so social and typing so much, with hours spend walking places

I eventually just told people go buy a silver piece, we getting you the blue mage job the easy faster route to dvucca isle bro I ain't raising your dumb *** 100 times as you dance around chiggers and true sight imps for the other ones lol.

And still would take 2 hours if they missed the nashmau boat

Idk if my life will get better, but I managed to reduce 50% of sweetener I used to consume per day

Some people don't understand that the original XI was never designed to last forever, it was designed to be finite and have a 4-5 year lifespan (they have said over and over it was expected to die with the ps2). A private server is original XI on steroids, becasue people already know all the secrets, they have far less ability to attract new players (cause it's illegal and it can be taken down if SE wanted, and it is unsafe due to mongoloids running it reading your chat logs and having access to your personal details), people use addons to be more "efficient", and they know how to level fast and do all the stuff faster. So they get to the "end of the universe" point faster, the end of the universe point is where everyone has the jobs leveled they wanted to level and have the gear they want because the drop rates are higher and the monsters easier to kill.

Old XI could only work as long as it did because it had lots of new players coming in constantly, and this worked on retail because it was a proper game you could buy in the shop, in the FF universe, with actual AAA developers that were so good at their job they could get paid to do it, run by a proper company with laws to protect players with a large fanbase. The only target audience a PS can pull from are real ale drinkers scoffing memberberries, trying to relive their teenage years (who don't actually have the time to play that version of the game anymore, and so end up unknowingly buying gil from the guy running it on rmt sites)

The number of players and the number of jobs those players want to level is finite, the entire system breaks down and they run out of people wanting to level jobs and so the party system no longer works. The endgame is similarity finite but even faster to become irrelevant on a PS, because they make the fights laughably easier and drops higher (people already have most of the king drops if they play a lot on a PS, this was unheard of on retail for 6-7 years).

The future for a private server player is to suck the water out of the rag, and then wait for someone to make a new wet rag so you can start from the beginning again (and it will probably be the same guy again). The one running the PS we are talking about know it doesn't work long term, but they don't care becasue he sells gil on rmt sites and that is the entire reason he does it.

When the developers understood the game was going to live beyond the initial designs, they changed it to accommodate that. This is why we have all the things that these people (who quit XI long ago, and played XIV for years) complain about. They were added because they had to be added, for the game to be actually sustainable.

If you play on a private server there is no future in what you are doing, there is only moving to a new private server once it no longer functions. This is why they shill with such utter desperation, because they know the end is near.

I can understand the value of simplifying things in communication, unfortunately for some people such as myself, simplifying things in our brain is very difficult. So I can see why other people communicate like that.

If there are certain things that needs to be performed during certain phase, my brain will do a run down on exactly which step it need to be performed, then ended up saying "this step needs to be performed in phase 1, 2 and 3". I wouldn't even realize phase 1, 2 and 3 is all the phase so you can just say "all the time" instead. Unless someone remind me this is the case.

And even if you remind me I can just say "all the time", I will ended up doing another run down in my head to ensure the phase "all the time" really applies under all situations, before I can answer "yes, do this all the time."

So.... it's not necessary that people "act smart" to complicate things in communication. It's just different people brain functions differently, converting different brain thought process to a unified communication style is difficult.

You fixate on this stuff too much, and you probably work out more than you need to. Sugar is fine in moderation, and working out too much is as bad as not working out at all.

This site cant handle Rady and Alfania at same time.

You guys need to take turns!

I can see Panta's brain overloading from overthinking people's posts....

Don't blame this site, FFXIAH is innocent.

Might've been for emphasis.
The first thing that came to mind after reading this line was: they were creating emphasis on the importance of constant UX research. Ofc, it depends on the delivery of the line, the nature of the spoken language, and some other subtleties, so you be the judge of that, but it's a very common emphasis technique.

He isn't. He is doing his bit to make up for layabouts like me.

Panta, keep up the good work.

I wasnt expecting Mrs Chatty to understand me.

Now Im kinda worried.

Someone need to put a stop in Alfanias political stuffs in New Games thread.

That place is basically Nynjas home.

If its locked/bombed, I fear Nynja will become a beggar in FFXIAH, a homeless.

While I think that is just about fair for someone who kick dogs, I worry he will stop washing after having his house locked, and start to stink (more) in the site…

I am innocent, I discuss economy/social science theory stuff. But people are just EASILY triggered and react with tons of political posts! ;(

Us economy theory nerds have no home (cry) ;(

The funniest thing about that comic is actually Eve knowing what dollars are long before dollars would ever exist.

Of course, the initial funny hook is that economics = evil. :D

The same thing happened with classic wow, the same kind of comments but the sad part these guys actually never played the 75 era just a fraction of it

and its also hard for them to Play jobs with more than 10 actions now no need to macro alot of stuff

Good morning you, political mfers.

Remember that you are not allowed to post political junk in three specific momento: before 7am, during 7am and after 7am.

But you can post that junk any time not included in the condition above.

Have a good day.

Oh Vyre-kun, I must confess a sin. I have influenced by the dark force. My desire to learn economics was driven by my inherent nature of greed and desire for manipulation.

While I don't expect forgiveness, I hope someday humanity can benefit from this. Economics, the necessary evil of humanity.

Todays news:

Japanese was considered innocent after 40 of being convicted to death sentence.

He received $1.4M for the time he was in jail.

Do you think $1.4M is enough to repair 40 years of being wrongly arrested?

1.4 mil over 40 years is 35k a year

Absolutely not.

35k a year + housing + meals + medical treatment is well over average tokyo income

their legal system doesn't have punitive damages and limits compensatory to a soulless calculation, iirc.. so even if it seems silly by western standards it seems in line with their legal system

better question:
is it more or less just than an elevator repairman operator at tesla getting $137 million for being treated in a racist manner on the job?

If it's anything like the US, then people who are found innocent very often actually did do the crime and an activist lawyer found a smart way to get them off on a technicality.

For instance someone murdering a woman, his DNA being found at the crime scene but some paperwork for the DNA sample not properly being sought from a judge and the entire case falling apart because of it. These days they build cases with more evidence and don't just rely on one strong thing, so that if they can get that thrown out years later they still have 3-4 other pieces of evidence.

I don't know if this guy did or did not do it, but a lot of these "found innocent" cases are a total and utter sham if you look into them. Also that guy you're talking about is 89.

We have a laws in the US that causes the require of a warrant for to compel someone to supply a DNA sample, this means that the police have to ACTUALLY do their job and make a case for why the person did in fact do the crime to some level to justify that warrant. You speak of the whole thing as a ridiculous system for the prosecution to be forced to provide a strong case.

The point I'm making is the person very often did murder someone, they just messed up the case,someone got upset cause the cops roughed them up a bit during the interrogation or someone intentionally got evidence in an unlawful way that still proved he committed the murder.

If someone is a murderer and it's blatantly obvious they did the crime, I don't care if they messed up the case. I ain't gonna cry for them and they should not get money either.

I don't think you understand the purpose of overturning a conviction for "someone got upset cause the cops roughed them up a bit during the interrogation" and I am not sure I know how to explain it in a way to get you to that understanding.