Random Question Thread (FFXI Related)

Just feed it what it likes and do the interaction it likes so it stays happy and in a week it'll evolve. Just have to wait until it's ready.

The mandies are notoriously difficult to evolve.

If you have 2.5 stars, feed it evolution food until it squirms violently.

For the ones without an evolution food I found it best to not feed them at all.

That's it, don't feed it, put it on priority with the npc, and leave it alone.

Well the only reason to feed it is so it doesn't get grumpy and raise the black aura.

Is there a way to make a post or page here (in FFXIAH) where I can just write stuff, kind of like a biography.

I was hoping to make a list of jobs I have geared, kind of like a CV I suppose, so I can share it with people when they ask what my gear looks like. Sharing gearsets isn't always enough so yeah thought I could write a page with some notes.

I think it was this
Fixed my link it broke some how
Http://ffxiah.com/forum/topic/38053/ffxiah-nodes

https://www.bg-wiki.com/ffxi/Template:User_Page

Oh ty!

I fixed my link idk how it broke within the hour or so

Is there a link to a wiki somewhere that explains the party request feature no one uses?

What's there to explain. It's just a front for /sea <level range> .

I think you are confusing it for something else

Was the intention to show you are recruiting members for your party ?

The search comments?

There's a 'request' button under party and, if you are party lead, a 'view request' button which shows you people requesting party/parties requesting people.

if you mean the old seacoms they did as described, there was different colored dots based on what the comment was left for (trading, party invites, events i think?) and itd pop up when someone did a search and their name filtered in. Was pretty widely used when the game was fresh, though the character limit didnt give you much room to work with iirc

I still see the search comments used by the jp community on my server pretty heavily
Couldn't tell you what they are using them for without a little digging

Conversation came up with someone who was soloing temenos with trusts and was asking about how they could find a party while having trusts out.

When the request system was brought up
And having never used it I became curious.

“Hey bud, wanna team up for climb”
“Sure let me dismiss trusts, sec”
>>/pcmd add name

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It'd be useful is people actually used it, as they did before, and JP still occasionally do as you pointed out. Nowadays with other means of communication and just the personal desire to solo with trusts it just fell to the wayside. As is nynja's is about the best course of action, maybe shouting in the zone if thats a thing, asking in ls etc etc. They can put the seacom up still, doesnt cost anything to do and maybe will be curious what that little green dot is next to their name.

It being a trust-limited event should incentivize people grouping anyway, since you wont have the full array of mostly bottom tier support/tanks so one would assume people would be more willing to put em away for an actual human

The seacom system is entirely player driven, and not what the request system does or uses.

The request system is under party in the vanilla client, and shows you lists of requesters/requestees.

The seacom system is basically if you're doing something, put a comment on stuff to be recruited for, or looking for. Looking for xp/items/crafters, etc. Or mission help. There are separate categories for what type of comment this is.

Still used in some cases today, mostly by JP. The soloing person that is open to limbus parties can put in seeking party type seacom and in the comment say 'Limbus Temenos' or something.

I would say they use it as their primary form of recruiting, you just wouldn't know unless you went and searched.

I have joined JP Sortie, Ambuscade, even Vana'Bout Ballista matches where all of the JP players had dots in their seacoms either with a message saying what they are interested in doing (so they were recruited from this engine), or if they need an extra body, in the case of ballista, to make the match even. You see a JP shout here and there for filling ambu or sortie, but notice they're almost always 4/6 or 5/6. That's because they've already exhausted the search engine (or static) and now have to resort to yelling. With NA players, it's the opposite, where we shout first to recruit. Seacoms aren't even used unless its HTBF drop or something. If NA players all filled their /seacoms, people would fill their groups much faster, or at least you would know immediately who to recruit based on the message.

There's also the /autogroup function, which to this very day, I have no clue how it works. There's a spot in the menu for "View Request", which I assume feeds from the pool of players who have their red /autogroup flag on, so you can instantly see who is seeking? I've never seen a single player use this feature since i've even known it to exist, and im positive a large number of players have no clue it exists to begin with.

I tried to use it back in the day, once. It just ended up showing you groups of LFG, some of which were party leads. The number of people that need to use it to get anything out of it lends to a much bigger game.

A party can also request for members to join. It was a lot of UI and hardly ever got used in favour of seacoms, even back then.

Adding a moogle to the limbus lobbies would be nice for changing jobs.

They can't even allow you to use max amount of trusts due to the amount of soloers, i doubt they could even put a moogle there without breaking the zone. This is entirely open-world zone, not an instanced space like Odyssey Gaol where that might be ok for a limited number of players at a time.

Why? There is a HP Crystal right outside the lobby area and the lobby area isn't actually that big. You can freely leave the lobby area to do whatever and come back to carry on where you left off. Odyssey only has a Moogle because changing jobs is directly tied to that content.

This would imply that they started with the limit of 5 trusts and was reduced later. Limbus was introduced with the limit of 3 trusts. Additionally, it was introduced with the mechanic that trusts count as party members for tracking kill counts.

SE is incentivizing partying up in Limbus the same way they incentivize partying up in Ambuscade by giving more gallantry for having more party members.

Whatever you want to call it or however you want to read into it as to what SE's intentions are, the point is there's zero chance a Moogle is being added to the Limbus zones

Did the Archduke event start already? Or do we have to wait for JP midnight?

Started already according to /servmes.

Can confirm HTBC has same drops. This was on VD.

I did it on VD with TH4 and it dropped Rem Tales, Blizzara II, Mes'yohi slacks, a garudite and 2 Boulder Cases.

Then as personal drops I got:
2 Boulder Case
1 Kam'lanaut Sword (the lv1 version)


Q_Q


Are we sure the Archduke versions drop here and we're not supposed to "upgrade" them somewhere else?

No ones sure of anything it literally just started

So impatient