Are You Playing In FFXI-HORIZON Server?

the person pos hacking the 300 galkas around south gustaberg on asura/bismarck/everywhere currently is paying me to reply to you to take attention away from him.

you need to find other ways to project your insecurities instead of digging through reddit comments and finding the minority posters.

I was referring to the discussion around the AMA that happened on Reddit when it was announced, not the AMA itself (which was trimmed a bit more). I guess it's easier to focus on that, though, than the 3 I linked where it's more clearly highlighted.

I was referring to the discussion around the AMA that happened on Reddit when it was announced, not the AMA itself (which was trimmed a bit more). I guess it's easier to focus on that, though, than the 3 I linked where it's more clearly highlighted.

Literally every time classic comes up, they come out of the woodwork including the AMA earlier this year.

already covered those, you seem mad that topics about classic have discussion around classic in them?

you also seem mad and surprised that people that like classic don't like the retail version of the game? (even though in the threads you yourself linked, there is 0 people saying retail sucks, just people commenting on it's pacing and lack of community.)

this is by far the dumbest take i've ever seen, which is very impressive in a thread with radial and draylo

The leader adding -P to his name and doing a 'letter from the director' tells me everything I need to know about this server.

thread has no benefit to being here

avoid this place like discounts at a brothel

Is this an incentive to go for it?

Okay, I take back everything I said, avoid this place like discounts at a brothel. Holy ***

The big problem with any sort of nostalgia tour like this is that while they can re-create the 2000's era game, they can't make you 25 with loads of free time again, and that sort of time is what made XI work for a lot of people in the first place.

Hmm, I don't have a good answer for this one. I believe the population is real as every zone is full with players. It really makes the game enjoyable. I am focusing on crafting and fishing so it's possible once I Play the game more I'll no longer find it enjoyable.



Essentially this was the drama the two weeks of the server. And why the "play and find out" marketing is not working out well.

Like myself, many people went straight to fishing instead of progressing in the game. They didn't predict this and lots of people were finding ways to make a lot of gil. This allowed an individual to get his Lu Shang rod after 4 days. (He was buying moat carp stacks at 200 gil, lol) It turns how he was using the retail mechanic of fishing up Bluetails outside of skill range. IE it was possible to catch a level 55 fish 30-40 etc levels below cap. These NPC for 300 each.

Discord started complaining so this first "Lu Shanger" just explained his strategy in discord to defend himself. This resulted in everyone knowing the strategy and you seen people getting more and more lu shangs.

Fast forward a week and if you fished outside their "acceptable range" you had your fishing reset and lu shang removed and received a temp ban. This was interesting to me as it's an intended mechanic of retail to be able to fish far outside level.

The second issue with fishing, and another problem with this "go and find out", was Clothespole was apparently not working as intended. It's attack was coded to high and it was able to pull up small fish to frequently. Now, I never experienced this, but apparently when it was found out people assumed the rod was simply buffed. Which, for me, someone who has never fished in 20 years, would never think twice about. Because I had no idea how rod attack works, large, etc. (I do now as anyone who fishes to scared anything could be an exploit now)

So, if you were someone who heard about the Clothespole that everyone was using and fishing to far outside your fishing skill you received perm ban.

So the argument can be made both ways on if people deserved punishment. However, just drop the "Play and Find Out" because now anything different about the game just seems like you should report it as exploit just to cover your tracks. Which, in my opinion, is not a good culture to have in game.

There was also a BST Era+ xp camp that turned out to not actually be an intended "play and find out" mechanic. Apparently the mob bst pet spawn was ~45 seconds instead of the intended 1:15 ish. So someone would have to remember what the real respawn rate of beast pets than cross reference it to what it is on Horizon. And then know it was a bug. IMO this is not reasonable as many of the people playing have not played the game in many many years.

Once again "Play and Find Out" is not working as intended. Just layout the changes at this point so people are not scared of being banned for finding out something different about the Horizon server.

Once again I'm having fun playing. Will it last? I don't know. I'd say this depends on direction of future patches / handling of communication of server etc.

...time, maybe not as much as our younger years, but it's really a play at your own pace type deal. Only one sweatsquad of tryhards no-lifed it to 75 already.

I don't know what endgame will bring and I'm not sure I really care. If it sucks, I'll just be done playing. But for right now, it's a lot of fun. I'm tunneling hard on the 'I'm having fun right now' aspect.

I tab back over to retail with my six characters and everything I could ever want in FFXI life and I just kind of shrug.

I don't understand this vehement defense of retail like your identity and life depends on it. If people log into retail and are bored, or not having fun for whatever their specific reasons are - trying to beat into them that 'odyssey is fun tho' isn't going to do much.

My biggest complaint with "play and find out" is that the developers are playing on the same server and don't have to play to find out. If something custom is implemented and known to be valuable to progression, they are on top of it. Take away that and the fear of banning for using something that's really more of a bug than an exploit, and I like the idea of having custom changes that take time to discover. Not knowing *exactly* what SE did was a big part of the intrigue at 75.

My biggest complaint with "play and find out" is that the developers are playing on the same server and don't have to play to find out. If something custom is implemented and known to be valuable to progression, they are on top of it. Take away that and the fear of banning for using something that's really more of a bug than an exploit, and I like the idea of having custom changes that take time to discover. Not knowing *exactly* what SE did was a big part of the intrigue at 75.