What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

[Feba]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

Possibly have tickets be tradeable between BCs. For example, you have three BCs of the same level, link them together so you can use tickets from on on the other. Maybe raise the amounts of tickets needed to buy things from other BCs; for example, you do a run of BC A, once for every person in your party. You could go for six grab bags of BC A, or three from BC B. You could spend those six on two special items (say, scrolls) from BC A, or a single one from BC B. etc. I'd really rather not get into specifics, because there are so many ways someone could go with this.

There's also the matter of 'why the hell can only one strategy do those fights' that SE might also want to sort out.

[Callisto]

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Well the larger shell was actually nice enough to let us have Xarc last night for our first run(Thank you Argos, if anyone from there reads these boards). No hat for me, but aside from 1 person flipping shit noone had an issue when we announced prioritized drops on the 3 pieces that we will do so on, we were under the assumption that would asplode the shell.

We took in 15 people, cleared all NMs except the MNK/BST/NIN/WHM while only getting 2 TEs, and we got SMN horn and DRK helmet, all in all I think that's a really good run considering for about 7 of the 15 it was their first Xarc ever.

But this is a thread for bitching and moaning, not talking about good things, so I must acknowledge what an absolute fucking bastard that SMN NM in Meriphaud Campaign Battles is, I think fighting that is almost as bad as that damn RDM Quadav in Roly Fields.

Edit: Almost forgot, we did have one spout of drama, it came from one of our WHMs flipping shit that we didn't pull the WHM NM. So far we've had 2 AF2-related major dramas in our shell...over WHM hands, and SMN body. Really? You fucking serious?? We tell people Chapeau/Surcoat/Armlets are prioritized and that's fine, but holy shit if you don't make with the WHM hands you better get the fuck down! Fucking people...

[eticket109]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

Our biggest recent drama was over Wyrm Armet of all things

[Callisto]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

Hell that'd be somewhat worthwhile, DRGs can pull of some ridiculous shit with it. Meanwhile 'Enhances Banish Effect vs. Undead' is serious business.

A fun moment from last night: the WAR NM popped a DA crit x2 on the tank, dropped him about 30s into the fight, so we had to fight the thing with no tank the entire time. Hate was bouncing all over, though our THFs did a reasonably good job of tanking it. I was tossing out stuns here and there and pulled hate, he got me down to 200~ HP, since I was in a separate party from my alliance the WHMs couldn't see my HP.

I knew I was likely to die if he turned my direction and used HW, I knew I was likely to die if I cured myself and pulled hate...after about 30 seconds I couldn't take it anymore and I cast Cure 4 on myself. NM walks over, DAs and kills me in one swing round, then falls to the ground. Bastard.

[Akashimo]

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Biggest drama of my shell, people not keeping end game hnmls drama out of dynamis. Oi, such a head ache, bitching about how the shell is "infected" by another shell, when its just our members being paranoid.

Edit: good practice to have 3 tanks before entering

[Callisto]

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Hah if we had 3 tanks to bring we would have, like I said we only fielded 16 and one warped when he was told he couldn't lot on RDM or THF.

Of course this is a guy who has 5-6 75's, has gotten at least 8-10 AF2 from us for various jobs, just got Homam hands and legs and a Yovra Organ this past Tuesday, and would have been allowed to lot BLM hat...but he's pissed that he couldn't jump to the front of the line for RDM and THF despite having been in the shell only 3 months, never having been to a LS event as RDM(and having a gimped to shit RDM to boot), and having been to maybe 1 event as THF.

He's been in the shell maybe 3 months tops now, in terms of actual quantity of pieces he's easily amassed 2-3x the amount of gear I've gotten, despite me being in the shell for 9 months and being 2nd in command, but he feels he's getting shafted here b/c he can't have the first RDM hat or THF hands.

[Akashimo]

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feels he's getting shafted here b/c he can't have the first RDM hat or THF hands.

Nip it in the bud. Its obvious he's gonna bail after those two pieces are gained into his possession.
I honestly can't stand people like that in dynamis. Want an item, earn it and wait your turn.

How do you handle relic lots anyways? o_O;

[Callisto]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

For city and glacier AF, you can choose 1 job that you want to lot on for the run, if you're high enough to use the piece you're allowed to lot on it so long as you aren't on trial, though we occassionally request someone to pass a piece to another member if one member is consistently asked to be on the job in question much more often than the other. Xarc is the same except for those 3 drops, the first of those drops will be prioritized to 3 specific members, for the time being there isn't much issue on other drops because our jobs are spread out pretty evenly among members.

The upside is that without points there isn't the issue of someone leveling a new job to 75 then all of a sudden hopping in line over someone who has put in a lot of hard work on that job over a long span of months. The downside is that this system is obviously arbitrary to an extent, and it is up to us as officers to not manipulate it, which we go out of our way to make sure we don't.

Basically we've stated that it is how we say it is, if you're with us we will bust our asses to get you the gear you want, if you're not then go somewhere else. 99% of our members trust that we don't manipulate the system and play favorites, mostly because everyone is well aware that I hate everyone and anyone equally and don't have any favorites.

[Akashimo]

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Ah. Not bad, but now is see how that person got so many relics XD

[Callisto]

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They also got many from freelot, since by design you have to pick an AF ahead of time, if something isn't picked by anyone it's freelot for anyone who can use the job, they've collected at least 5 like that. Most is garbage city AF, though they did get NIN body over someone who was our main NIN for about 6-7 months.

Another slight fault to our system is basically that people with 5+ 75's kind of clean house, especially on freelots, meanwhile someone who doesn't need city AF or only has 1-2 75's(like me, I'm 4/5 needing Xarc on both RDM and BRD) has a much, much lower chance for reward than someone who has no RL job and just levels jobs all day.

Really I think the only reason our system works is because we have trouble recruiting, lol. It's very easy to keep track of the work that everyone puts in when there's only 25 members to keep track of, if were one of the huge 40-70 member shells we'd probably need a point system.

[Feba]

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wait, how can you have 99% of the members in a shell with 25 people feel a certain way?

At a maximum, shouldn't it be 96%?

[Callisto]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

Some people feel stronger than 100% about something individually, they count as 4.732~%, respectively.


Duh.

[Akashimo]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

Maybe you should make an attendance system so ppl with low amounts of jobs have equal chances?

Example:
Player 1 been to 50 runs, and is tier 3 of lotting job A.
Player 2 been to 40 runs and is tier 4 of lotting job A.
Player 3 been to 60 runs and is teir 2 of lotting job B.
Player 3 gets a northern lands is bumped down to Player 2's status.
Player 3 changes job to A, but player 2 gains a point between then and is a teir ahead of 3.
Player 1 doesn't show up when job A drops, Player 2 gets to lot because of the point.

Something of that design ;x
Attendance = relic to the dedicated! And less for the greedy ;3

[Callisto]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

That's something similar to what had been considered, but previously there was an issue of us not being able to even do Xarc up until last night, as well as the actual drop rates on the pieces in question. It would be entirely possible for us to not see one of the drops that is prioritized for 5 months, making it a situation where I have done Dynamis for over a year while getting no drops, while another member who has only been doing it for 9 months and has gotten other drops would make it into the same 'tier' as me eventually.

Really we've accepted the fact that it is impossible to make a drop system for Dynamis that everyone sees as completely fair, so the best we could come up with was taking care of those who put in hard work when it comes to big drops, and if someone else who hasn't been around as long thinks that it's unfair, then they probably aren't the best fit for the LS. We're accustomed to low-manning events by now, and for almost every event in FFXI I'd take 18 people who were all on the same page over 36+ that squabbled about every detail. So long as people are on board we'll try to get them what they want, until we quit of FFXI ends.

[Akashimo]

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I was in a rush, cause of a midterm was about to start, but there is also a penalty system, where you don't get awarded points for not showing, and in the case of doing something else while a run is happening, you loose a point, 4 missed runs puts you on a 4 run no lot probation. Just so people can't max points and expect to lot the rare drops. And each tier only allows (highest priority cause its a main)1 main > 1 secondary > 1 third job > 50+, > free lot(probation people allow to lot only at this phase)(lowest). Also, a 16 run no lot change on jobs, you pick it, you stick with it for 16 runs before you can change, even if you completed the set.

Also staying to farm awards an extra point for the run.