What was S-E's intent when they completely screwed the legit digger community?

[Pebbles]

Re: What was S-E's intent when they completely screwed the legit digger community?

Also wondering if Chocobo Digging will show up in Craft skills when they add choco breeding :D

[Vyuru]

Re: What was S-E's intent when they completely screwed the legit digger community?

Well, I haven't paid too much attention to this, but everything that I have read so far has been lvl 10 diggers complaining that they can only dig for 15-20 minutes per day now, let's think on this for a moment. Lvl 10 diggers have 0 wait time between digs, so how many digs is that per run? Is it based on time or number of digs you do or items you obtain like the hard/soft fishing caps?

As other people have said, seeing as how only half of the planned change was implemented, I'd wait and see how it works.

I also never believed in the "you need 15,000 stacks of greens to reach lvl 10" stuff, I think there is a point based system, with each item having X amounts of points and you need Y to level. People are saying that the zones are reloading faster, then that's a good thing for newer players, they may be restricted by the number of times they can dig, but their chances of digging up a good item may have gone up, decreasing the time, and stacks of greens, needed to get to lvl 10.

I don't know if it ever was possible to dig up a zone, but I do know that 3+ lvl 10 diggers made things a little tough in the jungles.

[Ayrlie]

Re: What was S-E's intent when they completely screwed the legit digger community?

as A25 i'm digging up items more than 50% of the time as long i'm not fatigued. the digging rate has improved in zones that were previously botted by RMT diggers.

I personally think that it will take fewer stacks to cap digging than before. It took me about 5000 stacks to get to A25 right now.

[Sereveyl]

Re: What was S-E's intent when they completely screwed the legit digger community?

I'm still level 2 (60 seconds/11 sec dig times), but I did manage a couple quick digs in the jungle that went all right, so I guess further experiementation is bearing things out.

[Hyrist]

Re: What was S-E's intent when they completely screwed the legit digger community?

Onotp of what everyone has posted above about the adjustment not really being "That Bad" as to mert insults on a message boards that discourages flaming anyone, including SE, we also need to conister that this adjustment makes headway for the new Chocobo Raising out in a few weeks.

Soon you'll be able to raise custom made chcoobos able to dig longer and obtain items you never were able to before, but only if you put the time and effort into raising your chocobo properly.

So those that take the time to dig reguarily will have the most insentive to raise digging chocbos, which will also help your income.

Constiering how quickily SE has been managing issues of late (Read: Imperial Silk Cloths got fixed real quick in comparision to Dragoon's Call Wylvren Timer, or the Ranger's EES) players should have a little more faith in Square Enix's new approch to the game. They've reicently added alot of very intresting abilities that alow for diffrent playstyles to be encouraged, so please, be paitent, and alow yourself to explore the new possiblities that are being presented.

[Wanta]

Re: What was S-E's intent when they completely screwed the legit digger community?

Maybe now you diggers know how we fishers have been feeling for the past 2 years. We were screwed over with fatigue when most of you diggers were still babies and to this day, we still get a new nerf at almost every update.
SE doesn't care about the legit people, they'll nerf anything into oblivion rather then losing $$$ for banning RMT and botters.

Just need to give every other craft fatigue now and it'll complete, can't wait for that day.

[Vyuru]

Re: What was S-E's intent when they completely screwed the legit digger community?

Maybe now you diggers know how we fishers have been feeling for the past 2 years. We were screwed over with fatigue when most of you diggers were still babies and to this day, we still get a new nerf at almost every update.
SE doesn't care about the legit people, they'll nerf anything into oblivion rather then losing $$$ for banning RMT and botters.

Just need to give every other craft fatigue now and it'll complete, can't wait for that day.

I may have agreed with you, but I'd like to point out, you don't see 50+ people digging in all the zones 24/7.

The docks in all of the nations used to be even more crowded than the lower jeuno AH, not to mention the rivers, lakes, and buffs overlooking the oceans.

It took enough people this long to get SE's attention to the chocobo digging issues.