Originally posted by MMO_Doubter

Originally posted by Satimasu

Wait, so you expect them to just let you hope around servers as much as you want for free? You don't think that costs them money to have to transfer all of your data from one server to another? That would also not help deter people from hopping servers repeatedly just because they can. Do you think you should have to pay nothing once you start paying the subscription fee? Like all expansions, and any other thing they might come out with?

I expect a server transfer to be free, but limited to once a year.

I am okay with paying for an expansion (as long as it is optional) once a year or so.

 

BTW, your tone sounds like you side with the company over the players.

My internet tone? Interesting.

The whole things with a server transfer is that you don't even have to do it. If it's high or something of a population, they would offer a free migration for that. Other than that, there is no other reason to server transfer pretty much ever. If you just started the game, you remake it on another server. Don't see what the issue is here, especially over an optional service you don't have to ever use and give no one an advantage over you.

Wait, so you expect them to just let you hope around servers as much as you want for free? You don't think that costs them money to have to transfer all of your data from one server to another? That would also not help deter people from hopping servers repeatedly just because they can. Do you think you should have to pay nothing once you start paying the subscription fee? Like all expansions, and any other thing they might come out with?

I still don't understand where all these people are getting "cash shops" out of microtransactions. At least read the post before you say something. You basically sound like this: "Oh no, they're going to let me transfer servers for a price! This will give others an unfair advantage, since some can just pay and others can't afford it!"

Just take it easy please. I didn't once see "cash shops" anywhere in the answer, and I don't see them in XI. Since it's going to be like that and more, I don't see the issue. When they say people can just buy their way to the top, then we can worry.

Neato. That's cool stuff. The food chain things would be nice in there.

One could only hope.

Blame MS for being greedy pretty much. They don't want SE to use Silver accounts like they did for XI.

I got Alienware for my wife and I last month and it's gigantic. I would have built my own, but I didn't have the time and all that. It is definitely the cheaper, more effective route. Everyone else pretty much said all there is to say about that. If you look at the box stores like Best Buy and such, you'll see a huge difference in price. It's kinda' crazy. Heck, you could probably go to Wal-Mart, Sam's, or whatever. You could get something just as good as those with more stuff cheaper if you really want a pre-built.

Like some of us have said here, the biggest doesn't always mean the best server. That's never a good way to base things. It would be different if every other server was so underpopulated, that you'd have no choice but to go to the biggest one.  That is not the case with this game.

If you like more competition for everything, at the expense of maybe getting a party faster, then be my guest. If you're going to look at FFXIAH, you might as well compare prices of items and equipment on each server and go for the cheapest ones.

Originally posted by Hyanmen

Originally posted by Satimasu

That doesn't mean jack really. The top "active" servers on there fluctuate all the time. There are people that don't even use the Jeuno at if rarely.  Don't forget the mules and registered characters on the site. I'm sure every server's character isn't registered.

Just using the shared AH is enough. Whitegate or Jeuno, both will register you to the list.

Every character is there. You don't have to be registered to show up on the list. It is fairly accurate, if every server has on average the same number of mules as opposed to main characters and so on (and why wouldn't they?)

If you want to know which server to go to, that list is pretty good indicator.

How is every character there? It only shows Jeuno AH transactions, which is also shared by Whitegate and Tavnazia. The only way for a mule to show up is for them to run it to Jeuno. Not everyone does that, so there is no way to tell.

There are also people that use the Jeuno AH rarely. Fishermen can be one of those just from NPCing fish. I know I did that for months, I wouldn't exactly be considered active on there and I know I'm not the only person that has done that. People buy stuff, yes, but not everyone does everything on the AH, at least Jeuno's.

Anyhow, people can do whatever they please.  All I know is the most populated servers should still be locked from new characters.  Just remember that all the characters listed doesn't mean they all play anymore.

Originally posted by Hyanmen

Originally posted by Satimasu

No one truly knows that. The only way to find that out is to have one person from every server every day during every prime time, do a /sea all on their server and report the numbers, blah, blah, blah...

Can't help you with that. Only know the server I've been on, which is Kujata.

We do. www.ffxiah.com/data.php

Check the server with highest number of "active" subscriptions. Go there.

That doesn't mean jack really. The top "active" servers on there fluctuate all the time. There are people that don't even use the Jeuno at if rarely.  Don't forget the mules and registered characters on the site. I'm sure every server's character isn't registered.

I would think so, or no one would be able to level anymore without FoV. My wife and her cousin didn't seem to have too hard of a time level jobs with parties. Level Sync really helps a lot.

Like I said before, there is a tutorial NPC that is near one of the starting city gates, that teaches you pretty much everything you need to know about the game through quests. But yeah, I help newbies when I can. It's all about getting used to things.

No one truly knows that. The only way to find that out is to have one person from every server every day during every prime time, do a /sea all on their server and report the numbers, blah, blah, blah...

Can't help you with that. Only know the server I've been on, which is Kujata.

Probably want to check the stickies at the top of the forum. There are plenty of good links and info there.

There is no place to catch a group. You just seek for a party or make one.

There is a tutorial NPC in each starting city that will tell you everything you need to know about how to play, craft, and such.

I don't know what the most populated server is. All I know about is my server Kujata which is pretty decent in size. If you happen to go there, let me know.

The keyboard can be changed to WASD through the in-game config. Don't forget to mess with the settings on the FFXI outside of the game to change resolution and such, since they start out at pretty low settings.

You can pretty much just plug and play. You can set it up in the FFXI config. The catch is that the trigger buttons don't work with XI, so you have to download a program or driver for those to work. I can't remember the name of it. Or you could get Xpadder I think it is? It lets you map the keyboard onto the controller.

Originally posted by makar

So rather then asking in another thread, I will just use this one. I recently got this game and I have some quick questions.

First an most important at what level can white mages begin to see groups consistently?  As sort of a follow up would anybody mind giving a basic overview of how arcurate the inviteation section of job guide is in today's ffxi, not just for whm which I would guess will always do good for groups.

Of course after level 10 WHM will get invites all the time for parties. It varies with different jobs. But the one thing to know is you can always make your own party.

Second, early game economy is very broken with seemly every upgrade costing way more then any now tweaked character would have at these levels. Does this improve later in game? Basically I can not afford anything save spells and junk atm, excluding mission point rewards system items.

Use vendor NPC's and not the AH in starter cities when it comes to equipment. Of course you should compare prices regularly, for when you need to sell and not only buy. You can't imagine how many people actually sell things on the AH for less gil, than they would to a vendor. Depends on the job really on how expensive things can get. Some of the big ticket items cost quite a bit, but you never need a big ticket item and there are some good cheap alternatives usually. Don't forget about the Field Manuals (floating books) outside towns. Easy exp and easy gil.

Originally posted by drbaltazar

anybody know if this game as been and is being design with dx11 in mind

will their server and network be using microsoft donnybrooks

these 2 things is what in truth matter because it smooth out the game so much it just cant be ignored

after that they can speak about game play etc all year long

but if 2010 dont have dx11 AND donnybrooks they better think very small market because no amount of wishfull thinking

will make a nice game as ff xiv play smooth with million and million of player unless its a pve mostly game

Answered your own question right there.

That free month would only apply to your friend if he's making a new account. Old ones don't get it.

Yes, plenty of people still play. Don't know about any other server, but Kujata is decent. If you happen to start there, let me know.

People go to other places than dunes and do other things. But people do party there too, as well as go to other places.

Problem with that is that they tell you these things before you play. That and to make a Content ID, you have to see the cancel option in the selections with it. So it's not really an excuse. It's the whole " Try for free, and cancel anytime" thing.That's more of a your fault that you didn't make sure you canceled it before they started charging. You should accept you made the mistake and take the hit, it was on you.

So the government screwed everything up you're saying? Just another reason to hate them and their hate pile is already full enough as it is.