Encouragement For New Players And Gil-buying

easy there ***- I quit this POS game, but I am appalled by your hypocrisy.. BUYING GIL IS CHEATING BUT KNOWING EXACTLY WHEN BUFFS ARE GOING TO WEAR, HAVING ALL OFYOUR GEAR SWITCH WITH 1 MACRO USING TRUE/FALSE STATEMENTS, KNOWING WHAT % A MOB IS AT, KNOWING PT'S TP, TIMESTAMPS AND OTHER ***IS PRO MODE LOL.

butthurt elitist douchebag, I have no problem with this website or plugins. Only your words.

hey guys...dont smoke...smoking is bad *puts out cig*

Haha cry more :) You're entertaining me. Your message need more [Caps Lock Key] also, you'd be cooler.

Why is it bad? Is it worse then buying gil? My grandfather smoked from when he was 8 years old til he died @ 97 in his sleep, my other grandfather never smoked and died @ 68 from lung cancer...

Life is messed up, Also i'm not positive but i think my grandfather that died from lung cancer supported RMT's by buying lots of gil.

Because people spend millions of dollars on advertising saying its bad, and if you smoke you are bad and killing everyone around you. so its gotta be bad =]

I had to do it, in the 2004-2006 era I don't know one *** who didn't. :D Especially christmas special when it was 3 dollars for 1 mil. Don't worry mate you weren't the only one!

Everyone acts like the "Inflation era" was such a difficult time. I was there for it, and guess what... it wasn't that bad. In fact, EVERYTHING was inflated. Yeah, haubs and SH were millions of gil to buy, but everything that you sold was elevated in price too. It's not like silk threads were selling for 12k a stack and the SH were 5mil. The silk threads you had sold for a lot more too, so I don't buy the excuse of "everything was so expensive I couldn't afford it, so I bought gil." Even a WHM can farm crawlers. Level a thief to 15 and farm in saruta. Kill spipi for a quick lump sum off the cape. I was a taru blm and my farming options weren't great either, but I managed. Do some quests (especially repeatable ones), farm low lvl mobs, bcnm where possible. /rant.

Point: Encourage and support players that need it. Don't make excuses for why you bought gil.

Everyone acts like the "Inflation era" was such a difficult time. I was there for it, and guess what... it wasn't that bad. In fact, EVERYTHING was inflated. .

Yeah, not to mention that NPC prices were lower if we take purchase power parity in consideration. Like buying scrolls for mage, was way easier during inflation than now. Take something like Protect III, 32K, it wasn't much before, therefore new player could easily buy it. Situation is really different now, even for a lv75 player, 32K is "something", so it's worse for a lv47 player.

One thing that bothers me ALOT is how NPC prices have not "deflated" with the economy. Bout only thing they have done is nerf countless money makers player->npc. :(

Heh, yep..

First, you could only have made so much gil from what is arguably a questionable method, in and of itself.. Because the gil was inflated at the time. The gil may be proportional, but it would certainly have taken you a lot longer to [Easy mode] your airship pass.. Seriously, though, how hard is it to get rank 4?

Second, windower. How can you stand on any moral high ground and continue to use windower and its plugins? Unlimited equipment macros, and information that legitimate players need to actually do something to see? You may justify it in many of the same ways everyone else does.. "If SE would fix this or that, I wouldn't need to.." And if SE had fixed RMT, no one would have needed to buy gil. Windower just about automates the game, in a lot of aspects.. And in some cases, 'just about' is an understatement (FFACE, anyone?)

Back to the topic.. I didn't buy gil, even though I played during the height of this time.. When I logged off for a year and a half, I was sitting on around 30m (When gil was worthless) and I got lucky when I came back, and gil had value again.. How did I make the gil? Well, before the summer event that warped people to Ifrit's Cauldron, I mined there on my level 40RDM/NIN.. I died often enough to delevel it, more than a few times, but the gil was good.. Adaman and Orichalcum ore were quite valuable, and at the time, their drop rates were pretty staggering..

Players are, and always will be, the cause of RMT.. If the companies selling currency had no buyers, they'd never have a business, to begin with. However, it isn't even 100% the fault of the players who buy gil who are at fault.. FFXI is not alone in this, but FFXI players are so discriminating that it can be staggering.. I like to do the best I can.. I like to show up to an event with spare consumables, extra armor that I probably won't need, top of the line in everything that I can manage. I was willing to put in the time to do so (a 6-year stockpile of beastman's seals sustains me, now, though), however, I know not everyone can.. I've seen more than a few people with worse gear than I who know better about the game than I do.. And I've seen people with far better gear than I who know considerably less..

It's sad.. Many players will say gear doesn't make the player, but I see more people made fun of for their gear on FFXI than for their skill. And at that point.. When access to a lot of end-game shells has an application that's more intensive than a job application, and many of those applications have something to the tune of "What notable pieces of gear do you have?" Well, it just isn't a surprise why someone would rely on RMT..

back in my day, when the inflation was at its peak, you HAD to buy gil to purchase gear at those outrageous prices.
hogwash!

If I couldn't afford something, I'd stop exping for awhile, make the gil, buy the item, and xp again.

You have no credibility. Many of us were present during the "peak" of inflation, and no... we didn't HAVE to buy gil. I know this b/c I was there, and I never bought gil. And believe me, HQ staves (and NQ for that matter)were not cheap either. So just b/c I didn't need a Haub doesn't mean I had it easy.

The self-respecting players didn't buy gil. The slackers who wanted the quick fix, did. Maybe it's b/c this is the first/only MMO I have played, and maybe that gives me a different perspective, but I just could never justify buying gil. If I couldn't afford something, I'd stop exping for awhile, make the gil, buy the item, and xp again.

Why is it bad? Is it worse then buying gil? My grandfather smoked from when he was 8 years old til he died @ 97 in his sleep, my other grandfather never smoked and died @ 68 from lung cancer...

Life is messed up, Also i'm not positive but i think my grandfather that died from lung cancer supported RMT's by buying lots of gil.

I think you missed the point. He was just making an example of hypocrisy, he's not actually saying smoking is bad. (Although it is, but this is not the time nor place for that ;P)

Reading 101... I never bought gil either :)

Internet credibility? You can keep that.

I think you missed the point. He was just making an example of hypocrisy, he's not actually saying smoking is bad. (Although it is, but this is not the time nor place for that ;P)

You can see Dark Ixion's HP on xbox360? Whats your XBL tag?

I've been tempted over the years to revoke FFXIAH.com access for anyone that complains about Windower being an unfair advantage or otherwise harming the game. On a one-strike basis.

Y'know, given they were both originally made by the same people.

I would consider it a favor -- kindly helping folks on their paths to internal consistency, or something.