They would rather octuple down on making excuses than fix the issue the right way
How many times can they say because of small servers, or because of large servers, apparently infinite.
Come to jesus. *** the small servers. If they lose besieged, oh the *** well. That's where they want to be, it has consequences. Good parts and bad parts.
(I don't give a ***if they do or don't make besieged higher level, I'm just tired of the same excuse)
At the exact same time, they care if a server fails beieged, but don't give a rats *** that servers are abandoning limbus.
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I understood to a point not doing this previously, but with bigger servers closed there is no excuse now. They could even add higher drop rates to smaller servers for certain items.
It literally just boils down to them not wanting to pay someone to do it, even though the game makes tons of money.
It literally just boils down to them not wanting to pay someone to do it, even though the game makes tons of money.
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ilugmat said: »
even though the game makes tons of money.
Not too sure about that one, relative to upkeep costs it likely does(because there's barely any costs going into it) but compared to what other projects they could be working on, because there isnt some history of failures there or anything, XI isnt a big money maker. Just that nice reliable side hustle they can talk about every once in awhile
Asura.Melliny said: »
They can. The servers have settings for all kinds of paramaters. Bonus experience campaign is simply tweaking the value for exp gain to be double the normal value, so instead of 1x it's 2x. They could make it 3 or 4 or 5x if they wanted. Every bonus campaign is just them adjusting a single value on the server end to multiply the base value until the campaign is over, at which point they reset it back to the default 1.0.
There's been plenty of instances where people who host private servers have modified those settings so that you natively run at double normal speed, get insane skillup rates, and get far more exp or w/e than normal. If private servers can do it, so can public. They just don't because reasons. Maybe fairness, or equality, or balance or w/e. Or maybe they just don't want to. But if they chose to they absolutely could give smaller servers those kinds of bonuses fulltime.
Edit: I found a youtube video of some guy showing the configurations available when setting up a private server. Everything from default tp gain you get from hitting mobs to default run speed, skill gains to the amount of gil dropped when mobs die, exp loss when players die....etc etc etc. It's all in there. If you pause and zoom in as he scrolls down through the file you can see there's LOADS of options, and its all server specific, so they could easily modify the values for any given server to be different. They just choose not to.
There's been plenty of instances where people who host private servers have modified those settings so that you natively run at double normal speed, get insane skillup rates, and get far more exp or w/e than normal. If private servers can do it, so can public. They just don't because reasons. Maybe fairness, or equality, or balance or w/e. Or maybe they just don't want to. But if they chose to they absolutely could give smaller servers those kinds of bonuses fulltime.
Edit: I found a youtube video of some guy showing the configurations available when setting up a private server. Everything from default tp gain you get from hitting mobs to default run speed, skill gains to the amount of gil dropped when mobs die, exp loss when players die....etc etc etc. It's all in there. If you pause and zoom in as he scrolls down through the file you can see there's LOADS of options, and its all server specific, so they could easily modify the values for any given server to be different. They just choose not to.
None of those private servers are accurate, not a single one. They are all emulators, attempting to emulate what they believe is happening on SE's server. But here is the rub, the people at SE who wrote FFXI were all console developers used to writing in pseudo ASM languages. LSB and other emulates are all C++ / lua / python with a SQL database, which I guarantee FFXI servers don't use. There are many performance related tricks you can do in ASM that C++ compilers won't implement, it's the whole reason we keep seeing /1024 show up, FFXI server doesn't use any decimal places for calculations.
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Asura.Saevel said: »
They are all emulators
I think "emulator" is stretching it or giving too much credit. They're guesstimates.
I tried a private server once - it was very uncanny valley. It was a pantomime. It felt wrong. Even the mobs pathed strangely.
So while I want SE to fix QoL things and make improvements and continue to actively support and develop the game... I'm very wary of their choices in how they're going to go about it without ruining the game we're all used to (warts and all).
The last thing I want is "hey, we fixed networking, also you can't change equipment anymore if you've got a mob claimed."
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