The "Good Ol' Days" Thread:

I forget the exact wording, but I remember the Japanese version of "XYZ examines you", was "XYZ stares at you intensely", or something like that.

Even though they all know it was just a /check, that wording is just weird.

You've been examined.

I remember a couple times someone would spam /em examines you. during camping kings.

Did they ever use bazaar function? Awkward amirite? I don't think I ever had someone get butthurt over a check personally. But I remember hearing about it every now and then.

A friend (which married and lives in japan now) from back then told me that on the JP client it showed the message along the line of "Player X looks at you from head to toe" with some implied innuendo.

I had a macro with "/tell <t> {/check} OK?". Well this was somewhere in 03/04 just after NA release.

1. I remember when this game first began, Japanese players would physically position themselves away from the actual counter, so that it wouldn't be difficult to target.

Once JP got mixed with US players, well, that etiquette became a burning pile of trash. Now everyone tries to crowd the counters as much as possible, lol.

2. Leveling SMN to 75 cap on bombs.

3. Shikigami Robe.

4. When people thought Bahamut would be a SMN from finishing COP, lol.

Guilty.

Woodworking + elemental staves = college tuition paid for, so the legend goes for some dude named Twig on Ifrit.

Yeah, I heard of people doing that. I would NEVER do something like that. I shouldn't have to ask your permission to use a non-invasive feature built into the game. While I understand you may have been doing it to avoid animosity, people are going to invent all kinds of awkward reasons to be upset. Even more-so now that we live in the snowflake era where you can't even be normal without someone insinuating that you're trying to deliberately be offensive.

Having to AFK for the bathroom or taking the dog out, gone less than five~ten minutes, come back to being out of the party and also dead.


Watchin' people hop over the side of the airship and riding on the tiniest portion their foot could stand on. Never could get that to work for me...

Call For Help!

had a party in eastern altepa once and then we had a break cuz someone afk'd or w/e. i watched this guy (drk i think) aggro mobs to die then home point, 5 times. i asked him what he was doing, and he said it was so that his weapon skillup would match his xp level. i.. couldnt believe it. lol

Jumping at the chance to help with LB2 just for the Epeens on Boreal Hound.

ya i think i managed to do 2900 dmg with savage blade on my rdm. that was unheard of xD

Similarly, not letting your party in Crawler's Nest know that you don't have Refresh on RDM yet.