Maeve

Definitely archer I'm afraid. I know the pain, I leveled up Arcanist thinking surely it was more logical, nopes. lol http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/1l29jn/

I've been trying to login for over two hours and it just says the world is full, I don't even get a queue. Therefore I really don't blame those people that stay logged in, especially if they are just going away for 30mins to an hour. Its SE's fault for not putting in an afk kicker - people will always abuse systems if the proper checks aren't put in place. Lucky I live in Australia so I know that in an hour or two the server load usually lessens and I'll be able to get in.

You need archer for black mage As for canon, I am roleplaying that shes dabbled in the other classes needed - but that shes not very good at them compared to her job.

Indeed, and we're a lovely bunch too

I shall let the emoticons express my feelings... :chocobo::cactuar::moogle:

I love how they have set up housing! The only downside is how he mentioned that if you want your neighbours to be your friends you all have to go into the instance at the same time - which means you need to wait till your friends save up enough gil and are all ready to buy. :dodgy: It will be like herding cats. hehe

Iitryo is adorable, especially with that bow!

Note to self: Don't bother RPing with and/or getting to know Maeve. There will be lots of people that move onto other games as they are released and this is part of gaming. However it saddens me that ooc knowledge would hinder potential fun rp experience in game between characters. Nevertheless its your choice.

They have communicated now, hours or in some cases days after people first started having the issue thats the problem. I agree quitting over this would be silly, but I never intended to stick around after those other games launched anyway. FFXIV was always a filler for me until such a time. Still, its disappointing as I was really looking forward to some level grinding during phase 4

Still broken for me. I know its beta but the poor communication is awful. As soon as Landmark or Wildstar come out I am out of here. You are only getting my money for a few months tops SE!

Well that means I'm off to cook dinner! Hopefully it will be done once I have eaten (if only the world worked according to my schedule :dodgy:)

I just got it too :frustrated:

So has everyone done their prep for beta starting today? I just went shopping and bought all my essential, carefully selected gaming supplies: Boost Juice - For a bit of a boost (ha) when my energy levels are low. Coconut macaroons - just because they are the perfect one handed snack Camembert cheese - because when isn't a good time for this stuff? Am I right? Ben & Jerry's Choc chip cookie dough - No explanation required. An orange & an apricot bar - to offset the damage of the above :lol: Oh and I'll have a pot of green tea on the side as well for when I feel like drinking something warm! Everyone is different so do tell - what do you find essential for your epic gaming session?

yay download time and then I can sleep the next 10 hours away!

Well its midnight here and I wanted to put it on for download before bed :dodgy: guess I can stay up a few more hours and cross my fingers in the meantime...

Oh that just reminded me, I find it funny when I have friends that won't eat subway because of the quality then proceed to go to macdonalds or drink Coke :dodgy:

I don't eat subs from subway but I have gone in and just bought all the white choc and macadamia cookies in stock before. Think it was around 20-25ish. I had friends coming over and I don't bake. Worked out good for everyone.

Okay here is my villain, I imagine him to be some kind of emotionless assassin type. On a side note I now have a new found crush on Elezen men:

Hey and welcome Glad to have you with us!

So this is Maeve, I think. Not sure about the scar but it makes her less pretty so I might keep it. Also I got bored so I made my dream guy lol

Welcome to the community

I really adore your style! I love the angle and the wonderful use of color. Can't wait to see more from you

Checking the forums, checking the Wild Star forums, playing Second Life (don't judge me ) also a bit of Skyrim and Sim City.

I love your post and firmly believe being adaptive and open-minded to new encounters is really important in RP. I like to immerse myself in the game world, and thus when another roleplayer enters the scene or does something to draw my attention I always try to react IC and see where it goes. If I am in a public space I'm open to rp. If I want private rp I go to an instance (gw2 example) or my home (aka eq2)where I know I won't get disturbed. Otherwise, if you see Maeve around inworld you can count that I will respond to your emote or rp 'crashing'. It makes the whole world seem more alive and more life-like.

I'm rather new to the forums and I have just been in the last beta so I am definitely a newbie to the whole FF scene. Therefore I thought I would share my first impressions: Being a new forum member one of the first things I did was check out the linkshell listings and admittingly Crystalline caught my attention because I assess how active a guild is by the posts and threads on their forums, and they appeared quite active. I could see they were closed off for recruitment but this did not deter me because I've often seen Heavy IC guilds close recruitment to ensure character stories can be built up and developed with one another before letting more in. However, the reason why I closed the browser tab and moved on to viewing other LS was because of the religious/charity theme of the guild - this was not because I didn't like it, just because I knew Maeve my character would not fit into this theme. At this point that was all I knew about the guild & I didn't think more about it. Then I saw this thread. To be honest it made me winch and let me explain why. In the past I've worked as a human resource advisor for a large multi-national mining company and from yearly we would conduct employee surveys in order to get feedback not just on our departments service quality but also their thoughts about the company as a whole in order to improve culture and perceptions. When I first arrived they did them on paper and each person would hand in the survey to their supervisor. Naturally the responses we received were not very detailed and mostly positive, they had learnt in the past that those employees that were 'too honest' would have a more in-depth interview and would be informed why their opinions were incorrect. Luckily a few of us started to voice our opinions of how we were losing the trust of our employees through this method and how we weren't receiving any useful or objective data. Therefore we hired an outside company to run the survey, it was completely anonymous and computer based so we never even knew who had written the response or even what department it came from. I know, I know what you are thinking - a linkshell is not a company and you're not seriously expecting us to hire a company. Obviously not. However, during my time on the internet, and most significantly in the second life community (that does this a lot with their shop brands) has shown me there are sites where you can set up anonymous feedback and survey forms. I honestly think that is the best way of getting feedback as people know you don't know where its coming from. Furthermore, when receiving feedback while it is very tempting to refute or explain something that is viewed as incorrect, in my honest opinion it really should not be done. Let people say their piece, both good and bad. Wait till everyone has said what they wanted and then sit down and sort through it with your officers. Really assess each piece of information and soon you will have a list of things that require addressing in order to improve your LS or community perceptions. This can be done in steps without ever needing to reference the original feedback or explain why you are doing something. Just over time you will be fixing these 'problems' and hopefully people's opinions. See the trouble of having a thread where you are providing immediate feedback and explaining your position is that for a newbie like myself, that has no prior knowledge of your LS, is that I now honestly am a bit wary of the guild. Why? Well because I have now been made aware that there is a bit of drama surrounding the guild. I wasn't even aware that the LS members were moderators on the forum - now I do. I didn't realise there was a perception of these mods having a conflict of interest, and regardless of whether it's true or not, I now have a seed of doubt in my mind. And so on... So from my own personal opinion this thread -may- have done more hurt than good to the LS's branding and perception by others, well in the very least it has impacted upon how I view the LS. I do think it's great that Crystalline is attempting to find out how it is perceived within the community, but just like with the initial survey methods of my original workplace I think the method of collecting this data is flawed and therefore you are not getting a full or honest picture. Worse may even be hurting your own brand image by going around it in this fashion. Its a mistake that many make (even massive professional mining companies! lol), and what counts is what happens from here and in the future. That is my honest, personal opinion and in either case I wish your LS all the best.