Lost River

They're doing what the say a "maintenance" with the servers, which in itself is only 20 minutes long? Mmm, no. It's to kick botters and AFKers. What a clever ruse SE!

The first two make me think of a Highlander, for me, I'd go with Mathis.

Yay! More people! I also made a third. Now I can have a character for each faction. Yay.

I'm able to get in game, play, but when I go to an instance, it loads, and loads, and loads... then it crashes. Then my character is stuck in limbo. I switch to other character, queue, get in. Play. But if i go with an instance with said character, SAME incident. LOL, you either can't get in or you get in and have complication. It's like WoW's launch all over again. Both games are/were great at launch, to look at it in a positive light. It means the game is a good game. Sucks so much server issues.

Not the most flattering, but one of my recent pictures of Lost River.

Welcome to the forum! I hope you enjoy your time here and make many new friends.

FFXIV ARR a game so good, no one can play it! LOL, now I can't even get that error message anymore, when I boot up, I can't find -any- world details at all for both JP and US/EU.

Generally there are no hot-spots yet due to the whole server instability and such, BUT, I have noticed, for example, watch out for people who are 'walking' instead of running everywhere, check their search info to see if they put say, "[RP]" in it. Or if they're conversing with someone in /say, see if it could be considered RP. Right now, it's mainly people giving /tells to everyone to meet up somewhere.

lol, I logged in, all was well. Yay, I was playing. Get DC'd. 3102. LOL

From what I've seen, collected from lore in game and over time out of such with discussion and such. Raise brings someone back from the brink of death from physical trauma or unconscious state (hence why you aren't full healed), it doesn't bring those back from the dead, healing spells are effective if the wound isn't too severe, loss of limb and such isn't curable with a magic spell (if it was, there would be no such thing as eye-patches in game for example), nor does it fix already damaged things that occur by natural circumstance (i.e. poor eyesight, again, they'd have no such thing as glasses if not). Seeing as a lot of abnormal statuses are immediate or near immediate effects, Esuna works on something that say, someone was just petrified or poisoned, not someone who has a debilitating disease or places that are plagued with famine is given, Second Spoiler isn't a spoiler. Can't seem to edit the post. >.<

For me, I'd rather sacrifice a day of playing (or attempting to play) for a day of maintenance if the end result is an improvement for everyone!

They should do it during the midnight hour where every person is a coffin. I wonder who will get the reference.

That makes sense. I've always wondered if the US data center is on the west coast because they really like to post updates in PDT time. However, it seems to me that this answers the question about 'why then'. You would theoretically want to do it at night, for the US and UK. To me, starting at 5 PDT is early, not late, because it starts right at prime time. However, if they are also having to handle the update from Japan, you wouldn't want it any later. So, this is probably their best attempt at a compromise for both groups of employees. Yeah, it's because the primary data center for the entire game is located in Japan and that the servers are in fact linked across. If it wasn't, you wouldn't be able to access the servers from EU and JP at launch, only US or whatever your region was. Seeing as their master hub is in Japan but linked internationally it also relieves the stress of having to manually update (minus this time of course) servers when everything can be done remotely from the master hub. It's more cost effective that way. For example, TERA Online has servers per region instead of a server hub, it's why the game in NA can only be played in NA & CAD, EU can only play with EU, Korea and Japan can play with one another due to closeness and have dual-servers. FFXI was done the same way as FFXIV was done. And as you said, a compromise was done easier, hence why the weird timing to do maintenance. Also, for example, Balmung has PDT time if you look at time while in the game if it isn't set to ET or LT.

Mmn, it's more complicated than that, they're doing the upgrade digitally remotely, the physical changing of a server is being done in the US. It's a combination of both. Hence the long hours. For example, Funcom has multi-national servers that their server nodes are all over the world including the US. Bouncing the server capacity across the seas to allow someone to exist on the same server as the other without sacrificing isn't something different. They're just linking across the world.

It's because they're doing it remotely from Japan. That time is 10:00 AM JP - 8:00 PM JP. True, but my question still stands. 10 AM is a late hour to start and 8PM is late to finish. Most companies start as early as possible so they can expect to be done when people come back from work/school or at least after dinner. This... is Square Enix we're talking about though. :3

It's because they're doing it remotely from Japan. That time is 10:00 AM JP - 8:00 PM JP.

Yeah, I know, it's sad. So many kitties though. We need more Roegadyns.

Those are some awesome portraits! Also, you should meet Lost River; she's a Hellsguard Roegadyn in Balmung!

For me I love the starting Roegadyn clothes for both genders. But as for casters its all over the place.

Nah, She's just now fiercely nerdy.

Woops, I meant it's best to send e-mail to them.

Welcome to the forums! And hopefully, they'll open up character creation again back when they do their maintenance for the US servers on the 4th.

Quite nice! And it's fine if you don't know how to line-art it on the PC, that takes time in itself. Some artists, even those who do it for a living, some of them actually have others do the line work for them. Well, commercial artists at least. A system. Keep up the good work!

One of my characters Lost River is a Hellsguard Roegadyn and Lucinne Jandelaine is a Duskwight Elezen! Sadly, what I see most of the time... are kitties, KITTIES EVERYWHERE!

As I said earlier, it has a lot to do with JP players jumping ship. Normally queue doesn't start until 12 PM PST/3 PM EST. But seeing as the entirety of JP servers were down, they jumped ship and AFK'd and/or playing right now.