falcolas

Well, the rose colored glasses didn't last for me, so I won't be joining this game. A shame - this is a great roleplaying community that has formed. Too many problems, too much justification, not enough fun. Good luck, all.

She only did it on the first one, not the 6 that followed. And there's nothing to cue you when you get to the miners themselves. A few result in responses, but most don't get anything in return. And talk about a hissy cat emote. Lost all respect for Miqo'te on that one.

Regarding the mouse, not entirely true. Most computer MMO's targeted at Asian gamers focus on the mouse to the exclusion of the keyboard. Playing with the keyboard in Lineage II, for example, is all but impossible. I happen to agree that the mouse is unusable, and the keyboard controls are not sufficient to make up for the lack of precise targeting options. When i can spam and I'm standing in front of a quest NPC... and the reticule never switches to that NPC, there's a problem. A modern gaming computer should not be limited to playing the game at half resolution, with all the options turned all the way down. It looks atrocious. And yet, that is what I (and others) are stuck with on their less-than-a-year-old alienware computers. I have found the lag to be unbearable within the UI. The graphics might be nice if you can turn them up, but see the point earlier. If they're good, they're great. If they're not... the game looks like a pixelated mess from the early 90's. The UI, compared to any modern MMO (from any country), is terrible. It's aimed at console users, and it shows. Having to build macros to switch jobs? Not knowing when you're done casting? Having no meaningful way to get information about mobs around you? A nearly impossible to navigate map (Coming from Limsa, trying to find the exit, took me several 10's of minutes of exploration just to get the map to show the exit). It's bad, bad, bad. And there's nothing anybody can do about it (unlike most other modern MMOs which allow customization). Targeting a console as a platform is not a bad thing, unless it's done to the exclusion of playability on the PC, such as has happened here. When you have to pull out a controller in an MMO to make the game feel like it's designed to feel, something was done wrong. I have found it to be a ton of spamming the same attack button (spamming, since you don't know technically when you're ready to cast it again, and need to press it often to not miss out on a swing timer), occasionally switching to another button. It's the reason that auto attack exists, and why Conan combat was so unpopular. This is an improvement made dozens of times previously (as early as EQII that I have personally played) and doesn't add a lot to the crafting experience. But that's just my opinion. Perhaps to you. To me it feels like busy work (and I find that so far there's a lot of time where I'm doing nothing but running around and reading stuff). I would add an 8: sub-twitter length chat lines, 9: Silly typos in quest text for the newbie quest lines, and 10: place and character names that look like a 5th grader pounded them out on the keyboard. Number 11 might be personal, but I'm kinda tired of the NPCs treating my character, the hero of my story, as a complete moron who just fell off the short bus. I can all but hear them tittering "F'ing n00b" as my character walks away.

There's nearly an identical quest for Ul'Dah. What The Frank is up with these - are they some kind of sick joke? I'm frustrated enough to throw my mouse right now.

That... really makes me scratch my head in wonder. What could they be calculating that can't be done in the GPU?

Halfway between the two, and I still have to run it at half resolution, with all goodies turned off. Blows chunks, particularly with my 6mo old alienware laptop. I appreciate that they wanted to make the graphics future proof, but good god.

I have - only through the FFXIV Config utility, not through the controller utility. Everything I know of is up to date, so I don't see that as the issue. Plus, it works fine for a few minutes - but after some cutscenes, the controls reset. For example, the controller works fine through the Limsa Lominsa intro scenes, and into the bar, but breaks after the second cutscene which leads you out of the bar and into the world at large. Very odd, very annoying (particularly since you have to quit and relaunch to fix it). I'm mildly surprised that nobody else has run into it, though perhaps for "recognized" controllers (xbox 360/ps3) the defaults are correct.

I vote similar to Tadir, but with one major exception. Base it off the average Hyur male. Give that a value of ~5'10" (6' even if you want to make it easier), and go from there. Doorways in games rarely conform to real life doorways - particularly when you have a "giant" race that you need to be able to fit through there.

I'm a bit frustrated that I can only run this at half buffer size on my brand new gaming laptop. Makes everything look, frankly, terrible. After all the beautiful images coming out of SE and the folks in betas, this is a real downer. The play style is definitely different, and I would have appreciated a bit more modern control scheme (such as a hardware mouse)... but I can work with it. What's really frustrating me is how much lag affects gameplay. Every single action seems to need to take a round trip to SE, and that means I can't tell if a button press was registered for a good couple of seconds sometimes.

So, it seems that every few cut-scenes, my controller is being remapped. I'm using a Logitech Rumblepad2, and my movement is bound to the left stick, and menus to the dpad. However, the two are constantly getting swapped. Anybody have any ideas on how to fix this?

Short e, long A? Been awhile since I've heard it personally, but that's how I remember it.

I do apologize if I have come off strongly, but I do have strong opinions. That said, the thread has seemed pretty good by my eyes. Conflict will always exist, and all things considered I think we worked through it with a good amount of civility. -Falcolas

Nice. Looks good to me.

Then the real drama begins. :approve:

The serverwide economy is already tanked due to the lack of an auction house. Even progression is a no-op given the current direction the game is taking. Let's look at the benefits we really want for this communtiy - a good environment in which we can promote roleplaying - before we look for qualities the game doesn't support yet.

I switched to Besaid myself. Lower population, which would help RP flourish, and there's a backing there already. Good enough reasons for me. In my experience, low pop servers tend to have the best atmosphere for roleplayers. Fewer griefers, and the player density makes immersion in the world a bit easier.

GameFAQs, /v/, and one other that I know of. Neither of those knowns is exactly a small group.

Even if they open with 40, they will likely consolidate them down to 10-15 before a year passes. Total tangent, but WTF is up with the constant use of the non-word "Chillax"? Makes my eyes bleed to see that. And get off my lawn! WRT forms of voting, democracy is the least efficient way to govern a body. Not to mention, usually over half the voting body disagrees with the "majority", so you never get a concise direction, and there's always dissent over the results. A benevolent dictator is the best option (though the most susceptible to corruption), with a republic being the next best choice (our council). Try phrasing the poll results it this way: 66% of the roleplaying population does not want to play on Lindblum. Doesn't sound like such a popular choice for a server anymore, eh? Sorry, lesson in politics concluded for the day. :study:

We have a council, let them decide. A small group can make a reasonable decision faster than us as a democracy can. We're already trusting them with the fates of our roleplaying interaction, why not the server choice?

DO NOT WANT!

So, does that make you boobie-sexual, as opposed to bi-sexual? :lol:

High expectations... Would that I can live up to them.