Gideon Aryeh

NA/EU servers are now up! *GRRRRRRRR!!!!! Heading to Gilgamesh!

I can't get to it says that the servers aren't active, went to Tonberry. Tried going to Bahamut, can't make new characters there at this time. Staying on Tonberry for now.

So its Bahamut now instead of going back to Tonberry?

This is not a movie but I still suggest it. No mmo player should be allowed to play mmos and not have watched Sword Art Online.

Any reason why in particular?

Just been wondering, I know it was in XI but has there ever been any word on it in XIV?

I'll be on Gilga with an alt since the main server that everyone will be on won't be up. Look out for Rock Sandbourne- guess I'll try out Marauder

He wouldn't be able to handle it and couldn't do the relationship as it would ruin his perception of roles, and don't get me wrong its not like he wouldn't want a strong partner per se, its that they would have to let him have his role. A keeper of the moon female and himself would probably never work if she is traditional.

My character Reese has a thing for Miqo, Hyur and Elezen women, funny enough a very pretty effeminate male of any of these races could get his attention despite him being almost alpha male in a lot of his personality (just without the jerk aspects of an alpha male and he can be a little shy at times). He also wouldn't react to well if hit on by a masculine male like himself, not in a fighting way he'd just probably freeze. For him that would be a bit too strange, as he believes in roles. He would feel weird if hit on by a Roegadyn or Lalafell female or male, not reacting In a mean way just blushing and not really knowing how to react. All in all though he sees all races as the same and doesn't have any aversions to anyone in particular when it comes to mortal races. Demons and dragons are another story. Oh and Garleans, he wishes to introduce Gaius without his face piece to his knees, fist, elbows and forehead.

Highlights include -Scholar, Arcanist and Summoner shown in game -Scholar class gets a fairy pet that assists in fighting,healing,etc

If anybody didn't know already the updater is up and working on the beta client

http://massively.joystiq.com/2013/06/08/the-mog-log-summing-up-final-fantasy-xiv-beta-phase-1-and-2/

Looking forward to just everything, I love my time in beta and honestly can't wait to be back in the world 24 7.

Welcome back from one old man to another.

I don't think that anyone who plays on another server would be treated poorly in any way. Thing is, they are going to be roleplayers who, for example, I'm likely never going to end up roleplaying with due to the split. Those on Moogle aren't going to end up roleplaying with my characters because at least at this stage, I'm really not going to be able to play multiple characters across two servers. I'll barely be able to RP on Balmung as it is. I think the attitude you are perceiving is that people find it unfortunate that there will be members of the community who are likely in my situation who, in all likelihood, we're very unlikely to roleplay and create a history with. It's the reality of a dual server situation. No one here disrespects your decision to take to another server, and many have even encouraged it. But it is what it is. My decision? I stated previously that my character was built for Balmung, including his circumstances. He has amnesia, a typical Final Fantasy story. I put that in so that in case I run into anyone who icly wants to state that they knew him during the time of 1.0 they can. I built my character to have a ic reason to fit in. My posts were not about me, they were about the community realizing the changes of a new community in 2.0 and dealing with them in a positive light. I wanted to represent the other side of the coin. Personally though I am waiting to see if SE designates a rp server. Right now my main is built for Balmung.

I don't really hold any power over how things are run here, but I can't see a subforum being that unreasonable of a thing to request. As far as equal support goes, I'm not quite sure what you specifically mean by that? What difference would you like to see? A difference in the attitude, a difference in the attitude, we are all here for the same thing at the end of the day. I get the defense of Balmung, but so far it almost seems like those who are on other servers might be treated like red headed step children based on some of the responses. Yours included. Like it or not everyone your game is now new. Things may change, rp communities do not need to put out a feel of exclusivity more than what is already perceived. I merely would like to see verbal support and a more open mindedness to the entire thing in general. Again we are all rpers who want to rp in FFXIV:ARR. Lets try to be more positive and support that for everyone eh?

If it's against the purpose and mission of the RPC to cater to a multiple server approach, might as well call this site Roleplayers of Balmung. If this site is truly a hub for Roleplayers of the Final Fantasy XIV, then we have to accept and support other fellow Roleplayers' decisions no matter the size of their communities. I think it's to that point that we need to start adapting to the change we are seeing. As I've and many other people have said, there have been groups that have advertised here that were never on Besaid/Balmung. There will be more such groups in the future. As you can see when you submit the request to make a linkshell, you specify what server it is on. It doesn't have to be Balmung, and it has never had to be Balmung. Kylin and many others have asked pointedly what it is that those who would like to start on a new server would specifically like from the RPC. We're trying to help out, but so far I haven't seen anyone offer suggestions on what they want to see happen. We're pretty much sold on RPers being able to come and have a presence here while being on a server. This has been confirmed several pages ago, and it's been the policy to involve everyone who wants to be involved in the past. But seeing as their still seems to be debate about it, can people who are in favor of a new player RP server please tell us what it is that you would like to see the RPC do for you? I offered the answer of equal support and a subforum dedicated to rp on the new choice of server. I said this right in my first post on this thread. Now of course all of that is moot if rp servers are designated by Square Enix.

"we've allowed other RP groups on other servers to advertise here before--it isn't something that we are here to necessarily cater to." *sighs and shakes head* I don't think many of you are taking into account the unique circumstances of 2.0 and what it means to the rp community and to the new influx that will be joining the game. This is basically a new launch, please take that into consideration. Not to mention the PS3 community as well, another factor to take into account. I gotta say a response like this is pretty depressing. I get the wanting to protect what's been established but I'm telling you, ARR will not suffer from the sparseness of rpers that XI and 1.0 had. The response to deal with the new influx must be different and more open minded. You aren't going to see the same issues as before as the population will be much higher overall. Are we not taking this factor into account? Listen I'm a new guy here didn't play 1.0 and I know for a fact that this game is dropping at the right time and will be flooded with rpers, more rpers than XI and 1.0 combined. I can guarantee this. A lot of rpers are burnt out on GW2 and are floating around looking for something new and refuse to return to older mmos. FFXIV is looking extremely promising and many of the rp communities/players from other games are convincing many to come to FFXIV when it launches as there will be no TESO out, no EQN and no other new game to compete with in August. Again, I implore all of you to take this into account. Either way those who are looking for a new server have their answer.

The reason it is not called the Balmung roleplaying community is this: More than two years ago, there was an attempt to collectively gather all the roleplayers onto a single server, to keep all the roleplayers together and not separated across servers as was the situation in XI. The site was meant to serve as a hub. When the server names were announced, the community there at the time put names of a server to a vote; and Besaid (which would later become Balmung) was picked by the community on a majority rule basis to be the roleplaying server. At the time, the site was pretty much the central roleplaying community of Final Fantasy XIV and that's where the name came from, and that collective community voted on a server. Read: This was not a group of people who started on Besaid/Balmung and then told everyone else to come to them. It was the community, representing the FFXIV roleplaying community as a whole (or at least, the largest RP community around for FFXIV at the time) that picked Besaid/Balmung. That is the reason why it is called Hydaelyn Roleplayers and not FFXIV Balmung Roleplaying community. It has also been mentioned several times in previous posts that the community also supported roleplaying communities outside of Besaid/Balmung, though they did not fair well. But there's a reason why on the Linkshell pages a group is allowed to specify what server they are on. By and large, nearly shell you see there will be represented on Balmung, as the roleplayers who come here often want to be where there will be the majority of roleplayers. But I want to say it again; this was not a community that sprung from Balmung and wanted others to train to them. The community existed before servers were named, and when they were named, a server was picked to centralize our efforts. I know what the real answer is, but let me say this, by reading the posts of the legacy players would you say that your response would be apparent in their reactions?

There has never been confusion in any mmo if players were told there were other rp servers. I would also have to agree with the fellow who mentioned the GW2 community it exists with two unofficial rp servers and it does fine. But I want to play devils advocate just for a moment. More options are always a good thing when organized properly, most of the time when other servers fail its because they are poorly organized and poorly supported, bottom line. I'm sorry to say this but the majority of the time what ends up happening on these splitoff servers is that the rp communites on them end up being very insular because (and not always) much of that community keeps to themselves and doesn't make their presence known to the community at large. That is why the new startups fail. Unofficial rp servers take work. Its absolutely much easier to go where everyone else is because you have more people working on making sure the rp is great or at least has a big enough presence to make sure that people know that they are there. But one thing I have to say is this. A site dedicated to rp in a game is not helping things by not having equal support for any alternative servers that pop up. RP should be supported in the GAME period not just by a particular server, not to mention its been my past experience that having all rpers on one server is not always the best thing, especially if a game has no factions. There should be at least one alternative and I personally don't think it will be difficult to start another sub forum dedicated to another server. I mean why not? Isn't the point of this site to encourage/foster rp in FFXIV? As one of the newer members while I centered my character to exist on Balmung (hell even his story does) I think that those who are thinking about going to a new server should not be discouraged in doing so. Not in the way it has been done so far. In a perfect world all rpers will be in the same place rping together happily. Me personally I always liked the fact that in WoW for example there was a Moonguard if I ever wanted to not rp on Wyrmrest Accord anymore. (Please no MG jokes). I liked the fact that there were options, and I liked the fact that no matter what the rp community everyone was treated as brother and sisters no matter what server you were on. We all supported each other plain and simple. It didn't cause any issues or problems and it allowed people to have another place to go if they felt that they didn't fit on a particular server for whatever reason whether its icly or oocly. While there are always rp servers that died there are just as many people who leave a game because they have no alternatives on where to go if they wish to just make a change. I'll just say this, those going to a new rp server should stick together. Right now someone mentioned that on the Lodestone people are choosing Moogle. Whether or not people on this site want that to happen its going to happen since its on the Lodestone already. Not to mention what if Square Enix decides to designate more than one server as an rp server? What then? To try to encourage everyone to stay In the same place is a fight against the inevitable. I have been playing mmos for a very very long time. Multiple rp servers have existed and flourished since the days of Everquest and Ultima Online. All that is happening instead of working with people who want to go to another server is that they are being further pushed away. And this time you guys are going to get a HUGE influx of experienced season rpers. Ones that are right now familiarizing themselves with the lore, etc etc. Ones that I am sure may have a different way of doing things and are even more aggressive when it comes to certain things. Like for example open world rp (like myself, I don't do the hiding thing, I don't do the private chat rp thing unless its a private moment). It will be interesting to see how the different styles of rp matched with new personalities, etc will fit In with the feel of the old community. Which I'm sure was idyllic due to the conditions of 1.0 Trust me, some of you will may not like it and might wish there was another server these new upstarts could go to, lol. Your beautiful town will soon be turned into New York City, lol Join all the rpers together RPC in the game we all will be playing, that is how the rp community gets stronger, right now there are posts here that are making people feel bad and alienated by wanting to start someplace new. And that is just as oft putting to want to rp. When people come to this site they see Hydaelin Roleplayers Community Not Hydaelin Roleplayers Community Balmung Server. How bout that FFXIV rp community feel eh? I gotta say some of the responses here by the Legacy community come off a bit condescending. What would an alternative rp server community want the RPC to do? Support them as any mmo rp community would support those that are playing in the same GAME with them. Innovative idea I know. That is not a question that should even need to be asked. Listen look at it like this those who want to stay on Balmung and don't want the community to "split up". Rp servers always have different feels to them. When I played WoW the Moonguard server had a feel (to me) of a newer younger rp community and players. Being a veteran I ended up going to Wyrmrest Accord which I loved because you could tell the rp community on that server was more experienced, more seasoned. So I fit right in, but it was nice that newer rpers had Moonguard to go to so they could develop their rp. It was also nice when they felt that they "graduated" and then they proceeded to move on to Wyrmrest Accord. When they did make that move all they received from the WRA community as a whole was open arms, and I am sure that many of them preferred to just stay or go back to Moonguard. At least two strong options for rp servers imo would be a good thing, and guess what even past that you will have some trying to start rp on other servers, and more power to them, better to let them feel that they can try instead of forcing them to stay with everyone else thus resulting in them avoiding sites like this altogether. That is really what we need to think about here, lets not come off too pushy. There are probably hundreds of lurkers that read this site we want them to feel comfortable no matter where they wish to go. Sure disagreements are going to happen but lets support each other's choices nonetheless.

During one of the earlier Letter from the producer vids If I'm not mistaken Yoshi mentioned quest objectives, this was one of the reasons why Free Company Alliances are possible, for FC's who want to help each other with their objectives. I seriously recommend anyone going back and watching the earlier Letter from the Producer videos, they are chock full of information and all of them have been subtitled.

Free companies can also get objectives, make alliances with other Free Companies, etc. For example a Free Company gets benefits for helping out new members. They will be more interactive than the average guild system with actual in game roles and things to do.

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com/pl/topics/detail?id=758c9a3a9f3045637d0d36f1afa1dd51085f4be3

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com/pl/topics/detail?id=b3d8f31642df4d9b36fc8b90cbb01abcd96290cf

I'm not so sure that was what is mentioned in the video, he mentions monks have 3 stances they have to switch through to perform combos, making their playstyle unique, He also mentioned there is ways to make your playstyle different to others... not so sure about "Specs". I guess we should just wait and see what is announced next week. Look at he part where he mentions it and where he shows the three boxes that are used to signify the 3 specs. The three boxes were grey, that's how you picked the different variants, at first I thought he was talking about the monk specifically as well until he mentioned the boxes and was not playing a monk at that moment, he also spoke about specifications. Its all there just look at it again.