Volkai

Volkai7 here, I invite you to add me.

Volkai doesn't even know it himself, but he was actually born within the Garlean Empire. His parents moved to Ul'Dah before he could walk. When his parents lost track of him (and somehow became convinced he died) during a trip to Limsa Lominsa, they moved away from Ul'dah, actually left Eorzea entirely and moved back to the city he was born in. Which is also the city his sister was born in. They're still alive. ============== Speaking of Kistala. She's in Ul'dah now, having left military service in the Empire after the Calamity. So, yeah, she's from the Empire, too. Only, she actually knows it, since she grew up there.

I vote Goblin because Goblins.

I'm pretty sure by "NA/EU" what they mean is there's going to be one data center covering both regions. My bet is it's probably NA east cost or Iceland or Greenland.

This seems the most important bit there:

Here's a trick - if SE offers an official RP server, don't you think they would probably need to offer four RP servers? One each for JP/(NA/EU) and one each for Legacy/New. On a related note, if we decide to pick up a non-Legacy server as well for RPC support (and there's no officially noted RP server coming from SE), I'd like to nominate Goblin. No particular reason, I just like Goblins.

Volkai's been cut off from most of his resources since the Sundering (i.e. v1 release). So far, that hasn't changed. I'm not sure where he'll be with that coming out of stasis... maybe things will change. But then, maybe Volkai will change.

Seemingly abandoned in Limsa Lominsa by parents who had brought him from Ul'dah, Volkai Nailo came to adventuring by way of the Order of the Stormguard, a secretive organization to which his mentor and adoptive parent Seventh Pillar (a Roegadyn merchant and pugilist of some reknown) belonged. As he came of age his mentor inducted him in to the Order, and his life was comparatively quiet until he found himself back-to-back with Keir Loell during a slaughter now known as the Sundering. As Keir worked to rebuild the Order, Volkai sought out the perpetrators of the Sundering - those responsible for Seventh Pillar's passing. Unfortunately, his search was fruitless, and as he was distracted by this, the Order, already shaken by the Sundering, crumbled completely, and after this happened little was seen of Volkai. However, given his drive to find those responsible for the Sundering, it is unlikely he gave up the ghost during the Calamity.

I shall be quite surprised to find out that Volkai Nailo is anything but dead and gone, leaving not even ash behind.

Where I will be tonight depends on if any other past members of the Order of the Stormguard will be on, and if they will welcome me to wherever they are - and if my low-level character can make it there.

I'm not sure what, but something about this ep. just did not click with me. I had to turn it off fifteen minutes in.

Deal with this, most of the world doesn't. Oh well, I can deal with that. I don't see why you'd take umbrage from someone else's differing views though.

I'm pretty sure scamming is a violation of ToS and therefore merits a GM Call.

No, that is not true. APB was completely shut down because Realtime World (the company running it) went bankrupt. (One of the guys wrote extensively about it: http://lukehalliwell.wordpress.com )

This is pretty interesting. I have to wonder how much of the differences are due to (WARNING: INCOMING SPECULATION) the translation team being seriously rushed to get everything translated in time for launch?

A 210m isn't all that special. It's on par with a low-to-midgrade 9000-series nVidia GPU. As it is in a laptop, that raises additional expense and heat issues. I didn't say it's easy or cheap. Just easiest... which isn't saying much. Laptops are not modification-friendly, generally.

Aside from Final Fantasy XI - which came out with a year's worth of updates and an expansion - I have yet to see a review of an initial-release MMO that was largely positive and at least nominally objective. The first three months are almost always devoted to putting out fires and fixing unforeseen errors. Anyone who draws immutable conclusions about the quality of the game at this point... probably shouldn't be playing an MMO. Give it six months. Normally I would say three, but XIV may take extra time to get everything fixed since the devs are still working on getting the game to work on the PS3 and its 256MB RAM + 256MB VRAM where it's running on PC with >1535MB RAM + >511MB VRAM. Or >2047MB RAM + >511MB VRAM for Vista/7 version.

With 2.20GHz x 2 CPU and 4GB RAM you're alright. I don't know your GPU but I'm sorry to say it doesn't sound all that great. At this point the 'easiest' thing to do is just upgrade your video card, if you can. That's easier said than done, but it's possible.

Who calls them toons? (Sorry, pet peeve of mine.) Seriously though, doing something like asking directions is probably a good course of action. Or you could just be blunt about it and ask if they RP / are interested in RPing.

Check your FFXI Config settings - particularly Graphics. Also, the game can take a while to log you in.

Lucky indeed. At the moment I have been reduced to rotating my alts so I have some way to progress when my guildleves are on cooldown on one character. At this rate I'll have a fully fleshed out character, skill wise, in oh.. a year.. maybe more? *Scratches head* How bad was the leveling in Aion/FFXI again? I thought SE said they wanted to move away from that. For the first few years, before the ToAU expansion came out, you would never see more than, oh, probably 6k XP per hour in FFXI, and even that would be really good. 4k /hour would be more reasonable. It also used to take 968,349 XP to go from lv.1 to lv.75 with a capped XP buffer. (968,349/6,000 = ) Just over 161 hours of constant XPing to do that. Then ToAU came out and the Colibri birds were so squishy (and full of XP) that the high rate hit 20k/hour, with average for 70+ XPing being 8-10k/hour. On top of the the XP rates were revised for levels 50+ and you only needed 801,349 XP to go from 1 to 75 with a capped buffer. (801,349 / 20,000 = ) A mere 40 hours of XPing to do that. NOWadays your lower level parties can actually hit higher XP rates, thanks to the addition of Field Manual trials. On top of that, at level 30+ you can get XP in Abyssea, where XP rates skyrocket up to 60k/hour. We have also seen the advent of higher level caps, though, from 75, to 80, to 85 now. It's slated to go up again (probably to 90) in December. That has changed the total XP needed 1,312,849 to go from lv.1 to lv.85 with a full XP buffer. (1,312,849 / 60,000 = ) Just under 22 hours of constant XPing to do that. These are 'fastest possible' rates, mind you. From 161 originally hours to 40 hours some four, five years ago, to 22 hours today. Because of the time involved, it was (and is) unsurprising in FINAL FANTASY XI when an XP party runs for four, eight, twelve, even fourteen hours straight with only occasional breaks for such necessities as players using the restroom or getting water. ========== In XIV, however, SE is trying to avoid players feeling the need to grind XP for hours on end. That's what the XP limits are for. So if you're trying to hurry to the level cap you're doing it wrong.

I guess I'm just lucky that I enjoy the leveling system as it is?

I would say "cool story bro" except you probably wouldn't think I meant it seriously. Seriously: cool story. Great pics.

Or at least it's in hibernatino of some sort... but yeah, chances are good that ginormous column of light offed the dragon and any would-have-been-survivors that were inside that ship.