Producer Letter LIVE VIII English Translations: Phase 4 8/17Follow

that sucks.. also in that case fishing can effect the economy.. what if those treasure you find after yu fish up the map can be sold for a decent amount? Only fishers would have access to them

Nah. You got the swimwear during a summer event where you had to lure a Bomb to a trap before it blew up. In order to suit you up "appropriately" against this flaming foe, the "fire-resistant uniform" the quest NPC handed you to report to duty in was a swimsuit. But in reality, the swimsuits had water resistance on them, not fire.

I don't know how I feel about this one, seems like someone would just bomb the instances to pick up easy tokens. Maybe the available token purchase items are of lesser quality than the real deal.

I'm pretty sure they said that the gear you can buy with tokens was almost as good as the actual drops, but not quite. So it gives you incentive to keep trying until you get your drop.

Maybe the fish and treasure are soulbound to you? Yuck, that would be terrible.

I would assume the point of having an add on tool as opposed to having people write a script in a text file is so that they can have an intermediate level of API. In which case, it really doesn't matter what the underlying hardware issues are. Either way, the addon maker can only hook into whatever you expose to addons. Unless Playstation games have some really radical checksum scheme where even altering the size of a specific file from the "norm" makes the thing unplayable.

Otherwise, it seems like they'd be making a tool that, while helpful, isn't strictly necessary.

If it enables crafting, it has an effect on the economy by producing more goods to be sold. If treasure chests contain gear, that affects the economy by eliminating the need to purchase that (or similar) gear.

I think what Yoshi PROBABLY meant by that is that you won't be able to sell fish. And while I think that's kind of stupid, I can understand why he might do that given the RMT history FFXI and other games have had regarding fishing. But to claim that fishing won't affect the economy is insane.

Everyone, I have updated the OP with info about PvP in phase 4. You have to be level 30 to enter the Wolves' Den (new name for the Colisseum). The level cap in phase 4 is level 20, therefore Legacy players will only have access to this area if they are above level 30.

That's all very interesting, but I understood that the first time. The question I actually answered though was a mechanical question about elemental resistances.

No need to keep trying to correct me when I wasn't wrong or mistaken in the first place. It's frustrating having perfect reading comprehension and having other people try to set me straight just because they're trying to answer a different question.

Do you have some kind of source on this? The live letter seemed like Yoshi was implying that they had other means of catching RMT that they couldn't divulge publicly for fear of RMT finding workarounds. Doesn't seem like it fits your description, but I could be wrong.

And I agree that we won't know the impact until release, but I know that when I leveled culinarian, there weren't that many recipes that required fish (a couple by level 15).

Just the translation above..

it was stated in the live letter that if you can't beat the fight, you can collect tokens to trade for gear that is almost as good as the gear you get from winning. There's really no more need to discuss it.