FINAL FANTASY XI Update (Apr. 20)

[Event-Related] -The following two areas are now open for exploration: The Grand Palace of Hu'Xzoi The Garden of Ru'Hmet -Several new Chains of Promathia area quests have been added. -A special new Ballista area has been added. -New sets of low-level equipment have been added to the list of armor that can be stored by certain NPCs located around Vana'diel. After trading a full set (4-5 pieces) of armor, a player will receive a "claim slip." This claim slip and a small fee are required when having a set of armor returned. Please note: 1. Signatures on checked armor will be lost. 2. High-quality and refurbished armor cannot be stored. -The clamming mini-game on Purgonorgo Isle has been expanded. The new features include: 1. A larger bucket offered to those who can fill the original bucket to the brim without going over its weight limit. 2. A larger variety of items that can be dug from the sand. 3. Less waiting time required to re-clam the same points. -New items are available for harvesting/mining in the following areas: 1. West Sarutabaruta 2. Newton Movalpolos 3. Giddeus -A new key item that will automatically inform players whether they have access to the Marble Bridge Tavern is now available (a message will appear upon entry into Upper Jeuno). -A new key item that will automatically inform players if a volunteer is needed for the "Community Service" quest is now available. -Under certain conditions, Tarnotik (located in Oldton Movalpolos) will now accept snow lilies as payment for teleportation to Mine Shaft #2716. -The number of items accepted by Yurim in the Tavnazian quest "In the Name of Science," as well as the types of rewards granted in exchange, have been increased. -Several new varieties of fish are now being accepted by Zaldon in the "Inside the Belly" quest. [Battle-Related] -The amount of EXP required for leveling up after lv.51, and the amount of EXP lost when KO'd after level 25, has been greatly reduced. Please note that at the time of the version update, if your character has more EXP than the new amount required, your EXP total will be adjusted to 1 point less than the amount needed for level up. Example: Player status before the version update -> Level=51 EXP=8100 Amount needed for level up (before update) = 10000 Amount needed for level up (after adjustment) = 8000 Player status after the version update -> Level=51 EXP=7999 Please visit http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/index.shtml for further details on changes to the EXP system. -Several new types of ENM quests have been added. In addition, many of the existing quests have also been adjusted. Some of these adjustments include allowing larger parties and/or alliances to enter the battlefields (however, depending on the size of the parties, there may be a cut in the amount of EXP received when completing the quest). Area Battle Name Restrictions Boneyard Gully Like the Wind 15 minutes/Lv.75/3 members recommended Shell We Dance? 30 minutes/Lv.75/12 members recommended Totentanz 30 minutes/Lv.75/18 members recommended Mine Shaft #2716 Pulling the Strings 15 minutes/Lv.60/Solo battle Automaton Assault 15 minutes/Lv.60/3 members recommended /All members must be of same race Monarch Linn Fire in the Sky 15 minutes/Lv.40/3 members recommended Bugard in the Clouds 15 minutes/Lv.50/3 members recommended Beloved of the Atlantes 30 minutes/Lv.50/6 members recommended The recommended number of party members for all existing ENM battles has been set at 6, with the maximum alliance size being 18. -New notorious monsters have been added to the Chains of Promathia areas. -The bard song Army's Paeon V (Lv. 65) has been added. [Item-Related] -New mannequin poses have been introduced. After obtaining a mannequin and a certain key item, Mhauran goldsmith Fyi Chalmwoh will change the pose of your simulacrum upon request. Available poses are as follows: 1. /sit 2. /salute (Windurst/San d'Oria/Bastok) 3. /hurray 4. Special race-specific poses -Select guilds are now offering new key items available for purchase with guild points. -Adjustments and additions have been made to the types of items requested in exchange for guild points. -The Alchemists' Guild will now accept poison baghnakhs +1 in exchange for guild points. -Several new fishing rods have been introduced. -New relic-type equipment has been added. -Numerous other types of items are also now available. -New synthesis and desynthesis recipes have been added. -The graphics displayed when a Galka equips the following shields have been changed: Marine Shield Shell Shield Turtle Shield Turtle Shield +1 Genbu's Shield -A new synthesis recipe for black ink has been introduced. In conjunction with this addition, the item's buying price has also been adjusted. -The following item names have been changed: Ashigaru Gorget -> Agile Gorget Mana Ring -> Mystical Ring Mana Ring +1 -> Mystical Ring +1 [System-Related] -The Handle Name screen that would appear during login has been removed. In its place, a simple confirmation message has been introduced. -Group Messages can now be viewed while logged in to FINAL FANTASY XI. However, players must return to PlayOnline to respond to them. -Several unused buttons within the Friend List menu, as well as the "Busy" and "Away Mess." options under Online Status, have been removed. -In conjunction with the removal of the corresponding button, a player's "Privacy Level" will now automatically be set to level 2 (all players on your Friend List). -The "Accept" button originally used during Friend List registration has been removed. The current options are "Accept & Add" and "Decline." -Also, when "Accept & Add" is selected by the invitee, both players will be automatically registered on each other's Friend List. -"/busy" has been removed from the Auto-Translate feature. -A confirmation message will now appear when purchasing goods from another player's bazaar. Example: Purchase 3 sleepshrooms for 570 gil? [The following adjustments have been made to the fishing system:] -Fishing locations in the following areas have been adjusted: 1. Beaucedine Glacier 2. Sauromugue Champaign 3. Ferries between Mhaura and Selbina -The more "tired" a player becomes after repeated fishing, the longer it will now take to recast his or her line. -Players will be "tired" for a short period of time after being raised. -New BGM is now played when battling it out with a bite. -New types of salt and freshwater fish, as well as rare "legendary" fish, have been added. -When a monster is caught, only the player who reeled it in (and his/her party or alliance) will be able to attack it (the monster's name will be displayed in red/purple).

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Japanese first FF launch
# Apr 20 2005 at 10:46 PM Rating: Decent
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My friend, who had imported this game during PS2 JP first launched, he told me horror stories about the first week of FF's launch much like the one we are experiencing now, except then the patch lasted over a week. I remembered when he told me that a friend of his in Japan called the customer service hotline and was greeted by a sobbing female customer service agent, appearantly crying from "chatting" with other outraged customers. When I heard that part of the story, I was pretty skeptical about what he had told me, until today. The reason was that SE was not prepare, or had anticipated, the high volumn traffic.

Perhaps this is a story long forgotten and we needed a little reminder?

Edited, Wed Apr 20 23:47:57 2005
sigh
# Apr 20 2005 at 10:40 PM Rating: Decent
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Everyone saying "I've tried for 3 hours blah blah.."

I've been downloading the update (or trying to) for over seven hours now and have gotten booted from the update download over 28 times, probably by those who are clicking retry every five seconds.
RE: sigh
# Apr 20 2005 at 10:43 PM Rating: Decent
i have been seeing the error so much that i am going to go mad lol it is almost 9 PST here and i started at 4 been doing this ever since
ERROR
# Apr 20 2005 at 10:33 PM Rating: Decent
woot just hit 8 hours of trying to download and still getting errors iv goten so close though down to 1 min then a dam error. why does this have to be like that. this has never happend to me befor. DAMN SE needs to stop adding stuff that no one will ever use that would help out alot. and make downloads smaller that would help.
ERROR ERROR ERROR
# Apr 20 2005 at 10:32 PM Rating: Decent
lol SE could at least lower how much we download... i was thinking they could seperate the downloads into 2 seperate parts so we dont have such a long download

Edited, Wed Apr 20 23:33:29 2005
torrent option
# Apr 20 2005 at 10:22 PM Rating: Decent
ok, this is likely to never happen, but just a thought. SE has had this massivly overflowed network problem every update that i can remember. there are just too many people trying to do the same thing at the same time. why not implement some sort of BitTorrent type of programming to spread this load? i mean sure there is a possibility that the download rate will be slower, but with tens of thousands of users, it could possibly be faster due to the massive amout of peers. id rather get the download done in one try, even if it takes a little longer, than having to repeat and start over. just a thought.
RE: torrent option
# Apr 21 2005 at 8:07 AM Rating: Decent
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Consider something else when you mention the BItTorrent option...

Once the "users" are involved in the distribution, SE can no longer vouch for the integrity of the files. It would not take much for a "hacked" file to make it's way into the system...

You think the current DDoS or the cracked version of FRAPS (which can be used to steal data from your system) is bad? Torrent the FFXI files and those will seem like the good old days...
RE: torrent option
# Apr 20 2005 at 10:28 PM Rating: Decent
All they need to do is add a que list they are just too lazy to make something we can actually could use instead of, "New and improved friends list!" I don't know anyone who gets on POL to just use their friends list. -.- They need to just make a line so only so many people can download the update at a time. That would make everything a lot easier and faster -.-;;;
sigh sigh sigh
# Apr 20 2005 at 10:20 PM Rating: Decent
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the only thing im worried about is that all this work ive put into trying to become the best 75 rng i can be, is now gonna be taken with a grain of salt by the older 75's cause they had to work harder for their place at the top. i just think us upcoming 75's arent going to be respected ><
New fishing bait!
# Apr 20 2005 at 10:19 PM Rating: Decent
My big discovery! So I was finally able to log in, I went fishing on the ferry and caught a few Sea Zombies which you can now turn in for the "inside the belly" quest. I got a Drill Calamary from one of them, some new Ex type of bait I don't know where to fish with...
Please stop the whining.
# Apr 20 2005 at 10:18 PM Rating: Good
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to the people who say that noobs will get to 75 faster, blah blah. First, props on getting 75 the old way, but shut yer trap with yer whinin. I know enough lvl 75 folks that are still noobs in their jobs, and you are prolly one of them if you whine so much. Go hunt serket and be quiet plz.
The old way was so herky-jerky in terms of exp limit increases. Now its all smoothed out, since the exp cap was raised to 75. Now whatever new job you undertake, it will just be easier on your time. Watch, when you lvl a new job, and you will, or quit altogether, you will be so happy with the new system.
Lucky me
# Apr 20 2005 at 10:17 PM Rating: Decent
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I sat on the "Can't Play during maint." screen till the play button said Check version.. I patched in about 45 min and was playing fine until all you late leechers had to congest the server... lol just kif\dding... although was nice to walk through lower jenuo with no lag... was like walking through sandy... but there were only 750 ppl on at the time... was really lonely cuz I was a lvl 19 bed lookin for a pty in qufim... me and 3 other ppl there and they were lvl 75... >< no pty for me... only good thing about getting patched early is that you have free reign to camp whatever NM you want...

oh well, back to trying to reconnect, if I can only get past the version check......
FUCK SE
# Apr 20 2005 at 10:11 PM Rating: Decent
The reason this is happening is cause of all the tards that just keep hitting it and hitting it. The damn servers are timing out, so what do people do? Keep on ******* it up for everyone. But seriously tho, what kinda company launching an update THAT big and isn't prepared for the kind of workload of their server. Ten bucks says it's all coming from one internal network and one server...
Ummm....
# Apr 20 2005 at 10:11 PM Rating: Decent
#1. Relax, it's only a game.

#2. The announcement for Version update has been out for days, if not weeks. Never schedule anything (BCNM, Gardening) within 12-24 hours of a major update.

#3. The exp curve past 50 was the wierdest thing I have ever seen. In an effort to balance, SE decided to do this. Bravo - no more rediculous changes in the curve. What does it really mean?

More high level characters-> more people doing HNM's, God runs, etc-> More endgame content (and an increaed lvl cap??? :p)

#4. SE has network issues when a kazillion people rape their servers by clicking "RETRY" a thousand times a second. You want server issues? Go play WoWarCraft. Ill stick with no FFXI for the night.

and Last but not least....
5 things you could be doing other than trying to update FFXI
(5.) HOMEWORK - (allright, not really...)
5. Read a book. RA Salvatore or Terry Pratchet anyone?
4. Get to bed early for the first time in forever. FFXI will still be here when you return.
3. Watch a movie - Sideways is good.
2. Go outside, and sit down for an hour. Real stars - believe it or not, these one's don't affect crafting!
1. Call a friend. Whine about the server outage, whine about the exp change, whine about the homework your not doing. Odds are there not getting in any faster than you are.

And for the most part....

GET OFF THE SERVER SO I CAN DOWNLOAD THE UPDATE !!!111ONEONEONE11 ;P
/sigh
# Apr 20 2005 at 10:05 PM Rating: Decent
Honestly I think they could have split this update into several smaller updates. I got about 67% in and the darn thing got stuck on one music file so I had to cancel after sitting for 45 minutes only to see my Time Remaining clock go up.
And now it gets stuck on 35% of the Update Preparation.
11:00 PM
# Apr 20 2005 at 10:02 PM Rating: Default
its 11PM i got some good news and some bad news

the bad news is that I got the error mesage at 89% of Downloading ^^ yay fun seing that little bar go from left to rigth.

And the good news is that i save a lot of money by switching to Geico.
RE: 11:00 PM
# Apr 20 2005 at 10:04 PM Rating: Decent
CONGRATULATIONS! i say ***** it all! try tommorow i am i rather watch adult swim anyhow ^.^
whooo!!!
# Apr 20 2005 at 10:01 PM Rating: Decent
Hey guess what! i got in!..... phych lol if i was in japan i would slap them SE people <.> thats how mad i am
Dang It
# Apr 20 2005 at 9:55 PM Rating: Decent
Stupid SE, I was less then an hour to finishing this stupid download and it freezes on me. And now if haven't even been able to get passed 13% on the first screan, this is pissing me off. They shouldn't make downloads this sticking big and also if a person is less then an hour left on the download it should just be able to pick up right then not have to download all 2 hours that were already downloaded. I actually had things planed for tonight :/
.........
# Apr 20 2005 at 9:54 PM Rating: Decent
Wow. I have been trying to download the new patch and im going on 3 hours and cannot keep connected. I still have half the patch to download. *sigh*

Here is a noobish question..... with the less xp loss from dying will Raise 3 become obsolete?


Xersus
Garuda Server
72 WHM
San d'Oria Rank 10
lol
# Apr 20 2005 at 9:51 PM Rating: Decent
Well i am sorta ticked off about this stupid patch, cause iwas working on my dagger lvl when i got kicked for mantnence. But now im just sitting back and hitting X everytime the error code pops thats how bored i am. I know its not gonna help but i just wanna see if it does. i actualy am stuck last time i knew on the downloading part on file 405 i almost got done once but i guess it just got congested. now when i get lucky and get that far it will just pop again and say error code POL some weird number... hey 15 mins till 7 hours at this! awsome!

0.0 it seems im stuck on the checking ff11 version! wow neeto! lol

Edited, Wed Apr 20 22:54:44 2005
OMFG
# Apr 20 2005 at 9:47 PM Rating: Default
you better be F**** kidding me i had 3 10 min left when the freking infamous messages came out aaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Patience is a virtue, people.
# Apr 20 2005 at 9:45 PM Rating: Decent
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I suppose that Squeenix underestimated just how much traffic they would be getting when they released this new patch, though I can understand why it's so congested and I'm unable to log on. Judging by what they added, it's going to take me hours to properly download this fully, as it will for many, many others, ergo, those who popped in a little later are going to have to just wait in line like any good customer and hope we reach the register soon.

And as far as the EXP change is concerned, good riddance to the shoddy, asinine system that was there, originally, I say. Though I feel for the ones who worked so hard to get to lvl 75, I think they can agree as well that the system was majorly hijacked from lvl 50 onwards. Besides, how many high lvls have complained about the exp being insanely high and wished it was lowered? The only downside I see to this is the loss of exp Lvl 75+ had, which isn't much of a downside at all. After all, if you suffered to lvl 75 with such jacked up rates, you can suffer to remake that exp, too. If you're going to argue over how something is stupid, at least make a valid statement first. Thank you.
RE: Patience is a virtue, people.
# Apr 20 2005 at 10:03 PM Rating: Decent
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You would think that since this happens EVERY DAMN UPDATE that they would expect it by now.

Of course, you would also expect them not to release another major update without having a solution to the congestion problems.

I guess that makes too much sense though.


I must admit, the FFXI service the last 2-3 months has been at an all time low. This gets more pathetic everytime.
RE: Patience is a virtue, people.
# Apr 20 2005 at 11:33 PM Rating: Decent
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Granted. However, I'd like to know how many people bring this matter to SE's attention as opposed to those who ***** about it on forums such as this. Those who complain about the service being crappy but don't even give the slightest thought to possibly telling those in charge about the problem are the ones I directed my initial comments to.

Of course, finding out just how to register a complaint to POL is a task in and of itself... Their main site's a freakin' maze. Either that or I'm blind and/or stupid. And yes, lately, the service has hit the ******* relatively speaking. WoW and EQ2 did their damage quite sufficiently. I wonder how much longer FFXI is going to up before it closes altogether. (Not being paranoid, just a thought.)
nearly seven hours later...!
# Apr 20 2005 at 9:45 PM Rating: Good
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Well. I'm glad I'm getting very far in my book, but this is still rediculous. Somehow I doubt that if you can fully expect tens of thousands of downloads of an update once released, and you have realeased many updates in the past and experienced this numerous times before, that it is impossible to make these updates easier to download. Come on, SE!

Oh well. This is probably a message from the literature gods telling me to visit sometimes. lol
-_-
# Apr 20 2005 at 9:43 PM Rating: Decent
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I'm tired of trying to update. It's been six hours how...
OMFG
# Apr 20 2005 at 9:28 PM Rating: Decent
ive tried to update least 20 f***ing times it keeps bootinhg me
this update sucks
# Apr 20 2005 at 9:27 PM Rating: Decent
iv ben trying to update now for 6 and a half hours still cant finish it got realy close though. the thing i cant understand though is that for the past year and a half that iv ben playing iv never got an error when updating why does this one have to be diferant SE just pisses me off why cant thay just fix the downlowds and make them for each server that would cut down on alot of lagg. well i guess thats all i have to say about this later.
RE: this update sucks
# Apr 20 2005 at 9:41 PM Rating: Decent
Ya, had a similiar problem. I've been 75 items from complete update forever. It will not load file 17.DAT. Tried stopping process, and after 4 hrs of errors, I got back in to be in the same freakin spot I left, no change..... Man, the one time I need to lvl for my statis and the freakin game hates on me. :(.... No love SE, no love.
yea
# Apr 20 2005 at 9:17 PM Rating: Decent
but thats just it

ANY other company that did this would lose business.

But for the most part, they can push us around because they know we like to play the game. And losing a few players isnt going to hurt them.
Hope
# Apr 20 2005 at 9:15 PM Rating: Good
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Quote:
-New items are available for harvesting/mining in the following areas:
1. West Sarutabaruta
2. Newton Movalpolos
3. Giddeus


Please let there be Spider Webs... Please let there be Spider Webs... Please let there be Spider Webs...

<.<;

What? I can dream, can't I?
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