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Let's see... more insane than sitting down and recording FFXI storylines and my own barely coherent rambling... hmm...
I don't think any of this will do, but I'll give it a go.
Back in early 08 I'd joined my 3rd Endgame LS called Vanguard. I cozied up with the officers, and with anyone who'd play the game with me, like I tend to do. I'd earned a ton of points on Diorite farms, and was allowed to get Kirin's Osode and Byakko's Haidate (finally!).
Hip deep in Campaign battle alongside LS lead and some LS mates. Talking and talking, and most assuredly bothering the LS lead. He sort of turned the conversation towards his Joyeuse, and how it'd be good for my WAR to go get one. He was like, "You just have to go get that TOD, and I'm sure folks in the LS might help you. ;)" And after several others listed the merits of getting a Joyeuse, and me thinking, "Oh yeah, hell yeah, if I can get help from LS I'll definitely go camp that TOD!" So I thanked him for his insight, and went on down to Sea Serpent Grotto.
Once there, I was alone, and killing Devil Mantas. Not for too long. Some THF showed up and put themselves at the far wall. Then a NIN and a SMN/whm showed up as well. Thought to myself, "Well, at least if folks are showing up, that means I'm on track to get a TOD." About 4 repops of Devil Mantas later, the NIN and SMN sent me tells asking to team up. I didn't know why they did, but I accepted immediately, and a few minutes later Charybdis spawned. We got it, and basically the NIN and SMN did all of the work. All I did was kill Devil Manta respawns/any agro, and offer the occasional Smash Axe if NIN was having SHadow trouble. Joyeuse is 100% drop, so of course it came into the treasure pool. And the NIN and SMN said to me, "Go ahead and lot this one. Just come on back down to help us out whenever we come down here again." and I gratefully lotted the Joyeuse, and I asked, "Why did you invite me at all though, why did you let me have this? I don't understand, but I'm very grateful." - "Honestly, given your gear, we thought you could kill it by yourself, so we just wanted to team up." Any WAR back then woulda been eating dirt within like 10 seconds of trying to solo Charybdis. They never did ask me to come back down there either, even though I added both of them, and said don't hesitate to call me.
Then I showed up to LS event the very next day, Ouryu V2, with my shiny new Joyeuse. The LS lead didn't speak to me for a week! (I learned then that they were shooing me away with what should have been a herculean task)
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By . on 2025-10-06 12:44:24 |
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By Taint on 2025-10-06 12:25:14 |
first Death Penalty on my server back when salvage statics were a thing , alex was 30k a piece and hard to come by over 12yrs ago.
The fact you got the 3 Kings titles back then is impressive. They took forever to get to and required an alliance to kill. (if i recall correctly)
Plus you could spent all that time getting there to find out they weren't even up.
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By Garuda. Chanti on 2025-10-06 12:17:22 |
Oh yeah, it's an annoyance. It takes a full minute to spin 11 digits vs 1 second to hit contacts, dial
It was novel though.
Now, manual transmission is more like what you're thinking. I just want a nice drive when I'm too tired to expend energy up and downshifting in traffic. THAT is annoying. Today manual transmissions are an anti theft device. |
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Looks interesting!
One bit of feedback I would say is to avoid using the ingame treasury commands as a multiboxer always ends up messing up my settings.xml file. I wrote my own code a long time ago to drop ein lamp:
Code function drop_lamp()
local inventory = windower.ffxi.get_items(0)
for i=1,inventory.max do
if inventory[i].id == 5414 then
windower.add_to_chat(007,'Lamp Found')
windower.ffxi.drop_item(i,1)
return
end
end
windower.add_to_chat(007,'No Lamp')
end
You are spot on.
I for a moment forgot about the racing issue in treasury and it settings.xml.
I'll fix it in next release.
Really wish treasure saved settings in a file per character rather than a common one would fixed everything
So i copied this and renamed it to drop_wing (not that that matters) and changes the number for Obsid. Wing, to do the D obj. in sortie but it says "not found" any ideas why?
(best guess inventory.max doesn't account for the temp items in sortie?) |
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By . on 2025-10-06 12:05:51 |
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By . on 2025-10-06 11:53:55 |
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By Elad on 2025-10-06 11:43:37 |
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I don't think many people on this planet have failed to get a drop from Cargo Crab Colin as many times and across as many years as I have, but I'd love to be proven wrong. That said I never tracked attempt numbers so I wouldn't even know for sure.
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first Death Penalty on my server back when salvage statics were a thing , alex was 30k a piece and hard to come by over 12yrs ago.
Then I chased after 1st Terpsichore and Murgleis on valefor.
Theyre no longer the crazy struggle to make like they used to be, im fine with that.
The shared effort and help from friends to make their acquisition a reality way back when you couldn't solo it was a special part of the journey to me.
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For buffs skill does nothing.
Not entirely true, it depends on if they have capped skill or not. Lets not forget buffing songs do have a skill cap for potency that needs to be reached like Honor March needs 900 for example. |
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I'm the reason nirvana is the most popular mythic, why most of you have aeonics, and why summoner *** sucks to play in odyssey and sortie.
I am intrigued and need to know more.
He was the poor fool (i think) that showed off astral conduit/astral flow zerg in a vid which iirc showed schah getting killed in <1min when at the time it was a pretty difficult fight and you had to deal with the adds mechanic |
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Cerberus.Shadowmeld said: »I think I might be the slowest person to level to 75 in OG release/chains era. :P
Go on then.
What was it. Mine was 18 months. Bst, all solo.
I low-key loved this part about OG BST leveling. I spent a year behind Garlaige Citadel Banish Gate#2, just charming beetles and killing Bombs. Some days, I'd do it for 30 minutes between classes. It was very fun to pick up and go / kill a few / logout as my free time allowed. |
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By . on 2025-10-06 10:48:22 |
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By on 2025-10-06 10:40:30 |
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By . on 2025-10-06 10:40:05 |
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Just dont accept candies from old men.
They are SUS.
They probably use anime lolis as avatar on the internet
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By . on 2025-10-06 10:38:48 |
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I use hotmail. It was the first email I had, back when I was a kid.
I remember using email a few times to chat with other people. At that time, social media was nearly inexistent (couple of years later they invented the ICQ and Orkut).
Probably Ms Chatty was still a little kid eating candies at that time.
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By Jinxs on 2025-10-06 10:16:50 |
Yes, depends if the addon saves/modifies an xml file.
Same thing happens if you modify things like the config plugin settings across characters, which writes to its xml settings file, treasurepool settings, and anything else dealing with xml files.
This might explain why I spent a good deal of time fighting with FrameRateDivisor when I added a character
Not just from fastcs additional complications |
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I'm the reason nirvana is the most popular mythic, why most of you have aeonics, and why summoner *** sucks to play in odyssey and sortie.
I am intrigued and need to know more. |
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By Genoxd on 2025-10-06 09:58:22 |
Cerberus.Shadowmeld said: »Cerberus.Shadowmeld said: »I think I might be the slowest person to level to 75 in OG release/chains era. :P
Go on then.
What was it. Mine was 18 months. Bst, all solo.
Mine was about 2.5 years, first ended up being pld 75 (which I never once played after getting it to 75).
I didn't get to 75 until after ToAU was released and I started playing before NA release. I ended up soloing SMN from 59 to ~70 until I could get into SMN parties in ToAU. Bombs in Ifrits -> Hpemde -> Snolls in Uleguerand.
I just did missions, farmed gil to try and get all the good gear as I as leveling. Wasted so much time farming silk thread in Buburimu lol. |
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By Garuda. Chanti on 2025-10-06 09:35:04 |
Hard to change when it connected to everything for over a decade. What are the cool kids using these days IDK about the cool kids but Gmail has never given me problems or demanded money. |
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By Dodik on 2025-10-06 09:27:11 |
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Lol I thought it was Transport Control Language at first..
Anyway, you're right, it's Tool Command Language.
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Um TCL is Tool Command Language. (to be fair, I thought it was Tool Control Language if you just asked me without looking it up, so I guess we'd both be 2/3rd right). |
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and why summoner *** sucks to play in odyssey and sortie. I thought I've played for well over 2 decades on and off and have nothing to show for it until I read that.
I'm sorry but I think that's my claim to fame. How else could one reasonably explain that every job I picked up to play "serious" and went to make a REMA subsequently received a massive nerf within like 2 months or got excluded from significant gear upgrades for years to come? |
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By Dodik on 2025-10-06 09:23:25 |
Cerberus.Shadowmeld said: »I think I might be the slowest person to level to 75 in OG release/chains era. :P
Go on then.
What was it. Mine was 18 months. Bst, all solo. |
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I think I might be the slowest person to level to 75 in OG release/chains era. :P
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I'm the reason nirvana is the most popular mythic, why most of you have aeonics, and why summoner *** sucks to play in odyssey and sortie.
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I'm not seeing any petrification status with entombed with the current version (I think this worked?)
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And TCL is not slow, it's just not suited to interactive stuff.
Its very slow almost any heavy lifting tcl script I've rewritten in another language (usually perl or python) speeds up by at least an order of magnitude. Its a glorified shell language (everything is a string!) Its actually kind of funny how many performant things I see with embedded tcl in them. (reasons: because it was the best thing in the '90s and no one wants to change).
Expect was kinda cool once upon a time.
Waaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyy off topic /derail (probably not) |
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By . on 2025-10-06 07:30:33 |
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The AI had malignance in this response
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By Jinxs on 2025-10-06 07:29:08 |
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Is there a way to use it across multiple characters without that happening?
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