Random Question Thread (FFXI Related)

Stupid question I know but it always got me curious.
Why is Chocobo movement speed coded in a different way from players' movement speed?
Chocobo default speed is coded at "-20%" but corresponds more or less to players movement speed "60%" (which is the maximum you can achieve).

What reason could they had to use two different means to handle movement speed on Chocobo and Players?


Only thing that I can think of is that many, many, many years ago players default movement speed was doubled, and afaik the Chocobo one stayed the same during that very old patch.

The different multiplier means chocobo base speed is different than player base speed. This was true before player speed increase too.

Chocobos you raise can have different speeds than the stock kind, so this makes sense.

Afaik mount status sets your technical movement speed to 100% on a rental chocobo but sets your effective movement speed in game to 160% (same as flee). If you use something to modify your technical movement speed above 100% while mounted, you move faster than 160% (not sure if additive or multiplicative).

Why has Epam ring tanked from 50M to 15-20M? Is it dogshit now?

trove campaigns
tvr reward rings
sets moving to more pdl and less wsd

Is the quest "Totoroon's Treasure Hunt" broken? Or are my expectations broken?
40 mins in zone, over 105 items harvested, no trace of the ??? box or the NM.
Is that normal or am I doing something wrong?

Are you running multiple characters? I had 2 chars going in party at the same time, and harvesting a box on one of them (1/1) completed the quest for the other as well, silently - after I harvested another ~50 times with no box I went back to make sure I had talked to Totoroon properly and the quest completed.

Edit: Looking back at logs, they weren't even in the same zone at the time the ??? harvested, so I don't know what the hell that means. Either way, try talking to Totoroon again and maybe it marks it complete

No I only have a single character, but will try to talk to Toto I guess

No, just that cornelia's exists now.

Hi, all. Iam in trouble with nearby dayly kickouts on all chars (not all together) and my research brought me to the memory used by some windower addons (findall, gearviewer, gearswap and xichecklist) which use 20-30MB each. KI says this may cause the crashs because it floods the RAM invisibly over time. Any1 have similar experiences and/or knows how i could solve the problem (beside not using these addons)? Thx, in advance!

The LAA patch and using dgvoodoo works

LAA is automatically built into windower now, just turn it on (click the wrench), dgvoodoo just follow the guide
https://www.bg-wiki.com/ffxi/DgVoodoo_Setup_Guide

I have to logout chars befor LAA can be activated? It trys to load but dont switch to on. I use voodoo yet.
Thx for the advice, i try the LAA asap.

What to they mean with "Emerge victorious from the Rank 5 Mission"?
For Vana'bout

HTMB

There's a thread for that.

do the HTMB against the shadow lord on any difficulty.
"Awakening" is also the track theme for the shadow lord

https://www.ffxiah.com/forum/topic/58239/bout-slightly-less-worse-each-time/31/#3796097

Do killer effects gained from circle give the full bonus of +15% even vs. NMs?

Or is the effect halved like traits/gear vs. NMs?

For some reason, the individual circle or killer effect pages don't list it, but I was sure it was reduced to 2/3 the effect vs NMs. It's listed on the Killer Instinct page:

I was going to reply cause I recalled there beign an NM nerf, but for the life of me I couldn't find any references to link. I swear I've tested it myself as well, but... who knows where the hell that test ended up. I don't seem to have bookmarked it.

Falkirk may have tested it thoroughly vs NMs and the wiki is just outdated. Might need to check the BST thread and search for it.

So you can change your Crafting Guild how many times you want each day, but for that day (until jp midnight) you can't trade things to the guild you pick.
This is the method they found to avoid people constantly switching over to do multiple guild trades each day, i.e. getting GP for multiple guilds on the same day.
Correct?
It was either this way or forcing you to pick a single guild every real world day I guess.
Mixed feelings on this, back in the days it probably made sense, these days? Probably not that relevant.
In particular it makes little sense that you can't have one "proper" crafting guild at the same time AND the fishing guild, which is special after all, uncoincidentally you can bring it to 110 separately from all other crafting where you have to pick one.



Anyway, on a side node, anybody has some info on MMM voucher 8? How does it work? How difficult it is? Which level should you be to even have a remote chance to win one of the two rings and how good/bad are the odds for that?

Basically. They have adjusted GP a bunch over the years though, so it's a lot better than it was. We used to get really obnoxious items to trade in and we only got a fraction of the GP for it. Also, you don't lose your points for changing guild anymore.

I don't think you ever lost points for swapping your guild? Because I was Goldsmithing at start, and I swapped to cooking in like... 2005? 2006? And I still have my goldsmithing points there.
(now we can see them without swapping, simply with the Currencies menu which wasn't there back then)

So on my server Windy conquered Oztroja but still no Plucking Wings available.
Is it because it has to be unlocked somehow (no?) or because Windy lost one zone, Saurumugue?
Which implies to have Plucking Wings available you need EVERY zone under Windy control, not just Oztroja as Wiki says.

IIRC it's "conquer Oztroja, then keep it conquered next week also". Not like Fiat Lux, which is available right away.

e: the other two work the same way in La Vaule / Beadeaux

Yeah, if you revoked your contract(technically we stay in all the guilds) then you lost your points. Those goldsmithing points didn't follow you from in 75 era.

According to old wiki you need control of ALL zones. And since Windy lost Saurumugue, that's why Plucking Wings isn't available.

Are we to believe old wiki? It does make sense though.

I would believe that also! I was not paying enough attention when I got my clears of them to notice whether every zone was clear but that definitely sounds vaguely correct.

March 2012 version update



I took a break from XI right after the prepatch for this crafting update, but came back right before they increased the points for turning items in.

There used to be a lot of recipes with rare items, recipes that required silly amounts of materials and/or items that didn't stack(yet) to create. Even when you had a recipe with cheap or easily farmed materials you were still locked into crafting for an hour+ for measly points. Brutal.