Dev Tracker - Discussion

Isn't there some system-level limitation on how many spells there can be, and we are at capacity already? My understanding is this is part of the reason why Matsui-P and Cornelia rotate.

No
Thats a conspiracy!


Jokes aside, they also said 30 inventory was a limit, then they found a way to increase it, then again, then again, they found out how to add three field accessible storage bags, two then 8 wardrobes. They could figure it out if they really wanted too.

Didn't they say they were adding the "alter ego" points for something super simple, like just logging in? I'm 99% sure they said that in an interview when this was first being discussed. I don't think there is going to be a huge grind attached to this.

Following up on my previous comment, this was translated from a freshly picked some time ago:

"March 2026: they're going to raise the floor of trust power since players are so much stronger than ilvl 119. This will increase the amount of content that players will be able to attempt.

More concretely: the first initiative March 2026 will have different points for each type of Trust (tank, dd, healer, etc) that you can use to increase the "parameters" (I take this to mean things like attack/defense etc more than base stats, but I'm not sure there)

These points will be handed out by logging in day after day or by doing activities on your own.

This is subject to change. This is what they are looking into now

Collecting points will not depend on the outcome of battles."

That does indeed sound like no grind, just time gate.
Which honestly sounds perfect given the main target are casuals.

This seems to fit with how the login point system was changed to favor logging in more with a better reward system.

SE upper management is probably using login metrics to make decisions so devs are trying to increase this.

Personally I'm not really able to commit to playing with a group so anything to benefit my solo playing is going to keep me paying. So in terms of longevity of the game, its probably a good thing.

Seeing how this is a main title FF, it would be loss if this game couldn't be found and enjoyed by future generations.

I think increasing trust stats with a login point system is a pretty good way to go about it, especially if they're planning for the puppetmaster-style equipment increases for trusts as rewards for existing/old content. That's a good mix.

I mean. it's really going to matter how exactly it works.

If you get to +1 stat for 1 trust every day, that's just silly as ***.

If you get a whole level for 1 trust, that's eventually ok.

Depends where it caps. It sounds largely pointless considering the amount of time it's taken to get. People who need trust need them to stop sucking immediately, not 6 months from the day they start.

In b4 it's a gacha-style system where you have to buy then trade in multiple Ciphers to increase the stats of the associated Trust

I would love them to be customizable so we can use different trusts that would be so good. I don't get why they don't do that and tie it to content somehow, it would extend the life of a lot of content too. They need to also do it to BLU, where we can get gear that will enhance spells as it would greatly change the way it can be played. They have a lot of options.

Seems like it's both logging in AND doing stuff:


This is probably the best of both worlds: make sure players who are too weak to accomplish much can still power up their Trusts at a reasonable clip (who is this all for if not for them?) while still ensuring actually doing stuff is more productive than not.

These idiots are doing the split campaign but not changing any of the active campaigns between both phases again.

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I wonder what's up with the split campaign this time. Another mini vana'bout?

Most likely the Easter event.

trust equipment, neat

Odin now, huh?

Can we get odds on the next server to be somehow overrun?

It depends how stupid people are (no question, but lets pretend!) A betting man would tell you option 1 is a 100% guarantee.

Do they do the dipshit move and just start flooding phoenix cause it's next in line.

Do they do the semi intelligent thing and go to quetz, cause it will take longer to become closed.
(*)Sidenote, I think that shiva is the fastest growing server, it used to be dead *** last but it's population has slowly doubled since 2018

Do they do the smart thing and advertise a proper server where they'll find the most help/helpful people (ragnarok)
((sorry chat, if it were my choice your server gets flooded next. Good with the bad. But they're stupid so you don't have to worry about it))

Or does square give up this idiocy before those can happen??

...They're literally NERFING trusts, in anticipation of buffing their stats.

That's a bold *** move.
(this is just a shitpost, they are technically really nerfing them but it's so insignificant that it doesn't mean anything)

Don't give people any ideas.... Quetz is fine just the way it is!! We don't need any more people. Our quiet one-horse town where everyone knows everyone is perfect right now.

Thats not gonna help lmao

"thanks for spending 2 hours fighting a couple NM's that caused you to lose a couple thousand EP from multiple OHKO mechanics because we had to keep these NM's OP otherwise they would be a joke to PLD's and RUN's just so you could open a free box one time, heres 10JP and 10k EP"

I wouldn't worry about it. MMO players are no more intelligent than a housefly. You turn on a light and fly right into it.

If you're on Phoenix. YOU need to panic.

The throwaway rmt farmers in absolute shambles. I'm too lazy to go look but I would guess gil prices on Asura are probably 3-4 times the price they were on Odin.

Now that will change.

Genuinely, what’s the end goal of closing down a 3rd server and when does it end? This feels like a lazy fix to a problem SE don’t want to address. Ultimately it’ll just end up hurting the game if SE closes every server they deem too big. You can only funnel people into smaller servers so much - especially without any incentive to leave a higher pop server.

No one has ever accused them of doing something the correct way, so

They're just reacting. They don't have a plan (other than Xfer cashgrab), or a worry about the shitstorm they're brewing.

It's pretty hard to believe there are performance issues when Odin, Bahamut, and even Asura itself are well under half the peaks Asura had when it was first closed. Personally, I think that they're using the process to establish more 'healthy' populations while cashing in on transfers and new accounts.

Nobody is going to transfer off of the closed servers knowing their friends are there and they can't come back. If they ever reopen any, people will flock back to that server while they can and the progress they made is lost. This way, they lock in their gains on Bahamut, Odin, and soon-to-be Phoenix.

If it's actually about server capacity, they must have done something incredibly dumb in the last year or two to harm performance. They barely top 2000 on Odin, ever.

I'm on Phoenix, have been from the start, and not terribly panicked.

We've already started getting the occasional shout from folks wanting to buy merc services and they give up after a couple days because we don't really do that here.

We've got one network of RMT shouting to sell exp[1]. We've got dyna and salv botters to sell currency[2]. We've got an active crafting shell that buys and sells to keep things stocked (these folks rock, actually). We've got a strong jp community. I think we'll weather the storm fairly well at this stage of the game.

All that being said, Phoenix is a hellhole, you don't want to come here.

[1] https://www.ffxiah.com/search/player?sid=5&name=linepho
[2] https://www.ffxiah.com/search/player?sid=5&name=genbo

That sounds like what most of us said when Asura and Bahamut locked and the JP heavy server Odin was up next.

Congestion is a problem, for instance for things like Ambuscade during vanabout or something. They have to try spread people around.

However I think it's also about RMT

If you have a large population server the RMT go onto it, then farm gil in any and all ways possible. They get banned, but they don't care since they just buy a new copy of the game and start again and again. Getting banned is just a cost they take into account, and it's all automated anyway. They even buy pre-leveled accounts (and other rmt were leveling them to sell).

The easy fix it to take the most profitable servers for RMT and simply close them. The RMT that remain are the ones that make gil in methods that attract less attention, cause getting banned is now a big deal. They can't easily replace those accounts.

Closing the biggest servers did serious damage to the rmt industry on XI, and since they cause all kinds of annoying problems it's a net positive. They destroy the economy, abuse any weakness with hacking, cause problems for players, force them to put more manpower into banning etc. They buy new copies but it's probably far more annoying than it's worth.

They also cannot open these servers in future, cause if they do the problem will simply start again and endless botted level 1 characters will begin again.

The reason this won't happen on other servers anytime soon is there simply are not enough customers on those to make the entire thing even worth bothering with, you can bot 100 billion gil but if you can't sell it what's the point?

This isnt a fix because theyre gonna just always move to the next biggest server.

Although this is the first time there isnt a clear cut next destination. When Asura closed, Bahamut was well ahead of Odin in terms of population. When Bahamut closed, Odin was well ahead of Phoenix. With Odin closing, Phoenix is a couple hundred over Fenrir and that number has fluctuated over the months. Also the shutdown threshold seems to around 13k active (based on ffxiah tabulation methods). With Phoenix around 6k, that should take a while to over double its population.


Making a centralized auction house would fix problems, however shareholders wouldnt like it because they'd be losing out on those sweet sweet server transfer bux.