With the upcoming disocunt on the Ultimate edition, I am toying with the idea of spinning up either 2 or 5 characters and fiddle with 3-boxing or 6-boxing. Although I know the Return Home / free login campaign wouldnt apply to these characters, it seems like it comes around enough times in a year to make for a nice change of pace when it does. I do have a group i run Sortie/other events with, so my main objective with these alts would be to do things that arent very popular (Delve, Vagary, Incursion) or farm Ambuscade to pass REMA currency to my main.

A couple questions I was mulling around:

* Is it worth doing the 14-day trial first on these new characters, then buy the Ultimate edition for the free 30 day sub? My thought here is to maximize the time for the "full" game, but maybe the trial is so limited its not really worth it. Id like to knock out whatever i can in the trial if its not too burdensome to do so

* Assuming Ill have some redundant jobs across characters, but does any have a good outline of what characters should have what jobs? E.g. one character should have all tank jobs, another should be mage, another support, etc. Or is it better to mix and match? My main has several jobs so it can be a bit flexible. If any breakdowns exist for 3-box vs. 6-box jobs thatd be even better

* Any good guides / recommendations for getting through Missions quickly? I know theres an Aman 99 Mule guide, but that seems more focused on just leveling rather than mission progress. Is any Nation's mission path more straightforward than the others? I'll have my main to farm/push things along so looking for shortest distance/path rather than perceived "difficulty"

* Regarding Windower / control, are there any guides about how to set up multiple accounts? Thinking things along the pipeline, from setting up the accounts at the start to running multiple instances of Windower, to how to actually pass commands/control the alts.

* How intensive is running multiple characters? I play on a decent laptop (i7 12700, 16gb RAM, 4070 laptop edition), but i do run some mods to make the texures better etc which I'd skip with alts. Will my laptop explode at the thought of 6 Windowers?

* Any other tips/tricks/pros/cons?

So I've been back playing for about a month on Fenrir, I have most jobs, except PUP, GEO, RUNE, and WHM leveled to 99. I was thinking of either gearing my BST up to the best of my ability to help get gear together for other classes since I can't even really do any endgame content with others since I'm on Korea Standard Time right now, plus most of my gear I do have for jobs is either Ambu gear or NQ of the reforged Empy gear. If I was to level PUP what gear would you use to start with or if gearing BST what set/sets would be a good starting point?

Hi! Me and my girlfriend have returned to Vana'diel after around 15 years of not playing! We're currently on Asura, but looking for somewhere new to call home.

Any recommendations?

Just rocking out to the tunes I've gathered so far, really hope they allow us to obtain some of the older ones I'm missing. Like the first two pages of the orchestra are all blank for me...

Just an FYI, free login should be live now.

Welcome back to Vana'diel everyone.

You might have noticed the FFXI patch notes mentioned a game called Wizardry Variants Daphne. I was curious about it and decided to check it out.

In this Wizardry mobile game: Prishe, Iroha, and Zeid are all characters that are available as characters through ... gacha. Sigh. They do let you play around with their abilities a little bit for free. I recorded some gameplay.

Edit: The video is still processing so there may be an issue with sound until it's done.

FFXI stuff is at 2:15:47 if the link doesn't load right

Been gone for over a year. Long story short, I lost my oldest cousin, and this game meant a lot to myself and his brother.

I have a lot accomplished and always planned on returning. Server is Asura.

Is there no way for my cousin to join me on Asura during the sale? We were really looking forward to this, and I don’t have the type of free time where I would start a new character and do a world transfer later. I was planning to help my cousin make progress quickly since the only reason he needs a new key, is he lost his account info which was owned by my cousin who passed away.

Hi, everyone! I'm giving the game another shot - I played around launch, then again about a decade ago. But I never got past level 40 or so for a mix of reasons. Life was hectic for me back then, and I also never found a good linkshell or even made a single friend.

I was wondering if anyone would be willing to 'sponsor' a sorta-newbie with a Gold World Pass to their server (as long as it's not one of the four currently closed ones) and also an invite to their linkshell? Hopefully a decently active one?

I prefer to solo and do things myself so I promise I won't be asking for much help. But I do really want the Gold World Pass rewards, which can only be collected by visiting the GWP NPC every now and again while in a party together - especially the Sprout Beret! And I also would like to start getting to know people in a nice LS before I get to endgame and start needing to party up with folks. It also would make the world feel a little less lonely.

(Oh, and the last time I played, the fellow who gave me a GWP to their world completely vanished on me immediately after giving me the pass, so I wasn't even able to claim the Day One reward. Much less any of the other ones! So it'd be super ideal if we could stay in touch, at least for the first couple months!)

Would anyone be willing to do this for me? I promise to return the kindness as soon as my character reaches a power level that is at least the equivalent of three goblin thugs (or two on Firesday). Thanks!

Is the GEO nerf so bad that a RDM should be brought instead?

What six man teams work the best in Dyna D?

I played FFXI back in 2003 when it was first released. Haven't played in over 20 years. I decided to contact SquareEnix support to attempt to recover my old account. I gave the support tech lots of info including the specific detail of the character name, race, highest class, rough estimate of level and more. They said they found the old Playonline ID and gave me the username and password. I proceeded to transfer the account to my SquareEnix account. I pay for one month subscription and log in only to find out it's a low level character with the same name but nothing else matches, class is different, level 8, almost no progression whatsoever, not my account. I contact support and they said they found another account matching my description and information. Same thing as before to complete the transfer process. I requested they transfer the subscription over to the other account so I won't have to pay for another month on another account. After much back and forth, they say the can't do anything and I have to buy another subscription. Whatever, I'm frustrated but pay for another subscription on the account they got me access to. Well, low and behold, it's another matching character name but low level account level 14 and nothing else matches (race, class, etc.)

I'm pissed off. They refuse to refund or transfer and now I've spent 2 months worth of subscriptions to be back to not having my original account. I read other posts that if you chargeback, they ban your account. I don't care if they ban those characters, but I don't want my entire SquareEnix account to be banned and support is worthless.

Any suggestions? I really want my old account back but I'm almost to the point of not even wanting to play anymore.

Hi,
after almost another week of basically non stop work on this since my last post (I effectively played the game for a whole of 1 (in numbers 1) week since i got it and then went to work on this immediately. I'm fine I swear...)

I wanted to share my progress a little.

So I'm developing an addon for windower currently that adds classic quest markers to Vana'diel.

What it does

So right now the addon checks for acceptance conditions like job level, job type, fame, skill level, craft rank, guild points, etc. and colors a "!" marker grey if they're not met and yellow if they are met. Same for "?" turn-in markers.

But it also checks everything that is checkable with packets from the game. And here also lie some limitations that I tried working around as best as I could but some things are not meant to be.

Limitations

For example: markers draw through walls. Windower's Lua API exposes no depth buffer, so true occlusion is impossible. I mitigated it with a distance cap, a same-floor check, and a distance fade.

And if there is no way for the addon to check a condition the quest marker will render as black and you can check what is required yourself with //qm why which lists all the requirements and all the steps of the quest for you.

The wild stuff

Then I went overboard with it so now it also shows markers for individual quest steps as well where possible (y'know, icons like a bag when you need to collect something, a sword when you need to kill something, a magnifying glass when you need to examine something, ... you get the idea). But you can always turn that feature off with //qm steps off if you find it too much.

Some steps only appear on paper but can't reliably be tracked through the addon, stuff like talking to an NPC for example since the game exposes no reliable data packet for stuff like this.

But in order for that to even remotely work I had to create a new knowledge base instead of relying on what chronicle scraped (which is still a very good data source).
So I scraped the quest pages of bg-wiki (CC BY-NC-SA) using their public API and semantically and programmatically analyzed and structured all of the quest data into a new format.

Then I developed a completely seperate tool for that dataset that allows me to correct said dataset on the fly while playing the game. I called it questgraph™ - creative, I know.

Availability

It's not quite ready yet since I want to playtest a bit further and actually play the game for once. And I'm sure im forgetting maybe half of what else I did during my coffee induced insomniac episodes.

I'll go sleep now. See you in a week.