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Highlights of Developer Q&A Session with FFXI Community Relations Team

- The ability to rapidly exchange campaign tags will be adjusted to discourage players who spam songs and self-buffs to gain experience in campaign.

- A security feature is being planned similar to the Account Authenticator device created by Blizzard.

- Dynamis costs will be reduced in next version update.

- An addition to the battle system is being planned to encourage melee and mage jobs to work together to coordinate attacks.

- The development team is considering revealing hidden food effects, but some effects will remain hidden.

- Campaign in the cities is intended to reflect the harsh times of the Crystal War, but adjustments are planned to keep certain NPCs, such as the warp NPC, from disappearing during battle.

- More job adjustments are planned, but no adjustments are planned for puppetmaster spell priorities.

- Square Enix is working on improving the account recovery process.

- There are no plans to enhance the Square Enix-sanctioned windower.

- Winning numbers for the Mog Bonanza lottery were randomly chosen, and the process was strictly supervised to prevent any improprieties. Participation in the lottery was a huge success and the event will likely be repeated next year.

- A new scheme is being created to help low- and mid-level players gain experience.

- No immediate plans are in place to increase the number of weapons players can merit.

- Group 1 merits are planned to be added soon for Scholar and Dancer.

- Additional rewards will not be added to notorious monster bosses on floors 20, 40, 60 and 80 of Nyzul Isle assaults.

- The development team is against the concept of transferring content IDs because the feature could possibly be exploited by RMT.

- It may be possible in the future for players to change their faces and hairstyles.

- Chocobos will soon be added to the WoTG areas.

- A hint is in the PlayOnline topics banner about new relic armor for recently added job.

- More sellable gear is planned to be introduced as the RMT threat declines.

- More SE employees are being trained in hopes of increasing the frequency of in-game weddings.

Edited, Jul 26th 2008 2:18am by Thayos

Edited, Jul 27th 2008 5:26am by Pikko

Edited, Jul 29th 2008 10:10pm by Pikko

Edited, Jul 29th 2008 10:47pm by Pikko

I don't understand this. In other MMOs where this feature is already in use, it is usually required that both accounts be owned by the same person for a character/content ID transfer to occur. Seems just like some programmers coping out to me.

Oh my god. I may be able to finally change my hair to something less likely to show up on every other Mithra. :D

The bald hume's tattoo pattern?

I have to disagree. Your number one is "hijacking the person's account". That's a whole other situation where SE is trying to prevent. That has nothing to do with selling the account or not. A smart thief that stole an account would take and or sell all goods while they have the account in possession and not just hold onto them. So regardless if they had the opportunity to transfer characters, they still can and/or will sell the items within the account.

The threat would only occur if a person leveled multiple characters and then sold them off one by one. Which in this case both accounts would have to have the same billing information.

I have to go with the cop out..

If I can have a massive afro, then I'm throwing away my walahra turban.

Again on the content ID transfer. As long as it's set up similar to server transfers. Long waiting period, multiple confirmations on both accounts, I don't see how RMT could exploit it.

I really just want them to implement this because my brother and I play on the same account, we both have 75s and endgame linkshells, and we often clash because he wants to do einherjar and I want to do sky. :(

Note that the terms RMT refers to things that are very broad. It's not just the usual RMT who camp NM 24/7 or fish 24/7. It's everything that has to do with Real Money Trade. What S-E is trying to do is to prevent people playing then selling the account on e-bay (thus, RMT).

I think this is the most exciting change. Parties hardly work together as it is, I think this will increase the fun when partying which is what makes FF diff from mainstream games like WoW. Awesome! :)

Can't it be something like increasing the effectiveness of Magic Bursts? I don't get why they don't just make MBs more worthwhile than TP burning etc.? Give BLMs some love! >_<

Edited, Jul 26th 2008 11:46am by Taruts

I'm not sure where the disconnect is, but that is exactly what I was talking about. One guy levels multiple characters on one account and selling them one by one = RMT. Some measures they can use to stop that is:

1. Having both accounts having the same billing information

2. Limited amount of characters you can transfer at a time

3. Limited amount of over all transfers you can do within a time period.

4. (Edit) Account information must have not changed in the past 8 months

In other words, both account information has to be the same and you could only transfer up to "4" characters every 4 months for example.

Edited, Jul 26th 2008 3:40pm by Almalieque

I don't understand how that changes anything. If anyone steals, hijacks, ID theft,etc. your information or account, you're screwed regardless if you're able to transfer character handles or not.

I can't see how the method for stealing a mule would be any different from stealing your main character (in this case, your entire account). At the end of the day, you still have to retrieve the other person's account information. So that is a whole other issue.

The problem exists as mentioned in my last post, where one person is easily transferring their character models for profit.

I have to be that guy and say I'm disappointed that PUP sees nothing. I think we've been asking for a new frame or head for the melee/ranger automatons to accompany the head additions to the mage automaton for everrrr.

It's bothersome because we still need a more definitive role, or at least a little push to show the playerbase we are worth not being yelled at to "change job from PUP!"

Otherwise, this info is all 10000000000000% win :)

~Sy

Allow an extra fee to be paid to have a second log in on a different character on the same account. Accomplishes same goal (wife/kid etc who leveled mule can be on at same time) without any chance of RMT.