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Great Write-ups by both. I really am glad that SE is putting forth the effort to improve their relationship with the community.

Pikko is Cute! (~.^)y

While we're at it, let's think about the children.

I've never POS hacked, so I can't say what's evidence of it gone wrong. At any rate, getting on my case about what I was doing when I already explained it in plain English (which, ideally, they would understand) is counter-productive. If they thought I was POS hacking, they can check the logs and ban me if seen fit.

Perhaps I'd be more understanding had I also dined on SE's dime, but I'm still yet to see these great improvements in their customer service, and until I do, I stand by what I said.

Idk, i never have any problems.I have been playing almost 5 years, and only had to call a GM once.It was because Owned MPK'd my party repeatedly because our brd(who is in my ls) wouldn't join his party.

All i can say is, if your unhappy ... try something else.I think SE has made leaps and bounds toward helping the player base.

Not trying to be mean or anything, but seriously, if your unhappy, why stay?

Am I the only one disappointed with the results of this? I'm certainly glad SE is making and effort to reach out to its consumers. But other than SE 'sometime in the future' sanctioning a windower, we don't really know anything that we didn't already know. Maybe that wasn't the purpose. Maybe it was about the gesture of SE actually listening to its fanbase. But the opportunities to actually get feedback (or know that our suggestions are being heard) are so few and far between I was really hoping for something with more substance as far as gameplay/changes are concered. This is not a knock against those who were invited by any means, they didn't set the agenda. But it just seemed like a big production that gave no answers about any of the issues that the playerbase cares about.....

Actually, the purpose of the meeting was to stabilize and nurture the communication and relationship between SE and the premier sites. Everything we asked beyond that was a literal bonus.

They have every intention of bringing us for another visit, this one more prepared so we can full out tackle the dev team. Just sit tight with us, as we too await for the next move!

Where the line is, is unclear, but I'd definately say that once someone reaches the point where everything they try to do is "too little too late" is beyond that line. Certain posters around here are beyond that point. It is literally impossible to satisfy them, because everything is "too little too late". It's unreasonable. You literally cannot reason with that kind of thinking. You also cannot satisfy them... ever, because in their own words it's "too little too late".

Really, it's not even worth talking to them about it with them, let alone trying to debate with them, once they've reached that point. There is absolutely nothing that anyone can do to appease them.

You do NOT want to drink any "potion" from SE. Matt says it's like drinking pain. (They made them for FF12)

As for who is Matt Hilton, is he part of community relations and handles a whole chunk of other FF11 related stuff at SE. Long story short, he has my job. The "everything and anything he's allowed to" guy.

Wasn't the potion sold in stores in Japan at one point? I could swear I saw an ad for it once.

Anyway, I've got a question: who paid for the expenses? (Other than the "ouch my wallet" breakfast)

SE sponsored the event and I love Red Bulls, tyvm.

Easy gift for Exo? A case of that stuff.

The FFXI Feedback and Suggestions forum is the one I think he ment

http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=29

He is referring to forum=29.

I have some ideas on how they could implement the crafting concept of searching for crafters. First off a little overvieew of concepts.

Posting a "want ads" in the linkshell community itself that everybody can view has pros and cons. First off, the pros.

Pros:)
1:) People can post a request that crafters can see. The crafters then make it and contact the person and arrange a trade.

2:) People can touch the whole of the server and reach out to crafters they would never find themselves.

Now the cons
Cons
1:)People's in game financial situations change daily. if a person has 2 million gil today they may buy ssomething later and have only 200k. If they request an item made they may not have the gil to buy the item when it is created. If the item iss worth 1.8 mil then the crafter jusst made an item that used to have a buyer and now doesn't. She may have a while to ssell it.

2:) If many high lvl crafters see the add and 10 or 15 of them make the item then you just supplied 10-15 new copies of an item that only one person wants.... and you know what happens next according to supply and demand. 14 copies get listed and prices tank and tank hard. This aspect i DON'T LIKE at all.

3:) People come to me quite often for stupid requests like the vigor ring +1. This item has no resale value on auction house. Nobody buys it. I made one once adn the buyer changed his mind and it took me 3 months to sell on auction house and returned. It never did sell so I ended up bazaaring it at loss in total ratio of costs to make it.



So here are my ideas.

I would strongly discourage listing direct want to buy ads on the ffxi linkshell community. If somebody requests an item and 100 people see it it just has too much potential to ***** up things horribly.

I would not mind a want to SELL listing publicly on the server however. Some items are of great demand but only for those who have the cash flow. Such as cursed -1 pieces. If I make a cursed kaiser body piece -1 (the martial body hq) its worth probably 40 million. There will be somebody who wants it but i'll be damned if I can find them myself. And bazarring in batallia only goes so far. In this case a public want to sell add is ok because its like the auction house listing only it doesnt cost 400,000 gil to list every time only to have it bounce repeatedly

So public want to sell ads on ffxi linksshell community is ok in my book but want to BUY is not.



Now as for want to buy... that can be done easily enough.

On the ffxxi linkshell community players can list their craft skills and the web site shows a true accurate picture of the crafters current skill. I can't lie about my skill on there since it is directly linked with my in game progress.

Also the linkshell community allows players to hide information. Not all crafters want to be pestered with requests. Some will not craft for others and if they don't want to be bugged they should not be. Somee craft for themselves only, others...like mysself, enjoy crafting for others. The community has the power to distinguish that.

Finally the suggesgion:

Create a mailbox for requests on the linkshell ccommunity. I'm sure s-e could do that and it wouldn't take up THAT much memory space. Make it like an e-mail client where old requests are flushed to free up server storage after the request becomes obsolete... say by a week or so. If the crafter doesn't check their inbox within a week the buyer probably has moved on by then anyway.

Then make a search function that can filter results so players can search for crafters with skills in each craft. Include subcrafts too. So if a player named Sephiroth wants an item with goldsmithing skill 90+ and subcrafts of woodcrafting and smithing 50+ each he can set the search filters to his server and find any crafters that fit that data. Lets say the resultss return a crafter named Cloud who has the appropriate skills. Sephiroth just found someone who can make him his item...GREAT.

Now Sephiroth can send Cloud an e-mail on the linkshell community directly requesting him to make an item. It iss noww clouds responsibility to check his e-mail. If he finds the item he contacts Sephiroth in game and the terms are made and the item either created or decidded against being made. If Cloud does not check his e-mail within 7 real life days (not conquest tally specific) then thee request gets purged and sephiroth moves on. He can either send coud another e-mail or try another crafter.

This is a system I think would work very well for searching for crafters. And it would connect buyer to seller, and seller to buyer without uttely destroying the in game economy.

Thaats my thoughts. Take it as you will.

Thanks for the linkgs guys. I have been wanting to get those ideas out for quite some time now. I posted my ideas on the crafter search and the hq crystals on the feedback, as well as the HNM scene.

And I posted a suggesgion for spell check on your own allakhazam feedback forumns. God how I would love to have a spell check on alla >.<.