Too bad I have allready quit the game :( Sounds like loads of improvements are being made but too late for me.

Multiple friends and ls mates of mine died in the server outage. Fortunately I wasn't synthing when it went down (I had been 30 seconds before). I know a lot of people lost AH bids, lots on items, battles, levels, etc. in this massive outage. Great...SE caught a few of the gilsellers, my server is plagued with them...it needs a few more flea baths.

It would have been nice to have warning for the living...if they had sent a message to the accounts not being banned that they were about to shut down the whole server. That would have been nice.

As far as I know I was the first player to log on in windy after it happened...it was quiet. I was the only one in my LS and I realized that my DSL was not being goofy again. Within minutes other LS mates were on again and saying that they'd read this announcement. We thought perhaps bots might be thinned out too...but within minutes there were more bots in Windurst than actual players. Darn...such a letdown.

I also doubt that we're going to see the inflation disappear, Kujata is full of it, the remaining gilsellers will get their buddies back in (my ls noticed a lot of new characters who are either really weird mules or the gilsellers reborn within an hour of the outage). Much as I'd love to pay reasonable prices for things, I don't think I can expect it ever.

Well I am on the Carbuncle server and really have not noticed anything different.Still have the same particular two groups of gil sellers that are still there.
And about the whole 20 characters per account that is true but only one maybe logged in at A time per account.So therefore all 20 of there characters are gone if they were on one account.
You cannot be logged in on the same account with two different characters on that account.I have accidently done it before have my account on PC and PS 2.Had already logged into PS 2 and forgot aobut it and then logged in on PC.My PS 2 gave error that another person had logged into the account...And I also know that they are talking about the account not the mule they really dont count those.You only have one playonline ID and they can just go get another copy and start all over again and probably will...
They really do need to do something about this that is why so many people have left...


Edited, Tue Feb 15 02:12:52 2005

You have to also consider how many of these accounts had multiple characters on as mules and bots and the like. How many characters per account? 20? Multiply that by 800? Quite a bit, no?

Out of curiousity I did a search for all of the people on Ramuh that I though SE might target. I searched for the angle clan, oo clan, and scribe/nutmeg. Each group or person was known for camping a certain NM or being an outright gilseller. To my surprise NONE were online. I was in complete shock. They are always online and I actually realized this ban might have done its job after all.

What this is, is SE showing that they don't tolerate harassment. Whether or not gilsellers are directly or even remotely related to the inflation of the economy, the fact that gilsellers felt like they had the right to hoard NM's and MPK players who tried to get spawns infuriated me, and a lot of other people.

Nobody really knows what the group farmers did with their things. We assume they sold it, but they could also have been controlling supply to increase demand and setting prices accordingly. This will no doubt have an impact on the economy of all servers, but it remains to be seen what impact, and how much time it will take.

I for one, say /cheer.

hehe now i can get my gear for 58 ^ ^scorpion harnes hehe or kote

While 800 is not a huge number spread out across 500000, you have to realize that that's about 26 people per server. We all know that every server has 3 or 4 notorious parties that everyone knows about.

They may not have gotten them all, but hopefully they got the big guns. =)

The Ifrit server crashed and was down for about 5 minutes. I wonder if that was related. Maybe a little retaliation?... Were any other servers down or just Ifrit?

all I can say is... ssswweeettt



*on pheonix we had a group called "The cats" all their names consisted of like catstail, catsteeth crap like that and they were constantly getting NMs that ppl needed the item for and would always MPK lots of players.*

think of 800 divided amongst all the servers... that's not much, but good for SE to start putting their foot down.

Edited, Tue Feb 15 00:19:16 2005