Just....this. Nas is always complaining "I don't have time to do this or that" "That's a great idea but I have the TOAU roadmap!!" "TOAU ROADMAP ONLY" "MAYBE AFTER TOAU ROADMAP"

In case people are forgotten let me just throw it all out here :

The expansion will be gradually phased in as content is completed:
• Phase I: Mobs & Missions - The mission aspect has been completed with only a little work needed on some of the battles to get them coded properly. The mobs are being completely reworked from the ground up, and there's over 3000 of them. Phase I work began two weeks ago and should be ready by week's end.
• Phase II: Quests & Notorious Monsters - ToAU has a ton of engaging quests and exciting notorious monsters. This type of content is important, otherwise it's just a hack & slash grind to the top. The most important factor separating FFXI from other MMO's is that there is interesting content at all levels, and we're going to keep it that way.
• Phase III: Assault & Besieged - I believe these are important into keeping the world dynamic, changing from one week to the next, instead of playing in a static environment. It adds a sense of realism to the world, and adds the ability for the players to engage and make a difference.
• Phase IV: ZNM's & Beyond - Not going to get to ahead of myself, we'll see how things are when it gets to this point.

These content updates will necessarily be sequential though. BCNM50's, 60's, and ENM's are still being worked on, BST and PUP re-balancing is also on the table. And Windurst 9-2 certainly has not been forgotten. These updates will come either separately or coupled with one of the ToAU Phases.

I see NOWHERE in there regarding RNG rebalancing or whatever. There are literally HUNDREDS of other balance changes and bugs that need addressing, yet he chose to just chop at RNG randomly?

Priorities. Please follow them once you set them. Otherwise it's best to not say anything...which Nas is more accustomed to.

Do a /sea all RDM and tell me if they're really in short supply. It's a rough job, we tend to stick to our cliques. And possibly hide the fact we have it leveled/geared/merited. That said, for endgame it's like BLM - don't leave home without one. Or 2.

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So, it's obvious Nas isn't completely incompetent - and hell I couldn't do a better job - but based on previous experiences with these servers his code is not up to par in many cases. What I have partially heard through the grapevine from old players is that Nas already doesn't code this server by himself. My theory is that these "ghost writers" whoever they are, have their own lives and don't dedicate every waking moment to coding this server's content, however Nas doesn't have the coding knowledge or skill to do the things they can so in between these larger -actual content patches - Nas gives us these shitty filler patches where he only has to tweek number values. These changes inevitably break multiple things he ends up having to spend time working on reverting or fixing, so that along with "Hey guys, sorry for delaying things but RMT" buys him time until the next content patch can be released. Theory that probably isn't true, but it's the only thing that makes sense to me why we get so many of these changes no one wants when there's countless other things that could be worked on that people actually do.

/tinfoil hat

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I believe that to be true, make of that what you will.

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Are you saying DW/Maseki gave up Consortium to code for Nab/Nas/Aeroo?

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Any reason why this can’t just be changed to the way retail was? iIRC it was closer to mob, low dmg high Acc, further away from mob, high dmg, low acc, then the sweet spot which balanced out Dmg and Acc.

I said nothing of the sort.

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I disagree with that, I'd really prefer if Nasomi kept talking to us and streaming Q&As, even if he gets sidetracked a lot on his objectives.

I'm not an old player but I'm old enough to remember when we knew absolutely nothing about mid-term/long-term plans for the server, having nothing but wild guesses to go on and hope that the thing we personally wanted would be patched in "soon". Nowadays I at least know COR AF is "soon", PUP is "soon", and so on.

Old players used to be particularly jaded at the notion that anything new like ToAU would ever get implemented.

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I have nothing against the Q&A's and hell I even understand if something pops up that suddenly becomes prioritized to fix. But you can't have it both ways...there are critical issues we've brought up to Nas before and his response is "its a good idea, but it will have to come after TOAU roadmap". So either, he can choose to prioritize stuff and sidetrack or he sticks to his guns. It's not cool to say one thing and do something else. Which is exactly why the maint thread is up to 40+ pages, he repeatedly said "its not a distance thing" then turned around and released a distance thing.

How many times do you need to be duped before you call out the bullshit?

Fair enough, I understand the frustration.


I don't feel duped personally, but then I have zero expectation of everything in general.

Features added, people banned, stuff gets broken, stuff gets fixed, such is life.

I play RNG too, but if I'm becoming a nuisance I'll level up DRK or RDM or something. It's been fun anyway.

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