I'm not a cheater

OWNMs are a poor solution because you can basically kill it once a day. My friends and I have a thousand or more combined seals from when we started that we could pour into doing a BCNM40 20 to 25 times in a single day. You can not replace an event that you can do an infinite number of times that has a drop rate tuned for it being done that many times, with an NM that you can kill one time a day that is given that same drop rate.

You can call people lazy or whatever but the problem isnt the people, the problem is OWNMs are not a polished system. I respect nasomi for dedicating all his time to the server and all that, but this is a fact - and the server is currently suffering from not having BCNMs active. OWNMs were fine as a side job for other BCNMs but the system is not capable of being a replacement for BCNMs entirely on its own.

This.

I just started playing again a couple weeks ago. Was not even aware that all bcnm fights were down until a couple nights ago. Last time I played at least a handful of them worked. I had been leveling BST to 40 solely for bcnm40 to try and make money to level another job. Seems I'm stuck either leveling something gimped or something I don't want to play now.

Just throwing them on an NPC for 500k is not a solution either. How is someone new supposed to make that much money? BCNM fights were a way for new people to be able to make decent money. Everyone would be forced to spend all their time farming if they had to pay a NPC for the spell. Granted I never farmed much in retail. Maybe there is something decent to farm on Nasomi for people in the mid 30s?

I have no idea what jobs are wanted for OWNMs, but from the chat it's either BLM or you're not getting in a party. I assume there are other combos that will work but no one says anything about it. I was also not aware they were 12 hour repops. The server population is high enough that even if the drop was 100%, 2 drops a day is still not enough.

Yeah, it's not a game breaking problem and I'm still enjoying getting on for a couple hours every now and then, but it is certainly a huge roadblock for myself and many others.

You leveled bst for bcnms, but leveling blm,rdm,rng,cor,thf,smn or nin for ownm is this bad bad thing. I couldn't take my pld to bcnm so i leveled something i could. Ppl do it all the time for bcnms. I wish we could go traditional pt on ownms, but what bcnm can you do that on? I'm sorry if I sound rude, not trying to, just shining a little light. Also there's 4-5 that drop ni alone, not just 1

What was being exploited with the bcnm fights anyways?

You're not wrong, it's just that I was leveling a job for a specific event that just so happens to not be available anymore. That would be like leveling BLM solely for OWNMs only to have them get disabled right before you're able to. It's a kick in the dick, and a waste of any gil I used leveling the job to 40. I realize I used a trivial amount, but that's not the real point there... Had it been the latter example, I'm out whatever I had to spend on scrolls if I never wanted to play a mage job outside of that one event.

What was being exploited with the bcnm fights anyways?

Your anger is misdirected, then. You shouldn't blame Nasomi for taking action, you should be angry at the people who cheated in the first place.

It is strange how some people "enjoy" the game by cheating. They should just go to other private servers where K. Club drop rate is increased for example and leave us be. Also, if people are exploiting game for gil, maybe making some high end items Ra / Ex would help?
As for OWNM / BCNM issue maybe temporary fix could be making them scrolls Ra / Ex too? I understand that this will take an option of getting gil from some players that are farming OWNMs at the moment (on their casters), but that would lift a problem from players who just can't their hands on these.
I am just thinking loud and throwing what comes to my head, so don't take this too serious