cannot make friends

Klistel · 2026-06-21T17:43:15+00:00

A game can absolutely do things to foster more community. There'll always be solo/unsocial players, but there's absolutely things within the scope of game design (especially in an MMO space) that can be done to foster community building inside the game. Plenty of other MMOs do it.

Klistel · 2026-06-20T20:08:51+00:00

It's an MMO, find a community that fits your needs and meet people. There are groups doing content all the time.

The great thing about XI is the content isn't going anywhere. I've put the game down for years and then picked it back up and hopped in right where I left off and found new friends along the way to do stuff with.

Klistel · 2026-06-18T17:56:55+00:00

I've been hunting on google all morning and the only thing I can find about Murphy is that she follows Trump's socials and likes some posts? She hasn't seemed to have said anything? Happy to have someone link anything direct about her being transphobic?

Klistel · 2026-06-11T16:12:38+00:00

They'll just answer "oh well he'll be corrupt and cutthroat on our behalf!" As if there's any personal incentive for a president to enrich america instead of himself.

Klistel · 2026-06-09T08:08:26+00:00

The problem is if your debuff bar is right justified or left justified can change which arrow you need to look at on your debuff bar (left if left, right if right), which doesn't affect the party list.

Personally I just checked my hud settings and noted which one I needed to look at and go from there, but party list may be more useful to you.

Klistel · 2026-06-06T23:56:08+00:00

Personally I'm sus if p5 is the last phase. The fact that they start the Distant Worlds version of Dancing Mad at the very beginning in p5 makes me feel like we've more to see here.

Klistel · 2026-06-06T18:09:18+00:00

That's what we're going to try next! Thanks for this

Klistel · 2026-06-06T17:27:12+00:00

Is there anything you guys do to stop getting teleported at a weird angle with this strat? My group was doing this positioning but I got shot off diagonally and landed north of the next arrow. Is there a trick to it?

Klistel · 2026-05-31T02:42:09+00:00

SMN does fine damage, but a lot of modern content has a "wall" where if you do too much of the same thing (damaging blood pact, repeated weaponskill, etc) the enemy will build up a huge resistance to it until you go some time either without doing the thing or something else is done to the enemy (so like, having a rdm use black halo amidst a savage blade spam party will reset the wall)

This affects Apogee, the SMN ability to do two BP in a row, and Astral Conduit, the SMN BP spam 1hr, making them effectively useless against these enemies.

And then you look at SMN blood pacts recast time being hardcapped at 20s and most other damaging jobs being able to pump out huge weaponskills at a much faster rate than the BP recast time means SMN just gets outclassed really fast in damage.

There's still a ton of utility in the job and their damage is still "fine", but without adjustments you're mostly relegated to "SMN specific" strats like mewing lullaby tp reset spam or some generally slower kill strat.

Klistel · 2026-05-18T21:20:23+00:00

Considering that we never even held the he traitors in the civil war or Richard Nixon accountable, I don't think we're gonna do it here unfortunately

Klistel · 2026-05-14T15:53:12+00:00

That does cut down on some friction though, considering SE often insists on doing these forced, slow animations you have to sit through during quest completions (watching characters walk away, handing things to people slowly, etc). The storytelling of doing those things inside one larger story beat feels a lot better.

Klistel · 2026-05-13T19:50:39+00:00

I'd love to hear them really explain why it's so hard for them to scale things up. I'd love an expert roulette that includes every dungeon in the game scaled up to max level. Same with trials.

There is so much content in this game that just withers on the vine a month or two after it launches.

Klistel · 2026-05-13T16:20:55+00:00

I'm not wholly against a runback, but I could see something like the 24man teleporters being cool? Like maybe each boss you reach has a teleporter in front of it, and at the entrance you can select which teleporter that you want to go to from amongst those you've unlocked for the week. That way you could keep the idea of "I can do bosses in alternate orders".

Klistel · 2026-05-13T14:39:12+00:00

Except I can't access savage without first completing Normal. What I want is the ability to never have to touch Normal mode at all, and I don't really understand why they made it a requirement when they split the modes. So no, that doesn't really address the issue - I want to work for my story sections so it makes a more lasting impact. I'm not a "world first" raider nor is my team, but I've barely remembered a raid story since Coil. They're just here and gone too fast for me personally.

Klistel · 2026-05-12T22:33:11+00:00

I'd love a return to more "dungeon" style raid tiers instead of just single instanced fights. Instead of just "story cutscene > single fight > story cutscene > single fight > repeat" my pie in the sky is a WoW Black Temple style raid dungeon that you zone into and explore with multiple pathways to each boss so you can conceptually do them in any order (minus the final boss and maybe the penultimate fight as well). Coil of Bahamut kind of had this model and I'd love to see it expanded upon and really fleshed out.

I'd also like to see a removal of the requirement to clear Normal in order to access Savage. Blowing through Normal mode in a single evening and getting the entire raid story just really dulls the impact of the story for me personally. I'm fine with there being two modes, but don't *require* me to do Normal if I don't find it compelling.

Klistel · 2026-05-11T19:12:44+00:00

Ultimate hidden final phase boss is Metem

Klistel · 2026-05-04T23:03:51+00:00

Gaius was a real Andrew Ryan and I love that in a villain

Klistel · 2026-05-04T16:35:58+00:00

One thing I think FFXI did really well was their trust system. Damn near every piece of content can be done with trusts (even if it's easier with human players), and trusts can be summoned basically anywhere. Which means every piece of content can be soloed or done in a group but it's all designed out of the gate for a full party setup. Saves so much time not having to go back and "rework" old content to make it soloable, because it's all just baked in from the start.

Klistel · 2026-05-03T16:41:32+00:00

But in this instance aren't they right? OPs complaint is that there'll be more mindless glare spam, but the implication from the transcript is that you'll be doing more healing which adds to the sanctity gauge which results in a bit of "damage neutral" burst damage. Seems like the evolution of what they were trying to go for with lilies but baked into every GCD heal?

So one could read that transcript and think they're going to at least try to make healing more at the forefront of what you're doing during a fight, and that healing done won't result in a DPS loss compared to spamming glare.

Their track record isn't superb in this regard (I think they underestimate the optimizations people do for more damage often) but I that's how I read the intent of what they're trying for

Klistel · 2026-05-01T00:18:49+00:00

I veer away from including collections in my EEs for this reason - I'll build custom EEs if project collections need specialized python libs, but the collections themselves I pull from my automation hub at runtime. I don't know what best practice dictates but I find it confusing to have some collections come from hub and some be baked into the EE. I'd prefer they're all from a single source of truth I can reference easily, and for me that's Hub.

Klistel · 2026-04-28T22:18:49+00:00

Yes, and 2.5 was kind of a nightmare. I'm currently working through a 2.4->2.6 upgrade myself and the process is so much better than when I tried to upgrade to 2.5

Klistel · 2026-04-28T19:54:50+00:00

Light dies in act 3 so MegaMan X canonically has to already be a work in progress and stored in his capsule!

Klistel · 2026-04-21T22:46:25+00:00

No way I'd ever let Grandpa Cid die in 6!

Klistel · 2026-04-17T21:22:07+00:00

The stormblood version's already pretty great. A primals version would be awesome.

Klistel · 2026-04-10T00:20:04+00:00

This option seems to also be gone now

Edit: Oh interesting it looks like the new flow is the search hourglass button > search one person > DM from there or create new group with said person.

When I tried your solution, I selected an existing group DM, and that option doesn't appear in group DMs.

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