Chuck Norris said, "Toy boat," until everybody else's tongue got twisted.King Behemoth
Excellence
2 mil
I is happy
'nuff said.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Chuck Norris Belt - Part I
Excellence
2 mil
I is happy
'nuff said.
I hope no one minds but I have no intention of facing this sober
(quite possibly the only line I can remember from the movie Ice Pirates. Gee, I wonder why? lol)
Finally got another Salvage group! W00t w00t!!! Some members of HellsBells decided to get a Salvage group together. (I'm glad Treu pointed it out to me or I might have missed it on their forums. Thanks bro!) So I applied and was accepted.
Looks like we have about 9 members so it might take a LITTLE longer to get full-Usu than I had initially intended... but then again, with an extra member or two, at least we won't be struggling if someone can't make it on a particular run. Hopefully the extra man-power will actually speed some things up too, like, we can kill stuff faster to get cells on the early floors... but we gotta make sure we don't waste too much time trying to get cells for those extra people if they don't need them. Basically, we can just use the extra help on the early floors and then have them sit out on the later floors. /shrug I dunno. Guess we'll just have to see how it all goes.
I'll clearly be on MNK full-time. Our THF and BRD are probably set too. But the rest of the people have some varied jobs so they can change it up as we see fit for each zone. (Couple have MNK and SAM. Couple have RDM. etc... So they can switch around if they ever get bored I suppose.) I guess we might also be trying some newer strategies than what I'm used to. Our old group pretty much stuck to the party layout of: RDM, WHM, THF, BRD, MNK, MNK, SAM. I guess this group will probably be throwing in a BLU, BLM and/or SCH into the mix, as well as probably having an extra MNK. Again, we'll just have to see how it all pans-out as we go along.
I'm pumped though because from what I've seen/heard, these are all pretty good players. And since we all belong to the same LS already, hopefully no drama will ensue.
In other news... hell, what have I been doing with my gametime since my last post on here? ("not much...." stfu Treu!) Let's see:
1. I finally quit my sky LS. Too much stress and headaches and loss of sleep to deal with just getting some gil. Seriously, I was spending like 16-20 hours a week up there, just to get... what... 500k per week? Totally not worth it. I'll miss my friends from up there though. Hopefully I'll see them around.
2. Started up on SMN burns in the Tunnel. Good times. I've only done a few, but they pretty much always turn out to be good clean runs. I'm almost always helping to pull with Annel, so that gives me a little more to do than just sit around for 45 minutes doing nothing. Makes me feel like I'm accomplishing something.
3. Got some SMN AF gear (weapon and legs), SMN AFv2 (head and legs), Yinyang Robe... of course, I can't really wear any of this stuff yet cuz I'm only at SMN 62... but at least it's nice to know that I can just level-up into this gear and don't need to worry about it later.
4. Finished my last 3 Gobbiebag quests so my inventory has been upped from 65 to 80! (plus Satchel space as well. YUS! More space for me to fill up with... um.... garbage. lol)
5. Blackbelt items..... yeah. Still no luck.
aight. that's it for now. I'm sure I'll be back to more regular posts in the near future, most-likely all Salvage-related.
Finally got another Salvage group! W00t w00t!!! Some members of HellsBells decided to get a Salvage group together. (I'm glad Treu pointed it out to me or I might have missed it on their forums. Thanks bro!) So I applied and was accepted.
Looks like we have about 9 members so it might take a LITTLE longer to get full-Usu than I had initially intended... but then again, with an extra member or two, at least we won't be struggling if someone can't make it on a particular run. Hopefully the extra man-power will actually speed some things up too, like, we can kill stuff faster to get cells on the early floors... but we gotta make sure we don't waste too much time trying to get cells for those extra people if they don't need them. Basically, we can just use the extra help on the early floors and then have them sit out on the later floors. /shrug I dunno. Guess we'll just have to see how it all goes.
I'll clearly be on MNK full-time. Our THF and BRD are probably set too. But the rest of the people have some varied jobs so they can change it up as we see fit for each zone. (Couple have MNK and SAM. Couple have RDM. etc... So they can switch around if they ever get bored I suppose.) I guess we might also be trying some newer strategies than what I'm used to. Our old group pretty much stuck to the party layout of: RDM, WHM, THF, BRD, MNK, MNK, SAM. I guess this group will probably be throwing in a BLU, BLM and/or SCH into the mix, as well as probably having an extra MNK. Again, we'll just have to see how it all pans-out as we go along.
I'm pumped though because from what I've seen/heard, these are all pretty good players. And since we all belong to the same LS already, hopefully no drama will ensue.
In other news... hell, what have I been doing with my gametime since my last post on here? ("not much...." stfu Treu!) Let's see:
1. I finally quit my sky LS. Too much stress and headaches and loss of sleep to deal with just getting some gil. Seriously, I was spending like 16-20 hours a week up there, just to get... what... 500k per week? Totally not worth it. I'll miss my friends from up there though. Hopefully I'll see them around.
2. Started up on SMN burns in the Tunnel. Good times. I've only done a few, but they pretty much always turn out to be good clean runs. I'm almost always helping to pull with Annel, so that gives me a little more to do than just sit around for 45 minutes doing nothing. Makes me feel like I'm accomplishing something.
3. Got some SMN AF gear (weapon and legs), SMN AFv2 (head and legs), Yinyang Robe... of course, I can't really wear any of this stuff yet cuz I'm only at SMN 62... but at least it's nice to know that I can just level-up into this gear and don't need to worry about it later.
4. Finished my last 3 Gobbiebag quests so my inventory has been upped from 65 to 80! (plus Satchel space as well. YUS! More space for me to fill up with... um.... garbage. lol)
5. Blackbelt items..... yeah. Still no luck.
aight. that's it for now. I'm sure I'll be back to more regular posts in the near future, most-likely all Salvage-related.
Friday, September 18, 2009
And now for something completely different... MCS
In regards to Monopoly City Streets which just did a server reset this morning around 3:00AM EST... and in reference to posts on their blog.
http://www.monopolycitystreets.com/
http://blog.monopolycitystreets.com/
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======== To the MCS Developement Team ========
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I just wanted to start off by saying that, despite all of the complaints you guys read here on the blog, there are still some of us that will enjoy the game. I think it's a great concept, bringing an old boardgame to life by using REAL city streets from all over the world and allowing people to compete, in real-time, against other people that are ALSO from all over the world. It's free. It's fun. You won't be hearing any complaints from me! :)
The only suggestion I have is to add in some kind of messaging system so that we can communicate with other players. It could probably even just be tied into the current "Alert" system that is set up. I just think it'd be nice to have a way to strike a truce with other people if you get into a Hazard War with them that just gets out of control. lol (Of course, the down-side to having a messaging system is that all of these cheaters/botters/whatever could end up just spamming everyone and making things even worse....)
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===== To all the whiners and complainers =====
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Really? You REALLY expect to find a FREE game out there that you can play and then complain that it's not up to your standards? REALLY? And you REALLY think that a piece of software, as complex as I'm sure this is, can be fixed and patched and modified within a couple HOURS of people making complaints and suggestions? Really??
You're probably the kid from down the street that used to come over to play boardgames with me when we were young... we'd laugh, strategize a bit (as much as inexperienced kids can do), have fun... and then as soon as you realize you weren't going to win the whole game, you're the one who "accidentally" kicks the board so no one knows what houses are on what properties... or opens a window or aims a fan at the board so the paper money goes flying everywhere.... Yeah, you're that kid who lacked integrity and a good sportsmanship attitude.
Ya know what? NOT EVERYONE CAN WIN. Every game has winners and losers. Face it: you're not always going to be a winner. (This is a life lesson I'm teaching you here, so I hope you're really listening.) Sometimes life sucks. Deal with it. This is a GAME. If you have problems with the game, then you can either deal with it or you can quit. It's really that simple.
The cool thing about this is that you don't even have to be at the top of any leader board with this game. How about you just play to compete against a group of friends?
And I can't stress that enough: THIS IS A GAME. I don't know about you guys, but I play games to relieve stress. Some of you people seem to have that concept flipped around somehow.
Do you REALLY need electronic validation on a world-wide scale that you are the superior mouse clicker compared to all who oppose you? Perhaps you should seek professional (read: psycological) help.
Really.
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http://www.monopolycitystreets.com/
http://blog.monopolycitystreets.com/
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======== To the MCS Developement Team ========
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I just wanted to start off by saying that, despite all of the complaints you guys read here on the blog, there are still some of us that will enjoy the game. I think it's a great concept, bringing an old boardgame to life by using REAL city streets from all over the world and allowing people to compete, in real-time, against other people that are ALSO from all over the world. It's free. It's fun. You won't be hearing any complaints from me! :)
The only suggestion I have is to add in some kind of messaging system so that we can communicate with other players. It could probably even just be tied into the current "Alert" system that is set up. I just think it'd be nice to have a way to strike a truce with other people if you get into a Hazard War with them that just gets out of control. lol (Of course, the down-side to having a messaging system is that all of these cheaters/botters/whatever could end up just spamming everyone and making things even worse....)
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===== To all the whiners and complainers =====
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Really? You REALLY expect to find a FREE game out there that you can play and then complain that it's not up to your standards? REALLY? And you REALLY think that a piece of software, as complex as I'm sure this is, can be fixed and patched and modified within a couple HOURS of people making complaints and suggestions? Really??
You're probably the kid from down the street that used to come over to play boardgames with me when we were young... we'd laugh, strategize a bit (as much as inexperienced kids can do), have fun... and then as soon as you realize you weren't going to win the whole game, you're the one who "accidentally" kicks the board so no one knows what houses are on what properties... or opens a window or aims a fan at the board so the paper money goes flying everywhere.... Yeah, you're that kid who lacked integrity and a good sportsmanship attitude.
Ya know what? NOT EVERYONE CAN WIN. Every game has winners and losers. Face it: you're not always going to be a winner. (This is a life lesson I'm teaching you here, so I hope you're really listening.) Sometimes life sucks. Deal with it. This is a GAME. If you have problems with the game, then you can either deal with it or you can quit. It's really that simple.
The cool thing about this is that you don't even have to be at the top of any leader board with this game. How about you just play to compete against a group of friends?
And I can't stress that enough: THIS IS A GAME. I don't know about you guys, but I play games to relieve stress. Some of you people seem to have that concept flipped around somehow.
Do you REALLY need electronic validation on a world-wide scale that you are the superior mouse clicker compared to all who oppose you? Perhaps you should seek professional (read: psycological) help.
Really.
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Thursday, July 9, 2009
Outta the way, Peck!
I was reading some comments on a slashdot article yesterday and got to thinking how FFXIV might be different from other MMORPGs. Of course, this is entirely speculation because SE still refuses to comment at all on the battle system for FFXIV and won't even really say much about the job and level system. ("We cannot talk about the battle system at this time." "we are trying to implement a lot of new systems that other MMO’s haven’t used in the past." "We will expand the job system to make it fairly different from the one in FFXI." etc....)
I don't know of any RPG system where, the more damage you take, the less effective you are at your job. Like, if you have 1500 HP, and you're currently down around 100 HP, that actually would mean that you are almost dead and probably would feel like crap... so you shouldn't be able to hit mobs as strongly as you normally would hit them at full HP.
Along those lines, when you "level up", why should you get so much more HP upon leveling? You should basically just be able to defend better against weaker mobs, but not realistically "have" more HP. Know what I mean? Then again, to counter that thought, I guess having drastically more HP means you can survive weaker attacks better anyways... so your HP % is actually what remains unaffected (eg. your pain-tolerance threshold is effectively higher.)
I kinda hope that FFXIV really IS different from other MMORPGs in that they honestly have found a different approach to levels/skills.
Why CAN'T a new WHM just sit in town and constantly spam Cures on everyone that walks bye? So much so, that he would effectively be able to gather enough experience/skill in curing that he'd be able to eventually learn a Cure IV spell. Actually going out and killing mobs shouldn't be necessary for a skill like that. Think of it like teaching yourself how to program in various software languages at home, rather than getting real-world/corporate experience writing applications.
I dunno. Just random thoughts I was having yesterday.
I don't know of any RPG system where, the more damage you take, the less effective you are at your job. Like, if you have 1500 HP, and you're currently down around 100 HP, that actually would mean that you are almost dead and probably would feel like crap... so you shouldn't be able to hit mobs as strongly as you normally would hit them at full HP.
Along those lines, when you "level up", why should you get so much more HP upon leveling? You should basically just be able to defend better against weaker mobs, but not realistically "have" more HP. Know what I mean? Then again, to counter that thought, I guess having drastically more HP means you can survive weaker attacks better anyways... so your HP % is actually what remains unaffected (eg. your pain-tolerance threshold is effectively higher.)
I kinda hope that FFXIV really IS different from other MMORPGs in that they honestly have found a different approach to levels/skills.
Why CAN'T a new WHM just sit in town and constantly spam Cures on everyone that walks bye? So much so, that he would effectively be able to gather enough experience/skill in curing that he'd be able to eventually learn a Cure IV spell. Actually going out and killing mobs shouldn't be necessary for a skill like that. Think of it like teaching yourself how to program in various software languages at home, rather than getting real-world/corporate experience writing applications.
I dunno. Just random thoughts I was having yesterday.
Friday, July 3, 2009
Freefalling
I have passed a milestone that not many (in the grand-scheme of things in FFXI) have done: I have created a Linkshell.
Relentless, formerly known as lolFail, has been repearled again and is now known as Freefall.
The LS voted me as the new leader, but all that really means is that I now hold the linkshell. I also get the final say in any executive decisions regarding members, points, rules, etc... but hopefully it will never really have to come down to that. I plan on keeping everything the same as it has been for the past 9 months, because it works. (If it ain't broke, don't fix it, right?)
The past few days have been running relatively smoothly with the much-appericated assistance of Lilmama, Cbassx and Altimaomega, my sack-holders. (uh huh ahuhuh huh. I just said they hold my sack.) Lil still takes care of selling gil items (via Puntaru) and passing out the weekly payouts. Cbass and Alti help organize the various farm and god-kill sessions and point out things that I miss from time to time. (ie. "Dude, we really shouldn't be doing Suzaku without a RNG up here") Alti has also been a champ in getting us new members because we have gotten like 10 new members this week. Unfortunately, we haven't done any extensive background checks on these people before giving them a pearl and allowing them to join us on runs. I have already recieved several /tells about 2 of these new individuals that I "should keep an eye on" due to other people's previous experiences with them.
What has NOT been running smoothly this week is that Kirin has just NOT been cooperating with drops for us. All 3 Kirin's we did this week dropped us a total of 2 Kirin's Poles and 4 gil items. That's it! No N.Body (which we STILL have not seen drop since 4/27/2009). No W.Legs (which, as always in sky shells, is one of the 2 most desired pieces of gear). Not even a stinkin D.Body (which used to fall like rain to us)! Alti actually called a GM after last night's run to ask about this. The GM looked in to it and said that the "drop rates seem to be working fine" and, simply put, "our luck just apprently sucks" and there was nothing he could do about it.
Well, at least waters dropped for us quickly last night. We got up to sky and I think we got our 1st water on the 3rd pot. ^^ So, we popped 1 Olla (from a water we got a few days earlier) and before we could even pop the 2nd Olla 15 minutes later, we had already gotten a 2nd water for the evening! After those, we quickly ran up and took out Zip, which ended up giving us 3 full Genbu popsets.
After taking out those 3 Genbu's, we are now sitting on about 5 or 6 full Kirin popsets... so hopefully now that we have more members showing up, we can hopefully get back to popping Kirin twice per night, like we used to. :-D
On a more personal note, I haven't really felt like I've accomplished much in-game lately since my last post, but at least I'm making SOME progress:
- FINALLY beat CoP 3-5... which was kind of funny. we ended up beating Diabolos on what was supposed to just be a practice run. we hadn't taken any food, or used poison pots. we just wanted to make sure we had our stun order down correctly. next thing we know, he was already down to about 55% hp and we were like "uh... so um... should we just try to kill him NOW? or is this still a practice run?" lol
- Guard Skill is now up to 150
- I got my A Hands last night (which now means after I get my W Legs, I can spend my points on N gear and I'm done with sky!)
- I got my Melee Gaiters from Dynamis - Bastok, which should help out a ton with Guard skillups (guard skill +12)
- I got my Melee Cyclas from Dynamis - Beaucedine, which has been nice for just healing up a bit between fights, whether while resting or running
- I attended Khrone's first Dreamlands which was Dynamis - Buburimu last Wednesday and already got my Melee Gloves -1 (woooooooot!)
- incremented my STR merit up to level 3
- leveled PUP up to 46
... huh. I guess I actually HAVE accomplished quite a bit over the past few weeks. And this is all still while I'm attending sky basically 20 hours per week too. ^^ Go go Tattooface!
The next couple days (4th of July weekend) will probably be spent abusing Screamin as a PL to help me level my guard just a bit more before Treu gets back from vacation.
Relentless, formerly known as lolFail, has been repearled again and is now known as Freefall.
The LS voted me as the new leader, but all that really means is that I now hold the linkshell. I also get the final say in any executive decisions regarding members, points, rules, etc... but hopefully it will never really have to come down to that. I plan on keeping everything the same as it has been for the past 9 months, because it works. (If it ain't broke, don't fix it, right?)
The past few days have been running relatively smoothly with the much-appericated assistance of Lilmama, Cbassx and Altimaomega, my sack-holders. (uh huh ahuhuh huh. I just said they hold my sack.) Lil still takes care of selling gil items (via Puntaru) and passing out the weekly payouts. Cbass and Alti help organize the various farm and god-kill sessions and point out things that I miss from time to time. (ie. "Dude, we really shouldn't be doing Suzaku without a RNG up here") Alti has also been a champ in getting us new members because we have gotten like 10 new members this week. Unfortunately, we haven't done any extensive background checks on these people before giving them a pearl and allowing them to join us on runs. I have already recieved several /tells about 2 of these new individuals that I "should keep an eye on" due to other people's previous experiences with them.
What has NOT been running smoothly this week is that Kirin has just NOT been cooperating with drops for us. All 3 Kirin's we did this week dropped us a total of 2 Kirin's Poles and 4 gil items. That's it! No N.Body (which we STILL have not seen drop since 4/27/2009). No W.Legs (which, as always in sky shells, is one of the 2 most desired pieces of gear). Not even a stinkin D.Body (which used to fall like rain to us)! Alti actually called a GM after last night's run to ask about this. The GM looked in to it and said that the "drop rates seem to be working fine" and, simply put, "our luck just apprently sucks" and there was nothing he could do about it.
Well, at least waters dropped for us quickly last night. We got up to sky and I think we got our 1st water on the 3rd pot. ^^ So, we popped 1 Olla (from a water we got a few days earlier) and before we could even pop the 2nd Olla 15 minutes later, we had already gotten a 2nd water for the evening! After those, we quickly ran up and took out Zip, which ended up giving us 3 full Genbu popsets.
After taking out those 3 Genbu's, we are now sitting on about 5 or 6 full Kirin popsets... so hopefully now that we have more members showing up, we can hopefully get back to popping Kirin twice per night, like we used to. :-D
On a more personal note, I haven't really felt like I've accomplished much in-game lately since my last post, but at least I'm making SOME progress:
- FINALLY beat CoP 3-5... which was kind of funny. we ended up beating Diabolos on what was supposed to just be a practice run. we hadn't taken any food, or used poison pots. we just wanted to make sure we had our stun order down correctly. next thing we know, he was already down to about 55% hp and we were like "uh... so um... should we just try to kill him NOW? or is this still a practice run?" lol
- Guard Skill is now up to 150
- I got my A Hands last night (which now means after I get my W Legs, I can spend my points on N gear and I'm done with sky!)
- I got my Melee Gaiters from Dynamis - Bastok, which should help out a ton with Guard skillups (guard skill +12)
- I got my Melee Cyclas from Dynamis - Beaucedine, which has been nice for just healing up a bit between fights, whether while resting or running
- I attended Khrone's first Dreamlands which was Dynamis - Buburimu last Wednesday and already got my Melee Gloves -1 (woooooooot!)
- incremented my STR merit up to level 3
- leveled PUP up to 46
... huh. I guess I actually HAVE accomplished quite a bit over the past few weeks. And this is all still while I'm attending sky basically 20 hours per week too. ^^ Go go Tattooface!
The next couple days (4th of July weekend) will probably be spent abusing Screamin as a PL to help me level my guard just a bit more before Treu gets back from vacation.
Friday, June 12, 2009
On This Date in History: 6/13/2008
I just so happened to be wondering yesterday (Friday) afternoon at work "how long have I been participating in {sky}?" So I looked up one of my google docs.
Side-rant
And in case you don't know me, let me just say this: "Worship the Goog". Seriously. Google is awesome. Google has changed the internet drastically in the past several years. If "The Singularity" is ever going to happen, it will spawn from that which is currently known as Google. But I digress...
/Side-rant
So I looked up one of my google docs... of which I have MANY to help me in my trek through FFXI. I have documents that describe my history. I have spreadsheets that track equipment i use on various jobs at various levels and what gear I SHOULD be using. I have spreadsheets that track LS attendance, drops, pop items and points. I have spreadsheets that help determine whether or not LS members qualify for weekly payouts. I have spreadsheets that help us organize Salvage runs. I have documents that list out what my various macros and macro books are. I have spreadsheets for crafting recipies and what levels to do what synths to best save on gil. ... Yeah, I use goggle docs a lot!
I looked in my "FFXI Character History - Khrone" document which I initially created about a month (7/17/2007) after I began playing FFXI (6/14/2007). I used to keep basically a daily detailed log of what I did, but after a certain point, many things in-game become repetitious (ie. sky and dynamis runs, merit parties, campaign battles, etc...) so I stopped logging the random noise and later began to only log the somewhat major happenings of Khrone.
Lol, ok, another sidenote: on 7/17/2007 my first note of the day (so, the first REAL post of this document!) reads "met and got help/gear from Hybridkiller" :-D
Anywho... back the the MAIN point of this post XD: my sky history.
Here's some extracts from my history doc regarding sky (and also a little about my character development to show you how new I was): [text in italics and brackets are notes I just added in here and do not exist in my history doc]
5/19/2008 - applied to Astrumnovae (Dynamis & Sky LS) [my first ever End-Game LS]
5/31/2008 - Completed Zilart Missions 4 - 13
5/31/2008 - Obtained access to Sky
6/13/2008 - participated in my first Sky run; fought and defeated Suzaku and Byakko; no drops for me [this is the item that sparked this post]
6/14/2008 - Progressed to MNK 75 with NIN as SJ [lol I didn't even have a 75 job before my first sky run]
6/14/2008 - broke latent on Knuckles of Trials
6/18/2008 - Maxed-out Hand-to-Hand skill tonight (276)
6/29/2008 - Obtained Key Item: Limit Breaker [means I can now start meriting]
6/30/2008 - Merit: Combat: Hand-to-Hand: Level 1 [my very first Merit. "Mikey's all grows-up!"]
Side-rant
And in case you don't know me, let me just say this: "Worship the Goog". Seriously. Google is awesome. Google has changed the internet drastically in the past several years. If "The Singularity" is ever going to happen, it will spawn from that which is currently known as Google. But I digress...
/Side-rant
So I looked up one of my google docs... of which I have MANY to help me in my trek through FFXI. I have documents that describe my history. I have spreadsheets that track equipment i use on various jobs at various levels and what gear I SHOULD be using. I have spreadsheets that track LS attendance, drops, pop items and points. I have spreadsheets that help determine whether or not LS members qualify for weekly payouts. I have spreadsheets that help us organize Salvage runs. I have documents that list out what my various macros and macro books are. I have spreadsheets for crafting recipies and what levels to do what synths to best save on gil. ... Yeah, I use goggle docs a lot!
I looked in my "FFXI Character History - Khrone" document which I initially created about a month (7/17/2007) after I began playing FFXI (6/14/2007). I used to keep basically a daily detailed log of what I did, but after a certain point, many things in-game become repetitious (ie. sky and dynamis runs, merit parties, campaign battles, etc...) so I stopped logging the random noise and later began to only log the somewhat major happenings of Khrone.
Lol, ok, another sidenote: on 7/17/2007 my first note of the day (so, the first REAL post of this document!) reads "met and got help/gear from Hybridkiller" :-D
Anywho... back the the MAIN point of this post XD: my sky history.
Here's some extracts from my history doc regarding sky (and also a little about my character development to show you how new I was): [text in italics and brackets are notes I just added in here and do not exist in my history doc]
5/19/2008 - applied to Astrumnovae (Dynamis & Sky LS) [my first ever End-Game LS]
5/31/2008 - Completed Zilart Missions 4 - 13
5/31/2008 - Obtained access to Sky
6/13/2008 - participated in my first Sky run; fought and defeated Suzaku and Byakko; no drops for me [this is the item that sparked this post]
6/14/2008 - Progressed to MNK 75 with NIN as SJ [lol I didn't even have a 75 job before my first sky run]
6/14/2008 - broke latent on Knuckles of Trials
6/18/2008 - Maxed-out Hand-to-Hand skill tonight (276)
6/29/2008 - Obtained Key Item: Limit Breaker [means I can now start meriting]
6/30/2008 - Merit: Combat: Hand-to-Hand: Level 1 [my very first Merit. "Mikey's all grows-up!"]
(... then lots of uneventful stuff that I logged, NONE of which was any real progress. Yeah, Astrum sucked the big fat fatty.)
7/13/2008 - completed quest "The Walls of Your Mind" and obtained Asuran Fists weapon skill (with help from Kotahitoa, Fadee, Ruiness and ?F*?) [that last "F" name might have been Fludemon, but I honestly don't remember.]
8/3/2008 - applied to HellsBells Dynamis LS [so apparently Astrumnovae had disbanded by this point, which means no more sky until I find another LS]
...
11/3/2008 - joined lolFail LS (sky linkshell)
11/12/2008 - killing gods in sky tonight with lolFail - obtained Dryadic Abjuration: Body (Shura Togi) [yes, just 9 days after joining, I already got D Body!!! This LS r0x0rz!]
11/13/2008 - bought Cursed Togi for 949,000 gil and obtained Shura Togi
11/24/2008 - killing gods in sky tonight with lolFail - obtained Dryadic Abjuration: Hands (Shura Kote) and Genbu's Shield both by accident [lol, in my n00bness, I must not have passed the items. not like I was going to, or even could, use them anyways]
12/9/2008 - sky - god killing; 10pm - 3am; Suzaku, Sieryu, Genbu x2, Byakko (x1 fail); Byakko x3; Treu and Exion got Haidate; Lux booted for being annoying [lmfao Lux. that's so awesome i actually logged that. and yay Treu for FINALLY getting his first Haidate. yeah... FIRST of TWO haidate. lol]
1/22/2009 - Sky - Byakko - Obtained: Byakko's Haidate
3/5/2009 - Sky - Seiryu - Obtained: D Head
3/7/2009 - Zilart Mission 14 - Divine Might - Completed; Obtained Bushinomimi
3/10/2009 - Promyvion - Dem (cleared)
3/10/2009 - Began CoP Chapter 2 [yeah, still not even close to getting sky-warp yet]
3/5/2009 - Sky - Seiryu - Obtained: D Head
3/7/2009 - Zilart Mission 14 - Divine Might - Completed; Obtained Bushinomimi
3/10/2009 - Promyvion - Dem (cleared)
3/10/2009 - Began CoP Chapter 2 [yeah, still not even close to getting sky-warp yet]
But that's about it. Oh! I guess I can add this past Thursday's item:
6/11/2009 - Sky - Kirin - Obtained: Kirin's Osode [yay! my very first Osode!]
Something else I just realized: all of this time and effort I have put into this sky LS... and I have only obtained 4 items. Ick!!! Well, then again, they ARE pretty big items. And I guess I can't really use anything else anyways, since MNK is still my only 75 job. lol
I kind of wish I had logged other somewhat-major happenings like "Sush has finally said he is not coming back to the LS and not giving back the LS gil or items he has", "I am now the sole-person responsible for taking attendance" or "Zal and Shiiga taking a break [or announced they weren't coming back] so Lilmama and I are apparently the de facto leaders of this LS" etc.... But I guess all of that never actually happened on any specific date; it just kind of happened over a few weeks' time.
But anyways...
Happy First-Sky-Event Anniversary to Khrone!!!
wow... and I didn't realize until about 30 minutes after posting this that tomorrow is Khrone's 2nd birthday! Yeah, look up at the top of this post where I said "I began playing FFXI (6/14/2007)". lol
Go go 2-year-old Tattooface!!!
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Always do everything you ask of those you command
Well, lately it has finally occurred to me that, no matter how much I deny it or try to ignore it, I am most definitely a commanding leader in Relentless Sky LS. lol
I started off just joining this LS (back when it was called lolFail) just to get a few much-needed pieces for sky gear. I had heard that this LS was spamming sky like madmen, so I'd be able to get it quickly. 9 days after joining, I had already gotten my D Body!
I kept sticking with it, going up to sky for 5 hours a night, 4 nights per week, because I needed Byakko's Haidate and the gil to pay back everyone I had borrowed gil from. After a while, it seemed like the leader (Sush at that time) was getting burned-out from the administration side of running an LS, so I did what I could to help him out. I began taking attendance every night. I kept track of what items dropped from what gods. What items were sold, and to whom. What items could be sold on the AH to go towards the weekly payouts.
Oh yeah, weekly payouts back then were also given to anyone who attended sky and obtained ... what was it... 15 points? Basically, you needed to be up there for 2 full nights. (The rule was later adjusted because too many people were abusing the system. They'd show up for a Kirin burn, which might take an hour out of their evening, but they'd still obtain 5 points.)
Well, long-story short ("too late"), I've still been going up to sky basically every single night, for the entire night. My attendance and experience have put me in a position of leadership. A position I did not want to take up, but it has none-the-less been forced-upon me. If I quit, I have no doubts the whole LS will crumble within a week or two, because no one else is up there as often as I am and no one seems to have the patience and diligence I have to take meticulous notes and attendance.
I actually WANT to quit this LS sometime soon (it takes up too much of my time... and it's SUMMER damnit!), but before I do that, I want to make sure someone can take up the reigns of what I have been doing all this time. I really don't want the bad karma of being the reason for the destruction of what once was a great sky LS. Shiiga recently gave me admin access to the DKP, so now I am taking attendance, keeping track of drops, and keeping track of points. Lilmama keeps track of who has what pop items, selling gil items on the AH, and contacting/collecting from sky-gear buyers.
ok, now I'm just blabbering on about nothing... /sigh
I need sleep.
This will be continued in a later post...
I started off just joining this LS (back when it was called lolFail) just to get a few much-needed pieces for sky gear. I had heard that this LS was spamming sky like madmen, so I'd be able to get it quickly. 9 days after joining, I had already gotten my D Body!
I kept sticking with it, going up to sky for 5 hours a night, 4 nights per week, because I needed Byakko's Haidate and the gil to pay back everyone I had borrowed gil from. After a while, it seemed like the leader (Sush at that time) was getting burned-out from the administration side of running an LS, so I did what I could to help him out. I began taking attendance every night. I kept track of what items dropped from what gods. What items were sold, and to whom. What items could be sold on the AH to go towards the weekly payouts.
Oh yeah, weekly payouts back then were also given to anyone who attended sky and obtained ... what was it... 15 points? Basically, you needed to be up there for 2 full nights. (The rule was later adjusted because too many people were abusing the system. They'd show up for a Kirin burn, which might take an hour out of their evening, but they'd still obtain 5 points.)
Well, long-story short ("too late"), I've still been going up to sky basically every single night, for the entire night. My attendance and experience have put me in a position of leadership. A position I did not want to take up, but it has none-the-less been forced-upon me. If I quit, I have no doubts the whole LS will crumble within a week or two, because no one else is up there as often as I am and no one seems to have the patience and diligence I have to take meticulous notes and attendance.
I actually WANT to quit this LS sometime soon (it takes up too much of my time... and it's SUMMER damnit!), but before I do that, I want to make sure someone can take up the reigns of what I have been doing all this time. I really don't want the bad karma of being the reason for the destruction of what once was a great sky LS. Shiiga recently gave me admin access to the DKP, so now I am taking attendance, keeping track of drops, and keeping track of points. Lilmama keeps track of who has what pop items, selling gil items on the AH, and contacting/collecting from sky-gear buyers.
ok, now I'm just blabbering on about nothing... /sigh
I need sleep.
This will be continued in a later post...
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