User talk:FFXI-Mierin/Archive January 31, 2006

=January 31, 2006=

Cape T Peeps
Ok. I always thought that the OP vendors/conquest people were always the same but with different uniforms. I have been XPing there and they were always the same - but I guess Bastok was always in control? Sorry M. My bad. --Gahoo 08:36, 5 Dec 2005 (PST)

Dynamis maps...
I'd suggest looking on "Simple is the best" for Dynamis maps. They tend to be more exact than the DCA ones.

They're under the "FFXI" link, then "Dynamis Database," then an area on the sidebar, then the first one or two links on the left frame.

As an example, these are the two "simple" maps for Dynamis - San d'Oria, the entry you're working on right now:

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Spawns are black dots, HP recovery statues are blue, MP recovery statues are green, Time Extension statues are red, NMs are dark green. They all use actual in-game textures, too. XD

The Dynamis - Beaucedine map even has a color overlay version for which mobs spawn where; I use that version for the Attestation entries. Also use the Dynamis - Xarcabard map for the Fragment entries. They haven't done me wrong. =)

As a caveat, however, they may need scaling and compression to get under the Wiki's 100K limit. So far that hasn't proven too much a problem for me and The GIMP, though. Let me know if you need any help with that.

--Maledict 10:18, 11 Jan 2006 (PST)

Err, the maps break the 100K limit as they are. You sure you don't want me to process them for you? --Maledict 11:11, 11 Jan 2006 (PST)

The Strengths/Weaknesses sections, unfortunately, are neccesary to point out debates like this, because they're there, and they're not going to go away, and players need to know about them. However, it's even more neccesary to keep bias out of those sections (among other places in the Wiki).

This is going to be difficult with more and more people contributing. Level heads need to prevail and the whiners you see on Alla or KI or whatnot need to be severely marginalized. Opinion on this Wiki needs to be labeled as opinion, and I'm constantly concerned that it isn't. Valyana's submissions especially unnerve me, because she drops so many little hints that I half expect her to one day claim that "PLD tanks are worthless" or something. Even though it's really only little things that she does. She's a fantastic contributor otherwise...

Anyway, I didn't want Zero to lead that particular sentence down a slippery slope in that situation. So I did what had to be done. --Maledict 13:33, 12 Jan 2006 (PST)

Beastmaster
Don't think I have a monopoly on the BST page. Please feel free to update the AF information in line with the others. --Gahoo 16:15, 13 Jan 2006 (PST)

Re: Re: A concept we may wanna try for a week or two
Hahaha. That's alright, I worked with a Virgo at a government agency over one summer and they couldn't stand how slow the organization did their work. Watching paint dry would be less time consuming than watching them work, or as my boss once said about our department "We move on geologic time". --zoogelio-forgot-his-password 14:12, 31 Jan 2006 (PST)