Dev Tracker - Discussion

If they’re cracking down hard on exchanging Gil for services, and mean business, can you imagine no more aeonic farms, vagary clears, VD ambu for 5M, dyna D RP farms?

***, the game won’t look like it’s free to play anymore in town.

A few days late to this but... I bet the AF/relic reforge changes are to give an alternative to Omen boss scales, since that's rather difficult to manage without a decent party and a lot of groups don't do Omen any more. Make someone (not of above average skill) playing solo with trusts capable of completing it.
Monkey's paw curls: body needed 50 job cards + 1 scale, now can instead choose 50 cards + 50 more cards

Relic same thing, easing the wave 1 boss win requirement and adding some alternate requirement?

Kinda reminds me of when they added the Vagary alternative boss-only fights for no drops, specifically to address the significant enough number of people for whom the full zone/boss clears were becoming blockers to reforging Empyrean armor. Just an easy way to be able to solo/lowman some gear unlocks only.

It seems that Freshly Picked will not be happening at 6AM Eastern in the morning, and it was delayed until next week.

I wonder what issue they ran into that required their time be spent elsewhere...

Very general interview posted with Famitsu on FFXI/FFXIV/Dragon Quest for those interested. Maybe use Google Trans or something.

https://www.famitsu.com/news/202111/05239741.html

Its pretty obvious where the new battle content is going to be as they are already talking about it in the ToAU part.

Spoilers for those that havent got there yet.

So there's a high chance that Empyrean +3 will be tied to the storyline completion. New battle content to look forward to. I'd dare say it's actually worth a little hype.

Well, guess it's time to stop procrastinating on Resurgence. @.@;;

Embryo of the Worldeater should have been the expansion title.

Just got fully caught up on Voracious missions this past week, and I have to say I find it equal parts hilarious, annoying, and nostalgic that they seem to have gone out of their way to make these missions require running around to places where the best transportation options still require a bit of a hassle to get to stuff.

??? in Arrapago Reef past a Lamian Fang Key gate for a CS. OK, fine. Oh wait, what - now I have to go to a ??? on a different Arrapago map for next CS? Cool. Now back to the first one AGAIN, then back to the second one, then whitegate, then first Arrapago, then second Arrapago, then... [repeats 4 more times].

Hmmm... where else do players not have any good fast travel options to get to? I know, we'll stick the ??? next to Hyrdra spawn location and make them run through Aydeewa!

See also: Zeruhn Mines, Chateau d'Oraguille, Heaven's Tower (even the minor inconvenience of requiring a HP then zone in lol), etc. I can't wait to visit Byakko's island, some weird *** corner of the Palace of Hu'Xzoi, and the top of Promyvion-Vahzl in the coming missions!

At least we can warp close to the 2nd Arrapago spot these days.

I'm not surprised. After seeing the Perfect Lucky Egg I realized the Voracious dev team know exactly what they're doing.

For every five mastery levels your earn, your support job level cap will be increased by 1.

Brb need to go clean up the mess I made when I read this.

Ahem.

Fix to the automaton I bet

I guess in the video the last note is about the excessive botting, so maybe. (according to the jp on the of)

But kinda doubt the maint has anything to do with it specifically (unless they break elite.api again which will get fixed an hour later)

PUP's automaton lol

Right right automaton not automation

The video does still talk about the bots though apparently

Could be addressing whatever is causing server instability atm.

Have they ever actually acknowledged bots in one of these digests? like on any level? If they did in fact do it in this one.

I see the free vouchers for Aman Trove is coming.

Starting to feel a lot like Christmas.

I doubt they can do much to address botting unless they add some kind of client side detection, which I find unlikely after 20 years. The best thing they can do is address it with ingame content, sortof like how reducing the EP gained in an alliance increased the cost and reduced the viability of JP bots (at least temporarily).

My feeling is they could also do it with the new battle content by rewarding based on participation, so idle users can't just stand there and get the rewards. That said, I think that could be dangerous for certain jobs, as it will be real easy for certain ones to get stuff done compared to others that will have to be carried unless the content is balanced (like in Sheol C).

It's an easy problem they could fix in the blink of an eye.

It's just that it would cost them profit. There's no incentive to do it and no repercussion for not doing it.

I'll tell you the single biggest secret. Only banned accounts make new accounts. We have the ability to buy unlimited and start unlimited accounts. Because of that, it is impossible to adequately punish anyone who doesn't want to be punished. If I couldn't instantly start 2 brand new accounts the day before a ban and have them be 119 with ambuscade weapons the same day, would've been gone long ago.

The second big secret is they're just lazy. Take a sphere bot for example. You can ban the account farming the items over and over and over and they can be replaced in minutes. But they NEVER ban the craft bot. That's just a stupid oversight. And they let all those spheres into the market. As long as your bot and your profit holder are different accounts you're never in any danger at all.