Dev Tracker - Discussion

A certain bot has been documented being reported one hundred times to the STF. Don't get your hopes up on that working either.

STF successful follow through rate lower than KC drop rate.

By being able to properly debate without the need of insulting people that disagree with our arguments.
Please let me know if there is more you need explained, and ill happily assist you.

You replied in bad faith in a very awkward manner, ignoring my factual points entirely.

Square owes you no due process and some of you guys need to realize that.

There was actually an incident in the summer of 2009 that caught thousands of innocent players in a blanket ban. S-E's task force developed an automated script to catch RMT gardening bots, but tons of legitimate players used gardening as a source of income too. At the time elemental ores were in high demand, and one of the easiest sources to get them was through gardening. Calling S-E's customer support was complete trash too. The representatives would just read from their script, telling the player their account was flagged for RMT activity, and regardless what the player said that was the end of the story. That's how their customer rep always worked back in the day even when it was fully staffed. The people on the phone were clueless and had no authority to do anything beyond basic account stuff like name changes and payment updates.

It took months for the complains to actually get through, and they only did because the volume was too large for s-e to ignore. In the end many of those bans were reversed, but s-e lost business over that and I'm sure it left an impression on them. They haven't banned freely like that ever since.

Tertiary Jobs...... half your sub job job

I remember back when that happened. Since then they tend to be super targeted and mostly rely on STFU reports to inform there where to look.

At the Mastery Level cap you'll be able to use your subjob's Lv.1 SP ability :P

Starting next year they're going to raise the amount of metals/fibers you can get per month (bout time)

Also, it seems we might be getting a few more camps for Exemplar Points (nice!) but it also seems like the Master Level system won't be furtherly expanded, for now at least.
I guess 20 more levels in january then?

You know, if the mastery rank system is what they were referring to in the February Q&A the translation was kind of misleading. They implied they were going to be making balance adjustments between the jobs, which led us to believe job ability tweaks or additions were in the works. This doesn't really do anything for job balance, it just adds more stat bloat. I'm not complaining about what we got mind you. It's been a refreshing change to group up with friends and go out to grind in old school traditional exp party settings again, and I'm very happy with the performance boosts the extra Mlvl stats provide. It just doesn't do anything to fix job balancing issues is all.

First up are job adjustments. I previously mentioned that we had finished up with individual job adjustments and have now turned our eye toward new job progression elements, but there are a couple more adjustments we wanted to make before diving deep into the next set of systems.
Specifically, there are some adjustments coming to rangers and some paladin spells. Don’t fret, though—we’re still on schedule for our new progression systems coming down the pipeline for all existing jobs.
The biggest adjustment comes for rangers. Many of you have commented that rangers feel a little bit weak as far as ranged attackers go, and after careful consideration we reached the conclusion that our upcoming job progression systems alone would be insufficient to solve this issue.
As such, we’re adding a new ability, Hover Shot. While I’ll leave the details for you to read in the version update information, the basic gist is that rangers will be gaining the ability to get increased damage when they move after making a ranged attack.
I hope you try this ability out when it hits the servers and leave us your feedback.

Additionally, we’re looking to expand storage options and implement new character growth options for all jobs.

I think they're referencing they Reprisal change. It happened around then if I recall correctly.

I'm not sure what they're tryin to do with the larger penalty to EP/CP/Ex in alliances of 7 or more members.

Wouldn't this hurt only legit people farming merits (with CP/Ex as icing on the cake) in zones like Escha etc?
I mean, to my knowledge Mercs weren't doing stuff on Apex in alliances but 6men parties, no?

What????
I’m pretty sure no one has ever gathered together more than 5 other people in the history of this game to increase levels of any sort.

The only exception would be RMT, who exclusively ‘gain levels’ in groups of 7+. This could cause deflation akin to the sparks nerf.

Edit: I guess people were xp’in in alliances in the level sync era.