How Could SE Realistically Improve Modern FFXI?

It's better to have something that is too hard to finish than too easy, unless you have lots of other things people can work on. This is why Mlev is the way it is, it's better for them and it's better for the players too.

They messed this up during Abyssea and more people quit 1-2 years after that then anytime in the games history, I quit too cause I had nothing to work on.

The release of Abyssea caused the greatest increase in player population since CoP. The content was fun, accessible and you could make moderate progress without dedicating your life to it.

The decline in the population had to do with Voidwatch being trash and FFXIV R2 becoming a smash hit. People who start to have limited playtime find it hard to play two MMO's at the same time and eventually one has to go.

If they start losing the RMTs, they should institute a Freelance system for ML50 jobs that includes a new Maat Cap.

You hit ML50 and you can do a new Maat fight(It will be solo, no subjob, and terrible). You get various bonuses for the job you cleared the fight on.

The first bonus is a job trait that is permanently on, something lower level but desirable that you get when you're not already benefiting from that trait. The numbers can be adjusted down to less than the first tier of a trait if they would be too strong.
Some jobs additionally give access to WSs that you normally need that job in order to use with the required skill level. You can either have all of them that you've cleared or a system where you can choose 1 at your first cleared job, 2 at your 11th, and 3 at your 22nd, because XI.

Examples:
The second thing you get is the job you used to clear the Maat fight added to the new Maat cap's wearable jobs. When you wear the Maat cap and open an old case or old case +1, the resulting earring will be the job that you are currently on. The Maat cap is obviously purple and gives movement speed +60% in sortie.

The last bonus you get is to max out the merit categories of that job. All the questionable carrots!

Meanwhile on Asura, yells require you to have at least ML50 WAR, SAM, DRK, MNK and RUN or you can't get into segment runs anymore.

I was always perplexed by players who complained about having nothing to do because they finished the content in the first week. Some players just want to play for 12 hours a day everyday for a year and never run out of "things to do".

It boils down to people who have large amounts of free time and FFXI is the designated repository for that time. They are concern that if content is too accessible or "too easy" then they will consume it too fast and starve. It's a valid concern for an extreme edge case and the real answer is to find other things to spend free time on.

Yes but it has been really bad these days to setup groups during ODD hours if you are not on NA timezone

Meanwhile on Asura, yells require you to have at least ML50 WAR, SAM, DRK, MNK and RUN or you can't get into segment runs anymore.

Woah woah woah, Asura is the coolest server ever, it's super populated and every other server is bad by comparison. How can this be?

DRK or MNK for segs ewwww
People only take RUN if they can't find PLD too

You don't PLAY the DRG or MNK, you have to have it ML50 so you can get the bonuses from his proposal. You master all those jobs (and probably more) for the bonuses, no matter what you're playing.

If they start losing the RMTs, they should institute a Freelance system for ML50 jobs that includes a new Maat Cap.

You hit ML50 and you can do a new Maat fight(It will be solo, no subjob, and terrible). You get various bonuses for the job you cleared the fight on.

The first bonus is a job trait that is permanently on, something lower level but desirable that you get when you're not already benefiting from that trait. The numbers can be adjusted down to less than the first tier of a trait if they would be too strong.
Some jobs additionally give access to WSs that you normally need that job in order to use with the required skill level. You can either have all of them that you've cleared or a system where you can choose 1 at your first cleared job, 2 at your 11th, and 3 at your 22nd, because XI.

Examples:
WAR - DA 5% and access to axe and great axe WSs
MNK - Martial Arts 1 and Hp boost 2
WHM - MDB 5% and access to club and staff magical WSs
BLM - MAB 10%
RDM - FC 5% and access to magical dagger and sword WSs
THF - Evasion bonus 2 and access to viper bite and shark bite
PLD - Shield Mastery 1 and access to swift blade
DRK - Occult Accumen 1 and Smite 1
BST - Tandem Strike 1, Tandem Blow 1, and widescan lvl +1
BRD - Resist Silence 1 and Fencer 1
RNG - Accuracy bonus 2 and access to all Ranged WSs including blast and heavy shot
SMN - The ability to gain MP per ML if you don't have native MP
SAM - Store TP 1
NIN - Dual Wield 1
DRG - Strafe 2 which works for pet m.acc and conserve tp 5%
BLU - Vorpal Blade and See Below*
COR - Rapid shot 15% and recycle 1
PUP - Resist Amnesia 1 and access to H2H WSs
DNC - Subtle Blow 1, SC bonus 4%, and dancing edge
SCH - Conserve MP 1
GEO - Cardinal Chant 1, Judgment, and Hexa Strike
RUN - Tenacity 1

*BLU gives access to any blue magic that can be learned with the 16 blue magic skill from merits and can set 4 spells with 5 points, to mimic cantrips. Yes cocoon is in there but m.eva is king now anyways and it could be nerfed when used without job/subjob.

The second thing you get is the job you used to clear the Maat fight added to the new Maat cap's wearable jobs. When you wear the Maat cap and open an old case or old case +1, the resulting earring will be the job that you are currently on. The Maat cap is obviously purple and gives movement speed +60% in sortie.

The last bonus you get is to max out the merit categories of that job. All the questionable carrots!

Removed the spoiler tag. He's saying (I think) if you hit ML50 WAR, all your jobs get 5% DA.

My comment was that on Asura, you'd be required to have ML50 WAR, MNK, DRK, RUN, and SAM so you could get STP 1, DA 5%, HP boost 2, Tenacity, and Smite 1, even though you were actually playing COR.

Because Asura requires you to have 10 REMA to roll and hit wild card.

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Because Asura requires you to have 10 REMA to roll and hit wild card.

"R25 nyame r15 rema master DD only" -shouted by a person in +1 ambu gear

Many such cases

Actually, to make the game better they should merge the least populated server.

Actually, to make the game better they should merge the least populated server.