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thessalianPosts seem to be pretty well centred around the FFXI elements of my life lately. Why? Because it's pretty much all I've been doing this week. Oh, there's that minor bit of hassle about kai stepping down as Mage admin on CbN and Kyr trying to find a new lead admin, but that's not stuff I can do anything about and there's no point in stressing over it. Either replacements will be found for both positions and the game will go on, or the whole thing will tank in a rather spectacular way and I'll have to go find something else to do. I mean, if worst comes to absolute worst, there have got to be decent oWoD online games out there somewhere, right?
*thinks about Hollow City*
*thinks about Chicago*
...Anyway. I said I wasn't going to stress about that, and I meant it. I'm also not going to stress about how absolutely godsawful I feel right now, because again, there's not much I can do about it. Besides,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dodgyhoodoo feels about as bad, so I feel a bit crap about complaining. So anyone reading this is just going to have to put up with my eternal FFXI-related monologues.
This is the time of day when the Japanese contingent are rife on the boards. The two people on my LS who were logged in when I turned up today were either fishing or camping the auction house, and everyone looking for a party was either too low-level or too high-level to bother with a little lvl17 BLM like me. So I figured this would be a good time to work on my crafting. After all, I had hare meat, I had fire crystals... all I needed was dried marjoram. Oh, and distilled water - I had a bird egg to boil. But first, I decided to make a quick check of the recipes list I favour to see if there was anything else I could make. After all, just boiling and grilling things gets boring after awhile.
A quick perusal of the recipes list told me that I was high enough level to make Pet Food Alpha. Apparently, Beastmasters use this to bulk up their pets. Good deal; just need to find some Horo flour and distilled water, and I'm good to go. Except it's late and everything's closed but the Auction House. "Well," I say to myself, "I'll go try that. I'll also bring my stack of Tarutaru rice boxes (12 items = stack, if said items are stackable) that I just harvested out of my garden - I'm nowhere near high enough in level to use 'em and I might get some good gil this way". So, items clutched in my little Taru mitts, I set off for the Windurst Woods auction house. I bought my Horo flour and a stack of distilled water and checked list price for stacks of rice. And the lowest going rate was 20,000 gil.
...Am I reading that right?!? I apparently am. Damn; wish I'd done this last time my garden threw up rice stacks. So, nice person that I am, I put the rice up for 10,000 gil, made my pet food, put that up for 1,000 gil (going list price fluctuates between 1,000 and 1,500) and then went fishing. Got a few good catches but then my rod broke while I was out for moat carp. Crap. Oh well; when and if my rice sells, I'll be able to afford a damn sight better rod than the stupid bamboo thing I've been using. But of course, it's Lightningsday, which is the fisherman's guild holiday anyway, so I can't replace it just now. Instead, I head off to the culinarian's guild, sell my catch, buy my marjoram, grill my hare and some millicorn, sell that off at a profit and head back to the auction house. Lo and behold, my rice sold, so I head back to my little moghouse to pull my 10,000 gil out of my delivery box.
Only when I get there, there's apparently been a bidding war. People with high enough cooking skill to use rice apparently have a whole hell of a lot of gil to throw around. In the half-hour or so I'd been futzing around with cooking and fishing, the price on my rice doubled. So now I have nearly 21,000 gil - more if my pet food sells.
Honest to gods, people - when you can get 20,000 gil in a half-hour through a little gardening and auction house selling, who the almighty hell needs to buy gil through real-money transfers? I mean, what's the point of spending real money on fake money when you can earn your fake money in-game, like normal people? I mean, I'm sure it's great to be able to afford any damn thing you want without having to, I dunno, work for it. However, I find it defeats the object of the game, not to mention screwing with the economy.
I mean, it's fake money and all, but its value is determined by the resources given to players in-game: it represents monsters and the items they drop, yields from excavation, mining, harvesting and fishing, and a whole bunch of other ways of making gil in game. And gilsellers basically spoil the whole damn thing for the rest of us. They use cheats and bots to camp the monsters that give the good drops, they hog the good fishing spots (again with bots) and in general, they make it hard for players to earn any gil in the first place. So the only options are either working extra hard to earn your gil or buying gil off these gilselling arseholes who're wrecking your game, obviously encouraging them.
I obviously go for the former option, for three reasons. One: real-money transfers are against the damn rules. Two: I don't want to encourage cheating fuckwads. Three: I'm already throwing enough real money at this game. The base game was a gift, but I bought the expansion pack and my PlayOnline subscription is paid up until the end of November, at which point I will renew it because I like the game. And I get gil by playing, so why do I need to spend real money (that in most cases I don't have) to get fake money in-game when I could earn it playing the game I paid to play in the first place? What kind of sad git do you have to be to do that? It's like buying high-level character accounts off eBay or something; what's the fun in playing when everything's been done for you?
Anyway, I'll probably log on again a little later and see who from my LS is still on and whether they want to do some partying. If not, it's a toss-up between buying some crafting stuff and working on my crafting skills or soloing Tahrongi and trying to get up the courage to sneak through Buburimu Peninsula on my own to get to Mhaura and grab the ferry for Selbina. Yeah, I'm considering the Dunes again. Kyr assures me that sometimes Valkurm parties go really well, so I figure I shouldn't be put off by one bad experience. And it's not like I can't afford the 100 gil for the ferry.
[Edit: Or I could follow Kyr's excellent advice and level Monk. Crystal earnage + stress relief. Or maybe WHM... Decisions, decisions. I'm just trying to resist the temptation to lie in bed and groan.]
*thinks about Hollow City*
*thinks about Chicago*
...Anyway. I said I wasn't going to stress about that, and I meant it. I'm also not going to stress about how absolutely godsawful I feel right now, because again, there's not much I can do about it. Besides,
dodgyhoodoo feels about as bad, so I feel a bit crap about complaining. So anyone reading this is just going to have to put up with my eternal FFXI-related monologues.This is the time of day when the Japanese contingent are rife on the boards. The two people on my LS who were logged in when I turned up today were either fishing or camping the auction house, and everyone looking for a party was either too low-level or too high-level to bother with a little lvl17 BLM like me. So I figured this would be a good time to work on my crafting. After all, I had hare meat, I had fire crystals... all I needed was dried marjoram. Oh, and distilled water - I had a bird egg to boil. But first, I decided to make a quick check of the recipes list I favour to see if there was anything else I could make. After all, just boiling and grilling things gets boring after awhile.
A quick perusal of the recipes list told me that I was high enough level to make Pet Food Alpha. Apparently, Beastmasters use this to bulk up their pets. Good deal; just need to find some Horo flour and distilled water, and I'm good to go. Except it's late and everything's closed but the Auction House. "Well," I say to myself, "I'll go try that. I'll also bring my stack of Tarutaru rice boxes (12 items = stack, if said items are stackable) that I just harvested out of my garden - I'm nowhere near high enough in level to use 'em and I might get some good gil this way". So, items clutched in my little Taru mitts, I set off for the Windurst Woods auction house. I bought my Horo flour and a stack of distilled water and checked list price for stacks of rice. And the lowest going rate was 20,000 gil.
...Am I reading that right?!? I apparently am. Damn; wish I'd done this last time my garden threw up rice stacks. So, nice person that I am, I put the rice up for 10,000 gil, made my pet food, put that up for 1,000 gil (going list price fluctuates between 1,000 and 1,500) and then went fishing. Got a few good catches but then my rod broke while I was out for moat carp. Crap. Oh well; when and if my rice sells, I'll be able to afford a damn sight better rod than the stupid bamboo thing I've been using. But of course, it's Lightningsday, which is the fisherman's guild holiday anyway, so I can't replace it just now. Instead, I head off to the culinarian's guild, sell my catch, buy my marjoram, grill my hare and some millicorn, sell that off at a profit and head back to the auction house. Lo and behold, my rice sold, so I head back to my little moghouse to pull my 10,000 gil out of my delivery box.
Only when I get there, there's apparently been a bidding war. People with high enough cooking skill to use rice apparently have a whole hell of a lot of gil to throw around. In the half-hour or so I'd been futzing around with cooking and fishing, the price on my rice doubled. So now I have nearly 21,000 gil - more if my pet food sells.
Honest to gods, people - when you can get 20,000 gil in a half-hour through a little gardening and auction house selling, who the almighty hell needs to buy gil through real-money transfers? I mean, what's the point of spending real money on fake money when you can earn your fake money in-game, like normal people? I mean, I'm sure it's great to be able to afford any damn thing you want without having to, I dunno, work for it. However, I find it defeats the object of the game, not to mention screwing with the economy.
I mean, it's fake money and all, but its value is determined by the resources given to players in-game: it represents monsters and the items they drop, yields from excavation, mining, harvesting and fishing, and a whole bunch of other ways of making gil in game. And gilsellers basically spoil the whole damn thing for the rest of us. They use cheats and bots to camp the monsters that give the good drops, they hog the good fishing spots (again with bots) and in general, they make it hard for players to earn any gil in the first place. So the only options are either working extra hard to earn your gil or buying gil off these gilselling arseholes who're wrecking your game, obviously encouraging them.
I obviously go for the former option, for three reasons. One: real-money transfers are against the damn rules. Two: I don't want to encourage cheating fuckwads. Three: I'm already throwing enough real money at this game. The base game was a gift, but I bought the expansion pack and my PlayOnline subscription is paid up until the end of November, at which point I will renew it because I like the game. And I get gil by playing, so why do I need to spend real money (that in most cases I don't have) to get fake money in-game when I could earn it playing the game I paid to play in the first place? What kind of sad git do you have to be to do that? It's like buying high-level character accounts off eBay or something; what's the fun in playing when everything's been done for you?
Anyway, I'll probably log on again a little later and see who from my LS is still on and whether they want to do some partying. If not, it's a toss-up between buying some crafting stuff and working on my crafting skills or soloing Tahrongi and trying to get up the courage to sneak through Buburimu Peninsula on my own to get to Mhaura and grab the ferry for Selbina. Yeah, I'm considering the Dunes again. Kyr assures me that sometimes Valkurm parties go really well, so I figure I shouldn't be put off by one bad experience. And it's not like I can't afford the 100 gil for the ferry.
[Edit: Or I could follow Kyr's excellent advice and level Monk. Crystal earnage + stress relief. Or maybe WHM... Decisions, decisions. I'm just trying to resist the temptation to lie in bed and groan.]