The Addled Adventures of Suikappu

[maskedmelon]

1263/11/14 Earthsday, 17:07
Waxing Gibbous (79%)

I resume my adventures at the Ranperre Gate to West Ronfaure. I spoke withi this ((elf)) and browsed his hidden wares, but found nothing of interest. I wonder where he keeps all these things....

http://i.imgur.com/2FJgI7w.jpg

[maskedmelon]

No sooner had I exited the gate was I accosted by this shithead:

http://i.imgur.com/RmvXq72.jpg

He took me by surprise as I finished skinning a Wild Rabbit (I've located an elvaan merchant in San d'Oria with a fur fetish paying a premium for this mangy hides. I fleeced him last time! ^^) Anyway, up waltzes this asshole as I put away my skinning knife and he takes me by surprise. I've got nowhere to run, no one to come to my aid, so I stand my ground. It was all over so suddenly. He robbed me of precious experiences :c

[maskedmelon]

The Wild Rabbits are growing scarce... I think they may be hiding from me. It's almost as if... they know what I am about >.>;

http://i.imgur.com/DYHJUNb.jpg

[maskedmelon]

Running through the forest, I thought I heard something. Next thing I knew these Ding Bats were all around me and one managed to tangle itself in my hair! I managed to cut it out and removed one of its wings the process :c I think its dead. The others fled.... I kept the wing.

http://i.imgur.com/V6QM66K.jpg

[maskedmelon]

In my hunt for rabbits, I came across this little guy. He seemed lost and frightened. He was entirely un responsive....

http://i.imgur.com/HQGpoUa.jpg


There was nothing I could do for him :c

[maskedmelon]

It's hard work, but I am growing more experienced by the day! I just finished off a Tunnel Worm and am now a Thief of the 7th Level! :3

http://i.imgur.com/zFe27TD.jpg

[skarlorn]

MOAR!

some of the models are pretty nice actually

[Ahldagor]

What is this?

[maskedmelon]

It was damn cold and would have been just as dark if not for Gibbous, sometime in the middle of the night when I came across this lecherous Tunnel Worm. It burst out from the earth right beside me, flopping menacingly from side to side. I grabbed a fist full of tentacles and went to work on it with my Onion Knife.

http://i.imgur.com/6Ao3Cu3.jpg

[maskedmelon]

This asshole accosted me again as I was searching a grove for rabbits.

http://i.imgur.com/NbSi14d.jpg

He was in for a surprise though. I was much more experienced than the last time we met. The battle was fierce and his armor thick, but my Dodge was Perfect and my strikes were Stinging.

http://i.imgur.com/R0na4RG.jpg

[maskedmelon]

MOAR!

some of the models are pretty nice actually

Yeah, they are actually pretty nice. They don't look as pretty as they do at character creation, but if you wanna compare to EQ, they are better stylized, higher poly and better textured.

What is this?

FFXI ^^

second life

lol

[Angushjalmur]

Watching this thread like a hawk

This gonna be a good one

Melon set up dual chat windows so you can filter der undertext to one and chat to the other

[maskedmelon]

This gonna be a good one

Melon set up dual chat windows so you can filter der undertext to one and chat to the other

uhhh, how?

[maskedmelon]

I decided to do a bit of exploring. Farther down the path from San d'Oria, I ran into this guy.

http://i.imgur.com/qMro9Nv.jpg

I grew increasingly disgusted the closer I came to it and had second thoughts about engaging it. In the end though, it was in my way. It wasn't nearly as durable as it looked...

[Angushjalmur]

how a edit do dat

uhhh, how?

- menu> config> windows (go back to this to fine tune window settings)> shared> set multi window to horizontal or vertical


Then

config> logs> window 1 or 2 and set the filters for each window

[Angushjalmur]

MEANWHILE IN GIDDEUS

I was sent to Giddeus by a shady mithra in Windurst. I'm to gather the bead necklaces the neighboring tribe of Yagudo wear. I don't know why she would want so many of them, but rumor has it she's got connections to the criminal syndicate called the Tenshodo..

I've been crouched here for a while, hoping one of the foul bird men the mithra described would walk by unaware, allowing me the upper hand. I'm beginning to wonder if I'm in the right place.

Will update if I find any

http://i.imgur.com/UePvoTU.png

[skarlorn]

This asshole accosted me again as I was searching a grove for rabbits.

http://i.imgur.com/NbSi14d.jpg

I love how subtly you show off your elfs magnificent, supple, au naturale cleavage.

[entruil]

Good Thread...


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[Muggens]

Cool to see this. Only game Ive ever preordered. Barely played it, looking at these pics make me wanna try it again. Its still Live? Still super grindy?

[maskedmelon]

Cool to see this. Only game Ive ever preordered. Barely played it, looking at these pics make me wanna try it again. Its still Live? Still super grindy?

I am adventuring on the Nasomi emulator :3 It is locked only a few espansions in I think. I never played before, so not sure. Angush could answer your questions.

[Wiley]

Loved this game, rest in peace my fav LS Taruhullabaloo

[Wiley]

Cool to see this. Only game Ive ever preordered. Barely played it, looking at these pics make me wanna try it again. Its still Live? Still super grindy?

It's still live technically, I think I reinstalled last year to see if anyone was still around from way back in the day but Ramuh was a ghost town.

It puts EQ to shame with how grindy it is, at least release through the first expac when I played. Solo wasn't an option after lv10 ish, unless you played a beastmaster job.

With how the job/class system works you needed to keep switching and leveling your secondary jobs to keep up with the main one, if your subjob wasn't the max level it could be you had a harder time getting groups.

Example making a Thief/Ninja, was best choice back then though some went Thief/War:

- level monk to 15, unlock subjobs
- reroll warrior, level to 30, unlock adv jobs
- reroll ninja, level to 37
- reroll thief, finally play the job you wanted!

Inventory space is a prob so most likely selling all your gear as you switch jobs. All that leveling required groups and often those could take hours to find, which made you want to play for many more hours to not waste your time. You had to find a replacement before you could leave a group and wait for them to show up less you get blacklisted.

Could go on and on, still loved the game and it had the best community I've ever found, but the grind drained my soul and had to quit in the 50s

[AzzarTheGod]

some better pics of the models here, they did hold up well.

that grind sounds intense. is this the ultimate wheelchair disability game?

[R Flair]

It's still live technically, I think I reinstalled last year to see if anyone was still around from way back in the day but Ramuh was a ghost town.

It puts EQ to shame with how grindy it is, at least release through the first expac when I played. Solo wasn't an option after lv10 ish, unless you played a beastmaster job.

With how the job/class system works you needed to keep switching and leveling your secondary jobs to keep up with the main one, if your subjob wasn't the max level it could be you had a harder time getting groups.

Example making a Thief/Ninja, was best choice back then though some went Thief/War:

- level monk to 15, unlock subjobs
- reroll warrior, level to 30, unlock adv jobs
- reroll ninja, level to 37
- reroll thief, finally play the job you wanted!

Inventory space is a prob so most likely selling all your gear as you switch jobs. All that leveling required groups and often those could take hours to find, which made you want to play for many more hours to not waste your time. You had to find a replacement before you could leave a group and wait for them to show up less you get blacklisted.

Could go on and on, still loved the game and it had the best community I've ever found, but the grind drained my soul and had to quit in the 50s

Yeah that emu is easier than live in that solo is pretty easy even after level 10. I was soloing almost even cons up into the 20s. Monk pretty beast mode. I started thief and switched was amazed how much stronger I was as monk.

Didn't play live, but the grind level on that emu doesn't touch EQ. You can pretty much solo to 20 in a couple days if you don't suck and play a lot.

[skarlorn]

Sry I was mean to u in another thread at a different time r Flair

[AzzarTheGod]

what size wheelchair u eyeing melon? I picture u as a dress size 12.

http://i.imgur.com/Qyxst3I.jpg

[Muggens]

I am adventuring on the Nasomi emulator :3 It is locked only a few espansions in I think. I never played before, so not sure. Angush could answer your questions.
Cool, kinda like a P99 of FFXI then. You find any groups or people multibox?

It's still live technically, I think I reinstalled last year to see if anyone was still around from way back in the day but Ramuh was a ghost town.

It puts EQ to shame with how grindy it is, at least release through the first expac when I played. Solo wasn't an option after lv10 ish, unless you played a beastmaster job.

With how the job/class system works you needed to keep switching and leveling your secondary jobs to keep up with the main one, if your subjob wasn't the max level it could be you had a harder time getting groups.

Example making a Thief/Ninja, was best choice back then though some went Thief/War:

- level monk to 15, unlock subjobs
- reroll warrior, level to 30, unlock adv jobs
- reroll ninja, level to 37
- reroll thief, finally play the job you wanted!

Inventory space is a prob so most likely selling all your gear as you switch jobs. All that leveling required groups and often those could take hours to find, which made you want to play for many more hours to not waste your time. You had to find a replacement before you could leave a group and wait for them to show up less you get blacklisted.

Could go on and on, still loved the game and it had the best community I've ever found, but the grind drained my soul and had to quit in the 50s
Thanks for the info, that sounds pretty extreme but I can see the appeal. The blacklisting thing a particular for the japanese or just a community thing that came to be?

Yeah that emu is easier than live in that solo is pretty easy even after level 10. I was soloing almost even cons up into the 20s. Monk pretty beast mode. I started thief and switched was amazed how much stronger I was as monk.

Didn't play live, but the grind level on that emu doesn't touch EQ. You can pretty much solo to 20 in a couple days if you don't suck and play a lot.

Ok so you level faster on the FFXI emu server than here on P99?

[Wiley]

Thanks for the info, that sounds pretty extreme but I can see the appeal. The blacklisting thing a particular for the japanese or just a community thing that came to be?



Ok so you level faster on the FFXI emu server than here on P99?

Was pretty much everyone blacklisting you, kinda how eqlive did with ninja looters and people doing other such lame things. Most Japanese players wouldn't even group with NA players for a good while, they had a 1 year headstart.

I'm probably wrong on how bad the grind was, it's way worse in my mind but that could be all the rerolling. Which you didn't need to do but I'm at altaholic so I didn't break lv50+ for almost 2 years

[maskedmelon]

leveling is not so bad. It is slow, but gameplay is engaging enough that it is still fun. I am not interested in going hard enough to need a wheelchair. I like to take my time and enjoy the ride. You can get in deeper and really have more fum that way without tiring too quickly. Didn't get much more playtime this weekend, but will post some updates tomorrow if I can ^^

[skarlorn]

Yearning for dank rp updates

[R Flair]

Ok so you level faster on the FFXI emu server than here on P99?

Quite a bit faster, and easier to solo. You can go 1 through 5 in about 1-2 hours grinding mobs outside gates of your city. I think it took me 3 days to hit level 20 as a monk.

Personally i found combat to be super boring. It was like someone played EQ, and then said, "woah this is too fast. lets scale it back to 1/4th the speed and remove 90% of the abilities." Then they made run speed equal to about that of a one legged fat kid on crutches.

[Wiley]

Personally i found combat to be super boring. It was like someone played EQ, and then said, "woah this is too fast. lets scale it back to 1/4th the speed and remove 90% of the abilities." Then they made run speed equal to about that of a one legged fat kid on crutches.

I loved the slow combat, made landing trick/sneak attacks on my thief feel like they really had weight to them.

In contrast something like black desert where you can mash your keys and everything around you dies almost instantly

[Wiley]

only thing i didn't like about that game was the reuse of mobs, seemed like every 10 levels you were fighting the same types all over again. Crabs in the newbie area, crabs in qifim quifim.. crabs in a 40's zone.. crabs crabs crabs. or Crawlers, or bees, or goblins.. over and over again

[R Flair]

I loved the slow combat, made landing trick/sneak attacks on my thief feel like they really had weight to them.

In contrast something like black desert where you can mash your keys and everything around you dies almost instantly

I think there's a happy medium between mindless spamming and molasses.

[Muggens]

Crabs in the newbie area, crabs in qifim quifim.. crabs in a 40's zone.. crabs crabs crabs.

Sounds itchy!
Im gonna give it a try someday now that it has resurfaced into my knowledge. Last FF game I had interest in, didnt really give it a go. Thanks for the informative posts fellas.