Anime, meta-FFXI (FFXI-MUSHing) thoughts

Eek! I had no idea I was three eps behind in FMA! Ack! I watched 41 before work this morning, and never have I so strongly considered calling in sick! My god! It looks like ( I've been asked to cut this part. Something about ep 41 (so from weeks ago). Little spoiler-ish thing. )

Gah! How can I not know what happens next, especially when I have the next ep already! Eek!

And *sniffle*, just when I decide that the Crimson Alchemist is one of the sexiest things on two legs, he's suddenly... not. I hope it isn't what it looks like, but it probably is. The packs of canine-ish chimera were cool as hell, too. And poor Al! I'm worried he's going to die. He knows too much... (I have 42 and 43 downloaded! Must Watch Soon!)

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I've been thinking more and more about MUSHing lately, both the old RP and running the place. (*sniffle* I miss the RP more and more! Why is it all coming back to me? Old scenes playing out in my head again? Why the hell are characters waking up?! No no no! I thought you were all dead! I do not need to hear your voices again! It's over! Just... just... go back to sleep! It was better for all of us that way!)

Yesterday a connection hit me. Though players wanted otherwise, as a MUSH staff we never gave out much. We didn't ever give out super powerful things, and people had to work quite a bit for even the less powerful stuff. Why? Because we knew if they worked hard for something, they would value it more. The process of working for it would give them something to do on the MUSH, and once they had the thing, they'd want to stay on the game so that they could use/show off the item. ...so why did I expect FFXI to do otherwise? Now that I see the connection, I wonder how I ever missed it. They're running the darned game just like I ran the MUSH. It's the right thing to do. Making things so annoyingly hard to get makes it better. And so, while I'll still bitch and moan about the unfairness of it all, I wouldn't honestly want it to change.

I really, really want the leathercrafting apron, and won't it be better because I've worked so darned hard for it?

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Non-meta: And speaking of leather! (Do I ever speak of anything else? :) ) I was useful last night! And it was great! Something I was worked towards happened:

CTY (my linkshell) goes out hunting rams. A lot. The problem is, the skins rams (and most any other monster) drop do not stack. One skin = one inventory slot. When rams also drop horns (worth 1,500 vs the skin's 400-500), it's not worth it to hold onto the skins. However! Ram leather is worth a whole lot more! (Leather = 1,500 a piece, *plus* it stacks! So one inventory slot = 12 pieces of leather = about 40,000!) So I went out to the hunting party and turned all their skins into leather! I just hung out there -- as they killed rams, they dropped off the skins to me. While I processed them, they went out and killed more! Perfect system! We ended up with over 4 stacks of leather, which means about 160,000 gil which would have otherwise been lost!

I'll never be a level 75 character. I'll never be able to clear scary dungeons of deadly monsters. But that doesn't mean I won't be useful! Not only can I tan the hides, I do it well. Between the trip out to the hunters and tanning ram hides for other LS people within the city, I did nothing but process ram skins for about five hours. Number of failed synths? Four (and only one with a lost skin). Number of HQ results? Countless. Easily over thirty.

And it's only going to get better from here. :)

Edit: Ack! Ack! My leather prices are off! A stack sells for 14K, not 40k! (I've been buying and working with coeurl leather, which is 40K a stack, so I got confused!)

Anime, meta-FFXI (FFXI-MUSHing) thoughts

Eek! I had no idea I was three eps behind in FMA! Ack! I watched 41 before work this morning, and never have I so strongly considered calling in sick! My god! It looks like ( I've been asked to cut this part. Something about ep 41 (so from weeks ago). Little spoiler-ish thing. )

Gah! How can I not know what happens next, especially when I have the next ep already! Eek!

And *sniffle*, just when I decide that the Crimson Alchemist is one of the sexiest things on two legs, he's suddenly... not. I hope it isn't what it looks like, but it probably is. The packs of canine-ish chimera were cool as hell, too. And poor Al! I'm worried he's going to die. He knows too much... (I have 42 and 43 downloaded! Must Watch Soon!)

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I've been thinking more and more about MUSHing lately, both the old RP and running the place. (*sniffle* I miss the RP more and more! Why is it all coming back to me? Old scenes playing out in my head again? Why the hell are characters waking up?! No no no! I thought you were all dead! I do not need to hear your voices again! It's over! Just... just... go back to sleep! It was better for all of us that way!)

Yesterday a connection hit me. Though players wanted otherwise, as a MUSH staff we never gave out much. We didn't ever give out super powerful things, and people had to work quite a bit for even the less powerful stuff. Why? Because we knew if they worked hard for something, they would value it more. The process of working for it would give them something to do on the MUSH, and once they had the thing, they'd want to stay on the game so that they could use/show off the item. ...so why did I expect FFXI to do otherwise? Now that I see the connection, I wonder how I ever missed it. They're running the darned game just like I ran the MUSH. It's the right thing to do. Making things so annoyingly hard to get makes it better. And so, while I'll still bitch and moan about the unfairness of it all, I wouldn't honestly want it to change.

I really, really want the leathercrafting apron, and won't it be better because I've worked so darned hard for it?

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Non-meta: And speaking of leather! (Do I ever speak of anything else? :) ) I was useful last night! And it was great! Something I was worked towards happened:

CTY (my linkshell) goes out hunting rams. A lot. The problem is, the skins rams (and most any other monster) drop do not stack. One skin = one inventory slot. When rams also drop horns (worth 1,500 vs the skin's 400-500), it's not worth it to hold onto the skins. However! Ram leather is worth a whole lot more! (Leather = 1,500 a piece, *plus* it stacks! So one inventory slot = 12 pieces of leather = about 40,000!) So I went out to the hunting party and turned all their skins into leather! I just hung out there -- as they killed rams, they dropped off the skins to me. While I processed them, they went out and killed more! Perfect system! We ended up with over 4 stacks of leather, which means about 160,000 gil which would have otherwise been lost!

I'll never be a level 75 character. I'll never be able to clear scary dungeons of deadly monsters. But that doesn't mean I won't be useful! Not only can I tan the hides, I do it well. Between the trip out to the hunters and tanning ram hides for other LS people within the city, I did nothing but process ram skins for about five hours. Number of failed synths? Four (and only one with a lost skin). Number of HQ results? Countless. Easily over thirty.

And it's only going to get better from here. :)

Edit: Ack! Ack! My leather prices are off! A stack sells for 14K, not 40k! (I've been buying and working with coeurl leather, which is 40K a stack, so I got confused!)

I'm a Strolling Sapling! *stroll*stroll*stroll*

I'm still not caught up with my flist (50 posts left to go!), so I shouldn't be posting a new post, but I forgot to say stuff in the last post so I'm posting now anyway! So there! (Oh boy, I've been hyper since early yesterday evening! Wheeee!)

First off, I had an odd dream. Odd and scary and ... just "what was I thinking?!". In it I had a doctor friend, and he died. tersa's and cyranocyrano's birthdays were close together and right around the corner, so as their birthday gift I invited them to a place without telling them what it was. Their gift was going to be to help me clean my doctor friend's body and get it ready for embalming! (!!!) When they arrived in the building I was in a back room with a long table where the body would be placed. tersa and cyranocyrano were greeted by people who worked there, and then they had to carry the body in! (They arrived at the building having no clue what they were walking into!) For some reason the guy's body was still limp and flexible, so they made sort of a carrying seat from their arms and carried him into the room that way. Once I noticed how disturbed and disgusted the two looked, I told them they could go if they weren't comfortable. They were gone before I finished speaking the offer! I'm really not sure what the meaning of the dream was, other than I'm probably not the best person to pick out birthday gifts...

Second, I made an FFXI discovery! A good one! I couldn't sleep last night (see that comment I made about being hyper since yesterday evening), so instead of tossing and turning in bed, I got up. (Smart Thistle! Finally!) Having nothing else do do at 1 AM, I went and poked about on the game. I hit the AH to check the price of leather, and noticed a ton of earth crystals for sale! Not holding much hope, I checked the last prices. 400! 350! OH MY GOD! I bought like ten stacks of them! I wonder if this is a usual thing? 1 AM PST should be in the Japanese primetime? Very interesting! And something to remember! Gods above, I hate paying 800 for a stack of earth crystals...

Third, third, what was third... I can't remember! I'm so excited about CTY doing rank 5! *snugs you all* Eee! Oh! I updated the "IC" FFXI journal. Eh, actually I've probably updated it a couple times. Sometimes I forget to post a comment. Oh! And I have another idea for a post there! Heh heh heh. (Eek! But I need to finish flist first! I've got the attention span of a black lab on speed today!)

I'm a Strolling Sapling! *stroll*stroll*stroll*

I'm still not caught up with my flist (50 posts left to go!), so I shouldn't be posting a new post, but I forgot to say stuff in the last post so I'm posting now anyway! So there! (Oh boy, I've been hyper since early yesterday evening! Wheeee!)

First off, I had an odd dream. Odd and scary and ... just "what was I thinking?!". In it I had a doctor friend, and he died. tersa's and cyranocyrano's birthdays were close together and right around the corner, so as their birthday gift I invited them to a place without telling them what it was. Their gift was going to be to help me clean my doctor friend's body and get it ready for embalming! (!!!) When they arrived in the building I was in a back room with a long table where the body would be placed. tersa and cyranocyrano were greeted by people who worked there, and then they had to carry the body in! (They arrived at the building having no clue what they were walking into!) For some reason the guy's body was still limp and flexible, so they made sort of a carrying seat from their arms and carried him into the room that way. Once I noticed how disturbed and disgusted the two looked, I told them they could go if they weren't comfortable. They were gone before I finished speaking the offer! I'm really not sure what the meaning of the dream was, other than I'm probably not the best person to pick out birthday gifts...

Second, I made an FFXI discovery! A good one! I couldn't sleep last night (see that comment I made about being hyper since yesterday evening), so instead of tossing and turning in bed, I got up. (Smart Thistle! Finally!) Having nothing else do do at 1 AM, I went and poked about on the game. I hit the AH to check the price of leather, and noticed a ton of earth crystals for sale! Not holding much hope, I checked the last prices. 400! 350! OH MY GOD! I bought like ten stacks of them! I wonder if this is a usual thing? 1 AM PST should be in the Japanese primetime? Very interesting! And something to remember! Gods above, I hate paying 800 for a stack of earth crystals...

Third, third, what was third... I can't remember! I'm so excited about CTY doing rank 5! *snugs you all* Eee! Oh! I updated the "IC" FFXI journal. Eh, actually I've probably updated it a couple times. Sometimes I forget to post a comment. Oh! And I have another idea for a post there! Heh heh heh. (Eek! But I need to finish flist first! I've got the attention span of a black lab on speed today!)