Dec 22, 2008

Etiquette

Etiquette
–noun
1. conventional requirements as to social behavior; proprieties of conduct as established in any class or community or for any occasion.
2. a prescribed or accepted code of usage in matters of ceremony, as at a court or in official or other formal observances.

Is it just me? Or has party etiquette in FFXI changed since the introduction of Level Sync? It seems that no matter what level I try to sync to and what job I'm on our party always gets over camped. And we would politely ask them to leave, but they don't. For example, we were in Qufim Island at 'the valley' a pugil camp, I'm sure you all know what I'm talking about if you've been through there recently. But anyway, an hour or so in this other party shows up and literally camps right on top of us. They didn't camp behind us, or move or even respond to our pleas for them to move. Instead they pulled two or three pugs at a time!

I just don't understand. If there are people where you want to be, you're out of luck! Don't try to camp on top of them, you're just going to gimp your xp and that parties xp. It's not worth it to constantly be fighting over spawns either. It just makes the game too stressful!

And the fact of the matter is, if you're nice, nice things will happen to you. Karma bitches! So next time you're riding around on a chocobo hurrying off to your oh-so-important event and you see a dead taru (or mithra, galka, elvaan, or hume (though tarus are the cutest)) get off your choco and lend a raise. Who knows maybe you will make a new friend that day.

Okay so like I said in my last post, I was perusing youtube when I came across a bunch of cool renditionings of FFXI music! So here are my favorites!

This first one is a great video, imo, to send people who are interested in FFXI. While it doesn't show very much, I think they did a great job wetting our apetites!



This second video is an acoustic version of the the music in the Sanctuary of Zi'Tah - one of my favorite places to be, music wise. But go ahead and skipp forward to 2:00 - the first two minutes are the preformer putting a stocking over his face and yeah... Still a good video.



And this third video is actually from FFVII, but still great as a throwback!




I have a few more videos to share, but those will wait for another update!

3 comments:

Mattaru said...

Inorite Oprah ._.
It's always been like this really, but with Level Sync, parties just don't seem to search or call anymore and decide to settle right on top of your party and effectively screw both of you over.

Geez Louise.

Mattaru said...

*Jizzes all over Oprah's blog*

Unknown said...

entertaining blog as always, my son. just a minor detail:

"While it doesn't show very much, I think they did a great job wetting our apetites!"

it's "whet your appetite", associated with a whetting stone (which is used for sharpening a blade). when one's (whatever) is whetted, it is sharpened and honed.

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/whet%20your%20appetite.html

there now...me grammar nazi crawl back into cave for go bye bye ^^