I play FFXI currently and on my server, Bismarck, the gil sellers camp Stroper Chyme and the Ooze. Both are NOT Notorious monsters. They are normal monsters that spawn on a set interval over many spots., but rarely drop items of worth. Stroper has 2 spawn spots while the Ooze has about 3-4.
What's disturbing is when you check the auction house and see 1 item worth 600,000 gil sold by 1 person for the whole history. They keep an artifical price hike on the item. When I started this item was around 250k. Since then it's sky rocked. The item which is crafted from this item has sky rocked too.
Also, these gil sellers have been known to cheat. Every NPC, item, and monster are stored in DAT files on a users hard drive. 1 file is 1 monster etc. These gill sellers will remove all the DAT files but their intended prey so they see nothing but this monster. The way the target system works, if you just spam an ability to claim a monster, it try's to claim what ever is closest. It's impossible to pull the wrong mob when you see nothing but the Stroper. So if someone pulls in 5 bats, they don't even see them! This is against the TOS, and is something that needs to be addressed in a game patch. Not only do gil sellers use this tactic, some linkshells use this tactic to claim HNM/NMs.
It's about 6 to 7 in characters which camp a spot 24/7. And it's usually more then 1 person who takes turns playing each character.
From Richmond to New York... We where on our way Mac World New York... We had a single Airport Base stationa and several laptop with Wave Lan cards... we played Star Craft. But we where all in one van.
I have a Cisco UBR900 Cable modem with a built in 4 port ethernet hub (Also has NAT built in but is disabled). I've paid for 2 computers online since the good days of @home (When it was fast and ping times were 30ms). @home could only get one IP to work, and I went months not having two real IP number. To make up for that I used a NAT box for both computers. I'd like to think that that was "fair". Well after the roll over, the cable modem works fine now. But the new Server SUCKS! I can't ping over half of my destinations (Work, school, some websites), and trace routes are horrible, with most hops with in the Comcast network not responding. (I've been told that these are cache servers) And if i do get a ping through its 150+. I guess I'm no longer a LPB, but a HPB. I still use the nat box as a firewall for both computers when I'm not gaming. I move my big PC over to the cable modem for a real IP for that. I'm also pissed about losing my static IP that ive had since '98.
Aside note. Apple Airports do not work at all pluged into the comcast netowrk. And their online tech support service doesnt support Macs.
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I play FFXI currently and on my server, Bismarck, the gil sellers camp Stroper Chyme and the Ooze. Both are NOT Notorious monsters. They are normal monsters that spawn on a set interval over many spots., but rarely drop items of worth. Stroper has 2 spawn spots while the Ooze has about 3-4.
What's disturbing is when you check the auction house and see 1 item worth 600,000 gil sold by 1 person for the whole history. They keep an artifical price hike on the item. When I started this item was around 250k. Since then it's sky rocked. The item which is crafted from this item has sky rocked too.
Also, these gil sellers have been known to cheat. Every NPC, item, and monster are stored in DAT files on a users hard drive. 1 file is 1 monster etc. These gill sellers will remove all the DAT files but their intended prey so they see nothing but this monster. The way the target system works, if you just spam an ability to claim a monster, it try's to claim what ever is closest. It's impossible to pull the wrong mob when you see nothing but the Stroper. So if someone pulls in 5 bats, they don't even see them! This is against the TOS, and is something that needs to be addressed in a game patch. Not only do gil sellers use this tactic, some linkshells use this tactic to claim HNM/NMs.
It's about 6 to 7 in characters which camp a spot 24/7. And it's usually more then 1 person who takes turns playing each character.
From Richmond to New York... We where on our way Mac World New York... We had a single Airport Base stationa and several laptop with Wave Lan cards... we played Star Craft. But we where all in one van.
I have a Cisco UBR900 Cable modem with a built in 4 port ethernet hub (Also has NAT built in but is disabled). I've paid for 2 computers online since the good days of @home (When it was fast and ping times were 30ms). @home could only get one IP to work, and I went months not having two real IP number. To make up for that I used a NAT box for both computers. I'd like to think that that was "fair". Well after the roll over, the cable modem works fine now. But the new Server SUCKS! I can't ping over half of my destinations (Work, school, some websites), and trace routes are horrible, with most hops with in the Comcast network not responding. (I've been told that these are cache servers) And if i do get a ping through its 150+. I guess I'm no longer a LPB, but a HPB. I still use the nat box as a firewall for both computers when I'm not gaming. I move my big PC over to the cable modem for a real IP for that. I'm also pissed about losing my static IP that ive had since '98.
Aside note. Apple Airports do not work at all pluged into the comcast netowrk. And their online tech support service doesnt support Macs.
A pissed off comcast.net user.