Random Question Thread (FFXI Related)

They're two separate FFXI accounts and I want to copy over the entire macro book so my 2 chars have identical macros. Completely rewriting my macro books on 2nd char will take ages and be a pain.

edit a macro on the character you want to receive macros in, change macro books.

go to FFXI/USER/????, use windows search and type in `modified:today' and press enter, find which one was last modified, note the folder name it's in

do the same thing on the character you want to copy macros from

close the instance for the character you want to receive macros in

delete every file starting with mcr from receiving char's folder

copy every file starting with mcr from sending char's folder to receiving char's folder

log back in

if you want to get more specific:
mcr.ttl is macro book 1-20 titles
mcr_2.ttl is macro book 21-40 titles
mcr.dat mcr1.dat .. mcr.9.dat are macro book 1's contents
mcr10.dat mcr11.dat .. mcr19.dat are macro book 2's contents
mcr20.dat mcr21.dat .. mcr29.dat are macro book 3's contents
(one file per set of 20 macros, all the way up to mcr399.dat for book 40 set#10)

What happens if you just copy the whole damn file, out of curiosity
(Contents and correctly renamed, of course)

Ok great if there are separate macro books even. I want to copy macro books 1+2+3 over. Will try this, thanks.

I doubt anything too troublesome happens, but I haven't tried. There are things like client-side inventory sort order and ability/spell sort order in there that might annoy you, but I doubt they'd cause any direct errors because it's always possible to have old character data and it should be designed in a way to be compatible. (Retire an older pc, play char on new pc for years, log in on old pc, it needs to still work.)

I can confirm this is legit and works.

If you open the files in notepad they have the macros in too, not clearly laid out but you can see what is what.

What the *** causes:
"Unable to obtain RP. An error has occurred."??

Tried to enter Ongo, 2 people were on same job and it flashed like it took us in but returned us to the lobby. Does this cause it?

Yea, if the server detects anything screwy with the jobs it prevents both RP and wins from being received, presumably because there are weird race conditions where you can actually make it in with 2 of the same job. Guess they decided it was easier to remove the rewards than block the race conditions.

I thought that might be the reason too. I wonder if you would get clear if that happened.

Been back about 3 weeks now after quitting for 14 years. I was told by some people in Ambuscade that pretty much everyone buys gil, and that the only way to ever catch back up in this game is to buy gil.

That's total bull ***isn't it? Surely, everyone who plays isn't RMTing?

Complete BS, coping and making excuses for their own behaviour.

Well that's good to hear. This game would be insanely boring if it was just about your wallet.

making gil in XI is easier than it has ever been unless you botted sparks/blinders in which case sure that was easier I guess. but making gil legitimately has never been easier between ambu and the current prices of basically all crafting mats and currencies

The more accounts you play with the easier it is to make gil.

Nah, you can bot your own with enough characters.

During the early years the original excuse western players used to cheat was JP had too much of an advantage so we gotta cheat, so they did and they did so hard that the JP players effectively quit HNM (at least on my server)

Then after they quit the excuse was gone, people said they had to cheat cause the other shells were cheating.

People always make excuses for things they do that are bad.

I didn't cheat until something like 2018 when I realised everyone was cheating everything for years and there's no way to compete (except playing 3x as much or with several more characters) past a point. Basically everyone does buy gil on asura too, but if I needed gil at scale I would make my own before buying (even though paying subs and electric bill is still effectively RMT and it is way less effective than buying).

I mean. Yes. It’s far more prevalent, and easier now. Most of the players I would say have expendable income now, and for many, it’s far easier to work for 2-3 RL hours and pay $50 for 100M Gil, vs self farming it.

It all depends on how you want to go about your life. So long as you aren’t taking away the enjoyment of other players, who really cares these days.

It's like playing Russian roulette, you can win the roll 100 times but if you lose once you're ded. It does not matter how many times you get away with it or how incompetent you think they are, cause they just need to catch you once and it's over.

I didn't say everyone, I said basically everyone, and by that I mean of the active end game players. Not your role players or newbies. I've never bought gil. I could make 1bn/month with 3 chars if I wanted to make my own (like the 10bn I did in 2019-2021ish).

The same people, and I know most/all of them, openly talk about all kinds of cheating in discord chats and share tools in channels. I doubt you're anyone that's actually involved with any end game or you'd know. Half of them are on new inherited accounts since getting banned (or been banned multiple times) too.

Whatever some averagejoe players do on your backwater server is irrelevant to the discussion of actual active servers.

The game gives you an easy 10mil++ a week per character between sparks, ambu and Odyssey.

Damn you're still around.

Depends on your gear level, your job, whether or not you have an active LS or 2-3, if you're on an active server and if you're NA, JP or are in a EU timezone that has a bit of overlap with NA.

Sparks is 2mil a week per character with little effort.
Ambu you just need to do normal once a week with the seal and buy gil items.
Odyssey is daily for ~1mil gil per PUG, lots of shouts on Asura which may be different on other servers.

Any reason to have multiple Prismatic Chests? anyone tested for increased aura strength?

Strength is the minimum, 1, and thats also the answer for why have multiple, more aura strength to overpower other stuff.

Which is silly, just use furniture with no moghancement or the floor1/2 setup, but it is an option

Just place furniture on 2nd floor if it's for storage or style.
1st floor is for moghancements. only place one furnishing in it at a time.

Is there s good place to get more info on Moblin Maze Mongers?
bg seems to be sorely lacking, and ffxiclopedia is missing key aspects I'm looking for. Like where can I find each type of rune? is it just hoardbox of ANY maze? How do the maze runes with unhelpful descriptions actually impact various maze types?

I tried 3 and nothing happened. Its also easily overridden by pretty much any other item.