A Filthy Casual's Guide: Gameplay

Or frequent body builder websites and forums.

Not saying he can't visit here, but at the very least those websites would hold his interest a lot better than this website would.

*citing


Just as a general critique, this is at best a poorly named guide. This site does have some very solid job guides, making it one of only a handful of go-to info sources. A solid general gameplay guide would likely make for an excellent addition.

Most of the information you've compiled, however, at best falls to the technical side of things, and at worst paints an unnecessarily complex picture of getting this game running.

Basic Gameplay is explaining that you can and should swap gear. What general sets to make, how to make them, how to swap them (not just saying LUA), etc. Remember, the game itself doesn't explain this much at all. SE's Adventuring Primer isn't exactly extensive either. There are solid integrated ways to do a lot of things, even if many of us opt for Gearswap.
There are a hundred other things that could be compiled in a solid post - text commands, skillchain basics, locations of basic gear or scroll selling NPCs, Trust setup suggestions, etc.

A good reference for the kind of information to include would probably be Spicyryan's excellent Quickstart Guide again over on BGWiki. Taken from a less progression-oriented mindset, a lot of that might be organized differently, for example.

'course, if that's not actually the type of thing you're interested in creating a guide for, then maybe just rename it. Having one for tweaking performance isn't bad either (were more of it actually relevant), it's just not what the title indicates the guide is.

He is coming to Bahamut instead >:]

Dude, you are trying way too hard now.

Just...stop.

I think you are using the wrong unit of measurement.


I think I'm fine, I have written code professionally for 15+ years.

I'm not saying this thread is *** stupid...but it is on FFXIAH....

Celcius not Fahrenheit for temps 70-80f is really cool if you are gaming, 70-80C is running hot.

I wouldn’t not recommend vim for players who have no understanding of programming whatsoever lol.

The most common error I end up having to correct is people forgetting to put a comma or an open or close bracket in their sets. VSCode or any other syntax aware text editor would highlight that, and I think that would help a lot of players see where their mistake is right away, without even trying to load their gs file in game.

I’ve not used vscode for python, I mostly use it for PHP, node and front end web crap, and it works great for all of that. Sounds like the python support for vscode is crappy

This is one of those threads where the OP wants to be helpful and praised for doing so. They want to help newer players who may, or may not know ways to make FFXI a smoother experience. Having done guides myself, I know what it's like to put time and effort in to something, only for one or two to take a steaming dump all over it. My guides are never absolute 5-star quality, but I never claimed they were. People can like them or not like them, that's their choice. I'm only ever upset with those who are counter productive by contributing nothing but troll posts.

Saying that, many of the responses to the OP are correct. I went through the OP to find out if there were things I could change. The only two things I did was 1) turning shadows off, and 2) doing the DAT swap to replace conflux's etc. While other's attitudes come across as insulting, let me tell you that much of this information can be found elsewhere and explained in a more presentable way. I do appreciate you trying to be helpful, because seriously .. there's more people in these forums who'd rather troll/argue/bait than take hours making a guide to selflessly help others.

Apes, you cannot get angry when someone leaves constructive criticism .. this goes against the whole point of making a guide. You will always have those who sound insulting when sharing feedback .. that's just the way the internet is. It isn't always easy to understand someone's tone, so responses always sound harsher in text form. So while I thank you for putting the effort in, I cannot thank you for your corresponding attitude. Are others innocent? Probably not, but they likely wouldn't have kicked off had your attitude been more understanding. Much of the information you have shared is either false, or doesn't improve gameplay much at all.

Like the graphics card thing? I was using an NVIDIA Geforce 9400 GT (!) for over ten years and had very little trouble with lag. I noticed a slight boost with a 750 Ti, but nothing groundbreaking. Older cards seem to work better with this game (less freezes .. my 750 TI crashes randomly and only with this game!!), so suggesting others upgrade to something beyond the 1000 series for a 17+ year old game? Nooooooo thank you! Hopefully you don't see this post as me being a ***. This is constructive criticism to help you deal with other's posts that may not be as sugarcoated. Peace.

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You could just pretend to be a girl on FFXI and get all the free ***you could ever want. Skip the guide.

have a post towards the goal.

No, this is one of those threads where the OP wants to bump up his post count to be over 100.

But Vigor isn't fooling anyone anymore.