Just Here For Nostalgia

Came back to the game for the Free Month, friend must have moved my account since I quit, but Sylph will always be home...

Who still alive from the iiZerg/Stunmelo/DA days?

Sylph still have an active EGLS population or has it gone the way of Salvage?

I stole this from Reddit and edited the naughty words.

Hi

Theres a lot more shells than the population would suggest on sylph. A lot are event based. If you see players running around without one, I've found usually theyre jp and it's just not event time.

That rule doesn't always apply, there are some good fulltime shells too around 6 good active shells on sylph, and I've talked to most of the leadership, most are nice people.

Daemonicslayers is by far the largest

You can also try

Thecoalition - gippo (me)

Supersecretpizza - staleyx

Oldguysneedgeartoo -funkworkz

Lastcall

Theres also a shell called penfifteen, but it's full of the top elitist f**s on the server, and they wont even talk to you unless your p***s is 9 inches long.

Good luck to you. Ffxi still has a lot of fun to offer.

Or, if you want to transfer to a not-dead server like Asura, there's that too. Good chance any friends you've been looking for are already there!

9 inches?

Yeah, maybe if you want to wait around all day for 1 go at Ambuscade it's great.

Kawar (SP) shell is still going on? walkingsideway or something

they just doubled the zones for that this update.

You should really transfer to Asura. Sylph was crazy dead when I came back in 2017. Asura feels like the game in its heyday. Just... ignore the yells. For the sake of your own sanity.

And Ambu has been really fast with the second zone.


LOL they're still around? I thought most of that LS got banned in the Salvage bans back in '14 or '15.

Only took 3 posts for someone to suggest Asura, and he didn't even mention smn burn all the things.

Lol at the ambu wait, they literally made the adjustment to zones specifically for Asura's benefit. You wait no more than five minutes now, it's great.

Oh yeah, you didn't know? you can't ignore the yells on asura. There is a cap on blist and you will fill it up in one hour of playing during prime time. Between gilsellers named hddshkitdsrjbdeyhxdh and the usually dozen idiots shouting nightly, you're going to just have to turn off yell completely if you want some peace. QOL update to that would be great, but I know someone is going to create a lua that finds a way around it soon enough.

I didn't even recommend coming to asura either because it's a given nowadays, sadly. Any new players returning to their dead server will probably quit in a few short days due to no friends. The ONLY choices you have is convince a shell to let you join, reconnect with friends who haven't moved to asura, or move.

Welcome back sir/ma'am

(BTW I am from sylph before I moved to Lakshmi. It was dead five years ago. Lakshmi is the same now. I moved twice, on asura now)

I don't see enough people actually advocating the "dead server" thing enough. I mean, you play group content with your linkshell/the people you know, and then all of the other stuff is open to solo with no competition generally because "dead server"

The big benefit of Asura is the AH/items available, so I'll give it that for sure

You don't see people advocating it enough because in practice, it just doesn't work. You need people to make reasonable progress in this game. Unless you multi box everything. A returning player likely has very little currently geared jobs for any content, unless it's a recent return. So any link they join will need to carry them before they get up to speed.

There's tons of links that will carry you along for clears. The dilemma? Most are on Asura, and require friends to accomplish. This is why things turned into a merc culture. Pay your way for progress because it's grindingly slow to catch up.

As a person from two previously dead servers with little friends (they quit, rip), I recall spending literally HOURS shouting to fill skirmish, htbf, delves, cp, etc. The one shell I was able to join kicked me because they were a regimented group that required attendance whenever you were online. Believe me，it's not that easy to survive out there on a dead island without anyone reaching out to you. If it were easier to do, more people would do it. You'd accomplish more with less competition. Only reason people move it because they HAVE to

The yells on Asura aren't nearly as bad as people make them out to be. Sure, sometimes you'll run into a random yell-fest where people want to spam politics, science, or talk other trash, but that isn't as common as it's made out to be. What you really have to do is be pro-active on the black-listing of people that want to sell (read: scam) JP leeching. If you see someone yell anything about "500-2100", just block them right away. As far as the RMT yells go, when they have gibberish names, I find it easiest to just... for example:

Name is: Aeonidsnfuasdfnasdnf. Type /sea all aeo. Click their name like you're going to whisper them and then use the arrow keys to remove "/tell" and add "/blacklist add" in front of their name.

My biggest tip though, is for people with mules. Just block yell when you're on a mule. You're not going to miss anything important. If someone is giving away a Kraken Club, there is a 0.000000000% chance that you would be the one they are giving it too. Turning off yell, on mules, allows you to not have to keep your blacklist constantly up-to-date.

Another tip is to just avoid standing around in towns. Be out doing something. If you must be in town (say you have to camp the crystal ephemeral moogle while crafting or something), just keep on the blacklisting. SE doesn't ban RMT as quickly as they should so it helps.

Anyhoo, this wall-of-text is kind of pointless as anyone that actually uses blacklist already knows this stuff and those that don't use blacklist and yet still complain about yells are asking for it.

I just really dislike Asura's bad rap.

Following image of Final Fantasy XI troll:



It's bad Aps.

lol i see what you did there.

i miss sylph as its my home but go to Asura if you want to play again. most ppl are gone or/and hovering for the nostalgia. they are not really going to play this game again.

lastcall is somewhat stunmelo
penfifteen is somewhat iizerg
BR is somewhat Thecoalition
i think funkz ls is for returning ppl hence the name.

however anyone who was anyone of these foundations is long gone or just hovering between games.

from the ppl i played with and or know have quit gaming for adulting or play 14 or other casual games.

Oooh? Which Stunmelo players still kicking around?

What's a Stunmelo? All the active players in LastCall are Fairy natives.

Stunmelo?

Just some group of OG thugs.

Bump...

Love kickin'around the old sites, I miss this game.

wait for a free campaign and come back, if for just a few weeks.