Hello all! I just want to clarify a few things. I think the most important thing I want to express is that I did not do this for gil/money. I placed some items in my bazaar for tipping by request but it is completely optional. I have been surprised by the amount of support people have been giving me and I thank you all.
I started this when I returned back to the game and noticed the amount of /yell "Where is DI?" and the idea popped in my head. I made it just to see if I could do it. I shared it with some LS mates to test and it somehow spread across the server and in under a week I was getting over 1,000 tells a day.
If I'm offline, 99% of the time it is because my game crashed. I'm working on improving uptime >.>
I agree the DI notification/unity chat system needs to be improved and I hope it is someday so that something as silly as me doesn't need to exist.
I never intended to call you out, I was mostly posting this tongue-in-cheek. I understand game crashes happen. On Asura last night, there was a mild back and forth about where you were and people were asking about DI, thought it would be funny to point it out.
In truth, I don't even bother doing DI when you are not around because its annoying and frustrating just finding whre it is. I will gladly donate to keep this service running. Thank you sir.
Few things:
"Why dont you just shout for where it is in zone?"
-Does not work, people troll yells constantly
"Just do a /sea all <zone> and done, easy to find it"
-Doesn't always work. Reisenjima is heavily botted, and skews those numbers the majority of the time. There is no way of using search to determine the zone with any level of accuracy.
"Why don't you just ask LS?"
-They have the same issue we all do, and sometimes they are not on and are not seeing messages either
"Why don't you just log out of Unity 50 times until you can get in, and then wait 5-10 minutes for the NEXT message to pop up"
-I shouldnt have to go into detail on why this is a terrible idea. It's just a terrible idea
"Dude, just go to the zone and check for yourself"
-I have ran out to to zones and missed the DI 4x straight. Zitah, no Vorseal. Ruaun, no vorseal. Reisenjima, no vorseal. Warp ring back home. Zitah, get vorseal, You no Longer sense presence. It is classic time-wasting.
Whereisdi is the funniest and most useful player on Asura BY FAR and I would gladly send him a tell anytime vs dealing with any of the above options.