Let me give you a back ground for why this is on my mind. I'll be needing Water IV soon, so I arranged for 3 others (including a THF with th2) to help me farm this in Beadeaux. After all, it's going for 600k+ at AH right now. We get there and there is another pt also farming the area for keys. Yes, we camp right in the same room with 4 doors, but it's a money mob, not an xp issue so I see no problem with it. However, they complain and we move closer to the entrance and camp a shitty spot where only one of the mobs we need spawns at a time.
About an hour goes by and a lv 74 THF/nin runs through gathering up all the Quadavs in the area. His name is Horihori, and when we check him out his /sea message is in Kanji (Japanese, if you didn't know). A few mins later we get a good part of the train back on us, and I sleepga and escape the group. It seems he zoned at Qulun dome, a blatant MPK attempt on the other pt. They just leave after that, but we are determined to stay. We contact a GM and get 2 results: Jack and Shit.
But hey, the better camp is open, and we start pulling mobs there. It's not long before another full pt, all Japanese, camps on top of us. Was the other guy clearing out the competition for them? I can't say, but it is suspicious. The new party is mostly lv 74-75 and have no problems killing the mobs faster than us, but that's appearently not enough for them. They don't try to MPK us, instead they just train the entire area into that one small room and Sleepga the whole bunch while chewing through the ones they want. Just relate it to the occasional difficulty you have selecting a target in a link situation, and multiple it by about 20. We typically had one mob engaged and one or 2 slept at any time, so I had to use <t> macros; <bt> is just uncertain when you are engaging several mobs at once. Basically, there was no fucking way I could keep the mobs slept, do debuffs and nukes and heal my pt members with that much shit in the room. Sure I could sleepga II, but then I'd eventually have mobs in blue coming after me too. The other pt had no trouble, since it only takes 1-2 lv 75 charaters per Quadav. So... we leave. A few hours of time spent for nothing.
Here's where my question comes into play. I was trying very hard to remind myself that there are assholes all over the world, it has nothing to do with race. I've met plenty of NA players who were just as shitty as these particular JP guys. But after all that, it was a real hard sell, even to myself.
So, NA players... has FF changed your opinion of the Japnese?
And JP players (I know a few of you frequent this board) has FF changed your opinion of NA/Europeans?
About an hour goes by and a lv 74 THF/nin runs through gathering up all the Quadavs in the area. His name is Horihori, and when we check him out his /sea message is in Kanji (Japanese, if you didn't know). A few mins later we get a good part of the train back on us, and I sleepga and escape the group. It seems he zoned at Qulun dome, a blatant MPK attempt on the other pt. They just leave after that, but we are determined to stay. We contact a GM and get 2 results: Jack and Shit.
But hey, the better camp is open, and we start pulling mobs there. It's not long before another full pt, all Japanese, camps on top of us. Was the other guy clearing out the competition for them? I can't say, but it is suspicious. The new party is mostly lv 74-75 and have no problems killing the mobs faster than us, but that's appearently not enough for them. They don't try to MPK us, instead they just train the entire area into that one small room and Sleepga the whole bunch while chewing through the ones they want. Just relate it to the occasional difficulty you have selecting a target in a link situation, and multiple it by about 20. We typically had one mob engaged and one or 2 slept at any time, so I had to use <t> macros; <bt> is just uncertain when you are engaging several mobs at once. Basically, there was no fucking way I could keep the mobs slept, do debuffs and nukes and heal my pt members with that much shit in the room. Sure I could sleepga II, but then I'd eventually have mobs in blue coming after me too. The other pt had no trouble, since it only takes 1-2 lv 75 charaters per Quadav. So... we leave. A few hours of time spent for nothing.
Here's where my question comes into play. I was trying very hard to remind myself that there are assholes all over the world, it has nothing to do with race. I've met plenty of NA players who were just as shitty as these particular JP guys. But after all that, it was a real hard sell, even to myself.
So, NA players... has FF changed your opinion of the Japnese?
And JP players (I know a few of you frequent this board) has FF changed your opinion of NA/Europeans?
I didn't know what these terms stood for prior to FFXI. JP and NA is just yet another way to segregate yourself from others.
