Mandy Hats

Sabia

Sabia

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Sabia
I want one...they are freakin adorable but don't know anyone that wants to sign up for FFXI. Pretty cool idea though with the lowering of your job to play with your friends.

For anyone not knowing what I'm talking about check out POL's site..... :)
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Thats one hot cap there! :cry:


(Can I have it?)
 
Other than getting a cool hat, this whole thing is pointless.

The way the system works is, if you sign up a friend, you get a guide beret (black i think) and your friend gets a sprout beret (white). When you party with your friend, and you both wear your respective beret's, the person with the guide beret has his level capped to match the level of the person with the sprout beret. There are some restrictions, like the level-capping effect doesn't work if the sprout's job is over 50. The purpose of this is to encourage high-levels to party with their friends on jobs they might already have leveled.

Now, that idea has a lot of potential, high level people can help low level friends get through the dunes and such without resorting to powerleveling. The flaw in the whole plan is that when the person wearing the guide beret is under the level-capping effect, they don't get any exp. So, besides just hanging out with your friend and helping them in a party, you get nothing out of it, except maybe some of the items that drop.

If you got exp, and if I knew a friend who wanted to join, I'd try signing up for this. I wouldn't mind donning some low level whm gear to help out a friend, and if someone died, off comes my guide beret for an R3.

If you and your friend stays for long enough, you get to choose between some of the event items that have been handed out in the last year, but for some of them, you could just wait a couple weeks longer and get them anyways when the event rolls around again.

I know SE is starting to get desperate to get more members, but I think they're not going to get as big of a response since you don't get any exp while you help your friends.
 
I'm just going to set it up with my bud's new account for the hell of it. Anyways, I don't think S-E is "desperate", but just trying new techniqes to get more player, which is never a bad thing. (though I think the servers are CROWDED ENOUGH and we could use a few more hundred people leaving)

Anyways... uh.. yeah. You don't get xp for powerleveling either, and I think this is funner.
 
I just want the damn sprout hat...it's adorable
 
I would do the no exp deal in a second for my friends. Id sacrifice and evening to help them level in the dunes. Shit that place sucks so bad, if anything bad happens, like a link, or an add, I take off the cap, and Blizzard III some noob goblin back to hell where he came from!!! :P
 
Falsey said:
I would do the no exp deal in a second for my friends. Id sacrifice and evening to help them level in the dunes. Shit that place sucks so bad, if anything bad happens, like a link, or an add, I take off the cap, and Blizzard III some noob goblin back to hell where he came from!!! :P
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Falsey bud, wouldnt you want to use fire III for something like that?
 
Naaah...Falsey is too buisy casting Fire III on Ifrit :lol:
 
Sigh, I can't come back till after June so I'll miss out on those hats.
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I'm in the crowd that doesn't mind the no xp thing as long as I get to lvl with friends.
 
I could still help a friend if they wanted to join, but I would play on a job that I haven't already leveled past the dunes, that's all.
 
Bajaratt said:
I could still help a friend if they wanted to join, but I would play on a job that I haven't already leveled past the dunes, that's all.
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Naw I'd still do it, only to see people call me a noob for the mandy hat, then having me take the mandy hat off, and having my AF pop on all of a sudden.... :twisted: :twisted:
 
I just read the actual program ...

http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/event/recruitment/index.html

Is SE just stupid or something? I can see a lot of legitimate players wanting these items to lvl with their friends and actually helpful in a few situations.

SE maybe getting older players to come back, but when they are trying to recruit new fresh players they are going to have to do better then this :|
 
lol this is retarded. The gold world pass only works if the person you are inviting is the 1st content id and 1st character on the scout end. In other words, TOTAL newb only.

These hats are gonna be mighty rare folks.
 
Falsey said:
Bajaratt said:
I could still help a friend if they wanted to join, but I would play on a job that I haven't already leveled past the dunes, that's all.
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Naw I'd still do it, only to see people call me a noob for the mandy hat, then having me take the mandy hat off, and having my AF pop on all of a sudden.... :twisted: :twisted:
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You wouldn't get the mandy hat, you'd get the guide hat, which is the black one. Only the new players get the mandy hat, and you get capped at the level of the mandy-hat wearer.
 
muwahahaa who needs a 2h??

Johndoe>> oh no we're all gonna die
Drewtaru>> wait let me take off my hat

/em pwnz the Clipper.
 
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