May 2015 – Aleczan's New Diary (FFXIV: ARR)

Dear SE, about RMT friend request spams

By Aleczan Knighthill | May 28, 2015 - 9:43 am |May 28, 2015 Dear SE, Screenshots

Sent a suggestion through in-game Help Desk today:

Nowadays RMT friend request spams are getting extremely aggressive. I’ve just gotten 3 requests in 5 minutes or so. Right now how the Friend Request notification react to our click makes it cumbersome to decline friend request.

Please change the interface to make “no” mean NO. For example, change the options from “Yes” and “No” to “Accept” “Decide Later” “Decline.”

Right now, when we click on the notification of friend requests, it automatically assume that we want to accept friend request and only ask “Accept friend request from XXXXXXXX?” and only let us answer “Yes” to accept, or “No” to temporarily dismiss the window.

Please change this menu to reflect Teleport offer menu, where we can immediately decline it and get rid of the notification. Or, as I’ve already stated in my other suggestion long ago, please make it so new characters cannot send Friend Request unless a tutorial quest has been completed first, and please limit the number of friend requests that a character can send out per minute or per 10 minutes, so that people or bots cannot spam friend requests to a thousand of receivers at a time.

– End of suggestion letter –

Scenery Screenshots

By Aleczan Knighthill | May 25, 2015 - 8:35 am |May 25, 2015 Screenshots, View Screenshots

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Some scenery screenshots from my FFXIV folder. I posted this on tumblr yesterday and this set of pics was shockingly popular and received over 70 notes in just one day. O_o

Some of these were taken before I got my new PC, so the pictures may vary in size and resolution.

Sunrise at Tranquil

The moon outside Tempest Gate

Sunrise at Costa

The light house at Hammerlea

The moon at Forgotten Springs

Morning sun at Sagolii Desert

The Byregot’s Strike

The Oasis of Forgotten Springs

Costa Del Sol sneak a peek

Ul’dah view from Hammerlea

Monk’s Battle Effects

By Aleczan Knighthill | May 23, 2015 - 2:59 pm |May 23, 2015 Battle Screenshots, Screenshots, Self Screenshots

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The other day, my desktop computer decided to mess with me and suddenly played FFXIV on slow motion. (Can watch here if you’re curious how it looked like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWSvfbKAIm0 ) So I saw it as an opportunity to play around with Weaponskills and take some screenshots which would be tough to take in normal circumstances.

The light effects are stunningly beautiful (a bit too bright, though, sometimes I can’t see anything lol, just blinding blotches of light).

I try to name them the best I could, but it’s from memory and doing the attacks again can’t really reproduce what happened in these screenshots (as my PC is now acting normal, no more slow motion) so forgive me if the Weaponskill names are wrong in any of these pics.

Dragon Kick

Demolish

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Howling Fist

I didn’t get any good pic for Howling Fist on that day so here’s a new one to show the light effect.

One Ilm Punch

I really love One Ilm Punch. It’s handsome. :)

Rockbreaker

Snap Punch

Steel Peak

Touch of Death

True Strike

Twin Snake

First pic was taken from bad angle and distance, but this pic has the black snake-like shadow trace from my fist so I want to show it.

Twin Snakes impact!

Arm of the Destroyer

Bootshine

:D 21 pics, that’s it for today.

Knight Captain’s Chair in different brown dyes

By Aleczan Knighthill | May 9, 2015 - 12:12 pm |May 9, 2015 Informative, Reference, Screenshots

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Today I made a mistake of dying my chair Rose Pink. So I had to remove the dye using Terebinth. However, I thought it might be better to try to match the chair’s brown to my table (I’m using Glade Dining Table which unfortunately cannot be painted) so I tried many browns. I took some screenshots for self reference in picking the best brown, so I’m uploading them in case someone will find them useful.

Rose Pink