Grim Views

For the benefit of anyone still vaguely interested but not watching our FFXIV forums: Beta 4 starts on the 16th for anyone who got in for B3, and the 17th for everyone else; it runs until the 19th. This is an open beta, so just sign up and you're in. We'll be playing on Balmung. Early access for peo...

The fleet continues! In a few days we will have our own dilithium mine, thanks to the hard work of hundreds of hapless colonists. They thought they were headed to a grand life on the frontiers - well. They were half right. If we weren't on the frontiers, we wouldn't be getting away with this. Since ...

Nothing stops the Metzen. I hope, for the sake of this movie, that they kept Metzen locked securely in a soundproof box somewhere while they wrote the script. Otherwise it will be three hours of Thrall crying about something and then ten minutes of him fixing everything with his magical orc powers.

Oh, hm, I thought the Grim skin was the desired result. Ok! Fixed in the other direction now.

Coyotl wrote:I don't know *how* you did it, but "Joining the Echo" board forces the "Grim" skin onto the boards. The other new boards do not.

I forgot to actually apply the skin - oops. Good catch; should be fixed now.

I've gone mad with power and created an FFXIV section of the forums. It's a bit ambitious for now, but the assumption is that we'll grow into them over time.

EDIT: Also I've published some of the pages at ffxiv.thegrim.org which is the frontpage for The Grim Echo.

We're done with Cactuar, since everything gets wiped tonight.

From Beta 4 onward, we're going to be on Gilgamesh.

We're on Cactuar at the moment, yeah, and we may be on Gilgamesh for release - still mulling that one over. On the one hand, Gilgamesh seems to be the unofficial RP server... but for that reason, it's going to be packed with people. We'll have to see what things look like when Beta 4 starts. I've ta...

So it looks like it'll take me a week or so to get to level 25 and be able to create a Free Company - in the interim, we'll create a linkshell (basically a chat channel) to keep folks connected. We'll be called "The Grim Echo", referencing the fact that we're a spinoff, the phenomenon in F...

Yeah, the first beta was horrific. I remember thinking at the time that I had played WW2-era tanks with better steering than this.

The difference between that and ARR has been astonishing.

Will PS3 servers overlap with PCs? Just...wondering >_> PS3 and PC players are all on the same servers (you can usually identify PS3 players by the fact that they'll walk a little bit before they run, due to the analog controller). The PS3 and PC clients are separate purchases, however, and they ha...

So, FFXIV is coming soon – August 27th, in fact. I'm going to be founding a chapter of The Grim there, as a Free Company (translation: a guild). Before that, there will be a free open beta, and in theory characters from the open beta will be copied over to the final release*. We'll be founding the g...

Did you get your fleet invitation? I'm not going to be around until later tonight, but if you pop into Mumble you might be able to get Bart or Korock to hit you with an invitation.

Also, this is our hopeless scrap heap of a starbase:
It needs help. Also walls, floors, and maybe some air.

Also, I appear to have been wrong about how hard it is to get new Duty Officers - there's a bunch of ways to get more. STO WIki: Obtaining More Duty Officers So maybe 25 tactical duty officers isn't such an insane requirement after all. I don't know how many of those methods are old and broken, howe...