Submitted by raprot on Wed, 09/01/2004 - 18:20.

Bastok may be alright, but there's definitely no love to be had for the Palborough Mines. I've been there four times now and still not gotten my 'Sharp Stone' for the Rock Rackateer quest in Windy. I've gone through three stacks of pickaxes now and all I dig up is gravel.

Fearnor tried to help me last night because he was farming in the mines while waiting for people to do the Ninja flagquest. We got to the mining spot, but accidentally split up and I was murdered. Then he found a raise and I was back in action. That's when I met a new player that was on the same quest. Her name is Consonia. (Hopes she's a woman.)

Submitted by raprot on Sun, 08/15/2004 - 17:41.

"You're damned if you do and damned if you don't." - Bart Simpson



This phrase goes back a lot farther than Mr. Simpson, but it's no less true for my generation than it was for the one that originally claimed it. Since I started FFXI I've made a lot of stupid mistakes and sometimes it just seemed like the world was against me. In an attempt to stop others from following in my footsteps I'm going to post my top three warnings (rants) that all happened yesterday.

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3. FFXI Time Reference Webpages



These site are incredibly helpful. They have useful information about air/ship times, the current day, and even RS Equipment. This would be all well and good, but I didn't know the page based itself completely off of 'my' system clock. My system clock has never worked properly and I've never gone in to change the battery. So when trying to plant Deathballs I completely missed Lightsday because my system clock told the page it was 2 hours earlier. Obviously when my clock got around to getting two hours later, I had totally missed Lightsday and had to wait another 6 hours. Making me not a happy camper.