Huixiang(Flying) actively hunting XP partiesFollow

Huixiang have had a lot of attention lately in competition over HNm and their foray into sky.

But tonight lets pretend they arnt gilsellers. Just asshats out to ruin FFXI for all players at all levels. No financial gain, just spite.

In quifim I had a fun 19-20 party form up in jeuno. Mostly good people except for one real quiet drk who wouldn't SC. Fine. At this level I'm not surprised. Plus he had a power leveler with him, so the party figured it was worth it.

But as we hunt worms at the cave exit, our powerleveler pulls a gigas right on top of another worm hunting party and its aoe pummels them. At first I though he was just bored and it was an accident, but he was following them. We had the good camp all to ourselves again, but this was dirty. Quite a jerk, but we were moving to the pond so no big deal.

Wrong. We get to the pond and there's another party here doing crabs. Our PL goes and rounds up every single crab in the pond zone and calls for help. He still cures us and he simply lets the CFH crab convoy follow him around. This completely shut down the other party.

being Friday after a long week I was tired and we were hitting chain 5 for 250, but I had enough of this behavior.. Then it dawned on me that I know this 75 galka paladin named Thin. Huixiang shell was even equipped on him and his little up and coming gil farmer friend Blub the 19 Drk, and I hadnt even noticed.

Here they are MPKing rival XP parties over control of the good camps. I can almost understand being aggressive at HNM like they usually are. There is real world money at stake for them. But this was a laid back XP session and here's a L75 wiping out party after party in the most common L20 Xp spot in the game.

We agreed to kick Blub but we knew the moment we did that we would be MPKd in a heartbeat. I called some LS help for backup and when it was safe to do so I said "Flying Gillseller <party> <no thanks>" and he was booted.

Blub went back to lfg without a word, and Thin followed us for a solid hour across the entire zone pulling every crab in sight and calling for help. He was glued to us and his only goal was to punish us for kicking his co-worker. We did a shout warning people not to invite them, and to report all MPK to a GM. My party leader also reported Thin's harassment and the way he stalked us.

The GM showed up an hour later, Thin had already moved on, and simply got a quick summary of the story and did nothing.

About an hour after this some shouts started appearing in qufim. We're 23 now and killing pugils. "Leave us alone" and "stop killing our mobs. Don't you have anything better to do?". I sent the people shouting a tell and they confirmed Thin was back at the Qufim crab pond ******** every party over again.

I asked them to call the GM... again. Hopefully with enough complains against a 75 pld MPKing and harassing people in a L.20 zone this would have been dealt with, but when I left the tower at 25 after a good gigas hunt, Thin was still there ruining XP parties for the "benefit" of flying LS/Huixiang.

Inexplicable. Despicable.

So sorry for "yet another flying rant", but this one is different. It's not about rival LS or gil farmers. No money or NM was at stake. Just a sample of what these players are really like with no LS propaganda or agenda at work.

It doesn't matter if you're in valk or in sky, watch your back. They are everywhere. They are no long just harmless gil sellers out to make a living. Thin and Zoome and their gang are "anti-players", in the same sense that the antichrist is everything that Jesus... isn't.

Report ALL abuse to a GM at every chance you get. Please. They have to be stopped.

So, Blub is one of them. PTed with him in Valkurm yesterday. I didn't notice his LS, that its colour was the same as Huixiang, or pay much attention to him saying (in broken English) that he speaks neither English, nor Japanese, or the fact that his tarutaru "PL" buddy only seemed to pay attention to healing him, even after I finally managed to get hate from him and his super voke pull. The very thought that I was that close to one of them sickens me. This rampant increase in Huixiang/gilseller aggression and stupidity is becoming...annoying, for lack of a better expression.

Ama, as much as I'd like to think that not inviting these people, or advising others not to buy gil would have any impact at all on the daily actions of these fools, it's obvious that the only real possible threat to their current livelihood is authority (SE itself) eventually cracking down on them.

And we already know how useful GM calls are 90% of the time.

And here I thought "The customer was always right."

PTing with a Powerleveler is cheating in the first place.

Why is it so hard for a GM to say "We've received numerous complaints about your actions. Continuation of that type of behaviour will be considered harrassment and appropriate action will be taken."

If you're not 100% sure tell them to continue it will be an action to make it 100% sure. Seems simple enough.

Lol this topic has been hijacked into a powerleveling debate...

I was never a fan of PL in parties, because I agree it builds bad players. I was leveling a whm the night Thin showed up out of the blue PLing us because Blub was with us. As a whm my role in the party is kind of nullified by a PL. It makes for a long and boring evening (I became a debuffer).

And I have no idea why, but 6 of my last 9 parties under 40 end up with a PL. Even one in crawler nest. But if they are there, I generally won't chase a person out of a party because a L60 whm is following him. And I have never called any high level help before, except when Thin was after us.

Back on topic: Blub is now a 33-34 drk/whm as of sunday night. Despite being a horrible player with the wrong sub, he has gained 15 levels in just 2 nights. Give him 2 weeks and prepare to see him as a 60 drk trying to MPK you at Amemet.

Quit partying with these guys... Please ^^

Yea....


I think i sent him a /tell when i was lvling mnk, he was lvling whm..

his whm/mnk...for the MND boost...

>.>;

Yea, i believe that was him.

Theres no way in hell this person is actually playing the game for leisure, i'd say he just didnt wanna lvl blm/rdm because he didnt want to spend that extra, what, 10k on spells to get from 1-20

The only reason I can think of these people lvling multiple jobs is to increase job class availability inside the linkshell. Instead of a few people becoming tanks and a few others becoming mages, everyone becomes tanks, DDs, and mages, so that no matter who is on, they are able to get something together.

As far as their gear goes ... just think of the amounts of gil they can have at thier disposal. Ofcourse their gear is going to be top notch.

I think Blub was lvlin DRK to sub it on his RDM for Stun against HNMs and stuff, so i'd say that these ppl has being doing their work learning some game mechanics.

And not to defend Blub or anything like that, but just wanted to say that a Drk/WHM pre-30, when Berserk and Sneak Attack are not available yet for /war, /thf, it's a great sub for DRK that makes its MP mp pool more usefull for the party.

But anyway, the GM at least should give 'verbal warnings' if they receive different or multiple complains against some individuals

NO WAY!! , Blub is not sophisticated in any shape or form.

I felt like an idiot that i actually accepted an invite from his gay rank 2 *** at lvl 71 with him and his ************ idiot Zoome.

These guys suck and even though its "probably" different people playing the character. thats pretty shallow to MPK someone in Qufim but hell if the MPK war has begun, be the best MPK'er that you can be against flying.

Just did a /sea all blub.


came up as


75Rdm/37Blm

Checked again, came up as a 75Rdm/1rng

he's rank 6 now btw,

but jesus.


Edit: Wanted to confirm this, just did another /sea all blub, sure enough 75rdm/37blm in gustav tunnel

Edited, Mon Aug 22 20:48:23 2005 by Rambozoh

It may be that these guys are not sweatshop gil sellers as we know them. It is entirely possible that its just a bunch of kids banding together to make money by selling gil to IGE. I mean, try to remember what it was like when you were 13 years old. You most likely didn't have to worry about food or shelter, but your allowance wasn't enough to buy pokemon cards or whatever. So you tried to find ways to make a quick buck. So insted of mowing lawns for money, these guys play FFXI and sell gil. If they can make 100 a month (completely possible) each, thats alot of money for a kid.

So it's fair to say he's not MPK'ing people? Which is what the problem with these guys