I got a brand-spanking new copy of FFXI on Thursday so I could start my long-awaited new account (I've been sharing a character with my husband all along). He calls me at work to tell me he came home to find it has arrived! <excitement>
I race home, thinking great I'll d/l the game & update tonight, then play all weekend :D I install & start the updates. I think to myself 7 hours for updates is a little much, but I'm installing everything at once so no big deal, I'll leave it on overnight. In the morning it's still not done! OK, no biggie I'll leave it on Friday while I'm at work - only 3 hours to finish the download anyway.
Gundragon's d/l actually took as long as mine, so we think it must be just a big update. Some of our friends have the same thing, and we read similar stories on alla. It's done when I come home & I make my new character /hurray!
I start the painful process of starting over. (Ladydragon btw) I'm in Bastok and I get a pearl from my LS, even though I'm only a measly lvl 1/0 character (oh the shame!) and I hear people are going crazy over this R=0 issue. I am told to stay away from North Gusta at all costs. A friend spent 4 hours in the zone because he was lost and there's no compass or map while you're in that situation. (kinda sad I know, and we all lol'd him) I had no choice but to try entering N Gusta myself, or stay a lvl 5 char forever. I enter the zone, everything is fine. However, Konshtat Highlands is dead to me. I try to run through but after my 5th or 6th DC I log in to find that I'm dead. I have no option but to HP back to Bastok ;..;
I solo in N Gustaberg up to lvl 14, then try again to run for the Dunes. I make it through after 11 DC's, because I'm avoiding areas I think would be more likely to get me aggro. I successfully party in the dunes for 2 days, and I find that I can run to Sandy without any problems, as long as I avoid South Sandy. I get to level 18, I get a crab apron, damselfly worm & magicked skull with help from the LS (thanks guys!) and run to Selbina. OMFG Selbina is R=0 there's no way i can run to Mhaura I'll DC somehwere along the way & die from aggro. So unless they fix this I'm going to look like an RMT with no subjob I just hope I can get into Jeuno because if I am unable to do the chocobo quests I just don't know if I'll be able to go on :(
Yea that same ffxi-4001 error whenever I dc
And now a new problem when trying to log in the load bar freezes when it reaches "acquiring server data" then finally times out with error 3113.
Gundragon's account does have the exact same problems as mine, so I'm open to the idea it's somehow on my end, but I just don't know how to fix it. I did try disconnecting the router, connected directly with the modem and did a complete un/reinstall - with no change whatsoever. All I did was lose all the awesome starting-over scrrenshots I had taken </cry>
Edited, Mar 12th 2007 11:10am by GunDragon