Yeah this is a big part of it. If you're not in the pacific time zone, then there's effectively only one or two routes into NTT from the rest of the country and they're super easy to shut down.
Yeah, folks are working toward collecting old DoH/DoL glam to use. I also want to know if they are actually increasing the limit in the glamor dresser. With the advent of glamor having no restrictions anymore, 800 slots is just...not enough lol
Glamor dresser limitations is something they specifically brought up as being difficult with the spaghetti code in the live letter, but they're working on addressing it and raising the number of slots, just not as their main priority. I remember when having 800/800 slots full caused some kind of issue so i do believe them that there are problems with the system that they need to invest time and effort into to unfuck.
XIV has to be an anomaly among online games in the way the game's developers handle server outages. Out of the other online games I play, this is the only one where the servers are routinely getting DDoSed and getting players kicked out of gameplay. Funny enough, it is also one of the only games where compensation for server maintenance or downtime is practically nonexistent. I've played a couple of games with some insidiously Hebraic levels of grinding and monetization, and even those games would extend your subscription time or give you some kind of currency if the servers went down. The last time I remember getting any compensation from Square Enix was during the nigh-unplayable Endwalker launch, and that was nearly 5 years ago.
Aw man, really??
Yeah, they were talking about it in the live letter segment about removing the glamour restrictions. They're focusing on fixing the buff limit first which you can argue is them prioritizing raidtrannies again since the buff limit overflowing is mainly a problem in content like TOP and DR Savage.
Sigh.
Man I thought they went over that one already when DRS was still relevant like... half a decade ago. Or did they look it over in EW because of DRS? Don't recall, whatever.
Skullgreymon would also make a really sick boss fight. His missile attack thingy could be a tank buster.
If you don't give two shits about modding (or making it harder to mod at least), Steam is the best way. If you already got your credit/debit cards set up on steam, you can basically log into mog station and pay your sub through Steam without much fuss, as well as anything you want from the online store.
I play FFXIV exclusively through steam, and can confirm that modding isn't really that much harder. Most modding tools will work just fine for simple installs.
Fishing is wonderful, although, I've been more into botanist these days. The gathering and crafting jobs are very pleasant for when you want to just hang around in the game; I have a nice balance of dailies and gathering.
Ive been getting into them and they def are very comfy and fun! I have botanist fisher and carpenter all at 90 at the moment. Going to work on culinary next to be a master chef!
I really enjoy the job quests dont you? Culinary is awesome. I've been leveling my botanist, fisher, and culinarian at once because I didnt want to spend all of my gil with npcs for the recipes. You're 100% set for an enjoyable culinary play through, enjoy!
Modding isn't too hard on Steam. Just download XIVLauncher, have the box for it being a Steam version checked in the launcher, and make sure Steam is open whenever you launch the game.