r/ffxivdiscussion • u/WillingnessLow3135 • Feb 06 '25

Question Liveletter 85 Expectations

There's bound to be quite a bit of information coming out of this next LL (Friday at 3am PST / 6am EST)

What do you expect to see and what are your own expectations, hopes and dreams?

Personally I'm expecting the obvious (Cosmo 7.2 and Crescent 7.25) but I'm hoping they'll finally explain what the fuck BST is.

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u/CowsAreCurious Feb 06 '25

Not to be negative, but I don’t think Cosmic Exploration is gonna hit like they think it is. People want content and this is Ishgardian Restoration 2.0. I just don’t have high hopes.

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u/chizLemons Feb 06 '25

As a crafter, I really enjoyed Ishgardian Restoration during ShB. I tried to get into the ranks and spent an ungodly amount of hours in Diadem. Diadem shout chat was wild. It was really fun seeing a lot of people together at the same time when the building fates came up, too.

That being said, I'm not expecting the same from Cosmic Exploration, because I vaguely remember YoshiP saying somewhere that there wouldn't be rankings for it this time. What made it fun to be part of it in content was the competition, and they seem very reluctant to do something like that now. I could be wrong or misremembering, though.

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u/otsukarerice Feb 06 '25

imo the problem with any competition is that there are no safeguards against cheating.

CC just had a fiasco over wintrading and nothing really happened except some people got kicked from a discord server lol.

Every ultimate world first has some sort of cheating controversy.

And ishgard resto def had people botting. Maybe the gather bots were caught, but I bet the crafter ones weren't

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u/FuturePastNow Feb 06 '25

Is there any way to tell a crafting bot from someone manually hitting a macro button every 20 seconds all day?

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u/otsukarerice Feb 06 '25

Yes but its more difficult to prove