atolnon | [Interweb Toys] FFXIAH

Re: Gaming: MMORPG: FFXI

I play Final Fantasy Online, where most peeps play WoW, and that's ok. If you talk to someone who's played both, they'll usually explain that they like one or the other, but they're very different experiances. Our FFXI group is very social and friendly, and if nobody really gets into character, it's still fun since there's a jargon, no, kind of a seperate physic that permeates the world. While I can talk about this for a long time, this is basically what I think is awesome:

ffxiah.com

I play with this thing all the time. I'm a total Auction House whore.
For those that don't know, here's how the auction house works. You have an item. You put it up for sale at a price you're willing to sell it for. This price isn't listed anywhere. Instead, there's a bidding history. You can gauge what the going price for an item is by checking the previous sales.

FFXIAH.com allows you to check any server and any player on that server, plus check the previous sales prices of any item. It provides a link to relevent wikis and tells you how to make that item, plus any other crafts that use that item, and the estimated cost to produce or profit from sales of said item. It also checks the health of your servers market.

It's pretty invasive, but it's also fun as hell. I use it to project all my long term crafting projects as well as determining how I'm going to craft for profit. It has too many holes to be used as your only projection tool, but it's more useful then maybe it should be.