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Enter message:	[quote][i]Quote from: Cuer[/i] Just to toss in my thoughts on the subject: As mentioned above, it has yet to be proven whether or not facing a certain direction helps with crafting (whether it be skillups, HQ, etc.) I tend to believe that it does [b]not[/b] help in any way, for three reasons: 1) No serious proof -- People love to see patterns where they don't exist, so they devise "proof" off of happenstance. We know that 95% of the results from crafting are derived from two variables: skill, and random luck. The other variables that have been shown to make some marginal improvements (moon phase and Vana'diel day) have been tested over a very long time, and even they mainly change things at the margins. Anyone who puts forth the idea that facing a certain direction helps with crafting (or anything else) has to show serious proof before being given any credibility. 2) It isn't on the Japanese boards/sites -- Most of the theories that turn out to be true have been beaten to death on the Japanese sites long before they show up on the English ones. It's just the way FFXI is, and probably will always be, given the extra official information available in Japanese. That's not to say that other players can't figure things out on their own, but new ideas are verified there, if they didn't originate there. I have yet to see Japanese crafting sites that talk about the direction that a crafter faces. 3) It's too easy to fake -- Everything known about crafting in FFXI so far is controlled on the server. The client knows absolutely nothing; you can stick in any item you want as ingredients in a recipe in the client, and it doesn't check or care. Only when it goes to the server does it decide if that's a valid recipe, and whether or not the crafting attempt was successful. All the known variables are controlled directly by the server (moon phase, day, crafting skill, Moghancement key items, etc.) Given all that, it would be odd if one could tweak the results of crafting just by facing a certain way in the client. (Going back to the earlier point, if this were the case we could expect to see Japanese windowers/tools that made the character face an exact direction, for crafting.) Now, S-E left far too much of the game open to hacking; the recent speed hacks have shown that. But it seems likely that all the variables involving crafting stay on the server, given what we know so far. So, I don't think facing a direction helps a whit. Having said all that, this is a game that people play to enjoy: if you want to craft while facing a certain direction, or wearing a lucky ring, or waiting until the sun is directly overhead, go for it. People enjoy superstitions in real life, and there's no reason that they can't apply to MMOG as well. Just don't put theories out there as definite fact until they've met some semblance of testing. On a related note, something mentioned earlier in the thread: the crystal you receive when you join a guild is exactly the same as any other crystal of that type. If it wasn't, you couldn't stack them together; there is also only one copy of a "Fire Crystal", for example, in the data files. So, I would chalk that up to myth as well. -- Cuer[/quote]

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