A question about Shadowbringers patch and Miqo subscription.

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  • #13707

    talosss
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    Hi, I’m not that active in forums but I use Miqo whenever I return to FF14 and I would like to renew my subscription. My questions are,

    How much downtime should we expect when Shadowbringers hit?
    If downtime takes few days or more, do we get compensated with extra days to our account?

    #13711
    Lyfox
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    Miqo devs dont know yet. It depends on changes in the game client which wont be released until 28th. My guess is 1-2 weeks. Yep they always compensate the downtime.

    #13712

    talosss
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    I see, I’m also thinking it may take that much but I didnt know anything about compensation. thanks for help Lyfox. =)

    #13718

    zgo63925
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    Straight from the Support Team:

    “When Miqobot is broken due to expansion arrival, all active license codes are frozen and then automatically extended to compensate for the downtime.
    The bonus time time is applied after we fix Miqobot, and it covers the game maintenance and Miqobot maintenance both.

    We expect at least one week of complete Miqobot downtime after the release of Shadowbringers. This subscription time will not be lost.
    After that, it will take 3-6 months to upgrade Miqobot for level 80 content. The subscription time when Miqobot is working but does not support level 80 content is not compensated.
    Please consider this information before making decision to renew.”

    This is extremely fair and quite low expected downtimes.

    #13726
    4DDCom
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    i hoped it will be down for just 3-5 days but thats life .p

    #13732

    zgo63925
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    i hoped it will be down for just 3-5 days but thats life .p

    Consider that they have to reimplement EVERYTHING. New rotations for every class, diffrent procs, new skills, new memory offsets, etc.

    #13735
    4DDCom
    4DDCom
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    i hoped it will be down for just 3-5 days but thats life .p

    Consider that they have to reimplement EVERYTHING. New rotations for every class, diffrent procs, new skills, new memory offsets, etc.

    Most of it falls under the 3-6 month

    #13773
    Arc
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    new memory offsets

    This is what actually takes the first week. Crafting solver will work after that as well, because even if SE removed certain crafting skills, Miqo wouldn’t try to use them anyway, since they wouldn’t be on your hotbar anyway (or at least you should remove them). New skills fall under the 3-6 months stuff though.

    #13774

    zgo63925
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    This is what actually takes the first week.

    Coming from a cheating community where I helped as a sidedev simply updating offsets takes minutes, sometimes hours, not more. So they surely are fixing base stuff aswell.

    #13775
    Lyfox
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    Yep they update a lot more than offsets. But it doesnt include new rotations or new skills.
    Explanation from devs from another thread two years ago: https://miqobot.com/forum/forums/topic/suggestion-for-miqobots-devs/

    Indeed, your idea is very good and it makes perfect sense to create a script to rebuild pointer tables.
    In fact, this is how the upgrade process looked like about a year ago, when Miqobot had less features available and relied mostly on pointer tables.

    As of today, pointers make up about 10% of the data required. There is a lot more to be upgraded:

    • Memory structures.
    • Icons recognition database.
    • Game assets recognition database.
    • Keybind mappings.
    • Navigation math.
    • Crafting math.
    • UI layout analysis.

    A general disassembler tool is not capable of performing this kind of work automatically.
    And while of course we extensively use the one you mentioned, our main toolset is of our own creation. We constantly improve it with every new patch and each time it becomes faster and more helpful.

    But since Miqobot is in active development, each new feature adds another layer to the work pool. Creating a fully automated toolkit would require a complete feature freeze.
    Considering the intensity of incoming feature requests, we do not expect a feature freeze anytime soon.

    We appreciate your interest in the development process šŸ™‚
    Thank you very much!

    #13776

    zgo63925
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    So what I said was spot on, I did not imply that they will add ShB abilities in the initial downtime but reworked old abilities, leading to new rotations (math). Basically in the initial downtime they will get the miqo post patch, working right it is now, for everyone who maybe didnt even purchase ShB or wants to continue grinding levlel 70 stuff

    #13807
    k007
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    As long as the craft solver and gatherer is working a few days after release I’m gucci.

    #13808

    zgo63925
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    As long as the craft solver and gatherer is working a few days after release Iā€™m gucci.

    They should work within a week, crafting solver up to level 70 (eg what we have currently) and gathering (unless they add new mechanics) fully.

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