This time around, I got the jolly idea of after each CS, point form write down the main things from each CS, so I can actually keep up with the story. Unfortunately on my first time round, the story was chopped up horribly, most of the cutscenes had a 3 month gap in them at minimum, which wasn’t very easy to keep up with, especially when they start referring to things at the beggining of the story. Maybe I was just too naiive and unfocused to pay attention back then, but this time around my ammo (of notepad!) is my savior.
The way I’ve set up my notepad so far is the chapter mission will be bolded (for example : 2-5 Ancient Vows) and then the rest of the text under it. After I’m done with a mission, I’ll type up the next mission under it, so it can be one big text file that I can read from top to bottom.
I plan on pasting it through this LJ, not the whole thing though in one clump, but in segments, I’ll post my first segments in the next update :p Then probably comment on them and such.
Going through CoP is great fun again because this time I’m doing it mostly with friends. I did Promyvion mea with a pickup and that’s about it. The only thing I wish from CoP is that one day SE turns it into an offline game, CoP is huge and amazingly epic, and would be a shame for an expansion like this to become lost in the void of “MMO stories lolz”. I too did bash on CoP’s story back in the day, saying if you want story you play an offline game rather than online, but looking back at it, most likely I was using the story as a scapegoat due to the lack of content that CoP didn’t have (and now look! wings has even less, lol).
Promyvions have been fun, fun to go through these again, ended up doing minotaur today and getting CS’s which puts me at 2-5, mammet fight which I am verily looking forward to.
Maybe one day when I know how to make websites properly (from scratch, not using a website builder) I’ll give a shot at building one for all my storylines that I’ve encountered in FFXI. I’m imagining something like a main menu up top, side menu with all the expansions, and when you click on the expansion, a sub menu goes beneath with the list of chapters/stories.
I’m doing it with CoP now, and am definitely going to do it with Zilart, Wings, and nation missions. Kerrigan’s story website is nice for in depth answers, as are other littered posts here and there, but sometimes I just want a nice summarized story so I can answer myself “Hmmm why did X do Y? According to my notes, it’s because Z ate Q’s lunch!”, and such !
Here’s a funny screenshot 
CoP’s easy once you take shortcuts and tricks such as everyone anima locking promy bosses, pre-parking someone at minotaur hours before it’s time to do minotaur so he can allience draw in, e-sealing slow on bosses so you don’t have to worry about resists in your half ass gear (my taru wears full seers + monster signa, go me!) etc etc.
Tomorrow planning on doing a mammet run after salvage if people aren’t too tired. If they are then it can happen on another day. My biggest push this week is to get diablos killed , since bastok has Tavnazia this week and you need to finish 3-5 or it doesn’t let you OP / Use AH in tav which is what I mainly want. I hate going to whitegate for AH purposes when there’s a much better one to use in Tav, lag free as well.
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