Nas livestreamed a second Q&A session late last night, December 23rd, 2018; under a new twitch account. The new account has apparently already been deleted, so hopefully there’s a backup somewhere.

It’s still unclear if it’s someone reporting the streams and causing the accounts to be deleted. Twitch has some specific rules about streaming on unofficial servers that haven’t been used against others, so that may be the case if someone with a grudge is involved.



Nas appears to be getting more comfortable doing these, allowing himself to reveal some personal information along with answers to questions about the future of the server.

One of the more interesting revelations is that he played as the characters Pepsi, Coke and Sprite. He states he role-played as another individual so that players would feel more at ease relaying information about exploits and other issues to him.

When we were first starting, about 6 months in I had players hiding stuff from me (exploits, cheats, stuff like that). I needed a man on the inside so I could see what was happening and get the inside scoop from players who didn’t want to tell me, whether things were just too easy, bugged, exploitable etc. That’s when I created the character named Pepsi. So I played Pepsi, Sprite, and Coke for quite a while. It was to listen to players who did not want to talk directly to me and to test content. A lot of times a lot of the content I didn’t do over and over and over again, I would do it once to test it as a player, something I couldn’t test on my own, with players in the world. Early in the day there were not a whole lot of players crafting so I also leveled WoodWorking, GoldSmithing, all these crafts… but now Pepsi is officially retired. He’s outlived his usefulness, so that’s why I can tell you about it. Nasomi

Older players will have no doubt run into Pepsi in-game, on IRC, on Nasom forums, or on external forums/subreddits. Nas told this writer that he (“Pepsi”) worked in advertising. As Pepsi, Nas interacted fairly politely with all players and generally offered a lot of assistance to newscomers in Linkshells like WindurstWins. He also participated in EXP parties often and crafted.

Surely, some other longtime members might be pondering some old conversations with “Pepsi” now. Perhaps a future article highlighting some of Pepsi’s interactions with the community is called for (but it might not be spicy enough for some).

Nas later noted that playing as Pepsi was a part of one of his favorite memories on the server:

Probably in Qufim, where Pepsi and Searain were butting heads. I as Nasomi had to step in and take Pepsi and Searain into an area and have them talk it out. If Searain ever finds out I was Pepsi he’s probably gonna blow a gasket. Pepsi was Nasomi the whole time! Nasomi

Moving right along, Nas talked about numerous other things. Let’s run right through them:

He won’t reveal if day, direction, or moon phase currently affect crafting. Players consensus following this past year’s worth of crafting changes is that it doesn’t.

Players have been spamming BCNMs for scrolls of “Monomi: Ichi” following his reveal of which ones drop it. He states over 400 runs had been attempted over the prior 24 hours.

Future PVP content will come in the form of a free-for-all arena and not Ballitsa. Even further down the line will be level-capped versions of the content.

BLM’s woefully sad Magic Accuracy issues will be getting adjustments and BST pet camps will eventually be adjusted back to give EXP.

HNMs will not be getting force-popped versions (thank you!). ” There are no pop items and there aren’t going to be. FFXI is about the competition – half of the excitement is about getting one leg up on another group. “

OWNMs might be adjusted to not aggro players anymore until they claim them.

Chocobo Raising may eventually arrive somewhere far down the road but shouldn’t be expected anytime soon. Chocobo Digging and Gardening will likely appear prior, since some work on them has been completed already.

WotG and DNC, SCH, GEO and RUN will never be a part of the server. Nas is keen on possibly using some of the Shadowreign zones for special events, though.

Players shouldn’t expect any additional forms of movement speed boosts beyond what exists now on the server. Also, no new abilities to warp between cities.

Cover is “coming.”

Newer players were enlightened as to why the account sharing rules are so strict on Nasomi.

These rules have come many times and it’s frustrating, these rules are more to protect me than you, so that I don’t have to deal with it. One time, a guy and his wife were playing, but the guy was hitting on a chick in-game. This guy’s wife finds out because they play together, so she logs into his character and deletes all his stuff. He asked me to restore his stuff… and that’s why we have these rules. Even spouses – if you share your account with anybody, you run the risk of having your stuff deleted or lost and I’m not gonna help you! Nasomi

During a more personal moment where Nas discussed some things that have come up during the past that made keeping the trains running on time difficult, he noted that doing these livestreams is a form of therapy in order to help him recover from a stroke a while back. He plans on doing regular livestreams in the future to go over patch notes, new features, etc.



Nas promises the next Q&A installment on Wednesday, December 26th, 2018. If you missed the post on the first Q&A installment, you can find it here.