Thread: Concerns about Airships in 3.0

Originally Posted by AsahinaMyLove

Im not excited about Airships. Im pretty sure they will cost Millions of Gil(for materials?) <.<
Not worth the "Free Teleporting"

That's... Not what they're for...

Free Company Airships will initially be used for Retainer Venture-like purposes (you send them off and they come back with items). Later they will be expanded to allow you to travel to various floating islands, which so far we've been given no indication of having any other way to access, and given the fact that "Free Company content" has frequently been requested over the past few years I wouldn't be surprised if this is it and you "require" a Free Company for access (though they have said you can invite players who aren't in your Free Company to use your Airship). They've said there will be NM-like content on these islands as well as gathering nodes, whether those rewards end up unique to it or not is another question. I suspect it'll just be the same deal as Hunts and provide an additional way to gear up, perhaps put some copies of existing Unspoiled Nodes about (because I'm getting sick of only getting six swings at Darksteel per hour...).

I think they've also said that they'll be fairly cheap to make, but then again they said the same about Housing initially as well...

Personal Airships are another matter, IDK if they'll cost anything or just be given, but they will be a mount as seen here;

Originally Posted by Nalien

I think they've also said that they'll be fairly cheap to make, but then again they said the same about Housing initially as well...

It depend on the size of the FC. For a 100 member FC 10m gil is very cheap (only 100k gil from each member). Don't forget that it is a FC content, so the price for it will be make with the idea of many players pay together.

Whaat, I don't believe my eyes - we must share the power. OP, you can edit your post to go over the word limit . Write what you need, copy the entire post, remove pieces till it is under the limit, post, and then edit paste over the skeleton post. Or if you're really concerned about losing your info, paste it into a safe location like word document so you don't lose it in the posting process (I've done that before lol, good face palm moment).

As for the idea, I think SE should be considering any method to not make such an exclusive first come first serve system. They're excluding players from gameplay features and particularly game progressing features like income and items, as players and devs want houses to be more and more featured they're going to be excluding people on an even greater level. I believe the simplest solutions offered was just to make areas that don't have housing customization but do have their features like an Ishgardian workshop, or a community garden (with instanced flower bed you can use), fully featured stables, etc. This way the dev cost of housing systems is not entirely connected to the features they may provide, housing becomes more like really nice customizable area to have all features neatly tied together. Imagine most would prefer a house, at least I do, but if SE can't figure a system that works then FC/Players are not excluded.