Fun little toys for FFXI

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Originally Posted by Aquilla

Ooh, I would love to see more of these! I love event gear and fireworks and such.

I would like... interact-able furnishings. It'll probably never happen, but I'd love to be able to sit down at a desk or a table.

I would like the option to personalize the mog-house more! Change the walls, for example, or a new rug.

Giftable, growable flowers! It's possible to grow a plant to it's glowy-ready-to-harvest stage and freeze it there.. wouldn't it be nice if you could do that and then gift those to other players?

On topic of costumes: I would love it if they added a barbershop and we were able to change our character's hair and potentially some features, like earrings, tattoos, and whatnot. It'd also be pretty cool if we had a vanity gear slot -- gear that we 'wear' only for show. I could run around in my old igqira weskit still :D!

^^; most of this probably can't happen because of some technical reason, but I think they'd be nice.

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Ooohh! I agree with Ms. Aquilla here!

Also, expanding a bit of what she was talking about. I'd really like us to be able to physically expand our mog house- you know? So we can have more room for furnishings.
Or maybe update gardening so it looks like an actual garden instead of flowerpots? Or simply just let us customize the mog house a bit- be able to change the rug or the walls and floors... things like that.

But hands down, I'd love some vanity gear (that's different for each race, hopefully!!) and barber shops. It always made me a little sad that only NPC's got to have long hair or really cool hair styles ~_~. D= As girly as that sounds....
I think it would help breathe some new life into the game as well as some individuality. ^_^

I'd also like to see some more minigames in the cities! You could win some prizes or just gil or something.
I think it was summerfest that had that little shooting minigame where you shot the goblins but not the faries. I think they should have more things like that.

Lastly, and while we're on the topic of minigames... Perhaps they can somehow incorporate Tetra Master into FFXI? I really liked' FFIX's version of the game, it was a lot easier to follow when compared to FFVIII's because the rules didn't change. In any case, they could even have a tournament where the winner gets a special trophy. Maybe they could combine the two! For example, not have different rules in different regions so that the rules would be the same everywhere (a la FF9) but people could maybe then transform cards into items like you could in FF8.

I'd also wish that they would bring back Ballista. Back in the day man, it was a lot of fun. Yes, I know it was imbalanced and the like, but bla bla bla- it was fun for me.

Ah... really, to the thread starter- thanks for starting this tread! ^^ Finally something happy to post about even if it is just people throwing ideas about! ^^

Someone in my LS suggested something I found interesting and I felt it was worth sharing.

So, imagine being out in the field farm/crafting with r/x items or just out killing monsters. Your inventory is almost full but everything you are carrying is stuff you want to save for a shop. You remember you have an item with 1/1 charge XX recharge with Call Shop. You use the item and a friendly moogle appears and offers you Gil for your items at your home nations rate.

This item would be sell only, and will not connect to the AH or any form of storage (though a nomad moogle in the field would be cool, in case you forget that one item in MH). The charges would be spaced out enough so its more of an emergency use type thing, or to make one farm trip for the day last longer. It was a neat idea and I know there are times I wish I had something like that.

I'd like to be able to crawl onto my mog bed after a long day's adventure and /rest. Lay there, hands under my head, and just daydream.

Costume slots wouldn't just be decorative either.. they'd do away with most blinking too! No more missing skillchain damage because you swapped back into your TP set too soon AND you are looking good doing it!

Town pets would be nice too. Automatons can stay as they are, with the others running around with a small carbuncle, carrie or wyvern :D (Not limited to jobs, anyone could have a particular pet out.)

So, I was cleaning my Mog House today, and noticed a lot of items that would make good storage related ideas. (I understand many of these are mentioned in other threads but I will restate them just in case)

-AF torques associated with job emotes are not storable with the Porter Moogle under the AF armor slip. (Now I know they are not exactly super hard to get but, neither is AF gear passed a certain level, still seems like a waste to re-obtain it)

-I have an impressive collection of all jobs elemental equipment, x8 of Sachet, Belts, Gorgets, Grips, Obis (I am not even including my Magian staffs for SMN and BLM) Thing is that is 45 spaces almost 10% of my overall inventory. While it is true that not everything I have is 100% useful it still seems wasteful to toss it. A sachet with occ. absorbs magic and +2 to all stats or, a belt with the same advantages of the individual for all elements at the same time is not that over powered especially since you have to collect them first. On top of which they could just be macroed anyway it is just space filler. Just saying :(

-I have noticed a number of upgrading items laying around, Dynamis currency, Ancient beast coins, WoE Coins, Seals, +2 items, Empyrean Items, various half finished AF+1 items, and now relic +2 items. Now it is reasonable to argue why keep it all if you are not going to use it? Well, first of all the upgraded pieces can in fact be stored for future use, just not the parts. Second, some of those items I do need dynamis currency, +2, some seals, WoE coins and empyrean weapon items but, since many of them are barely started it seems a waste to make a Cadalbog to abyssea stages if all I have for the moment is 5/50 gems. Additionally, other pieces such as Heavy Metal, Alexandrite and so on can be sold if I later choose to abandon the creation of the weapon, looking mostly at Dynamis currency and Heavy metal. It is unwise to trade them in for completion if there isn’t 100% chance of finishing since you can’t retrieve them. Last, It goes back to the point of why toss something useful in the future, imagine having tossed 8 RDM seals over time only to later level it, now flash forward to that seal party 2 hours in 5/8 wishing you had kept them.
The other argument I see against such a request is that one can simply start the trial and trade the items to the box. However, this is not a fix as you must then have the item in question a weapon, armor etc. and those items with trials on them can’t be stored while in progress, the space is still taken.

-I also have crafting items mostly completed products waiting to sell, thing is the prices are low right now, and a wise business person would wait for prices to rise or balance out before entering the market. I know there is not much that can be done for that unless there was somehow a form of guild storage specific to items of your craft, but hey better to get all the ideas out at once then post twice.

-Finally, the classic "Magian Trial weapons" suggestion, so while an all in one staff for M.dmg/avatar/M.acc would be amazing I think the more beneficial option is a Magian storage for 99 variations of the items. (After all if staff got such a bonus it is only fair the other weapons do too, imagine combined BST pet axes O.O) This way Pld PDT sword, Blu MAB swords, War STR or PDT GA, BST pet PDT/EVA axes, and so on can be added as well. Just storing currently unused Magian weapons would reduce total inventory space taken by a nice amount and as an added bonus would not discourage more situational items due to lack of space, perhaps MDT for some jobs. This can also be extended to OaT, or 2-4x weapons perhaps so long as they reach 99 and do not have any form of trial on them. (This is all on the assumption that the Magian trial weapons have finished at 99 and will not get additional treatment)

Just a few of my storage woes I wanted to share, in hopes that perhaps others feel the same.

Proof-read 3 times still finding errors XD

During the misc. events that happen depending on the time of year, we should get temporary items whenever we zone into an area affected by the zone. No, not potions... we should get stuff like fireworks and cotton candy!

I think this would make those special events just that much more special.

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Originally Posted by Economizer

During the misc. events that happen depending on the time of year, we should get temporary items whenever we zone into an area affected by the zone. No, not potions... we should get stuff like fireworks and cotton candy!

I think this would make those special events just that much more special.

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During the Starlight Celebration my moogle forced sugar laden food on me every time I visited my home city MogHouse. Things like candy rings and candy canes and rolled chocolate. He definitely contributed to my daily caloric intake...

I wish we had an option to let our NPC Fellow "Move in" with you. He/she would be standing in your mog house whenever you enter, and would act like a rendezvous point.

NPC Fellows could really use improvements, but that's a convo for another thread. If my NPC was in front of me more often, I would definitely spend more time leveling her.

New underwear would be nice considering how much people see it with the porter moogle.

1: bigger MH or multiple rooms

2: To be able to purchase multiple version of the same race mannequin's "I'm a galka, and it sucks seeing my gear on a taru"

Edit:what would be even cooler is that you could load a whole gear set onto a mannequin. That way when you swap out gear on jobs it could be a quick 1/2 out the door kind of thing. For instance you swap out jobs, go to a bare mannequin unload your current gear onto it. And than go to a second Mannequin and take your other set off it.

3: I'd always wanted a emote that lets me pull out a pipe and smoke a few puffs off it.

4: Beer/malted drink options go go -dt

5: I always had this idea that it would be cool if a party leader had an option to set up a camp fire that would give off + stat enhancements when near it. Maybe even decrease weakness recovery time when in range of it. You could set it up so it's customize by what the player has put into it. Melee camps could have + att bonuses and Mage camps could have MP recovery. Perhaps maybe you could have it base off the party leaders JT's even. Lot's of possibilities.