Which is kind of a poor excuse.
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I didn't say it was hard to get to. In fact, having to run across all of Vana'diel wouldn't be "hard" either, just inconvenient and a waste of time.
By that logic, if the devs added warps directly to Jeuno from the home nations, everyone will set their home points in their home nation. Actually, thinking about that... If I could I might actually do such a thing. And perhaps if people had an even easier time getting to the other nations, such as scrolls of Repatriation (Or even the spell itself), there'd be less congestion in Jeuno because they'd be spending less time there. Although I personally just teleport to the Abyssea Attohwa maw and run to the outpost and warp to home nation. It's essentially the same thing but I still keep my home point in Jeuno precisely because of that; I can get to home nation easily but I can't get to Jeuno nearly as easily. Only way to get there "fast" is to run to the NPC that teleports you to White Gate, then buying a silver piece, then running to the taru that teleports you to Ru'Lude. Not very efficient.
I'm not trying to insult the devs or anything when I say this but it feels their train of thought is very linear, and they never try to see both sides of the same coin. They'll rather ignore a simple request that'd be helpful and ease frustrations of the player base on the single notion that the addition might, perhaps, sorta, kinda, maybe, slightly, be negative. You could always test such things on the live servers to see if what you think is actually true and remove it if it doesn't work. If what you say is true and it causes congestion and you remove the scrolls, nobody will blame you... And nobody will care if you perform an experiment on the live servers. I think most people would even appreciate the gesture at least.
Although adding a means of getting to Jeuno from Home Nations would be better than Repatriation. Yes, it'd truly make airships useless but nobody uses them anyways. Perhaps give players a reason to use airships such as quests with good rewards to fix that particular issue.
this ^^^^ I'd love it... Shoot, just decrease the airship time to instant or hyper 30 sec cs get on, get off, instead of actually ride for the duration, ..... With all the warps available, you think the airship industry would have tried to keep up. If I could see the shouts of jeuno, warp to jeuno ,by some other means than via wg, or ancient airships, my HP would always be in my home nation.
Screw the repatriation. Isn't it about time that they just opened up the chcocobo circuit so that you could enter / exit in any city? Blm SPells to warp to your home nation? WHM spells to warp to any city? (Yes pleas!)
Scrolls of Repatriation already exist.
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If you'd make /yell work in every zone in the 3 nations as well as Jeuno, you'd never have to worry about congestion.