The FFXI "Gyms of Vana'diel" Self Improvement Reborn!

[Nzinga]

I like this idea! And the illustrations are amazing!
It definitely sounds more fun than just standing in Windy spamming cure and protect on myself to level those. If there we could party like you said then I am sure a lot of people would want to participate. ^^

[Lollerblades]

I back this idea 100% it sounds really fun and well planned and if implemented would breathe some extra life into Vana'diel

[Savannah]

I +1 this thread

[kingfury]

More specific to the training idea, an old thing I had in the past that was in any city you could enlist in a program where, for every hour you're offline, you can maybe get 1-3 levels in a chosen skill. When you log back in, you just pay a small gil fee and the skill ups become official. Going out in the field should technically be faster, but for things like Guard and Parry, this would be a godsend.

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Truely, to be very honest, I thought of this idea initially, but I'm almost certain random free skill up points would not sit well with neither players or SE lol. Rather than just hand out points randomly via a time system or even a lottery-type of system, I thought of implementing such a concept as random skill up points(perhaps up to 5 points total) to a Combat or Magic skill of your choice, as a possible reward for progressing through the highest/toughest tier NM "Sparring Program" matches. I would like to think this would give a very high incentive to participate with others to reach tougher matches and gain great rewards.
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Thanks for the suggestion ^^/

[Eligia]

When I read "Gyms," I was expecting something about BST pets fighting one another, lol. I've been playing too much Pokemon in this downtime.

I do like this idea, though, and your drawings are precious!

[kingfury]

Should also Add a quick easy PvP portion to this! just 1v1 no temp items just an all out brawl!

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Yep!! I Edited in the foundation for some of the next level of the Gymnasium functionality. I'm very much with you on the "RAW" nature of how at least one of the many possible modes of these PvP should be lol. Thanks for the feedback ^^/
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RECREATIONAL GAMES
Gymnasium Games
The (A.M.A.N) founders of these wonderfully diverse Gyms realized the need to incorporate even more diversity into what activities players could enjoy whilst inside these walls after analyizing the success of the Fields of Valor programs. Thus after careful consideration of the fact that there are so many hard working men and women in Vana'diel, the A.M.A.N thought it only right to add special "Gymnasium Games" that these well-deserved folks could enjoy after a long days work or adventure.
Description: Full details coming soon. Possible Games include:
-PvP
-Survival
-Time Attack
-Enemy Hordes
-TP/MP Bonanza
-and more

[kingfury]

This is a fantastic idea kingfury. The graphics really help me visualise exactly what you meant (and I like the style too!). Your post got me to thinking though...
You mention a modified Mog House as the Gymnasium. Obviously this would need to be coded and would take up more disk space etc. etc. so how about using areas that already exist for the training? I'm referencing the thirty-or-so single room battlefields that are used for mission fights, BCNMs, ENMs and ISNMs (are there more? - I will admit that I haven't explored all of that kind of content in the game yet...). The more remote the location of the battlefield, the higher the tier of the training regimes that could be undertaken there.
Basically, you would enter the Gym Lobby and an NPC there could teleport you - for a small amount of tokens (with the exception of the very lowest tier, naturally) - to the entrance of the particular battlefield of your choice. You would have had to have made a visit previously to 'unlock' them, a la Abyssean Cavernous Maws. After teleporting, you select the entry point and the list of battlefields appears as normal, with "Gyms of Vana'diel" as a new option (AT THE TOP!!). When the battlefield is completed or you exit, you are teleported back to the Lobby (cue stacks of k.o.ed corpses appearing in the Gym Lobby). If you complete all Regimens at a given battlefield, you get a title (!).
This would also have a side-effect of being able to get an NPC warp to these remote locations (for Tokens) if you had another purpose there, whether it be a BCNM or merely farming adjacent areas.
Another form of 'recycling' of content we already have may be to pop the Gymnasium Lobby NPCs in the Chocobo Circuit so that the area can be accessed from all five cities. Whaddaya think?

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1st Thanks for the feedback and compliments ^^/ 2nd I think this is a great idea! I talked about the possibility of taking on tougher "Sparring Program" matches that would fit under the "impossible to gauge" difficulty setting in the original post. This idea would be ideal to offering an even greater variety of Boss fights to the proposed system. I think it would be really fun to have both Npc and Monster (maybe these Monsters could be the Nations pets that would be sent to squish you if you've successfully demolished all of their warriors in previous matches ^^ lol) Boss fights with the system, and depending on how large the standard Sparring Program rooms would be, I'm not sure if it would work with a dragon Boss squeezed in a box with a player in it lol. Very cool idea Haldarn /cheer
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Thanks again for your feedback and suggestion ^^/

[Crisco]

Great idea! Not much feedback I can provide that others have already other than my support of this. This may be the biggest step in getting a community idea implemented. New forums deliver!

[kingfury]

If this happens I hope they call one of the NPC's Kingfury!!
First properly good idea I've read on the forum, even better for not being exclusive to endgamers, nice one dude.

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LOL ^^; Maybe just a nice heroic painting of me on the wall would be all the recognition I would hope to receive lol... cause I think I would be weirded out passing myself every time (assuming the npc would be a Galka) I went to this awesome place ^^; /kneel and thanks for the feedback and compliments /salute

[kingfury]

I support this idea. ^_^

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Thanks for the support ^^/