Should Airship travel be instanced or non-instanced?

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Originally Posted by alexi14

Not very nice today.

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lol I don't mean to come off as brash but I'm serious.

this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmUaBaPQNX8 and by extension this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y95qHqPU23Y

are infinitely more exciting than this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSrbCnf0aUQ and by extension this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8Bgn1P72s4

JUST SAYIN

I'd rather enjoy a 2-3 minute flight followed by a short loading screen rather than sitting for 10 minutes on a boat IMO

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Originally Posted by Richard

lol I don't mean to come off as brash but I'm serious.

this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmUaBaPQNX8 and by extension this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y95qHqPU23Y

are infinitely more exciting than this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSrbCnf0aUQ and by extension this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8Bgn1P72s4

JUST SAYIN

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Not really, I still prefer XI's flight over TERAs (and yes I actually play both games) as XI's flight accomplishes what it sets out to do in terms of atmosphere. If you want "excitement" you don't look toward airships, you may as well grow wings and fly yourself everywhere.

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Originally Posted by Richard

lol I don't mean to come off as brash but I'm serious.

this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmUaBaPQNX8 and by extension this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y95qHqPU23Y

are infinitely more exciting than this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSrbCnf0aUQ and by extension this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8Bgn1P72s4

JUST SAYIN

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Lol. You said it so well.

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Originally Posted by Jennestia

Not really, I still prefer XI's flight over TERAs (and yes I actually play both games) as XI's flight accomplishes what it sets out to do in terms of atmosphere. If you want "excitement" you don't look toward airships, you may as well grow wings and fly yourself everywhere.

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Pardon me for wanting airship flight in XIV to be more than a 10 minute snooze fest. Like I said in the first post, if they make it instanced they need to be reasonably more exciting than its predecessor or GG another disappoint. If they go un-instanced then by the same token it needs to not be bland.

They already confirmed it's not even going to be like the XI's airship initially, it's going to be basically be "Airship here > Interact > Fade out > New location" type of system. So if anything you won't have to worry about it not being exciting.

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Originally Posted by Jennestia

They already confirmed it's not even going to be like the XI's airship initially, it's going to be basically be "Airship here > Interact > Fade out > New location" type of system. So if anything you won't have to worry about it not being exciting.

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That will be a temporary placeholder for the real system.

This thread is not discussing that iteration (which supposedly comes patch 1.19).

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However, I think it would be much more interesting to actually see the world for what it is, rather than a 2-dimensional representation, and maybe be able to see people scurrying around below you too.

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I AGREE WITH THIS.

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Originally Posted by Richard

does not take much to please the mmo crowd these days apparently.

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or it takes to much, it really goes both ways. And I'm willing to bet more the way of people are harder to please.

Considering the state of the game/engine all considered, I think it would be much wiser to wish for an instanced version done right as opposed to a half bottomed open world system.