Flying in 2.0

I don't know about you guys, but for me and my friends one of the major milestones of FFs 1-9 (and to a lesser extent, 10, 11 & 12) was getting the airship. It would be neat if S-E somehow brought that sensation back. I'd like to zip around the world on my own airship. Maybe make it big enough so you can bring a party with you (+7) and there could be flying mobs to take on, like the dragon in FFVI that would sometimes attack you. I'm not sure if other MMOs have had airships as flying mounts, so it could be an original innovation on S-E's part if they decided to go through with it.

Spawning your own small Airship like the city to city ones would be pretty decent to bring your party to camp. Warping to gates would need to be removed to make it worthwhile though, and probably wouldnt work when they chop zones up and add more loading screens.

Company Airship battles in a battlefield type area could work.

Airship fights vs NPCs would probably be done in a psuedo-flying vein ala COP 6-4

I can see an airship type dungeon in the future, but it will just be a zone and not really give the sense of flight.

It wouldn't mind a discussion about this with you all. Say SE gives us the ability to either own our own personal airship, like in most of the other FF games, or gives us joint ownership via Free Companies... what then?

Should they allow you to land the airship anywhere or only in designated areas?

Should you have complete control of your airship, able to traverse the world or should you only be allowed to quickly travel to specific places? If the latter, why can't the current airships take you there as well?

Airship battles? Are they you fighting on the deck of the airship, or your airship fighting something else? If your airship could be damaged, could it be destroyed? And, more importantly, why? Why battle, what do you get, and what would it have to entail to keep people interested in playing?

The main feature of airships has always been to take your party to a section of the world that you couldn't have accessed before. Are they just flying taxis or something more?

I am all for floating cities, dungeons or just a floating continent to explore, but I think there needs to be a compelling for it.

Yeah. Nah.

don't think it fits in this game, i love it in dcu. but it's a world of all buildings ...huge huge buildings. and it just works. flying in ffxi it would just be fast amounts of clouds to fly threw as we just land in the spots we want to go to and miss the actual site seeing with chocobo.

for ships themselves ...i was thinking we were getting this actually. either all or from our linkshells for endgame type stuff. but company didn't turn out to be this. but being able to have our own ships though i dont' think they will go anywhere. but fly themselves to designated areas that you pick? then have battles agains other company/linkshells, or pve battles on way to things. i can even see a full blown endgame using ships and stuff. but not just for travel. it's all on how they implement it.

I honestly think I prefer mmorpgs when there is no "personal flying machine/mount". I mean it seems like a cool idea at first,
faster travel amazing scenery etc... But then in practice it makes the game world feel small, you don't see anyone on the ground ever and a lot of challenge when navigating the world is removed.
I remember the world in WoW feeling like the game world was so huge and there was this awesome sense of scale, but then with the really fast flying mounts and crazy amount of teleportation systems, you never really get to see the maps in detail.

bring back quests for airship travel to places though, i liked having to farm kazam airship pass for ffxi. would of been cool for a quest to port to every city and location. ...while at it not on flying but remove being able to teleport to locations on first time being there.

Game would have to be as open as skyrim. Sad thing is all of it going to be zone based just like FFXI.

Edit: Airships would work well if they were rare. Letting everyone be able to use one would kill the game.

What would be a good idea would be a "Clan" as in a linkshell would only be able to build LS points ingame to buy a airship to travel to locations for LS events. Also would be good idea to have 5 people at a time to be able to run a airship. One person flys it and other people Feed the fire or keep it from getting unbalaced and crashing.

We need Free Company Airships. Owned and operated by our player-run companies.

Flying mounts were pretty much the biggest mistake WoW ever made. It really shrinks/kills the world. Free Company airships would be cool, but what would you do with them?