World Visit

Absolutely do not want. I like my server's Hunt scene as it is right now. Everyone waits awhile after the call of an A or an S for people to get there. Meanwhile, there's my cousin on Gilgamesh, who tells me that(At least in the past, maybe not anymore, I don't know) there's a Hunt mafia of some kind that goes out of their way to monopolize Hunts on the server. I don't want that on my server. An influx of Hunters from other servers would 100% ruin it. That and as it stands in SB right now, if you want to farm monster drops, using Gyuki Hide as an example, there is exactly 1 spot you can do it in, with maybe 6 spawns of Gyuki. You better have some DoW/DoM retainers, because farming those drops are going to be MUCH harder, I suspect.

its not gilgamesh you should be worrying about, balmung outnumbers gilgamesh and balmung players pull just as fast. if world visit allows the marketboards to be cross-datacenter/world. be prepared for markets being destroyed and on balmung's level.

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Originally Posted by BristolRuss

Can't wait for zones to crash when people from multiple data centres try to make it to 5.0's version of Ixion.

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dont remind me, balmung had 3-4 instances of each and every SB zone when SB first released and it lasted for a month or two

If I had to guess, the world where hunts are a mess will remain a mess and were the hunts are casual or never done they will get done while the group waits for the hunts on their home server to come off CD. So I see nothing good with hunt, though it would be nice to meet someone more than just in pf to do stuff together. As for housing, MB, mog mail and a few other things that need gil, those will all be locked off. I had been rolling alts on other servers before transferring to check out their MB and if I could just go there with my main to buy and sell, that would really be a negative to their MB and the one on my home server. I would think the housing would stay locked as it is not on your home server even though you can visit there and also to allow them to still re balance high population servers. If you don't have to leave your server to get a house or FC that wouldn't help. Imagine a high pop server and two new worlds of housing that they can visit, if they could buy from the high pop server they would have no reason to move to the new server. So my guess is, housing, MB and mog mail are locked.

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Originally Posted by Jojoya

As a former WoW player, all I can say to this system is

PLEASE NO

To be invited to another world by a friend who plays there is fine. For players to be able to randomly go to other worlds lead to trouble.

PLEASE NO

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Except in WoW you have more options to be very distruptive to people. In FF XIV not so much. You can't block things with mounts unless it's outside, even then people have a way around it. Only one possible distruption is a group going out and messing with hunts. Since there is no 'world pvp' no one ever has fear of being ganked at all in this game. You can't kite mobs to someone to murder them either.

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Originally Posted by splinter1545

Probably would need to overhaul how housing and the market works before that happens. Else you'll basically always be in a new server cluster cause of your house and the markets will instantly crash due to servers with a low economy.

It is a nice concept though that can work, and they have the basis for that stuff alreeady with PF, Cross-LS, and now the World Visits.

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As one who have friends on other servers I am looking forward to being able to do things like maps with them, or just random silly things.

itll probably just be Towns(no MB),Housing areas and you can que up with people

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Originally Posted by Rokochan

its not gilgamesh you should be worrying about, balmung outnumbers gilgamesh and balmung players pull just as fast.

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I only used Gilg as an example. Of course it also applies to any server that's Hunt scene is "Pull it NOW!"

I will admit that doing this could lead to an overall more interesting overworld scene so long as SE adds more things to do in it, but if they do this and don't add anything, the only things I really see this benefiting is treasure maps and generally letting friends goof off. It will destroy Hunt scenes. That's not a trade I'm willing to make, personally.

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Originally Posted by Alleo

Also cant people just hop around the servers for hunts and things like that? Wouldnt that make it worse for those on the server?

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Originally Posted by BristolRuss

Can't wait for zones to crash when people from multiple data centres try to make it to 5.0's version of Ixion.

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Originally Posted by Tsumdere

I sincerely hope that if there is no changes to the way hunts work, that The Hunt is not available to people from different worlds. Having an entire data center worth of hunter flood... ...in an attempt to get to an S Rank sounds like the worst thing.

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This is the massive elephant in the room the devs are going to have to address.

Without more info (and reassuring ones at that), the whole concept seems like a well-meaning intention without any foresight what-so-ever (which we the players are already familiar with- *cough*AllianceLoot*cough*). Something like the Mentor feature; they envision the system with everyone holding hands and skipping through a meadow but the reality (at least NA-side) is that people exploit it for their own ends at the expense of others and use it in such a way that wasn't intended and perhaps grief tactics.

If I can do quests and connect to linkshells in the 'visited' server, that will be fantastic for me. No more lonely alt character cut off from easy contact with friends.

I don't care about the Hunt or any of that nonsense. I just want to be able to play content with my friend on a different server that isn't simply just instanced content.

Even if it turns out to just be treasure maps that are possible (since it locks the mobs to the party, so it shouldn't be an issue there) as well as combat levequests (same locking as treasure maps), I would be OK with that. Want to do maps with friends. However it would be nice if you could say trade a map to a party member on their world, and it would become "bound" to them (so they couldn't trade or sell it on to someone else), so that if they need some maps to decipher themselves they can (would be useful for groups with the owner need else greed loot rule).

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Originally Posted by Paladinleeds

Even if it turns out to just be treasure maps that are possible (since it locks the mobs to the party, so it shouldn't be an issue there) as well as combat levequests (same locking as treasure maps), I would be OK with that. Want to do maps with friends. However it would be nice if you could say trade a map to a party member on their world, and it would become "bound" to them (so they couldn't trade or sell it on to someone else), so that if they need some maps to decipher themselves they can (would be useful for groups with the owner need else greed loot rule).

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I'd also expect trade to be disabled for the same reasons as the marketboard

What I'm more curious about is what worlds will get put on the new DC we're getting. Kinda hoping Balmung gets separated from us.

My static is spread across three servers so this will be a very welcome addition to the game. Will definitely use it!

I've actually got another question about it... Eternity Rings, how will they work? Could my friend marry me on Omega if I'm on Loui since we'd be on the same data centre. Would the ring's teleport work if I visited Omega to be with her for example? Trying to work this out since we're considering moving her back to Omega with her IRL friends while I remain back on Louisoix.

They already listed all of the restrictions, you can't marry anyone on another world, because you cannot enter the chapel to even attend a wedding, yours or anyone else's.
They did not list trading player to player as a restriction, so this is allowed, and because you can buy, but not sell items on other worlds, it would be pointless restricting direct trades when you could just exploit the MB to trade.

They said Bonding ceremonies were unavailable for world visitors - either as participants or audience members. But they also said they're working on the audience part of it.

I assume the holdup is how to let people give out invitations to cross-world friends, without opening up general trade of items.

Also, the teleport feature from Eternity Rings will not allow teleporting between worlds, because they said you can only access other worlds via the city Aetheryte, you can't teleport to other worlds from the teleport menu or even return to your home world via teleport, you have to go to the city and use the Aether.

Thanks for the clarification both. :D - alright, means the position is a bit tricky then for that.