One to Fifty, One Zone - Long OP

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Originally Posted by Siobu

Everyone's invited! http://seahorror.com/happyparade.jpg

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OMG that is awesome.

Next up, LS management? Kick button gooooooo

Thanks so much, everyone! Haha. :D

What an awesome OP! I honestly don't know how I missed this topic for a whole week. Though, I'm glad I got into it without waiting and got an answer from one of the devs! Great news! Happy parade go :D

Haha, I posted this yesterday and today we received a response. Guess the reps just needed a little prodding for a response. ^_~

after 93 pages and 914 responses WE DID IT! WOOT! finally an answer. Now at least we know they really are fixing the "crapmaps" we have now.

high fives all around http://erstories.net/wp-content/uplo...High-Five.jpeg

hey newly "crowned" thread. good job guys

Kitty celebrates! http://norfairkitty.ytmnd.com/

Just can't stop watching this.... had to post it again somewhere... orz

woooooooooooooots this is good news

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Originally Posted by Siobu

Everyone's invited! http://seahorror.com/happyparade.jpg

Thank you, Bayohne!

And thank you to EVERYONE who has been supporting this thread for the last 10 days. This thread gives me hope, a unifying voice of the worldwide player base... I hope everyone here can take something from this.

Just a short response for now, as I must quickly make some adjustments to the first post. :)

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Is that Coblyn Tanaka in balloon form? o.O

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Originally Posted by viion

woooooooooooooots this is good news

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WOW stop posting Viion you are at 1337 posts. Retire your login and create viion2

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Originally Posted by Bayohne

Greetings everyone,

I apologize for the delay in getting a comment to you all about this. We are aware it is a hot topic in the forum, but it’s one that is difficult to provide a satisfactory comment on. Firstly, I want to bring attention to the following comment was posted by Yoshida on the Japanese forum back in March:



We brought up the concerns being presented by the community, as well as the comment made above, to Yoshida again today.

In regards to the overall direction, he said that nothing has changed and he is still dedicated and moving forward with the edit work.

Next, in regards to the main focus of this thread, that the game is just a single area filled with monsters of different levels; the necessity to revamp this has not changed and we feel stronger than ever that along with the edits, each area should have its own specific theme.

However, as stated by Yoshida in the comment before, please understand that there is a large amount of work to be done and it will take some time before we can even share the information with you. Once the new designs start to take shape, we will make it our top priority to share them with you.

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This is honestly the best response I think I have read

We just want to know whats going on, and that you guys know these issues are a problem and have said yes, we are going to fix.

Thankyou <3

The next step would be to release a very rough outline of your plans, something like summer-battle plans, fall-jobs/materia, winter-insert whatever here, and just let us know where you guys are at, also that would help us alleviate some of our concerns of whether or not your gonna work on something and let us focus on giving you feedback for the topics at hand.

good job guys and thank you very much to the dev for posting not only in the NA section but the German and JP threads too. I'm going to venture a guess and say that a majority of this re-designing will be done by PS3 release. I am overwhelmed with a sense of satisfaction that at least now we know there are plans in the works.

Congrats, this is how rapport should go!

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Originally Posted by Seif

Amen. The fields look like a blank sheet of paper to put something interesting on.

I definitely want them to make THESE areas interesting first before even thinking about adding new areas. If they add more fields before fixing this mess then I bet the main areas of XIV will never get a proper overhaul they desperately need.

Honestly I'm looking maps at every 30 seconds just because judging by the visuals I could be in 40 places of the same area.

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Holy cow! So true. I never understood why I always have to look at my damn map in FFXIV. I never did it in FFXI and I always just figured it was because I started w/ the map in FFXIV therefore I was being too lazy to memorize the zone. However, looking at the map every 10 seconds is the opposite of lazy. It's actually quite annoying; and a chore. Why would I do it? Well you just answered my question! Thank you, haha.

I am soo happy that they made a response to this post. Good job to all who kept this thread going and going.

YESSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9Q0jPyrja0&t=1m17s

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Originally Posted by Reinheart

Kitty celebrates! http://norfairkitty.ytmnd.com/

Just can't stop watching this.... had to post it again somewhere... orz

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I can't stop laughing watching this! This looks like something my husband would do to our cat, LOLz. It has 'Imma keelz u' face too heh.

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Originally Posted by Bayohne

Greetings everyone,

I apologize for the delay in getting a comment to you all about this. We are aware it is a hot topic in the forum, but it’s one that is difficult to provide a satisfactory comment on. Firstly, I want to bring attention to the following comment was posted by Yoshida on the Japanese forum back in March:



We brought up the concerns being presented by the community, as well as the comment made above, to Yoshida again today.

In regards to the overall direction, he said that nothing has changed and he is still dedicated and moving forward with the edit work.

Next, in regards to the main focus of this thread, that the game is just a single area filled with monsters of different levels; the necessity to revamp this has not changed and we feel stronger than ever that along with the edits, each area should have its own specific theme.

However, as stated by Yoshida in the comment before, please understand that there is a large amount of work to be done and it will take some time before we can even share the information with you. Once the new designs start to take shape, we will make it our top priority to share them with you.

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Good lad. Done

Bayhone, that's about as satisfactory as a response gets. Thank you!

Go Team, take your time and {Resurrect} this awesome game!! *-*

I know I'm late to the party, but I liked the OPs post. That's exactly how I felt in XI and it is severely lacking in FFXIV

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Originally Posted by Scape

I know I'm late to the party, but I liked the OPs post. That's exactly how I felt in XI and it is severely lacking in FFXIV

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Never too late to show your support for this thread! The bigger the support, the higher the priority. :)

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Originally Posted by Bayohne

Greetings everyone,

I apologize for the delay in getting a comment to you all about this. We are aware it is a hot topic in the forum, but it’s one that is difficult to provide a satisfactory comment on. Firstly, I want to bring attention to the following comment was posted by Yoshida on the Japanese forum back in March:



We brought up the concerns being presented by the community, as well as the comment made above, to Yoshida again today.

In regards to the overall direction, he said that nothing has changed and he is still dedicated and moving forward with the edit work.

Next, in regards to the main focus of this thread, that the game is just a single area filled with monsters of different levels; the necessity to revamp this has not changed and we feel stronger than ever that along with the edits, each area should have its own specific theme.

However, as stated by Yoshida in the comment before, please understand that there is a large amount of work to be done and it will take some time before we can even share the information with you. Once the new designs start to take shape, we will make it our top priority to share them with you.

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<3

Thank you for taking the time to post, in depth, about this concern.

I've been supporting (Via the like button) a more varied world, (NPC interaction and the works included) as this is probably the most important immersion factor for me in a MMO. That being said, I'm definitely glad after 900 replies give or take, a response has been made.

Kudos to all, and I wish the dev. team easy yet rewarding work for themselves and the players! /huzzah

Addressing the OP

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One zone with mobs 1-50 means we don't have to go anywhere.

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That doesn't mean we DON'T go anywhere, just that it's not essential. Content that takes us different places will serve us better than just redoing monster placement.
The one thing that DOES bug me in this department, is you have areas close by to your starting cities that are very dangerous except to higher rank players. The regions are too big to have just a small level range in each one; that said, we could narrow things down to like 1~25-30 in the regions containing the starting cities, 31-40 in coerthas, and some yet-to be released regions, 41-50 in Mor Dhona and future areas.

The OP seems to be forgetting that 50 is not going to be the end rank cap, and that new regions in the future will play host to the higher ranks, and not the current ones.

It's not a bad idea, it just makes something seem like a serious problem when it's not a major issue.

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The game doesn't HAVE to expand beyond the 4 zones we have. So will it?

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It does have to expand, unless you'd like 50 to remain the rank cap forever. So yes, it will, at a minimum when the level cap rises.

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The OP seems to be forgetting that 50 is not going to be the end rank cap, and that new regions in the future will play host to the higher ranks, and not the current ones.

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Regardless of where we *will* be headed in the future, new players and people leveling new jobs have to start at 1 and have to progress through 50 to get to a new level cap. 1-50 in the same zone will still be a problem or I should say WOULD have been a problem - but SE seems to be fixing it so no worries. ;)

Glad to see that this thread got a response! ^___^

Yatta!!!!

Do you ever wonder if the new Devs sit around the office on their breaks talking trash about the old ones?

I bet they do cuz WTF were they thinking when they designed these maps.

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Originally Posted by Stupifyed

Do you ever wonder if the new Devs sit around the office on their breaks talking trash about the old ones?

I bet they do cuz WTF were they thinking when they designed these maps.

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No because the new team is not *entirely* new. lol

Would be pretty funny though :P

Dear Diary, today...was a good Friday.

We got our prize catch of a crown! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNdOERrB8ZA

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Originally Posted by AtryxEtair

Dear Diary, today...was a good Friday.

We got our prize catch of a crown! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNdOERrB8ZA

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lol loved it.

One of the best responses I've heard on this forum.

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Originally Posted by Richard

Regardless of where we *will* be headed in the future, new players and people leveling new jobs have to start at 1 and have to progress through 50 to get to a new level cap. 1-50 in the same zone will still be a problem or I should say WOULD have been a problem - but SE seems to be fixing it so no worries. ;)

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Still, even though you CAN stay in the same region, it doesn't mean you have to. I think the real problem is that outside of a few quests, you are never encouraged to explore. I think each AREA within each REGION should cater to a certain level range; you need to remember that each region is broken up into several smaller zones.

I agree with the general gist of the suggestion in this thread; but I don't want to see it go from one extreme to the other, where we have to go all over the place every couple levels. shifts every 10 ranks up to 30 and 5-10 ranks thereafter would work. The regions are too big to restrict to a really small level range.

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Still, even though you CAN stay in the same region, it doesn't mean you have to. I think the real problem is that outside of a few quests, you are never encouraged to explore. I think each AREA within each REGION should cater to a certain level range; you need to remember that each region is broken up into several smaller zones.

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This is what has been said since Page 1.

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agree with the general gist of the suggestion in this thread; but I don't want to see it go from one extreme to the other, where we have to go all over the place every couple levels. shifts every 10 ranks up to 30 and 5-10 ranks thereafter would work. The regions are too big to restrict to a really small level range.

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No one is asking to be moved around every few levels. Take a look at Siobu's progression sketches w/ level ranges. The exploration and level progression looks really good when laid out that way. In regards to regions being too large, we will see how they look after the re-design. They might be split into N S E W areas with specific themes like the devs said. We'll have to wait and see how that goes first and then how mob/quest distribution is redone before we need to speculate on anything.

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Originally Posted by Siobu

Everyone's invited! http://seahorror.com/happyparade.jpg

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lmao!

Small request: please draw more.

I'm pretty optimistic that the upcoming quest hubs will help improve things a little.

Just dropping in^^

Thought I'd continue to add to the current 'love-in' on the forums.

This is a rare and strangely satisfying thing ;)

ty very much reps.

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Originally Posted by Rowyne

Never too late to show your support for this thread! The bigger the support, the higher the priority. :)

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COUNT ME IN! :D

I can finally rest in peace...almost :)