Thoughts on the new Letter from the Producer? (May 20)

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Originally Posted by UllrHellfire

I seen that but. Fixing the battle system for a platform of people who like to play together in shell based events like leves and or NM's we really need some more abilities as LS masters to get rid of inactive players and so forth. To run a LS in this game atleast a bigger end one takes allot out of one's play time to track down players, re pearling shells, and keeping moral high in wait for SE content arrivals. The deference in 1 button would make to allot of leaders is MAJOR. Re pearling alone is a hellish task.

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I agree that more robust LS management protocols should have been implemented 7 months ago. The lack of management has created soooo much inconvenience among all my shells. At the very least, I'd implore them to implement text commands only for now. That shouldn't take too long, right?

All of this is to be done by summer 2011? (start/end?)

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Originally Posted by Neptune

I doubt they didn't do a riding animation in the mocap session. Unless they have an internal mocap studio.

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Well, actually, there already are riding animations, as you can see in stuff like the archer and conjurer class quests. I was thinking more along the lines of mounting, dismounting, emotes, advanced riding actions, etc)

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Originally Posted by Iron

All of this is to be done by summer 2011? (start/end?)

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that's the plan. It's the program for all summer, starting from 1.18 in mid-june :3
This letter is full of win

Looks good, but talk is cheap.

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This kind of range in experience is what we’re aiming for with the reformed battle system—a system that rewards effort and innovation.

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Rewarding Effort And Innovation sounds awesome. Give us some tools to experiment outside the box with.:P

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Originally Posted by Iron

All of this is to be done by summer 2011? (start/end?)

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I'm assuming all of this should be done by the end of summer 2011.

Two hits in a row for them. Been a great week for XIV news.

Gosh, It's one heck of a week to be following this game. I'm ecstatic!

With how big the summer dev guide is I can't wait to see whats on the longterm guide