Should Airship travel be instanced or non-instanced?

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Originally Posted by Richard

If you're going to play the "I don't play the way you do" card please realize it works both ways. This is also the joy of what we call RANDOM BATTLES. It worked the same way in XI. Don't care to have your pew pew fricking conflicts at every single corner? Sit yourself below deck and don't worry about it. Those of us who like a sense of adventure and danger in our oh so immersive game world will be above deck.

at the moment relaxation is everywhere you look.

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lol... Yes and I will until I get high enough to fight too. You're more likely to get your kicks while enjoying a ride and a random enemy appears then in an instant fade to black travel system. So I'm not sure what your problem is.

Wait I know what it is I mistook you for this guy:

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Originally Posted by Corrderio

I'd rather have instant travel where I don't have to wait to get on/off an airship.

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Thought you were battle! or bust. XD Mah bad.

I don't mind fights, but at the same time I just don't want to wait for what feels like forever just to get from city to city with literally nothing to do.

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Originally Posted by Corrderio

I don't mind fights, but at the same time I just don't want to wait for what feels like forever just to get from city to city with literally nothing to do.

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save your anima then

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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. I started watching the first one and thought 'when the hell did WoW get pegasus's?!'. Then I noticed it was Tera >.>

In any case... I would like main City-City air ship travels to be on large air-ships high above the sky, with no 'instant' air-ship travel, and you can see the ground below that matches where you started and where you're headed. Smaller flights like mini-air ships (there are air-ship docks at certain places on the maps, particulalrly in La Noscea) it can be lower to the ground, but still with ground visuals, to include monsters and other characters that happen to be below you.

The thing is, I never really though of the Air Ship as something to do if your trying to get somewhere in a hurry. You teleport and choco, or bloodwarp, or something like that. The Air ship to me is like.. so calm. It's one of the few places you can go in FFXI where it's just you and maybe 1 other person on board, and you can just look at the view, and think or w.e u want. It was soothing. It was a break from the hussle and bustle of jueno. You're traveling all the way across the world. If you are traveling 100 feet in the air so you can see players, and stuff, think how long it's going to take you to get to the other side of the world.

On the other hand, if you're 30,000 feet in the air, and entire continents are going by slowly.. It's a lot more realistic to think about where you are, and how long until you get to your destination.

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Originally Posted by alexi14

On the other hand, if you're 30,000 feet in the air, and entire continents are going by slowly.. It's a lot more realistic to think about where you are, and how long until you get to your destination.

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I'd be great to have a UI based Tetra master too just for those times, maybe in practice mode to get ready for player vs player tournaments XD Man this forum is too full of dreams today.

Also, if it was instanced, you wouldn't be able to parachute down to the ground!

Think of the possibilities if they add parachuting!

It'd be nice for it to be none-instanced, especially if they boosted the character draw distance so you could look over the side and see people running around doing everyday stuff, it'd make the game feel a bit more alive.

That being said if airships are going to be as high up as what we currently see when they fly overhead there's the possibility it could be pretty nasty on players who don't have powerfull computers.

It should be non-instanced, and we should get sniper rifles.

if it was not instanced, you could shout

"hey d-bags down there! guess what, im on an airship! ha!"

and everyone down below will hear you