Teleport kills immersion

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Originally Posted by Felis

Keep the teleportation, but make them cost anima points instead of gil. And make it that it need 2 hour real time to regenerate 1 anima point.

Teleport within the same region = 3 anima
Teleport to another region = 6 anima
Teleport to a city or to a favourite aetheryte = half the anima prices

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Wasn't there some in game lore explaining why anima is gone or is at least not used anymore? Regardless, your idea would make just getting around incredibly annoying, especially with daily quests; I'd spend more time traveling than actually doing the quests themselves.

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Originally Posted by Iagainsti

How so? I do not believe I have missed any content by skipping quest text and cutscenes unless there is some duty or trial I do not know about unlocked by watching and reading everything through.

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It depends on your definition of "content".

To me the story is content and the game is worthless without it. But, as far as dungeons, trials, raids, quests, nine of that was Missed.

Thus why I really can't hold my view on others. The story and lore make up alot of the game but as far as " playable content" you miss nothing by skipping it. I how ever play specifically for the story and everything else is bussy work till new story patches are added.

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Originally Posted by MilesSaintboroguh

Wasn't there some in game lore explaining why anima is gone or is at least not used anymore? Regardless, your idea would make just getting around incredibly annoying, especially with daily quests; I'd spend more time traveling than actually doing the quests themselves.

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It worked in 1.0, even before Chocobos and airships came ingame and we had only teleport and our feet to travel.
Just form groups and the one with the most anima start the teleport. In some way it was good for group play.

I like teleporting. Couldn't care less about immersion.
If you don't like it, then don't.

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Originally Posted by Felis

It worked in 1.0, even before Chocobos and airships came ingame and we had only teleport and our feet to travel.
Just form groups and the one with the most anima start the teleport. In some way it was good for group play.

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Perhaps, but 1.0 was also extremely unpopular and considered by most to be a terrible MMO. There's a reason the Realm had to be Reborn. ;)

Sorry for being snide, I just couldn't resist. 1.0 had some good ideas, but ARR is overall a huge improvement.

If it helps, I find Teleporting extremely convenient, and while I agree that it can hurt my personal immersion, I feel like the benefits far outweigh the downsides. I don't get much time to play, and when I do I'd rather not spend all of it traveling.

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Originally Posted by Felis

It worked in 1.0, even before Chocobos and airships came ingame and we had only teleport and our feet to travel.
Just form groups and the one with the most anima start the teleport. In some way it was good for group play.

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I fail to see how group teleporting makes the game more sociable for group play, considering that 2.0 and 3.0 are entirely different beasts compared to 1.0; Nowadays a lot of quests has us running all over the place where everything in between doesn't matter, so I don't really need to have a simple quest take a very long time due to travel. Just imagine people today trying to do the "old school" way of travel with all the quests and fetch stuff we have in the game now.

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Originally Posted by MilesSaintboroguh

Just imagine people today trying to do the "old school" way of travel with all the quests and fetch stuff we have in the game now.

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Then the story quests will be not finished after only 1-3 days after each patch ^^

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Originally Posted by Judah_Brandt

There is a crap ton of lore about why the Aetheryte system exists. After the calamity caused by Bahamut, there was a large amount of residual Aether dispersed....you know what? Just read more.

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I know Lore about it exists, I'd just like more of it. I read through and enjoy the story, but sometimes there is lore that one just does not find without really, really, REALLY digging into the game. For the longest time I had no clue that Garleans couldn't use magic, or that Silvertear Lake is supposedly the source of Aether on Hydaelyn. That's not something that comes up in the course of Side-Quests or the MSQ. I remember the arguments about how long Colonial Sharlayan has existed on Eorzea, but we finally got an answer in that with the MSQ thanks to Y'Shtola.

An example to this discussion, is that I've read that not everyone can use the Atherytes, that some people don't have the aetheric levels to support using it. I imagine the Thaumaturge Guildmasters' little brother would be such an example, but I've seen debates ranging from, "You have to be Warrior of Light tier to use it ICly," to, "Anyone and their mother can use it, merchants and normal folk just prefer to save gil!"

Then I hope you have a plan to make each quest have meaningful content to justify the padding you want back.

This thread reminds me of the "Flying or not Flying" discussion on the WoW Forum.
Maybe the OP is a former WoW player who was against flying. Will it be your next request?
We know what happend to WoW when they prohibited flying, lost over 1 mill Players. Of course it wasn't the only reason but a main reason, at least for me as a quitted WoW and I never returned.
So, be careful what you wish for you just might get it.

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Originally Posted by Kaiser-Ace

It depends on your definition of "content".

To me the story is content and the game is worthless without it. Thus why I really can't hold my view on others. The story and lore make up alot of the game but as far as " playable content" you miss nothing by skipping it. I how ever play specifically for the story and everything else is bussy(sic) work till new story patches are added.

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I prefer to make my own story; that is my game, my immersion,and imo it is better than anything SE is putting out. With something as large as this MMO, by default everything has to be over explained so no one hops on to the forums to debate or holler for questions answered( oh.. wait...), which is why the big banger epics like Game of Thrones and /shudder Lord of the Rings hold no appeal to me, way too much talking going on. I'm more incline to read works by Robert E. Howard or Clark Ashton Smith, the style that leaves open ended atmospheres allowing the reader to fill in their own blanks, or not at all and it takes nothing away from the story. Like this Aetheryte debate; they're there and that's enough for me. I guess They've been explained but I'm content in just knowing they exist, and I can use them. The how to and where from is unimportant in the sense that a little magic and mystery is what makes fantasy for me.

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Originally Posted by Kaldor

As anyone else would, i have my opinions on the travel system but i am interested on peoples thoughts. Would you like more teleport locations or return to a more FFXI-esque system with limited teleportation using instead boats/airships for travel between regions.

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While I agree with this statement, it is completely voluntary. There are times when I have purposely avoided it. Overall i think the compromise of large open areas with a single teleport location is a good balance. I would argue if they incentivized traveling in someway people would be less likely to tele unless necessary. Currently there is very little reason to explore in this game.

My friend thought the same thing as OP except he literally couldn't play the game after that and just quit. It doesn't bother me too much I think.

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Originally Posted by Iagainsti

snipza.

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An excellent way to play as well. Sounds like you either are, or would make, one heck of an RPer.