Island Sanctuary

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Originally Posted by SturmChurro

Second monitor to watch something on the side.

Yeah, but I want the hair, and the pasture upgrade costs 1000, the cropland upgrade costs 1000, demolishing the rocks or whatever to get the next landmark (I presume) costs 1000. I'd be cleaned out!

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Yeah, I get that. There's a lot I want, but there's not much to be done until that currency starts flowing. I'm sitting around 450 waiting on things to be made and sold.

There's a weekly challenge of selling 20 items, which gives you 1000. There's another 1000 to be earned from harvesting. There's some achievement for earning like 17k in a week, so that's something to look forward to as you progress.

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Originally Posted by Neoyoshi

I love it, it's very relaxing; i'm trying to take my time with it because i know this is just supposed to be the introduction, and there's more content to be added to it in the future.

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Sometimes I just put on a nice song in the orchestrion, lay down in the bed and use the roaming camera to watch my island. Its quite relaxing.

So after taking a good look at the exchange shop and reaching island level 7 so far, i must say im disapointed in this overhyped Yoshi Guy once again. It has the same issue like the Doman Enclave and Similar content. Once you are done, you are done. There is no point in sticking with this content longer than you need to, it dosent add any long term beneficals for the main game as far i could tell. You cant get resources for the real professions, you cant exchange the tokens in anything usefull (no i dont count the materia as usefull), except from the furnishings you cant sell anything fromt the exchange store on the market (would be otherwise a nice alternative way to earn some money) and there is not even an aetheryte there to teleport there directly.

At every stupid corner of FF14 is and Aetheryte, but when you travel to the Fareyman to visit your island again there is not even another cutscene that shows you on a ship travling to your island. I allready didnt expectet much from this content, seeing how SE behaved during the last years, but im still disapointet. The island could have been something nice to hang out or a different kind of content with replaybility like the gold saucer where it is rewarding to come back and doing the minigames again and again. But no SE screwed up once again.

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Originally Posted by Missbone

So after taking a good look at the exchange shop and reaching island level 7 so far, i must say im disapointed in this overhyped Yoshi Guy once again. It has the same issue like the Doman Enclave and Similar content. Once you are done, you are done. There is no point in sticking with this content longer than you need to, it dosent add any long term beneficals for the main game as far i could tell. You cant get resources for the real professions, you cant exchange the tokens in anything usefull (no i dont count the materia as usefull), except from the furnishings you cant sell anything fromt the exchange store on the market (would be otherwise a nice alternative way to earn some money) and there is not even an aetheryte there to teleport there directly.

At every stupid corner of FF14 is and Aetheryte, but when you travel to the Fareyman to visit your island again there is not even another cutscene that shows you on a ship travling to your island. I allready didnt expectet much from this content, seeing how SE behaved during the last years, but im still disapointet. The island could have been something nice to hang out or a different kind of content with replaybility like the gold saucer where it is rewarding to come back and doing the minigames again and again. But no SE screwed up once again.

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Isn’t that the thing in any game though? You have no one to blame but yourself when you burn through the content as fast as you can and suddenly find yourself with nothing to do.

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Originally Posted by kaynide

Isn’t that the thing in any game though? You have no one to blame but yourself when you burn through the content as fast as you can and suddenly find yourself with nothing to do.

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I surly dont burn through the content, in fact i spend my free time these days mostly with doing other things than playing this game. And if i would burn through the content like some ppl that allready reached island level 10 after 3 days it woudnt change the fact that the playvalue of this island is limited, no matter how long a person needs to reach that point. Once you got your island to lvl 10, collected the animals you want to have, upgraded all the stuff and bought everything there is from the shop its over. There is no point in sticking further with this island (except they change something). Also its much smaller than the advertisment showed.

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Originally Posted by Missbone

I surly dont burn through the content, in fact i spend my free time these days mostly with doing other things than playing this game. And if i would burn through the content like some ppl that allready reached island level 10 after 3 days it woudnt change the fact that the playvalue of this island is limited, no matter how long a person needs to reach that point. Once you got your island to lvl 10, collected the animals you want to have, upgraded all the stuff and bought everything there is from the shop its over. There is no point in sticking further with this island (except they change something). Also its much smaller than the advertisment showed.

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People that reach island level 10 in just 3 days will never have enough content to be happy, because they will burn through it anyway, while it would become impossible to reach the end for the more casual players.

Right now if you want every special item from this you will probably grind this for quite some time, especially if you cant play that often. If they just had increased the costs or made it so that you constantly have to maintain the crops and animals to get somewhere you would have destroyed it for the casuals while those with way more time at hand would still grind through it fast and complain that they have nothing to do.

Just look at grind like the tiger from hunts...it was such a huge amount that it will probably demotivate anyone that just plays it casually or that wants to do more than one side content while those that no-lived it, got it anyway.

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Originally Posted by SturmChurro

Second monitor to watch something on the side.

Yeah, but I want the hair, and the pasture upgrade costs 1000, the cropland upgrade costs 1000, demolishing the rocks or whatever to get the next landmark (I presume) costs 1000. I'd be cleaned out!

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only if you are deliberately ignoring the workshops. if you build up your efficiency bonus you can spend the rest of the week making the 6/8+ hour crafts that give tons of cowries. (just an FYI, the efficiency bonus doubles the amount of cowries you get from an item)

so far reached rank 6 working on rank 7 so far a fun ride lots to do and gather.ps update just reached rank 8 renovating a workshop and gathering mats for more renovations.

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Originally Posted by Missbone

I surly dont burn through the content, in fact i spend my free time these days mostly with doing other things than playing this game. And if i would burn through the content like some ppl that allready reached island level 10 after 3 days it woudnt change the fact that the playvalue of this island is limited, no matter how long a person needs to reach that point. Once you got your island to lvl 10, collected the animals you want to have, upgraded all the stuff and bought everything there is from the shop its over. There is no point in sticking further with this island (except they change something). Also its much smaller than the advertisment showed.

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I mean, the same can be said about, I dunno, literally any game. "the playvalue of [GAME] is limited, no matter how long a person needs to reach that point. Once you got [all the pokemon/all the Korok seeds/the ring to Mordor] its over.

I have 2 babies now! :D

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...6Jlv6jj69y.png

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Originally Posted by Knot_D

I have 2 babies now! :D

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...6Jlv6jj69y.png

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Sharing is caring. Seriously where are you finding those? Not sure where to look. What size net do you need?

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Originally Posted by LaylaTsarra

Sharing is caring. Seriously where are you finding those? Not sure where to look. What size net do you need?

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need the large nets

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Originally Posted by Knot_D

I have 2 babies now! :D

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...6Jlv6jj69y.png

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Look at those scaly babies! i cant wait until i can catch one of my own

What items do you get from them?

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Originally Posted by Jason_Ashford

need the large nets

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Ok not there yet. My 4 islands are all rank 6 and waiting on building upgrades right now. Darn hair looks so cool on Viera wish they were tradeable.

I'd like a Striking Dummy on the Island Sanctuary.

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Originally Posted by Missbone

So after taking a good look at the exchange shop and reaching island level 7 so far, i must say im disapointed in this overhyped Yoshi Guy once again. It has the same issue like the Doman Enclave and Similar content. Once you are done, you are done. There is no point in sticking with this content longer than you need to, it dosent add any long term beneficals for the main game as far i could tell. You cant get resources for the real professions, you cant exchange the tokens in anything usefull (no i dont count the materia as usefull), except from the furnishings you cant sell anything fromt the exchange store on the market (would be otherwise a nice alternative way to earn some money) and there is not even an aetheryte there to teleport there directly.

At every stupid corner of FF14 is and Aetheryte, but when you travel to the Fareyman to visit your island again there is not even another cutscene that shows you on a ship travling to your island. I allready didnt expectet much from this content, seeing how SE behaved during the last years, but im still disapointet. The island could have been something nice to hang out or a different kind of content with replaybility like the gold saucer where it is rewarding to come back and doing the minigames again and again. But no SE screwed up once again.

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Re: Aetheryte Travel: It doesn't get you everywhere you want to go. That's always been the case. It's great that you mention Doman because that's how you have to get to Bozja. Eureka is gated at Kugane. There's a story reason, but there's also a technical reason as these destinations are prone to congestion. Housing (which IS is apparently sharing server space with) also works the same way. You go to the ward first.

Finally got to play it after some days without being able to get into the instance...

Why on earth we can't build a small or medium house there? Like, it's literally the PERFECT platform to have them, and it would certainly resolve a big chunk of the housing demand.

Housing there would also create something to do while you wait for those timers, since one can sink a lot of time with furnishing.

They hinted that Islands would have additions in the future patches, so I hope they consider this! I don't even mind if a housing plot is gated behind a high Island development rank.

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Originally Posted by LaylaTsarra

Ok not there yet. My 4 islands are all rank 6 and waiting on building upgrades right now. Darn hair looks so cool on Viera wish they were tradeable.

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4 islands allready on rank 6..., just wow i dont know what to say. I still have more enough to do with the one from my main, even if i wanted i wouldnt know where to get the time for this. But thats maybe because i have a job and can only play in the evening.

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Originally Posted by Raikai

Finally got to play it after some days without being able to get into the instance...

Why on earth we can't build a small or medium house there? Like, it's literally the PERFECT platform to have them, and it would certainly resolve a big chunk of the housing demand.

Housing there would also create something to do while you wait for those timers, since one can sink a lot of time with furnishing.

They hinted that Islands would have additions in the future patches, so I hope they consider this! I don't even mind if a housing plot is gated behind a high Island development rank.

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So some evil data miners posted more space that showed what looked like a medium house. This could be anything though. Here is what I think the biggest problem, minus SE paying for enough servers. Housing has an indoor and outdoor. And a framework with how certain things interact. While this is an island we are clearly indoors. I think/hope that this might be some sort of proof of concept of instance housing. So saying they can pull off X and Y, they just need more servers and how much players embrace a little bit more generic space.

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Originally Posted by kaynide

Re: people worried about spending cowries

You can get 2,000/week doing challenge log, and several hundred per day via the workshops.
The panic “oh noes I can’t progress” is only a problem if you are in a rush to get it done.

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The 4k I dumped on that minion was certainly not a good investment. There were three 1k expansions just sitting there that could've been claimed instantly, boosting progress. The second half of the challenge log eventually got me one of them.

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Originally Posted by Raikai

Housing there would also create something to do while you wait for those timers, since one can sink a lot of time with furnishing.

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I personally disagree with housing. Housing brings nothing but storing your junk and that’s it. How many games have housing and how many times have people just threw there junk (decorations) and left it there? I hope no housing is wasted on island sanctuary. I rather do things to progress and have gameplay attached.

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Originally Posted by Deveryn

Yeah, I get that. There's a lot I want, but there's not much to be done until that currency starts flowing. I'm sitting around 450 waiting on things to be made and sold.

There's a weekly challenge of selling 20 items, which gives you 1000. There's another 1000 to be earned from harvesting. There's some achievement for earning like 17k in a week, so that's something to look forward to as you progress.

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The 500 landmark set me back, but if I get the 1000 from the challenge log by selling some 4 hour garbage along with a couple 6 hour trash (with efficiency bonus).. 8 items shipped (?)... as long as those earn me enough.. by the end of tomorrow, I should be able to have JUST 6k to dump on one hair! :p I lost about two days because I didn't get in on Island sanctuary early.

Yes, I realize I should be building the upgrades with the initial currency, otherwise it will probably require half a week to even make back enough to get them started next week, but I do not really care.

Just unlocked level III pastery and I'm being offered a caretaker service. But same as before, it costs seafarer cowries, which ruins it (for me?). Even if I'll own seafarer's on mass in a year, the acquisition rate is kinda low and the rewards cost a ton. Additionally I'd use them on crafter/gatherer materia, which I'm glad for being an option.
Either way, wish they'd let me pay with Gil. Gil is kinda useless if you own, craft, provide stuff for yourself. It's probably the least important currency..

I'm still working on ranking and collecting every single rare creature.

On the plus side about Island Sanctuary, I can let my minions roam free. Especially all my bonus exclusive minions like my carbuncles!

I just completed the last landmark and there's quest given. Only Rank 10 left :D

Also the twinklefleece still no luck to catch :(

EDIT: Pics of the reward

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...UffHF46EJa.png

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...6yxewI9D6l.png

oh my .......

all you need is a lollipop :D

I'm absolutely loving Island Sanctuary. Rank 6 but only two of the rare creatures... what's everyone doing for nicknames for the creatures. I'm doing silly stuff like Lambchop for the Karakul, Rocky for Coblyns and I had to name the Lemure Momo.

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Originally Posted by Knot_D

I just completed the last landmark and there's quest given. Only Rank 10 left :D

Also the twinklefleece still no luck to catch :(

EDIT: Pics of the reward

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...UffHF46EJa.png

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...6yxewI9D6l.png

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I've seen those shorts on Twitter, I'll have to get those as well. I do plan on doing all that next once I get my hair. At least there is more to look forward to.

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Originally Posted by Knot_D

I just completed the last landmark and there's quest given. Only Rank 10 left :D

Also the twinklefleece still no luck to catch :(

EDIT: Pics of the reward

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...UffHF46EJa.png

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...6yxewI9D6l.png

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Oh that's a cute set. Can skip the cowrie set now. :3

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Originally Posted by Skivvy

Oh that's a cute set. Can skip the cowrie set now. :3

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Yeah, but the boots (except for undyable socks) are pretty nice from the set you can buy. I like it's top more with the little backpack too. I'll probably finish up for these shorts and go for the boots next probably.

Was reminded that the mammets have the next 2 days off. There go my hopes of getting more Seafarer's before Tuesday.

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Originally Posted by RyuDragnier

Was reminded that the mammets have the next 2 days off. There go my hopes of getting more Seafarer's before Tuesday.

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That was the only thing I lucked out on by missing the first couple days, because those were their days off for me this week. I did miss the third day of sales though since I got to that point in IS too late.

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Originally Posted by SturmChurro

Yeah, but the boots (except for undyable socks) are pretty nice from the set you can buy. I like it's top more with the little backpack too. I'll probably finish up for these shorts and go for the boots next probably.

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Yeah, cowrie set top with the farmhand set shorts is the way I'm going to go with em.

It's too bad for the maintenance that I think is tonight. I will definitely have enough after my last things sell to get the hair (from the challenge), but I'll have to wait until the servers are back up.

https://c.tenor.com/8dGks3yrkSMAAAAC/crying-stitch.gif

Also, pushed to level 8, but can't upgrade my facilities, because I don't have the rare mats. Sucks.

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Originally Posted by SturmChurro

Yeah, but the boots (except for undyable socks) are pretty nice from the set you can buy. I like it's top more with the little backpack too. I'll probably finish up for these shorts and go for the boots next probably.

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i really like the top with the backpack too. i already have a glamour idea for a 'casual adventurer' theme

9 garnet, 6 spruce and 3 silver are needed in building up the island.

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Originally Posted by Deveryn

9 garnet, 6 spruce and 3 silver are needed in building up the island.

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The 3 silver ore is just an optional if you want to build Lominsan Lighthouse on last landmark, since you can build other landmark as well on that spot :)

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Originally Posted by Knot_D

The 3 silver ore is just an optional if you want to build Lominsan Lighthouse on last landmark, since you can build other landmark as well on that spot :)

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No idea why anyone would want to build the lighthouse. If any ships crash on the shore, you know what they say, "Finders keepers."

but I'm the warrior of light(house) :p