An open discsusion on the consequences of death

For the most part i enjoy the death penalty. Generally, getting sent back to the aetheryte and the added weakness time is enough to keep you from getting back in the fight. I dont want to have to constantly worry about whether or not im going to delevel or have some extensively long weakness time.
If they add anything more to strengthen the death penalty, i actually like the idea of taking anima from us. Also, the fact that we can acrue SP while knocked out is stuipd. They should probably go as far as to remove potential skill gain while weakened as well. Maybe add an increased gear degradation when KO'd?

Hello, I'm new to this game... and my character just died... and it wont come back to life... since last night about 13 hours ago. Is this normal? what do I have to do to get my character going again? I'm in Cornelia

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Originally Posted by Sagamore

Hello, I'm new to this game... and my character just died... and it wont come back to life... since last night about 13 hours ago. Is this normal? what do I have to do to get my character going again? I'm in Cornelia

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- to open your menu, then select return and you'll be placed at your last aetheryte gate visited.

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Originally Posted by normalforce

I don't know if this has been given quite enough praise, but I absolutely love the idea of a staying alive bonus.

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lol thanks for the rep :)

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Originally Posted by giftforce

I like how that rentai hamster guy practically writes thesis dissertations on FFXIV.

(but I don't like how SE probably won't ever read them lol)

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oh, you :p

In college, I majored in hamster renting, with a minor in Final Fantasy-ology. I currently work at McDonalds.

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Originally Posted by Rentahamster

lol thanks for the rep :)

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You're welcome. Just keep coming up with those awesome ideas.

Did a community rep ever comment on this thread? I sort of resurrected it after being linked to it from another similar thread. I'd love to get the general feel from the developers if this is an idea that they could get behind or something that doesn't fit within their direction of the game.

I remember playing a THF in FFXI and being expected to do suicide runs in Dynamis occasionally if things went south. Maybe if they had an alive bonus, that type of strategy might not have come about. Either that or they'd specifically look for all thieves with a Rank of 0.