Teleport prices are too exensive

Set Kugane as your one free teleport. When going back I teleport to my house or FC house which won't ever be more than 249.

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Originally Posted by Krojack

Set Kugane as your one free teleport. When going back I teleport to my house or FC house which won't ever be more than 249.

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This.

And use return when you need to leave Kugane. If return is down, then as Krojack said teleport to your house/FC house/Apartment. If you have a house strategize a bit, for instance my house is in Lavender beds (cheap teleport), return is set to Ul'dah (free teleport), and FC house is in Mists (cheap teleport), and if you don't have a house I think you can still teleport to an apartment. Speaking of FC's I believe there's an active buff that reduces teleport costs, talk to your FC about having it up more often.

Moreover, 999 gil is nothing. As someone that does not craft and very rarely ever gathers, I'm sitting on 21 mil with a medium house. Earning gil in this game is not as hard as people make it out to be.

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Originally Posted by Sylvina

If we had higher costs for things I'd never afford anything. You rich folks need to understand not everyone has more than a million gil at any one time, I certainly don't.

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I rarely have 7 digit figures on my character. I still think prices should be increased. Although admittedly this is a necro response, point still stands as someone else already brought this thread back.

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Originally Posted by Gemina

You should also be thankful because I believe the costs of ports are calculated by a percentage, which means if they weren't capped at 999, we would easily be paying more for trips from west to east and vice versa.

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The cap is also applied before any favourite/house-port savings (hence the 249gil cap on porting to my apartment). I believe they should lift this cap. Teleports to other continents should cost a few tens of thousands of gil at least. Want to save money? Get teleport vouchers from the hunts people. Use those for the big teleports, and they also give you something else to spend your seals on.

One concession I will make regarding this though is these should be available from the grand companies. Ventures cost 4 allied seals or 200 GC seals, so the tickets should cost 250 company seals (as they cost 5 allied seals each, inb4 they're already available and I'm just blind).

How do people find these year-old topics? >.<

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Originally Posted by KaivaC

How do people find these year-old topics? >.<

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To be fair, the dev's here will post in old topics with updated info. Posting in old topics is encouraged to keep all discussion in one place vs new topics every week.

I think the teleport prices are fine as is.

I realize this thread was necro'd for some reason (and I didn't read through every page), but I want to point out the extreme flaw in logic from the OP...

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Originally Posted by Zumi

I noticed the cost of teleports are 999 when you go from Eorzea to Othard or the other way Othard to Eorzea. This might not seem like much but it adds up fast if you are doing hunts.

Is there any plan to lower teleport prices because seeing 999 for many teleports makes it so expensive.

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It's precisely BECAUSE I do hunts that I'm sitting on 900+ Aetheryte Tickets. Admittedly, I don't use my tickets for every port... my personal cutoff is 300 gil. If the teleport costs 300 gil or less, then I don't use a ticket. Even before the increase in the quantity of items in a stack from 99 to 999 I almost always had 99 Aetheryte Tickets on hand, as I topped them every other day or so when visiting my Squadron. Now I usually top them off whenever I hit 4k Allied Seals (I also buy ventures with them to burn seals so I don't have to make trips JUST to spend seals as often).

Even if you are only doing HW/SB Hunts... I'm fairly certain you can buy Aetheryte Tickets with Centurio Seals in the Forgotten Knight in Ishgard.

If you hunt, then teleport prices should be a non-issue...

One expert dungeon is enough gil to pay for many, many teleports.

Optimizing your travel loop goes a long way along with FC Reduced Rates 2 buff:

1. Kugane is my home/return point.
2. Limsa is a favored destination so less than 500 gil
3. Rhalgr's reach is a free destination (I think this was due to security token)
4. Foundation is a favored destination (Either no. 4 or 5 is favoured destination due to installing and registering the Companion App...and then deleting it.)
5. Idyllshire is a favored destination
6. FC house is in Lavender Beds so Gridania is cheap from there. Also TP from Rhalgr's reach to FC house is ~107 gil

Only Ul'dah is not covered by cheap teleports but could probably be as well if I took the time to see who on my friend's list has a house or an apartment in The Goblet.

I'm in favour of increasing teleport costs. This game does not have enough gil sinks. I think fast travel options like teleports means people spend lesser time appreciating the vast world of Hydaelyn.

I have Limsa as my free port from having an authenticator, Rhalgr's Reach for my "Return" spell location (also free), Foundation, Gridania, and Uldah as my favorites (all max 499 before discounts), and I also have my apartment in Shirogane (max 249 before discounts) for a cheap port to Kugane/Othard. I also do the weekly squadron mission that gives 10 tickets that cut the costs on teleports by 40% for 2 hours each.

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Originally Posted by Krojack

Set Kugane as your one free teleport. When going back I teleport to my house or FC house which won't ever be more than 249.

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I'm sort of the opposite. Free is in Mor Dona, my return is in Kugane and my apartment is Shirogane.

I don't personally find the prices too high, but I wouldn't complain if they lowered them.

Lore wise, who the heck are we paying when we teleport anyway?