More Fuss please =)

While I think the planned changes to make the leves less important sound all well and good I'd like to get some info on mechanics that have a bit more depth than what the current activities in XIV offer.

(sidenote: actually I hate all the leves with passion)


For example crafting. Why not let us hunt for our own materials ourselves?
I think it would be cool to try to find out which mobs drop the necessary material to level my (useless) Culinarian.

I think it was fun to press the crafting button for 15min/leve but for long periods of time I prefer games to have a little more depth than that.

When I was playing XI I loved how every year you keep learning more of the systems running under the hood but you weren't required to learn it all at once to get started.

I'd like all the birthdays and constellations to mean something to my gameplay experience. The storyline of the world feels a bit too "slapped on" so that all the leve texts and NPC "levescreens" seem really removed from what I'm actually doing n the game.

I'd like to bring up the example of Animal Crossing (get you palm outta your face and just listen for a sec!). That game is really accessible to everyone but there is always a TON of hidden systems going on that keeps the world feeling alive and full of surprises. For example the way the color of the flower is dependent on other plants around it and the way time is used to determine what events are happening semi-randomly around you.

It would be cool to find something unexpected even if it's not me finding them. I don't want SE to spoil all the content by making 8 public announcements about them on the Lodestone before they are in the game.

I know this is a lot to ask now that SE is more or less forced to market the living poo out of every tiny tweak they make to keep the players waiting for more but I hope in the future we'll see more of the things like the randomly spawning doomsday prophecy NPCs.


tld;r-words-confuse-me-youtube-people: RANDOM STUFF PLZ!!1! =D

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For example crafting. Why not let us hunt for our own materials ourselves?

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Then do it. It's called farm.
For the birthday ecc, that was planned under tanaka managing, dunno if yoshi is planning something right now. Even so, with so many core sistems needing an overhaul, it's the last of their problems

More fuss? Okay, uh.

I really hate the color of the trees in Ul'dah! They're just too brown!
It's a real game breaker for me and if Square isn't going to change it, I can't see them being successful in the long run!

I mean it's such a little change, and here we are, almost a year later and the trees in the merchants city are still too brown! How can we expect Square to turn this game around if it takes them this long to do such a simple change?!

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Originally Posted by Gramul

More fuss? Okay, uh.

I really hate the color of the trees in Ul'dah! They're just too brown!
It's a real game breaker for me and if Square isn't going to change it, I can't see them being successful in the long run!

I mean it's such a little change, and here we are, almost a year later and the trees in the merchants city are still too brown! How can we expect Square to turn this game around if it takes them this long to do such a simple change?!

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Lol funny, but I get your point stuff takes time to happen and right now their no.1 priority is still making the core of the game suck less and in all fairness that'll probably take a while.

(Btw I'd like to see an area in Ul'dah with trees, period. Brown or otherwise. Preferably near the shroud zone maybe?)

Cry me a river, right? (speaking of which add a river to LL area plz!)

Farming would be fun (ok not really fun fun but at least mildly entertaining in a different way) option to regular grind but as it is it would be a bit silly like buying ice cubes in the Antarctic region.

It would be nice to have a little transition from the desert to the forest.