New Activities suggestion
While battle changes, UI, etc are needed so is content, currently there is nothing to do but either craft or grind and if no new ideas are put into the game I don't think it will be able to recover from it current state. Yes I know the UI and combat should be fixed but too much time has already been spent on it. I think the team should be split up into a content team, and a Adjustment team to make updates more appealing and give a better direction to the game. Here are some ideas for some content that I found pretty interesting that can be added to the game to make it more appealing to the players.
Requirements
Here are the requirements needed for these events to work.
-Addition of chocobo's (Transportation)
-Improvement of Claiming system (Make all targets being attack red, instead of how the current system is)
-Allow others to attack claimed targets, and split up rewards by how much effort each person attacking the enemy does. (Very useful for behests.)
-When enrolling in a event (Like Behest) automatically make enrollers join a party since they are all enrolled for the same cause.
Warfare Assault
[I]Warfare Assault is a activity that consist of fighting against beast tribes for control of regions of the map.Here are the following thing this event focuses on.[/l]
-Party Size=15
-Enemy Party Size: (Assault 3 waves) (lower fighters 15 troops) (Middle Fighters 8 Troops) (NM last wave, with 4 Higher lv troops for a total of 5 enemies.)
(Changes)
-Similar to FFXI add a Campaign type of inferface to the small camps, small cities, and the main city. (Main cities can only be assaulted if all small cities, and camps have been overtaken.)
-What the interface controls is the following
*How many Guildleves you can do at the camp. (and type)
*How much of those Tribes are in that region of the map.
*The price of animas needed to teleport to the location.
*What the npc's sells, or if there are any at all.
*Whether are not you can do Behests. (Cannot do behest if tribes own the camp.)
(Assault)
This is the players assaulting the beast tribes to get control of regions of the maps. These special missions can only be obtained at the city state. Once every hour.
~Types of Assault~
-Attacking beast tribes troops that are defending a transport.
-Attacking beast tribes troops that have overtaken a camp.
-Attacking beast tribes in there main fortresses.
(Defend)
This is the players defending the camps/cities to keep control of regions of the maps. These Warfare Assaults are random and are announced in the main chat, they happen randomly around the world every hour.(Only watchmans are informed of where its happening)
~How to enroll~
-In the city state you can apply to be a watchman meaning that news of all Warfare Assaults are announced though your chat log letting you know when a Assault has begun. But by not joining the Defensive run you lose Honor lowing the amount of Awards you receive and Warfare points. (explained below).
-And for non watchman players there is a npc enroller similar to behest near the area.
~Watchmans vs Regular Adventures~
-Watchman get honor which either lower or raises the prices of items so by not joining Warfare Assaults you can be losing more money, and you also get less Warfare points.
~Warfare Points~
-Points that allow you to get good items, or gils from a npc in the city state.
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Chocobo Racing
(More details later)
[I]Chocobo Racing is a activity that is very similar to mario cart, you race your chocobo around with other players using "Items" to either hinder or improve performance of you and other players.[/l]
-Party Size: 8
~Items~
Green Gysahl-Increases your Chocobo speed.
Yellow Gysahi-Increases your Stamina
Bomb-throw a bomb to cause a explosion
Red chill pepper-Get fire breath for a short duration.
Chocobo Feather-Teleport in front of the person that is ahead of you.
(etc the point is to make it fun and funny :D)
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Companies
(More details later)
[I]Companies are a activity that involves 4 crafters making a new idea. Similar to that cake they had in the video.[/l]
-Party Size:4
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mutiny
Mutinies involve fighting pirates, or ships. (More details later)
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Entrapment Battlefield
(More details later)
Instance battles in a battlefield same as BCNM in FFXI,
________________________________________________________________________Only the first Activity seem pretty much completed to me. More info on the others later just gave descriptions of what they are.