Random Gripe About the Firmament

I know this is random, but why is the Firmament the only place (as far as I know) that didn't get the aetherite map upgrade? The aetherites there still have the older aetherite interface (that doesn't bring up a map when trying to move to another aetherite within the Firmament).

I know it isn't crawling with new content, but if you do fetes, custom deliveries, or anything involving the diadem, then the Firmament is still very much useful.

Can this be fixed please?

Excellent point, and I agree that it's annoying not having the map to choose where to teleport to. I also appreciate that you seem to have used an old-fashioned typewriter to hammer out this post. I hope it was not too taxing on your ink ribbon! :p

Who knows why Firmament is still like that, it doesn't make much sense. Like so many other silly things, I wonder if it's something ridiculous like "spaghetti code" or "in order to allow FATE system to check you were on a DoH job, we had to either take away aetheryte map or chocobo saddlebag, or else the game would crash."

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Originally Posted by Fyrebrand

I also appreciate that you seem to have used an old-fashioned typewriter to hammer out this post.

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At least it's not comic sans.

Constant FATE churning is probably a reason. From a development standpoint to me this basically feels low priority, along the lines of, 'we could do it, but it likely requires more changes that we rather spend more time elsewhere on'.

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Originally Posted by Fyrebrand

Who knows why Firmament is still like that, it doesn't make much sense. Like so many other silly things, I wonder if it's something ridiculous like "spaghetti code" or "in order to allow FATE system to check you were on a DoH job, we had to either take away aetheryte map or chocobo saddlebag, or else the game would crash."

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You know, for once, I actually got nothing.

With something like 98% of all their "this would be technically infeasible" answers, I can draw on past experience as a game dev and easily envision what happened on the back-end infrastructure to make it a nightmare scenario to try to implement a thing now, and usually am happy to try to break it down for others as to what might've gone wrong. But this? This one's the 2% where I'm genuinely like... yeah, I have no clue what on earth would restrict them from doing that.

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I've been asking myself the same question. Did they like forget to update the Firmament's aetheryte system or something?

They probably just forgot.

Do Bozja or the Doman Enclave use the new system? I haven't had a reason to check.

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Originally Posted by TheMightyMollusk

They probably just forgot.

Do Bozja or the Doman Enclave use the new system? I haven't had a reason to check.

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Yes they do actually. It's really just Firmament that failed to get the update memo

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Originally Posted by Atelier-Bagur

Yes they do actually. It's really just Firmament that failed to get the update memo

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Maps will not be displayed when accessing the Aethernet in the following areas:

The Forbidden Land, Eureka Anemos
The Forbidden Land, Eureka Pagos
The Forbidden Land, Eureka Pyros
The Forbidden Land, Eureka Hydatos
The Bozjan Southern Front
Zadnor
The Firmament

Doman Enclave always used the new system. I just checked Bozja and it uses the old system.

Those maps don't actually use the normal aethernet system to begin with, so they never got the update. It has got nothing to do with spaghetti code and fates.

That makes sense. All of those are special instances. I think Firmament even boots you if you log out from there.