Stone Masons

I think it would be cool if they added a stone mason job and you could do things like repair the cobblestone pathways or build roads. Something that may take the effort of 200+ ppl the course of a week to a month real time to complete, a joint effort of many to help unify us and accomplish something great that can physically be seen.

Then anyone traveling on these roads would travel at 20% faster than traveling through grass.

I know this probably wont happen because it would physically change the maps but I thought it would be a cool idea.

Also you could have carpenters and other jobs be able to build new structures or fix existing ones, say that were damaged from a amal'jaa attack on the city or something. Again prolly not gonna happen, but I think it would be really awesome to be able to create a in game building thats there for all to see

I think it's a cool idea. I would love participating in something like this.

Interesting idea with many possible developments, i like it. Contributing to modify some in game graphics (buildings, roads, etc.) would be really nice and a more dynamic/evolving world.

ME LIKIE. DO ET!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!. I love stuff like this in mud and in the sims.

Would be brilliant. They could tie it into the creative build your house system.

Cool idea indeed, but I'd rather not see it implemented D:

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Originally Posted by Nayt

Cool idea indeed, but I'd rather not see it implemented D:

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Lol, thanks for posting?

Cool thing if it'll happen.. with other crafting sinergies among players.

I'm learning to be stone mason in real life. This has going to make your character very tired and never want to get on their hands and knees again.

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Originally Posted by ObeiKinstar

Lol, thanks for posting?

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I mean that while it is an interesting feature and works great in a game where the environment is more modifiable, those aren't the kinds of features I'd like the dev. teams to focus on in this game. I never was much for sandbox games, and I don't think this one should develop into one.

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Originally Posted by Nayt

I mean that while it is an interesting feature and works great in a game where the environment is more modifiable, those aren't the kinds of features I'd like the dev. teams to focus on in this game. I never was much for sandbox games, and I don't think this one should develop into one.

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good comment, keep em coming guys!

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Originally Posted by ObeiKinstar

I think it would be cool if they added a stone mason job and you could do things like repair the cobblestone pathways or build roads. Something that may take the effort of 200+ ppl the course of a week to a month real time to complete, a joint effort of many to help unify us and accomplish something great that can physically be seen.

Then anyone traveling on these roads would travel at 20% faster than traveling through grass.

I know this probably wont happen because it would physically change the maps but I thought it would be a cool idea.

Also you could have carpenters and other jobs be able to build new structures or fix existing ones, say that were damaged from a amal'jaa attack on the city or something. Again probably not gonna happen, but I think it would be really awesome to be able to create a in game building that's there for all to see

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There have been a few threads about making Eorzea a more dynamic place, and this idea certainly would accomplish that. Though I am curious if once the road was built if it would ever need to be repaired and how much work people would be willing to keep it maintained? Though, when you look at it that way, it's easy to see why the roads are in such a state of disrepair.

But if Eorzea had a series of "social projects" that needed to get accomplished in order to make improvements that everyone could benefit from, I would be solidly behind them. (Upkeep on them, I'm not so sure.) Repair a stretch of road and get granted a movement bonus while traveling over that section. Built a bridge to open up new areas to explore in a zone. Add or improve buildings at the Silver or Golden Bazaar to bring in more NPCs, opening up quests and other conveniences not seen outside of the city (like the MW or an AH if they introduce it). Clear out blocked tunnels in the mines (which occasionally close back up) to delve deeper down into them. And so on...

Now that would be interesting.

Neat idea
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I like the idea, but I smell alot of servers with dirty words written using pathways >_>

yeah it's a fun idea, would certainly give more importance to crafter jobs and bring more life to the game. Once the road is completed (or the segment of it) then you can have carpenters build fences to border it :P

Could be done by the devs if those special crafting events would be predetermined so that the roads wouldnt be built just anywhere and go everywhere at once.

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Originally Posted by Vahzl

I like the idea, but I smell alot of servers with dirty words written using pathways >_>

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lol yeah but not if those were predetermined. Like we have dirt roads now, the masons could work those roads to pave them and maintain them. Not let every mason build a road just anywhere.

Same thing if they allow for building houses and stuff, there would need to be predetermined places where such strustures can be built.

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Originally Posted by normalforce

There have been a few threads about making Eorzea a more dynamic place, and this idea certainly would accomplish that. Though I am curious if once the road was built if it would ever need to be repaired and how much work people would be willing to keep it maintained? Though, when you look at it that way, it's easy to see why the roads are in such a state of disrepair.

But if Eorzea had a series of "social projects" that needed to get accomplished in order to make improvements that everyone could benefit from, I would be solidly behind them. (Upkeep on them, I'm not so sure.) Repair a stretch of road and get granted a movement bonus while traveling over that section. Built a bridge to open up new areas to explore in a zone. Add or improve buildings at the Silver or Golden Bazaar to bring in more NPCs, opening up quests and other conveniences not seen outside of the city (like the MW or an AH if they introduce it). Clear out blocked tunnels in the mines (which occasionally close back up) to delve deeper down into them. And so on...

Now that would be interesting.

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Excellent thoughts!!

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Originally Posted by Vahzl

I like the idea, but I smell alot of servers with dirty words written using pathways >_>

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It would be in all sorts of languages, too. Truly a multicultural game.

When airships finally get introduced into the game and I can just imagine looking down at an aerial view of Thanalan...

Me: "Hey look, you can see the road from... MY MOM'S A WHAT!?!"
Friend: "Hmmm, in three languages, too."

Though, I doubt they'd give us that much freedom to lay bricks. Otherwise... you want to what!? Pave all of Thanalan? o.O Sweet Azeyma, that's insane. (And quite possibly brilliant.)

Or bridges to nowhere that would mar the landscape.
Me: "Where does that bridge go?"
Crazy: "To the other side of the hill."
Me: "That you could have easily walked down?"
Crazy: "Don't tell ME how to play MY game!"
::slowly backs away::

Im slowly getting on board with the social project idea. I dont think it should be exclusive to a crafting class though. Mason would be a nice class on its own though, with its own set of crafts. Repairing a road could require a combination of skills or ranks, or be more efficient depending on class being used. A cook with mason rank 1 wouldnt be as fast at it than a cook with mason rank 50, but he should still be allowed to try, yes?

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Originally Posted by normalforce

It would be in all sorts of languages, too. Truly a multicultural game.

When airships finally get introduced into the game and I can just imagine looking down at an aerial view of Thanalan...

Me: "Hey look, you can see the road from... MY MOM'S A WHAT!?!"
Friend: "Hmmm, in three languages, too.

Though, I doubt they'd give us that much freedom to lay bricks. Otherwise... you want to what!? Pave all of Thanalan? o.O Sweet Azeyma, that's insane. (And quite possibly brilliant.)[/I]

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My original thought had been to only be able to build/repair roads in set places. This would include the main pathways veiwable on the mini-map and maybe a few smaller pathways to the mines for instance.

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Originally Posted by Jericho

Im slowly getting on board with the social project idea. I dont think it should be exclusive to a crafting class though. Mason would be a nice class on its own though, with its own set of crafts. Repairing a road could require a combination of skills or ranks, or be more efficient depending on class being used. A cook with mason rank 1 wouldnt be as fast at it than a cook with mason rank 50, but he should still be allowed to try, yes?

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Yes! This would be a social project requiring many people, all services would be needed. The sky is the limit with what you could do. Maybe miners would be needed to quarry stones, alchemists would make the cement and mortar. You could have low level masons make easier parts of the path, while the higher rank masons complete the harder parts. You could even have cooks prepare meals and drinks for the workers (which would give bonuses to whatever they are doing)

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Originally Posted by Perrin_Aybarra

yeah it's a fun idea, would certainly give more importance to crafter jobs and bring more life to the game. Once the road is completed (or the segment of it) then you can have carpenters build fences to border it :P

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Imagine if they fixed the environment collision so that it would be possible to fall off ledges and possibly die or take a big hp hit. Then the carpentars really would have a reason to build/repair fences. It would fit perfectly into the game *SPOILER*, I already had a quest where a caravan drove off the side of the road and busted the fence all up, plus some of those fences near the edges of cliffs look to be in serious need of repair!

I admit, writing boobies outside of Uldah in 200 foot high letters would be incredible.

Yoshi-P, stop adding Chat Mode T or Targetting Mode Alpha 9, and get to making abusive landscapes! We want to write Knickers across the plains of Thanalan damn it!

Good idea... come to think of it, it would be interesting if they made content along these lines that involves all crafters (it could sort've be their exclusive "end-game" since working them into actual combat encounters has apparently proven too difficult/possibly gimmicky).

For instance, they could involve crafters in the building of new towns and garrisons expanding into Eorzea through special repeatable leves for certain-ranked crafters, or by making untradeable/unique materials to be given to NPCs.

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Originally Posted by Verecund

For instance, they could involve crafters in the building of new towns and garrisons expanding into Eorzea through special repeatable leves for certain-ranked crafters, or by making untradeable/unique materials to be given to NPCs.

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All of that and more!

And what's great, they've even got a ready-made story for exactly that: Ala Mhigo. An entire city was destroyed and a whole culture displaced. The place is teeming with monsters that need to be cleared out, resources to be collected, an Empire to hold at bay, and ruins to be built back into a city.

Something that I hope would take a few months to complete, and require the cooperation of hundreds of players. Benefits for helping might be slightly higher discounts for buying items there, better prices for sold goods, higher reputation than those who didn't help, a special construction hat (:p), etc.

Interesting idea. We do have pathways on the maps which aren't visible roads. Perhaps a movement speed bonus on paving stones versus compressed gravel versus no roads could be applied.