I'm shitty at formatting so I'll just make a list. The list isn't in a specific order of importance.
1. Two toned dyeing. Basically changing the 2 main colors of an item, i.e. changing the black part on Company Tabard.
2. Free Company PvP Tournament. The FC signs up in the beginning of the week and then the tournament would happen over the next few days. Winners get rewards and stuff.
3. Level 60 monsters that drop more valuable materials and are harder to kill. SE my be doing something like this with the airship exploration.
4. Consequences for a FATE failing. If a fate fails the landscape is changed i.e. FATE monsters running around even after the FATE is over temporarily. A new FATE will spawn that will change the landscape back to normal.
5. A Free Market. Every thing is sellable except for token based,relic, and AF gear. These include all green,pink, and blue dungeon items.
6. New Roulette for Expert primals and Crystal Tower.
7. PvP zone. Like a free battle zone
8.Gear sets that effect skills. I.e. a set that turns Blizzard 4 into an aoe. Or a set that increases Bios duration.
9. Stronger crafted gear, less emphasis on glamour more on effectiveness.
10. Turning off battle music.
11. I don't know if this one would be popular, maybe an idea for 4.0. Splitting jobs in half to specialize in a specific field. Like splitting Black Mage into AoE or single target. This would start at the split, not change how the job worked before. Could give them a cool name to, like Galaxy Mage or something.
12. Alternating animations for spells. Mix it up a bit rather than the same robotic character animations.
13. Magic scrolls that contain one spell. Can be a new crafter.
14. New super skills. Can be for 4.0. Basically has along cast time or(both) recast time Each job would have one.
15. Randomized Treasure Chests. One spawns in every area say every 4 hours in a random spot.
16. More character customization options. A shorter less pissed off male Au Ra, a big Miqote, a skinny Roe, a bigger female Au ra.
17. End ps3.
Some ideas I have to make the game more active.
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10-01-2015, 08:06 AMElkySome ideas I have to make the game more active.
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10-01-2015, 08:48 AMxXRaineXx
1. While I've been asking for this for a very long time, for now it won't happen unless they drastically upgrade their servers. Adding more color schemes to a item means adding more, double or even triple the current amount of textures. It won't happen anytime soon that's for sure.
3. I think you already answered your question.
4. What??
5. Again, I would like to see this. There are unique items I want, but unable to get. But that also means people are less inclined to run dungeons to farm for their glamour. Because anything below lvl 60 is all glamour.
6. This should happen. Sooooon.... look forward to it.
7. No.
8. This... is ok... but it won't really have any beneficial effect unless ur not raiding. No one who raids wears a single perfect set. It always a combination of raid and tome gear.
9. How do you make stronger crafting gear that doesn't make raid or tome gear pointless? In my opinion it's fine as it is.
11. Haha you're funny.
12. This is good... but again, would mean a lot more resources and data. Refer to #1.
13. ???
14. You mean limit breaks? ....jk Unless these 'super skills' do crazy damage, it will be a DPS loss if there was a long cast time.
15. I can just about see a very salty community now... We have treasure maps for this.
16. Again... more data.data.data.and more data.
17. What you got against PS3? -
10-01-2015, 09:01 AMMoonlitSilhouette
Wouldn't taking away PS3 support make the game less active? Most of these ideas have nothing to do with making the game more active.
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10-01-2015, 09:17 AMElky
I mean active as things to do in game. And ps3 is putting limitations on that.
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10-01-2015, 09:18 AMXatsh
There are 4 way that would make people stop taking breaks and remain more active.
1) Horizontal Development (So there is no end content... people are getting to Savage(which trumps everything else) and then get bored of doing that and Expert rulette.)
2) Make crafting and the economy relevant. Glamour gear and minions =/= relevant.
3) Have content that is not instant gratification or designed for casuals. (Rare nm spawns which drop gear equivalent for now say to I200... do not want to do them do the dungeons for tokens. Or any variety of content. We need more then just dungeons and Raids for endgame) You know add content for all player types not just 1 and expect everyone to enjoy it.
4) Stop negating content every 6 months or release 3xs the content.
Honestly I do not see any of these happening.
1) Yoshida wants it to be pure verticle for what ever reason. He made that clear. So there will always be an end which is horrible in a mmo setting.
2) OMG THE RMT... to counter this we will punish the player... Oh btw I still get 10tells every 30mins. SO yea crafting is vanity only and rmt is just as bad as it would be otherwise.
3) But the game is a casual mmo. CASUAL ONLY!!!!! no guild content, no long term content. ONLY SOLO/PUG/LOWMAN STATIC CONTENT!!!!! oh and instant rewards only no working for anything.
4) New content keeps the game fresh... SO enjoy the 1 month of content we add every 3 months. And they do not have the staff to release the equivalent of 3 major patches every 6 months, honestly I do not think any studio would.
Aka welcome to ffxiv. There is nothing that can be fixed unless SE changes stuff.
Vanity gear, Achievements, Mounts will only satisfy an extremely small portion of the playerbase.
Alot of the OPS ideas I would support. But I will throw another thing. OMG THE BALANCE.... everything must be perfectly balanced in pve(the one thing where balance really does not matter... unless your only fight check is a DPS checks... oh wait a minute, nm). Thus making it impossible to have worthwhile armor design everything must be an excell spreadsheet drag down of stats.
But in reality this game is not designed to work like that. It is designed for short burst of playtime. The weekend warrior. This is a not game designed for people to play as a full time mmo. -
10-01-2015, 10:01 AMEnkidoh
This thread can just be summed up as yet another "this isn't like FFXI so make it like FFXI!" thread. Because 90% of the ideas mentioned were already used in FFXI to varying degrees of success, which explains exactly why they haven't been utilized or implemented in FFXIV, and the rest are just very minor QoL ideas that would have a very low priority in the grand scheme of things. Meaning that most of your ideas will never be implemented or at the very least, would be highly unlikely.
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10-01-2015, 10:02 AMazlewood
number 10, I don't get; who plays with the music on anyways?
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10-01-2015, 10:14 AMiambanana5. Yes please, we need more thing to sell on the market, way to stop gil seller is not to make gil obsolete, that very lazy solution that im not expect from a great company like SEQuote:
Originally Posted by Elky
9. I agree with this, just need alternative end game equip from crafting, alternative, not the best.
15. maybe 4 hour eorzea time, and its drop something gated like red scrip mat/eso gear (in very very low chance), so we can break the weekly gate even with slight chance and very grindy way -
10-01-2015, 10:47 AMAlternativeOne
Make Final Fantasy 11 with a party finder.
Nothing they can do to fix this game. -
10-01-2015, 10:58 AMIromi
I agree with most of your list...it would help a lot..
And Xatsh makes very good points :( which make me sad to realize all of that is true lol. ; ; -
10-01-2015, 12:21 PMChimericBREAKING: Higgs Boson discovered in collision between dead horse particle and vigorously swung stick.Quote:
Originally Posted by Elky
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10-01-2015, 02:29 PMElky
I never played 11. They're just some ideas to get out of the repetition thats from 2.0.
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10-01-2015, 02:36 PMKolainaSE loses money causing a deterrent on new content due to insufficient fundsQuote:
Originally Posted by Elky
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10-01-2015, 02:39 PMAwful
I don't like any of the ideas except the set bonuses for gear but even then it's tough to balance that out and it'd favor more classes to bring X job instead of Y. For example if they made something like idk 4 set for Mch gives hypercharge +5% more dmg from physical and magic attacks where bards would get something like your bloodletter when it resets has a 50% increased crit rate. It'd have to be balanced pretty hard to achieve this. Again just pulling his outta me arse.
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10-01-2015, 02:52 PMAzazua_azura
As a former ff11 player i kinda would like some of this, but not all.
First off, gear set stats like the ones you suggested don't work in a Duty finder game set up. Those stats tend to become make or break by the community and you end up getting shunned or insulted, or simply kicked out of a party for not having this gear. I had personally experienced alot of that stuff in ff11 more so when gear swapping became near manditory.
Secondly, said gear i mentioned mostly came from NM or notorious monsters which in ff11 would spawn at random and drop the gear at random. Think atma farming pre-changes or relic dungeon drops pre-changes, but worst. They would pretty much need to make them to what ff14 1.0 made them, which was 5 min pop timers and 50% drop rates. And just to add we are already having issues with Hunt mobs in the ARR fields not being killed off, it sucks when trying to level or do a quest and a A rank or S rank is pretty much in your leve or quest area.
As for the dye system, things would have to be changed. Mostly because our character/gear data is pretty high to what Yoshida-san had said. Then you have to revamp the dyes as it would add to the inventory bloat. I personaly carry 2 stacks of dye to keep my color scheme adding more toning would easily make it 3-4 stacks based on gear and how they two toned it.
I do wish content lasted longer, due to personal issues and some game issues I missed out on coil, no one really does it and it takes a bit to find people willing to undersize it which makes it near irrelivent. In ff11 content lasted years, I miss that a bit. Ansd coming from 1.0 and being a fan girl of bahamut that was one content i REALLY wanted to do.
Lastly, how is the ps3 limiting ff14? All i read is people making assumptions, and not really explaining the why using facts. I play on the ps3 and can't afford the ps4 atm, nor could i afford to buy ARR and HW for a third time. The ps3 i own was a gift from a old boyfriend to play ff14 when we first heard of it back in 2010/2011, and i do chores for my mom to pay for ff14. If they drop it now i could play it, and i love this game. -
10-02-2015, 01:07 AMMugenMugetsuThe PS3 only has 256Mb of VRAM and 256 Mb of system RAM. That's 512Mb of RAM in total. This limits how much information can be stored on your system. This means that the devs to have to work with the understanding that they only have 512Mb of RAM to take into consideration when creating content such as zones that load whenever you load into a new area, how many player characters can be displayed on screen at once, how many polygons can make up mobs, environments, etc. how many textures can be displayed, etc. Basically, any information that the game will need to be able to access whenever you're in an area, your PS3 will have to have the information stored in the RAM. The less RAM you have, the less that can be stored. This holds back the game due to the devs having to make sure that the game will be compatible with PS3 and having to design the game around the limitations of the PS3.Quote:
Originally Posted by Azazua_azura
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10-02-2015, 07:02 AMKaedrianLiang*Que's battle theme, drums rawr* War machines rolling*Quote:
Originally Posted by Elky
https://youtu.be/FNcjANP9y_U?t=6m28s
/vomits nostalgia
You know if Yoshi-p decides to expand the dev team, he should really consider making a team dedicated to PvP. If PvP becomes something as enjoyable as it was in WoW, they can attract hundreds of thousands of players from the PvP crowd of mmorpg gaming. -
10-02-2015, 07:34 AMNiroken
I just wished there was more encouragement to play with other players from your own server. I would love to be able to go through some Roulettes or dungeon crawling with people who I can actually see again. I just want some long lasting group content I can play with different players without being stuck with having to use a static. FF14 is very anti-social compaired to other MMOs I've played.
Also do we not have a Linkshell directory? -
10-02-2015, 07:47 AMDimitrias
Wasn't this game more social at launch when all we had was PF, before they added the whole cross server DF?
At least it seemed more social back then.
Also I don't know why they put regions for servers this time around. Back in ffxi everyone around the world played on the same servers, but ffxiv they separated jap/ and English servers for some reason... -
10-02-2015, 07:51 AMJim_BerryBreh!Quote:
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I'm on PS3, and many people think I'm on PS4 because of how I play (I rarely get hit to AoEs). -
10-02-2015, 07:58 AMJim_BerryThe thing is, some people feel as though their server suck while other people only want to play with people they know.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niroken
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10-02-2015, 08:24 AMraelaBleh, my experience with pvpers mixed in with pve-ers is horrible.. Even worse of the "filthy casual" mentality than is tossed around with raiders.Quote:
Originally Posted by KaedrianLiang
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10-02-2015, 08:27 AMGilthasAs much as I enjoyed FFXI, I left it for a reason.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xatsh
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10-02-2015, 08:39 AMZeonx
1. Add NM's with special glamour or weapons that you can sell your claim your drop.
2. Boat racing near the dock of wolves den, just like chocobo racing except with boats and going full circle.
3. Adding Sprint to Chocobo or jet boost on Magitek armor and burst of speed on flying mounts just like running sprint but with a timer.
4 Chocobo digging just like FFXI add this to FFXIV you dig to find stuff add items revolving around your chocobo and items to sell. -
10-02-2015, 08:46 AMAmiaze1) I agree.Quote:
Originally Posted by Elky
2) This would be a good idea, but what incentives would they implement? More glamour options? Offering dev-given gifts would seem odd since it's done among your personal guild.
3) Indeed, airship exploration is answering this. And before that, hunts answered it. Perhaps not as well as it could have, but it did.
4) While I like the idea of penalizing you for failure, I do not think that this is a good idea. FATEs are only as successful as the community is, and there are certain ones that are nigh impossible to do without a large number of people. I really wouldn't like to see giant crabs and goobbues running about just because nobody wanted to do the FATE. This might also make players feel as if they're inclined to stop and do them all the time, and nobody wants to do that.
5) I partly agree. It would encourage players to solo-run dungeons to get the gear and sell it at a high price for players that want to access it early, thus giving them no reason to run the content themselves. And when the prices are deemed too high and players do run the content themselves, this niche in the market will likely just fizzle out.
6) Yes. I recall a GM stating that they were looking into the Crystal Tower portion.
7) No, thanks. Not only would it seem jarring from a lore-perspective, but God forbid you accidentally stumble into that area, or someone decides to place a FATE or something too close to it.
8) How would this work, exactly? And how would they balance it across all the classes and roles? If they increase anything concerning WHM's potency, for instance, then it will become overpowered. If they increase its DPS output, then it will run the same risk. That will also just fuel more discussions about healers fitting into DPS slots, and that's an argument that already seems to have no end in sight.
9) On this, I can agree. Hard work goes into crafting end-level gear. I personally think that what we make ourselves should at least be in the same ballpark as the gear that we currently spam Seal Rock for countless hours to purchase. The hard work put into crafting yields very little in this regard.
10) I believe they're already looking into this.
11) I'm all for more customization and preference settings, but we run the risk of imbalance. It's also a bit of a moot point since diversity in party composition, something the game rewards you for, already achieves this. It would also go against what the devs have been doing in terms of keeping everyone on the same level.
12) Yes, please!
13) Didn't something in FFXI work like this? I'm all for this sort of idea (I was hoping they might take a note from Rikku in FFX and make a new job from it), but this might only complicate our current inventory issues.
14) A personalized Limit Break, perhaps? How would this balance out across different roles? Would it be used in dungeons as well, or just out on the world field?
15) I think the airship raids are answering this, as well.
16) Memory issues.
17) This would solve #16, as well as a number of other unlisted issues. This is coming from someone who was a PS3 user until recently. -
10-02-2015, 08:46 AMKaedrianLiangNever heard of these "horrible experiences" or "filthy casuals" i tend to have a pleasant experience with everyone i encounter. Except for discriminating JP's.Quote:
Originally Posted by raela
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10-02-2015, 08:47 AMUBERHAXEDI think you have this backwards. At launch all we had was cross server df and 5 months later in 2.1 they patched in the pf.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dimitrias
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10-02-2015, 09:33 AMXatshSO making it a dumbed down WoW is better?Quote:
Originally Posted by Gilthas
NO one is asking for an XI clone. But atm the game is way way too linear and everything is designed for solo. If the opposite of that is XI... then yes make it an XI clone. -
10-02-2015, 10:07 AMTheUltimate3
Item Decay.
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10-02-2015, 10:12 AMUltimateAoe2
a skinny roe
WHAT
I want beefier roes and hairy roes thanks 8D.
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10-02-2015, 01:54 PMAzazua_azuraMost of what you just said is more graphical then anything. The ps3 loads a lil slower, has a shorter draw distance, and loads fewer character on the screen. Also the ff14 engine is house built and scale-able. So i ask again how is the ps3 limiting ff14 just saying the specs then saying "it just is" is pretty much assumption. Say if they drop the ps3 what exactly would change? What could be added that can't be added now? (as in content not fluff)Quote:
Originally Posted by MugenMugetsu
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10-02-2015, 02:41 PMhagare
this is how you make a game more active:
http://images.macworld.com/images/ho...e_original.jpg
:p