Is this going to be a thing, ever? More and more details have dropped regarding 3.1, and it seems like actually steering an airship around with your friends hopping around on board ooh-ing and aah-ing as the scenery blows by, is the one thing that has been left out.
Flying an airship was pretty much why I got excited about them in the first place. What's up with this?
I want to ride in the airships my FC has crafted.
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10-04-2015, 06:01 AMYeldirI want to ride in the airships my FC has crafted.
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10-04-2015, 06:36 AMNutz
Hmm, I hadn't thought about it, but I don't really recall if something like this is in the pipeline. I don't really remember what plans they had for airship content outside of what we have and what we're getting in 3.1 or if there was any more revealed.
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10-04-2015, 06:43 AMCanadane
You barely get to experience the existing airships between cities.
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10-04-2015, 06:44 AMYaichiro
It would be sad if exploratory islands didn't have the feature of steering my airship with my whole FC on top of it.
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10-04-2015, 06:46 AMVejjiegirlFor some reason I don't think it will. They showed us we can fly around on our mounts but nothing really on flying around the map on our airships apart from being able to fly to the zones.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yaichiro
I'm starting to feel like its just going to be a random cutscene and we wont actually get to fly around in our ships. -
10-04-2015, 06:47 AMColorfulIt's just that when the developers have you spend resources on creating a custom airship, and then say you'll be be able to explore you might expect to be actually use it y'know? I was hoping it would be used to travel between the islands, but that's going to be done by flying mounts so it'll probably just be a cutscene that takes us to the area with the airship. =/Quote:
Originally Posted by Nutz
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10-04-2015, 07:18 AMKsenia
Due to the way they real time sink it in a retainer venture like fashion, I think the best we can hope for is they one day unlock cut scenes tied to Air ship travel.
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10-04-2015, 07:32 AMAlphaFox
Tho honestly, anyone else kinda miss the travel between places on boat/airship in XI? Even in Maplestory it was one of the chill times to just talk to random people that you normally wouldn't.
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10-04-2015, 08:05 AMYaichiro
I am totally bitter about the fact that they reduced the concept of airships into retainers ventures.
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10-04-2015, 11:30 AMColorfulNever played FFXI, but it was always nice in WoW. FFXIV's world is so cut off and disjointed that's it's never going to work unless they rebuild the world from (mostly) scratch and remove all but a few teleports (being return, house, etc)... that's never going to happen though.Quote:
Originally Posted by AlphaFox
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10-04-2015, 11:51 AMAlphaFoxTo my knowledge the Boat ride/Airship ride is just another loading instance that appeared every 15mins, stayed for 5 (for loading or unloading people) then a 5 minute visual ride to the new location, so they wouldn't really have to rework anything, just simply piece there map together and have it visually pleasing to look down....or go the cheap route and only have clouds.Quote:
Originally Posted by Colorful
Which thinking about now, we kinda already got with Bismark. Just replace the combat with an airship setting, let it stay for 5-10mins (say perhaps when traveling to the new location that is in need for airships?) Then simply fade to black, load character in the airship port. -
10-04-2015, 12:01 PMColorfulI don't believe it would be worth giving up teleports for a rather poor implementation of airship travel, I want to feel like I'm actually traveling the world, seeing it below and all. I'm not sure Eorzeans travel to other continents, but airships could be used for that in the future like you described. They could even turn it into a trial each time you wanted to travel to the other continent and you have to fend off monsters (that was the best part of ArcheAge), but people would complain of course.Quote:
Originally Posted by AlphaFox
It does seem odd to introduce airships early on only to never use them once you unlock each capital's aetheryte, I guess if you were cheap and didn't want to spend money on teleports but gil flows like candy from roulettes which everyone would be doing regardless. -
10-04-2015, 12:23 PMAlphaFox
I kinda think it was either left over from 1.0, or was an idea to be taken from 11 but was changed. I can't say for sure on 1.0 as I never got to try it.
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10-04-2015, 02:25 PMXieveralThat reason is PS3. I hope that when they drop support, they'll go back and fix things so stuff like this is possible.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vejjiegirl
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10-04-2015, 02:30 PMBelhi
I would like our FC Airships to at least be visable. None in the FC including the people who contributed to them have ever even gotten to see them except for the handful who handle sending the Airships out.
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10-04-2015, 06:55 PMFelisEven a PS3 can handle it if SE do the airship ride like the ferry ride during 1.xQuote:
Originally Posted by Xieveral
I think the only reason why the ferry ride got removed in ARR was because the playerbase couldn't handle the wait time before and during the ride. -
10-04-2015, 07:17 PMYaichiroWaiting for the sake of waiting is never appealing but if you mix some kind of content such as sky monsters then it becomes something totally different.Quote:
Originally Posted by Felis
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10-04-2015, 10:17 PMMilesSaintboroguhYeah, until you fight them for the billionth time with your overpowered gear.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yaichiro
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10-04-2015, 11:54 PMIromi
I know for a fact they said not only will we fly it and control it, but that it will require multiple people and doing different roles. As in one will manage steering, another fuel, etc...i will find the interview where they said this later.
I really hope they aren't changing this -_-
Edit: Found it,
http://www.bluegartr.com/archive/ind.../t-122723.htmlQuote:
Airship will have a captain, and other roles to steer the ship. (Secrets of Eorzea; 07/18/2014)
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10-05-2015, 01:00 AMNalienWhich is stupid. We already have teleports for people who want to get somewhere instantly... It's really a pathetic excuse when paired with something like Chocobo Porters, too... Those certainly aren't instant, granted you don't have to wait for the Chocobo to arrive before you get to ride it. Not like they couldn't just make it optional, too... Buy a ticket, "Do you want to wait? Y/N", done.Quote:
Originally Posted by Felis
The Ferry ride would have been a perfect Fishing spot, too... Heck, so would Airship rides, considering Skyfishing is a thing... The funny thing about that? Fishing already involves a lot of waiting... I certainly can't catch Thunderbolt Eels all day, I have to wait for a window... Just another thing that makes their excuse all the more vapid... Pretty sure Airships and Ferry rides would be more regular than half the windows for certain fish, certainly when you also pair it up with weather requirements...
As for Free Company Airships... All I want at this point in something along the lines of Skies of Arcadia... I think of some of the Airship battles in that game, and I can't help but feel that is how Bismarck should have been... How did we even kill Bismarck as it is? We popped a giant zit on his back or something? Snore, give me something like Skies' Gigas battles please. We've come a long way from the Dreamcast, I'm sure the development team could work something better out of the concept... Certainly opens up a whole new avenue of possibilities for Trials, rather than the same boring recycled Primal set up... Aerial dogfights with Garlean Ships? A final showdown with the Gration? Nope, we'll be getting cutscenes and a dungeon instead... -
10-05-2015, 01:24 AMSho86
Flying an airship/riding a fishing boat doesn't always have to be all sitting and waiting either. I remember multiple times riding the Selbina boat in XI and getting pirates boarding the boat or having the Sea Horror pop up. It wouldn't take much for them to make the ride interesting and worthwhile for the exploration/journey. Fun times with Sea Horror too, I remember a few times all of us zoning off the boat into Mhaura in a dead dog pile, and someone in town raising everyone lol. Anyways, if they did it in XI, they could fine tune it in XIV for sure.
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10-05-2015, 02:00 AMKhalitharHopefully there is a big comfy captain's chair to sit in. :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Iromi
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10-05-2015, 02:13 AMColorfulQuote:
Originally Posted by Iromi
So we're finally going to get this in 3.1?... =lQuote:
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