If You Could Create A FATE...

...what would you name it? What would be the story? What type of FATE would it be? Escort? Collection? Boss? Or a battle? Or would it be something completely new and different?

I think it'd be cool if SE hosted a Create a FATE contest, and the winner gets to have their FATE put into the game.

I had a couple ideas for FATEs that I got a chuckle out of. One of them, I titled "We're Ala Mhigos Now," and it'd be one of the first FATEs we see upon arriving in the Stormblood content. It'd be nothing but a battle FATE where you get to help a bunch of Ala Mhigan refugees fight back Garlean soldiers.

Another one I thought of, I called "The Day The Music Died," after Don McLean's song, "American Pie." It'd be a defender FATE, where you have to protect a Bard who lost his or her way, and couldn't play their music until they found their muse.

Have fun with it!

How about a Fate based on a old idea SE once had, where the beastmen would summon one of their Primals and it would be unleashed on the outside world.

Like the Odin FATE, it would pop on some random area, however this one would actually roam around and it would be up to the Players to find it and take it down. Full scale free for all battle, and it would need to be downed before it uses their ultimate or its a wipe for all around.

I read that in 1.0, Atomos would occasionally appear and make aetherytes unavaliable.

I'd like something like that. For example, a FATE (beast tribe invansion?) that you must complete, or else that area's aetheryte and services would be unavaliable until the next FATE to reclaim it.

Guild Wars 2 has something like that. Annoying sometimes, yes, but makes the world more believable and immersive.

Mhm...truth be told, the more I think of it, the more I think I'd rather design a GATE >_>

I'd go with a light hearted one - Taking place in one of the snowy areas, children have started a snowball war and it takes no less than the warrior of light to stop them! Once you decide to step in however, the two warring factions suddenly gang up on you.

It would be a bullet hell sort of FATE where all you need to do is to dodge fast paced AoEs randomly thrown at you and the area for a while, some of which are balls like in the Snowcloak Yeti fight that have no indicator and can be dodged by jumping over them.

And I'd name it nothing other than "Cold War" >.>

A fate with no irritating anger inducing BGM.

A gilgamesh FATE would be fun.

A rare few day "FATE" that includes the whole server, so I guess more of an event but uses FATEs. With the strong premise being a giant void gate opening up in the sky and meteor pouring out, if possible with a sort of facial like features (get that heavy Majora Mask feeling~! lol), that is slowly crashing down on one of the Main Cities (doesn't really matter, could be the new area too). Would like to pull some themes from Chrono Trigger, like Lavos. Really bring that RPG nostalgia, including that FFXIV 1.0 Meteor player's feelings.

Letters sort of used for general ideas for key stage points (not a literal stage, just key changes).

A. The event involves a series of stages and different types of FATEs, beginning with some slow starter FATEs so people can know that it's happening and be prepared to take part if they're unavailable at the first few (so like calming citizens, putting out fires, fighting looters in the street - random events in X_City). Assume that between stages, and specific types of FATEs, certain amount of time (the whole thing is not going down in 10 minutes, but over a few days).

For lower level DoW/M there can be inside the fortified area FATEs, defending lower level enemies, helping control the insides, bringing powerful tonics to players and notoriary NPCs alike (give Raubhan a drink :3), and also consider there may be a Favor of Light buff that makes enemies deal less and take more from these lower level players (not enough to make being higher level not as advantageous, but enough that lower level players can take part too - more defense buff than offense).

B. Building up with escorting citizens and maybe important NPC to places to prayer (to power up the warriors/mother crystal/prayer shield), when these escort fates take place the air is filled with a thick black miasma and players have to protect not only citizens but these protective magitek that create domes of light, mini prayer shields (protection against miasma and void monsters teleporting in). If a prayer shield breaks down crafters need to repair it while other players defend them (interact with the device, opens up a crafting menu / no material cost to player, success increases the life of the shield - also to note the shields should be on carts that crafters could ride and preemptively craft as well as feed boosts to the shield that grants boosts to those under the dome), the darkness creeping in at broken points - shout emote at NPC will get them to unfear and move into nearby activated shields.

C. Events for gathers will appear as well once a base is located where players can protect other gathers while they attempt to obtain resources for the strongholds being made near prayer sites, the success of these helping later stages - the player getting the material from stone, tree, and sea and then players defending gathers who will have a marker when their full on the unique materials as they run to the drop off location. The number of different locations will help separate players from crashing zones / needing many instances of said zone, how players are divided could be done through the GC or some other system - like talking to an NPC General on where they think you should go. There is some leeway in this, just considering that a server wide event will need to have systems in place (whether literal, or through gameplay) that ensures that the whole thing doesn't turn into a crash.

D. Through these events the prayer sites becomes fortified over time and a few assaults happen, like as the through the gathering moments, have cannons and other tools players can use (another tool for lower level players to make a greater impact), waves of enemies (some big waves of fodder, others mini-odin like fights). Aht Urghan sort of feeling (forgot the name of the content in FFXI lol). Important to protect certain NPC to make defending it easier later. After the set of growing difficulty waves over a period of time a status report is made available to players on which areas have what defenses so players can plan accordingly. 20 Minutes before the final massive FATE wave the report of each areas defense also includes player count, so people can organize better (okay this area is low defense and has 12 players, we need more over there!). In between and before events having occasional crafters FATEs to help bolster lost defenses while other FATE events to obtain NPCs who were abducted, including trying to sabotage areas inside the void and get out ASAP. To note while higher level may mean more points it should let anyone gather/craft, the materials needed being free and the difficulty of the craft scaling to the player (but again being high level would be better but not required) - perhaps to prevent a bunch of people messing up on it, after a set amount of failed attempts (like 10, one of the NPC generals suggests you to join the fray as a DoW/M).

During the last big fat push, filled with waves of varying types of monsters (certain sets have certain mechanics, like their ability mechanics, types of aoes, death runners, how melee and ranged behave, what tanks should pick up), some players would be marked with a holy light and they'd have to go into the back and pray. If enough prayer is collected in one area and another falls, that fallen area can be revived with temporary sanctuary (pushed enemies out). So like Horizon could make a last stand and save Forgotten Springs, when one group succeeds they can teleport into other on going sieges.

While there would be points for failure that don't lead in the entire event's failure at points where logic dictates the whole mission/event is now fully failed players would go black screen hear a ticking clock sound and wake up abruptly in their beds, with the FATE happening again sometime in the near future. Although ideally, people die - a lot, areas fall and rise, but so long as the whole server works together the FATE series will be won.

E. Once the prayer stations have been loaded up enough the city in question will begin to power their prayer shield while the entire city becomes a battlefield, optionally those who want to enter the regular city can do so by selecting an option at the zone "remember a better time". The battlezone FATE victory being a tug of war determination, gain enough points win to the next stage, lose enough fall down a stage or to entire mission defeat. The last stage would be the shield shattering, leaving a net that slows the meteor but is no longer holding it, with enough energy remaining that the warriors of light enter into the device and get launched out like a weaponized aetheryte teleport (bolt of warrior lightning lol) - landing on the meteor's surface where they fight a giant FATE boss with a few stages in a fairly large meteor zone (be mindful that there may need to be "craters" to represent different instances so the whole thing doesn't crash due to amount of players). Crafters can help build small healing stations and other useful to player outposts on the meteor (that's falling slowly towards the city, so if you look up there's the city lol), while gathers up to a specific point can find unique resources which will increase the reward of the FATE once won by the DoW/DoM (and or improve crafters results, so things get built faster/better). If they can get some Chrono Trigger sort of Lavos theme with the boss, and the meteor, that'd be perfect lol - including the idea of multiple stages like with Lavos.

There can be a few stages in the boss fight that encourage some time gap as well, so that other players with different timezones can take part more easily; however, if you've taken considerable part through the series you'll get the major rewards at the end regardless if you were there for the final blow (but it'd be cool and a nostalgic moment to be there at the end). If there is a cutscene, those who took enough part can "recall" it later if they missed the even for whatever reason, no need to let them feel worse (not getting to be there with everyone is already enough of a downer). The time frame for the final stages would be consistent/known enough that players once they know that part is happening could plan for it, like SE announces that part VII of the FATE is two hours long and will start three hours after VII (so you can take time off work LOL, or whatever they need to do - tell their SO dinner is take out :P).

Perhaps the event revolves around the anniversary / bard. Happens once a year, maybe not on a specific day but a specific time frame.

Maybe I'll post something far more reasonable and less befitting of an expansion event later lol. But I've always wanted a massive OMG moment series of events, something that included crafters and gatherers, and FATEs seem to fit that need - to let everyone in and progress as a unit.

Also dearly loved the 1.0 to 2.0 transition but felt like it would have been amazing to do more around it (cut-scene was amazing, and I get they were moving systems so making content that'd be dead forever is iffy choice haha, but now that we have a system we're sticking with.. I'd love to have that feeling again but expanded - and making it reoccurring occasionally (rarely) would be awesome).

"I Kicked a Coeurl and I liked it"

"In a land funguar funguar away"

"Ochu! Gesundheit"

"More than Wyrms"

"Ixal the rage right now"

"Sympathy for the Dhalmel"

"Tangled up in Bhoot"

"The latter or the Fomor"

"When you Wisp upon a star"

"Po Po Porogo Face"

"Don't be such a hippogryph"

"All the Spriggan ladies"

There is so much untapped potential. These are just like 2 minutes worth of pondering....

Whack a Lala, there's Lalas coming out of holes and you use the animation from gathering except you have a sledgehammer that makes a BONK noise when you hit em and when you do hit em they do the /pdead animation. It'd solve the over population of Lalas in 1 fell swoop, make Eorzea great again!

"Riddled with Riddles"

A Friendly NPC appears and asks players a Riddle presenting them with 10 answers to select from. It asks a Question every minute. A total of 10 questions must be correctly answered to succeed at the Fate. Once 10 Questions have been answered the Fate will remain around for 1 minute and allow players to answer up to 30 more riddles, though only 5 are required for gold rank.

"Survival of the Fittest"

I would make a 72 hour random area re-spawn fate that was zone wide and had a full 90mins to complete it. It would require a huge amount of the playerbase to succeed. The FATE would contain a mixture of mobs of varying difficulty and roaming Nm's and primals. I would then have tasks listed in the Fate with a timer i.e build defences and a garrison by X time using crafters, gather supplies using gatherers, kill as many mobs as possibile whilst helping to protect the defences.

Once the timer runs down you have to deal with the remaining mobs and defend your base. I would have the level as 60/260 ilvl. All players below the requirements would receive a temporary boost in stats whilst the FATE is going on in that zone only. The enemies would drop tokens to exchange for gear of various levels and rare crafting materials. If the FATE is not killed you lose access to the aetherite. All gear would be untradable/unsellable but could be traded in for tokens to purchase other things.

A boss fight on the tiny island of no purpose named "the end" or something like that in azyz llia where you fight everyone's favorite zombie with a cane and top hat, wicked k. If only that could happen.

The FATE would be named "Too many Typos" and it would spawn in the area of Stormblood's new "Idyllshire" type town. The Fate itself would consist of a purple Flan named Corvinoobus (who is friendly) and is fighting a bunch of boss look-a-likes from the new lv 61-70 dungeons with the exception that their names are egregiously misspelled or have mechanics that don't function properly. Essentially it becomes the job of the players to save Corvinoobus from the boss monster before he kills him as well as defeat it within the time limit.

During the fight for some extra flavor, Corvinoobus can be shouting out his gripes with how these glitches in the system keep popping up while the Boss monster tries to say the text they normally do from their dungeon with slight twists.

"Who let the Lalas out?"

Collection type FATE where you need to go around picking up Lalafells hiding around the town and hand them over to a cook NPC.

Those are some awesome looking FATEs everyone's come up with.

*nudges SE* Eh? Eh??? Humor us, Square Enix!

I thought of another one a while back, it'd be a play on words: "Seven Elezen" (7-11). It's a special boss FATE where you and many other people fight seven Elezen champions wishing to test their mettle against mighty adventurers.

"Potatoes Strikes Back"

After years of persecussion, lalafells came up with an evil plan to rule the world.
A control point fate where you need to control eorzea by capturing Gridania, Uldah' and Limsa.

Lalafells gonna rule the world !

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Originally Posted by Esp

How about a Fate based on a old idea SE once had, where the beastmen would summon one of their Primals and it would be unleashed on the outside world.

Like the Odin FATE, it would pop on some random area, however this one would actually roam around and it would be up to the Players to find it and take it down. Full scale free for all battle, and it would need to be downed before it uses their ultimate or its a wipe for all around.

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Like the idea, something like the S hunt target but waaaayyyyy bigger, waaaaayyyyyy stronger (and that get stronger according to the number of players in the zone) and that needs a fucking army to be defeat !
And not on a crappy timer pop like Prey Online, give us the ability to make him pop by doing some objectives !
And give it some glamour and housing rewards to keep it a living content :D

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Originally Posted by SokiYagami

"Who let the Lalas out?"

Collection type FATE where you need to go around picking up Lalafells hiding around the town and hand them over to a cook NPC.

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I actually love the idea, it would be fun if SE would use some of the jokes about the races to make funny FATEs in the cities :)
- "Who let the Lalas out ?"
- "The Elezen who wisheperd to Dhalmel" : an Elezen wants to be the prettier Dhalmel
- "Flea market" : We get to spray Miquo'te with water
- "Saturday night's Divas" : We get to find the members of a Roe boys band that got lost in the city
Haven't seen jokes about lizards :/

I would do a FATE like Hamlet Defense in 1.xx, where all types of disciples could contribute. War and Magic by killing monster, Land by gathering and delivering items to debuff mobs, and Hand by crafting and delivering items to buff players.

I'd probably call it "To beat or not to beat : <Hamlet_name>"

<Battle> Mogtermination
Kill all the mogs that show up.

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Originally Posted by Celef

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I've got a big idea just for you.

"Run CS, run"

Kill all the people you see with any CS item. :D

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Originally Posted by Watachy

I've got a big idea just for you.

"Run CS, run"

Kill all the people you see with any CS item. :D

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Best FATE ever ! :D
And you get to obtain a CS item at the end of the FATE, Se introducing Cs items IG too ^^

"The revenge of lalafell"

Enough being call the potato, enough of the hatred, enough of the villains always being a lalafell, enough lalafell being eaten by FATE boss
a group of lalafell call on their own primal - dumpy humpy
it will appear in any random when certain amount of lalafell (PC/NPC) die in that map
like odin FATE, the weather will change in that map and this FATE will wander in the map targeted any player that is not a lalafell,
in some occasion it will move to next map too

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Originally Posted by Misutoraru

"The revenge of lalafell"

Enough being call the potato, enough of the hatred, enough of the villains always being a lalafell, enough lalafell being eaten by FATE boss
a group of lalafell call on their own primal - dumpy humpy
it will appear in any random when certain amount of lalafell (PC/NPC) die in that map
like odin FATE, the weather will change in that map and this FATE will wander in the map targeted any player that is not a lalafell,
in some occasion it will move to next map too

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Wouldn't the lalafells primal be Mr Potato Head?

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Wouldn't the lalafells primal be Mr Potato Head?

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It would be nothing but a giant Lalafell head that rolls around like that egg in the easter event :P

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Originally Posted by Vexander

"Riddled with Riddles"

A Friendly NPC appears and asks players a Riddle presenting them with 10 answers to select from. It asks a Question every minute. A total of 10 questions must be correctly answered to succeed at the Fate. Once 10 Questions have been answered the Fate will remain around for 1 minute and allow players to answer up to 30 more riddles, though only 5 are required for gold rank.

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Ragtime Mouse better be in that FATE.

I'd like to see some FATEs for gatherers, given that they're the ones more likely to be out in the world to see this stuff anyway.
Airship crashes, salvage whatever wood, stone, metal, or crystals you can, turn it in like combat gathering FATEs and get some money and scrips or whatever.
Could even arrange for failure to lead to a combat. Whatever its time limit ends up being is due to beastmen or whatever likely noticing the crash as well and coming to investigate. Run out of time and a minute later the combat part pops up, needing the NPCs that set up the salvage plan to be protected.
Or random fishing competitions. NPCs vs Players, catch a certain number to consider it complete and then the usual Gold/Silver/Bronze going out to the winner, runner up, and everyone else. If you've ever played an Etrian Odyssey, something like the competition quests there is what I have in mind, X of whatever to be considered participating, then it just keeps going until the time runs out.

Level 15 FATEs inside capital cities. It could be the city getting attacked by something or someone; maybe a massive jail break, and you're asked to help round up the convicts. Or they could be fun FATEs that are more reminiscent of GATEs from the Gold Saucer, such as a city-wide scavenger hunt to help someone build a machine, and the location of the pieces is randomized every time.