GIVE ME MY GOAT RANCH

The magnificent myotragus has been neglected long enough. No longer should these goats be slaughtered by adventures for their skins and horns. They should be prized, protected, and treated like the noble beasts they are. I've spent a lot of time thinking about this and what this game REALLY needs--more than increased housing wards, more than battle system changes, more than Stormblood itself--is goat farms.

INTRODUCING Final Fantasy Fourteen: Myotragus Ranch.

As with Housing, you buy a plot for your ranch: small, medium, or large. The larger the ranch, the more goats you can keep. Instead of buying a Housing Permit, you buy a Herd Permit. Once you have your herd, you can design your ranch. This will of course mean new crafting recipes: Fencing, goat feed, different styles of troughs! Fancy sheds! Decorative jewelry for their horns! Blankets to keep them warm!

But this isn't just Housing for Goats! You have to care for your herd. You have to grow your herd. And how do you do that?

1. Breeding: Choose which myotragus billy and myotragus nanny have the traits you want to breed for: Color? personality? Strength? Shininess of coat? After enough generations, you have a truly unique looking herd! If your friend has a goat herd, you can temporarily trade goats for breeding. Especially important once you're a few generations in, no one wants inbred goats.

2. Cleaning the Ranch. Yes, you have to clean the ranch! A timed mini-game, where your character has to run around and collect as many cow pats as possible in a set amount of time. The cleaner the ranch, the happier the goats. You can also get bonus items in this game, like shedded goats skins and horns. YES SHEDDED, DID YOU THINK YOU WERE GOING TO SLAUGHTER YOUR GOATS FOR THEIR SKINS YOU MONSTER?

3. Feeding your goats. Run from trough to trough, filling them with food!

4. Training your goat. Teach your favorite goat to accept a rider! Successfully completing this minigame 50 times gives you an achievement and the ability to summon a goat mount.

If you neglect your goats and go a week without caring for them, you get a very special fifth minigame.

5. BRINGING YOUR ESCAPED GOATS HOME. You've neglected your goats! You come back after two weeks away from the game to discover that your ranch is in ruins! Fences kicked down, troughs overturned, and all the goats are missing! You must travel across Eorzea to find your lost goats and convince them to return home. And don't you're getting off easy, either. You neglected those goats, you have to bribe them to come back.

Forget raiding. Forget glamours. MYOTRAGUS RANCH is the true endgame!

Shepherd was an unimplemented class back in 1.0. Tanaka truly knew what the game needed.

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Originally Posted by Addicted

Shepherd was an unimplemented class back in 1.0. Tanaka truly knew what the game needed.

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Hasn't that job been weaved into random comments a few times since? Could have sworn Yoshida has mentioned it previously (breeder job).

Would love to have a ranch, SE definitely needs to not have memory issues on this content though (srry only 1,000 lots available for a 25,000 player server.. lol).

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Would love to have a ranch, SE definitely needs to not have memory issues on this content though (srry only 1,000 lots available for a 25,000 player server.. lol).

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They can replace all the housing with goat farms. Maybe add little shacks to the land for characters to live in.

They could make it so that housing plots can be extended, like everybody can have buy a home when they have the gil, they start out with a small home and then they can upgrade whatever they want next via extensions, like I want room for a separate garden, or a want to have a huge plot of land to have livestock, etc. Think Harvest Moon, you can upgrade your shack as big as you want as long as you have the gil and resources to expand.

From goat simulator to myotragus simulator.

This thread amuses me greatly..... and I totally want a goat ranch now.

Can I have a dodo ranch instead?

This is absurd.


I want it.

Wasn't there some talk of a DoH/DoL possibly being added as well? Granted still got the whole "If it goes well, we may see about adding a 3rd job" buzzing in my head so I wouldn't say no either way to more. :3

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Originally Posted by MyotragusWorshipper

They can replace all the housing with goat farms. Maybe add little shacks to the land for characters to live in.

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Not even sure player needs a house, we need to make sure those goats are well taken care of! :P Also just noticed your user name, I really like the dedication lol.

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Originally Posted by Rahsch

They could make it so that housing plots can be extended, like everybody can have buy a home when they have the gil, they start out with a small home and then they can upgrade whatever they want next via extensions, like I want room for a separate garden, or a want to have a huge plot of land to have livestock, etc. Think Harvest Moon, you can upgrade your shack as big as you want as long as you have the gil and resources to expand.

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<3

I've been begging for a system like this since I knew what they planned for the housing system. Like, years.. but omg, plz Yoshi-P. More people in the system means it's better for everyone (rather than designing for the few you design for all, and imo a small room..thing should be very easy for players to come but the experience of building up your own home (and helping your FC grow) would be great).

Personally do not care what happens to the ward system, my eyes have been set on the larger picture for a while XD. It helps that there are living examples of these things though, which is probably why I haven't let it go either (its not like SE jumped into the unknown, they jumped into the known at the shallow end.. time to go into the deep end with the rest of the kids :P).

Pfft goats? Give me a chocobo ranch please :)

This idea makes me so happy.

Can't I have a morbol ranch?


For reasons. Scientific ones.

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Originally Posted by AlphaFox

Wasn't there some talk of a DoH/DoL possibly being added as well? Granted still got the whole "If it goes well, we may see about adding a 3rd job" buzzing in my head so I wouldn't say no either way to more. :3

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nope, there is not enough inventory to warrant any more DoH/DoL into existence.

Maybe for 5.0, you have to go though an insane amount of rebalancing (fitting a new craft along the 1-60 levels or gather requires rebalancing of everything) to make room for something like that, along with inventory changes. You can't just add a a crafting/gathering class because you want it.

With all the work they put in the battle system and trying (lightly) to solve inventory issues, there be no time for balancing the game for a new crafter and or gather. The easiest way of making a new crafter is enchantment but that still gives heaver issues on inventory (basically a job that brakes down gear for materials and adds effect to gear from them, so this gets around the need of balancing the existing crafting and gathering since that is independent from the rest)

I love housing systems in games, love to decorate and do events and fun stuff like that. It just sucks I still haven't been able to purchase my own home yet. (Especially when there's people out there with more than 1, I know somebody that has like 8 houses...for airships...)

I want a Pokémon Ranch instead, that of course means FFXIV x Pokémon!...

Yoshi-P would do good starting conversations with Nintendo/Game Freak already!... :cool:

I need a Goobue Farm, stat!

I know that this is most likely a joke but when they annouced housing I was really hoping being able to have a stable with some sheeps so I wouldnt have to farm them anymore (back in the days when you had to kill those cute black sheep in Coerthas for their fleece)...

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Originally Posted by Vidu

I know that this is most likely a joke but when they annouced housing I was really hoping being able to have a stable with some sheeps so I wouldnt have to farm them anymore (back in the days when you had to kill those cute black sheep in Coerthas for their fleece)...

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I am dead serious, I want a goat farm.

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Originally Posted by SenorPatty

Can't I have a morbol ranch?


For reasons. Scientific ones.

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I approve this message. After all how are we to get Morbol mounts with no ranches? (Or maybe a monster ranch as a general thing....)

I dig games like harvest moon, so I think a ranch would be really nice to have. I'd want more than just goats though.

I would absolutely spend gil on this. I'd like for it to have options, but even if it only starts with a few (goats, sheep, toads?) that would be amazing.

I mean, we can already farm for flax etc, so it makes sense.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...016_114813.png

I've 100% honestly wanted this since 1.0

If a ranch feature ever comes out, here are some of the monsters I'd like to see included:
https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/w/imag.../Lost_Lamb.png
https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/w/imag...telopeStag.jpg
https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/w/imag...ld_Chocobo.png
https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/w/imag...nNannygoat.jpg

-And I was thinking about it, but maybe some of the items you get from your ranch animals can be used as gifts to build friendships with NPCs. Or they can be used in crafts or something.

Can I be a "ranch thief" and basically steal your livestocks?

Cheers,
D.

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Originally Posted by dlgc

Can I be a "ranch thief" and basically steal your livestocks?

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I don't know about the rest of the livestock, but you can probably run off with their eternal bond partner at least.