The Gold Saucer could use a water park

I've previously advocated for Gold Saucer housing (something I maintain would be both amazing and fun [and potentially easy-to-implement if it was just added in apartment format - a logical design considering that it would be luxury hotel-like). But I'd also like to see the GS get a water park annex for a number of reasons:

• The Saucer is in the desert.
• It feels slightly claustrophobic at times while visiting the GC; it would be nice to be able to 'go outside.'
• We have tons of swimwear options and few places to use them (I almost never see people at Costa del Sol anymore).
• A combination of slides, pools, and events would be really fun (maybe they could even do a wave-pool where you get thrown into people - that would be hilarious). Lazy river anyone?
• Japan is pretty famous for its 'indoor/outdoor' tropical themeparks. This could be a nice nod to that.
• Godbert has been dressed for this moment his entire life.

https://i.imgur.com/KCqQMDG.jpg

I'm a person who spends a lot - perhaps even most - of their game time in the Gold Saucer, so any improvements are always welcome. But I'd really like to see the venue's overall appeal for RP, hanging out, and 'adult (not sexual, but, like, 18+ club/nightlife. This is SO popular in FFXIV, and it would be cool to see an upscale bar scene in the Saucer) entertainment' enhanced. Adding a water park would be a really nifty and logical addition to the venue.

I think the Gold Saucer needs a little competition. Maybe a new resort on an island off the coast of Costa del Sol?

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Originally Posted by Wasselin

I think the Gold Saucer needs a little competition. Maybe a new resort on an island off the coast of Costa del Sol?

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That could work, too.

Wait for the Moonfire Faire event, that takes place at Costa del Sol on the beach - you'll get your pool minigames then. ;)

Would it be outdoors (akin to Schlitterbahn, Typhoon Lagoon, etc.), or indoors (akin to Great Wolf Lodge)?

The ability to fish in Gold Saucer is priority number 1, then we can talk Waterpark. xD

That would be amazing and sounds like fun!

I'd love a water park. That seems like a lot of fun!

Sounds good to me. More places for bikini wearing eye candy always sounds good. However, it needs mini games to be fun.

Yes!! I love it!

I would also like to see an alternate version of the "Air Force One" rail shooter mini-game where you ride down river rapids, over a waterfall, maybe there is an underwater segment too...

Also, a Leviathan-themed GATE similar to Typhon and Yojimbo, where you have to try to stay on a giant raft as it violently tilts this way and that, or gets washed over by waves.

That sounds like it could be loads of fun, love the idea.

Yes. Also water slides. And a portal to a certain beast tribe's playground.

Blitz Ball, Blitz Ball, Blitz Ball BLITZ BALL!!!!!

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Originally Posted by Soge01

Blitz Ball, Blitz Ball, Blitz Ball BLITZ BALL!!!!!

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Imagine! Why isn't that in the game yet? ; ;
All the unused underwater zones. /sigh

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Originally Posted by Payadopa

Imagine! Why isn't that in the game yet? ; ;
All the unused underwater zones. /sigh

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Because it's an overrated minigame that doesn't belong in FFXIV? :p *ducks projectiles* ;)

I jest! I jest!

Seriously though, as I understand it Blitzball never eventuated here was because SE simply could not come up with a viable concept to use for it that fitted FFXIV's interface/environment, lore and setting while still retaining the core gameplay elements of the FFX original, so it's kind of gone nowhere (I believe it's why got Doman Mahjong instead). Please feel free to dispute that though, as I lack citations on it.

And the quick travel points are next to auto controlled water flumes and you get on and slide to the quick travel point you chose and auto get off.

I would like to see more stuff to do in Gold Saucer that is just “there”.

Kinda like the candy-dreamland of the fairies with just stuff to climb on and mess around with. Basically let us have our own fun with it.

A waterpark with slides would be awesome, and it would be a nice chance for them to add some decent activities to the game. Maybe a Ferris wheel or roller coaster…?

something like a general climbing structures or water cannons. Just stuff to play around with.

I dunno, I see something like a waterpark + midway/carnival games.

A Great Wolf Lodge style waterpark at Gold Saucer?

.....I can see it. It could be gaudy and have too much gold.

http://www.gannett-cdn.com/media/201...odge-thumb.jpg

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Originally Posted by Ayuhra

A Great Wolf Lodge style waterpark at Gold Saucer?

.....I can see it. It could be gaudy and have too much gold.

http://www.gannett-cdn.com/media/201...odge-thumb.jpg

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More natural light and palm trees, though, hopefully.

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Originally Posted by TeraRamis

More natural light and palm trees, though, hopefully.

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I would like the lights to be from giant skylights, yes. At night from electric lights around the ceiling.

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I would like the lights to be from giant skylights, yes. At night from electric lights around the ceiling.

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That'd be fine. It doesn't need to be truly outdoors - just have some degree of sunbathing light. I'd most want it to have trees and stuff, though (albeit perhaps maintained in kind of an over-the-top way, since this is the Gold Saucer we're talking about).

I've actually been humming that stupid in-show commercial from King of the Hill to myself - the one where it's like "get wet, get wild, get cool, go bana~nassssss!" We have a small local water park here in the Pacific Northwest that almost has the same theme verbatim :P.

I feel like the GS could use an INN too, like the haunted hotel INN in FF7! Would be cool to hang there for the glamour dresser instead of capital cities.

Gold saucer needs SOMETHING for sure.
its not much of a casino, and nothing to do when you get all the stuff.

This could be pretty cool, it would be neat to see it on the outside below / around the saucer itself - to give the location more scale and physical placement in the world (that you could go outside of the facility). Would love an outdoors, on the saucers themselves, experience too though.. so.. that may as well be cool. Blitzball in one of the saucers would obviously be super fitting, some love the idea of that in this game others eye roll though lol (yet it 'has' been mentioned by SE a few times in passing xD).

In general, a water theme'd space could be quite neat. Theme'd spaces would be neat. I get this sort of Disney World theme park vibe, where they have different parks with a different flow, and I like that idea.