Chocobos, airships, and the main city

I feel like these three would make me come back alone. I'm all for fixing what's there, but the game still feels like it's missing huge chunks without these three.

Anyone else feel the same way? :confused:

Yes :( Running from city to city is an enormous time sink, but teleporting is so instant it takes away from the game. We need an inbetween.

I agree, adding Chocobos alone could change the feel of the game dramatically

For some reason I think these are all done and ready, but their waiting until they fix up the game some more to release it :S I mean what else could they have done for a year?

I agree, Chocobo's would be great to have as mounts. (Customizable Armor could be created / bought to put on them to make them more unique, along with different color of chocobo's). Airships would be great. I like this thread.

+1 for chocobos.

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Originally Posted by Silent

I agree, Chocobo's would be great to have as mounts. (Customizable Armor could be created / bought to put on them to make them more unique, along with different color of chocobo's). Airships would be great. I like this thread.

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I love the customizable armor idea for your own personal chocobo. That you've bred, of course. Chocobo breeding, please.

I sometimes feel i am playing a mock final Fantasy game. Ishgard which is the main city (Jeuno of FFXI), Chocobos we see them in the city and cutscenes they are a main part, also airships.

I also agree.

Chocobos are my favorite thing about FINAL FANTASY. Well, at least one amongst many others, of course. They are what got me into FF XI and the series in general in the first place. The fact that they are not "implemented" yet for us to enjoy riding around for our own pleasure and ease of travel saddens me.

I did some research and discovered that the reason they are not "enabled" for us to ride is due to the teleportation system. They believe that the birds are not relevant with this new travel system in the game. That's all, as far as I know and have heard, however, now that we have Official Forums up and running I would more than love to see them activated as soon as possible. Same goes for airships, but I can wait for them over having Chocobos first.

They are fun to ride, breed and race. Having just one of those options gives me another reason to keep on signing into the game. The lack of that option keeps pokig at me to play another FINAL FANTASY game in order to have some sort of interaction with them.

Teleporting works great, but it's not fun like a Chocobo is. Also, Chocobos aren't limited, anima is. I hope I can ride them soon or hear at least some good news about them being added in the world. It sucks too, because I think FF XIV has the coolest looking Chocobos in the entire series, closely resembling the XI counter-parts.

~Kweh~

I would be happy with just chocobos at this point -.-;

If Chocobos are implemented, I defintely think the Final Fantasy feel would defintely return =D. And the idea of once again breeding then, putting different mounts/armor on them, just WOW

The airships sometimes fly low, low enough sometimes I can make out some details. Just wish we can board it eventually. Has anyone noticed the strange platform located near the West coast of Limsa. Seems like an airship dock of sorts, very cool.

+1 to Chocobos

-10 to teleporting everywhere right off the bat

In ffxi, the quests to even get chocobos and airships weren't even unlocked until jeuno was opened up. I think they are waiting for that in ffxiv. If ishgard really is ffxiv's jeuno, im certain that once its open, they will have quests for you to get an airship pass and chocobos.

And not to mention yoshi p wants to do something different with chocobos. maybe chocobo knights?? maybe personal airships too? fly around in an open map like ff7

I'd just like to add this: I'd give up the teleport system in hole if we could have Chocobos and airships to ride. Total game immersion ftw.

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+1 to Chocobos

-10 to teleporting everywhere right off the bat

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I totally agree x.x; I would rather ride a long distance than be able to teleport.

In all fairness, it would be great to have them added indeed, actually I would love me some chocobo's.
But not at the cost of the teleport section, players that don't have ages to travel can just teleport around to help LS friends with their leves.

Not everyone has multiple hours a day they can sink into the game, so adding stuff is good, but don't do it at the cost of removing the teleporting skill :)

Yea I agree I always took the airship to Jueno in ffxi even though I could teleport to WG then Jueno. I agree on both airships and chocobos

I know it was said that chocobos were going to have a bit of a different role in this game. Now, I can't really recall if Yoshi-P said the same thing when he took over.

Anyhoo, I'm really wanting a chocobo. Also would like some kind of living space. Sleeping under the stars gets rather old after a while, and that is coming from an avid explorer ^^;

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In all fairness, it would be great to have them added indeed, actually I would love me some chocobo's.
But not at the cost of the teleport section, players that don't have ages to travel can just teleport around to help LS friends with their leves.

Not everyone has multiple hours a day they can sink into the game, so adding stuff is good, but don't do it at the cost of removing the teleporting skill :)

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No one said the anima system had to be completely gotten rid of. It's clear they planned on having both.

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I agree, adding Chocobos alone could change the feel of the game dramatically

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yeah, it'll make it feel like a final fantasy game

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Anyhoo, I'm really wanting a chocobo. Also would like some kind of living space. Sleeping under the stars gets rather old after a while, and that is coming from an avid explorer ^^;

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Agh I knooow. My mog house is one of my favorite things about FFXI. A place to call your own, establish your place in the city you choose instead of sleeping on the streets! This could easily be implemented by changing the market wards zone point to a popup that asks "Where do you want to go? 1. Market Wards. 2. Residential District"

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This could easily be implemented by changing the market wards zone point to a popup that asks "Where do you want to go? 1. Market Wards. 2. Residential District"

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I was thinking of a good way to implement this and this seems like the best!

Also I really want Airships, I want to be able to fly over Eorzea, seeing everything from the sky would be amazing.

Chocobo have been something I wanted since day 1, and a lot of the ideas in this thread are great! really loving the custom armor.

I agree 100%, right now travelling kind of sucks. Walking takes a long time to get somewhere. Handing in some quests in 1 area already takes an hour because I have to walk from ll to camp bald knoll to iron lake and then to bloodshore.
We need chocobo's! The teleport system just isn't enough. Considering the amount of anima teleporting costs you can only teleport like what, twice a day?

So I think they should add chocobo's to the game as soon as possible. Or if that still is going to take a while, reduce the teleport cost/triple anima regen.

@TheBullet

Sounds like someone doesn't favor locations, I really never have too much of an issue with anima, and at most it takes 6 to teleport somewhere. with 100 anima base, and ~4 hours per anima (I can't recall), if you don't teleport 24/7 it's not horrible.

+1 For chocobos!

I remember time ago, in an interview, the airships would have been implemented with different sizes and architectural styles depend of the places and distances to be reached. It would be a very nice touch and i hope we'll see it in the future.

For the chocobo, i would love to see it as customizable mount (armours, bags, riding/excavation/jump-on-high-cliffs(ala FF13) skills) as well and the possibility to grow it from born, like in FF11. It should be a life companion from the very beginning (of its life). And, why not, its personal stable (in which we could training/feeding it with a sort of mini-game) near our house, when housing will be implemented. :)

I play Chocobo music every time I go to run somewhere and just hope that a bird will come and gobble me up and take me to mai destination :3

Yeah, we definitely need to see chocobo being added, and I can't wait for Ishgard to be open! I'm sure THAT will be the main city, and will have the airship central hub.

im personally tired of peoples bickering about immersion on the Zam.com forums (i mention this because someone above talked about how instant teleporting is it takes away from the game), make the game super user friendly and i will decide for myself how immersed i will be.

I'm not dead-all set on Airships returning as they were in XI.. Something different would be nice honestly. I dunno, I do want to see Chocobo added sometime in the near future though, it's really cumbersome trying to traverse the world on foot all of the time. (And Anima is too finite a resource.. The game obviously wasn't designed with Teleporting in mind as the only means of travel, and walking is a very tedious alternative option.)

If they do make chocobo raising/breeding I hope it will be so much better and more fun than XI breeding. More customization and more fun please!!

Maybe it's just me, but I'm a bit worried about how Chocobos will be implemented. Did anyone notice how Yoshi.P commented that Chocobos in FFXIV would be implemented in a way to make them unique to FFXIV?

It seems like the majority of the community wants what we had in FFXI - Manually controlled Chocobo mounts. Something about the comment of it being implemented in it's own unique way just irks me.

I hope to see Chocobos as personal mounts, and not acquired via renting them from vendors. It would be incredible if your chocobo followed behind you when dismounted, instead of vanishing into thin air like other MMOs seem to handle the issue of "where does your mount go when you're not riding it?". Also, I really hope you can bring them into cities.

I'm at a loss too when it comes to guessing what that "new role" for chocobos will be... But for airships, we know they'll probably be released at some point, Gridania has the docking area ready (below Adv. Guild). As for the residential area, every city has one "zone out" thingy on the map that currently leads to nothing... so, who knows? :p

I agree we need a central hub city (I assume Ishgard will be that when it's released). As it is Ul'dah is the de facto hub for a couple of reasons, but a proper one would better balance the city-states. I also think there should be airships going between cities, but with the teleporting system I'm not sure how that would be implemented.

The chocobos raise a similar concern, although I think having a personal, customizable chocobo and letting you mount up anywhere outdoors to get around quickly (and unlimited uses, not the finite amount per item you get with ffxi) would be a good alternative to the instant-but-finite Anima teleports. However, the chocobo breeding should be simple enough so that everyone can get their own chocobo, so everyone has that extra attachment to the game. I think this would suit the game best, as opposed to the FFXI system where only those who are willing to make a significant time and money investment can get their own mount.

Chocobos yes Please!

This would make doing crafting leves at camps and getting from place to place so much more effective. Anima is nice and all but for anyone playing a decent amount of time it just does not last that long. And on top of that it is a Final Fantasy Staple, it would be a good start to return the FF feel to the game.

I think Yoshi-P himself has mentioned several times that they're working on both features heavily. I'd say it's a good idea to wait and see on this one... Although I'm just as anxious to have chocobos as everyone else!

I actually hate the teleportation system. As someone else said, it definately takes away from the game. I find myself constantly teleporting everywhere because running is far too lengthy.
Airships and chocobos are the main things I want to see implented in the game. The 'Jueno' can wait. Especially in the case of chocobos, however, the game is lacking.

I WAN MAH CHICKENZZZ

And how about a mail sistem, for send item from others citys?.