[Suggestion] City-state linkpearls (for shouts)

It would be nice, given we have linkpearl technology, to be able to hear shouts of a certain city-state (or sub-part thereof), by equipping a specific linkpearl (obtained via a quest no doubt).

This would allow players to be elsewhere, but hear shouts of interest, which could help congestion in some areas. Presumably content finder will ameliorate the need for this somewhat, but I think we all know shouts for come content will in all likelihood live on to some extent.

EDIT: seems like this would have been suggested a few times before, but I honestly don't recall seeing it.

I like the idea of not having to stand in Ul'dah to see what events are going on, it would be cool if you could use them to send messages, as long as they were restricted to only being usable in cities and aetheryte camps. World chat is obnoxious to say the least.

Edit: and I swear I remember hearing something along the lines of an aetheryte chat channel pre-release, as a means of keeping people out at aetheryte camps and not flooding the main cities.

Wouldn't it be better to just allow players to create private channels and leave linkshells for social chatting? Or perhaps create a Looking For Group tab in addition to the General and Battle tabs in our chat window?

I am pretty sure it was on an early episode of Aetheryte Radio, but they mentioned something along the lines of an aetheryte chat channel that was linked to all the aetheryte crystals. It may have been purely speculation, but that would really help the people seeking an alternative to the LFG tool.

they should have it where when they flag for party they go to a LFG chat? but doesn't LFG finder will put them with other people from other servers? i'm still not understanding how that will work.

they should just include world chat allow and the user to enable/disable it.getting annoying having to stand in the city looking for groups when i can be out grinding or out grinding and missing a group

http://www.ffxiah.com/shouts
http://guildwork.com/games/ffxi/shouts

OMG, is this mean I can lazying around in Wards/Hall of Flames/Mercantile Houses/Inn Room/Toilet and still can hear shouts?!?!?

OMG, OMG

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Originally Posted by rina_inverse

OMG, is this mean I can lazying around in Wards/Hall of Flames/Mercantile Houses/Inn Room/Toilet and still can hear shouts?!?!?

OMG, OMG

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If by "lazyring around" you mean questing/grinding/browsing the AH/actually playing the game as opposed to standing in Ul'dah with one option: crafting, then yes!

I actually mean crafting
You see where Im going here?

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Originally Posted by rina_inverse

I actually mean crafting
You see where Im going here?

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Not really.


I think the content finder will negate the need for all this. What you should be asking for is a global and trade chat window.

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Originally Posted by Churchill

http://www.ffxiah.com/shouts
http://guildwork.com/games/ffxi/shouts

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And that's sad. We shouldn't have to rely on third party tools (Guildwork client) and third party websites just to be able to access a very simple feature such as a global chat (or private channels)...

And I don't like OP idea. SE should just give us a proper chat system. No need for something rubbish in between like SE tried to do on XI with shouts working in several areas... We shouldn't have any technical limitation on XIV 2.0 to be able to grant players the freedom to chat with anyone, anywhere, at anytime.

In before "but that's not roleplay!"... yeah right. How are /tells roleplay? The roleplay argument shouldn't be present when it comes to basic communication functionality.

We've always relied on the community's efforts to make Square MMO's playable, from early Windower to all the things Guildwork has brought to the table now, I have little hope that will change in XIV.

Shouts feature through AH/GW completely changed group forming in XI. I didn't have to say "let me know if you see xyz" to a friend, didn't have to sit in Jeuno doing nothing. Almost everyone uses it as well; you would get tells from people in all zones when shouting for a group.

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We've always relied on the community's efforts to make Square MMO's playable, from early Windower to all the things Guildwork has brought to the table now, I have little hope that will change in XIV.

Shouts feature through AH/GW completely changed group forming in XI. I didn't have to say "let me know if you see xyz" to a friend, didn't have to sit in Jeuno doing nothing. Almost everyone uses it as well; you would get tells from people in all zones when shouting for a group.

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Then again, it's not because we did so in the past 5+ years that the upcoming 5 years should be the same. What is acceptable for core players (using external sites -just- to be able to communicate) will not be tolerated by new players. We're not in 2002 and on XI anymore. "Effort" shouldn't be needed from players to be able to communicate...

I don't think that asking for a chat that works properly is much.

They said that city chat was not an option because it would cause too much server strain, I don't know if they meant now or in 2.0, although sad if thats the case in 2.0 seeing as every other MMO does it, the current shout system is terrible.

Antipika = the voice of reason.

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Originally Posted by gahoo

It would be nice, given we have linkpearl technology, to be able to hear shouts of a certain city-state (or sub-part thereof), by equipping a specific linkpearl (obtained via a quest no doubt).

This would allow players to be elsewhere, but hear shouts of interest, which could help congestion in some areas. Presumably content finder will ameliorate the need for this somewhat, but I think we all know shouts for come content will in all likelihood live on to some extent.

EDIT: seems like this would have been suggested a few times before, but I honestly don't recall seeing it.

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I would love this. It would be great for role-players too. A perfect explanation for being able to hear what's going on in another city. :D

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Originally Posted by rina_inverse

I actually mean crafting
You see where Im going here?

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I DO!

Also, i think this is a tremendous idea. And very necessary.

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Originally Posted by Jinko

They said that city chat was not an option because it would cause too much server strain, I don't know if they meant now or in 2.0, although sad if thats the case in 2.0 seeing as every other MMO does it, the current shout system is terrible.

Antipika = the voice of reason.

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I do believe they mentioned that they cannot implement it right now because it would cause massive lag because the chat system is obnoxious.

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In before "but that's not roleplay!"... yeah right. How are /tells roleplay? The roleplay argument shouldn't be present when it comes to basic communication functionality.

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Have you paid sufficient attention to when NPCs use the Shellphone, btw? I mean i'm not saying I disagree with you there, there definitely needs to be good communication functionality, but SE is pretty good at making up reasons.

That said, in my own personal opinion the lack of a global chat is, for me, an upgrade for any MMO. I guess the ones I played that have it just left me jaded with it having nothing more than spam/advertisement/general things I want to ignore, which made it's very existance seem... Pointless.

Maybe have a system like that, with the city-state linkpearls, but to make a shout on the linkpearl, you have to use auto translate to fill out a form of sorts, so that it's completely restricted to content shouts.