Faster access to Solution 9 Arcade

In Endwalker, you were were you needed to be the second you arrived in radz-at-han.
The Dawntrail equivalent is the Arcade area in Solution, 9, which requires a run or an aethernet teleport. After you click right click the aetherite, you get the standard menu, where you click Aethernet, and the map appears, on which you need to find and click the shard for the Arcade.

You can speed this last step at bit by moving the map so the destination shard falls under the cursor when you click the middle of the word Aethernet. So, instead of looking for, and moving the pointer to the destination, all you need to do is click twice in the same spot.
You're only saving a second or two, but it feels a lot faster.

https://i.imgur.com/2VmVNjK.jpg

In action: https://i.imgur.com/vmKAmyR.mp4

A quick way to achieve this alignment is to hold something gently against the screen at the cursor point as you click Aethernet, then while holding it, reposition the map, which maintains it's position until you move it again.
(I don't know if this is possible on consoles.)

wow, dawntrail is so much like stormblood they even have the awful secondary town aetheryte

Not an option on console, unfortunately, and the distance for interacting with the main aetheryte is dismally short.

If you're using mouse and keyboard, are you able to click the main aetheryte as soon as you load in, or do you still have to walk right up to it first?

Using the Aethernet is fine. It works a lot better than it used to because there's a visual display now.

The problem with it is the "you are out of range" issue when you are clearly not. I am sure SE developers will notice this themselves and address it. It's too obvious a problem for them to miss.

Another issue is I'm used to changing instances due to hunt trains so I get mixed up. Fortunately, this is only temporary and they will remove instances there after a while.

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Originally Posted by Iscah

Not an option on console, unfortunately, and the distance for interacting with the main aetheryte is dismally short.

If you're using mouse and keyboard, are you able to click the main aetheryte as soon as you load in, or do you still have to walk right up to it first?

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Still need to walk up to it. We're actually interacting with it at a fair distance. I'm guessing it's the gap that throws players off.

We also have to walk closer to use the Limsa Aetheryte after teleporting in so I'm confused on why people are acting like it's only a problem with S9.

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Originally Posted by Jojoya

Still need to walk up to it. We're actually interacting with it at a fair distance. I'm guessing it's the gap that throws players off.

We also have to walk closer to use the Limsa Aetheryte after teleporting in so I'm confused on why people are acting like it's only a problem with S9.

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Limsa feels different though, plus very often I'm teleporting there intending to go to the marketboard first rather than immediately teleport elsewhere in the city. (Especially now that I've hit the point where the "straight to Maelstrom GCHQ" tickets are feeling like a good deal for getting there.)

The Crystarium also had an issue with aetheryte targeting (it's up quite high and often requires you to adjust your camera to target it) but that isn't an endgame hub so doesn't have the same constant need to revisit it.

The S9 aetheryte feels very claustrophobic despite (or perhaps due to) it being so big and yet you can only access it by going into those tiny nooks in the barrier around it and not from a distance that feels natural.

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Originally Posted by Jojoya

We also have to walk closer to use the Limsa Aetheryte after teleporting in so I'm confused on why people are acting like it's only a problem with S9.

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It is its own problem that with some aetherytes, after teleporting to them, it's not always possible to interact without moving closer. But with Solution 9, even when you feel you have walked up to it, it still is often not enough and it would be if there wasn't this giant gap that required you to be at the very edge.

This feels like such a weird complaint to have....

As someone who has done a lot of gathering and crafting this is a solid complaint. I have found every time I teleport I am disoriented as I look for a visual landmark to point me in what direction the arcade is at as it is the only thing of value in the area. I did not mind this the first hundred times but now it more or less part of minor annoyance of the area, aether teleportation is just an annoying solution since it adds another menu loading screen to the trip. When you are on the gathering collectable grind the trip to the arcade is a pain once you have to do it over and over again.

I will say I did not know how good I had it in Radz-at-han were it is obvious where things and easy to get to with sprint and I don't have weird things in my way to jump over to the Aetherite to get there.

14 players really try to make everything a speedrun, huh?

Good lord you have to be a whole new level of lazy to complain about having to click an aetheryte.

My brother in Christ it's clicking 2 buttons

It's clicking two buttons yes, and it's not a huge deal... but for some of us that's also a loading screen which can last a few seconds, and for me personally up to 10.
And if you have to get there often, then it gets somewhat frustrating.

However, a tip for the gatherers/crafters turning in collectibles: just teleport to Eulmore or Radz to turn it in, those collectible appraisers work with the new stuff too. It's literally only for combat gear upgrades that you have to be in S9.

Also a thought... it is kinda noticeable how ShB and EW both put you practically right next to the tome exchanges and collectible appraisers and such and all that for endgame stuff. Still had to walk a bit, but it was within sight.
Stormblood however, had quite a large walk from the aetheryte, or you did have to use the aethershards to get around Rhalgr's Reach. BUT, you could also use mounts to get around.
Heavensward had Idyllshire, also didn't put you right next to necessary shops. But you could also use mounts.


So since S9 has more in common with Idyllshire and RR, maybe just enable mounts so people don't have to get into another loading screen, which actually feels better for gameplay than another loading screen (even if it's the same time investment)

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Originally Posted by Jojoya

We also have to walk closer to use the Limsa Aetheryte after teleporting in so I'm confused on why people are acting like it's only a problem with S9.

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They should go through all the aetherytes in the game and adjust the pop radius so that every teleport drops you within range of aetheryte interaction.

As a fellow crafter/gatherer, I agree that the placement of the main crystal is inconvenient. Old Sharlayan and Radz were both right next to the main points of interest (market board and collectible/raid turn in), so why did they undo this decision this expansion? The MB in Tuli is also inconvenient. It wouldn’t be as big of a deal if they hadn’t done it so much better literally one expansion ago.

For the one in Solution 9 they really need to increase its range just a bit... they didnt think this trough or something...

You still have to walk up to the edge to be in range.

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Originally Posted by flipwizardmagoo

As a fellow crafter/gatherer, I agree that the placement of the main crystal is inconvenient. Old Sharlayan and Radz were both right next to the main points of interest (market board and collectible/raid turn in), so why did they undo this decision this expansion? The MB in Tuli is also inconvenient.

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Because every city being the same is boring and the game doesn't need to revolve around maximum player convenience. Nobody's day is ruined because it took an extra five to ten seconds to get where they need to be.

Easy solution: instead of making a whole 3D town that feels like a place, just don't have that and instead have all of Solution 9 be a menu. Then everything can be pure function without any of that form to get in the way...and it would save a bunch of development time, too!

ReAl GaMeRs just use eternity ring.

Would have been nice if the obviously most used atherites were placed 2nd not 5th on the list.

Spawning is in at the main aetherite closer would help a lot. Zone in, click, teleport, done, no running.