More Dynamic Content Please :)

As a long time supporter and podcaster of all things XIV I figured I should weigh in on some ideas, or more or less one idea that I would find enjoyable.

If others have already posted this idea, then I'm sorry for duplicating the issue, but I would love to see Dynamic content added into this game. By dynamic the thoughts I have in my head are a pack or a unit of beastmen/empire soldiers that decide to attack the city or a camp and everyone in the area can join together to fight them back (This joining together would happen naturally as players would have the option to join the resistance or group).

This shouldn't happen at a set time frame, but often enough that it makes the world feel alive and dangerous. Players who help would be rewarded so there is an incentive other then sp/xp to jump into this public instance. Anyway, think behest, but open to all, and not at the same interval. And it would seem very natural, and since the zones are so large, there would be or could be multiple public quests/instances/raids of this going at once.

The last part to this is that players would need to know if something was going on, so hopefully on the mini map and main map as well, you could see any public quest/instance/raid that was going on and go there if you wanted to join in. :)

Now, this might be what is planned for hamlet defense and perhaps something similar is already in the works, but I would love to hear some work back on if Final Fantasy XIV plans to support dynamic and public quests/raids/battles.

"Grand Companies Of Eorzea" are supposed to be a mix of raids and public quests from the hints we have gotten.

There are many threads about content, but thank goodness you have one of the more constructive and direct posts. They've already said they were going to add such content, but haven't released so much about it yet.

We are hoping for wednesday or thursday for the public company pages to open up.

Wow... I think this is a really great idea... it would be nice grinding and then a random event such as a raid occured on a camp.... I think there should also be a penalty of some sort if the camp is captured or destroyed. Possibly a more anima costly telepot to the camp or no teleporting while it is under control of beastmen.

Public quests would also be a nice touch. Something like a rank capped fight of a beast in a region that takes a group to take it down. Maybe some crafting quests similar to this.

While I like the idea of more public stuff and whatnot....on the flip-side, it needs to be handled with care.

To give an example, I played Rift for a month, and they have the public rifts that open up and attack camps and stuff. The first few times it's fun, even exciting, but when you're trying to turn in a quest or do anything else, it becomes annoying, and boring. If they can keep it to the point where A) It's not required for me to have fun, or do something and B) It's not every 30 minutes like the rifts are, then I'll be down for that. :)

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Originally Posted by Kazahashi

While I like the idea of more public stuff and whatnot....on the flip-side, it needs to be handled with care.

To give an example, I played Rift for a month, and they have the public rifts that open up and attack camps and stuff. The first few times it's fun, even exciting, but when you're trying to turn in a quest or do anything else, it becomes annoying, and boring. If they can keep it to the point where A) It's not required for me to have fun, or do something and B) It's not every 30 minutes like the rifts are, then I'll be down for that. :)

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Yes, I could see how that would get old fast, so balancing would be needed.

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Originally Posted by Cairdeas

"Grand Companies Of Eorzea" are supposed to be a mix of raids and public quests from the hints we have gotten.

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That's my hope, and I know we are supposed to be getting information soon, but in the case this isn't apart of the Grand companies then I'll post more wants. :)

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Originally Posted by Nuru

There are many threads about content, but thank goodness you have one of the more constructive and direct posts. They've already said they were going to add such content, but haven't released so much about it yet.

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I gathered that too from the hints, so hopefully the dev team will show us that they have planned, or give us a idea if something like this (don't have to be this) is going to be added into the game. :)

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Originally Posted by MassacreMassacre

Wow... I think this is a really great idea... it would be nice grinding and then a random event such as a raid occured on a camp.... I think there should also be a penalty of some sort if the camp is captured or destroyed. Possibly a more anima costly telepot to the camp or no teleporting while it is under control of beastmen.

Public quests would also be a nice touch. Something like a rank capped fight of a beast in a region that takes a group to take it down. Maybe some crafting quests similar to this.

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While I can see people being annoyed if they can't go to that camp, I think it would server to "motivate" players to take back the camp. :)

My guess is that they most likely have everything set up the way they planned, but now they are trying to balance out how much damage you do per hit, weapon delay.. etc.

Key Words: "My, Guess"

As long as they dont put it on a stupid timer like every other mathematical thing SE does.

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Originally Posted by gifthorse

As long as they dont put it on a stupid timer like every other mathematical thing SE does.

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Agreed, putting it on a timer would defeat the purpose of it being dynamic, however it should happen enough that people of any area and time zone can join in. In fact, I would think that there would be always two or three dynamic events going on in the world at the same time. Of course they would change once the event had been finished so you wouldn't always be running the same event. And to futher the level of play, each event would have several variations that would make the same event seem new and different each time. They would do this by changing up mob parties, and strategy. (like they did in campain in XI with different bands of monsters.)

Vert excited about the stuff square enix has planned. I'm sure we will hear more about this style of content once they finish redesigning the battle system. :)

Here's my vote for dynamic content. Would've loved to see Garlean airships unloading platoons of soldiers and randomly trying to put camps under martial law, or beastmen parties trying to take over the hamlets.

Also, as for people worried about accessing the camps... they don't really have to remove your access to them.

Example: If you let the Garleans take over, guildleve rewards could be lower, NPC item prices could be higher, porting to the camp could have a higher cost, and a Garlean NPC could patrol the camp randomly knocking people down.

It's not like half of our enemies are out there kill us in sight. They could only be aggresive to those that tried to resist (those defending or taking the camp back).

Well, not everything would be available if the camp towns were took over, look at the guilds they are supposed to have. These can be taken away if they are not under the city's control.

Which begs the question, how would one take the cities back? Why would garlean forces let random adventurers into the town if adventurer are going to storm them? Bit of a security breach, there.

Nuru, that is the best sig on the forums. You win!

It's a great idea. They seem to possibly already have something similar to this set up already. If you notice on the maps there are what seems to be towns with "control" flags marked on them like the Aleport and Wineport in LL. I don't see that there would be a point in doing that if they weren't meant to be taken over in some manner. Perhaps it would be more like Conquest but I hope they have to be attacked to be taken over.

I haven't seen anything to suggest that 'Companies' have anything to do with 'Raids'

More "dynamic" content? There just needs to be plain more content, period.

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

More "dynamic" content? There just needs to be plain more content, period.

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True, but my vote is for dynamic content, not saying that static content is bad, but there are plenty of other threads that wave the "more content please" flag...

This would be fantastic.

The reason I want to play GW2 so much is, in part, due to the dynamic events they plan to base open world leveling around.

I hope no monster will attack Gridania now, coz there is no one there to protect it.

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Originally Posted by solracht

Here's my vote for dynamic content. Would've loved to see Garlean airships unloading platoons of soldiers and randomly trying to put camps under martial law, or beastmen parties trying to take over the hamlets.

Also, as for people worried about accessing the camps... they don't really have to remove your access to them.

Example: If you let the Garleans take over, guildleve rewards could be lower, NPC item prices could be higher, porting to the camp could have a higher cost, and a Garlean NPC could patrol the camp randomly knocking people down.

It's not like half of our enemies are out there kill us in sight. They could only be aggresive to those that tried to resist (those defending or taking the camp back).

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Pretty much exactly what I said, but you added the word Garlean