Starting City

Hello,

I'll get to the point: I'm a legacy a player that waited for today to try the game. I jumped right in skipping everything only to find out I was placed in Gridania which is not the city I used to belong to in 1.0 nor the city that I want to be stuck with in ARR.

My question, can I change the starting city by any means (maybe with the vetran reward "phial of Fantasia")?

Thanks,

Unfortunately no =/

Starting City is tied with Class. Archer, Conj, Lancer are all for Gridania.

With that information in hand. No there is no other way. The Phial is only for appearance changes. Hope this helps.

This seems like a big oversight on SE's part and an unjust situation for players in the my situation. Something this huge should have been treated differently than just a pop up on the character customization screen (maybe with a check mark or something).

It's not like rolling a new character where I can simply delete/recreate it. I'm stuck with a city and a story line I don't really care for in an RPG game .

I really hope SE would consider adding as an option when releasing "phial of Fantasia" item where players can choose to continue with their current city and story progress or choose a different city and start the story afresh.

There was another thread on this, and I think the problem was that they'd have to reset quest progress for each individual player who had this issue, or something...

I agree that you should be able to change city allegiance after the fact, but I wouldn't expect the option if I were you >.< Sorry man

Don't fret too hard, you're no longer tied to that city upon level 15 and the Airship access storyline unlock. This takes less than a day to get to. You're able to change your class upon completing the level 10 guildmaster quest as well, so you can quickly get back to where you were. You keep all your old experience earned and all your loot... Perhaps you should have paid more attention though when you selected your starting point.

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Originally Posted by CrashingWaves

Don't fret too hard, you're no longer tied to that city upon level 15 and the Airship access storyline unlock. This takes less than a day to get to. You're able to change your class upon completing the level 10 guildmaster quest as well, so you can quickly get back to where you were. You keep all your old experience earned and all your loot... Perhaps you should have paid more attention though when you selected your starting point.

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I'm only concerned about content restricted to a certain city. And yes I might have made a mistake during character creation, but not the kind of a mistake that punishes me the whole game (especially that there wasn't enough emphasis on the subject of starting city in the process)

as others have already said, you do NOT choose your starting city, it is determined by what class you chose, because all of the various guilds are unique to each town. It was like this in 1.0 never changed so I don't understand how it is stumping you now. And also as others have already said, you leave your starting town an work for all towns between lv15-20 & @ 20 you start working for a grand company (same as 1.0) and at this time you actually choose your allegiance to which city you want

After level 15 the stories merge anyway. If you want to see the others you can just make a new character and play through them in a few hours.

The only thing that annoys me is your starting city seems to be a part of your Lodestone profile forever. They should fix that.

Actually in 1.0 you could start in whichever city you wanted regardless of the class you started as.

Yeah, in 1.0 your starting city and starting class could both be selected individually, FFXI style (I know this for a fact as in 1.0 I started as a GLA but started in Gridania ;)). Not to mention in 1.0 you could also start as a Disciple of the Hand or a Disciple of the Land, you weren't restricted to playing as a melee or mage if you didn't want to. ;)

The reason for the change is in ARR the early tutorial quests when you first arrive involve amongst other things, joining your starting class's Guild, hence the restriction where your starting city is determined by the location of your class's Guild headquarters. It's a change that's had to be made for the sake of gameplay.

Starting city don't matter anymore it's the company that matter the most. Even that does not really matter the storyline are somewhat the same.

Totally agree with you OP, it's a serious oversight and it does matter to a lot of us. Here's the main thread on this, and related issues, that necessitate either resetting our 1.0 characters back to their 1.0 backup or implementing features so we can correct such mistakes:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...y-char!/page13

Just like you, many of us didn't expect this when we imported and are now sorely disappointed that we can't experience the story from the beginning in the cities we love. You should probably submit a support ticket or email as many of us have so SE is aware this is something a lot of people care about and would like a solution for. Understandably, it's not a major issue for them right now, but hopefully we can at least get the ball rolling.

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Originally Posted by AngelicBeing

Totally agree with you OP, it's a serious oversight and it does matter to a lot of us. Here's the main thread on this, and related issues, that necessitate either resetting our 1.0 characters back to their 1.0 backup or implementing features so we can correct such mistakes:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...y-char!/page13

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Hmm are we still talking about starting city here? Once again the class= the city you start once again it does not matter the only thing that matter if the company. The reason the class = the starting city is so you can do your class quest while level up your class.

I guess no one get that.

It's annoying they place you somewhere because of starting class but it also make sense as your guild will be in same town

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Originally Posted by Zenaku

Hmm are we still talking about starting city here? Once again the class= the city you start once again it does not matter the only thing that matter if the company. The reason the class = the starting city is so you can do your class quest while level up your class.

I guess no one get that.

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You're not getting it, either. This isn't stated in the character creator, so the only way to know is through info only available outside the game. It's an easy mistake to make, and for 1.0 imports, unfixable.

Some of us care about story/lore and it's a big reason we play. We're playing ARR for the first time, but we'll NEVER get to experience the opening quests in the cities we love with the 1.0 characters we love. Our profiles matter, too.

Restarting in another city was possible in FFXI but is curiously not in XIV. It would be easy to implement by requiring the player to travel to a city and unlock a job there in order to restart the main quest there.

@ AngelicBeing

I couldn't have said it better. Thank you!

Like some of you have mentioned, as of now company matter the most not the nation, but whos to say this will not change in the future and content that restrict grouping of different cities won’t be released? All my friends are starting in Uldah (like we did in 1.0) why will I not be able to group with them as a result of such a trivial mistake?!

As for contacting SE support, I did send the issue via their website support and asked if they could somehow change my starting city or roll back my character to pre-release (obviously, I don't care about current ARR progress which is close to nothing). Here is what I got in response:


Greetings,

Thank you for using our FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn support.

Unfortunately, GM are unable to provide information regarding gameplay or guide players through the game.

Therefore, we advise you to please ask players around or seek information on a community fansite.
Alternatively, you can also visit our official websites.

We thank you very much for your GM Call and we wish you a very nice day.

Kind regards,

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