Japanese dev posts today (April the 21st)

[Dargoth_Draconia]

I appreciate the translations Abriael. I had made a post saying they should do it the other day and then here you are doing it for us. Assuming you have the timing and the will to do so.

[Naylia]

An easy way to deal with Anima is that possibly some new worlds/areas that open up are more hostile and don't support instant teleporting. So I could say, maybe instant travel around the 3 civilized worlds, but not necessarily directly access all of the more hostile environments without a little planning. (Otherwise, what would prevent us from teleporting an entire army into a Garlean city...). Like you could teleport to the front lines of battle, but from there you have to ride your Chocobo.

[Tezz_Xivectro]

Railroads (maybe even extending into the air above ground a little bit) can i have it?

[Betelgeuzah]

I can read Japanese quite decently. I use GT (and other translation tools) for the Kanji that I still can't recognize.

That's cool, thanks for keeping us updated. The google translate can be mysterious sometimes.

[chime85]

Thanks for the posts Abriael. I think they should keep the anima system in place but perhaps cut our Anima in half once Chocobos are implemented and or other means of travel, maybe even cut it more than half, but it is useful to the players who don't get to play as much.

I agree. Anima is a good substitute for the time being, but having it cut down would add weight to the need for chocobos (and maybe some airships.....wishful thinking? hehe). However, getting rid of it completely might be a kick in the teeth for some players.

[Dargoth_Draconia]

Originally they was going to add several forms of travel, Stage coaches, Airships, Chocobos, boats etc etc etc

[Sigmakan]

I always thought the Anima system would be removed completely once legit transportation modes were introduced. Perhaps keep the Anima for Aethryte>Aehryte Gate traveling.

[Abriael]

Railroads (maybe even extending into the air above ground a little bit) can i have it?

I would think that railoroads would look extremely out of place in eorzea. The level of technology simply doesn't fit them. Eorzea isn't a steampunk setting. It could fit the garlean empire, if we'll ever get to see it, but railroads in Eorzea (no thanks).

[AlexiaKidd]

Well I have been doing a lot of exploring in Coethas today and found an airship dock near Falcons Nest. They are airship docks for sure as an NPC in falcons nest confirmed it and also said that Dragons from Dravania are attacking them much more frequently now. Guess when they do come we will have Dragon attacks like Sea Horrors on the boats from FFXI.

[Verecund]

I think they should keep anima when other travel means are released, but do something a little different with it.

Maybe they could limit it to teleporting to capital cities and aetherial gates (not aethyrite crystals), making its function similar to what it is now, but placing more emphasis on using anima to ease population overflow from popular behest camps. Or they could place a cooldown on how often you can use anima when porting to certain places.