If you could do 5 things...

[Balaur]

If you could do give things, nomatter how big, small, unrealistic, weird... what would you change?

(This was made to be fun; so let's try to keep it that way.)

For me in order of preference:
1. Transfers

Yes.

2. Party size increased to 6

No. Dungeon and mob balance in dungeons -- including boss mechanics -- are balanced around 1 tank, 1 heal, 2 dd. Changing these up means that in many cases substantive alterations of mechanics would have to be present. This includes, but is not limited to, room size, spawn number and frequency, damage output, health, and move sequences. As an example, on the boss Demon Wall, you are given a narrow bridge and a clock to kill him, two gnat spawns, and the rate of wall advancement is pretty quick even though one has to deal with gnats and advancement. Changing these up to "balance" around a particular setup and gear-equivalency, and still be challenging, would require more substantive work than just upping numbers and whatnot. Every dungeon would have to be changed.

3. More xp for dungeons

Some, not all, are not very efficient for leveling (e.g., Haukke Manor), though many (e.g., the first three) are. You'd have to find some evidence where dungeon experience is slacking and bring it up to par, or where the game is not providing enough options to make up for the slack. In some cases, the lower dungeon experience provided can be due to a larger resource for experience in and around that level range. With Haukke, there is a large series of story quests involved, and taking these into account is likely why the dungeon is so sparing on experience. But once you've done the dungeons on your main job, what next? FATEs. At this point, the Costa del Sol FATEs are extremely lucrative, with Cancer popping ~2.5 hours and the rest being very, very easy to do and frequent. Escorting the hooker is always fun.

4. Fate raids (very very difficult, require 50+ people) implemented and requires zone-wide activities

Svara, Behemoth, Odin, Dark Designs, Highbridge. There are several "raid-like" FATEs, but they act as either FATE chains, or mechanical monstrosities. Love them. There are also Cancer, Lazy Lawrence, Steropes, and the Negotiators>Hide & Seek>The Coeurl King FATE chain in South Shroud, along with the defense/breach of the Hive. These involve special mechanical "big" bosses with their own "big boss" music.

5. Character customizations like name change, race change and vanity slots!

Vanity slots are confirmed, though not for when. Phials of Fantasia will do everything else you need, and one is available to you as soon as you subscribed for one or more months. (You really shouldn't need to keep using one -- use the character creator and save a character model for yourself and tweak it until you LIKE it, then when you get a Phial, load that model for your redesign.)

[Zantetsuken]

No limits on changes?

Well then:

• Change world from Eorzea to Ivalice (adjust lore, landscape and story as much as is necessary to facilitate the change)
  
• Change races from FFXI versions to - Moogle (Ivalice style), Viera, Bangaa, Hume, Nu Mou. - add Gria and Seeq as well.
• Scrap current job/class system, introduce tiered job tree closely resembling the one in Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions
• Heavily scale back the flash and VFX in the game and then reintroduce it very slowly as the cap is raised.
• Rename FFXIV:ARR to Final Fantasy Online II (SE should then make an offline game set in Eorzea for FFXIV and all future MMO games would be FFO:III, FFO:IV, etc..)

Super unrealistic, but it would be a great outline for the next FF MMO.

[HumsterMKX]

1) Remove Lalafells as playable race.

2) Make Lalafells as levelling mobs

3) Make Lalafells as Botany and Mining points

4) Make Lalafells as primary base mats to make anything.

5) Remove Gils and replace with Lalafells.

[TrickedOutHoro]

Lalafells.

That's racist!

[EvokerKeii]

[*]Rename FFXIV:ARR to Final Fantasy Online II (SE should then make an offline game set in Eorzea for FFXIV and all future MMO games would be FFO:III, FFO:IV, etc..)[/LIST]

Ivalice Online.
Other than that, yes.

[HumsterMKX]

That's racist!

Hmm.. pink hair... nice skin colour... not bad looking mitoqe.

Listen what if I tell you I can make you rich? Intrested?

[TrickedOutHoro]

Hmm.. pink hair... nice skin colour... not bad looking mitoqe.

Listen what if I tell you I can make you rich? Intrested?

W-what would I have to do? -eyes Miqo'te Pelts for sale in signature-

[HumsterMKX]

W-what would I have to do? -eyes Miqo'te Pelts for sale in signature-

Well, hard to explain evrrything here... how about you follow me back?
I got a few contacts you might me intrested.

[Nuinn]

1) Basically turn our personal homes (when they become available) into a Harvest Moon type of thing (awkward wording is awkward but for you HM fans I'm sure you know what I mean).

2) DNC - Because! Now stop looking at me like that >.>

3) Fantasia - Obtainable don't care how. Most likely going to happen in one way or another, or can any of the, by then, "Fantasialess" veterans imagine starting fresh as a new race, when they're added, years down the road?

4) A theater - Automated weekly events to sit & enjoy the NPCs retelling the history of Eorzea or (original plays) while eating popcorn (or nibbling on the nearest Lalafell) or just anything for a social event without a real material reward for participating.

5) "Fix" FATE mechanic so it actually becomes interesting and enjoyable, as many FATEs, especially the boss ones, have potential to be fun but currently they all end up being a mindless pressing of random buttons.

[AllOutWar]

Duties increased from 4 to 6.

Ok I see what you mean. Good idea but would take quite a bit of effort. You would need to overhaul everything because if you just upped the party size without adjusting HP attack power crit, etc for mobs and pc's the game would become extremely easy.