[dev1008] Petition to have Jumping implement

[AlexiaKidd]

I don't want a space bar jump but I wouldn't mind an auto jump of sorts. I would like to run to a fence and auto hurdle over it or run up to a ledge and auto pull myself up onto it or auto jump down from other ledges.

The problem with it I believe is because SE like to MoCap the animations for these thing so they look nice rests with Lalafell's as silly as it sounds. As other races are much taller than Lalafells jumping to ledges and hurdling over things is fine but with Lalafell's as they are so small in comparison to other races will mean they have problems making the animation fit. A Roegadyn would be able to jump and reach ledges much higher than a Lalafell with a nice smooth animation, where as a Lalafell would have to jump a considerable distance from the ground to reach that same height and that would not look right.

So as much as I would like to be able to jump off a cliff and dive into a river or jump up ledges I think we are being held back by our little friends ; ;

[Elexia]

you're not the one who can make the decision

stop acting like you're a dev

That is not my decision to make. Yoshida's decision was Jump isn't important and therefore put it on the backburner basically.

[Raagnar]

For people who spend so much time on these forums you dont read much do you.. Yoshi said he wants to add jump down the line "Emote style" you can use it to get over those pesky cliffs and not be so tied to the earth. He said nothing of active jumping.

Im not sure why vesperia even plays, sounds like he/she hates the game and all of us "ffxi nerds". This thread was started by a RPer. Are you surprised by her opinions? she wants to "run like the wind", peacocks gotta fly damnit! and Rpers gotta jump!

Nothing against decent RPers but only an RPer would think jump is the most important feature in a game.

[Shinigami]

im against jumping

[Elexia]

I don't want a space bar jump but I wouldn't mind an auto jump of sorts. I would like to run to a fence and auto hurdle over it or run up to a ledge and auto pull myself up onto it or auto jump down from other ledges.

The problem with it I believe is because SE like to MoCap the animations for these thing so they look nice rests with Lalafell's as silly as it sounds. As other races are much taller than Lalafells jumping to ledges and hurdling over things is fine but with Lalafell's as they are so small in comparison to other races will mean they have problems making the animation fit. A Roegadyn would be able to jump and reach ledges much higher than a Lalafell with a nice smooth animation, where as a Lalafell would have to jump a considerable distance from the ground to reach that same height and that would not look right.

So as much as I would like to be able to jump off a cliff and dive into a river or jump up ledges I think we are being held back by our little friends ; ;

Mocap isn't the problem. "Swimming" and etc truly is a worthless mechanic unless the game is designed for it, which XIV is not. There's nothing under the water in XIV for example, it's not like FFX where there's a very obvious use for water mechanics even if it was physic raping.

[Evangela]

FFXI Nerds, a good word

the fact is no one out of average MMO players can accept a 2010 3D MMORPG which can't jump

people who enjoy playing the game at this moment and don't want to jump is FFXI players because the other already left the game

every site/magazines review this game and listed "Can't Jump" as one of bad thing in FFXIV

[Evangela]

Mocap isn't the problem. "Swimming" and etc truly is a worthless mechanic unless the game is designed for it, which XIV is not. There's nothing under the water in XIV for example, it's not like FFX where there's a very obvious use for water mechanics even if it was physic raping.

LOL, you told me you're a programmer or a developer? with your attitude like this.. I don't think any company want to hire you except Dragon Quest dev team

[Elexia]

people who enjoy playing the game at this moment and don't want to jump is FFXI players because the other already left the game

Most of the people in my shell never played FFXI. If all other MMOs have the mechanic, why aren't you busy playing them? Serious question. If as you say:

"No one out of average MMO players can accept a 2010 3D MMO which can't Jump"

Why stick around here?

http://forums.riftgame.com/

Here you go. Why waste your time here then?

[Jennestia]

LOL, you told me you're a programmer or a developer? with your attitude like this.. I don't think any company want to hire you except Dragon Quest dev team

You're such a troll lol. Animation have nothing to do with it - If there's nothing there you can't utilize it; FFXIV's water is a bitmap then empty space, there's nothing there, hence in her example which compared FFX to FFXIV, if you're going to make a swimming mechanic you need something there - FFX had Blitzball and some Underwater boss fights; FFXIV has nothing but a bitmap.

[Evangela]

If you think you can't change it, you can't do it because of this because of that

then stop calling yourself a developer