One to Fifty, One Zone - Long OP

[charliesheen]

Everyone wants loading screens back? What is this insanity?

[Tonka]

Everyone wants loading screens back? What is this insanity?

I'd rather have 4 or 5 unique zones with loading screens than one massive monotonous zone.

[Richard]

Everyone wants loading screens back? What is this insanity?

you're obviously no longer #winning

I'd rather have 4 or 5 unique zones with loading screens than one massive monotonous zone.

exactly.

[charliesheen]

I'd rather have 4 or 5 unique zones with loading screens than one massive monotonous zone.

Why can't they just have more variation to the world.... ? I don't really understand why people are asking for loading screens, it's pretty bizarre. They should just make 'areas' different within the giant zones and have the music change in said areas. Isn't that what they were aiming for but haven't delivered?

And so I repeat, loading screens... what is this madness?

@Richard: I'm always #winning! I'll blow your mind with my torpedoes of truth.

[Mack]

Why can't they just have more variation to the world.... ? I don't really understand why people are asking for loading screens, it's pretty bizarre. They should just make 'areas' different within the giant zones and have the music change in said areas. Isn't that what they were aiming for but haven't delivered?

And so I repeat, loading screens... what is this madness?

No one is asking for loading screens, people are saying if that's the compromise then so be it, considering we teleport everywhere anyways and there's loading screens there isn't there?

[charliesheen]

No one is asking for loading screens, people are saying if that's the compromise then so be it, considering we teleport everywhere anyways and there's loading screens there isn't there?

Ah hah, but there is really no need to 'compromise'. I only read a couple of pages but it seemed like people were asking for loading screens. It's perfectly within their means to have giant zones with varying landscapes within them, just like when you travel from the outside region into a city.

As for teleporting, that's entirely different. I never said the game should have no loading screens as that's impossible. What I am saying is that asking for them where they aren't required... what is this madness?

[Duelle]

But what does that have to do with the topic at hand? No one was comparing difficulty in leveling. For some jobs, like BST FoV was a huge success (lol). The point is it's not just forced partying.

It's actually quite relevant since "leveling on your own" constitutes content that can be soloed with relative ease. FoV mobs stop being of that category after the 40's. It's why some get together to kill stuff in places like cape terrigan when they aren't in abyssea.

There are always trends set by players and there will always be people who level on their own terms. You've dipped and dodged around every point of fact given to you, which is perfectly fine, but you've made no real headway with your original point.

You don't seem to understand my original point. My point was that there are games where the game by design sends you from point A to point B (WoW, CoH, LotRO) while others that are more open ended and as such the players decide the progression path (in part due to other factors like forced partying).

The latter has happened in this game, but it doesn't involve moving through various zones. That's pretty much all I'm saying.

I'd rather have 4 or 5 unique zones with loading screens than one massive monotonous zone.

I wouldn't mind seeing the terrain clipping from WoW make an appearance here, if it had to come to that. The alternative would be the addition of more zones to the game that are as equally massive. Could go either way, really.

[Kiara]

Everyone wants loading screens back? What is this insanity?

Hi charlie,

Not for the sake of loading screens. If you read this thread, it's about Square delivering some distinct, visually unique zones as we progress from Rank 1 - 50.

If this means we need loading screens to load up a new area, then most of us would gladly take that, to gain distinctive, interesting zones that don't all look like the exact same area from Rank 1 - 50 (the way it is now, if you stay in Thanalan, or The Black Shroud, etc.).

[Mack]

Ah hah, but there is really no need to 'compromise'. I only read a couple of pages but it seemed like people were asking for loading screens. It's perfectly within their means to have giant zones with varying landscapes within them, just like when you travel from the outside region into a city.

As for teleporting, that's entirely different. I never said the game should have no loading screens as that's impossible. What I am saying is that asking for them where they aren't required... what is this madness?

Well I've read this entire topic and for the most part people are saying if that's the compromise then so be it, they ma not say it straight up but that's what I get from it because obviously if we can have seamless zones with variety no one would ask for loading, that would be insanity.

[Petori]

Everyone wants loading screens back? What is this insanity?

In case you haven't realized, there are "loading corridors" all over Eorzea, I rather wait & get zones with more variety than run these corridors and get same terrain everywhere.