If there was a world event in game, that destroys all Aetherctye...

[Versiroth]

But he would have to walk a whole 5 minutes to get to wineport or his beast tribe dailies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ZOMG

5 minutes of time sink that would be completely useless and arbitrary, so yeah. No thanks.

How about these ideas?

- Put in a 30 minute CD for dungeons once you complete one. You have to stay logged in or the duration doesn't count down.

- Make it to where crafting takes 10 minutes per item. If you make a HQ item, your character gets locked into a victory dance that last for an additional 10 minutes.

- Make there be one central MB/Retainer area that can only be accessed by traveling to each corner of the world and clicking a special node on each. You then get to travel to the direct center and enter the special, super duper market board area. You then have 5 minutes to do your business before being ejected. After a 24 hour CD, you can restart from scratch.

- Make it to where you can be knocked off your chocobo easily and enemies never stop chasing you.


These sound good? I mean, time sinks are good, am I right?

[Zarzak]

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Should I bother to point out that half of those either

A. have been a thing or

B. wouldn't hurt anyone?

30 min lockout on dungeons? sure why not there is no reason to spam them in the world of "do 4 dungeons a week to max everything!

Mobs never stop chasing? The term "train" was used in MMOs for a reason.

10 minutes per item? Sure this one would actually increase the value and make it so not everyone and their mother maxed all crafts and crashed the economy

So the only one you proposed that would actually be dumb (which was sadly your attempt with all of these) would be the MB idea. Though 1 market zone where all commerce must be done in the player economy? Sure.

[Versiroth]

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I realize some of these have been a thing, which is why I included them. Games have evolved and play time isn't what it used to be for a lot of people. I log in for a few hours per night and I rarely ever have enough time to do all of the things I want to do. People with seemingly endless amounts of time need to stop trying to add in useless time sinks like these that literally serve no purpose. The Dailies and Daily roulettes are an example of time sinks that serve a purpose. Making people spend time traveling from place to place serves no purpose what so ever other than to waste their time.

And besides that, no one is stopping you from wasting your own time. If you want to boycott teleporting, have at it.