Some things I think need to be brought to attention

[Lithera]

The whole situation is kind of a damned if you do damned if you don't situation. Without the Duty Finder we'd be left with the Party Finder which on it's own is only a marginal improvement over FFXI's system of standing around in Jeuno or whichever city you use as a hub and shout/yelling for a group. WITH Duty Finder everyone just stands around at Mor Dhona and DFs into instances. I can tell you though I likely would have had an easier time with Assaults/Salvage if something like Duty Finder had existed during ToAU time in FFXI.

[Sotek]

The whole situation is kind of a damned if you do damned if you don't situation. Without the Duty Finder we'd be left with the Party Finder which on it's own is only a marginal improvement over FFXI's system of standing around in Jeuno or whichever city you use as a hub and shout/yelling for a group. WITH Duty Finder everyone just stands around at Mor Dhona and DFs into instances. I can tell you though I likely would have had an easier time with Assaults/Salvage if something like Duty Finder had existed during ToAU time in FFXI.

They should just merge the two systems: Search the Party Finder, find a group for whatever you need, it can be on a different server, if you join you're moved to that server temporarily (with trading/etc. disabled for you), then your group goes to South Shroud to enter Amdapor Keep and it's business as usual. All the cross-server conveniences of Duty Finder, with none of the world destroying side effects. If you're a lone little newbie on your server, you might even meet a group on another server who you get alone with and decide to move there, instead of what you'd currently do, which I think is just say goodbye after the instance and probably never see them again.

There might be some technical issues with such a system, but the Duty Finder already moves you to another world, and it already disables trading... I can't see it being too hard...

[Parodine]

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I definitely agree with your points. For me, size isn't as much of an issue as much as the maps in this game don't feel very... organic. I'm not so much talking about what is in each area as I think the environments themselves are very pretty. But the boundaries/paths are the opposite.

It is a very minor complaint in truth, and not one that I would expect reworkings of current areas, but perhaps better opportunities for future areas.